It’s a very BPC Christmas as we bring you our 2020 Holiday Special Episode HOME ALONE. Frequent flyers Grant Z and Joey R rejoin the mix for the fourth installment of our BPC honorary episode series. We dive deep into this classic 90s holiday blockbuster and take the movie to task on many of it’s improbable, and likely impossible, series of events. Joey R wages war on dairy and Grant Z analyzes the McAllister’s pre-vacation pizza order. We talk about which of the two wet bandits took a bigger be...
Dec 07, 2020•2 hr 24 min
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I chose this movie for this episode because it is my favorite movie of all time and wanted to share it with the BPC universe! Chris G and Joey R rejoin the podcast as we talk all things Shawshank including the much debated 1994 Oscars, the layered themes to the film, the endlessly quotable script, the infamous movie title, Morgan Freeman's brilliant voiceover, the Stephen King source material, and anything you would want out of a Shawshank Redemption deep dive! We ap...
Nov 26, 2020•2 hr 33 min
Best Picture Cast reached 20 episodes as we talk the 2014 Best Picture Winner BIRDMAN (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Grant Z and Joey R return and we welcome OZ to his BPC debut! The four of us dive deep to chat Michael Keaton and whether anyone else could have slid into this roll. There are heated conversations about the MCU and DC Universe and how we view them in the grand scheme of things. We take a break at halftime as we each give our definitive Batman portrayal rankings and unrav...
Nov 22, 2020•2 hr 59 min
It is a weekend vacation for team BPC as we walk the streets of NY with the troubled Don Birnum. Artie B (Departed, SlumDog, Argo) and Chris G (Rain Man, Lambs, Halloween) rejoin the podcast as we deep dive this Billy Wilder Classic! We marvel over the film making skills of Wilder as he gives the world his cinematic take on Alcoholism and how well it holds up 75 years laster. We take an on brand detour as we have a spoiler free discussion other movies that depict alcoholism and substance abuse s...
Nov 10, 2020•2 hr 49 min
Thanks to all the people on Twitter and Instagram who voted in our BPC HorrorFest Tournament, HALLOWEEN has been selected as our second inductee into the BPC Hall of Honors! We are taking a little break from our regularly scheduled program of Best Picture winners to get into the spirit of spooky season! Grant Z, Chris G, and Joey R rejoin the Podcast to discuss John Carpenter's 1978 Horror Classic HALLOWEEN! In addition to doing our usual movie Deep Dive, we compare the legacy of Michael Myers t...
Oct 27, 2020•2 hr 28 min
In this BPC Bonus Episode we review and recap the October horror movie tournament that we ran on social media. We go through the results and chat about all the selections and the movies in general! A good listen for anyone who is into scary movies! Follow us on social media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @bestpicturecast Send us an email: bestpicturepodcast@yahoo.com
Oct 21, 2020•25 min
Thanks to all the people of Twitter who voted in our BPC Sub 50 Cup, ROAD HOUSE has been selected as our very first inductee into the BPC Hall of Honors! We are taking a little break from our regularly scheduled program of Best Picture Winners to bring you our very first Honorary Episode. Kieran B is joined by tournament winner Grant Z and BPC frequents, Artie B and Joey R, as the team makes a little pit stop at everyone's favorite Road House, the Double Deuce! In this extensive deep dive of the...
Oct 13, 2020•2 hr 27 min
This week we head back to to 1940s to follow Gregory Peck’s covert assignment against antisemitism in GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT. Jay Dowski rejoins BPC along with Grant Z as the gang reenters the BPC social minefield to tackle the worldly issues this film confronts in 1947, and how they carry through to today. To lighten the mood we go through Arnold Schwarzenegger’s entire filmography which includes impressions, one-liners, and mind-numbing time travel rhetoric. Jay also gives his 3 choices for the...
Sep 29, 2020•2 hr 16 min
For the month of October we will be hosting our first BPC HORRORFEST Tournament on our Twitter account @bestpicturecast !! 24 horror movies have been selected by each member of our team and we are pitting them up against each other in a World Cup style Tournament! It's up to you to select which movie we will do a full episode on the week of Halloween! This episode previews the 24 movies selected and lays out the first round of pool play. Voting begins October 1st and will continue throughout the...
Sep 24, 2020•33 min
Prepare to set sail for the high seas with BPC... Whether you like it or not! This Press Gang takes you on a hostile trip from your local pub to the West Indies. Joey R (Cuckoos Nest, Lambs, Sound of Music) and Brendan B (Shakespeare, Rocky, Man for All Seasons) rejoin the BPC Navy in for search for everything that makes a deep dive podcast worth it... and bread fruit? Brendan B gives his three horror picks for the upcoming BPC Horrorfest Tournament, we talk about what the best TV Sitcom theme s...
Sep 15, 2020•2 hr 55 min
In our Season Two premiere we are back with some more BPC deep dive action as we suit up and tackle the most recent film we have covered so far in 2012's ARGO! Artie B (Departed, Slumdog, Sound of Music) and Grant Z (Crash, Rebecca, A Man For All Seasons/JAWS) rejoin the fray. We give everyone plenty of airtime as we welcome this movie's ensemble cast to the BPC main stage. If you ever wondered if you could get enough Ben Affleck here is your measuring stick! In addition to Deep Diving this odys...
Sep 01, 2020•3 hr 12 min
The BPC Sub 50 Cup is complete and we rundown the results in this bonus episode! Find out who took home the crown! Also Grant Z and Artie B exchange their experiences watching two each other's choices... Macgruber and Battleship! Season 2 kicks off next week with ARGO! Follow us on social media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook- @bestpicturecast
Aug 23, 2020•16 min
After completing the coverage of our first 15 Best Picture Winners, a group of BPC All Star cohosts assemble in an attempt to rank the movies that we have covered so far! This is a spoiler free episode, so whether you've seen any of these movies or not, listen along as we do our best to come up with a definitive ranking of each film. We have a blast comparing our lists, and add a few goofy segments along the way including creating over the top roles for Robert Shaw, swapping actors from movie to...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 51 min
The Pod is alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC! Artie B and Joey R, cohosts of the very first BPC episodes, team up for the first time and join Kieran B to discuss the Best Picture of 1965. We tune up the band and deep dive this family classic, along with Julie Andrew's other Best Picture Nominee in MARY POPPINS. We talk about the movies legacy, it's relevancy today and all of the Family Guy spoofs that come along with it! In addition to the Sound and Poppins talk, Artie highlights three of his favori...
Aug 04, 2020•2 hr 55 min
Join the Cast of BPC as we discuss the movies that made our Sub 50 Cup Quarterfinals and the Head to Head matchups between all of these movies that have the distinction of being under 50% critic on Rotten Tomatoes! Winner gets it's very own episode! Voting begins this week on Twitter and Instagram @bestpicturecast
Aug 03, 2020•6 min
We have moved on to Round 2 of our BPC Sub 50 Cup! Grant Z joins Kieran B on this bonus episode to breakdown the results of Round 1 and to announce and preview the Pools for Round 2! Please help us out by voting this week on Twitter @bestpicturecast and on Instagram @bestpicturecast ! Which Sub 50% Rotten Tomatoes Movie will get it's very own episode? Help us decide!
Jul 23, 2020•22 min
Best Picture Cast boards the biggest boat we can find to deliver a Robert Shaw double-feature! Kieran B is joined by returning cohosts Grant Z (Rebecca, Crash, Rocky, Broadway Melody), Chris G (Lambs, Rain Man, Broadway Melody), and Brendan B(Rocky, Shakespeare in Love)to discuss 1966 Best Picture Winner A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and show favorite JAWS. We give both movies their due length in a Deep Dive that required a Shark Cage AND an oxygen tank designed for a full set of lungs! We find connecti...
Jul 21, 2020•3 hr 22 min
For a short break from our regularly scheduled programming, we preview our BPC Sub 50 Cup which we will be holding this upcoming week on our twitter account @bestpicturecast . Every cohost who has joined us for an episode at this point has selected 3 different guilty pleasure movies that are under 50% on Rotten Tomatoes and we have put them up against each other to determine which movie will get its very own episode! You can vote on twitter starting Monday, 7/13. We will be putting a different p...
Jul 12, 2020•25 min
BPC is back and this week we take a train ride through India to sit in the hot seat and lock in all our final answers on Danny Boyle's 2008 Best Picture Winner. In addition to breaking down SDM, we go through Danny Boyle's filmography and discuss his work in depth. Artie B (Departed, Broadway Melody) and Rob Bobcat (Chicago) take each other to task in their returns to BPC. A Deep Dive you are not going to want to miss. Rob also fills out our pool of contenders for the Rotten Tomato BPC Sub 50 Cu...
Jul 06, 2020•2 hr 55 min
It’s time for everyone to look a little closer and join us as we attempt to find inner beauty through the Best Picture Winner of 1999 AMERICAN BEAUTY. In the twelfth installment of BEST PICTURE CAST, Jay Dowski, author of the novel “Bury Me in Montauk” makes his BPC debut as we discuss one of his favorite movies. We chat about that stacked year in cinema before the end of the century, we go through the movie library of the great Sam Mendes, we chat James Bond, and saturate the market with Michae...
Jun 22, 2020•2 hr 54 min
Crack open a nice bottle of Chianti and grill up some Fara Beans, it's time to talk about the 1991 Horror Classic THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS! The chains and the mask come off for this episode as Chris G (Rain Man, Broadway Melody) and Joey R(Cuckoo's Nest, Rebecca, Going My Way) rejoin the podcast to dive deep into the dark world of Hannibal Lector. There are no shortage of bad impressions, as is tradition... and the team really sinks their teeth into why this movie isn't just you run of the mill ...
Jun 08, 2020•3 hr 22 min
They stack the odds so we take to the streets to spar with the 1976 classic ROCKY! It’s touch and go, but BPC goes all 15 rounds for our longest episode to date. Grant Z and Brendan B join the cast as we engage in an in depth breakdown of Stallone’s Oscar Best Picture Winner. We discuss all the characters, all the sequels, and there’s no shortage of bad impressions or bad puns. As an added bonus Grant and Brendan compare Macgyver and Macgruber, because why not? We hope you dare to go the whole d...
May 25, 2020•3 hr 53 min
BPC returns to discuss 1944s highest grossing movie and Oscar Best Picture winner GOING MY WAY. In a long form discussion of this winner of 7 Oscars, we take a look Bing Crosby's award winning performance and discuss his impressive career. We also get to the important issues at hand such as, what animal you would most like to live your life as? And we desperately grasp for straws in attempt to connect this movie to the Batman universe. Swing on a star with us for a couple hours even though Joey ...
May 11, 2020•2 hr 22 min
In possibly our most entertaining and explosive episode yet, three previous cohosts return for an all out movie battle royal. While we do spend sometime taking a look at one of the lowest rated Best Picture winners, don’t be scared away if you’ve never seen “The Broadway Melody”. In this episode we have a well balanced debate revisiting some of the anti-Goodfellas/Gangs of New York comments made in the BPC pilot episode, as all sides are heard from. Also, in the spirit of “The Broadway Melody” h...
Apr 27, 2020•2 hr 45 min
This week we discuss our first musical, the 2002 Best Picture Winner CHICAGO. We dig deep to figure out what distinguishes a movie as a "musical", and we dive deep to discuss this 1920s style modern production. Amidst the conversation we discuss why it might be that musicals have had such a strong history at the oscars, while comedies are regularly overlooked. No stone is left unturned in the windy city this week! Next week is The Broadway Melody 1929 , paired with a heated Scorsese debate! We c...
Apr 13, 2020•2 hr 14 min
Episode 6 we discuss the 1940 Best Picture Winner REBECCA, directed by Sir Alfred Hitchcock! In our first 3-man-Pod, Kieran B is rejoined by Joey R(CuckoosNest) and Grant Z (Crash) in the BPC deep dive of an old classic. In addition to discussing REBECCA we delve into the Hitchcock library, and chat about some of his other classic films, specifically REAR WINDOW and PSYCHO. After the dust settles, all three hosts give their up to date ranking of the movies covered this far by Best Picture Cast! ...
Mar 30, 2020•2 hr 24 min
We are back for episode 5 where we tackle 1998's controversial best picture winner Shakespeare In Love! Brendan B makes his debut as he attempts to make a case for why he thinks the Academy got this one right. We spend a little more time than usual on this year's runners up (Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line, and Life Is Beautiful) and we take some time to compare the movie to Saving Private Ryan head to head. In classic BPC fashion we bounce around and talk our favorite X-Files episodes, Coldp...
Mar 16, 2020•2 hr 20 min
BPC is back for Episode 4 where we discuss the controversial best picture winner CRASH. Grant Z joins the Best Picture Cast for the first time and we tackle the surprise winner of 2005 and the cornucopia of baggage that comes along with it! In addition to showing great concern for the health of Sandra Bullock's ankle, we dive into all sorts of issues and discussions without a life vest. While navigating our way through these murky waters, we distract ourselves with Chuck Norris, Conan O'Brien, J...
Mar 03, 2020•2 hr 18 min
Best Picture Cast Episode 3! We tackle the 1988 blockbuster RAIN MAN. Chris G makes his podcast debut as we talk in depth how the movie handles mental health in the late 80s and discuss how it has aged, for better or for worse. We dig deep into Tom Cruise's 1986-2006 impressive run and go through the works for the great Hans Zimmer! You can also hear our Pre-Oscar predictions the week after the 2020 Oscar awards... Jurassic Park, Jaws, Animated Disney, Dolly Parton, Star Wars and more! Email us ...
Feb 17, 2020•2 hr 33 min
In the second episode of Best Picture Cast guest cohost Joey R joins the show to discuss "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest". We take the plunge into the asylum and analyze the interrelationships amongst a well thought out cast of characters. In another episode of bad Jack Nicholson impressions, we talk Jack's career and take a close look at The Shining and the many similarities between the two movies. We also discuss Batman villains, Stephen King, the X-Files, Jaws, Child's Play and more! Plus Joe...
Feb 04, 2020•2 hr 10 min
