What Is This Episode - Top of Show
Introducing The Duke of Bettingham David Long!
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SUMMER BEST PICTURE BETS:
Explaining Odds in Gambling - 5:01
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After the Hunt, Sentimental Value - 8:51
Hamnet, Marty Supreme, Small Player - 18:29
Avatar 3, Highest to Lowest, Sinners - 29:00
Frankenstein, The Lost Bus, One Battle, Life of Chuck, Sorry Baby - 35:23
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Bugonia, Pressure - 44:40
BBB Journey, Springsteen, Smashing Machine - 48:00
Die My Love, Roofman, Wicked 2 - 52:24
Anemone, History of Sound, F1, Mother Mary - 1:00:20
Train Dreams, Jay Kelly, Phoenician Scheme, Jay Kelly - 1:08:00
MI8, Wake Up Dead Man, Eddington, Zootopia 2, Others - 1:11:45
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Bets We’re Making With $100 - 1:14:02
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Support Dave!/What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:18:00

Summer Best Picture Bets w/ David Long! - ORC 6/12/25

We did it! Tom Cruise is getting an honorary Oscar alongside Dolly Parton, Debbie Allan, & Wynn Thomas at the Governors Awards. Plus, we talk Venice Bound Films, AI Rules, great trailers for Springsteen, IKWYDLS & Spaceballs 2 +++ reviews for 28 Years Later, How To Train Your Dragon, and Elio. 

NEWS:
Governors Awards Recipients Announced for Tom Cruise & Dolly Parton - 1:14 
Jafar Panahi calls for end to Iran/Israel Conflict - 6:18 
MPSE Golden Reel Awards bans AI Noms - 11:50 
Blumhouse acquires the Saw franchise - 15:40 
Kathyrn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite gets a release date - 18:36 
Variety reports on 9 Venice Bound Films + MPAA Ratings for other Contenders - 21:32 

TRAILERS:
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - 26:23 
I Know What You Did Last Summer - 32:27 
The Toxic Avenger - 38:59 
Him - 42:43 
Spaceballs 2 - 47:51 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING // BOX OFFICE REPORT
How To Train Your Dragon Review - 50:36 
28 Years Later Review - 52:47 
Elio Review - 58:26 
Rest of the Top 10 + What To Watch On Streaming + Naked Gun Rewatches - 1:05:52 

OUTRO: M2 breaks M1’s chops about watching much more TV than Film. We own our hypocrisies and High School nicknames. Then you should leave us a 5 Star Review if you’re enjoying the show. Thank you for that. Plus, we discuss Mike 1’s upcoming vacation. But you shouldn’t get any interruption in your MMO because we banked some episodes. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar 


Tom Cruise's Oscar, Springsteen's Trailer + 28 Years Later - ORC 6/23/25

What if YouTube bought the broadcast rights to the Academy Awards? We discuss the latest rumors via Bloomberg. Otherwise, we also break down trailers for Marty Supreme, It Was Just An Accident, Ballad of a Small Player, Keeper, etc. We discuss the Lineup for Fantastic Fest & other movie news before reviewing / revisiting some new releases from Highest 2 Lowest & Freakier Friday to Superman & Weapons. 

OSCAR NEWS:
Bloomberg report on YouTube vying for the rights to broadcast the Oscars - 1:46 
Best International Feature Selection Announcements begin - 10:36 

TRAILER REVIEWS: 
Marty Supreme enters the race with our allegiance - 13:33 
It Was Just An Accident seems like an tense thriller - 19:08 
Ballad of a Small Player from Mr. Burger & starring Colin Farrell - 23:23 
Peter Hujar’s Day featuring the beautiful words of Owen Gleiberman - 27:38 
The History of Sound from Oliver Hermanus + Paul Mescal & Josh O’Connor - 30:22 
Steve stars Cillian Murphy ala Half Nelson & Stand and Deliver - 32:55 
Keeper proves we love Osgood Perkins & Neon’s trailers for Oz Perkins films - 35:11 
Good Boy deserves all the Oscars because he is such a good boy!!! - 37:36 

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: 
Wicked 2 buzz as Cynthia Erivo set for the Santa Barbara Kirk Douglas Award - 40:11 
Fantastic Fest Lineup Highlights - 44:25 

FUTURE MOVIE NEWS:
Frankenstein, Fairyland & Urchin Release Date Updates - 49:00 
Sandra Huller to star in Pawel Pawlikowski’s 1949 - 52:32 
Guy Pearce may play Rupert Murdoch for Danny Boyle - 53:50 

BOX OFFICE UPDATE & WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
Weapons Rewatch & 2nd Week atop the Box Office - 55:02 
A positive Freakier Friday Review - 57:33 
Nobody 2 disappoints - 58:35 
The Rest of the Top 10 include a Fantastic Four disappointment - 1:00:30 
M1’s catches up with Superman - 1:02:23 
Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans controversy & Americana bomb - 1:05:18 
AM reviews East of Wall - 1:07:31 
The brothers’ road trip to see Highest 2 Lowest - 1:09:22 
Alien: Earth early review - 1:14:22 

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Marty Supreme Enters The Race + YouTube's Oscar Play - ORC 8/20/25

For Episode 456, I am joined by Ema Sasic, Dan Bayer & Will Mavity to preview the 2025 Venice and Telluride Film Festivals. We reveal the winner of last week's poll, where we asked for all of the upcoming fall film festivals, "Which 2025 Fall Film Festival Films Are You Most Excited To See?" For this week's poll, for the Telluride Film Festival, we're asking, "Which Best Picture Nominee Screened At The Telluride Film Festival This Century Is Your Favorite?" We also share our reactions to the trailers for "Ballad Of A Small Player," "Anemone," "Hedda," "The Mastermind," "Arco," reveal the 2009 NBP Film Award Winners, answer your fan-submitted questions, and more! Thank you all for listening, supporting, subscribing, and voting. We will see you all again live from the Telluride Film Festival later this week once the lineup is announced.

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Episode 456 - Previewing The Venice & Telluride Film Festivals, "Ballad Of A Small Player," "Anemone," "Hedda" "Arco" & "The Mastermind" Trailers

Telluride & Venice first reactions are finally here, and rave reviews have hit for Hamnet, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, The Testament of Ann Lee, Adam Sandler, No Other Choice, Julia Roberts, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Greta Lee, and so many more.

VENICE & TELLURIDE REACTIONS (Including Reviewing the Reviewers): 

Jay Kelly + M1’s Headline for the Episode - 2:00 
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Supporting Actor Category Snapshot - 8:11 
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Bugonia + Our Trailer 2 & Poster Review - 12:02 
Hamnet, the Big 3 in Best Picture right now + Our Trailer Review - 16:48 
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Lead Actress Category Snapshot - 23:14 
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere & M1’s Born To Run Fantasy - 25:43 
Ballad of a Small Player & why we’re predisposed to love Colin Farrell in this - 32:09 
Tuner includes a starmaking performance per NBP - 34:16 
After the Hunt took a beating, but could Julia Roberts still get a nom? - 36:08 
No Other Choice is great, but non-werewolf loving critics are a problem - 40:47 
Frankenstein, another disappointing masterpiece from GDT (?!?!) - 45:27 
Late Fame might be another Greta Lee showcase - 51:48 
Father Mother Sister Brother & the ovation rule almost gets dealt with - 53:41 
The Wizard of the Kremlin & ovations that don’t fit the tomato score - 56:48 
La Grazia, Venice’s Opening Night film puts our rule to the test - 58:54 
The Smashing Machine & Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s big Venice moment - 1:00:20 
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Lead Actor Category Snapshot - 1:02:51 
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Supporting Actress Snapshot - 1:06:17 
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The Testament of Ann Lee & suspicions re: unexpected musicals - 1:08:34 
Cover-Up & a new Doc Feature contender - 1:13:43 
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Holdovers from Cannes, Sundance, & Berlin including It Was Just An Accident, Sentimental Value, Train Dreams, Blue Moon, Nouvelle Vague, The History of Sound & The Secret Agent + its trailer review - 1:14:41 
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Venice & Cannes Standing Ovations Tally - 1:18:45 
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OUTRO: 1:20:49 Upcoming Venice & TIFF schedules + Words of Wisdom involving stopwatches that beep or not. If you enjoy our show, please help spread the word. You can rate, review, like, subscribe, and follow us via all these links here. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar 


Telluride & Venice '25: Big Moments for Hamnet, The Rock, Seyfried & Sandler - ORC 9/3/25

Josh and Jamie got invited to attend the Toronto International Film Festival as members of the press to check out and cover some of new international art and genre cinema that will be coming out over the next few months and awards season, including new films by Park Chan-wook, Gus Van Sant, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Guillermo Del Toro, Claire Denis, Jafar Panahi, Benny Safdie, Oliver Laxe, Matt Johnson, Lav Diaz, Mona Fastvold, Bryan Fuller, Romain Gavras, Laura Poitras, Kenji Tanigaki, Rian Johnson, Christian Petzold, Alex Winter, Chandler Levack, Ben Wheatley, Nic Pizzolatto, and more! We did our best to avoid spoilers and such but be warned.

Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960) + HIGH AND LOW (1963), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

Intro // 00:00-17:37

Day 1 --
SENTIMENTAL VALUE // 17:37-22:18
MAGELLAN // 22:18-28:24
SIRAT // 28:24-33:34
THE SECRET AGENT // 33:34-41:22
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT // 41:22-51:00
HONEY BUNCH // 51:00-55:49

Day 2 --
MOTOR CITY // 55:49-1:04:52
NO OTHER CHOICE // 1:04:52-1:17:07
GOOD NEWS // 1:17:07-1:23:45

Day 3 --
THE LOST BUS // 1:23:45-1:26:38
UNIDENTIFIED // 1:26:38-1:28:46
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE // 1:28:46-1:34:48
FUZE // 1:34:48-1:39:26
JUNK WORLD // 1:39:26-1:47:17

Day 4 --
DEAD MAN'S WIRE // 1:47:17-1:55:20
SACRIFICE // 1:55:20-2:00:48
THE FURIOUS // 2:00:48-2:07:26
ROOFMAN // 2:07:26-2:13:38
LUCKY LU // 2:13:38-2:17:22
HEDDA // 2:17:22-2:23:42

Day 5 --
THE BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER  // 2:23:42-2:28:01
PROJECT Y // 2:28:01-2:29:42
GOOD BOY // 2:29:42-2:31:33
EXIT 8 // 2:31:33-2:32:45
ADULTHOOD // 2:32:45-2:36:20
TUNER // 2:36:20-2:43:32

Day 6 --
THE SMASHING MACHINE // 2:43:32-2:51:27
ORPHAN // 2:51:27-2:53:41
COVER-UP // 2:53:41-2:57:41
TRAIN DREAMS // 2:57:41-3:03:45

Day 7 --
RETREAT // 3:03:45-3:06:26
CAROLINA CAROLINE // 3:06:26-3:10:33
MADDIE'S SECRET // 3:10:33-3:15:23
IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS // 3:15:23-3:17:17
NORMAL // 3:17:17-3:22:16

Day 8 --
FUCK MY SON! // 3:22:16-3:30:55
THE UGLY // 3:30:55-3:36:18
WAKE UP DEAD MAN (KNIVES OUT 3) // 3:36:18-3:42:00
THE FENCE // 3:42:00-3:50:24
OBSESSION // 3:50:24-3:56:58

Day 9 --
EASY'S WALTZ // 3:56:58-4:04:08
DUST BUNNY // 4:04:08-4:09:10
LITTLE LORRAINE // 4:09:10-4:13:14
FRANKENSTEIN // 4:13:14-4:23:13

Day 10 --
MILE END KICKS // 4:23:13-4:29:36
MIROIRS NO. 3 // 4:29:36-4:34:30

Day 11 --
NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE // 4:34:30-4:50:13

Outro // 4:50:13-4:53:46

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399 - The Toronto International Film Festival 2025

"Ballad Of A Small Player" is a British psychological thriller directed by Edward Berger and written by Rowan Joffé, adapted from Lawrence Osborne's 2014 novel of the same name. The film stars Academy Award-nominee Colin Farrell as Lord Doyle, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau, where he spends his nights playing baccarat. As his debts spiral out of control, Doyle finds an unlikely lifeline in Dao Ming (Fala Chen), a casino hostess who holds secrets of her own. The film had its world premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival before continuing its run at TIFF, where it received strong acclaim for its flashy direction, bombastic score, and Farrell's high-wire committed performance. Farrell, Chen, and Berger were all kind enough to spend time speaking with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Netflix. Thank you, and enjoy!

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Interviews With "Ballad Of A Small Player" Stars Colin Farrell, Fala Chen & Director Edward Berger

Oscar Race Checkpoint returns with a big Awards News segment covering the EFA & BIFA noms, changes from SAG & Critics Choice, an added Gotham Tribute that we called +++ Governor’s Awards and campaign talk. Then we enjoyed a big What We’re Watching segment covering Nouvelle Vague, Ballad of a Small Player, House of Dynamite, Die My Love, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Christy, Nuremberg, Are We Good?, and I’m Not Everything I Want To Be. Finally, we close with a few trailer reviews including Scream 7, Michael, The Testament of Ann Lee, and Marty Supreme. 

AWARDS NEWS: 
EFA Noms: The European Film Awards could be a big day for Sentimental Value - 1:54 
BIFA Noms: British Independent Film Awards & where we’re looking for crossover - 5:26 
The Governors Awards & Tom Cruise’s Big Speech - 15:27 
The Critics Choice Awards add 4 categories on E! - 20:09 
The Gotham Awards add a tribute for Jeremy Allan White + Wicked/campaign talk - 22:44 
The Actor Awards are the new SAG’s - 28:06 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
Nouvelle Vague - 30:32 
Ballad of a Small Player - 34:47 
Die My Love - 37:43 
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You - 40:40 
A House of Dynamite - 42:56 
Christy and the latest Sydney Sweeney drama - 45:07 
Nuremberg - 49:31 
Are We Good? - 52:14 
I’m Not Everything I Want To Be - 58:50 

TRAILER REVIEWS:
Scream 7 - 1:03:56 
Michael - 1:07:42 
The Testament of Ann Lee - 1:09:30 
Marty Supreme - 1:12:04 

OUTRO: We discuss where you can find us on social media and the big green and pink movie that we may or may not be reviewing next. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar We also reminisce about our lost loved ones after AlsoMike lost his grandmother this week. R.I.P., Grammy. We love you. 

Gov Awards, EFA & BIFA, Nouvelle Vague + Wicked & Marty Supreme Buzz - ORC 11/19/25

A podcast by NextBestPicture.com that reviews the latest film releases and discusses various topics within the world of film and the awards race.

MMO is talk radio for movie fans with weekly news shows, reviews, previews, and special guests. We celebrate the Oscars by making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. If you love cinema, if you love showbiz, welcome home.

Welcome fellow SLEAZOIDS!!! Come along as hosts Josh Lewis and Jamie Miller (and, occasionally, guests) go down the rabbit hole of 20th century genre fare from the most influential canon classics to the the trashiest exploitation films we can get our hands on. Each week is a double feature—grindhouse style—where we discuss two films loosely related by subject, genre, actor, filmmaker or franchise and at the end of each episode, along with our HONORARY SLEAZOIDS (click on over to our patreon to become one), we decide on ratings and rankings for each film that's covered. Join us as together we work to uncover the best genre films of 20th century.

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