“Make a mark... and then fade away.” Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasting crew – Ian, Megs & Liam (B-Tech Kev had to see a man about an elephant) – as we trade our spy gear for trumpets, film reels, and copious amounts of debauchery for our 275th episode covering Babylon (2022).

We’re swapping Chimera viruses for jazz-fueled chaos and slow-motion gunfights for full-blown cinematic mayhem as we discuss:

• How Babylon might be the most Damien Chazelle movie that ever Damien Chazelle’d.
• Does this film capture the magic and madness of early Hollywood—or is it just chaotic noise?
• Is Manny Torres a true dreamer… or just a wide-eyed bystander to Hollywood’s self-destruction... or is he a corrupted soul that we overlook?
• Apparently there's a rule about taking Class-A drugs with company (well, in Act I anyways)
• How large is the demand for sweeping, three-hour epics about the birth of movies?
• Which Babylon character we’d most likely be—and who’s definitely channeling peak "trainwreck energy"
• Is this an underappreciated masterpiece—or an overindulgent fever dream of excess?
• Is Babylon a love letter to cinema or a cautionary tale wrapped in champagne and elephant dung?
• We’ve got questions about giant parties, sudden snake fights, drug-fueled breakdowns, and how much elephant content is too much.
• At what point is the film in on the joke it's making and at what point does that film become the joke?
• We're joined by BFF of the BFE: James DeGuzman who tells us why this film is so much more than the punchline film critics have mmade it out to be
• Whether Babylon is the Best Film Ever.

Another bonus episode as we bring you another Reel Roundtable discussion for your listening enjoyment. Ian, Liam, Megan, and KevDog and revisit the filmography of Pixar Animation Studios. Comments, banter, and an appreciation of crying as adults can be found as we discuss:

• The seal of quality that Pixar Animation used to stand for and why has that depreciated over time
• How much of a marvel was Toy Story and why can't they let it go
• Did the success of Pixar result in the death of traditional hand-drawn animation?
• Are Pixar films meant for adult audiences over child audiences?
• We present the audience and BFE Top 10 lists for the best Pixar films ever ever

If you have any ideas about future actors/actresses or topics for future roundtables, we’d love to hear from you. Hit us up at @BestFilmEverPod on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

FIRST 31:30: Spoiler-Free Review with our See It/Skip It Verdict AFTER 31:30: Full Spoiler Review

It’s another Sunday edition of See It or Skip It and this time Ian is taking on Sinners (2025), Ryan Coogler’s dark new thriller starring Michael B. Jordan. Was this a smart reinvention of classic genre tropes or just another stylish slow-burn? Does Coogler bring something deeper to a story about survival and temptation—or is it all atmosphere without enough bite? Is Michael B. Jordan believable as a pair of men wrestling with his their legacies and reinventing themselves? You can see the material it draws from. Does Sinners do something new with it though or is it just a retread of places we've already been? Does Sinners lean too much into moody tension, or does it actually deliver emotional payoff? Is Sinners a future genre classic—or just an ambitious but uneven swing? Finally, does the movie stick the landing or does it just kind of suck?

Ian tackles all these questions and more in this week's See It or Skip It review of Sinners—and then tells you whether you should SEE IT or SKIP IT.