Best Pictures: Recent Episodes
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The Oscars often award "Best Picture" to the wrong movie. Which is why movie experts, Cody Lunsford, Chad Oliver, and Mark Watlington take their job very seriously as they search for and discuss their picks for the best movie of each year they've been alive, all in search for the greatest movie of their lifetime.
It all comes down to this. A tournament of champions. Who will it be? Lilo and Stitch? No Country For Old Men? Pirates of the Caribbean? Titanic? Listen and find out!
Guys being dudes. That's what this podcast has always been about. And now there's a movie about it.
Just like the folks featured in this movie, we are journalists. Movie journalists! We talk about how important our job are as investigative podcasters in this episode and then we also talk about Spotlight.
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Spooky scary movie coming in from Cody this year! Uh oh! Don't let it get you!
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Sorry guys. Chad took a stupid long vacation and he forgot to upload his stupid podcast. But now it's up and you can listen to it! It's about Mad Max! That movie rules!
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Oscar Isaac stars in A Most Violent Year. And none of us saw it... until now! But is it better than Interstellar? Listen to find out.
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We three boys clearly don't understand art as well as the very smart creators of this movie. Because we didn't like it, so we must just not "get" it. Sad!
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Mark is a space nerd so he likes the space nerd movie Interstellar... so do Cody and Chad. We talk about it even though Chad would rather talk about The Northman.
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Gone Girl is one of Cody's favorite movies ever! We talk about it! And we don't get side tracked at all!
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Cody, Chad, and Mark host the fifth annual pickie awards! They talk about their favorite movies from 2021 and nobody gets slapped!
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Oh no! The guys get horny on this episode! Please don't listen to the end... it's so embarrassing!
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12 Years A Slave won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2013. Is it any good? Yes. Yes it is. We talk about it on this episode!
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Cody picked a Coen Brothers movie about a folk singer with depression. What is this, a CHAD pick? Find out if it's better than Her and don't ask us who "She" is.
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Mark said Her was his favorite film of 2013. It's a movie called Her. He wasn't talking about a girl. Anyways, the movie is very good and we talk about why on this episode. If that sounds like something you wanna listen to, knock yourself out.
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What do you get when three guys watch Anna Karenina for the first time and talk about it for about an hour and a half? Well, you get this podcast episode!
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Argo isn't a real movie. But Argo is a real movie about that fake movie. And it's real good! The academy agrees! But is it the best? That's for the three 20-somethings who have their own film podcast to decide!
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From the twisted mind of Cody's favorite screenwriter, Cabin in the Woods is the movie of the week! Is it better than Frances Ha? No! But listen to us talk about it anyways!
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Mark's favorite movie from 2012 is Frances Ha! Except that movie didn't come out in 2012, it came out in 2013. Stupid Mark! But we still have a good time talking about it.
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Chad likes this movie! Please be nice to him! From Javert's stiff performance, to Tom Hooper's directing choices, this movie is divisive to say the least. But is it the best movie of our lifetime? Find out!
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Rango!! It's a film by Gore Verbinksi and its a toon that Cody hasn't seen! We're on a mission to fill our movie blindspots as we continue searching for the greatest movie of our lifetime!
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Nobody talks in this movie! But we sure do! We talk about The Artist as the winner of 2011's Academy Award for Best Picture. Should it have won? We don't think so!
And if you're wondering what is said in the beginning of the episode, it's:
"Hi, I'm Chad"
"And I'm Mark."
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Mark's pick for 2011 and David Fincher's 3rd appearance on this show, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo left quite a different impression on all three of the pickies.
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Do you like movies? What about life? Well I can't think of a better episode of best pictures.
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We go on an adventure as we discuss Steven Spielberg's action adventure animated film The Adventures of Tintin, Cody's favorite film of 2011.
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The guys wanted to talk about Scott Pilgrim but couldn't have done it without the help of Callie Smith! (@CallieSmith92) the host of the podcast Igniting the Spark from @TalkFilmSoc
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A king learns to talk good! And we're here to talk about it. Check out the Academy's pick for the best film of 2010, The Kings Speech.
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HOW many hours?! That's a lot of hours! We talk about Chad's pick for the best movie of 2010, 127 Hours. Its about a guy who gets stuck.
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Cody's pick this week is Black Swan! It's a trippy nightmare classic! We also discuss Luca, In The Heights, and Raiders of the Lost Ark (because apparently that's back in theaters).
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Cody puts Chad on the spot with a new segment before they discuss Cody's pick for the best movie of 2010, The Social Network.
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Jennifer's Body is a misunderstood masterpiece and Cody has been trying to talk about it pretty much since this podcast began. After a surprise drop in from a familiar friend, they finally talk about it!
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Cody really wanted to talk about Cheugy so that comes up. We also talk about The Mitchells Vs. The Machines and the Academy's pick for the best film of 2009, The Hurt Locker.
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The dogs are barking, the cats are meowing, and the boys are talking movies on the latest Pickies Award Show. Chad, Mark, and Cody all pick their favorite movies from 2020 across multiple categories and decide together what takes home the Pickie gold. This is the Fourth Annual Pickies.
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For his pick for the favorite film of 2009, Cody picked the last 2D animated Disney Princess film, The Princess and the Frog. So hop on over and enjoy the episode!
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After talking in length about King of Staten Island, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and Nobody, Chad, Mark, and Cody discuss Mark's pick for the greatest movie of 2009, Fantastic Mr. Fox. They compare it to other Wes Anderson movies and gawk over the gorgeous visual language of the movie.
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Since his debut almost sixty years ago, Spider-Man has been a global star. With appearances in film, tv, comics, theme park rides, stage shows, cruise lines, and even the Broadway stage, Spider-Man has been one of the most popular and beloved superheroes. Cody Lunsford and Chad Oliver have loved the Web Slinger for their entire lives, and now with the Spider-Verse expanding more than ever with all kinds of Spider-Content, they've decided that they NEED to talk about Spider-Man. On a podcast. They were talking about him plenty before, they just weren't recording it. From That Might Be Cool productions and the team behind the podcast Best Pictures, swing by and listen to your friendly neighborhood podcast, We Need to Talk About Spider-Man.
Nomadland, Minari, and Raya, oh my! What a bunch of great new movies! Lucky for you, we talk about all of them on the latest Best Pictures. We also talk about a great OLDER movie, Inglourious Basterds, Chad's pick for the greatest film of 2009. Do Mark and Cody agree? Find out!
Who would win in a fight between TJ Miller and the Cloverfield Monster? Is the new Tom and Jerry any good? What about the latest documentary on Billie Eilish? What about that David Copperfield movie? All are discussed on this week's Best Pictures.
In the series finale of podcast maxiseries Live and Let Cry, Cody Lunsford of Best Pictures makes one last attempt to make Eli Smith of Purely Nostalgia cry. Desperate times call for desperate measures, so Cody has employed his secret weapon: anime. Will Studio Ghibli's bleak war drama Grave of the Fireflies finally squeeze a tear out of old Dry Eyes? Is it a bummer when children die? And most importantly, what have we learned from this experiment? We'll answer all these questions in this final episode of Live and Let Cry.
Another Boyle? Geez! The guys not only talk about Slumdog Millionaire, but also The Oscars in general and three current movies they all love!
The Dark Knight is a movie about Batman. Mark thinks it's better than the movie about a robot. But is it? Find out now!!
In this eighth episode of podcast maxiseries Live and Let Cry, Cody Lunsford of Best Pictures has not given up trying to make Eli Smith of Purely Nostalgia cry. Cody's Best Pictures co-host Chad Oliver joins to talk about his choice, the 1979 divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer.
How similar is this movie to Marriage Story? What's up with that french toast scene? Does Doctor Doom have a twitter account? All these questions and more will be answered in this episode of Live and Let Cry!
Episodes of Live and Let Cry will release on both Purely Nostalgia and Best Pictures monthly!
Three white guys talking Coen Brothers? Can life get better? No. No it can not. On this episode, in addition to Burn After Reading, we also discuss Sound of Metal, Midnight Sky, and Shadow In The Cloud.
It's a new year! And it's also a new Mini-Series for Best Pictures. We are tackling 2008 starting with Cody's pick for the best movie of the year, Wall-E. We also try to get to the bottom of the Avatar Sequels and the upcoming Clifford the Big Red Dog movie.
In this seventh episode of podcast maxiseries Live and Let Cry, Cody Lunsford of Best Pictures tries to make Eli Smith of Purely Nostalgia cry once again…. Christmas style. This month they watched the 2015 romantic drama Carol!
Is this a stealth remake of The Fox and the Hound? Is Eli destined to become a Mall Santa? And more importantly, will the sentimentality of the Christmas season finally make him cry? Tune in to find out!
Episodes of Live and Let Cry will premiere on both Purely Nostalgia and Best Pictures monthly!
On this special Holiday Special of Best Pictures Podcast, Cody, Chad, and Mark are joined by their podcast daddy, Jason Hammons who insisted on talking about a movie that he was pissed we didn't discuss during our 2005 series, only to realize that... maybe it didn't age great. We also talk about the state of the movie industry and have a holly jolly. Christmas time! It's a fun episode! Please listen to it! We have a guest! It's fun!
Team Tom or Team Jerry? Team Fudd or Team Bunny? Team Road Runner or Team Coyote? We also talk about the movie Hot Rod as our bonus episode for 2007!
In this sixth episode of podcast maxiseries Live and Let Cry, Cody Lunsford of Best Pictures tries to make tears roll down Eli Smith’s cheeks once again. This time, the movie was picked by Purely Nostalgia co-host Clint Page, who went with the animated Disney animated classic The Fox and the Hound.
Is this movie more similar to The Prince of Egypt or Brokeback Mountain? Do kids care about bugs? What DOES the fox say? Tune in to hear the answers to these important questions!
Episodes of Live and Let Cry will premiere on both Purely Nostalgia and Best Pictures monthly!
If you like to hear about the old timers, you couldn't have picked a better episode to listen to! This week we are discussing 2007's Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, No Country For Old Men. Is it better than Sunshine? Can it beat The Prestige for Best movie of our lifetime so far? Listen and find out!
Well... we lost most of an episode due to a computer crash in the middle of recording. It's been a while since this has happened, but we were able to keep our megaplex section where we talked about Sychronic, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Hear that and our brief thoughts on The Darjeeling Limited on this episode!
In this fifth episode of podcast maxiseries Live and Let Cry, Cody Lunsford of Best Pictures tries to make Eli Smith of Purely Nostalgia cry by watching the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness.
Is a movie that is ostensibly about happiness a good choice for a podcast about crying? Does Will Smith have any great movies? What's the deal with Rubik's Cubes? For answers to all of these important questions, hit that play button!
Episodes of Live and Let Cry will premiere on both Purely Nostalgia and Best Pictures monthly!
After speculation about what the heck is happening in the third Spider-Man movie after the announcement that Electro is back?! Cody, Chad, and Mark discuss Cody's pick for the best movie of 2007, Sunshine.
Launching into their 2007 miniseries, The Best Picture Boys discuss Mark's pick for the best movie of 2007, There Will Be Blood. Not everyone agrees!
In this fourth episode of podcast maxiseries Live and Let Cry, Cody Lunsford of Best Pictures tries to make Eli Smith cry once again. But this time, the movie was picked by Best Pictures co-host Mark Watlington, who went with the 2016 sci-fi drama Arrival. Is this movie depressing or hopeful? Mark and Cody think it’s the latter, but Eli’s not so sure. Tune in to find out if they can convince him, and to hear about Mark’s confusing crying tendencies. Episodes of Live and Let Cry will premiere on both Purely Nostalgia and Best Pictures monthly!
On the 2006 Bonus Ep, Cody, Chad, and Mark talk about The Devil Wears Prada! They also discuss movies they've recently seen like Tenet, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and Mulan.
Everyone tries out their best Boston accent on the latest episode of Best Pictures where Cody, Chad, and Mark discuss the Academy's pick for the best movie of 2006, The Departed. And is The New Mutants actually finally out? We get to the bottom of it!
Eli doesn't cry during movies. Cody cries all the time. On the third episode of the podcast maxiseries from Best Pictures and Purely Nostalgia, Eli presents a movie that almost brings him to tears. But is it fully successful? The Cry Guy and Mr. Dry Eyes are talking about 2007's rat chef biopic, Ratatouille.
Not only do Cody, Chad, and Mark discuss Cody's pick for the best movie of 2006, Christopher Nolan's The Prestige. They also discuss pickles, young politics boys, magic pills, and magic camps!
On this episode, we discuss Mark's pick for the greatest movie of 2006, Children of Men. Is it better than Nacho Libre? This is the first time in podcast history that these two films have been compared! Witness history!
Eli doesn't cry during movies. Cody cries all the time. On the second episode of the podcast maxiseries from Best Pictures and Purely Nostalgia, Cody tries to use music and the power of theatre to make Eli cry. The Cry Guy and Mr. Dry Eyes are talking about 2020's hit streaming musical Hamilton.
Chad isn't kidding when he says that Nacho Libre is the greatest film of 2006 and quite possibly one of the greatest films discussed on the podcast. New from streaming, Cody, Chad, and Mark also discuss Palm Springs, The Old Guard, and We Are Freestyle Love Supreme.
Cody, Chad, and Mark take a break from trying to figure out what the best movie of the year is to discuss a movie that is near and dear to Mark's heart, Sahara.
Look... we made the schedule years ago. We didn't know we'd be releasing a Crash episode in the middle of the biggest anti-racism movement of our lifetime. But alas, there is a lot to learn from this no good, really bad, tone deaf, academy award winning dumb bad movie. We're talking Crash.
Eli doesn't cry during movies. Cody cries all the time. In this new miniseries from Best Pictures and Purely Nostalgia, Cody will show movies to Eli to try to make him cry. The first on the list: The Notebook.
Mark's pick for the best movie of 2005 is Brokeback mountain. We discuss that movie as well as Do The Right Thing which we all recently watched.
Is the Squid and the Whale the greatest film of 2005? Chad sure thinks so. But what do the other Whale Buddies think? Also on the episode, all three of us watched a new movie from the year 2020. Wow! What a concept!
Is Batman Begins the greatest film of our lifetime? The dummies are about to find out! Cody, Chad, and Mark discuss Cody's pick for the best movie of 2005 but first they talk about what they've been watching in quarantine and debate what genre Bad Education falls into.
A break from their normal programming, Best Pictures' freaking idiots, Mark, Cody, and Chad all sit down to watch Napoleon Dynamite. Grab your DVD copy and watch along! And all of your wildest dreams will come true!
Is Million Dollar Baby the greatest movie of our lifetime? Does any of this matter anymore in the face of a Covid-19 world? Them boys talk about it.
The commentary boys are taking a crack on commentary. And since they miss going to the Megaplex so much, what better movie than Disney Channel's Phantom of the Megaplex? Watch along on Disney+
Is The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind the greatest movie of our lifetime? In the midst of a pandemic, the film gang is about to decide. They also meditate over their last time to ever visit the megaplex.
Your favorite podcast family, the Best Picture Besties, discuss Cody's favorite movie of 2004, The Incredibles. They also discuss The Invisible Man, Downhill, and Call of the Wild. What an INCREDIBLE episode! Ha! Wow!
It's the beginning of the 2004 miniseries and we're kicking things off by talking about Mark's pick for the greatest movie of 2004, Shaun of the Dead. It's a zom-com, Jerry! A ZOM-COM!
What were the best movies and performances of 2019? The Best Picture Besties are about to find out!
Is Finding Nemo the greatest film of our lifetime? Cody, Chad, and Mark are about to find out!
Is Return of the King the greatest movie of our lifetime? A few good men are about to find out!
Is Pirates of the Caribbean the greatest film of our lifetime? These movie maniacs are about to find out!
Is Kill Bill Vol. 1 the greatest film of our lifetime? Some hooligans are about to find out!
Is School of Rock the greatest film of our lifetime? Three rockstars are about to find out!
Is 28 Days Later the greatest movie of our lifetime? The three great movie fans are about to find out!
Is The Two Towers the greatest movie of our lifetime? These guys are about to find out!
Is Pearl Harbor the greatest movie of our lifetime? The three who enjoy movies are about to find out.
Is A Beautiful Mind the greatest movie of our lifetime? The beautiful boys are about to find out!
Is The Lord of the RIngs: The Fellowship of the RIng the greatest movie of our lifetime? The fellowship of film watchers will find out!
Is Wet Hot American Summer the greatest movie of our lifetime? The wet hot boys will find out!
Is Ocean's Eleven the greatest movie of our lifetime? The ones who discuss movies are about to find out!
Is X-Men the greatest movie of our lifetime? Chad, Mark, and Cody are about to find out!
Is Gladiator the greatest movie of our lifetime? The Best Pictures Best Friends are about to find out!
Is Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon the greatest movie of all time? The hosts are about to find out!
Is O Brother Where Art Thou the greatest movie of our lifetime? The large boys are about to find out!
What are the best movies and performances of 2018? The smartest movie fans are here to tell you!
Is American Beauty the greatest movie of our lifetime? No it is not. But the cinema guys are gonna talk about it!
Is Magnolia the greatest movie of out lifetime? The movie maniacs are about to find out!
Is The Iron Giant the greatest movie of all time? The film people are about to find out!
Burn Hollywood Burn is the worst movie ever. We found it. It's time for this segment to die.
Is Shakespeare in Love the greatest movie of all time? The cinema trio is about to find out!
Is The Truman Show the greatest film of all time? The greatest movie fans are about to find out!
Is Saving Private Ryan the greatest movie of all time? The men who like movies are going to find out!
Is Titanic the greatest movie ever made? It sure made a lot of money! The movie watching buddies are on the case!
Is Independence Day the greatest movie of all time? The four friends find out on our first cross-over episode with Purely Nostalgia!
Is That Thing You Do the greatest movie of our lifetime? The film friends will find out!
Is Scream the greatest movie of our lifetime? The spooky movie fans are about to find out!
Is Braveheart the greatest movie of our lifetime? The Best Picture Besties are about to find out!
Is Die Hard With A Vengeance the greatest movie of our lifetime? The cinema friends are about to find out!
Is Before Sunrise the best movie of our lifetime? The movie friends are about to find out!
Is Forrest Gump the greatest film of our lifetime? The film boys are about to find out!
Is Pulp Fiction the greatest movie of our life time? The movie guys are about to find out!
Meet Cody, Chad, and Mark, your new hosts and best friends! They will talk about movies they love in your ears on their search to find the best movie of their lifetime!