On the riveting season finale, Pierre and Jeff discuss the last movies from Ms. Kendrick's current filmography: The Company You Keep and Digging For Fire.

Then, our hosts wrap up this year-long epic journey by summarizing everything we've learned. What is the story of Anna Kendrick the Actress? Had things gone differently, would her career be in a better place? A worse place? Do good and bad mean anything at all? And of course, it wouldn't be a season finale without some top 3s! Tune in as our hosts talk about the three Anna Kendrick movies that left the greatest impression on them. Some picks might surprise you!

Special thanks this week to our good friend Cris, who made the cover art. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter, and Letterboxd to see more of her artwork, film opinions/reviews, or both!

Today's episode is sponsored by Technically a Conversation, a podcast for curious people by curious people! You can listen to them on Spotify, or check out their website for all their links and socials! Be sure to follow them over on Twitter!

In today's episode, we're Kickin' It with both Kendricks, as Pierre and Jeff discuss Lamar's latest album Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers. Lamar's newest is also arguably his most personal, raw album yet, and it should be no surprise that, in order to talk about it, our hosts have to get pretty personal and raw as well!

Later in the episode, we break down Anna Kendrick's most recent movie, the Netflix/Amazon Prime original Stowaway! In this isolated space drama, three astronauts on a mission to Mars discover they've accidentally wound up with an unexpected fourth passenger.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that both Kendricks provides plenty of interesting philosophical fodder for our hosts! And with this being our longest episode ever, you may want to strap in for what you're about to hear!

Big shoutout to Mic the Snare on YouTube, whose video "Making Sense of Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers" was a huge help to Jeff when preparing for this episode.

Today's episode is sponsored by Technically a Conversation, a podcast for curious people by curious people! You can listen to them on Spotify, or check out their website for all their links and socials! Be sure to follow them over on Twitter!

That's right! In today's episode of Kickin' It With Kendrick, Pierre and Jeff are joined by eloquent British man and Minding the Gap enthusiast Mark Morgan to talk about Dummy, a ten-episode limited series for the 2020 streaming service Quibi!

But first: what was Quibi? Helmed by Meg Whitman and enemy-of-the-show Jeffrey Katzenberg, Quibi was a streaming service designed for phones, with content delivered in 10-minute or less chunks. Does that sound like a bad idea? I wouldn't be so sure! Tune in to get our thoughts on the merits of Quibi, as well as why it ultimately went belly-up.

Of course, this wouldn't be an Anna Kendrick podcast if we didn't also dicuss our favourite actor's foray into the short-form streaming market. In Dummy, Kendrick plays Dan Harmon's girlfriend, Cody, who has a fateful encounter with her partner's sex-doll. Written by Cody Heller with a tone somewhere between Wilfred and Rick and Morty, Dummy dramatizes a real event involving Heller, Harmon, and a sex doll, using it as a framing device for one woman's journey of self-discovery. At only 76 minutes, Dummy is the shortest film we've talked about on this podcast! Heck, it's shorter than this episode!

You can find more of Mark over on the Oscars Death Race Discord, where he enjoys simping for the movie Minding the Gap. Mark is also one of the founding members of the Academy of Death Racers, which you can check out over on aodr.net!

Today's episode is sponsored in part by the folks over at Bad Dad, Rad Dad. Check out their podcast where they look for better dads one movie at a time!

Today's episode is also sponsored by Technically a Conversation, a podcast for curious people by curious people! You can listen to them on Spotify, or check out their website for all their links and socials! Be sure to follow them over on Twitter!

In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff are joined by Calum Macnab of Scaretroducing to discuss Chris Morris' second film, and Anna Kendrick's thirty-sixth!

"Based on 100 true stories", The Day Shall Come is a darkly comedic look at governmental overreach in the post-9/11 world. In need of rent money, impoverished preacher Moses Al Shabazz (Marchant Davis) turns to a wealthy contact with ties to Al-Quaeda. Unbeknownst to Al Shabazz, that contact is actually an FBI plant under the command of an overly ambitious anti-terror agent (Anna Kendrick).

To learn more about the inspirations for The Day Shall Come, check out Chris' Morris interview on the Adam Buxton podcast.

And for more of today's guest, Calum Macnab, you can check out Scaretroducing, where he and his co-host Gisela Martinez talk about horror movies every week or so! Most recently, they've covered the films Dashcam, Men, and Lux Aeterna.

Today's episode is sponsored in part by the folks over at Bad Dad, Rad Dad. Check out their podcast where they look for better dads one movie at a time!

In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff finally get to talk about one of Anna Kendrick's biggest movies: the psychological thriller/dark comedy A Simple Favor!

Based on the book by Darcey Bell -- which itself draws inspiration from classic movies like Diabolique, Strangers on a Train, and Single White Female -- A Simple Favor tells the story of Stephanie and Emily, two friends brought together by their kids, whose relationship is thrown out of wack when Emily suddenly disappears. In preparation, our hosts watched Diabolique, while Jeff additionally read the book and watched a few of the other inspirations for this movie. Tune in as Pierre and Jeff break down the inspirations for the film before getting as nit-picky as they can about Paul Feig and his directing!

And last but not least, check out author Darcey Bell's blog-post/review of the movie here: https://crimereads.com/darcey-bell-adaptation-a-simple-favor/

Today's episode is sponsored in part by the folks over at Bad Dad, Rad Dad. Check out their podcast where they look for better dads one movie at a time! https://open.spotify.com/show/0kJAVmHvSa8EzZnjra5bGM?si=67e17d9e210b4366

In today's episode of Kickin' It With Kendrick, we've got a double bill! First up, our hosts discuss the Miles Teller/Anna Kendrick/Bryan Cranston movie Get A Job! Filmed in 2012, Get A Job spent 4 years in what could charitable be called post-production before finally releasing in 2016, so you know it's going to be good!

Next up, Table 19! In this mumblecore-adjacent ensemble comedy, Kendrick and friend of the show Craig Robinson attend a wedding where they are not wanted. Does it make for an entertaining premise? Tune in to find out!

In the triumphant return of Kickin' It With Kendrick, Pierre and Jeff are joined by Matthew Simpson of Awesome Friday Podcast to talk about end of the world movies, and more specifically, Rapture-Palooza! Around the end of the first decade of the 2000s -- give or take -- we got a lot of end of the world movies. An almost suspicious amount. An amount that's... maybe not so suspicious once you consider the swathe of other Hollywood trends around the same time. So how does Rapture-Palooza stack up against the likes of Left Behind and This is the End? Well, not to spoil anything, but it's worse than one of those, and the other one we didn't talk about!

You can find more of Matthew over on Twitter, or alongside his co-host Simon on the Awesome Friday podcast! Make sure to check out episodes of Awesome Friday over on Spotify, and follow them over on Twitter! Recently, Matthew's had the opportunity to interview filmmakers Katie Boland, Seth A Smith, and many more!

In today's episode of Kickin' It With Kendrick, we're joined by Rachel to talk about the entire genre of romantic comedies! What makes a romcom? When did romcoms start? But most importantly, doe Mr. Right, the 2015 film starring Kendrick and Sam Rockwell, fit into the genre, or subvert all of its tropes? Tune in today to find out!

For more of Rachel, you can check out her YouTube channel, or her Substack, where she regularly posts meditations on gender in popular culture. As a companion piece to this episode, check out her article in defence of romantic comedies!

Throughout the years, Aniston has been nominated for multiple Golden Globes, as well as multiple Razzies, but only one film has the distinction of getting her nominated for both! In today's episode, our hosts discuss Aniston's dramatic turn alongside Sam Worthington and Anna Kendrick in Cake, as well as a brief history of the Globes and Razzies!

In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff are joined by friends of the show Rachel and SlightAstro to talk about the film Drinking Buddies, starring Olivia Wilde, Ron Livingston, Jake Johnson, and of course, Anna Kendrick. But first: our hosts have prepared a selection of local breweries, vineyards and orchards, paired with some excellent drunk watches! If you've been wondering how to spend your next Friday night after a long week at work, allow us to plan your entire evening!

The alcohols and films featured on today's episode are: Open Merlot from Open Wineries - to be paired with the film Another Round Kilt Lifter from Four Peaks Brewing Company - to be paired with the film Seven Psychopaths Black Cherry from Okanagan Cider - to be paired with the film Deadpool English Pale Ale from Brockley Brewery - to be paired with the film Withnail & I

Rachel is a TikToker and YouTuber who specializes in Goop Gift Guide Reviews. You can find more of her on TikTok and YouTube. Make sure to check out her phenomenal video essay on the film Pixel Perfect, and be on the lookout for more content coming soon!

Astro is a co-founder of the Academy of Death Racers! A group devoted to watching all of the Oscar nominees in time for the awards, the AoDR will be hosting their own awards show for the second year in a row on March 26th (and you might recognize the voices of some of the hosts!). You can find the first awards show on YouTube! If you're interested in getting involved with the AoDR, consider joining the subreddit or Discord!

Special thanks this week to our good friend Cris, who made the cover art. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter, and Letterboxd to see more of her artwork, film opinions/reviews, or both!

Special thanks as well to Geoff Harvey, for the song "Sunny Morning Jazz", which is featured heavily in the first half of the episode. You can find more of Geoff over on Melodyloops.

This week, Pierre and Jeff are joined by friend of the show Dario Sokic to talk about that time in 2016 when a studio made a movie based on a Craigslist post and cast Zac Efron and Aubrey Plaza -- and of course Anna Kendrick!

In today's episode, we're joined by SlightAstronomer3, one of the mods of Reddit's Oscars Death Race community, to discuss awards, illnesses, and John Krasinski: three topics at least tangentially related to the Kendrick-starring, Krasinski-directed film The Hollars!

For more from Astro and the Oscars Death Racing community, you can check out the subreddit /r/oscarsdeathrace, or go to the Academy of Death Racers website! If you haven't seen it already, consider checking out last year's AODR awards, hosted by Pierre and Jeff, and produced by Astro!

In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff talk about a double bill of movies dealing with the oh-so-romantic topics of motherhood and cancer! While it may seem an unlikely pairing, What to Expect When You're Expecting and 50/50 are more similar than you might expect! In a special, two movie episode, our hosts break down both, and tell you what you can expect going into either movie!

In today's episode, our hosts are joined by Dakota and Rachel from Contra Zoom Pod for an epic crossover covering one of Anna Kendrick's high-profile horror comedies! On this episode, we cover the Ryan Reynolds/Anna Kendrick film The Voices; in a companion episode, we all discuss the Dane DeHaan/Aubrey Plaza vehicle Life After Beth!

If you like what you hear, you can find more of Rachel and Dakota over at Contra Zoom Pod on Spotify, Google Play, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts! Recently, they've been doing an A24 Retrospective series, which just covered Life After Beth (featuring your favourite movie critics) and Enemy. For more from Dakota and Contra Zoom, check out contrazoompod.com, and be sure to follow Contra Zoom Pod on Instagram and Twitter. You can find more of Rachel over on rachelkh.com. Rachel also writes for Exclaim and recently helped put together Best of TV 2021 and Best of Film 2021 lists!

On today's episode, our hosts are joined by Paulo from Ninjaboi Media to finally get to the bottom of what exactly Trolls: World Tour did to cinema. Tune in for a crash course on the ins and outs of the history and workings of the Box Office. And if you like what you hear, be sure to check out Paulo's show Box Office Watch on Spotify!

Also on today's episode, we discuss the Ben Affleck vehicle The Accountant. Directed by Gavin O'Connor, The Accountant is part action movie, part math movie, and notable for its portrayal of autism. Of course, the real question is: how does O'Connor utilize our main girl Anna Kendrick?

For more of Paulo, you can head over to Twitter, Instagram, or Letterboxd, or check out his other podcasts on Spotify, including a recent episode of The Oscars Deathrace Podcast featuring Pierre and Jeff! The Oscars Deathrace Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1H4k4ojRI8gDdE0JANfvAV Box Office Watch: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Ny5dDxQquInt5YKizlzdi Yet Another Anime Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4lg3YfrdsSaXNKfXVXrcof

Today's episode is brought to you in part by the Academy of Death Racers Festival! The inaugural AoDR Festival is going on right now until January 30, and features shorts that have screened at Cannes, SXSW, and Sundance, as well as an Oscar-shortlisted documentary short! Get your tickets now at aodr.net!

On today's episode, our hosts analyze the 2010 Oscars, at which Kendrick was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Up In the Air, ultimately losing to Mo'Nique. In fact, despite multiple nominations, Up In The Air came away without any wins. Did Jason Reitman's George Clooney vehicle deserve to be snubbed as hard as it was? And actually, how is Up In The Air?

You'll find the answers to these questions and more as Pierre and Jeff break down the world of cinema in 2010!

Today's episode is brought to you in part by the Academy of Death Racers Festival! The inaugural AoDR Festival is going on right now until January 30, and features shorts that have screened at Cannes, SXSW, and Sundance, as well as an Oscar-shortlisted documentary short! Get your tickets now at aodr.net!

So why don't people remember this movie? Well.... tune in to hear our hosts weigh in!

Today's episode is brought to you in part by the Academy of Death Racers Festival! The inaugural AoDR Festival starts on January 14, 2021, and features shorts that have screened at Cannes, SXSW, and Sundance, as well as an Oscar-shortlisted documentary short! Get your tickets now at aodr.net!

In today's episode, our hosts are joined by renowned Canadian film critics and hosts of Contra Zoom Pod, Dakota Arsenault and Rachel Ho! Tune in as this podcast's largest cast yet goes back and forth about the Anna Kendrick's (so far) only two Christmas movies: Happy Christmas and Noelle!

If you like what you hear, you can find more of Rachel and Dakota over at Contra Zoom Pod on Spotify, Google Play, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts! Recently, they've been doing an A24 Retrospective series, which just covered The Spectacular Now and Red Rocket, as well as a fun This or That episode! For more from Dakota and Contra Zoom, check out contrazoompod.com, and be sure to follow Contra Zoom Pod on Instagram and Twitter. You can find more of Rachel over on rachelkh.com. Rachel also writes for Exclaim and recently helped put together Best of TV 2021 and Best of Film 2021 lists!

Today's episode is brought to you in part by the Academy of Death Racers Festival! The inaugural AoDR Festival starts on January 14, 2021, and features shorts that have screened at Cannes, SXSW, and Sundance, as well as an Oscar-shortlisted documentary short! Get your tickets now at aodr.net!

In today's episode, our hosts are joined by animation student Mr. Pencilhead to talk about the medium of animation, the state of animated film, Dreamworks and Laika studios, and of course a movie starring Anna Kendrick herself: ParaNorman!

To see more of Pencilhead's stuff, go follow him on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/mr.pencilhead/

Today's episode is brought to you in part by Ninjaboi Media! Go check out their shows, including The Oscars Death Race Podcast, and Box Office Watch wherever you get your podcasts! The Oscars Death Race Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1H4k4ojRI8gDdE0JANfvAV?si=252384cf411e41f7 Box Office Watch: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Ny5dDxQquInt5YKizlzdi?si=633de71a2fb248f2

In today's episode, our hosts examine the studio's most biting social commentary: Trolls, and Trolls: World Tour! Tune in to hear Pierre and Jeff break down both movies on their animation, worldbuilding, impact on the medium of cinema, and of course how good Anna Kendrick was in each!

Today's episode is brought to you in part by Ninjaboi Media! Go check out their shows, including The Oscars Death Race Podcast, and Box Office Watch wherever you get your podcasts! The Oscars Death Race Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1H4k4ojRI8gDdE0JANfvAV?si=252384cf411e41f7 Box Office Watch: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Ny5dDxQquInt5YKizlzdi?si=633de71a2fb248f2

On today's episode, we're joined once again by Ben to talk about Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years! A renowned off-broadway play, The Last Five Years launched JRB into musical stardom! In the years since, he's received three Tonys, and The Last Five Years has been performed dozens of times across the world. In one of the best coincidences we could have imagined, Ben has actually performed in the musical, as well! Tune in to hear Ben break down the musical, before joining our hosts in a review of the movie adaptation!

Additionally, check out Ariana Grande's rendition of "Still Hurting" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsFFz2eIr9E

Check out more of Ben's work here (articles in Thai): www.facebook.com/theshowhopper.th Today's episode is brought to you in part by Ninjaboi Media! Go check out their shows, including The Oscars Death Race Podcast, and Box Office Watch wherever you get your podcasts! The Oscars Death Race Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1H4k4ojRI8gDdE0JANfvAV?si=252384cf411e41f7 Box Office Watch: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Ny5dDxQquInt5YKizlzdi?si=633de71a2fb248f2

In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff are joined by musical theatre expert Ben to discuss the life and legacy of Stephen Sondheim, and his effect on the world of musical theatre! Tune in for a crash course on Broadway's biggest behemoth, as well as a thorough primer on just why Into the Woods is such a huge deal! And as always: How does Anna Kendrick transform the part of Cinderella into something truly special?

Check out more of Ben's work here (articles in Thai): www.facebook.com/theshowhopper.th Today's episode is brought to you in part by Ninjaboi Media! Go check out their shows, including The Oscars Death Race Podcast, and Box Office Watch wherever you get your podcasts! The Oscars Death Race Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1H4k4ojRI8gDdE0JANfvAV?si=252384cf411e41f7 Box Office Watch: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Ny5dDxQquInt5YKizlzdi?si=633de71a2fb248f2

On today's episode, Pierre and Jeff tackle the lyrical behemoth that is To Pimp A Butterfly. Tune in for our hosts' track-by-track breakdown and analysis of Kendrick Lamar's magnum opus! Then, stick around for our track-by-track breakdown and analysis of Anna Kendrick's magnum opus: Pitch Perfect!

Today's episode is brought to you in part by Ninjaboi Media! Go check out their shows, including The Oscars Death Race Podcast, and Box Office Watch wherever you get your podcasts! The Oscars Death Race Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1H4k4ojRI8gDdE0JANfvAV?si=252384cf411e41f7 Box Office Watch: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Ny5dDxQquInt5YKizlzdi?si=633de71a2fb248f2

This week, our hosts take a deep dive into the world of Scott Pilgrim. Both Bryan Lee O'Malley's original graphic novels and the film from Edgar Wright. How does each one hold up? Is one better than the other? Tune in to find out as our hosts spend yet another hour Kickin' It With Kendrick!

This week, Pierre and Jeff talk about the first movie to star Anna Kendrick in a lead role: Elsewhere! Additionally, our hosts discuss our third Indie Spirit nominee on this show: End of Watch!

Despite coming after our episode on Twilight, both of the movies our hosts discuss today were filmed while the YA vampire saga was ongoing. So what was Anna doing when she wasn't in Squamish for those few years? Is she good in her first lead role? Tune in for answers to these questions and more!

This episode is partially brought to you by the folks over at Contra Zoom Pod! Go check out their podcast for great deep-dives into the world of film! http://shorturl.at/opzQV

This week, Pierre and Jeff are joined by Pennsylvania hometown hero and Twilight expert Adele to dive into the supernatural YA romance series that took the world by storm in the early 2000s: Twilight! Are the books good? Are the movies good? What is the Twilight renaissance? Just how big was the monster cast for the Pattinson/Stewart vehicle?

This episode is partially brought to you by the folks over at Contra Zoom Pod! Go check out their podcast for great deep-dives into the world of film! http://shorturl.at/opzQV

This episode also contains clips of the song "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri, and audio of scenes from the movie The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

In this week's episode, Pierre and Jeff are joined by indie film expert Alex Mowbry to discuss Kendrick's second nomination at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Rocket Science! But first, what are the Indie Spirit Awards?

This episode is partially brought to you by the folks over at Contra Zoom Pod! Go check out their podcast for great deep-dives into the world of film! http://shorturl.at/opzQV

Find more of Alex over on Twitter at twitter.com/mowbsal, letterboxd at letterboxd.com/almowbs, or Twitch at twitch.tv/almowbs! And learn more about the Academy of Death Racers festival at aodr.net!

To kick off the series, Jeff and Pierre do a deep dive into DAMN., Lamar's most recent full-length album

This episode is partially brought to you by the folks over at Contra Zoom Pod! Go check out their podcast for great deep-dives into the world of film! http://shorturl.at/opzQV

This show includes segments of songs from DAMN, by Kendrick Lamar, including "DNA." and "YAH."