The man in the hat is back and adventure has a name...again! Yes we know that this movie came out already. But now that the Actor's strike is over and the film is headed to Disney+ on 12/1/2023 we're ready to release it! Join Indiana Jones as he journeys around the world meeting new friends and old with the fate of the world in his hands yet again.…

Join us as we discuss making short films. Making your own work. Something our co-host Lauren has done with previous guest Ashley Maria. Harsh Wilderness! We discuss filmmaking on a budget and finding the right location. The time it takes to self produce something. Unfairly exiled from her home and marriage, Verna must find common ground with Beatri…

Let's run away to the Circus together. Come on. It'll be great. There are Trapeze artists battling eachother in the air, Murderous clowns? Small time Mafia, a horrendous train wreck, and far too much footage of the Actual Ringling Circus. Come on down! Starring: Jimmy Stewart Charlton Heston Butty Hutton Dorothy Lamour Cornel Wilde Gloria Gragame H…

Patrick and Lauren are joined by Mark Gindick as they discuss An American In Paris. Truly one of the best movie musicals. Led by Gene Kelly, it's the story of 3 friends in Paris, all artists. Two of which are romantically involved with the same woman. How will this end!!! Starring: Gene Kelly Leslie Caron Oscar Levant Henri Laurel Milo Roberts You …

We're doing it! We're getting them all wet, exposing them all to bright lights, and most definitely feeding them after midnight. Join us as we dive into the 1984 horror comedy known as GREMLINS! Starring: Zach Galligan Phoebe Cates Hoyt Axton Corey Feldman The story of a young man who inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pe…

Join Patrick and Lauren as we follow the story of up and coming actress Eve Harrington and her ability to manipulate her way into people's lives. She's plotting and devious and wedge's her way int Bette Davis' character's life for personal gain. Lot's of tongue in cheek moments, brilliant writing, dark and light comedy. And of course Patrick and la…

Welcome to Season 2's recap episode where Patrick and Lauren discuss the decade's movies pointing out key take aways. They rate them and then slowly drink their way through the decade of cocktails that were featured in each episode. What more could you want?Patrick and Lauren による

Patrick and Lauren, your favorite podcasters, are joined by friend and actor Adam Wasser to discuss and dissect All The King's Men. A film about the rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal. ...Who does that sound like to you???? Eerily familiar story and themes. It's hard no…

On this thrilling episode Patrick and Lauren dive into Hamlet! The Best Picture winner for 1948. It's a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. This particular version, like all versions, is not without controversy. Massive cuts to the script, artistic license by…

In this daring episode of our special series, The Envelope Please, Patrick and Lauren talk about the ads running before films and during intermission at movie houses during the 1940's. What's your favorite concession? Concessions were and still are pushed down our throats. Popcorn being the number one seller at the movies. The similarity between th…

The Academy award winner for best picture in 1948. Join Patrick and Lauren, along with their special guest Alexandra Kopko, as they journey through NY and navigate the un spoken anti-semitism that gripped the nation. And still has a stranglehold on parts of society A journalist goes undercover as a Jewish person to uncover anti semitism in the nati…

The Academy award winner for best picture in 1947. Join Patrick and Lauren, along with their special guest Kelley Portier, as they discuss this innovative film that explores what post WWII life was like for many returning servicemen. This film follows 3 servicemen all in different places in their lives, all dealing with a lot of PTSD, and trying to…

The Academy award winner for best picture in 1946. The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. Directed by Billy Wilder Starring: Ray Milland Jane Wyman Phillip Terry Patrick and Lauren welcome Amanda Conlon to the podcast and the three wade through this very propaganda feeling film about the life of an a…

On this episode we take a deep dive into Going My Way, the best picture winner in 1945 starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Joining us is filmmaker and producer Ashley Maria. We discuss Bing's ability to just float through a plot and how some of this film just didn't need to happen. Give Bing Crosby a piano and you've got the makings of a mov…

The 1944 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Casablanca! The story of a cynical expatriate American cafe owner (Humphrey Bogart) struggling to decide whether or not to help his former lover (Ingrid Bergman) and her fugitive husband (Paul Henried) escape the Nazis in French Morocco. Join us as we hide from the Nazi's and desperately try to find p…

The 1943 Academy Award winning film, Mrs. Miniver. Hollywood has officially gone to war after skirting it for the past several years. This film started out as a very Pro-British propoganda film. However, once the United States entered the war, it took on a whole new meaning, mainly of survival and resilience. Listen along as we discuss the film, st…

On this episode Patrick and Lauren welcome special guest Christina Perry of the Chain Theatre and the Usual Rejects to talk with them about the 1942 Best Picture Winner: How Green Was My Valley Starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, and Roddy McDowell It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of…

Join us for a deep dive into H.G. Wells War of the Worlds from 1953. This might just be the alien invasion film that all other alien invasion films aspire to be. A tale of invasion and ultimate triumph by the smallest of things on this planet. The 1953 version puts a religious spin on the events of the novel. Which was decidedly against religion. F…

Rebecca! Alfred Hitchcock's first American film and his only best picture winner. Patrick and Lauren invite their very first guest, Julienne Irons to explore this suspenseful film based on the novel by the same name. Model Miniatures, ex-wives, A new husband no one can figure out, model miniatures the size of sound stages. What more could you ask f…

We recap our journey so far through the world of Best Picture winners from the Academy awards. Get ready for season 2 with some fun new surprises! A give away is on it's way. Which was your favorite film? Wings The Broadway Melody All Quiet On The Western Front Cimarron Grand Hotel Cavalcade It Happened One Night Mutiny On The Bounty The Great Zieg…

Atlanta is on fire, people are giving their jewelry away to fund a losing side, lovers who really don't love each other, and a manipulative lead character. Patrick and Lauren take on Gone With The Wind. Give you a little insight into the behind the scenes and discuss some of the (many) problems with the film. Is it a perfect film? No. Is it a histo…

Is it the Birdcage? Is it the Adams Family? Is it the play that every high school does across the country at least every other year? Follow a long as we disect the film adaptation of the Kaufman-Hart play, You Can't Take It With You. Columbia is still crawling out of poverty row as they bring back Frank Capra. Are the seeds sewn for It's a Wonderfu…

We've all seen it. A lot. And if you haven't you should. There be spoilers ahead! Patrick and Lauren take a look at Jaws. But instead of breaking it down and examining the movie as a whole, they discuss some key moments in the film and some unexplored history that went into making it. We're gonna need a bigger podcast.…

The Best picture winner in 1937. "I Accuse!" We discuss the parallels of Paris in the 1860's to social issues now. Lauren gets her own segment. FUN FACTS! Why are older movies so shaky? How do you pronounce biopic? Burning questions.Patrick and Lauren による

Patrick and Lauren explore the life and times of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. One of the world's earliest and greatest showmen. Sex Sells. The birth of the Follies and the first biopic to win Best Picture. Join us as we pick apart his life and the ladies he leaves along the way.Patrick and Lauren による

The Academy Awards 2021! Sit back and relax as Patrick and Lauren break down this year's best picture nominees and weigh in on their picks. Set your calendars for April 25th! Who do you think will win?Patrick and Lauren による

Patrick and Lauren take the famous sea voyage to Tahiti on the HMS Bounty. There are press gangs. Captain Bligh is out for blood, and cheese, and coconuts. There is Mutiny and love. Breadfruit gets tossed overboard. Someone eats a raw seagull. We drink Johnnie Walker and Grog. Some more Looney Tunes cross overs. The chief gets a hat!…

It didn't happen in one night! Join Patrick and Lauren on the Night Bus from Miami to NYC in this blueprint for the screwball comedy. The movie that put Columbia on the map and swept the Oscars. Clark Gable is Funny! Who knew!Patrick and Lauren による

Dive into the early version of Downton Abbey in this 30-plus year journey through the beginning of the 20th Century. There is the Boers War, the Titanic, WWI, and Death. As we follow an upper and lower class through London at the turn of the Century. There are Medieval Knights. Find out what a 'Pearly' is. Auld Lang Syne is sung. A lot.…

Patrick and Lauren set foot into the Art Deco opulence of the Grand Hotel in Berlin and navigate the rooms and hallways of the star studded film. All seven of MGM's top actors of the time appear in this film making it a shoe-in for awards. Drinks are discussed. Favorite lines. Behind the scenes trivia. What more could you ask for?!…

"A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century." Patrick and Lauren head into the 'untamed' - and stolen - lands of the Oklahoma territory and follow a family who helps build and shape the land into the state of Oklahoma. We're shootin' from the hip in this one folks. Justice meted …

HO. HO. HO! Patrick and Lauren descend upon Macy's in NYC and discuss the brilliant (and young) Natalie Wood and whether or not Kris Kringle is truly Santa Claus. Similarities to Elf are uncovered and blow Lauren's mind. HOLIDAY DRINKS! A quick game of Santa trivia.Patrick and Lauren による

The 3rd Best Picture Winner! One of the first truly anti-war movies. Patrick and Lauren follow a group of school friends as they experience the horrors of war. One by one they're picked off or lose a limb. Is it wrong to make this a drinking game? We discuss the horrors of war, especially WWI.Patrick and Lauren による

The second Best Picture award Winner. We follow two semi-talented sisters from the vaudeville circuit as they try to make it big time on Broadway. Matters of the heart complicate the attempt. Patrick and Lauren discuss this weird love triangle...square...thing, and break down Hollywoods first movie musical. The grand-daddy of all movie musicals. Th…

The John Landis genre bending 1981 hit is here in time for Halloween! David and Jack are attacked on the Moors by a werewolf. Follow along with Patrick and Lauren as they discuss this groundbreaking horror film and some of their practical special effects. Winner of the first Academy Award for Make-up.…

The First best Picture Winner! William A. Wellman's 1929 masterpiece WINGS is discussed. The first film to win a Best Picture Oscar from the Academy. Starring Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and Gary Cooper. Lauren and Patrick discuss the film's artistry and innovative camera shots. Clara Bow's comedic timing and brilliant acting …

Welcome! Meet Patrick and Lauren, your hosts through all of the Academy Award Films that have won Best Picture. Through out the series we'll be discussing those films along with specialty episodes throughout each season. In this episode, get to know who we are, our favorite movies, our worst impressions, and a brief history of the Academy Awards.…