Episode 173.5: 2022 Academy Award Nominations and Best of the Year (Part 2)

The Wages of Cinema

MAMBO! LISTO! GO! As Poe Dameron might say... *Somehow*, the Wages of Cinema ranking of the best of the year/Oscar nominations talk... has returned(!) Jack and Korey knew this would be one of the longer episodes, but certainly THIS long? Where's the eggplant emoji when you need it? But when you have such a wonderful crop of films, from all across the world and over so many genres, from Japanese contemplative Chekhov character drama to epic Spielberg-Kushner musical to Nicolas Cage making us (i.e. Korey) cry, to everything Bradley Cooper and Tom Waits did in Licorice Pizza, when looking at the best of the best of 2021 it was quite a year! So, strap in, make sure your speakers are loud (or if you're going to sleep, pretty soft cause sometimes we can get loud without any help from volume adjusting, woops), and settle in for a discussion of the rest (re: other 3) best picture nominees and Jack and Korey's top 10 films of the year ranking! here's timecodes if you want to skip: 1) DRIVE MY CAR (1:00) 2) PARALLEL MOTHERS (14:00) 3) THE SOUVENIR PART 2 (15:18) 4) SPENCER (19:54) 5) SHIVA BABY (31:21) 6) THE LAST DUEL (with a cameo from HOUSE OF GUCCI) (35:00) 7) RED ROCKET (44:40) 8) THE GREEN KNIGHT (53:13) 9) PIG (58:10) 10) THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (1:12:05) 11) LICORICE PIZZA (1:25:01) 12) WEST SIDE STORY 2021 (1:42:50) [e-mail]