The Deucecast Movie Show Michael Nipp

After weeks of finishing up 2023, complete with last week's The Deucie Awards, it's finally time to bring in the rundown of all the movies seen in recent weeks (and months)... as Timberlake would sing, "IT'S GONNA BE MAY... ReFlicktions"

Dave goes through several classic (and maybe not as classic) films, while Mikey discusses his rankings of how 3.5 on Letterboxd may or not be indicative that he hates the movie.  Also, why Daryl Hannah may not be very smart... Dr Earl gets a little pretentious... John Cena bringing it... the early Kendricks film... Earl's Poor Things rant... why Daisy Ridley may not be very good... more Baumbach... 
 
And big movies like The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Godzilla x Kong, Civil War, and Challengers.
And Rebel Moon. Yikes.
Plus, assigned films make their return, with the payoff of Pineapple Express, Minari, While We're Young, and Mr. Jealousy
InternationEarl makes its 2024 appearance, with Dr Earl getting his films to watch.
And finally,  the very first Top 5 of the year! 
 
Here are the movies talked about and where to find them at the time of recording
 
 
The Great Escape (Amazon Prime; MGM+; TubiTV) 20 Days of Mariupol (PBS; For rental) Mean Girls: The Musical: The Movie: The Musical Movie (Paramount+; MGM+) Rolling Thunder (TubiTV) While We’re Young (MAX) Ricky Stanicky (Amazon Prime) 2010 (Netflix) Pineapple Express (Netflix) Wonka (MAX) Legal Eagles (Netflix) Cabrini (for rental) A Woman Under the Influence (MAX) Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (for rental) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (in theaters) Road House (Amazon Prime) Flywheel (for rental) Poor Things (Hulu) Trolls Band Together (Peacock) Migration (Peacock) Hunt to Kill (Starz) Fire with Fire (Starz) Wild Card (Paramount+; Showtime) One Life (for rental) Freud’s Last Session (Netflix) Damsel (Netflix) American Assassin (Netflix) Arizona (Hulu) Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (in theaters) Lisa Frankenstein (Peacock) Minari (Netflix) Wicked Little Letters (for rental) Dirty Harry (for rental) Movie Hoarders (TubiTV; Tubi’s CrackleMoviePlex) Dream Scenario (MAX) Supercell (Hulu) New Orleans (TCM; Amazon Prime) Don’t Die (streaming) The Marsh King’s Daughter (Hulu) Scoop (Netflix) The Greatest Hits (Hulu) Steve (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces (AppleTV+) Name of the Rose (Amazon Prime; TubiTV; FreeVee) Mr. Jealousy (Peacock; TubiTV; FreeVee) The Greatest Hits (Hulu) Civil War (in theaters) Monkey Man (in theaters) Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver (Netflix) The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (in theaters) The Jewel Robbery (Watch TCM) Anyone But You (Netflix) Abigail (in theaters) Irish Wish (Netflix) Challengers (in theaters)

Normally, when you hear "A tradition unlike any other", you think The Masters, as that's the slogan. However, it is a slogan that more closely describes THE DEUCIE AWARDS!!

For the 11th time, Dave and Mikey, now joined by #XLessDrEarl, preside over the "people's movie awards"... and the top 10 of the year as well! 

And to assist, the Deucecast crew invites in many friends of the show, from Burgess to Kaufman to Aussie to the Ryfuns and even more -- with an assist from The Main Street Electrical Podcast co-host Jenn Novotny, it's quite an award-fest!
 
In addition, Dave, Mikey, and Dr Earl give their own fave films of the year -- you can likely guess the films that make all three lists, but there are a few out of left field as well.
Make sure to catch Ep 621 from a few weeks ago, where we do our "just outside the top ten" list...
Make sure to follow along with the winners! 
BEST PICTURE 1 American Fiction 2 Barbie 3 Godzilla Minus One 4 The Holdovers 5 The Iron Claw 6 Maestro 7 Oppenheimer 8 Past Lives
BEST ACTOR 1 Bradley Cooper (Maestro) 2 Zac Efron (The Iron Claw) 3 Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) 4 Glenn Howerton (Blackberry) 5 Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) 6 Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)
BEST ACTRESS 1 Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall) 2 Greta Lee (Past Lives) 3 Carey Mulligan (Maestro) 4 Natalie Portman (May December) 5 Margo Robbie (Barbie) 6 Emma Stone (Poor Things) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1 Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer 2 Viola Davis - Air 3 Jodie Foster - Nyad 4 Vanessa Kirby - Napoleon 5 Julianne Moore - May December 6 Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
BEST DIRECTING ACHIEVEMENT BY A DIRECTOR WHO DIRECTED A FILM 1 Bradley Cooper - Maestro 2 David Fincher - The Killer 3 Greta Gerwig - Barbie 4 Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer 5 Alexander Payne - The Holdovers 6 Celine Song - Past Lives
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 1 Sterling K Brown - American Fiction 2 Willem Dafoe - Poor Things 3 Matt Damon - Oppenheimer 4 Robert DeNiro - Killers of the Flower Moon 5 Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer 6 Ryan Gosling - Barbie
BEST ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 1 Anatomy of a Fall 2 Asteroid City 3 Barbie 4 The Holdovers 5 Oppenheimer 6 Past Lives
BEST ANIMATED FILM 1 Elemental 2 Leo 3 Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse 4 The Super Mario Brothers Movie 5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
JACOB PINKY PINKERTON AWARD FOR BEST BRAIN CANDY MOVIE 1 Anyone But You 2 Gran Turismo 3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 4 John Wick 4 5 Meg 2 :The Trench 6 MI: Dead Reckoning Part 1
BEST DOCUMENTARY 1 David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived 2 A Disturbance in the Force 3 Sly 4 Still: A Michael J Fox Movie 5 Taylor Swift: the Eras Tour
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST 1 Air 2 Asteroid City 3 Killers of the Flower Moon 4 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning 5 Oppenheimer
BEST ACTION FILM 1 The Equalizer 3 2 Extraction 2 3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 4 John Wick 4 5 Mission Impossible: Dead Recks
BEST SONG OR SCORE 1 Ludwig Goransson (Oppenheimer) 2 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Killer) 3 Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) 4 Dua Lipa - Dance the Night, Barbie 5 "I'm Just Ken" music and lyrics by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (Barbie)
BEST DRAMA 1 The Holdovers 2 The Killer 3 Oppenheimer 4 Past Lives 5 You Hurt My Feelings
BEST COMEDY 1 American Fiction 2 Anyone But You 3 Asteroid City 4 Barbie 5 Blackberry
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR 1 The Creator 2 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 3 Godzilla Minus One 4 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 4 5 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

It's a classic ep this week, as we combine TWO episodes -- Ep 214 and Ep 218, both from March 2016 -- with special guests Clay Shaver and Jeremy Burgess
Both episodes run through our (then) all time top 10 movies, as we were finishing up a series giving our top 100... 
Here are the original show notes!
 
 Finally... it's here!  Dave, Mikey & Pinky have entered the Top Ten in our year long series of our Top 100 favorite films... and because it's so monumental, the Deucecast Movie Show gang had to bring in two of their favorite dozen or so guests -- Local Birmingham filmmaker Jeremy Burgess and host of the Remodeling Clay podcast Clay Shaver -- to give senseless... er, senseful films.
But first, a rousing game of Chronology, with great categories like "The Mitten"... "Bale-Out"... "Mikey Likey"... and of course, the always loved "Potent Potables".

Starting with a reminder of how each of the participants came up with their own Top Ten.

Jeremy offers up a John Carpenter masterpiece, talks about his favorite horror films and the movie that "is underrated for being overrated" and possible "date rapey".

Pinky falls in love with Anna Kendrick and cancer, talks about a movie fetish and lists the best Rings film...

Clay discusses a Vietnam classic, his best Kevin Smith and a quintessential buddy cop film...

Dave has more Anna Kendrick meets airport stories, celebrates a sinking ship and an Elton John song...

and Mikey feels some heat, feels some Breakfast and has some romance. Some True Romance.

Also, Kate Hudson may or may not come on our show, ever...

Next, how lowly ranked should "Pulp Fiction" actually be?

And... coming soon, a new reality show called... "The Burgeler"?
 
AND THEN
 
It's been a year in the making, but here it is... five films from Mikey, from Dave, and from Pinky, along with special guests Remodeling Clay Shaver and local filmmaker Jeremy Burgess, who give their five of all time.

Jumping right in, with Mikey's #5, the discussions flow on where Diehard 2 stands in the original trilogy... two Gregory Peck films... the delight of "In Bruge"... a double dose of Andy Dufresne... Harrison Ford makes a big splash... when "Pulp Fiction" is too low... a film that millennials should discover... Dave's previous favorite film ever until this one... Thoughts on "Blade Runner 2"... Pinky's weird party going habits... the generation gap between Bale's & Keaton's Batman... how to get ripped off after being paid $4 billion... and who does Jeremy think is kidding when they talk about their favorite film?

Plus, tips on creating your own Top 100...

 FINALLY... Steve Glosson has COME BACK... to... The Deuuuuuuucecast...
Fresh off a heckuva WrestleMania 40 weekend, Mikey and Dave chat a little bit about their favorite WWE Superst... WWE Wrestlers in movies!  And the best way to do that is to bring on someone who appears on a Wrasslin show, the original Geek, Steve Glosson.
 
First, a mandatory discussion about WM40, which took place a day before recording, with favorite matches, what the WWE did right, the storytelling, maybe a few things we'd change and more.
Then, we dive into our Top 5 movie roles of professional wrestling superstars - both past and present - with the rule being we cannot list anyone more than once.
Getting their due are the usuals like The Rock, Cena, Bautista and more... and a few names out of left field, like Big Daddy Kool... Bam Bam Bigelow... and a former WCW Champion.
Also, random chatter on things like the Superman Death storyline in comics... Civil War in comics and movies... an upcoming documentary passion project from Steve... d$'s 200th episode coming up... and anything else we can think of! 
Movies discussed:
 
Be Cool Body Slam The Condemned Grown-Ups 2 Guardians of the Galaxy The Iron Claw Jumanji Major Payne The Marine No Holds Barred  The Princess Bride  The Punisher The Resurrection of Gavin Stone The Resurrection of Jake the Snake The Rundown Scream Spider-Man They Live

It's been promised forever, and The Deucecast Movie Show has finally delivered.  Pretention reigns on this episode, as d$ is out of town and Mikey is relegated to behind the scenes where no one can hear him whine.
 
#XLessDrEarl is here and shedding the show of the uncultured swine of a Kevin James fan known as d$ and the Nic Cage apologize called Mikey, bringing in Friend of the Show Jeremy "Miss Independent" Burgess and part time co-host Lil G, Garrison "Pride of Albany" Ryfun to discuss all things pretentious.
First, a little Oscars chat... then a take on Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire... an update on Burgess' film "Don't Die"... streaming services (RIP FilmStruck) to find such pretentious films... and a definition of Pretention from the crew.
They list their five fave pretentious films, including gems from Wim Wenders (pronounced VIM VENDERS by the way) and Malick and Fassbender and much, much more. Grab your smoking jacking, swirl your brandy snifter, and adjust your monocle...

 With the release of the latest Ghostbusters movie, "Frozen Empire", we thought it was only fitting that we do something around the very heart of the sequel -- Ghosts! 
But it's not Halloween so we decided to talk some Ghost Stories that aren't scary.  Friendly ghosts, baseball playing ghosts, Christmas ghosts, Romantic Ghosts and so much more. 
And what better way to discuss this topic than to bring in some experts... Brock Parker making his return to the podcast (since June 2021!) and bringing his lovely wife Jessica along, representing the Alabama ghostbusters!
Plus, what the Alabama Ghostbusters are doing now, how to join, and where to find them... and an honest, spoiler free review of "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire"