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Academy Vs Audience2000: Gladiator ImpossibleWe enter a new century by jumping back to an old trend and an adaptation of an old TV show, seems about right for 21st century Hollywood. First, the Oscar goes to Ridley Scott's Gladiator, a return to old-school sword and sandal action, only without the Jesus angle. Historical accuracy is nowhere to be found, the plot doesn't merit a lot of deep thought, but Erin, Claire, and Dan answer the important question: are they, in fact, entertained? And then Dan gets a special treat: one and only one (unless the Academy makes wild choices in 2026) chance to talk...2025-06-261h 36

Academy Vs AudienceThe Secret Masterpieces of the 90s (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)Before we enter the 21st century, Munsi Parker-Munroe returns to present their Top Ten Secret Masterpieces of the 1990s: ten films that weren't hits, didn't get Oscar love, but delight our guest to no end and they would argue are worthy of your attention just the same, because as films they're weird, they're passionate, and they're more than a little wonderful. Also Dan is here briefly. Erin and Claire will be back soon, but in the meantime, let Munsi introduce you to ten films that should be better known than they are.Find all of our episodes...2025-06-1230 min

Academy Vs AudienceDan's Extra Credit Corner: The Missions ImpossibleBefore we reach the 2000s and spend half an episode breaking down Dan's least favourite entry of one of his favourite franchises, he's here to get the Mission: Impossible brainrot out of his system by breaking down the evolution of the franchise and which film did what the best. From it's lower-key suspense thriller origins to its recent final (unless...) origins, best squads, best villains, and best teammates in a quickie burst for you, the listeners, while Claire and Erin are distracted.Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at...2025-05-2929 min

Academy Vs Audience1999: The Phantom Beauty (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)The decade wraps up with one beautifully crafted but disturbingly hollow Best Picture, and one beloved franchise returning with a controversial entry. Recurring guest/victim of scheduling Munsi Parker-Munroe is back for the takes, joining Claire, Erin, and Dan in being mad at how well made American Beauty is in spite of the troubling central themes and lead actor, then digging into Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, looking for the few good scenes and asking whether a story about how fascism takes root in a decadent democracy is aided or undermined by a CG fart clown. Tune in and...2025-05-152h 18

Academy Vs Audience1998: Love, War, and Asteroids (feat. Kevin Weir)It's 1998, and was all fair in love and war? Some say no, as Harvey Weinstein launched an Oscar campaign of attrition to get himself an award for theatre kids' ideal romcom Shakespeare in Love, while also slandering rival Steven Spielberg's intense war movie Saving Private Ryan. Claire, Erin, Dan, and returning guest Kevin break down both, ask whether Shakespeare deserves the hate it got for defeating Private Ryan, what each film does well, whether Dan is wrong about his preference or if he's just speaking truth to power (or in this case internet film bros), and who had the...2025-05-012h 12

Academy Vs AudienceExtra Credit: Titanic II (feat. Keith Kollee)While Erin and Claire are busy on a stage, Dan succumbs to his ongoing Titanic brainrot, and drags his Recovered co-host Keith along for the ride by asking: did Titanic need or warrant a remake? Not the movie... the BOAT. Dan and Keith walk through how a replica Titanic is not equipped to compete in the modern cruise market, something it was never designed or priced for, and why one right-wing Australian politician has spent the last 13 years telling the press he's gonna do it, he gonna make a new Titanic any day now. Can a modern-day Titanic replica...2025-04-1726 min

Academy Vs Audience1997: Titanic, BabyyyyyyyThe day Erin's been waiting for arrives as she, Claire, and Dan dig into the third of three Joint Champion Juggernauts, James Cameron's Titanic. A star crossed romance between Jack and Rose is plagued by class differences, a cruel fiancé, and oh yes the boat they're on plowing into an iceberg. Records are smashed, feelings are felt, Dan's only a little bitter about one of the other nominees being defeated, and the AVA team unpacks it all. Grab your ticket and come aboard for the ride!Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy P...2025-04-031h 51

Academy Vs AudienceOscars in Review 2025 (feat. Olav Rokne)Another year, another Oscars has come and gone, and returning guest Olav Rokne of the Hugo Book Club blog is back to help Erin, Claire, and Dan break down how each nominee did, and how they should have done. What does everything think should have won? What won too much? Can Claire, cursed by witches to watch no movies outside of this podcast, tell us anything about them? Also someone even manages to cape for Emilia Perez. Someone named Olav. Tune in for the breakdown!Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions...2025-03-201h 34

PASSING TIME WITH CRAIG2.8 - Full Circle Theatre's "Porcelain Dolls" with Erin Weir & Claire BoltonCraig passes the time with Calgary performers, Erin Weir & Claire Bolton. The two discuss how Full Circle Theatre came to be, their new play "Porcelain Dolls" and the Calgary theatre scene. Full Circle Theatre's "Porcelain Dolls" runs March 27th to April 5th at West Village Theatre. Tickets available at: https://events.humanitix.com/porcelain-dolls Follow @FullCircleTheatre and @PTWCraig on Instagram for more ways to pass the time. 2025-03-1944 min

Academy Vs Audience1996: The Independence PatientIt's 1996, and Dan is yelling "Elaine was right" as Claire, Erin, and he dissect Harvey Weinstein's first big Oscar win, The English Patient. Was this an early example of the current hip category fraud, where a co-lead ran as a supporting actress for an easier Oscar? Does cheating on young, hot Colin Firth make sense? Those questions answered, the far less clever but far more fun Independence Day claims the box office, which gives our hosts way more emotions in a surprisingly close amount of time. Ralph Fiennes vs Will Smith, join us for the fight!Find...2025-03-061h 27

Academy Vs Audience1995: Brave Toys With a Vengeance1995 wasn't the best year for Hollywood. The Oscars (and only the Oscars) decided to go with Mel Gibson cosplaying a biopic in the epic of Braveheart, loved by dudes and hated by the Scottish ever since. At the box office, audiences were split, with the domestic crown going to rookie studio Pixar's story of toys come to life, while international audiences flocked to John McLane's third outing, which managed to re-discover the magic of Die Hard while discarding what is often seen as the key ingredient. Chaos reigns as Claire, Erin, and Dan dig into all three. Who will...2025-02-201h 39

Academy Vs Audience1994: Life is Like a Box of LionsOne year after Schindler's List, the Academy chose to take it easy, and go with a heartwarming crowd-pleaser, in fact the biggest hit of the year, Forrest Gump. A film beloved by millions right until it beat Pulp Fiction at the Oscars. But while the USA enjoyed this streak of boomer nostalgia, international audiences were here for Peak Disney in the form of The Lion King, a simple story buoyed by iconic songs and incredible animation, that would one day find new fans through the same songs and much worse animation. Forrest vs Simba, find out how Erin, Claire...2025-02-061h 35

Academy Vs Audience1993: Schindler's ParkIn 1993, everything was coming up Steven Spielberg! The king of blockbusters won his first Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture with his look at the Holocaust and those who survived because of two men's efforts to save who they could, teaching us that when times are dark, you do what you can and save who you can, even if it never feels like enough. But on the lighter side, Spielberg also smashed box office records with the simple formula of Jeff Goldblum getting chased by dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. One director, one composer, two very different movies that ar...2025-01-231h 50

Academy Vs Audience2024: Year in ReviewErin, Claire, and Dan look back at the films they watched over 2024, both new releases, old classics first seen, or the stuff they watched for this, for you, the listeners. Claire visits classic horror, Dan breaks down some possible Best Picture nominees and what they have going for and against them, Erin reflects on franchises she's seen for the first time, and as a bonus nobody talks about Megalopolis. This time. Join us in looking back on 2024 in film, and what a future episode may be!Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy...2025-01-091h 14

Academy Vs AudienceErin's Extra Credit EpisodeSeason's greetings from your Academy Vs Audience film historians! While turkey was eaten and presents unwrapped and schedules attempted to align, Erin went deep into Non-Christmas Christmas Movies, movies that might not seem to be about Christmas until you realize they (sometimes) are. Erin presents a tier ranking, and neither the top nor bottom may be what you expect.Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at www.writingtherapyproductions.com 2024-12-2621 min

Academy Vs Audience1992: Assassins and AladdinsIt's Clint Eastwood vs the Disney Renaissance as we reach 1992. Clint returns to the western genre in order to deconstruct its myths and tropes with a story of the west, violence, and how the stories we tell grow beyond the truth in Unforgiven, which Dan thinks would have fit right into the Legacy Sequel Era but it's probably for the best it isn't one. Then after four years, the Disney Renaissance finally claims the box office crown with Aladdin, probably thanks to Robin Williams' iconic performance as the Genie, but Claire and Erin still have a lot of childhood...2024-12-121h 12

Academy Vs Audience1991: Silence of the Terminators (feat. Gina Stewart)Two very different classics take the titles in 1991 as traditional Oscar bait has not fully developed. The Oscar goes to classic thriller Silence of the Lambs, thanks to riveting suspense, a stellar cast, and a performance from Anthony Hopkins so iconic you forget how little he's actually in the movie. Gina Stewart is back to explore changes from the book, while Dan has a theory about why this is the only Oscar-caliber Hannibal Lector movie. Meanwhile, James Cameron returns to the Terminator for droid-on-droid action in T2: Judgement Day. Who was more correct, audience or academy? It's a photo-finish...2024-11-281h 42

Academy Vs AudienceMinisode: Dan's Extra Credit CornerWhile the gang takes a minute to catch up and prepare to get further into the 90s, we present a special mini-episode of Dan's Extra Credit Corner. A quick and dirty ranking of the Predator franchise, a look into why no film since our next entry has managed to win the Big Five Oscars, and for the feature presentation, an excerpt from Dan's deep dice into Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, one movie guaranteed not be a Best Picture or Box Office Champ, and why it's the most fascinating failure of a movie in five years. It's a speed run...2024-11-1419 min

Academy Vs Audience1990: Dances With Ghosts AloneIt's another triple-header, as the Oscars went for the first Extra Long Kevin Costner Western, while audiences were split between Christmas hijinks and the first big Sexy Halloween Monster. Dances With Wolves managed to be the second western to win Best Picture, while flipping the script on the genre's treatment of Native Americans, but could Costner act and direct at the same time? International audiences went for the genre-crossing hit that was Ghost, while Americans fell hard for Macaulay Culkin Saw-trapping burglars in Home Alone. Which do Dan, Claire, and Erin prefer? Listen to find out!Find...2024-10-312h 10

Academy Vs Audience1989: Miss Daisy and the Last Bat-Crusade (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)At the end of the 80s, the Oscars found themselves short on meaningful, artful, epics, tried to find some heartwarming story about ending racism, and settled for Driving Miss Daisy. Meanwhile, Hollywood began to pay attention to the worldwide box office instead of just the US, and we have our first split between domestic and international box office champions. Batman and Indiana Jones battled for box office supremacy, and who are we to pick a favourite? Munsi Parker-Munroe returns to help Claire, Erin, and Dan dissect whether Driving Miss Daisy is actually a bad movie or just disliked as...2024-10-172h 06

Academy Vs Audience1988: It's Rain(ing) Man, Hallelujah (feat. Chris Gibbins)It's the one Joint Champion of the 1980s, as neither Oscars nor audience can resist Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise teaming up for the road movie Rain Man, which also serves as perhaps the first major pop culture depiction of autism. Here to help Claire, Erin, and Dan break down the movie's efforts to examine neurodivergence is Dan's big brother Dr. Chris Gibbins, psychologist specializing in this exact topic, so a fun break from work for Chris. How are the medical professionals depicted this time around, and which is the favourite? What would the 2024 version of this look like...2024-10-031h 39

Academy Vs Audience1987: Three Men and a Little Emperor (feat. Kevin Weir)In 1987, both Academy and Audience were making questionable choices in very different directions, so Kevin Weir's back to help Erin, Claire, and Dan get into it. The Oscar went to The Last Emperor, chronicling the uniquely tragic life of China's final emperor Puyi, and the gang accidentally watches the longest possible version. The audience goes far lighter with Three Men and a Baby, about three bachelors trying to take care of a baby left at their door... while also in a cat-and-mouse game with the mafia? Comedy! Your hosts search for the exact right Three Men to helm the...2024-09-191h 46

Academy Vs Audience1986: Platoon to the Danger ZoneIn 1986, Hollywood was in two minds about the military. Oliver Stone won an Oscar for his ground-level examination of the destruction and darkness of the Vietnam War, via one idealistic recruit being ground down by perpetual horror and atrocity. Tony Scott went another way, with whizz-bang planes that go fast and hot shot fighter pilots flying and fighting and erotically playing beach volleyball in Top Gun, which won over the crowds and made Tom Cruise a bona fide Movie Star. It's dumb and fun vs smart and soul-crushing: who won the hearts of our hosts? Tune in and find...2024-09-051h 25

Academy Vs Audience1985: Out of the Future (feat. Gina Stewart)It's 1985 and the tonal gap between Academy winners and Audience favourite isn't getting smaller. The Oscar goes to Meryl Streep and Robert Redford's languidly paced, ill-fated romance in Out of Africa. Returning guest Gina Stewart joins Erin, Claire, and Dan to explain how the actual Karen Blixen's memoir of life in colonial Africa was mutated into an Oscar-bait romance. The audience turned out stronger for the unhinged sci-fi comedy Back to the Future, which would pave the way for a generation's worth of comedic hot takes, but does it still work as a movie? And what's Dan got to...2024-08-221h 55

Academy Vs Audience1984: Amadeus, Key of Axel FIt's buddy cops and classical music frenemies as Academy Vs Audience reaches 1984! First off, the Oscar goes to Amadeus, a film version of the what-if story proposing a deadly rivalry between composers Mozart and Salieri... a rivalry only one of them knows about. Erin, Claire, and Dan dig into it, the music, the wig-game, and if it's as gripping as film reddit insists. While that happened Eddie Murphy cemented himself as a movie star in Beverly Hills Cop, and we look at which parts aged more gracefully than others. Is Amadeus still a classic? Is Beverly Hills Cop still...2024-08-081h 05

Academy Vs Audience1983: Terms of the JediIt's 1983, and the big movies are all about difficult parent/child relationships. The Oscars went to Terms of Endearment, a mother/daughter story conceived, written, and brought to the screen by men, and Erin, Claire, and Dan have a lot of questions and notes on its success. Audiences, however, needed to see how Han Solo got out of the carbonite, and flocked to Return of the Jedi, which would seem to be the end of Star Wars. It wasn't, but nobody knew that. Lots of hot takes on bad names, bad relationships, and unnecessarily sexy alien lounge singers, so...2024-07-251h 10

Academy Vs Audience1944 Revisited: Going Back to Going My WayWhile Erin and Claire are busy with the all-new theatrical experience of Riverona, travel back with us to 1944 and what Dan insists against all opposition is "one of the three most criminally underrated Best Pictures in history," the cask-stength comfort viewing of Going My Way. But first, for All 80s Summer, Erin has a speed-run review of George Miller's Mad Max saga, since we don't live in a just world and will not have a 2024 episode on Best Picture Furiosa and Box Office Champion The Fall Guy. That's on us as a society. Join us in reminiscing on Father...2024-07-111h 04

Academy Vs Audience1931 Revisited: Yancey and the Tramp and Some 80sWhile Erin and Claire are bringing a fresh new work to what lucky audiences are able to catch it, we turn back the clock to one of our earliest episodes, in which Dan invited Erin, Claire, and you, the listener, to join him in his Yancey Cravat Madness. Followed by some love for Charlie Chaplin! And since this is All 80s Summer, some quickie 80s movie reviews from the one co-host not getting a play onto a stage right now. Join us in the Wayback Machine!Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy...2024-06-271h 23

Academy Vs Audience1982: Gandh-E.T.It's 1982, and the rift between Academy and Audience grows ever farther. The (many) Oscars go to Richard Attenborough's lengthy biopic Gandhi, bringing you the greatest hits of Mohandas-then-Mahatma Gandhi, managing to fill over three hours of runtime with few insights beyond "Gandhi: Nifty." Meanwhile Steven Spielberg re-conquered Hollywood with the simple tale of a boy and his stranded alien exo-botanist in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Whose death earned what reaction from Erin, Claire, and Dan? What makes this the year that Art and Commerce broke up? When you're ready to listen... we'll be right here.Find all o...2024-06-131h 50

Academy Vs Audience1981: Chariots of the Lost ArkIt’s 1981, and one of the most iconic adventure movies ever takes on a movie with one iconic piece of music that they use a little. The Academy goes with Chariots of Fire, about the 1924 UK Olympic track and field team and the obstacles both great and very small they faced, while the audience flocks to see Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ latest offering, a rogueish archaeologist named Indiana Jones. Will Claire, Erin, and Dan be able to keep the Chariots cast separate? What’s the one great flaw of Raiders of the Lost Ark? And what was actually the Be...2024-05-301h 22

Academy Vs Audience1980: The Ordinary EmpireWelcome to Academy Vs Audiences All 80s Summer! The hits get bigger and the Oscar winners get smaller, and nothing spells that out quite like 1980. The Oscars go with Ordinary People, Robert Redford's film about a family in turmoil after a tragedy, and the different ways we successfully or unsuccessfully process grief. The audience, however, just really wanted to see more of Luke, Han, and Leia, then got to shock of their 1980 lives about Darth Vader when the Empire Struck Back. Is Ordinary People's quality filmmaking enough for repeat viewings? Do Erin, Claire, and Dan have more notes about...2024-05-161h 03

Academy Vs Audience1979: Kramer V Kramer: Dawn of Just UsIt's 1979, nearing the end of the era of serious dramas for adults ruling the box office, and Dustin Hoffman's divorce and custody drama becomes one of our more unlikely joint champions. Erin, Claire, and Dan dig into Ted Kramer's attempts to juggle two lives: raising his son alone after his wife Joanna disappears into the night, and a career that doesn't care for him having other priorities. Will Ted and Billy find a new rhythm? What happens when Joanna comes back? How obvious is it that this was written by a man? Is the real villain, once again, capitalism...2024-05-021h 08

Stevens & Bolton Podcast ChannelConstruction Law "Back To Basics" – InsuranceWelcome to Series 4 of the Construction Law "Back to Basics" podcast – in this series of podcasts, Stevens & Bolton’s construction and engineering team provide listeners with an overview of the different types of insurance required on construction projects. In our fourth episode, Claire Perry and Jake Wright consider insurance and the most common forms of insurance products used on construction projects. 2024-04-2413 min

Academy Vs Audience1978: The Grease Hunter (feat. Kevin Weir)It's 1978 and the tonal gulf between Oscar winner and people's champ has, if anything, widened, as has the gap in host reactions. The Academy goes for Michael Cimino's home-from-Vietnam story The Deer Hunter, which has some stellar performances but also very strange and off-putting pacing, and an iconic, definitive scene that maybe does more harm than good. Meanwhile, audiences flocked to see John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in the 50s nostalgia musical Grease, filled with songs and bad life choices, and which maybe gets more criticism for its ending than it warrants. Erin, Claire, and returning guest Kevin are...2024-04-182h 10

Academy Vs Audience1977: Hall Wars (w/ Munsi Parker-Munroe)In 1977, a long time ago, you might say Academy and Audience's tastes were far, far away. Claire, Erin, Dan, and returning guest Munsi Parker-Munroe strap in to take on one Woody Allen in his seminal hit, Annie Hall, asking how well it's aged and how challenging it is to deal with the Woody Allen of it all. That accomplished, it's time for our first dip into the Skywalker Saga, as George Lucas changes the film landscape forever with the pure-strain monomyth action of Star Wars. Is Annie Hall worth engaging with a problematic creator? How much did Lucas get...2024-04-041h 21

Stevens & Bolton Podcast ChannelConstruction Law ”Back to Basics” - BondsWelcome to Series 4 of the Construction Law "Back to Basics" podcast in this series of podcasts, Stevens & Bolton's construction and engineering team provide listeners with an overview of the different types of project security within the construction industry. In this second episode, Claire Perry and Phoebe Starbuck look at common forms of bonds used on construction projects, including how, when and why parties may want to consider using them. 2024-03-2509 min

Academy Vs AudienceOscars 2024: Year in Review (w/ Olav Rokne)The Oscars have happened, Award Season is done for now, and we take a look at the ten candidates for Best Picture of 2023, with returning guest Oscar enthusiast, and greatest living fan of Zardoz, Olav Rokne. Dan and Olav saw all ten, as is their wont, Erin's seen six, and Claire's here for the vibes as we speed through reviews of nine great movies and also Maestro. What were their strengths? Their failings? Should modern audiences regrow and attention span or is three and a half hours too long to feel horrified? We discuss, you listen, good times are...2024-03-211h 34

Academy Vs Audience1976: Yo, Rocky!It's 1976, and audiences and the Academy are united in loving one man: Rocky Balboa. A nine film franchise spanning six decades has a small and simple beginning as a struggling young Sylvester Stallone writes himself into stardom as a simple palooka trying to prove to the world and himself that he can go the distance with heavyweight champ Apollo Creed. Erin, Claire, and Dan dig into Rocky's journey from nothing to stardom, where the Rockys went from here and what it tells us, which scene has NOT aged well, and the birth of the training montage (and what all...2024-03-071h 00

Academy Vs Audience1975: One Flew Over the SHARK! SHARK! RUN!It's 1995, and we have cuckoos and sharks coming your way! The Oscar went to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, second film ever to achieve the Oscar Grand Slam, as Jack Nicholson's anti-hero McMurphy squared off with Louise Fletcher's icily villainous Nurse Ratched. It's hailed by a classic, but how does it hold up? And what do other versions of the story do better? But the audience pic is the birth of the blockbuster, Steven Spielberg's classic, Jaws. Claire, Erin, and Dan dig into both, and ask who we feel more sympathy for: controlling nurses or giant sharks? Grab...2024-02-221h 06

Academy Vs Audience1974: Godfather 2 Electric Boogaloo (feat. Gina Stewart)Two years after The Godfather dominated the box office and snagged the top Oscar, Francis and the Corleones are back for one of the most lauded sequels ever, The Godfather Part 2. Gina Stewart's back to join Erin, Claire, and Dan in unpacking the rise of Vito and the fall of Michael, and the sad story of Fredo and the career of the man playing him. But the sequel didn't fully wow the crowds, so we move on to the pinnacle of the early 70s top genre, disasters, with The Towering Inferno. Paul Newman and Steve McQueen battle to stop...2024-02-081h 41

Academy Vs Audience1973: Heists and Horror (feat. Keith Kollee)It's 1973, and we take a break from Coppola's mafia movies for... more crimes, of legal and spiritual nature! First up, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are back together for new crimes in a new century, as 1930s con men out for payback on a vicious gangster in Oscar winner The Sting. But as popular as the Butch and Sundance reunion was (very), audiences were even more drawn into horror classic The Exorcist, in which a desperate mother exhausts many, many, many options before a young priest and an old priest unite to battle the devil. Horror fan and heist...2024-01-251h 46

Academy Vs Audience1972: You've NEVER Seen The GODFATHER!? (feat. Gina Stewart)It's 1972 and Francis Ford Coppola had an offer neither Academy nor Audience could refuse, with all-time-classic mob movie The Godfather. Erin, Claire, and Dan dig into the suspense, the twists and turns, who the best Corleone kid is and why it's Tom Hagen, and Gina Stewart is back to tell us all about how Mario Puzo's novel was adapted (by Puzo himself and Coppola). Get yourself a plate of pasta, pour some wine, and dig into the first Joint Champion of the 70s with us!Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions...2024-01-1159 min

Academy Vs Audience2023 in ReviewIt's the holiday season, so while taking a brief break, Erin, Claire, and Dan look back at the hits, possible nominees, and other random movies they've seen over the course of 2023. What were some Oscar History highlights? What were the weird trends of 2023 movies? What's the most unfortunate trend? Are we headed for the first Joint Champion in two decades? Probably not but maybe we should be. Join in for a look back.Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at www.writingtherapyproductions.com 2023-12-2850 min

Academy Vs Audience1971: The Fiddler Connection1971 brings us another year where you have to ask if someone wrote the winners down wrong, as the Academy goes with the cop thrillers and audiences decide they're not quite done with musicals. Best Picture goes to The French Connection, with Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle, a cop on the edge in world he never made, fighting French drug traffickers with... racism and mostly inept surveillance? Doesn't seem great... Meanwhile, our Box Office Champion Fiddler on the Roof sings of Tradition, wishes to be a Rich Man, and audiences turned out Sunrise, Sunset. Which did Erin, Claire, and Dan co...2023-12-141h 25

Academy Vs Audience1970: Love and WarWelcome to the 70s, New Hollywood! And as Erin, Claire, and Dan enter this new decade, all is fair in love and war... and if it isn't, love means never having to say you're sorry. The Academy goes for Patton, a biopic of the controversial World War II general, and Erin and Claire are... not convinced. Meanwhile, the audience showed up in droves for the simply titled Love Story, and the hosts have some notes. War gets the glory, love conquers all at the box office, but who stands the test of time? Listen along and find out.2023-11-301h 21

Academy Vs Audience1969: Oops All CowboysGrab your hat, your boots, your portable radio, and all the chewing gum you can carry, as New Hollywood hits hard in 1969. The Academy goes for the bleak, urban tragedy of two failing hustlers in Midnight Cowboy, and Dustin Hoffman shatters our hosts' hearts. The audience went for something lighter, more fun, and yet with fewer surviving protagonists in western buddy comedy Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Two very different movies succeeding in very different ways, but which is the favourite? Which one set a record? Listen in to find out.Find all of our episodes...2023-11-161h 03

Academy Vs Audience1968: Last Stand of the Hollywood MegaMusical (feat. Kevin Weir)It's 1968, the dying days of Hollywood's "Golden Age," and while grosses have been down and the market's oversaturated, the big-budget Hollywood musical is going down swinging. First, the Oscar goes to Oliver!, a whimsical, light-hearted, peppy musical adaptation of... Oliver Twist? Weird choice. Once we're through the toe-tapping child trauma, it's on to Funny Girl, Barbra Streisand's breakout movie depicting the rise of top-tier Ziegfeld Girl Fanny Brice, the fall of her gambler husband, and how Fanny apparently never did anything wrong ever. It's tone clash vs. whitewashed biography, with songs for the whole family, and Kevin Weir's back...2023-11-021h 55

Get Your Binge OnFilm: Scream(1996) featuring Claire White from Why the Flick? PodcastHappy Spooky Season!!! My favorite time of the year! This year I decided to feature one of my all time favorite films, Scream. I literally watch this film every 3 months, sometimes more often, and it holds a very special place in my heart. Imdb plot reads: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game. Starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, and Drew Barrymore. Directed by...2023-10-221h 17

Stevens & Bolton Podcast ChannelConstruction Law ”Back to Basics” - Alternative Dispute ResolutionWelcome to Series 3 of the Construction Law "Back to Basics" podcast – in this series of podcasts, Stevens & Bolton’s construction and engineering team provide listeners with an overview of the dispute resolution options available for resolving construction disputes. In episode 2, of series 3 of the Construction Law, Back to Basics podcast, Claire Perry, managing associate takes a look at common forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution and how they can be used in the context of construction disputes as well as the reasons why some forms may be more appropriate than others, depending on the type of project, the natu...2023-10-1914 min

Academy Vs Audience1967: The Heat of the GraduateWelcome to New Hollywood, listeners! The Academy goes for tense, racially charged In The Heat of the Night, where Sidney Poitier announces "They call me Mr. Tibbs" and helps a hick southern sheriff solve a murder. It's gripping, it's powerful, it brings up some sad thoughts for Erin, Claire, and Dan in the wake of recent events in Canada. Then on the lighter side, Dustin Hoffman makes his AVA debut in The Graduate, a blend of bleak and very funny that your co-hosts fall for partially because the characters are very unlikable. The Hayes Code is dead, the Studio...2023-10-191h 39

Academy Vs Audience1966: Old Testament Centrism (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)It's 1966, and as the so-called "Golden Age" of Hollywood collapses, nobody's having a good year. The Oscars favour A Man For All Seasons, the story of Thomas Moore, a man bold enough to [checks notes] take no actions, speak no opinions, and "My name's Paul and that's tween y'all" Henry VIII's marriage controversies. Yeah. Great subject for a biopic. Meanwhile two underperforming would-be epics have a photo-finish for Box Office Champ, and we select the last Bible epic, a straight up retelling of Genesis in The Bible: In The Beginning. Munsi Parker-Munroe, our own personal omen of doom, joins...2023-10-051h 43

Academy Vs Audience1965: The Hills are Alive! RUN!It's 1965, and Academy Vs Audience hits Film History's Second Juggernaut: Dame Julie Andrews and the late, great, Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music. Erin, Claire, and Dan dig into the sweet little musical about love, family, music, and the dangers of capitulating to Nazis... breaking down the kids, the king that is Captain Von Trapp and the glorious problem that's Maria, and lots of love for the songs*. Box office records are smashed, Oscar gold is hauled in, one of the other most successful movies ever made is buried, and Dame Andrews' vengeance over My Fair Lady is...2023-09-211h 05

Academy Vs Audience1964: POPPINS. VS. DOOLITTLE!It's 1964 and it's all singing, all dancing, all grudge match for Julie Andrews! The Oscar goes to Lerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady, with Audrey Hepburn taking over the role Julie Andrews created onstage, because the future Dame wasn't "a big enough draw." In response, Andrews joins Walt Disney for the aggressively whimsical Mary Poppins, claiming the box office crown from the film that rejected her. But who did it best? When it comes to the tunes, Doolittle's doing plenty and Poppins ain't stoppin', and Erin, Claire, and Dan have many an opinion. Join us for the 60s dance...2023-09-071h 16

Academy Vs Audience1963: SEX BOMBS (feat. John Tebbutt)It's 1963, and both Hollywood and the UK were starting to poke at the boundaries of film censors. First off, the best picture winner, England's Tom Jones, in which the title character tries to win his lady Sophie (whoa, She's a Lady), but can't resist saying "What's New Pussycat" to any woman with a come hither look. Our special guest, Video Vulture John Tebbutt, explains to Claire, Erin, and Dan that It's Not Unusual to find the appeal may have shifted since the Sexual Revolution. Speaking of sex and revolution, the people flocked to see Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, twice...2023-08-241h 46

Academy Vs Audience1962: Larry Arabia and the Long DayWar! Huh. Good god, y'all, what is it good for? In 1962, the answer is two surprisingly good movies. First, the Academy Award goes to Lawrence of Arabia, featuring stunning cinematography, deadly deserts, amazing breakout performances from Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, and some DEEPLY uncomfortable casting choices for Arab leadership. But by a narrow margin, the box office crown goes to The Longest Day, an impressively thorough and nuanced examination of the D-Day invasion of Normandy with a handful of big name actors and a smaller handful of characters Erin, Claire, and Dan could keep straight. Two movies, two...2023-08-101h 22

Academy Vs Audience1961: DANCE FIGHT (feat. Keith Kollee)Welcome, listeners, to the Academy Vs Audience/Recovered crossover! Dan, Erin, and Claire welcome Dan's Recovered co-host Keith Kollee to dig into 1961's Joint Champion, West Side Story, the only movie whose every film remake is an Oscar contender. The gang digs into this story of rival gangs, racial tensions, corrupt cops, amazing progressive trans representation, and if there's time, the star-crossed lovers at the center of this Romeo and Juliet riff*. The songs, the dance fights, the weird shifts to the song order, and more in Part One of our West Side Stories Deep Dive. Check it out n...2023-07-271h 14

Academy Vs Audience1960: The Spartacus ApartmentWelcome to the 60s, the decade that most changed Hollywood! But not quite yet. In The Apartment, Jack Lemmon is doing a sex farce while Shirley Maclaine is in a doomed romance tragedy, Billy Wilder tries to make both work at once, and the Academy was here for it. The Audience wasn't ready to give up sword and sandal epics, and turned out for Kirk Douglas' more secular take on the genre in Spartacus. It's black and white tragi-comedy vs full colour period epic, and both begin to chip away at the Hays Code. Which deserved the win more...2023-07-131h 27

Academy Vs Audience1959: Ben of the Hurs (feat. Gina Stewart)Here at the end of another decade, Dan, Claire, and Erin ask a question: can a movie have too much Jesus but also way too little Jesus at the same time? It's our second biggest Joint Champion Juggernaut, Ben-Hur, in which Charlton Heston pursues vengeance via chariot while Forrest Gumping his way through the New Testament. Claire and Erin cry out for slash-fic, Dan makes his final statement on the failures of 50s Bible Epics, and our guest Gina Stewart is here to tell us all about the original novel, and how a nearly four hour movie still managed...2023-06-291h 20

Academy Vs Audience1958: Singing, Dancing, Soldiers, Sex Workers?In our first all-musical episode (don't look at us like that, Broadway Melody doesn't count), Claire, Erin, and Dan dissect two musical movies from famous teams to see which aged worse. First, our Oscar winner, Lerner and Lowe bring us the story of a Parisian womanizer realizing he might have feelings for the teenage girl he's watched grow up... and be trained as a courtesan by her relatives... in the beautiful but deeply troubling Gigi. Then the people's champion, Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, a tale of love, war, and coming to grips with your own unconscious racial biases...2023-06-151h 21

Academy Vs Audience1957: Bridge Over Troubled Kwai WatersAnd we are back! It's 1957, and one film towers over some tough Oscar competition and... a lean year, box office-wise: The Bridge on the River Kwai. Claire, Erin, and Dan dig into the film's portrayal of cult-like devotion to duty, honour, and so-called principles via the film's main cast, led by our first appearance of Alec Guinness, as well as the modern feel, the criminally underrated (in one troubling way in particular) female supporting cast, and how in the 50s two hours and forty minutes feels like a "tight run time."It's a mad world centered on...2023-06-0157 min

Academy Vs Audience1952 RevisitedOur Best of Munsi Triptych wraps up in 1952, as Erin, Claire, Dan, and Munsi dig into two films with questionable romance content. First, An American in Paris, the quaint, charming, whimsical tale of a middle-aged painter trying to win the hand of a teenager away from the French singer who's groomed her since childhood. With Gershwin songs! And Gene Kelley sure can dance! Then flash ALL the way back to ancient Rome for some classic Boy Meets Girl, Boy Tries to Enslave Girl Into Loving Him, Girl Prefers Jesus, Nero Tries to Kill Everyone romcom hijinks. There might be...2023-05-181h 36

Academy Vs Audience1943 RevisitedOur hosts' various breaks continue, and we return to 1943, a year where the Academy couldn't have been more right and the Audience couldn't have been more wrong, and Munsi Parker-Munroe is back to witness both. Come to Casablanca to visit Rick's Café American, stay for the Stage Door Canteen... because there is no leaving the Stage Door Canteen. Maybe we're all still there. Maybe we always will be. Join us there. Show us if there's a doorway out.Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at www.writingtherapyproductions.com 2023-05-041h 38

Academy Vs Audience1933 RevisitedWe've hit a perfect storm of host conflicts, so while we recharge in our various ways, enjoy a trip down memory lane, beginning with 1933, in which eventual recurring guest Munsi Parker-Munroe joined Claire, Erin, and Dan for, perhaps, the worst combination of movies we've yet discussed: Cavalcade and Eddie Cantor's... best?... movie, Roman Scandals. Look back and laugh with us!Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at www.writingtherapyproductions.com 2023-04-201h 25

Academy Vs Audience1956: 80 Days in Ten Commandments (feat. Kevin Weir)In 1956, two movies take their sweet time with two famous stories. Our Best Picture takes us Around the World in 80 Days (and 200 cameos) as this first film version of Jules Verne's novel loads the screen with exotic locales, familiar faces, and long, LONG shots of scenery. But 'tis but a blip next to our Box Office Champion, As Cecil B. DeMille brings the Book of Exodus to life through The Ten Commandments... a movie that must hold the record for "Longest Wait Before the Thing From the Title Happens." It's weird to nitpick Bible stories... but we're gonna, along...2023-04-062h 06

Academy Vs AudienceBonus: 95th Oscars Recap (feat. Olav Rokne)Erin and Dan are joined by returning guest and Hugo Book Club co-runner Olav Rokne to dissect the latest crop of Best Picture nominees, in the wake of learning who won what, and how many of the ten nominees went home empty-handed (Claire will be back next time). Who deserved what? Who maybe snuck onto the shortlist undeservedly? Which of these movies is Erin willing to watch recreationally, and which do Dan or Olav talk her out of? And who was better at guessing the winners, our host or our guest? We find out live*!*Not actually...2023-03-231h 29

Academy Vs Audience1955: Love, War, and Tonal ClashesIt's 1955, and the films get simple in both a pleasant and insulting way. The Academy chooses Paddy Chayefsky's quiet romance of two people deemed unlovable finding each other in Marty, while the audience goes for the tonally confused war movie Mr. Roberts, which tries to be both a wacky wartime farce and a somber reflection on service and ultimately manages neither. Ernest Borgnine enjoys Oscar History's second biggest glow-up, Jack Lemmon makes his debut, and our hosts are divided on how well the first one works. Listen now to find out if war might be bad, if homely people...2023-03-091h 12

Academy Vs Audience1954: Waterfronts and White ChristmasesErin, Claire, and Dan get a break from feature-length Sunday School sermons to talk about two possible Good Actually movies! Thanks, 1950s! First, young Marlon Brando reinvents film acting for the better in the hard hitting On The Waterfront, and your hosts are here to, gush, unpack a few flaws, examine the line everyone thinks they know, and look at how the HUAC tried to ruin it. Then Bing Crosby and Irving Berlin are back for songs, spectacular dance numbers, banter, and a plot so thin you can read a newspaper through it in White Christmas. But who cares...2023-02-231h 23

Academy Vs Audience1953: Sexy Beach Times, Also JesusIt's 1953, time for what many consider a beloved classic in From Here to Eternity, and certainly some of our hosts agree. Romance, tragedy, and one heavily telegraphed surprise attack await... and then, due to poor choices by 50s audiences, it's time for more Sunday School with The Robe. Richard Burton joins the stars if Samson and Delilah and Quo Vadis as a Centurion who finds Jesus... a little too literally. And then things get weird. And dumb. For quite some time. From Here to Eternity wins hearts, while The Robe tries to bring those hearts to Jesus without any...2023-02-0957 min

Academy Vs Audience1952: The Greatest Show Sarcastic Air QuotesIt's our first joint champion of the 1950s! Good news, no bible stories. Less good news, Cecil B. DeMille really wanted people to know how neat he thinks the circus is. There are love triangles that make a Hellraiser puzzle box look simple, criminals lurking in the shadows, many plot-relevant elephants, and yet all of it is somehow drowned out by monotonous circus montages and severe overacting. Claire, Erin, and Dan dig into 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth, and question the veracity of the title. Sometimes via a musical number.Find all of our episodes and...2023-01-261h 08

Academy Vs Audience1951: Dancing, Disciples, Doofuses (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)Erin, Claire, Dan, and returning guest Munsi Parker-Munroe unpack some terrible leading men as the Oscars get musical while the audience goes to Sunday School. First, Gene Kelley brings us the songs of the Gershwins, some incredible dance numbers, and a romance that set gender relations back fifty years in An American in Paris. Does the dancing defy the duncery? We discuss, then jump back to the new testament where Quo Vadis dares to ask "How much less likeable can our male leads get," and "How much can a movie be about Jesus without actually showing Jesus?" The answer...2023-01-121h 36

Academy Vs Audience1950: Eve and DelilahIt's the 1950s, and we kick off the decade with two very different movies. First, legit classic All About Eve brings us into the backstabbing world of being a woman in theatre through immortal frienemies Margo Channing and Eve Harrington; then, Cecil B. DeMille kicks off 50s Hollywood's obsession with feature length Sunday School classes in Samson and Delilah. Erin, Claire, and Dan love the sass and drama of Eve, but have some strong notes for Delilah. Real highs and lows, and we're here to guide you through the storm.Find all of our episodes and the...2022-12-291h 38

Academy Vs AudienceMini-episode: 2022 in ReviewBefore jumping into the 1950s, Erin, Claire, and Dan take a moment to reflect on 2022 in film. What could/should win Best Picture? What's the probable Box Office Champ? Will we see our first Joint Champion in nearly two decades? And which movies delighted us but won't be mentioned on Oscar night? Join us as we look back on 2022 in film.Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at www.writingtherapyproductions.com 2022-12-1538 min

Academy Vs AudienceThere Now Follows a Brief IntermissionWith the 1940s wrapped up, Dan, Claire, and Erin take some time to recharge before diving into 1950s Bible Epics, and while they do so, enjoy an outtake from back in the 30s or 40s. Back soon with some true classics, some regrettable leading men, the episode where we say "Good-bye Bing, Hello Marlon," and much more.Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at www.writingtherapyproductions.com 2022-12-0114 min

Academy Vs Audience1949: Creepy Old Men (feat. Kevin Weir)Kevin Weir is back to dig into weirder corners of Oscar history as Academy Vs Audience wraps up the 1940s with two stories of creepy old white dudes having unfortunate levels of success. Best Picture All The King's Men brings us the uncomfortably prescient tale of Willie Stark, a good man driven to corruption by... well there's some confusion on that front... while the box office champ brings us Jolson Sings Again, a biopic sequel of Al Jolson covering everything the previous biopic of Al Jolson left out. So it's like the B-side of a biography, which people paid mo...2022-11-171h 30

Academy Vs Audience1948: A Year For the Theatre KidsIt's 1948, and our movies are catnip for theatre kids. First up, Sir Laurence Olivier takes on what's clearly a dream project in Hamlet, and while the Oscars favoured him, Hamlet enthusiasts Claire and Erin have some notes while Dan explains which contemporary horror franchise it slots right into. Next up, The Red Shoes talks passion, obsession, and ballet, and your hosts are passionately obsessed with the results. It's everything a theatre kid could want, in theory, and we're here to dissect it for you.Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various...2022-11-031h 18

Academy Vs Audience1947 Part 2: Return of the Bing1947's box office champ is weirdly hard to track down, but we found it, so it's time to talk Welcome Stranger! Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald reunite in a movie very desperate to recapture the magic of Going My Way, only with doctors instead of priests. Does letting Bing be sassier and kiss ladies make up for the relative lack of Father Chuck-style improbable do-gooding? Does an old, crotchety doctor distrusting his young replacement make as much sense as with priests? Does a town this small need a hospital? Erin, Claire, and Dan dig into all of it and...2022-10-2048 min

Academy Vs Audience1947 Part 1: Underrated Peck ActionIt's 1947, and the Academy thinks it's time America had a frank talk about how many Nazis are running around two years after World War II ended. Human avatar of gravitas Gregory Peck leads Gentleman's Agreement, in which a journalist goes looking for antisemitism in New York for a story, and finds that it's very much like trying to get a sip of water from a fire hose. Erin, Claire, and Dan dig into Gentleman's Agreement's deep dives into the many faces of bigotry, from the out-and-proud to the self-haters to the "nice people" who think they're allies but lack...2022-10-0655 min

Academy Vs Audience1946: The Best Years [citation needed] Of Our LivesIt's our third joint champion in five episodes! In the wake of WWII ending, both audiences and the Academy turned out for what might be the coming-home-from-war-movie, The Best Years of Our Lives. Three hours' worth of three men from three military branches having three different struggles returning home, and almost all of them get some sort of resolution! Come on the journey as Erin, Claire, and Dan gush over the film's unlikely MVP, and grapple with how a movie can be three whole hours long yet still have so little actual plot.Find all of our ep...2022-09-2241 min

Stevens & Bolton Podcast ChannelConstruction Law: ”Back to Basics” - What do you need to think about at procurement? How to get your project off the ground?Welcome to the Construction Law "Back to Basics" podcast – a series of podcasts by Stevens & Bolton’s construction and engineering team designed to provide listeners with an overview of the core construction law principles you need to be aware of throughout the key stages of a construction project. Whether you are procuring a professional team or looking to pursue a claim, our series of podcasts hopes to provide you with a succinct summary of the practical points that need to be at the forefront of your mind as a project moves from conception to completion. In this firs...2022-09-2110 min

Academy Vs Audience1945: Chuck and the DrunkIt's 1945, and with the war wrapping up, the Academy is done with comfort viewings, and hands the top prize to Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend. Audiences, however, are not yet done with joy as an emotion, and flock to the continuing adventures of Father Chuck O'Malley in The Bells of Saint Mary. In one corner, a bleak no-holds-barred look at addiction, or what passed for it under the Hays Code, and in the other, Bing Crosby's Father Chuck sets out to save a school with nothing but empathy and belief in people. Who got what right? Does either movie...2022-09-081h 16

Academy Vs Audience1944: Comfort Flicks With BingIt's our second Joint Champion of the 1940s, and what Dan calls "The Yancey Cravat of the 40s," as Claire, Erin, and Dan dive into Going My Way with Bing Crosby. Father Chuck O'Malley rolls into town with military grade love and tolerance, and no supporting character will escape without their lives being improved through uncut Mr. Rogers belief in their best selves. Is Father Chuck a man or some sort of divine intervention? Does this movie's success prove schmaltz sells, and if so, why does it argue the contrary? Wrap yourself in a big soft quilt with us...2022-08-2558 min

Academy Vs Audience1943: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)1943... the world's at war, and the film world is reacting, but in ways good and bad. For you see, inside all of us are two wolves: Rick's Café American, and the Stage Door Canteen. And the Academy and Audience fed very different wolves. The Oscars hand the top trophy to Casablanca, about as correct a choice as can be made, while the audience turned out for army fundraiser This is the Army with Ronald Reagan, which our returning guest Munsi Parker-Munroe likens to the US funding Al Qaeda in the 80s: not one of the ten worst things Reagan d...2022-08-111h 36

Academy Vs Audience1942: One Miniver To Rule Them AllIt's 1942, America has joined the war in Europe, and so both Academy and Audience flock to the sweet, pastoral, hard-hitting propaganda picture Mrs. Miniver. The Miniver family navigates life and love and also the Blitz. Which of our hosts get caught up in it all? How do they react to the vignette-based narrative? Was 1942 too early to make a movie about a war that was very much still happening? Does the propaganda still hit, or do they spend entirely too much time on competitive rose breeding? In any case, three Mrs. Minivers enter, which will be left standing when...2022-07-301h 10

Academy Vs Audience1941: Valleys, Green? (feat. Olav Rokne)It's 1941: the valleys are green, the accent work is shoddy, and nobody's cast age-appropriate. Erin, Claire, Dan, and special guest Olav Rokne (co-runner of the Hugo Book Club blog) take on How Green Was My Valley, one of the more infamous Best Picture winners, to figure out if Film History gives it more hate than it deserves. Some find simple beauty, some find subtle anti-capitalist themes, Dan tells us which scene he could watch on a loop for two hours, all agree that casting choices make it impossible to judge time. Then we jump across the pond to another...2022-07-141h 38

Academy Vs Audience1940: Gloom and BoomAcademy Vs Audience enters a new decade, and celebrates with improved audio quality over last episode (albeit some internet issues from a host). It's Alfred Hitchcock's only Best Picture winner with the gloomy, creeping dread of Rebecca, giving us our first appearance of Sir Laurence MF'n Olivier; meanwhile the audience embraces old familiar friends doing old familiar things. Our Clark Gable Renaissance ends as it began; alongside Claudette Colbert, as Gable, Colbert, Spencer Tracey, and Frank Morgan play the distilled version of their archetypes in the oil-soaked bromance Boomtown. Olivier is haunted by the past, Gable and Tracey chase...2022-06-291h 36

Academy Vs Audience1939: Blown AwayThe time has come; Erin, Claire, and Dan take on the most successful movie ever made. As we reach the end of the 1930s, it's time for the big show, the absolute unit of filmmaking, the OG Blockbuster, Gone With the Wind. Four hours of movie with so much to unpack: does this movie love the Confederacy? Does it want you to love the Confederacy? Or is the amount of self-delusion among our core cast a subtle commentary? Is Gone With the Wind worth watching? With recommendations on other creators with their own perspectives, because your humble hosts can't c...2022-06-161h 32

Academy Vs Audience1938: No Thoughts, Just Vibes (feat. Kevin Weir)1938: fascism is on the march, Europe is on the brink of a devastating global conflict, and Hollywood says "Let's just chill, okay?" Frank Capra takes his first swing at "No man is poor who has friends" with You Can't Take It With You, taking a chance on young actor James Stewart, while audiences turn out in unprecedented droves as Walt Disney's first feature-length animated movie opens in January, planting the first flag for the future Empire of Joy. An awed hush for Snow White and Seven Dwarves. Between the two, it's just sweet times, occasional dances, and just vibing...2022-06-021h 26

Academy Vs Audience1937: Fools and HorsesIn 1937, The Life of Emile Zola takes on real French scandal the Dreyfuss Affair... eventually... and by winning Best Picture sets the unfortunate precedent of "A biopic doesn't HAVE to be about the most interesting person in the story." Meanwhile, the Gable Renaissance continues as audiences flocked to rom-com Saratoga, the final movie of Jean Harlow, which makes Erin ask "Was Clark Gable good? Or was Clark Gable good at being Clark Gable?"(Some say another film ruled the box office in 1937. Dan says "Not if nobody bought a ticket until 1938 it didn't" and will die on...2022-05-191h 25

Academy Vs Audience1936: Greats and Disasters1936 sees the first Great Man Biopic take Best Picture in a highly, HIGHLY sanitized biography of Broadway legend Florenz Ziegfeld. Clare and Erin get swept up in the showmanship of the musical numbers, while Dan can only see a grim portent of empty calorie actor showcase biopics to come. Meanwhile, audiences turn out to see Clark Gable attempt to survive the San Francisco earthquake of 1936. One's a disaster movie, but are the movies disasters? Listen and find out!Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at www.writingtherapyproductions.com 2022-05-051h 19

Academy Vs Audience1935: Gable on a BoatOur second Joint Champion, and our Clark Gable renaissance continues! The third attempt at Mutiny on the Bounty both snags the big trophy and the hearts of the crowds, with Charles Laughton as a cruel Captain Bligh and Clark Gable bringing the charm as Fletcher Christian. Claire, Erin, and Dan dig into the movie, the true history of the titular mutiny, the futility of shipping breadfruit, how Bligh's life and legacy became defined by being overthrown, and how this movie changed the Oscars. Obey your captain: listen now!Find all of our episodes and the rest of...2022-04-211h 12

Academy Vs Audience1934: The Reign of Claudette ColbertLaughs and love from Frank Capra, DeMille style overindulgence, and learn about a cinematic queen as Academy Vs Audience hits 1934. The team bounces back from the rough ride of 1933 with The Great Year of Claudette Colbert, as Claudette dominates both the Oscars and the box office. And on top of that we begin our multi-episode examination of the golden age of Clark Gable, as he and Claudette square off in OG screwball rom-com and legit classic It Happened One Night, then Claudette takes on the title role in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, the most efficient Cleopatra epic. F...2022-04-071h 30

Academy Vs Audience1933: [Fail Trumpet] (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)Is 1933 the worst year in cinema? Dan certainly thinks so, and Erin, Claire, and special guest Munsi Parker-Munroe don't have compelling arguments to the contrary. The Academy hands the big trophy to historical flyover drama Cavalcade, or in Dan's words "Boring Cimarron," and the team is once again haunted by the attempted comedy and racial hate crimes of repeat box office champion Eddie Cantor. Dare you listen? Well, as our guest Munsi once asked, "Are you an Eddie CAN-tor, or an Eddie CAN'T-or?" Tune in now for all the quality rage at a bygone era you could ask for.2022-03-241h 24

Academy Vs Audience1932: The Hotel and the HooliganIt's 1932, and one of the first all-star casts snags the top trophy at the Oscars... and also an inauspicious place in Oscar history. Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and two Barrymores join forces in Grand Hotel... but audiences instead drifted to a musical comedy that's hardly comedic and barely musical. That's right, our nemesis arrives as Eddie Cantor stars in The Kid From Spain, and a lot of makeup is used for evil. Dan, Claire, and Erin find the simple joys of Grand Hotel (especially friend of the podcast Lionel Barrymore) then attempt to destroy early 30s box office titan...2022-03-111h 40

Academy Vs Audience1931: Yancey and the TrampAcademy vs Audience reaches 1931, where we encounter the bonkers, ridiculous, near-plotless majesty that is Cimarron, first western to win Best Picture, and the glory of its almost cartoonishly righteous lead, Yancey Cravat. Erin and Claire experience Yancey for the first time, while Dan explains how Frontier Journalist and Vigilante Preacher Yancey Cravat, Attorney at Law, became his new icon. And he can be yours as well. Embrace Yancey Cravat.And then Charlie Chaplin's here for our Last Stand of the Silent Era! What a good year, thanks 1931!Find all of our episodes and t...2022-03-031h 19

Academy Vs Audience1930: Hell's Quiet on the Angels FrontAcademy Vs Audience enters the 1930s! War! Huh. Good god, y'all, what is it good for? Well, World War One stories snag the Best Picture Oscar through the gripping, harrowing, anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front, while Howard Hughes conquers the box office with his tale of World War One aviators, Hell's Angels... and still manages to lose money. Who tackled the war better, the Oscar darling or the people's champion? Maybe we've tipped our hand but join us for the ride. And hear the first rumblings of Dan's Film History Nemesis.Find all of...2022-02-241h 28

Academy Vs Audience1929: First Joint Champion, Worst Joint Champion?As we exit the 20s, we hit our very first Joint Champion. Erin, Claire, and Dan examine The Broadway Melody, first talkie to win Best Picture, and theorize that it won both Best Picture and the box office crown because the 20s weren't great at good choices. There are songs, supporting characters who should have resulted in lawsuits, and almost a plot or character worth caring about: as they sing at us over and over, it's The Broadway Melody.Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at www.writingtherapyproductions.com 2022-02-171h 10

Academy Vs Audience1928: The Jazz WingersWelcome to Academy Vs Audience, a journey through Oscar history looking at the Academy's Best Pictures, the Box Office Champions, and where award ceremonies or public opinion went right or very, very wrong. To begin, a little bit of both, as your freelance film historians Dan, Erin, and Claire dig into the very first Oscars. The only year with two Best Pictures celebrates the silent era, while the box office champ signals its end. Thrills, beauty, and some very uncomfortable racism follow.Find all of our episodes and the rest of Writing Therapy Productions' various entertainments at...2022-02-051h 34

Tea BizTea News and Biz Insights - November 5, 2021HEAR THE HEADLINES – A New Theory on How Green Tea Promotes Longevity | Bubble Tea Business is Frothing | Assam Smallholder Collective Launches National Brand| NEWSMAKER – SAMA Tea CEO Michael Parisi, co-founder 100.co | GUESTS – Rodo Vasilaki at Tofillo Farms, Crete, Greece | Rick Chang manager Xue Jian Oolong Tea, Miaoli, Taiwan | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz travels to Miami, Florida to the offices of SAMA Tea where CEO Michael Parisi uses artificial intelligence to create new functional blends. SAMS’s CLAIRE platform is programmed to discover whitespace for new tea products, provide marketing insights based on consumer behavior. It even lists trending ingredient...2021-11-0525 min

Tudor History with Claire Ridgway22 July - Baron Scrope, a royal councillorOn this day in history, 22nd July 1437 or 38, soldier and royal councillor John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, was born. Find out more about Scrope and his service to the Yorkists, and later imprisonment, in this edition of #TudorHistoryShorts from historian Claire Ridgway. You can see this podcast as a video at the following link: https://youtu.be/7d0XdFlsZcQ Claire is the founder of the Tudor Society, an online membership site for those who love Tudor history. There, you can learn from Claire and many other expert historians and authors, e...2021-07-2200 min

Bons becs • Le podcast dédié à la flûte à becÉpisode 6 • Philippe BOLTON a bon becAujourd’hui, c’est Philippe BOLTON qui a bon bec ! Philippe Bolton n’est rien de moins que le doyen des facteurs français en activité, puisqu’il a commencé à fabriquer des flûtes dans les années 70… vous le connaissez peut-être pour l’avoir rencontré sur l’un des nombreux salons auxquels il participe, ou pour avoir entendu une de ses conférences ou encore pour avoir visité son site, qui apparaît dans les premiers résultats si vous tapez la requête « flûte à bec » sur les moteurs de recherche… en fait, vous êtes presque obligés de connaître Phil...2019-06-2344 min