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This is Part 2 of our Top Films of 2025 super-episode return. Here we tackle what Phoebe & Nathaniel make of this past week's Academy Award nominations. To hear them tell it, this is not a good year. Find out why they would think such a thing. Thank you as always for listening. _____ Music by …

Welcome back. As we face fascism and lament a lamentable year for the Oscars, we also return to Initial Thoughts to discuss what the hell we've been up to and what the heck we made of the year in cinema since we last did this. What was Nathaniel’s favorite film of 2025? What was Phoebe’s favorite f…

It's the 97th Oscars! Listen in! Conan made us laugh (mostly). Winners won well (mostly). We were pretty accurate (to a point). Intrepid correspondent Michael Zwiauer even joined us from sunny California. Not to be missed. Our hosts stayed up very, very late, so the least you can do is listen to th…

Today this could be, the greatest pod of our lives. Phoebe and Nathaniel are back for Oscar Week, predicting (and in their own way, improving) the Academy’s cinematic selections.  Tune in for ribald and robust discussion of each category, the safe choices, the sure surprises, and the Zag’s to be za…

Determine your nominees and initialize your thoughts, it is once again time for Phoebe and Nathaniel to weigh in on The Academy's choices! Did your favorite film of 2024 get enough love? Did ours? Find out! _____ Music by White Bat Audio.

As Phoebe would say, we are so back. Initial Thoughts returns as if our last chat were only yesterday, to discuss a year of high highs, low lows, multiple plays directed, and quite a lot of films viewed. NBB & PRJ discuss their favorites, their also-rans, the films they wish they'd seen by no…

Hollywood is a killer. MAXXXINE is a movie. Initial Thoughts is a podcast. You are a listener. This is an episode. Listen in! Neither Phoebe nor Nathaniel have seen this week's film, though one of them has seen the previous two films in Ti West and Mia Goth's gooey trilogy of throwback mayhem. Thi…

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…