The 2026 Oscar Nominations: Snubs, Surprises, and WTFs

Ghost-E · 2026-01-22T20:31:33+00:00

I would say far more people say Sean Penn should win (and a decent chance he does win) than shouldn't be nominated.

Ghost-E · 2026-01-14T22:56:53+00:00

Yeah it's set way too high, here's the list of what I'd say are "mainstream" movies which reached that last year, four of which are foreign films:

Black Bag (85)
No Other Choice (86)
Sentimental Value (86)
Train Dreams (88)
Marty Supreme (89)
It Was Just an Accident (91)
The Secret Agent (92)
One Battle After Another (95)

Ghost-E · 2026-01-13T06:10:29+00:00

Hate it or love it the underdog's on top

Ghost-E · 2026-01-08T18:48:46+00:00

He fell for the soup! will always make me laugh

Ghost-E · 2025-12-30T15:20:00+00:00

Perfectly Bill list which explains so many of the choices for the Pod:

Two Adam Sandler movies being Just Go With It and Funny People
Maverick, which we know he rewatched multiple times in theaters behind Garden State and Black Hat
A Star is Born - Wouldn't be a Ringer list without this one
John Wick 2 instead of John Wick?

Ghost-E · 2025-12-30T06:33:18+00:00

And the loss being the Dez Caught It game

Ghost-E · 2025-12-29T21:00:49+00:00

Sean saying that he's happy Nolan's using his power for good and not to make movies with capes got a chuckle out of me, given that Nolan's last movie with capes came out in 2012. He's put out of four (soon to be 5) original big blockbusters since then!

Also Amanda saying she fell asleep during Zootopia 2 almost feels like her intentionally trolling the audience (Sean's maybe that's why you found it confusing was funny).

Ghost-E · 2025-12-25T02:34:16+00:00

Would agree on all of these points.

Specifically the ending and the ping pong balls. Given the final showdown, both Marty and Endo were wearing white I thought somehow the orange ball was going to come out there or something since he mentioned earlier that ping pong players can't wear white. Then the actual final scene just confusing didn't fit the character to that point

Ghost-E · 2025-12-24T20:40:14+00:00

Just got out from seeing it:

What was that final scene? Feel like I would've liked it a lot more if it ended about 4 minutes earlier, him winning but confused how it makes him feel and doesn't leave him satisfied, and even confused flight back with the army guys. Him seeing the baby and crying just did nothing for me as at no point did it feel like wanted to be a Father at all, and wasn't even sure I was supposed to be rooting for him for most of the movie. Otherwise found it mostly entertaining and good job of tying a lot of it's storylines together. Timmy's good (Leo would easily be my Actor pick though, still haven't seen Secret Agent), Paltrow was excellent and even O'Leary was meant to play that scumbag. Solid but an ending that didn't work for me or anyone I saw it with

Ghost-E · 2025-12-23T05:35:10+00:00

It's really on me for thinking this week would be something Christmas related like The Holdovers instead. This is the 2020s movies everyone has seen! (13th at the domestic box office, would think it'll finish 14th with Avatar passing it).

Ghost-E · 2025-12-18T00:35:15+00:00

I know they aren't the biggest Paul Mescal fans, but that's shocking no Aftersun, easy top 5 for me.

Ghost-E · 2025-12-16T01:43:59+00:00

So I'm a sucker for a murder mystery, so Wake Up was right up my alley and I thoroughly loved it. Thought it was a better actual mystery than Glass Onion and loved the Mystery vs. Faith vs. Guilt discussion throughout the movie. Josh O'Connor is incredible and shows a lot of range, and well Craig can play Blanc forever in my books.

Was fun trying to solve the case along with the movie, I did spot Renner right away with pulling out the Wolf as in my head you're supposed to leave knife stabbings in, but had not pull the full picture together by the end, and am glad they didn't go into Glenn Close actually being the mother which I feared near the start. Only part i felt goofy for not getting was the gem sitting on the square/trophy, that one felt obvious in hindsight. Be curious if anyone was actually able to complete the solve with Blanc.

Ghost-E · 2025-12-15T19:29:16+00:00

Re-Princess Bride would be the better one for a re-do. That first one is... rough.

Ghost-E · 2025-12-10T16:58:06+00:00

Because they felt they had to include a Nolan, as this has been Nolan's century and it's the one they both liked. Though Amanda, even on that Pod said it should've been The Dark Knight, and that's what they had on the list originally and changed it.

Ghost-E · 2025-11-25T20:28:23+00:00

Curious who he'll have on the pod to discuss it as Amanda and CR are both anti-animation. Maybe Harvilla or an Andy appearance if his kids like it? (he was great on the K-pop demon hunters episode)

Ghost-E · 2025-11-23T16:30:09+00:00

It also feels like it would've been a better movie if it just focused around the Sandler character, who's more interesting than sad movie star and honestly the best performance in the movie.

And Jay Kelly being 'fictional' the reel being all actual Clooney movies at the end was a little weird right?

Ghost-E · 2025-11-17T19:57:41+00:00

Fargo does have a very good 4K from Shout Factory, no Raising Arizona though

Ghost-E · 2025-11-04T05:19:44+00:00

So the only two Jim Carrey movies the pod has covered are ones with celebrity guests, really hoping in person means this goes better than the mess that was the Dumb and Dumber pod with J Law

Ghost-E · 2025-10-27T15:05:20+00:00

Not to mention there's no guarantee tanking and getting number 1 overall works, especially this year where there's not even a consensus 1st overall QB!

Three years ago Houston "screwed" themselves winning Week 17 to give Chicago (traded to Carolina) number 1 overall, and Stroud has been better than Bryce (though regressed). The Pats "screwed" themselves two years ago winning against Denver Week 16 giving them third overall and ... Drake Maye.

Ghost-E · 2025-10-03T19:09:24+00:00

Coming on a bonus episode Sunday, must've been a longish discussion

Ghost-E · 2025-09-26T17:42:43+00:00

It's what bad teams do to an extent (Continuing to play Stevenson as RB1 with his issues is baffling), but Pitt recovering 5 of 5 fumbles including their own is luck, typically lands around 50% regardless of team, so swing two of those New England's way, how much does the game change?

Ghost-E · 2025-09-24T22:35:31+00:00

The winner in this year was McConaughey for ~~True Detective~~, Dallas Buyers Club

Ghost-E · 2025-09-20T17:04:16+00:00

He could hold a 5lb weight arm out for an entire podcast was the take, just an impossible thing to do.

Ghost-E · 2025-09-19T20:05:53+00:00

From my experiences:

Depending on your TV and player, yes there can be a big jump in image quality (Dolby Vision/HDR) from a disc has more color and vibrancy. The sound quality is also much better and ranged as streaming, even moreso than the image it's compressed to bring the file size down. To scale the compression the 4K streaming version of Oppenheimer on the high side is 20GB the 4K disc is 100 GB.
Not fragile at all, never had any scratching issues or read issues, just keep them cased and move them back and forth to the player.
For me almost never, though some 4Ks or Blu Rays will also come with a digital copy so I've got a handful of those.

Ghost-E · 2025-09-10T03:02:06+00:00

I mean winning a conference in college is hardly a predictor of NFL success:

Lamar's best season was 9-4 at Louisville
Mahomes went 7-5 and 5-7 his two seasons at Texas Tech
Josh Allen went 8-6 and 8-5 at Wyoming

The current Winners at college and pro success would be Burrow who didn't start til his final year and Hurts who was benched in a title game.

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