Episode 683: The Top Ten of 2006

The summer is here!  We are but two weeks away from the official summer equinox, but it already feels hot and sassy outside. 

This summer, The Deucecast Movie Show is looking back at years prior to the show's beginning. As we approach our 700th episode, leading up to it we will be doing a series of Top Tens -- each one focusing in on a particular year.

Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl invite in Friend of the Show Garrison Ryfun, and G has picked The Year of Our Lord 2006.

We run through the year - the bigger news stories of the year, the top ten films, the Oscar noms and winners, even the Razzie Award highlights, plus where we exactly were in 2006... Mikey and Dave freshly married (though not to each other... not yet anyway), Dr Earl building hospitals in the Baja California dessert, and Garrison being the only kid in KinderCare who was familiar with Bong Joon Ho. 

Enjoy the show this week, and check back next week when we dive into... 1984! 

Episode 680: The Updated MCU Rankings

The MCU served us up another chapter in their long saga of Cinema, and it's time for d$, Mikey, and #XLessDrEarl to give an MCU Ranking. 

We invite in Fan Fave and Friend of the Show, the Pride of Villa Rica Georgia, Young Garrison "Spawn of Ryfun" Ryfun calls in, Marvel fan that he is. 

Starting with 2008's "Iron Man", the guys run through the entire MCU, and all of it's faves, giving their list of their faves, ultimately giving a Top Ten from each, then a show Top Ten. 

How does your top ten align with ours?

Here is the list of the MCU films & dates released

Episode 677: April's ReFlicktions Brew

It's been a while but finally, the door has been closed on 2024 with last week's Deucie Awards (congrats to all the winners!) and Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl are here with their first batch of post-Deucie ReFlicktions, plus the first Top Five of the Year list!

Off the top of the show, Miss Independent and The Pride of Tifton Garrison Ryfun, along with hosts Mikey and d$, assign foreign, aka InternationEARL, movies to the Good Doctor for watching and reviewing in an upcoming episode.

Then, the list of films seen over the last 7 or 8 weeks... d$ sees classic Warren Beatty... Dr Earl takes on controversial Netflix... and Mikey finds rare Kevin Smith.  Plus, a longer talk on the good and bad of Mickey17... love for Soderbergh... not love for the latest Chris Pratt... docs about Clue, Kaufman (Andy, not Jen), and murderous daughters... prescient pope stuff... Reggie Miller vs Spike Lee... Jack Black successfully always being Jack Black... and much love for the latest Michael B Jordan joint.

Then, the first Top Five of 2025!

Episode 676: The 2025 Deucie Awards (and our Top 10 of the Year)

 With the year 1/4th over, it is time to finally stick a fork into 2024 movies, with our list of our favorite films... AND awarding the best films of the year.

It's the coveted Deucie Awards, and for the 12th year in a row, Mikey, d$ and Dr. Earl are here to give out the best in Comedy, Drama, Cinematography, Animation, Documentary, Music, Screenplay, Sci-Fi/Horror, Brain Candy, and of course, the acting awards, direction, and Best Picture!

The Brutalist has a record 8 nominations, with Civil War getting 7 noms, A Complete Unknown with 6, while Dune Part Two and Wicked each getting 5. 

Can Denis Villeneuve get his 3rd Deucie Award of his career?  Can Saoirse Ronan get her third?  Or can Florence Pugh join Denis, Saoirse, and Adam Driver as the only movie makers to get 2?  

Plus, what films impressed Dr. Earl, Mikey, and d$ that they end up on their respective Top Ten lists of the year?  And you'll recognize a lot of the voices you hear on this ep, as we get all of our faves to assist! 

Episode 673: The Criterion Crew

 Dave and Mikey decide to give the reigns over this week to The Criterion Crew aka Garrison, Burgess, and Dr. Earl. So prepare for a pretentious extravaganza of film discussion.

Episode 664: The NOT 2024 Top Ten

The review of 2024 films are in full swing, but first there is the annual look back at the movies seen last year that were NOT FROM last year. Its the NOT 2024 Top Ten, where we highlight films worthy of a second discussion because they just impacted us so much.

And for the 3rd year running on this particular episode, Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl welcome in Friend of the Show, streaming live from the freezing metropolis somewhere in Bainbridge, Wyoming, that is one Jacob "Roth from Wyoming."

Together, the foursome discuss their top ten faves of the year from all over the place, as far back as the early 20s and 30s to all the way through the 60s and 70s and in 2010s and 2020s... assigned movies come into play as films others were asked to watch appear in various Top Tens, while Burgess recommended movies keep coming up as well. 

Mikey is loving some old Gena Rowland and Walter Matthau as an action star, while #XLessDrEarl digs into more music docs, Dave revisits a Hallmark fave, and Roth finally sets sail on the ship of dreams. Plus, why did Green Book get so much hate, Eastwood represents (even if he is a d-bag of a romantic partner) and Powers Boothe makes another list.

Also... Garrison makes a random appearance with lots of Chucky Grodin love. 

Movies discussed, and where to find them at time of recording:

• Atlantics (Netflix)
• Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (MAX; Criterion Channel)
• The Boys Next Door (Hallmark Movie Now)
• A Brighter Summer Day (Criterion Channel)
• Dirty Harry (for rental)
• Duck Soup (rental)
• Extreme Prejudice (rental)
• A Few Good Men (AMC+; rental)
• Frankenstein (rental)
• French Connection (rental)
• Gimme Shelter (MAX; Criterion Channel)
• Green Book (FXNow)
• Hang 'Em High (MGM+; TubiTV)
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse (rental)
• Into the Wild (Hoopla; rental)
• The Last of the Mohicans (rental)
• Magnolia (rental)
• Margin Call (Amazon Prime; TubiTV)
• Minari (rental)
• Modern Romance (rental)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (rental)
• Priscilla (MAX)
• Safety Last (MAX)
• Seven Samurai (MAX; Criterion Channel)
• The Shawshank Redemption (AMC+)
• The Sunset Limited (MAX)
• State and Main (Amazon Prime)
• Stop Making Sense (rental)
• Suicide Kings (Amazon Prime; TubiTV)
• Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (Hoopla; TubiTV; MGM+)
• Targets (Hoopla; rental)
• The Thing (Shudder; rental)
• The Three Musketeers (Plex; rental)
• Titanic (Paramount+)
• Tremors (Paramount+ on AppleTV; rental)
• Twelve Monkeys (rental)
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact (rental)
• While We're Young (rental)
• While You Were Sleeping (Disney+)
• Woman Under the Influence (MAX; The Criterion Channel)

Episode 662: The 2025 Movie Auction

It's that time of the year, when the annual Movie Auction takes place... and by "the annual", we mean the second one we've ever done! 

In a concept borrowed from The Big Picture Podcast (all nods and love to Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey), Mikey and d$ are joined by Friends of the Show Garrison "Pride of Kennesaw" Ryfun and Roth from Wyoming to fill out their roster of films for 2025.

Everyone has a proverbial $1000 to work with, as various movies are put on the auction block and bid for - with the intentions of getting the movies that will make the most money domestically, as well as will get both Oscar love in early 2026.

The big ones are all hear -- Fantastic Four, Avatar, Wicked, and Superman included -- plus some surprises, like live action Stitch and Toothless, a Peruvian Paddington, more dinosaurs, and Glen Powell running.

A Rotten Tomatoes game determines the draft order, and will Roth go rogue again?? 

Episode 660: The 2024 Christmas Gifts (and our Lumps of Coal!)

For the 10th straight year, Mikey and d$ are giving away the Gifts of Christmas!  #XLessDrEarl has been joining the ep for many years now, and as Kaufman makes the Christmas Ep her home annually, so goes Garrison "Pride of Dahlonega" Ryfun with Christmas Gifts... and this year, we combine it with our annual Lumps of Coal ep!

So first, we highlight the lowlights of the year... films that didn't just quite resonate with us. Some from good directors, some with good scripts, and even some with great casts -- but movies that fell flat for one reason or another... and leave it to Dr. Earl to bring the big names to the list.

Then, after we bring the negative, we look at the positive, giving some great gifts all around -- to our fave actors, to our fave directors, even to studios to get them a little help.  Plus, a few movies seen on behalf of others... and the first tangible gift ever given in a Christmas Gifts episode!

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! 

Episode 655: The Tom Cruise Top 10

 He's one of the last real superstars, and last real movie stars that we've had in Hollywood, and no, we aren't talking about our friend Jeremy Burgess...

We are talking one Thomas Mapother IV, aka, Tom Cruise, and it's time for the show to do our official Tom Cruise Top 10.  Mikey and d$ are joined, as per usual, by #XLessDrEarl and a big movie fan, the Pride of Dahlonega, Spawn of The Voice of Valdosta, Lil Garrison Ryfun to count them down.

First, Garrison gives his review on the latest Pope romcom, "Conclave", with #XLessDrEarl chiming in a little.

Then, starting with "Endless Love" and ending with "Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning", and every Tom Cruise movie in-between - each of the guys list their fave Cruise films as we go along. 

Finally, at the end of the show, an overall average is taken and the Official Tom Cruise Top Ten Films are announced! 

 

DCMS Ep 650: Ooh Ooh Witchy Deucecast

 In the small but still somewhat cool milestone of our 650th episode, Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl kick off the month of October with the first of three horror themed episodes -- which one, you ask?  Its the Witch One, as a matter of fact.  See what we did there?

First up, random chatter about Joker Flop de Flop (honestly, I'm not looking up whatever that crap is called) and even some Megalopolis convo at some point, then the October Birthday Movies!  

Then, digging into our Top Five... the Top Five Witches in Movies. From the animated to the partly animated/real life, to the scary freaky, to the comical... and even the sort of kind of but not really witches. 

Then, it's time for MikeTober, as Garrison "The Pride of Albany" Ryfun and Miss Independent Jeremy Burgess join d$ and Dr Earl in offering movies for Mikey to see -- and possibly be crowned the 2024 MikeTober Champ!

Films discussed and where to find them:

• Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Disney+)
• The Blair Witch Project (Peacock; Peacock Premium)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Disney+)
• Enchanted (Disney+)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (MAX; Peacock; Peacock Premium)
• Into the Woods (Disney+)
• Maleficent (Disney+)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Netflix)
• Space Jam (for rental
• Tangled (Disney+)
• The VVitch (Amazon Prime)

Episode 645: The 2024 Fall Movie Preview

Now that the summer is over, Pumpkin Spice Lattes fresh in Mikey's hand, college football season on the TV, Garrison wiping his tears over his team eliminated on Day 10 of the season, Dr Earl out of the show because he's curing botox injuries with Australian aboriginals, d$ finally giving his Dave'Stalgia lineup... 

Its the fall, and its the Fall Movie Preview.  And its the biggest one ever, as Mikey, d$, and guest host Garrison "Pride of Blue Ridge" Ryfun read 12 pages of upcoming films... not only lots of movies coming to the theaters, but also streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Prime and beyond. 

Docs about Superman's life... cartoons about robots... more cartoons about robots... Matt Walsh asking a question... Frances Ford Coppola's latest disaster... why d$ doesn't care about Joker's singing... Mikey's pumped for new Askew... a new Stephen King adaption... Tom Hardy's last go-round... a bald Marky Mark... and so, so much more.

Plus, the five classic films assigned to d$ for watching and ranking. 

Dave'Stalgia Films

• Arsenic & Old Lace (Scotty Ryfun) - for rental
• A Face in the Crowd (Dr Earl) - MAX
• The Lady Vanishes (Garrison) - Amazon Prime; MAX
• Strangers on a Train (Mikey) - TubiTV
• Targets (Burgey) - for rental

Friday, Sept. 6:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 
• The Front Room 
• Hoard 
• I’ll Be Right There 
• The Thicket 
• Rebel Ridge (Netflix) 

Friday, Sept. 13:

• The 4:30 Movie 
• Am I Racist?
• The Critic 
• The Killer’s Game 
• My Old Ass 
• Speak No Evil 
• Winner 
• Uglies (Netflix) 

Friday, Sept. 20:

• A Different Man 
• In the Summers - 
• Never Let Go
• Omni Loop 
• The Substance 
• Transformers One 
• His Three Daughters (Netflix) 

Saturday, Sept. 21:

• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 

Thursday, Sept. 26:

• Killer Heat (Amazon Prime) 

Friday, Sept. 27:

• Azrael
• Bagman 
• Empire Waist
• Hellboy: The Crooked Man
• Lee 
• Megalopolis 
• Notice to Quit 
• The Wild Robot 
• Apartment 7A (Paramount+) 
• Rez Ball (Netflix) 
• She Taught Love (Hulu) 
• Wolfs (AppleTV+) 

Thursday, Oct. 3:

• Hold Your Breath (Hulu)
• House of Spoils (Amazon Prime)

Friday, Oct. 4:

• Joker: Folie a Deux 
• Monster Summer
• The Outrun 
• The Problem With People
• Scarygirl
• White Bird
• It’s What’s Inside (Netflix)
• The Platform 2 (Netflix)
• V/H/S/ Beyond (Shudder)

Friday, Oct. 11:

• Bad Genius 
• Saturday Night 
• Piece by Piece 
• Terrifier 3 
• We Live in Time 
• Lonely Planet (Netflix)
• Salem’s Lot (Max) 

Thursday, Oct. 17

• Brothers (Amazon Prime) 

Friday, Oct. 18:

• Anora 
• Exhibiting Forgiveness
• Flight Risk 
• Rumours 
• Smile 2 
• Woman of the Hour (Netflix) 

Wednesday, Oct. 23:

• The Line
• Family Pack (Netflix) 

Thursday, Oct. 24:

• Canary Black (Amazon Prime) 

Friday, Oct. 25:

• Memoir of a Snail
• Nickel Boys
• Venom: The Last Dance 
• Don’t Move (Netflix)

Wednesday, Oct. 30:

• Time Cut (Netflix)

Friday, Nov. 1:

• Absolution 
• Here  
• Hitpig 
• Lost on a Mountain in Maine
• My Dead Friend Zoe 
• A Real Pain 
• Freedom (Amazon Prime) 
• Music By John Williams (Disney+) 

Wednesday, Nov. 6:

• Meet Me Next Christmas (Netflix)

Friday, Nov. 8:

• Conclave 
• Elevation 
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
• Bird
• The Last Rifleman 
• Weekend in Taipei 
• Black Cab (Shudder) 

Wednesday, Nov. 13:

• Emilia Perez (Netflix) 
• Hot Frosty (Netflix)

Friday, Nov. 15:

• Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point 
• Heretic 
• Red One 

Wednesday, Nov. 20:

• The Merry Gentlemen (Netflix) 

Friday, Nov. 22:

• Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. 
• Gladiator II 
• Wicked 
• Joy (Netflix) 
• The Piano Lesson (Netflix) 
• Spellbound (Netflix)

Wednesday, Nov. 27:

• Moana 2 
• Our Little Secret (Netflix) 

Episode 643: My Favorite Summer... The Directors

It's the true dog days of summer, as My Favorite Summer has only two eps left before the big pay-off -- Mikey, d$'s and #XLessDrEarl's top ten fave films of all time. 

But first, after listing our favorite actors and actresses, it's time for the Directors!  We invite in Friend of the Show and Elder Movie Statesman, the Voice of Marietta, Scotty Ryfun! 

We chat about our fave movie filmmakers, the movies they have given us, the styles we love, and our own qualifications of how they are favorites... and Ryfun gives quite a defense of both George Lucas and "The Rise of Skywalker". It's not really right, but it's at least passionate. 

And even the Spawn of Ryfun shows up! 

Here is a list of movies discussed and where to find them streaming: 

• The Abyss (Hulu)
• Aliens (Hulu; MAX)
• The Apartment (TubiTV)
• Black Hawk Down (for rental)
• Brewster McLeod (for rental)
• Captain America: The First Avenger (Disney+)
• Charade (Amazon Prime)
• Crimson Tide (for rental)
• Duel (for rental)
• Empire of the Sun (for rental) 
• Fargo (Amazon Prime; TubiTV)
• The Godfather trilogy (Paramount+)
• Inception (for rental)
• The In-Laws (for rental)
• Joy (MAX)
• The Lost Weekend (for rental)
• Matchstick Men (for rental)
• Memories of Murder (TubiTV)
• Mother (Peacock Premium; Crackle)
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Hulu)
• Patriots Day (Netflix) 
• Radio Flyer (for rental)
• Rear Window (The Criterion Channel)
• Red State (TubiTV)
• Rope (for rental)
• Ruthless People (for rental)
• Skin Deep (Amazon Prime)
• A Serious Man (MAX)
• Strangers on a Train (TubiTV)
• The Terminal (Amazon Prime)
• While We're Young (MAX)

Episode 635: The Extra Stuff

The My Favorite Summer series takes a slight break this week, but not to give a classic episode... this week, d$, Mikey, and #XlessDrEarl drops in your lap a bunch of extra content...

First, the Deucies Reaction Show -- friends of the show, Garrison "Pride of Sylvester" Ryfun, Roth from Wyoming, Aussie Nate, and The Burgeler himself, Jeremy Burgess give their thoughts on the awards given, those snubbed, who should have won and who did win based on The 11th Annual Deucie Awards, episode 626.

Next, a little extra Jeremy Burgess, giving his thoughts on possible winners of the Deucie Screenplay Award.

If this is your first time listening to our show... we beg you, find another episode to get used to us.

If you are a regular listener... first, we're sorry, but then, THANKS and enjoy the randomness this week, and we'll see you for Documentaries next week!

Episode 632: My Favorite Summer... The Classics

 It's finally time for the summer and with it, the summer series at The Deucecast Movie Show! For the fourth... or fifth, who's counting... your fave movie podcast that you, but probably not any of your friends and definitely not most girls you know, are listening to is giving you a theme for the summer, a series of episodes intertwined with a common theme... this time, it's "My Favorite Summer". 
 
And for the summer, Dave, Mikey, and #XLessDrEarl will be giving you the top tens of their favorites across movie genres, like comedies, dramas, animation, and more, and tonight, the Classics.  And of course, to rank the classics is our fellow cinephile and film snob, the pride of Toccoa Falls, Garrison Ryfun!

First, a little round of Movie Trivia from The Book, and then, diving right in... all of our all time fave films from all the years, from the early days of film up until the cut-off of 1969. 

Legendary directors like Wilder, Hitchcock, Fleming, and Lumet... incredible performances from the likes of Cary, Stewart, Bogie, Audrey... and sweeping plantation epics to tiny jury rooms to creepy hotels to pool halls.  

 

Episode 627: The ReFlicktions Express (the extended cut)

After weeks of finishing up 2023, complete with last week's The Deucie Awards, it's finally time to bring in the rundown of all the movies seen in recent weeks (and months)... as Timberlake would sing, "IT'S GONNA BE MAY... ReFlicktions"

Dave goes through several classic (and maybe not as classic) films, while Mikey discusses his rankings of how 3.5 on Letterboxd may or not be indicative that he hates the movie.  Also, why Daryl Hannah may not be very smart... Dr Earl gets a little pretentious... John Cena bringing it... the early Kendricks film... Earl's Poor Things rant... why Daisy Ridley may not be very good... more Baumbach... 

And big movies like The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Godzilla x Kong, Civil War, and Challengers.

And Rebel Moon. Yikes.

Plus, assigned films make their return, with the payoff of Pineapple Express, Minari, While We're Young, and Mr. Jealousy

InternationEarl makes its 2024 appearance, with Dr Earl getting his films to watch.

And finally,  the very first Top 5 of the year! 

Here are the movies talked about and where to find them at the time of recording

• The Great Escape (Amazon Prime; MGM+; TubiTV)
• 20 Days of Mariupol (PBS; For rental)
• Mean Girls: The Musical: The Movie: The Musical Movie (Paramount+; MGM+)
• Rolling Thunder (TubiTV)
• While We’re Young (MAX)
• Ricky Stanicky (Amazon Prime)
• 2010 (Netflix)
• Pineapple Express (Netflix)
• Wonka (MAX)
• Legal Eagles (Netflix)
• Cabrini (for rental)
• A Woman Under the Influence (MAX)
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (for rental)
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (in theaters)
• Road House (Amazon Prime)
• Flywheel (for rental)
• Poor Things (Hulu)
• Trolls Band Together (Peacock)
• Migration (Peacock)
• Hunt to Kill (Starz)
• Fire with Fire (Starz)
• Wild Card (Paramount+; Showtime)
• One Life (for rental)
• Freud’s Last Session (Netflix)
• Damsel (Netflix)
• American Assassin (Netflix)
• Arizona (Hulu)
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (in theaters)
• Lisa Frankenstein (Peacock)
• Minari (Netflix)
• Wicked Little Letters (for rental)
• Dirty Harry (for rental)
• Movie Hoarders (TubiTV; Tubi’s CrackleMoviePlex)
• Dream Scenario (MAX)
• Supercell (Hulu)
• New Orleans (TCM; Amazon Prime)
• Don’t Die (streaming)
• The Marsh King’s Daughter (Hulu)
• Scoop (Netflix)
• The Greatest Hits (Hulu)
• Steve (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces (AppleTV+)
• Name of the Rose (Amazon Prime; TubiTV; FreeVee)
• Mr. Jealousy (Peacock; TubiTV; FreeVee)
• The Greatest Hits (Hulu)
• Civil War (in theaters)
• Monkey Man (in theaters)
• Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver (Netflix)
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (in theaters)
• The Jewel Robbery (Watch TCM)
• Anyone But You (Netflix)
• Abigail (in theaters)
• Irish Wish (Netflix)
• Challengers (in theaters)

Episode 626: The 2024 Deucie Awards (and the Top 10 of the Year)

Normally, when you hear "A tradition unlike any other", you think The Masters, as that's the slogan. However, it is a slogan that more closely describes THE DEUCIE AWARDS!!

For the 11th time, Dave and Mikey, now joined by #XLessDrEarl, preside over the "people's movie awards"... and the top 10 of the year as well! 

And to assist, the Deucecast crew invites in many friends of the show, from Burgess to Kaufman to Aussie to the Ryfuns and even more -- with an assist from The Main Street Electrical Podcast co-host Jenn Novotny, it's quite an award-fest!

In addition, Dave, Mikey, and Dr Earl give their own fave films of the year -- you can likely guess the films that make all three lists, but there are a few out of left field as well.

Make sure to catch Ep 621 from a few weeks ago, where we do our "just outside the top ten" list...

Make sure to follow along with the winners! 

BEST PICTURE 1 American Fiction 2 Barbie 3 Godzilla Minus One 4 The Holdovers 5 The Iron Claw 6 Maestro 7 Oppenheimer 8 Past Lives BEST ACTOR 1 Bradley Cooper (Maestro) 2 Zac Efron (The Iron Claw) 3 Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) 4 Glenn Howerton (Blackberry) 5 Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) 6 Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) BEST ACTRESS 1 Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall) 2 Greta Lee (Past Lives) 3 Carey Mulligan (Maestro) 4 Natalie Portman (May December) 5 Margo Robbie (Barbie) 6 Emma Stone (Poor Things) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1 Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer 2 Viola Davis - Air 3 Jodie Foster - Nyad 4 Vanessa Kirby - Napoleon 5 Julianne Moore - May December 6 Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers BEST DIRECTING ACHIEVEMENT BY A DIRECTOR WHO DIRECTED A FILM 1 Bradley Cooper - Maestro 2 David Fincher - The Killer 3 Greta Gerwig - Barbie 4 Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer 5 Alexander Payne - The Holdovers 6 Celine Song - Past Lives BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 1 Sterling K Brown - American Fiction 2 Willem Dafoe - Poor Things 3 Matt Damon - Oppenheimer 4 Robert DeNiro - Killers of the Flower Moon 5 Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer 6 Ryan Gosling - Barbie BEST ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 1 Anatomy of a Fall 2 Asteroid City 3 Barbie 4 The Holdovers 5 Oppenheimer 6 Past Lives BEST ANIMATED FILM 1 Elemental 2 Leo 3 Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse 4 The Super Mario Brothers Movie 5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem JACOB PINKY PINKERTON AWARD FOR BEST BRAIN CANDY MOVIE 1 Anyone But You 2 Gran Turismo 3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 4 John Wick 4 5 Meg 2 :The Trench 6 MI: Dead Reckoning Part 1 BEST DOCUMENTARY 1 David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived 2 A Disturbance in the Force 3 Sly 4 Still: A Michael J Fox Movie 5 Taylor Swift: the Eras Tour BEST ENSEMBLE CAST 1 Air 2 Asteroid City 3 Killers of the Flower Moon 4 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning 5 Oppenheimer BEST ACTION FILM 1 The Equalizer 3 2 Extraction 2 3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 4 John Wick 4 5 Mission Impossible: Dead Recks BEST SONG OR SCORE 1 Ludwig Goransson (Oppenheimer) 2 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Killer) 3 Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) 4 Dua Lipa - Dance the Night, Barbie 5 "I'm Just Ken" music and lyrics by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (Barbie) BEST DRAMA 1 The Holdovers 2 The Killer 3 Oppenheimer 4 Past Lives 5 You Hurt My Feelings BEST COMEDY 1 American Fiction 2 Anyone But You 3 Asteroid City 4 Barbie 5 Blackberry BEST SCI-FI/HORROR 1 The Creator 2 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 3 Godzilla Minus One 4 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 4 5 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Episode 624: The Pretentious Corner

It's been promised forever, and The Deucecast Movie Show has finally delivered.  Pretention reigns on this episode, as d$ is out of town and Mikey is relegated to behind the scenes where no one can hear him whine.

#XLessDrEarl is here and shedding the show of the uncultured swine of a Kevin James fan known as d$ and the Nic Cage apologize called Mikey, bringing in Friend of the Show Jeremy "Miss Independent" Burgess and part time co-host Lil G, Garrison "Pride of Albany" Ryfun to discuss all things pretentious.

First, a little Oscars chat... then a take on Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire... an update on Burgess' film "Don't Die"... streaming services (RIP FilmStruck) to find such pretentious films... and a definition of Pretention from the crew.

They list their five fave pretentious films, including gems from Wim Wenders (pronounced VIM VENDERS by the way) and Malick and Fassbender and much, much more. Grab your smoking jacking, swirl your brandy snifter, and adjust your monocle...

Episode 616: The 2024 Movie Auction

It's that time of the year, when the annual Movie Auction takes place... and by "the annual", we mean the very first one we've ever done. 

In a concept borrowed from The Big Picture Podcast (all nods and love to Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey), Mikey and d$ are joined by Friends of the Show Garrison "Pride of Kennesaw" Ryfun and making his 2nd straight appearance, Roth from Wyoming to fill out their roster of films for 2024.

Everyone has a proverbial $1000 to work with, as various movies are put on the auction block and bid for - with the intentions of getting the movies that will make the most money domestically, as well as will get both Oscar and Golden Globe love in the fall of '24 and early 2025.

The big ones are all hear -- Deadpool 3, Furiosa, Inside Out 2, and Despicable Me 4 included -- plus some surprises, like a Smile sequel, a Sonic sequel, an Apes sequel, and an odd film picked out by Roth himself.

A Rotten Tomatoes game determines the draft order, and the chatter hits on everything from TayTay in the NFL and who Agent Argylle might actually be and more nonsense as per usual.

 

Ep 612: Who Won 2023?

The new year has begun, winter is crashing around us, and it's time to reflect on what made our moviedom in the last year... and for the second time, we ask, Who Won the Year? 

While #XLessDrEarl is unavailable, yachting off the coast of Madagascar, filling in is the Pride of Stone Mountain Georgia, Young G Ryfun... after a little catch-up, including whether Garrison is getting too old to stay up for New Year's at midnight, they dive into for a few losers first.

Before the winners, who actually lost?  DCU? MCU? Disney animation? Pixar? Indiana Jones?

Then, the winners of 2023... Barbenheimer... former wrestlers... Emma Stone... FAST Films... Japanese Kaiju... and one goddess who shows up again. 

And... what we really think about Rachel Zeigler and the new Snow White adaptation. 

Episode 610: The Christmas Gifts of 2023

It's a Marshmallow Deucecast indeed as the Cheetah Girls finally make their annual appearance on the show! 

It's the last stop before Christmas Day, with the 9th Annual Christmas Gift episode -- and the fourth Gifts ep in a row with Garrison "The Pride of Villa Rica" Ryfun joining up! 

In this episode, the final 2023 Birthday Movies kicks the show off, with Aquaman turning 5, LOTR3 turning 20, Tombstone turning 30, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang turning a lot older than you'd think.

After catching up with Mikey's and Garrison's 2023 movie numbers, it's another edition of Everything Everywhere All At Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, following the first ever round last summer.  

Then the gifts -- Gal Gadot needs a break... WWE gets a multiverse... some films and filmmakers get better coverage... and the world gets more Whit Stillman... and much more.

Finally, Mikey hands out tangible gift bags, while d$ and G-Ryfun hand out their own gifts, with a stop in the pretentious corner (sort of) and returning to the well for a few films.

Stick around to the very end... it's a delight.