Episode 173: 2022 Academy Award Nominations and Best of the Year (Part 1)

The Wages of Cinema

It's here! At last! Were you.... even asking for it? Well, it comes but once a year, at any rate (though in this case it's an Oscar/awards season that technically takes films from March 2021 to December of 2021, so no Judas and the Black Messiah even though that was 2021 February oh hell go listen to our last year podcast for that one, episode... you can figure it out pretty easy, we think). We, Jack and Korey, dissect and look at the films that got nominated for Best Picture of the year - and, as sometimes is the case, Jack saw more than Korey did (not that our beloved Trash Panda doesn't have some strong opinions, whether she finished the movies or not!) - but we are only (only?) talking about SEVEN of the films(!) We will go more in depth about films that we loved, including our picks for best of the year (some overlap to these films, some not) in part two. For some help, here is a breakdown of what we discussed here if you'd like to jump ahead (with some clips scattered about here and there, and SPOILERS we are sure throughout): 1 - DON'T LOOK UP (6:00) 2 - CODA (19:50) 3 - KING RICHARD - (38:16) 4 - NIGHTMARE ALLEY - (50:18) 5 - THE POWER OF THE DOG - (1:07:00) 6 - BELFAST - (1:22:26) 7 - DUNE (1:35:00 - please check out Episode 168 for a full review of that film) [e-mail]