The Best Years of Our Lives

11/23/20 • 61 min

We're looking at moments of national transition in William Wyler's 1946 Best Picture winner, The Best Years of Our Lives.

Join in as we discuss Harold Russell's double Oscar-winning performance, family bar crawls, the remaining films of 2020, and this movie's vigorous contemporary resonance.

Plus: Where is Boone City? Why are so many children's choirs bad? What happened to Al's son? And why aren't hot dog salesmen more self-confident?

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We're looking at moments of national transition in William Wyler's 1946 Best Picture winner, The Best Years of Our Lives.

Join in as we discuss Harold Russell's double Oscar-winning performance, family bar crawls, the remaining films of 2020, and this movie's vigorous contemporary resonance.

Plus: Where is Boone City? Why are so many children's choirs bad? What happened to Al's son? And why aren't hot dog salesmen more self-confident?

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe!

Next week: 12 Dates of Christmas (2011)

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But I'm a Cheerleader

We're back to looking at turn-of-the-millennium teen comedies, but this time it's a lesbian love story set at a conversion camp in Jamie Babbit's 2000 debut But I'm a Cheerleader.

Join in as we discuss our weirdest camp memories, the novelty of a queer rom com, yearning, drool, and an iconic character introduction.

Plus: Why did MPAA try to rate this movie NC-17? Why did the town where it was shot get angry? How was this movie's original ending so dumb? And why don't any movie cheerleaders appear to have coaches?

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Next week: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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12 Dates of Christmas (2011)

We're starting our holiday season here with an annual tradition: #FiFiFierce and made-for-TV romances!

Join in as we discuss spritz-based fainting, a gruesome wife death, time loop movies, and Netflix's baffling business model.

Plus: Is "The Twelve Days of Christmas" the worst carol? Has this woman ever encountered honey? What time is that office party? Is the partridge brooch cursed? And, most importantly, has Fiona been gaming the romance ratings?

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Next week: The Holiday (2006)