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This Had Oscar Buzz

by Joe and Chris
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Today: #120 in TV & Film on our combined chart.

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Episode releases
#110#135#159#184#208Chart rankOct 15Oct 18Oct 21Oct 24Oct 27#120Episode released Oct 19: 409 – Romance and CigarettesEpisode released Oct 26: 410 – Midsommar
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DateCombined RankApple Podcasts
Oct 27#120#111
Oct 21#196#188
Oct 20#177#167
Oct 15#198#190
Oct 14#177#168

Latest episodes

  • 410 – Midsommar

    October 26, 2026 · 1 hr 58 min

    Happy Halloween! Quickly following up his paradigm-shifting Hereditary, Ari Aster took to Sweden for Midsommar. The film stars Florence Pugh as a young woman who follows her boyfriend on a study trip in the wake of a major personal…

  • 409 – Romance and Cigarettes

    October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 44 min

    Post-Chicago, just about any movie musical was fodder for awards buzz, especially if they boasted a cast as stacked as Romance and Cigarettes. A jukebox musical from the mind of John Turturro, the film stars James Gandolfini as a New York…

  • 408 – The Russia House

    October 12, 2026 · 2 hr 5 min

    In the years after his Oscar win for The Untouchables, Sean Connery remained a major movie star and box office draw. The latter proved untrue in 1990 when The Russia House fizzled at the holiday box office. Based on the John le Carré…

  • 407 – Destroyer

    October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 45 min

    In 2018, we were rooting for the comeback of director Karyn Kusama, emerging with the promising crime thriller Destroyer. Centering on Nicole Kidman playing against type as a grizzled investigator haunted by a previous undercover case gone…

  • 406 – Arsenic and Old Lace (with Emily St. James!)

    September 28, 2026 · 2 hr 12 min

    We have writer Emily St. James back with us this week, so naturally we’re breaking our own record for oldest film discussed on the show (after her episode on Moby Dick)! Based on the Broadway smash comedy, Arsenic and Old Lacewas Frank…

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  • 2026 TIFF Recap!!

    September 21, 2026 · 2 hr 53 min

    We’re back home from our latest trip to the Toronto International Film Festival! And as always, we’re offering you a buffet of our reactions from a week’s worth of movies that will be coming soon to a theatre near you! We talk about the…

  • 405 – She Said

    September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 45 min

    After their 2017 exposé of the horrors Harvey Weinstein inflicted upon women for decades, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey detailed their process in their 2019 book She Said. Post-pandemic, Maria Schrader directed an adaptation that reflected…

  • 404 – Hedwig and the Angry Inch

    September 7, 2026 · 2 hr 7 min

    Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a musical like no other. A Off-Broadway smash in 1998 from creators John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, Mitchell also starred as the titular volatile rocker who…

  • 403 – The Homesman (with Richard Lawson!)

    August 31, 2026 · 2 hr 8 min

    We welcome back Richard Lawson this week to discuss Tommy Lee Jones’s final (to date!) directorial effort, 2014’s The Homesman. Led by Hilary Swank, the film follows a 19th century woman charged to transport three women with “prairie…

  • 402 – The Return

    August 24, 2026 · 2 hr 9 min

    As The Odyssey continues to prove to be a career peak for Christopher Nolan and possible return to the Oscar stage, we’re looking back at a very different take on Homer’s epic poem. In 2024, The Return reunited Ralph Fiennes and Juliette…

  • 401 – Playing By Heart

    August 17, 2026 · 2 hr 34 min

    Playing by Heart (1998) Directed by Willard Carroll Shown: Angelina Jolie, Ryan Phillippe In the bygone moviegoing trend of “interconnected stories of Angelenos,” this week’s episode is a forgotten entry with a loaded cast. Playing By…

  • 400 – Town and Country

    August 10, 2026 · 2 hr 50 min

    It’s our 400th episode this week, so we had to go big. What could be more fitting than a notorious bomb with major star pedigree?! No stranger to misfires, Warren Beatty nevertheless was one of the biggest names in Hollywood that could…

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A podcast about movies the awards forgot