Episode 688: The Top Ten of 2001

It was a year of Hobbits on screen, a year of Playa to Playa Pimp to Pimp, a year of animated monsters,a year of Mogadishu on screen, a year of math on the window and a year of Seann William Scott getting work - the year was 2001.

So goes the latest in our summer series of Top Tens, with our guest, the Food For Thoughtcast host and Friend of the Show Melissa the Chef!

Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl invite in Melissa to talk about movies 24 years ago - the Best Picture winner, the Fannings first movies (Elle yes!) and the hot topics of the year. Plus, a countdown of all of our faves - everything from Wes Anderson to lamenting the non-work of Orlando Jones to why Mikey hates Lord of the Rings.

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (rental)
• Amelie (rental)
• American Pie 2 (Starz in horny teens)
• A Beautiful Mind (rental)
• Black Hawk Down (Netflix)
• Bridget Jones Diary (MAX)
• Computer Chess (rental)
• Evolution (rental)
• Ghost World (Amazon Prime: TubiTV)
• Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone (MAX; Peacock Premium)
• Heist (rental)
• Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back (Paramount+)
• Legally Blonde (MGM+ Peacock Premium)
• Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Rings (MAX; Amazon Prime)
• Memento (Amazon Prime; Peacock Premium)
• Monsters Inc (Disney+)
• Oceans Eleven (TBS)
• On the Line (rental)
• The Princess Diaries (Disney+)
• Rat Race (rental)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (Hulu; Criterion Channel)
• Shrek (Peacock Premium)
• Training Day (Paramount+; MGM+)
• Waking Life (rental)
• Wet Hot American Summer (Starz in Horny Campers)
• Zoolander (Netflix; Paramount+)

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 640: My Favorite Summer... The Actresses

We are hitting the dog days of summer and headed to the homestretch of My Favorite Summer - and after talking about our favorite Actors a few weeks back, it's time to turn our attention to the much fairer side... our favorite Actresses! 
We invited our great friend of the show, the host of the Food for Thought Podcast and our resident Chef Melissa Reagan -- and we begin the show with a Top Ten list for our Rotten Tomatoes game, in what might be the longest DCMS game we've ever done... then we leap into our Top Ten All Time Fave Actresses.

Some classics, like Ingrid, some Gen X crushes like Sally, and some modern queens like Anna and Elizabeth.  A little crossover, plus we all list a movie of each choice YOU should watch! 

Here is the list of movies recommended on the show, and where to find them: 

• The Adjustment Bureau - Netflix
• Adventures in Babysitting - Disney+
• American Hustle -  Netflix 
• Before the Devil Knows Your Dead - Paramount+
• Blood Simple - MAX
• Blue Jasmine - for rental 
• Bridges of Madison County - for rental
• The 'burbs - unavailable
• Deconstructing Harry - Peacock Premium; TubiTV
• The Descendants - for rental
• Doubt - for rental
• Drop Dead Gorgeous - unavailable
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotlight Mind - STARZ
• The Favourite - for rental
• Garden State - MAX
• Heroes - for rental
• The Holiday - for rental
• I Love Trouble - Hoopla
• In America - for rental
• Kodachrome - Netflix
• Lady MacBeth - STARZ
• Love Letters - Amazon Prime
• Morning Glory - for rental
• Murder on the Orient Express - for rental
• Noelle - Disney+
• Panic Room - MAX
• Parkland - Amazon Prime; TubiTV
• Punchline - PlutoTV; for rental
• The Quiet Man - for rental 
• Rob Roy - MGM+; TubiTV
• Sabrina - for rental
• Sicario - Amazon Prime
• The Souvenir - MAX
• Rent - Hoopla; for rental
• The Time Traveler's Wife - MAX
• What's Love Got to Do With It - for rental
• Where'd You Go Bernadette - for rental
• Widows - for rental
• You Can Count on Me - Hoopla; for rental

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 587: Recasting

After two weeks of First Timers in both FanBoySummer and on the show totally, it was time to bring a veteran to guest star -- as in, one time last summer (Ep 539) but now, the host of the Food for Thought Podcast, Melissa Reagan is here!

Her topic of choice for Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl is to recast... recast what, you ask? Dealer's choice. Find a major role, put someone else there and see if it fits.

First up, the Birthday Movies, as we come to grips with the fact Ocean's 8 is five years old, Black Dog is 25 years old, The Great Outdoors is 35 years old and even more.

Then a new twist on an old game, Simple Summer Trivia, as all indication points to another big win for Mikey, who usually dominates in this game. 

And finally, what happens if River Phoenix becomes Han Solo?  And Harrison Ford plays Sam Spade?  We get a rundown of Hilary Swank's career post Oscar, and what manic personality should have played Genie in 2019's Aladdin remake? 

Some recasting roles at the time the actors were hot, and some recasting by taking modern actors and placing them into classic films - all makes for a good discussion.  And finally, somewhere d$ can drivel about his Snape complaints. 

Plus a bonus convo, with some real life "almost happened" roles from certain actors, including an unlikely pair that was considered for La La Land, a total near disaster for Forrest Gump, who could beat Viggo as Aragorn, and what if... just what if ScarJo wasn't the right person for Black Widow... 

Episode 578: The 2023 Deucies (and the Top 10 of the Year)

It's that time of the year, with the Academy Awards as the prelude -- its the official People's Awards for the year 2022 in film... The Deucie Awards. 

Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl are joined by over a dozen presenters, all ready to give out the best in acting, actressing, directing, supporting, screenplaying, and much more.

Plus, the Top 10 films of the year, the fave 10 of Mikey, d$, and #TwitterlessDrEarl - some crossover, others all over the map.  

Movies listed in the guys' Top 10s, and where to find them currently

• All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)
• Amsterdam (HBO Max)
• Argentina 1985 (Amazon Prime)
• Babylon (Paramount+)
• The Banshees of Inisherin (HBO Max)
• The Batman (HBO Max)
• Beavis & Butthead
• Bullet Train (Netflix)
• Cha Cha Real Smooth (AppleTV+)
• Decision to Leave (for rental; MUBI)
• Don't Make Me Go (Amazon Prime)
• Everything Everywhere All At Once (Showtime)
• The Fabelmans (for rental)
• Glass Onion (Netflix)
• Living (for rental)
• The Menu (HBO Max)
• Nope (Amazon Prime)
• The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix)
• Tar (Peacock Premium)
• Triangle of Sadness (Hulu)
• Top Gun Maverick (Amazon Prime; Paramount+)
• Woman Talking (for rental)

Episode 539: The Foodie Movies

Fanboy Summer Continues as our latest Discord contributor who lost the drawing joins the show!  The Deucecast crew - Mikey, d$, and #TwitterlessDrEarl - is thrilled to welcome the brilliant and cheffy Melissa Reagan, long time fan of the show.

And if you can believe our podcast lasting 538 episodes and never doing a food theme, then here we are -- on episode 539, its all about Foodie Films.

Plus, the return of the IMDb Game, and lots of behind the scenes kitchen talk! 

Discussions include... what is an executive chef... what makes a rare steak... Medium Rare Plus... which steakhouse gets it right... the story of Bella Donna... the problem with YELP... Logan's Roadhouse sucks... bad restaurant experiences... the accuracy of Ratatouille... 

• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (TubiTV; Plex)
• Bella (TubiTV)
• Big Night (Rental)
• Burnt (TubiTV)
• Chef (HBO Max)
• Chocolat (Paramount+)
• Clerks II (Plex; rental)
• Diner (HBO Max)
• Ernest Goes to Camp (Disney+)
• The Founder (TubiTV)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Starz)
• Julie & Julia (Starz)
• Mostly Martha (Hoopla; rental)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (HBO Max)
• No Reservations (Hoopla; rental)
• Ratatouille (Disney+)
• The Trip (AMC+; rental)
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (HBO Max)