Initial Thoughts on 2025's Oscar Nominations

80 years ago today, Allied forces landed on the beaches at Normandy, in an operation we now call D-Day. Perhaps the most famous and respected depiction of that operation takes place in Steven Spielberg's 1998 war film Saving Private Ryan - and our hosts watched it this week. They discuss how World…

Revisiting our second Picture Pitcher game, featuring remarkably... determined judge Richard McIver. As previously featured in our episode on Love Lies Bleeding, this round features sophomore efforts from the likes of Christopher Nolan, Edgar Wright, Greta Gerwig, Sofia Coppola, and more! Enjoy! …

We do this for a living. Does it star Tom Cruise? Who directed it? Do you believe in Santa Claus? Find out all these things and more as Phoebe and Nathaniel rev up their taxicab and drive through the streets of podcasting with 2004's Collateral. _____ Music by White Bat Audio.

There's a difference between knowing the pod, and listening to the pod. So listen to the podcast! This week we're casting our mind back 25 years (or ahead 175?) to the world of green text, omnipotent agents, teleportation telephones, double-cats and existential choices of pill: it's The Wachowski's…