Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Episode 367: And the Oscar Goes to Spring Movies

The Academy Awards just happened... but the recording of this episode was before the Oscars were given out... so what do Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDr Earl do?  Go ahead and record predictions for an episode that will air AFTER the actual results.

Because The Deucecast Movie Show is like that. Cutting edge and all.

And even better, the predictions made on the show weren't even the final predictions!  So why listen? Because we are awesome and you should.

And then, a full preview on the big releases upcoming for the months of March, April and May... Chloe Grace Moretz gets stalked... #TwitterlessDrEarl Marvels at Brie... Jordan Peele gets weird. Er. Weirder... Dumbo takes flight... revisiting Pet Sematary... the Endgame of Avengers... Keanu Reeves shoots lots of people... more dogs traveling the country... and much, much more!

Saturday, February 23, 2019

The 2019 Academy Award Predictions

Here are the predictions from Dave, Mikey & Earl for this year's Academy Awards.  As always, the one who gets the most correct can assign a movie of their choice to the other two to be watched.

Here are the categories with nominees, and those who picked them beside the noms.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Favourite - d$, Earl, Mikey
First Reformed
Green Book
Roma
Vice

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Earl
BlacKkKlansman - d$, Mikey
Can You Ever Forgive Me
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star is Born

VISUAL EFFECTS
Avengers Infinity War - Earl, Mikey
Christopher Robin
First Man - d$
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story

SOUND MIXING
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody - Mikey, d$
First Man - Earl
Roma
A Star is Born

SOUND EDITING
Black Panther - Earl
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man - d$
A Quiet Place - Mikey
Roma

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Detainment - d$
Fauve
Marguerite - Earl, Mikey
Mother
Skin

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Animal Behavior - Earl
Bao - Mikey, d$
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Black Panther
The Favorite - Mikey
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma - Earl, d$

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Free Solo - Mikey, Earl, d$
Hale County, This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Black Sheep - Mikey
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence. - Earl, d$

FILM EDITING 
BlacKkKlansman - Earl
Bohemian Rhapsody - Mikey
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice - d$

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Capernaum
Cold War - Mikey, Earl
Never Look Away
Roma - d$
Shoplifters

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Vice - Earl, d$, Mikey

COSTUME DESIGN
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite - Earl, d$, Mikey
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots

ORIGINAL SCORE
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk - d$, Mikey
Isle of Dogs - Earl
Mary Poppins Returns

ORIGINAL SONG
"All the Stars" - Black Panther
"I'll Fight" - RBG
"The Place Where Lost Things Go" - Mary Poppins Returns
"Shallow" - A Star is Born - Mikey, d$, Earl
"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cold War
The Favourite
Never Look Away
Roma - Mikey, d$, Earl
A Star is Born

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse - Mikey, Earl, d$

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina de Tavira, Roma
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk - Mikey, Earl, d$
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mahershala Ali, Green Book - Mikey, d$
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliot, A Star is Born - Earl
Richard E Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife - Mikey, Earl, d$
Olivia Coleman, The Favourite
Lady Gaga, A Star is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Christian Bale, Vice - Earl, d$
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity's Gate
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody - Mikey
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

DIRECTING
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
Cold War
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Roma (Alfonso Cuaron) - Mikey, Earl, d$
Vice (Adam McKay)

BEST PICTURE
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book - d$
Roma - Earl, Mikey
A Star is Born
Vice


The 2019 Deucie Award Nominations

Here are the nominations for the upcoming 6th Annual Deucie Awards, given for the best in film from the year of our Lord Two Thousand and 18, during an upcoming The Deucecast Movie Show episode.

BEST PICTURE
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
A Quiet Place
Roma

DIRECTING AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTING BY A DIRECTOR
Ethan & Joel Coen (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)
Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
John Krasinski (A Quiet Place)
Yargos Lanthimos (The Favorite)
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)

BEST ACTRESS
Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns)
Olivia Coleman (The Favourite)
Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
Lady Gaga (A Star is Born)
Charlize Theron (Tully)

BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale (Vice)
Nicolas Cage (Mandy)
Ben Foster (Leave No Trace)
Rami Malik (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali (Green Book)
Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)
Sam Elliot (A Star is Born)
Michael B Jordan (Black Panther)
Sam Rockwell (Vice)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams (Vice)
Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place)
Kathryn Hahn (A Private Life)
Emma Stone (The Favourite)
Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)

BEST POPCORN FILM
Aquaman
Avengers Infinity War
The Meg
Mission Impossible Fallout
Skyscraper

BEST SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED
The Coen Brothers (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)
Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara (The Favourite)
John Kransinski (A Quiet Place)
Bo Birnham (Eighth Grade)
Charlie Wachtal & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)

BEST ANIMATED
Dr Seuss' The Grinch
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse

BEST SONG OR SCORE
"Can You Imagine That" from "Mary Poppins Returns" (Music by Marc Shaiman, Lyric by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
"The Place Where Lost Things Go" from "Mary Poppins Returns" (Music by Marc Shaiman, Lyric by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman)
"The Shallow" from "A Star is Born" (Music and lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomondo, and Andrew Wyatt)
The Score from "Spider-Man Into the Spider Verse" (score by Daniel Pemberton)
"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" from "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" (Music & Lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch)

BEST DRAMA FILM
Green Book
Leave No Trace
Roma
Searching
Widows

BEST COMEDY FILM
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Game Night
Sorry to Bother You
TAG

BEST ACTION FILM
Aquaman
Avengers Infinity War
Black Panther
Bumblebee
Mission Impossible Fallout

BEST CAST ENSEMBLE
Avengers Infinity War
Bad Night at the Old Royale
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Widows

BEST FANTASY / SCI-FI
Annihilation
Black Panther
A Quiet Place
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story

THE WORST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom
The Nutcracker & the Four Realms
Pacific Rim Uprising
Robin Hood
A Wrinkle in Time

THE WORST ACTING PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Gerard Butler (Geostorm)
Scott Eastwood (Pacific Rim Uprising)
Amber Heard (Aquaman)
Keira Knightly (The Nutcracker & the Four Realms)
Oprah Winfrey (A Wrinkle in Time)


Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Episode 366: Deucies ReFlicktions


It's the award season once again and the Sixth Annual Deucies nominations are out! Mikey, Dr Earl and Dave let their soothing voices infiltrate your earholes to tell you not only about the movies they've seen in the last month (Warren Beatty! Spike Lee! Barrett... Oliver?) AND to give you this year's batch of honorees vying for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Song/Score, Best Drama... and even Worst Acting Performance (Oprah, this may be your year!)


Amongst other things, topics discussed include... More about the Mary Poppins Meryl Streep sequence... Dr Earl on RBG and Felicity Jones... Dave brings the conspiracy documentaries... Mikey hating on Queen... a bad movie from Amy Adams... Upgrade is a better Venom... random Netflix symphonies... Dental shade... Knight of Cups Casting... Dave explains The Boulder Problem... and much more.

The List of Movies Discussed....
Mary Poppins Returns... On the Basis of Sex... Root Cause... TAG... Knight of Cups... STINK!... Blockers... Free Solo... Velvet Buzzsaw... D.A.R.Y.L... Tully... Song to Song... The Devil We Know... Green Book... They Shall Not Grow Old... Bohemian Rhapsody... Moonlight Serenade... Manhunter... Heaven Can Wait... The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part... Upgrade... High Flying Bird... Hearts Beat Loud... Valentine's Day... BlacKKKlansman






Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Episode 365: Valentine's Opportunities

Another February is here, meaning another day of Valentine's love is in the wings!  And if Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl aren't enough, Friend of the Show Jennifer "Juniper" Kaufman joins the show to add a softer voice and a girls touch to the topic itself.


First up, Birthday Movies to talk about what was released in February five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago -- movies like The Lego Movie, Office Space, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and even a fave of Friend of the Show Burgess, The Jonas Brothers 3D Concert Experience!

A quick round of the IMDb game -- can you name the actor and/or actress by the roles and movies?  Great match!

Friend of the Show, Miss Independent himself Burgess calls in from his 24th film festival in 2019 over in Mississippi, to give his results of this year's Burgentine's Day -- he reviews the movies assigned to him by the crew.

The topic in the episode is not just Valentine's movies, but those movies that are bad -- not just guilty pleasures, but Rom Com Chick Flicks that the crew feels like they may be the only ones to actually like. Movies with John Cusack... Brenden Fraser in a bomb shelter... Dave's novelization attempts... Beth Cooper makes an appearance... that Bonnie Raitt song movie... Kaufman's love of Jennifer Anniston.. Dr Earl's love of 90's Jennifer Connelly... Mikey's love of Michael J Fox...  Dave's love of large ensemble flicks... and so much more love in the episode!

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Episode 364: The Best Best Picture Winners

Oscar nominations are out!  Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl spend an hour full of Oscar talk... and the fun thing is that when the recording of this episode happens, nominations aren't out yet.


So the guys get to make bold predictions on Oscar noms that have already happened now.  Who swings and misses wildly?  Who calls an Animated nom?  And who was the genius who called the Bradley Cooper snub and only 7 nominations for Star is Born??

Dr Earl also pontificates on a recent viewing of M. Night's sophomore effort "Unbreakable" (of which the recent "Glass" is a sequel to), a re-watch after about 12 or 15 years.

Then the Denzel game makes a stirring comeback, with shout outs to Mila Kunis, James Franco, and Mikey's Boo K-Cost, and who could forget Chuckles the Ape...

The top five this go-round takes a look at all the Academy Award Best Picture winners, including a look at the Godfather, the life-ness of Talia Shire, and what is the Good Dinosaur of Mobster movies... a rundown of the other movies that didn't win in the same year of the movies selected... some hot Sidney Poitier talk... the importance of Titanic in Dave's life...