Happy New Year! We recorded this episode before Rachel went on a trip to LA and after she saw several films - the new West Side Story, tick, tick... BOOM!, Belfast, and House of Gucci. Maddie only wants to talk about Joaquin Phoenix, as usual. And we discuss Christmas movies - are they bad? Are they good?
The Santa Clause hot cocoa theory (courtesy of Hannah Priest)
- It’s A Wonderful Life, Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Carol, The Apartment, Hustlers, Love Actually, Elf, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Holiday, Christmas with the Kranks, New Year’s Eve, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Year Without a Santa Claus, The Santa Clause trilogy, Rise of the Guardians, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, The Lorax
- West Side Story (2021)*
- tick, tick… BOOM!
- Little Women, Hacksaw Ridge, Never Let Me Go, The Social Network, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, La La Land
- West Side Story (1961)*, Everything Everywhere All At Once (googly eyes movie), Cats, In the Heights
- C’mon C’mon*
- Beginners, 20th Century Women, Licorice Pizza, Joker, The Master, Gunda, You Were Never Really Here
- Belfast, Hamlet (1996)
- House of Gucci
- A Star Is Born (2018), Vice
- Nocturnal Animals, A Single Man
- The Last Duel, Alien, Thelma and Louise
The Smartest People in the Room is hosted by Rachel Casey and Maddie Weiner. It is edited by Maddie Weiner. Original theme and interstitial music is by Scott Boice - follow him on Instagram @sc00gle and find more of his work on Bandcamp.
