Film Versus Film Film Versus Film

Today we’re going behind the scenes of movie-making, with two films that lift the veil on the Hollywood studio system. Both films have a happy ending, even if they shouldn’t have. That’s right, today we’re talking about Robert Altman’s The Player and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Both films are obsessed with what happened, but one drives us to a conclusion and the other frustrates us forever.  Today we’re looking at Oliver Stone’s JFK and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall.

Two films with characters who inhabit uncomfortable spaces. One a serious story about a comic book super villain, the other a female Frankenstein, it's Todd Phillip’s Joker versus Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things.

One film is the story of a sick kid in bed hearing a love story, and the other, a love sick kid in bed, erasing a love story. One, a comical swashbuckling romance, and the other a mystery un-love story that became the poster child for the genre known as ‘mind-benders’.

Join us as we wrap up the Oscars for 2024 as well as draft the seven best "Best Picture" winners from the year 2000 onward. Trivia, fun and academia.

With one week out from the Oscars, we talk through our predictions for the top awards and our favorite films of 2023. We've watched them so you don't have to!