For Episode 422, Dan Bayer, Giovanni Lago, and I are celebrating the holidays and going over the Oscar Shortlists for the 97th Academy Awards. We also go over some other awards season topics, reveal the winner of last week's poll, asking, "Which Best Picture Oscar Nominee With A Runtime Over 3 Hours Is Your Favorite?" and ask this week's poll question, "Which Film Do You Think Will Be The Next Best Picture Oscar Winner?" We also give our reactions to the trailers for "Superman," "Warfare," "Black Bag," "Death Of A Unicorn," answer your fan-submitted questions, and more. Thank you all so very much for listening, supporting, and subscribing. Happy Holidays to you, your family, and friends from all of us at Next Best Picture. Enjoy!

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Episode 422 - The Oscar Shortlists, Happy Holidays, "Superman," "Warfare" & "Black Bag" Trailers

The Oscar Noms Fallout might include a backlash to a major contender. Plus, we examine some nominee box office returns and catch up on many new trailers in this Oscar Race Checkpoint.

OSCAR NOMS FALLOUT:
Is there a backlash brewing against Emilia Perez? - 1:41 
Other Nomination Firsts - 9:00 
Feinberg’s First Winner Forecast - 11:12 

BOX OFFICE REPORT: 
The Holiday Corridor, PVOD Projections & Oscar Bumps - 17:10 

NEWS:
Does the Timothee Chalamet SNL performance(s) help his chances? - 32:07 
Scream officially brings back 2 of the Core 4 - 34:56 

TRAILER REVIEWS:
Superman - 38:16 
28 Years Later - 42:36 
Warfare - 45:35 
Black Bag - 49:27 
Happy Gilmore 2 - 51:48
Karate Kid Legends - 53:02 
Death of a Unicorn - 55:35 
Concerns for Alto Knights - 57:50 
Opus - 59:41 
Mickey 17 - 1:00:31 
Concerns for Drop & The Amateur Trailers - 1:02:30
But we love the second trailer for The Monkey - 1:04:45 

OUTRO - MMO’s might be next, or soon. Oscar Race Checkpoints are coming. Guests are coming. Feel free to reach out to us on social media here: https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar … plus, we talk about Christopher Nolan and Robert Eggers next movies in the outro. Enjoy watching all the Oscar movies.

Oscar Nom Fallout: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Emilia's? - ORC 1/26/25

"Death Of A Unicorn" had its world premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its horror/comedy/fantasy premise from feature debut director Alex Scharfman and hilarious performances from Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni & Richard E. Grant. Poulter and Scharfman were kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will open in theaters from A24 on Friday, March 28th. Thank you, and enjoy!

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Interviews With "Death Of A Unicorn" Director/Writer Alex Scharfman & Star Will Poulter

Mike1 returns to break down the Spring & Summer release calendar as we speculate which films could have Oscar chances, which films could have a chance to be hits for their studios, and which films the Mikes will enjoy watching most/least.

Recent Oscar Noms from the Spring & Summer - 1:57 

THE SPRING & SUMMER FILM CALENDAR:
March Meltdown at the Box Office and a Death of a Unicorn Review - 4:22 
April’s Warfare, Sinners & The Wedding Banquet give us hope - 7:48 
May enters some marquis players like Tom Cruise & Wes Anderson - 18:09
June has serious potential with The Life of Chuck, Materialists, and F1 - 31:58 
July put pressure on Superman, the MCU & Adam Sandler, yes, Adam Sandler - 47:45 

August’s Together & Caught Stealing intrigue us. But even though it’s been moved to September, we cannot help discussing One Battle After Another and it’s awesome trailer from WB, PTA & Leo - 57:58 

OUTRO: https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar Please follow us on social media and leave us some good reviews and 5 star ratings if you enjoy what we do here. We also discuss upcoming episodes, including News Catchup Shows on Cinemacon, upcoming Cannes film festival coverage, and the rest of this Year In Preview Series. Plus, you get some hints at what our next rewatch series might be. 

The Spring & Summer Release Calendar: An Oscars Year In Preview Series (YIP) Part I - ORC 3/28/25

For this week's main podcast review, Katie Johnson, Joselyn Safadi, and I are reviewing and discussing the feature directorial debut of Alex Scharfman, "Death Of A Unicorn," starring Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant & Anthony Carrigan. The film takes a highly unique concept and attempts to blend comedy with creature thrills and a heartfelt drama between a father and daughter. It had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, where it received mixed reviews, but what did we think of it? Please tune in as we discuss the writing, humor, visual effects, unicorn kills, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy!

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"Death Of A Unicorn"

GTF is heading to work for this week's theatrical reviews with our look at Jason Statham's latest action movie A Working Man plus the thrills will be continuing with our look at the horror films Death of a Unicorn & The Woman in the Yard.

GTF is also taking another journey through time for this week's home video reviews with our look at the Oscar winning drama The Brutalist while for this week's television reviews we'll be looking at the series premiere of Apple TV's latest satire series The Studio & we'll also be continuing our look at the latest episodes of Dope Thief, Happy Face, Good American Family & The Hunting Party.

March 31st 2025

On this episode, JD and Brendan review Alex Scharfman's comedy-horror film DEATH OF A UNICORN, starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd!

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Review: Death of a Unicorn

We drive into battle this week as we take a look at WWII tank warfare film Fury from David Ayer in our Deep Dive segment.  We also cast our reviewing eyes over A Minecraft Movie, and A24's Death of a Unicorn.  News, film chat, and neat things round proceedings off as usual.

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Episode 252: Best Job I Ever Had!

Critapocalypse is a fortnightly podcast where myself (Ant) and my buddy Matt review a number of films, games, TV shows and various other stuffs that we've been enjoying, or not, over the last few weeks. We take turns to say our piece and then apply some form of arbitrary score.

This week we review:

Invincible Season 3 – 00:12:17
The Bondsman – 00:28:38
Picross S Namco Legendary Edition – 00:41:23
Love on the Spectrum Season 3 – 00:49:54
Adamas Rodimus AMT-01 Rodimus – 01:09:27
Death of a Unicorn – 01:20:04
Reacher Season 3 – 01:29:02
A Minecraft Movie – 01:46:13

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Twitter: @LV54Spacemonkey

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Twitter: @Critapocalypse

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Critapocalypse Podcast 256 - Please Refrain From Throwing Eggs At The Screen

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.

The best movie reviews, news, and podcast out there! Two guys that know movies and love talking about them!

Chat, news and reviews of film related topics, brought to you each week by Andy and Lee.  With a retrospective deep-dive into an older film each week, and as many new releases that we can get around to, we pack the show with as much film related stuff as we can, as well as some general geek chat.

New tracks tagged #Death of a Unicorn