I love talking movies. Everybody knows how much I love movies, movie theaters, my entire
life is movies, except what I'm working is on the radio, then radio is my favorite.
But anyway, Nell Mano is here. Nell Mano is the movie mom. You can see her in movie or
here at moviemom.com. And you can also hear she's contributed to Roger Ebert.com. So you love
movies. You like me movies are your life. I mean, that's yeah, I do love movies and you know,
I figured out very young. I was going to go see them all anyway. So I might as well get paid
for it. That's right. You know, and I have one superpower. People say, no, we're just going
to have a superpower. Mine is I can remember every movie I've ever seen and what theater I've seen
it in. Wow. So the other day on one of the, it's one of the Facebook pages for movie ads,
somebody put an ad on there for flaming star with Elvis Presley and at the Paramount Theater.
That was the ad. My dad took took our family. My mom and dad took our family to see flaming
star at the Paramount on Broadway in 43rd in 1961. I think it was. I remember where we sat in
the balcony. I can't believe my father actually shut this in there to go see an Elvis Presley
Western buddy did. And I remembered it was I told my brother he said, I remember it too like
yesterday. Wow. But that's what movies have done. I remember and that a lot of family memories
are my dad losing his wallet in the movie theater. I remember the movie was the prime of this
gene Brody and the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance get a double film, a double bill. Oh my god,
two amazing movies, but very different. How many, how many times do people sit through two movies
today? I mean, you would never think of it. No, you wouldn't think of it. But I have been known
to sit through for my then boyfriend now husband and I saw that there was a quadruple feature of
Beatles movies that movie theater was very young. And we called to make sure there were just two that
we wanted to see again. And they assured us that we were coming at the right time, but ultimately
we were not. And then we ended up sitting through all four Beatles movies. It was a hard day's
night. Help let it be and yellow submarine. That is correct. And I sat through the Clint Eastwood.
It was spend a day with Clint Eastwood fistful dollars for a few dollars more. Good bad in the
ugly and hang them. I spend the day with Clint Eastwood. I did it. I sat through all the books.
I also had sat through five March Brothers movies in two days. Yes. And it took me forever to realize
that they were two different March Brothers movies where they stole away on a ship and separate
out which one was which. But yeah. Yeah. And that was you saw the ones with Gummo and Zepo.
Gummo was never on screen. Just Zepo. I saw the ones with Zepo. Zepo who always played the
character who was a generation younger. I think Roger played his father at one point.
But it was not Gummo didn't make any movies. No, I met Gummo. And the first thing he said to me
was I was never in the movies, but he was there agent. So I think he did very well. And we said
the five. I remember it and for the five March Brothers. My mission. Yeah. Who would be there was
Harpo Chico, Groucho, Gummo and Zepo. And Zepo. And then Zepo dropped out and sort of became
a full-time guy who goes to the horse track. And okay, here's a great trivia question for you.
Zepo was like most of the March Brothers was other than Harpo was a terrible, terrible husband.
He and his wife Barbara got divorced and she then married one of the biggest super stars
on history. Do you remember who that was? No, but I got to write this down. Frank Sinatra.
Really? Zepo's husband? Zepo's wife? Yeah, married Frank Sinatra.
And cup by the way, his name's not really Zepo.
No, they didn't know. They took off.
That's a big thing. Yeah, who know who named their kids Gummo and Zepo and Groucho?
And no, they did. Oh, that's good. Let's talk about the Academy Award nominations.
Now they used to do five of them, but from what I understand, a lot of people didn't see these
movies. So what happened was they had to get some popular title in there to get people interested.
So they expanded it to 10 so they wouldn't just get these artsy movies up there and movies,
nobody ever heard of. So they expanded it to 10. We have 10 this year.
And let's go through them. I didn't. I've only seen two of them. I've heard of a few of them,
but I've only seen two of them. A Nora is the first one. What do you think of that movie?
You know, a lot of people absolutely adore that movie. And it was on the top of a lot of best
of the year list. And I did not care for it much. A lot of people, even the people who like it,
say it's like three different movies, three acts where the first one is kind of a romantic comedy.
The second one is kind of almost an action picture. You know, I like the guy who made it. He
writes directs and edits his own films, Sean Baker. He made the wonderful movie, The Florida
Project, about children living in poverty in Florida. And I thought that was brilliant. I didn't
care for his next movie, Red Rocket, about a porn star. He tends to make movies about people who
do sex work. And Nora is about a girl who is a stripper. And she gets involved with the son
of a Russian oligarch, and they get married, which makes his family very, very, very unhappy.
And if you've got money and power, you can really hurt people. And that's what happens in a Nora.
I just thought it was okay. I did not love the movie. Remind me later, Pamela Anderson,
we're going to talk about. Yes, we definitely want to talk about the brutalist. Now, this is a very
long movie within intermission. It's a very long movie and a big swing for a 30 something director,
Brady Corbet. And he made it on a budget of that, you know, would hardly pay for the lunch
on a Marvel movie. He made it for about $10 million, even though it's the first movie in
70 years to be shot on 70 millimeter films. So you do want to see this one on the biggest screen
possible if you can. And it's a period film. Period films always cost a ton of money because you've
got to get the old cars and the old clothes and all that. I was very impressed with it. I'm
more impressed with it than like it. But Adrian Brody, who we'll be talking about in a minute,
because of course he and his co-star both got the nominations as well, plays a Holocaust
survivor. He's a fictional character, but he's based on a group of architects of that era.
And brutalist refers to the style of architecture. It's not brutalist like he's a mean guy.
Brutalist architecture is very plain looking, very strong, very powerful looking. You know,
it doesn't have a lot of trim on it. And so he comes to the United States after the Holocaust.
He finds out for the first time that his wife has survived and they're reunited at one point
during the movie. And then he meets a wealthy patron. And it's really about the incredibly
dysfunctional relationship he has as they both have different visions for this gigantic building
that they're creating together. Where do you even find a 70 millimeter camera these days?
I know. He's been on the news and talking to magazines about what he went through to get access.
It's the film is the hard part is to get access to the film because nobody makes film anymore.
Everybody shoots digitally. But that's so in a way the backstory of the movie is kind of like
the story of the movie itself because the movie is about an artist who wants to create this
massive, massive work of art. And all the odds are against him. And that's kind of what the people
who made the movie went through as well. So I'm guessing right now I'm predicting that that
movie is going to get the Oscar, but we'll see. Coming up in just a moment, a film I really,
really love my wife loved it too. We'll talk about that in a moment. Nell Mendo, the movie mom is
our guest. She's the series out of the site moviemom.com. And she's also contributed to Roger Ebert.com,
moviemom.com. She grades the films like a three like you get a report card in your school.
And you know, I don't know if I'm so traumatized, but if I see like a C-O-O.
My parents traumatized me. I see. That's intolerable. What do you mean to see? I thought,
about that, that teacher didn't like me. So all I'm more with Nell Mendo coming up in a moment.
And right now it's Nell Mendo, the movie mom from moviemom.com. And also Roger Ebert.com.
We're talking about the Academy Award nominees. One of my favorite movies of the year. I love it.
A complete unknown story of Bob Dylan with an amazing performance from Timothy Chalamet.
I mean, he was Bob Dylan in that film. He's terrific. And if you watch the, of course,
the classic documentary, don't look now. You can see how carefully he studied Bob Dylan.
But for me, the person who stole the movie and I'm happy to see that he got enough
contamination was Edward Norton. Yes. Pete Seger. I thought he was absolutely fantastic.
I love it when they asked you, shave part of their hair and change their appearance for the movie.
Yeah. And I think he did. I don't think he's missing that much hair on his head.
So, you know, he was great. And I just saw, don't look back. It was on the turn of classic movies
a few weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. And that's amazing, amazing movie. Really just, you know, one of the
all-time great and most influential documentaries. I love that movie. A complete unknown.
The next one, it was in a theater so fast. Conclave.
You know, that maybe would be my choice for the Oscars. For best picture, I absolutely loved it.
I would have been happy to see everybody in it get nominated. I know a lot of people didn't like
the ending. And in fact, there's an interview with the author of the book. It's based on where he
talks about the ending in yesterday's New York Times. But I thought it was brilliant. It is,
that's another one where you have to see it in the theater. It is absolutely every frame of the
film is gorgeous. But they had a head start because it takes place in the Vatican where everything
you look at is gorgeous. And of course, you've got those bright red robes that the Cardinals wear.
So, it's about the fact that the Pope in the first five minutes of the movie has died and they've
got to get together and pick a new Pope. And, you know, aside from the fact that in real life,
that's one of the most secretive kinds of events that occurs and over hundreds of years.
This has been going on, you know, with a white smoke going up and the gray smoke going up.
It is just an incredibly well-written, well-acted film with an fabulous cast,
Rafe Finds and Stanley Tucci and John Lisco. And as I said, a lot of people didn't like the ending,
but I did. It's very controversial. But I liked it very much and was very touched by it. So I
would say that that was of this list of 10. That's the one that I would vote for. If I were
picking the best film of the year. Now, they made a movie about this once before. Actually,
have it on DVD. The shoes of the fisherman with Anthony Quinn. He was a fisherman, right?
It was about the same thing. They have to pick a new Pope.
Right. And the two popes is also another good one because that was about the only time in
history that a Pope resigned because of illness. And so they had two popes. And what were they
going to do about that? That's another really good one. You know, there's just a lot of inherent
drama. Always when you have that's why you have so many movies that are set in spaceships or
in the submarines. When you have a closed society like that, you know, it's always immediately
interesting and dramatic. Okay, Dune Park 2, which I didn't see in any of the Dune movies,
so I don't know much about them. I'm not into science fiction. Well, you guys, Timothy
Shalamy, Sarah, that one too. I know. This guy's hot. He was in Wonka last year. He's all over
the places, guys. And he's the host of Saturday Night Live over the weekend as the musical guest
and the host. There you go. This guy's everywhere. So did you see Dune Park 2? You must have.
I did. I got both of the Dune's. I'm not like the biggest fan of the world of the Dune movies,
but certainly like the brutalist, like some of the other movies, it's a big swing. They,
you know, they really go for it. And the special effects of Zendaya,
absolutely terrific in it. And so I thought it's very powerful. One of the, I don't think it's a
spoiler because the books have been out for a million years. So I'm just going to say one of the
things that does surprise some people who are new to this material is that the chosen one,
though, you know, so the Luke Skywalker type character in this is not always the good guy.
And I think a lot of people are surprised because your expectations are different. But yeah,
it's a very striking, very powerful movie that would not be on my list of the top 10 of the year,
but it's very impressive. Now, here's one of those Netflix movies that didn't play theaters.
I thought there was a rule you had to play a theater for two weeks in New York,
in LA, in order to be nominated. Did you stand that rule, I remember?
They do have that rule. And so what they do is they play these theaters for a couple of weeks
in New York and LA. And that's it. The rest of us have got to watch them at home.
OK, Amelia Perez is the name of the movie we're talking about. It's a Netflix movie.
It is a wild and crazy movie made by a French guy who I think shot it in France.
And but it takes place in Mexico, mostly, a little bit of Switzerland. And it's about a lawyer.
And you'll see we're going to talk about Zoe Sultana who's been nominated and supporting
even though in some way she's the main character of the story, but OK. So it's about a lawyer
who is asked to help a sort of a godfather type. The head of a huge crime syndicate
who wants to have a gender change in reassignment and become really a different person.
Go from being a gangster who gets people killed all the time to somebody who's very kind and
generous and make up for a lot of bad behavior in the past. And it's a musical and it's mostly
Spanish. And you can't see it unless you subscribe to Netflix. That is correct. But I do like Netflix.
Yeah. All right. Coming up, we've got more with Nell Mino, the movie mob at moviemom.com and
Roger Ebert.com. And coming up on our list in alphabetical order, it's coming up my favorite
movie of the year. I saw the Broadway musical and I loved it. I'm glad to see it's nominated.
We know what we're talking about. Nell Mino's with me.
We're talking to the movie mom. Nell Mino from moviemom.com and Roger Ebert.com are going
over some of the nominations for the Academy Awards. We got the razzies to talk about too.
We left off it. I'm still here. Never heard of that movie.
Well, maybe that's because it's from Brazil. And it's only just started coming to theaters.
But you might have seen if you watch the Golden Globes that the actress,
this such an interesting story, the actress from this movie got the best actress award.
And what's interesting about it is that it's only the second time that a Brazilian actress
has been nominated for the Globes. And the first one was this lady's mother.
So she won the award that her mother was nominated for about 25 years ago.
And it's, you know, it's a very good movie, but it is from Brazil. So I don't think that many
people are going to see it. Another movie I never heard of. Nickel Boys.
Well, that one is based on a best-selling and award-winning book, and that in itself was based
on a terrible tragic true story about making air quotes here, reform school,
for black boy teenagers that was horribly horrifically abusive. I mean, up to an including
murder. And that is a true story, but this is a very unusual film inspired by that story. What
makes it unusual is that almost all of the film, I would say 90 percent of the film,
you're seeing through the eyes of the characters. So in other words, normally when you see a movie,
it's like looking at a play and you're sitting there and you're watching the characters
walk around and talk to each other. But in this one, you are seeing what the characters,
the two main characters see. And so it's called the subjective camera that's very unusual,
and it really brings you in the story in an unusual way. So I thought that was a very powerful film.
Another film I never heard of, but I'd had now, because Demi Moore won the Golden Globe and
she talked about it, the Substance. Yeah, that is like a crazy horror movie, and it's very unusual
to see a horror movie in getting awards. But that's about a woman played by Demi Moore,
who loses her job. She's an actress, turned fitness instructor on TV. She loses her job because
her boss thinks she's too old. And so she takes kind of a magic potion that turns her into
her younger self. But you know what, things don't go well at all. Yeah, I have to see the exact
what you were. I have to see that. The other one is my pick for the best of the year. I love musicals.
That's just that's the way I grew up. I grew up watching on going to Broadway musicals. I watch
movie musicals. I love them. I'm going to musical this week at the Kennedy Center. Make a
Dune. Oh, make a Dune. Yeah. Yeah. I'm very excited about it. By the way, I love the original
Brigadoune. I watch it all the time. Brigadoune. It's almost like being in love. Great, great.
So, oh, Heather the Hill. Oh, that's that. Oh, I love Brigadoune.
And the story line is great. Two guys from New York City wind up stuck in Scotland and back
go back in time. When you think about the premise, and then it winds up back in Manhattan again,
and then they go back to Scotland again. Okay. It is, but it's lovely. We're talking about,
we're talking about wicked now because this is the one I had reservations about a movie being
broken up into two parts, but I'm fine with it now. This is wonderful. This film.
I loved it. I thought it was absolutely terrific. And you know who knocked me out? Well,
I, you know, I already loved our Antigrande and 50 Erivo, but Jonathan Bailey. I had not really
known about him before. And he's amazing. That one song number that he does in the library.
Yes. First of all, the sets are so imaginative. The costumes, the hair. It's, I really, you know,
it is a long movie, but I never looked at my watch and I enjoyed every minute of it.
What's really interesting on the trailers for it, they never do any of the songs.
I mean, they're almost afraid to tell people it's a musical, but they do do all the songs,
they do great justice to them in the film. And it is just a wonderful movie. And I'm not going to
spoil it for anybody, but they end the part one at a perfect moment as they get, as they get on
the stage. That's where they had the intermission. But they ended perfectly and the lead actresses
are just wonderful. Jeff Goldbloom as the wizard. Good. He's good. He's good. He's good.
He's good. He's good. I will. We'll see more from him in the next.
I know. I always coming up for Thanksgiving this year.
You know, in my head, I always see Frank Morgan as the wizard and it's tough to get.
It's tough to get that out of my head. Okay. So those are the top movies. Now I will tell you,
a lot of people never heard of some of these films, but in 2020, I had never heard of this movie
before. And I got the DVD and has become one of my favorite movies, No Mad Land.
Oh, yeah. It is a very powerful film also inspired by a true story.
Yes. And Frances McDormand was the star. She won the Actors Best Actors Award for that as well.
But what a fantastic movie. And my wife and I watched it three or four times. That's how good it was.
We just couldn't get enough of it. Well, you know, it's a very basic story about human connection
and about the sort of the struggle between our need to connect to each other. I need to
have to be a part of a community and our need to have adventures and strike out on our own.
And yeah, it is a very, very touching story. And it would have been very easy to make that
movie about good guys and bad guys, but they don't do that. Everybody has their own story in it.
And it was one of those films. Thank goodness. I don't live like that.
I have a van with a pot for a toilet. I mean, just I wouldn't like that. But it opened my eyes
to what's going on out there in America. Yeah. And so that was an excellent movie. All right,
let's go through. I'm just going to list the actresses here. You tell me who you think the
favorite is a Cynthia Irvivo for a wicked. She played the wicked witch. And I've been troubled
with some of these names here. Carla. Sophia. Yes, I'll get gone familiar for as the first
trans woman to be nominated Mickey Madison from anora. Demi Moore for a substance and
for Nanda Torres for mom still here. So what do you think? Oh, I'm definitely rooting for Cynthia
Irvivo on this one. She was incredible. In fact, at Roger Ebert.com, they ask us each year at the
end of the year to pick one performance that we want to write about to highlight as one of the
best of the year. And that's what I picked. I picked Cynthia Irvivo. I'll send you what I wrote
about her. I thought that was just an extraordinary performance because you know what? It's a very big
movie. It's a big movie with a lot going on. It's loud. I don't mean that in a bad way, but there's
just, you know, so much to look at, so much to listen to. And yet she's really the beating heart of
the movie. She has her quiet moments when she says I am the the commotion. It's just heartbreaking
and beautiful. And I loved her performance. So that's my pick. And she goes from being a sweet
kind person to what they consider the wicked witch. Serious. Yeah. And she just makes that
transformation. All right. Let's go to the best actor category. Adrian Brody for the brutalist.
Timothy Shalamet for a complete unknown. I got to bring this closer to my eyes here.
Coleman Domingo for Sing Sing. Ray finds for Con Clay and Sebastian Stan for the Apprentice.
What do you think? You know, I'm going to go with Adrian Brody and the brutalist, which of course
will make it the second time if he wins that he gets an Oscar for playing a Holocaust survivor.
The pianist, yeah. Yeah. But but it is an extremely, extremely powerful performance. But all
of these guys are great. And my if I were going with my heart, I would go with Coleman Domingo for
Sing Sing, which is just a beautiful movie based on a true story about a group of men in prison
who put on theatrical productions. And you know that the recidivism rate for the people in that
program is under 3% as opposed to over 60% for people who don't participate in the program.
It just gives them a way of telling their stories that is so heartwarming, so touching.
It gives them a sense of connection and sense of community. And they just become different people
from it. And Coleman Domingo is phenomenal acting. Mostly the other actors in the film are mostly
actual participants in this program. They're actually formerly incarcerated men. And so he works
with them so beautifully. So for me, I would go with Coleman Domingo. A little side note there.
Sing Sing is a real place. It's an Austin in New York. That's where it's Sing Sing comes from.
Just north. Just north of Manhattan. You know, north of Manhattan, New York City. And that's
where Austin, New York is. That's the prison. All right, best supporting actors. We got Monica
Barbaro. Is that my saying there? Baro. She's for a complete unknown Ariana Grande for wicked
Felicia Jones for the brutalist Isabella Rosalini for conclave. She's been around a while.
And Zoe Saldana for Amelia Perez. I think I know what your pick is going to be Zoe Saldano.
Yeah, it is definitely Zoe Saldana. And I think she's got a lock on it. She gives this role
everything. As I said, she's in the movie more than the person is nominated for best actress.
She sings. She dances. She gives a very emotional performance. I would love to love to see her win.
Okay, let's do best supporting actor. Now, here's a name I can't pronounce.
You're a Borisov. Am I saying that right? Yeah, you got a right. You're a for a Nora.
You've got Kiernan Kalkin for a real pain. Yes, he is the brother of the home alone guy.
Callie Kalkin, yeah. Edward Norton, a great performance and a complete unknown playing
Pete Seager, as you mentioned. Guy Pierce, the brutalist. He's been around for a while and Jeremy
Strong for the apprentice. What do you think? You know, this is I think the toughest one.
All of them are great, but I'm going to go with Kiernan Kalkin. I love the movie a real pain
about two cousins who go on a tour of Holocaust sites in Poland looking for the home that
their grandmother grew up in. Jesse Eisenberg, of course, nominated for best screenplay as well.
And Kiernan Kalkin is just heartbreaking in that movie. And so I'm going to go with him.
Wait a second. Would you say we're at the screenplay? Jesse Eisenberg. The actor?
Yeah. Yeah. He directed it, wrote the screenplay and stars.
The guy from all those teenage movies. Super bad. That guy.
No, he's not. He's not in Super. But he's in one of those. He's a few of those type movies.
Yeah. Well, he's in the squid in the whale and adventure land and zombie land.
That's right. That's right. That's right. That's where I saw him. You're right. Absolutely.
Now, long as we're talking about these categories here, let's talk about what a lot of people
consider one of the snubs. The last stripper, Pamela Anderson.
Yeah, I was sorry not to see her recognize because she does give a beautiful performance.
And Jamie Lee Curtis also gives a beautiful performance.
Movie is directed by Francis Coppola's daughter, Jaya Coppola, who also wrote the screenplay.
And it is a very and Dave Batista. The wrestler gives a heartbreaking performance.
It's definitely wonderful in it. And also, Carrie Fisher's daughter, Billy Lord, is in it as well.
Of course, the granddaughter of Debbie Reynolds.
I would like to have seen her get a nomination. But I think the fact that she's getting so much
recognition for her beautiful performance and the film is meaningful. I want to recommend.
I know you don't have Netflix. For the people who do have Netflix, one of my favorite films of the
year is nominated. It is a short film. It's about 30 minutes long. It's on Netflix. It's a
documentary called The Only Girl in the Orchestra. It's about the first woman to be in the New York
Philharmonic, picked by Leonard Bernstein. And it is just, it will, it's a ray of sunshine in your
life to see this woman. And how much music has meant to her over the years. How much she has given
to music and to her students. It's just great. The only girl in the orchestra. That's the one I
would really recommend to everybody. You know, my father stood on Leonard Bernstein's toilet.
Leonard Bernstein's toilet bowl. My father worked for a company that repaired pumps. And one of
the problems was in the ceiling above Leonard Bernstein's apartment. So Leonard Bernstein sat on the
rim of the, of the, of the bathtub while my father was standing on his toilet. It's boldly right
to get to the ceiling. And he was, but Leonard Bernstein was sitting there talking to my father for
about a half hour while he's sitting on the rim of the bathtub. I said, yeah, that's pretty neat.
What a story. Okay, best director. Sean Baker, Anora, I'm having trouble. Some of these
names. Brady court is a Corbyt or Corbyt or Corbyt Corbyt Corbyt Corbyt. Yeah, the brutalist James
Mangold for a complete unknown shock. Something or other for a million. Whereas I can't, these names
are really brutal. Yeah. And the person for the substance, I can't pronounce that name either.
Right. I think Brady Corbyt is going to get that one just because as I said, it is such a big
swing that he made that movie, that incredible movie for under $10 million that is phenomenal.
And I think he's going to, I think he is going to get it. And he may be the youngest
person to win the best director award. Okay, let's category. What's, I'm sorry, I cut you off there.
What did you say? Oh, I said he's still in the 30s. He's very young. So here's the best animated
feature category flow inside out to memoir of a snail Wallace and Gromit and the wild robot.
I think, you know, it could be flow, which is a movie with no dialogue whatsoever from Latvia.
First time Latvia has had an Oscar nominee, but it is a gorgeous film about a group of animals
that are trying to get to a safe place. It is absolutely beautiful. I think my pick would probably
be inside out too, which made me cry. And of course, thank you, Pixar. But I also really love the
wild robot. So these are all good choices. I do want to say that the two stop motion animation.
I love stop motion animation. They're both great. But I just want to let people know that memoirs
of a snail is definitely not for kids. We tend to think that all animated films are for kids.
This one is not. You know, and I'm not a big fan of Pixar animation because it's going to be
hard to describe it to you. But in all the scenes, when the characters are talking, they
jut their faces at the screen. They just like, they put their faces right at the screen and of
the noise they had to me. I like that. I don't know why I can't the screen. There were people that
annoy me in life too. And I have no reason to have them annoy you, but they do. And they said,
they have such wide eyes. The characters, their eyes pop open. They put their faces right to the
screen. They jut their heads out. And that just annoys me. I like the hand drawn animation. That's
just me. I love hand. Well, then you will really love flow because it is hand drawn. It's like a
beautiful watercolor. And it is just lovely. And I think, I think that just might be the front
runner right now. Now we talk about the dark side of award year, the razzies, the raspberry
words, the dark side of Hollywood. All right. These are the films that people thought really stunk.
Actually, I don't know who nominates the razzies. They're, they're staying for raspberry
awards is what they do. The nominations always come out the day before the Oscar Noms. And then
they give out the razzies the day before the Academy Awards. And so let's talk about the worst
pictures of the year. Borderlands, Joker, full. They do Madame Webb, Megalopolis and Reagan.
I saw Reagan. I didn't think it was that bad. But oh, I thought it was just and I worked for
Ronald Reagan. I was in the executive office of the president for Ronald Reagan. I thought it
was terrible. Really? Okay. I didn't think it was that it was definitely on my worst list.
Joker, full. They do. How did that do so bad? You know what? I refused to go because I hated
the last Joker movie. And I said, I'm not going to give any more of my life. Okay. So I know,
you know, absolutely terrible. And, uh, and Borderlands, that's their, so when just because of,
it has the biggest gap between amount of money spent and quality of the final product. They
spent a bazillion, gazillion dollars on it. And Megalopolis, it's funny because I was joking
with one of my critic friends. You should have a double feature of Megalopolis and the brutalist
because they're basically both the same story. They're both about architects who have kind of
megalomaniacal visions of the future. And, um, you know, in a way, it's kind of like the fountainhead,
both of them, uh, and about what happens. Megalopolis was, of course, the passion project
from Francis Ford Coppola. He sold his vineyard, his, the love of his life, his vineyard to make,
to get the money to make it. And it is nutsy, nutsy, nut, nut, nut, nut, nutsy. I wouldn't say it's
the worst film of the year. I would just say that, um, that there's a reason that you normally have
a lot of people working on a movie so that somebody can say, Hey, this part isn't working, you know,
so he didn't have that. He made exactly the movie that was in his head. Madame Webb is just
terrible. Is that a Marvel movie? Madame Webb? Is that one of those Marvel films? Yes, you know,
it is. It's, uh, it's, as they say, it's from the Spider-Man universe. And it was very
disappointing. But yeah, I would say, I think Borderlands will probably win just because they spent
so much money on it. It has an Oscar-winning actress and a Cape Lancet, and it's just a mess.
Well, we'll, we'll, we'll say that nobody sets out to make a bad movie. It just happens. Yeah,
nobody says I don't know what the reason that I like being a critic is that, is that you,
you know, everybody wants the movie to work. And when it doesn't work, it's very interesting
to think about why I mean, I saw a movie that's coming out this week that has a lot of my
favorite people in it. And behind the screen as well. And it's just not good. It's, uh,
it's your, you're cordially invited with Reese Witherspoon and Will Farrell. It's got a great cast.
And it's just, it just drags along. Worst actors, Jack Black, Deer Santa, Zachary Levi,
for Harold and the Purple Crayon, Joaquin Phoenix, for Joker, Fully Doo, Dennis Quaid,
for Reagan, Jerry Seinfeld, for unfrosted. Whoa, I went to school with that guy. He was a nice guy.
What happened? Yeah. Well, and he's a funny guy, but this movie was not very good. I don't,
you know, nobody would confuse Jerry Seinfeld with an actor. And, you know, he's never really,
so I wouldn't qualify him. Jack, like I just want to say about Deer Santa, let me tell you how dumb
this movie is. The movie's whole idea is that a boy with dyslexia, who's very distressed because
his parents are getting divorced, misspelled Santa on his letter to Santa and writes Deer Satan.
The premise sounds funny. Oh, it's terrible. Okay, terrible. But I would go, yeah, I would go
with Dennis Quaid as Reagan. He's not good in that. Worst actress, Kate Blanchett, for Borderlands,
Lady Gaga, for Joker, Fully Doo, Bryce Dallas Howard, which is the daughter of Ron Howard,
for up is an Argyllum, Dakota Johnson from Adam Webb and Jennifer Lopez for Atlas.
Okay, I'm going to go on that one. First of all, I want to say I enjoyed Argyll until the
last 20 minutes or so. I actually thought it was a ton of fun and then it goes completely crazy.
And I thought Bryce Dallas Howard was lovely in it. And Borderlands, it's not Kate Blanchett,
but it's such a bad movie. And same with Dakota Johnson and she tries her best in Adam Webb.
So we're going to go with J-Lo on this one. She did not have a good year.
Investing actor Jack Black again this time for Borderlands. He just did some voice work in there.
Kevin Hart for Borderlands. Shia LaBuff in Megalopolis. Is he still around? I can't pronounce his name.
Is it Tyre Rahim for Megalopolis? And John Voight for Get This Megalopolis, Reagan,
Shadowland and Strangers. Whoa. Yeah, John Voight is not the problem in Megalopolis.
And Shia LaBuff, you know, he takes a lot of heat because he is such a pain.
I've talked to a producer who said his one goal in life is never to work with Shia LaBuff again.
But I would say, yeah, go for him with a drag in Megalopolis.
Well, poor John Voight, four movies.
Best supporting actor is the worst of the year.
Ariana DeBoys for Argylland. Yeah, the Oscar who is an Oscar winner for West Side Story.
And for Argylland Craven the Hunter, Leslie Ann Down, for Reagan, she played Margaret Thatcher
in the film, Emma Roberts for Madam Webb, Amy Schumer for Unfrosted, and the FKA Twigs for the Crow.
I never heard of some of these people. Well, FK Twigs is a singer and she's best known for
as a singer. And I would say, you know, I feel bad for all these actresses. I think they did
their best. Amy Schumer, the funniest thing about Amy Schumer in Unfrosted, which is I'm not
making this up the story of Pop Tarts. Yeah. Yeah. And Amy Schumer in Unfrosted plays Marjorie
Maryweather Post, who from the Post serial company, who is an amazing woman and led an amazing
life. And it is true. And they say at the end of the movie that this is true, she built Marolago,
which is the home now. Really? Okay. So something we learned from the film.
And the worst director of the year, worst director, S, these are nominees, by the way, S.C.
S.J. Clarkson for Madam Webb, Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis, Todd Phillips for Joker,
Joker, Foley Doo, Eli Roth for Borderlands and Jerry Seinfeld for Unfrosted. Got some big names
in there. Yeah. I'm just going to say I'm sorry, Francis Ford Coppola. But again, the gap between
who this man is, what his history is and what he ended up producing. This is, you know,
this is the one that should have been called Folly Adub because he just, it was just his, you know,
his own mind with nobody interfering. And there are some great parts in it. There are some great
moments and great things to look at in it. But it is just a nutty, nutty, nutty, crazy movie.
We're going to have you back. My favorite thing in the movie is that one of the characters named
is platinum. Wow. Oh, no, it's wild platinum. I've got to see some of these. Hopefully,
the some of them will come to DVDs. They still make DVDs, by the way. They do. And I hope some of
them do come to DVDs so I can, so I can watch them. We've got to have you back after the Academy
Awards because we got to talk about the Razzi winners and the Academy Awards winners and snubs.
So we got to talk about that. That'll be in March. I think the Academy Awards are March 2nd,
right? On ABC. Okay. We're going to do that. Hold on. Don't call anywhere. Nell Mino. Just
don't leave you. Nell Mino, the movie mom at moviemom.com, moviemom.com and also at RogerEbert.com,
RogerEbert.com. And we're going to have this podcast eventually. So you can, you can hear the show
again. In case you want to reminisce about some of the thoughts you had. You know, it's good.
Compare this to that. The actual winners and losers to see how well you do.
Yeah. Because we're going to, we're going to put that in stone so people can compare.
