November 13, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 37: Conclave
This week on Classic Movies Live! our hosts discuss the election… of a new Pope! Based on the 2016 novel…
Tag: Oscars
October 16, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 33: Joker: Folie à Deux
Way back in our first season, we covered the original Todd Phillips DC villain origin story, Joker. In 2024, Lady…
September 18, 2024
Director Showdown – Round 1, Match 5 – Todd Field vs. Luca Guadagnino
You’re listening to episode five of Director Showdown! In this series, we pit 64 of the biggest directors to debut…
July 10, 2024
Director Showdown – Round 1, Match 3 – Steve McQueen vs. Alejandro González Iñárritu
Welcome back to the third episode of Director Showdown! In this series, we pit 64 of the biggest directors to…
June 26, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 20: Inside Out 2
This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about a new Pixar movie for the first time since Onward!…
May 22, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 17: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts take a look at a soft-reboot of a hard-reboot of an older…
May 15, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 16: The Phantom Menace
This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts discuss another film re-releasing in celebration of an important anniversary! Twenty-five years…
May 8, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 15: Spider-Man
100 years ago, Harry and Jack Cohn, along with Joe Brandt, founded Columbia Pictures. 20 years ago, Columbia Pictures would…
March 27, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 9: Robot Dreams
This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about the movie Jeff famously called “the best movie nominated for…
March 13, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 7: The 96th Academy Awards
The culmination of our Best Picture episodes! Having now talked about everything nominated for Best Picture at the 2024 Academy…
March 6, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 6: Anatomy of a Fall
It’s the week before the biggest night in Hollywood, and our hosts are talking about the final Best Picture nominee:…
February 28, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 5: American Fiction
In this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss Cord Jefferson’s universally-acclaimed directorial debut American Fiction. Frustrated…
February 21, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 4: Past Lives
This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about this year’s Oscars’ Canadian connection! From Korean-Candian director Celine Song,…
February 14, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 3: The Zone of Interest
Three episodes into our 2024 Best Picture marathon, and we’re at the first non-English feature! Directed by Jonathan Glazer and…
February 7, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 2: Maestro
Continuing our Best Picture marathon, our hosts are back to talk about Bradley Cooper’s sophomore directing effort: Maestro! Based on…
January 31, 2024
Classic Movies Live – Season 5, Episode 1: The Holdovers
Classic Movies Live! returns for a glorious fifth season, and just like every season, Pierre and Jeff have some excellent…
December 13, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 46: Godzilla Minus One
On this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff talk about Godzilla! Set in the aftermath of World…
November 15, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 42: Director Showdown Pilot
Welcome to Director Showdown! In this new series, we pit 64 of the biggest directors to debut since 1998 against…
November 8, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 41: Mad Max: Fury Road
On Classic Movies Live!, it’s customary for our hosts to, occasionally, talk about a true, certified classic. On today’s episode,…
November 1, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 40: Five Nights at Freddy’s
After almost a decade, the YouTube sensation from the one and only Scott Cawthon finally comes to the big screen!…
September 13, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 34: Jurassic Park
It’s another week of Spielberg here on Classic Movies Live! This week, we talk about one of the movies from…
September 6, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 33: Jaws
Despite their vast, ineffable knowledge of cinematic history, Pierre and Jeff do indeed have a few blindspots, so for the…
July 26, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 27: Oppenheimer
If you’ve been paying attention to movies in 2023, you already know there’s not a single event more important this…
May 24, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 22: Into the Spider-Verse
On this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts take on one of the best movies ever made about…
April 5, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 15: Do Do-Over: The Hidden Fortress/Star Wars
Do/Do-Over examines the similarities and differences between a film and its remake, or a film it heavily inspired. This time,…
March 15, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 12: The 95th Academy Awards!
With all the Best Picture nominees behind us, it’s time to talk about the big event: the Oscars! In today’s…
March 8, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 11: Women Tárking
This week on Classic Movies Live! It’s the last episode going through each of the Best Picture nominees, and boy…
March 1, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 10: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quatumania
On this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live! our hosts take a quick break from Oscar movies to talk about…
February 22, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 9: All Quiet On The Western Front
On this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live! our hosts ponder war. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing? Well,…
February 15, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 8: Triangle Of Sadness
It’s another Best Picture nominee on this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live! In this episode, Pierre and Jeff discuss…
February 8, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 7: The Fabelmans
It’s another Spielberg episode! On this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss the Steven Spielberg sort-of-biopic…
January 25, 2023
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 5: A Man Called Otto
In the thrilling fifth episode of the fourth season of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff take on not a…
December 28, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 1: Avatar, The Way of Water
Back in 2019, co-hosts Pierre Frigon, p.g.a and Jeff Bulmer, p.g.a. were recording episodes of Classic Movies Live! while waiting…
November 23, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 56: The Banshees of Inisherin
This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about Martin McDonagh’s latest film, The Banshees of Inisherin! Starring The…
October 26, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 52: Avatar
Since October 26th, 2022, it’s been a dream of our hosts to talk about every single movie in James Cameron’s…
October 12, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 50: Funny Girl
The Wheel of Movies has spoken! This week: Funny Girl! Based on the Tony-nominated musical of the same name, Funny…
September 24, 2022
CML Classics – Episode 39: Uncut Gems
For the second week in a row, our hosts talk about Adam Sandler! This classic episode of Classic Movies Live!…
August 27, 2022
CML Classics – Episode 35: No Country For Old Men
On this week’s classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts take a quick break from war to discuss a…
August 20, 2022
CML Classics – Episode 34: Apocalypse Now!
This week, we flash back to a very special episode of Classic Movies Live!, in which our hosts discussed one…
April 13, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 29: The Lost City
After a very long, one-week break, our hosts are back with yet another episode of Heatwave Radio’s Classic Movies Live!…
March 16, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 27: West Side Story
After today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, you’ll be ready to watch the Oscars knowing all our hosts’ opinions on…
March 9, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 26: Drive My Car
In today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts tackle the penultimate and longest Best Picture nominee of the year!…
March 2, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 25: King Richard
On yet another episode in our series on this year’s Best Picture contenders, Pierre and Jeff talk about Will Smith…
February 16, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 24: Nightmare Alley
On this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts discuss Guillermo del Toro for the first time ever (on…
February 9, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 23: CODA
The nominations for the 94th Academy Awards are finally out, and our hosts are back to discuss another of the…
January 21, 2022
Kickin’ It With Kendrick, Episode 13: The 82nd Academy Awards/Up In The Air
We’re back with another episode of Kickin’ It With Kendrick, the only podcast on Spotify dedicated to the career of…
January 19, 2022
Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 21: tick, tick… BOOM!
In 2021, Pierre and Jeff had a few laughs at Lin-Manuel Miranda’s expense when talking about the Golden Globes. In…
January 7, 2022
Losing It Over Leo, Episode 18: Don’t Look Up
In the eighteenth episode of Classic Movies Live!’s most popular spinoff, Pierre and Jeff talk about what Leo has been up to since Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the legacy of Adam McKay, and of course, climate change.
December 25, 2021
CML Classics – Episode 20: Ford v Ferrari
Merry Christmas! On this classic episode, Pierre and Jeff begin their fabled series of episodes talking about the “Three Great…
December 18, 2021
CML Classics – Episode 19: Parasite
Finally, the episode you’ve all been waiting for: Nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Parasite is easily the…
December 11, 2021
CML Classics – Episode 18: Jojo Rabbit
Another classic from the vaults! On today’s classic episode, our hosts talk about Taika Waititi’s first appearance at the Oscars!…
December 4, 2021
CML Classics – Episode 17: Knives Out
On today’s classic episode, our hosts started a series looking at some of 2019’s Oscar nominees.
With Awards Season in full swing, Pierre and Jeff are taking a few episodes to talk about some of 2019’s Oscars hopefuls! First up: Knives Out!
From esteemed director Rian Johnson (Star Wars Episode VIII), Knives Out is an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery starring Daniel Craig as a southern detective… or is it? Johnson’s latest movie subverts expectations, but does it lose something in the process? Tune in to Classic Movies Live to find out!
November 27, 2021
CML Classics – Episode 16: The Oscars 2020
On today’s classic episode, Pierre and Jeff discuss the nominations for the 2020 Oscars. Tune in again in a few weeks to hear our reactions to the winners (from two years ago!)
September 4, 2021
CML Classics – Episode 4: The Oscars 2019
To date, we’ve covered the Oscars three times on this show: once per season. Check out our first Oscars episode here!
April 28, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 34: Steven Soderbergh Presents The 93rd Academy Awards!
You’ve heard their thoughts on the Best Picture nominees for 2020, now listen to Jeff and Pierre give their rundown of the first major contender for Best Picture for 2021: Steven Soderbergh’s astounding, narrative-driven Oscars Ceremony!
Instead of an intro for this, we opted to simply recreate our favourite moment from the Ceremony to start off the episode. Are you ready?
April 21, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Original Screenplay
New twists on old stories In this series based on the Oscars Deathrace series of articles I wrote for The…
April 21, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 33: Sound of Metal
In this year’s final episode before the Oscars, our hosts discuss the last Best Picture nominee: Sound of Metal! When…
April 19, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Director
Click here for a paragraph long analysis of the first minute of Promising Young Woman!
April 16, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role
Chadwick Boseman stuns in his final film role.
April 14, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Original Song
Best Original Song should always go to a song that’s important to the movie
April 14, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 32: Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman is a bold movie that handles the topic of sexual assault in a way thoroughly unlike any other movie that’s come before. Several years after her college best friend Nina was assaulted, Cassie Thomas (Carey Mulligan), now a med-school dropout, spends her nights finding and punishing sexual predators. When she finally discovers Nina’s abuser, she sets in motion a plot to avenge her friend, while bringing down everyone else around her.
This movie is hard not to spoil, so be warned that this is a full-spoilers podcast! Is Promising Young Woman 2020’s Best Picture? Tune in and find out on this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
April 12, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Getting the right guy for the role In this series based on the Oscars Deathrace series of articles I wrote…
April 9, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role
This year gave us some great movies about different approaches to and effects of pregnancy. Unsurprisingly, the very same movies featured some of the best female performances of the year.
April 7, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Original Score
This year had some truly mesmerising film scores. It’s actually pretty incredible which ones got ignored at the Oscars
April 7, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 31: Judas and the Black Messiah
Nominated for six awards, Judas is one of the latest releases up for Oscars. Despite that, Judas will be going into the Oscars having won Best Supporting Actor for Kaluuya at nearly every other awards show so far! Can Kaluuya expect to walk away with an Oscar this year? What about surprise entrant Lakeith Stanfield?
Find out on today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
April 5, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Supporting Actress might be the most exciting category in the Oscars race this year. Here’s my pick for who should win, and who could have been nominated!
April 1, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 30: The Father
On our first Best Picture episode, Pierre and Jeff talk about The Father, an adaptation of Florian Zeller’s play of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins. Nominated for six awards, which ones can it win? Could Zeller’s debut take Best Picture?
March 31, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Documentary, Short Subject
In a category filled with topical docs, one stands out.
March 29, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay
Some books make good movies. Others don’t. Still others make incredible movies in the right hands, but only one person could have made them.
March 26, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best International Feature
This year’s international features in contention for Oscars were some of the strongest in recent memory. But which one will win?
(It’s Denmark)
March 24, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Live Action Short & Best Animated Short
There are some top-class shorts competing for awards at this year’s Oscars. Did you see them?
March 24, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 29: Malcolm & Marie
From Sam Levinson, director of the television show Euphoria comes the first film produced entirely during the 2020 pandemic. But is Malcolm & Marie just a quarantine film, or something actually worthwhile? Find out on today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
March 22, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards: Best Documentary Feature
The first Golden Bin awarded this year honours some of this year’s best documentaries!
March 20, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 28: The Artist
In 2011, The Artist made history as the first silent movie to win Best Picture since Wings at the very first-ever Oscars, as well as the first time a French actor would win the coveted Best Actor in a Leading Role award. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist is a feature-length celebration of Old Hollywood through the eyes of silent film star George Valentin! As “talkies” become increasingly popular, Valentin learns that his days in Hollywood are numbered. But with the silent film era now decades behind us, were The Artist’s days numbered from the start?
Tune in to this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live! to find out!
March 17, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 27: The 93rd Academy Awards Nominations!
On this very special episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff go through all the nominations for the 2021 Academy Awards!
What was nominated? What shouldn’t have been nominated? What should win? Maybe most importantly, which of these nominated movies will go down in history as timeless classics? The answers to all these questions and more on today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
Today’s episode also features 3 songs from the movie Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga, as well as a segment of the song “Wuhan Flu” from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Please beward of spoilers for the Romanian documentary film Collectiv.
March 16, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2021: The 93rd Academy Award Nominations!
Against all odds, the 2021 Oscars nominations are the most exciting in years
March 16, 2021
The Golden Bin Awards!
In the lead up to the Academy Awards, I regularly take part in an informal event known as the Oscars…
March 10, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 26: How Green Was My Valley
The earliest movies our hosts have covered on this show are from 1941, and today they tackle that year’s Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley!
March 5, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: The Academy Awards!
This article was originally published in The Phoenix News as “Oscars Deathrace 2020: The Academy pulls off their best show…
March 4, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: Best Picture
1917 was an incredibly strong contender going into the 92nd Oscars
March 2, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: Best Director
I’m not supposed to do ties, but I really couldn’t decide
March 1, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: Best Actress in a Leading Role
Scarlett Johansson pulled off the awesome feat of being nominated for both Lead and Supporting Actress in 2020
February 27, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Florence Pugh was in a lot of movies in 2019. She needs to be in more.
February 26, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: Best Actor in a Leading Role
Remember that year that the Academy gave an Oscar to someone playing the Joker for a second time?
February 25, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: Best Original Score
Marriage Story is some of the finest work by Randy Newman. Could it take home the Oscar in 2020? (Spoiler alert: no)
February 24, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
In 2020, Tom Hanks put on a hell of a show…. but so did Priit Võigemast and Willem Dafoe
February 24, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 24: Slumdog Millionaire
This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about Boyle’s Mumbai-set game show drama. How good is it? Is it an accurate portrayal of India, or even Indian cinema?
Come to think of it, why don’t we talk about Indian cinema more? The answers to all these questions and more on this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
February 23, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: Best Animated Feature Film
It’s rare for a Christmas movie to get nominated for an Oscar. Even rarer for it to be the best pick in its category.
February 22, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: Best International Feature Film
2019 was one of the strongest years for international cinema ever. It’s a shame only 5 could make it to the Oscars.
February 21, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2020: The 92nd Academy Awards Nominations
An article written for 2020’s Academy Awards Nominations
February 17, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 23: Crash
In 2005, critics all over the world predicted that Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain would win the 78th Academy Award for Best Picture. Imagine their shock when Crash won instead!
February 14, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2019: Best Actor in a Leading Role
These were the best actors of 2018.
February 13, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2019: Best Actress in a Leading Role
One of my favourite movies I saw in 2018 was “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”. Read my thoughts here!
February 13, 2021
Losing It Over Leo, Episode 17: Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
Since earning his Oscar with The Revenant, Leo has only been in one other movie that’s released. That movie is none other than his second collaboration with Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood!
February 12, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2019: Best Original Screenplay
These were the movies I laughed the hardest at in 2018
February 11, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2019: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
I don’t talk about Roma and Annihilation nearly enough. But I did write an article about both of them in 2019!
February 10, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2019: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Supporting Actor was the category I was most passionate about in 2019. Read my thoughts here!
February 9, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2019: Best Original Song
Who should have won Best Original Song at the Oscars in 2019? Find out what this Phoenix News reviewer thought right here!
February 8, 2021
Oscars Deathrace 2019: Best Director
The first in a series of Oscars articles I wrote for The Phoenix News. Who did I think should have won the directing Oscar in 2019?
February 3, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 20: Green Book
This week, our hosts return to the distant past of 2018 to rewatch that year’s Best Picture winner: Green Book!
January 27, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 19: The King’s Speech
On this episode, Pierre and Jeff travel back to 2010, the year that a movie about Mark Zuckerberg faced off against an LGBTQ psychological horror movie to be Best Picture at the Academy Awards! But which film won that year? None other than The King’s Speech!
January 20, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 18: Minari
Now that we’re firmly in 2021, and with less than 5 months to go until the Oscars, this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live! begins our yearly Oscars coverage!
First up, our hosts discuss a likely contender for several categories at this year’s Academy Awards, including Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Picture: Minari!
January 16, 2021
Losing It Over Leo, Episode 16: The Revenant
Hot off the heels of Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu re-entered Awards Cinema in 2015 with The Revenant, a half-true story about trapper Hugh Glass. A larger-than-life personality even in reality, Glass is given an extra layer of hyperbole by Leo, here giving perhaps his most animated physical performance ever.
January 6, 2021
Classic Movies Live, Episode 16: Year in Review 2020
For the very first episode of 2021, hosts Pierre and Jeff talk about the state of movies and award shows during a global pandemic! Then, our hosts list their respective Top 5 movies of 2020!