The 25th Phoenix Film Festival has wrapped and Amanda has the highlights including a depressing drama, a wacky documentary and the tale of a photographer that forever changed culture!

Later in the episode, Zac and Amanda break down Daniel Minahan's ON SWIFT HORSES staring Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Will Poulter, Diego Calva and more. Now showing in theaters nationwide.

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Theme is: Best Picture Oscar winners! Another movie year has come and gone, capped by the illustrious Academy Awards. Are they an impenetrable record of film history? Maybe not. But the great ones win for a reason.

Amanda watches a script writer's favorite ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) and Zac watches yet another Tom Cruise film in RAIN MAN (1988)

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It's Oscars week and Zac & Amanda are here to answer your questions.

It's Bobby vs the Brutalist as Timothée Chalamet and Adrian Brody vie for Best Actor. Suddenly the Best Picture race is HOT between The Brutalist, Anora, or even Conclave??? We discuss if Kieran Culkin is committing category fraud and why Sing Sing isn't getting the recognition it deserves. All of that and more including who we think is taking home the biggest prizes.

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Theme is: 2024 movies we missed. Despite watching over 500 movies collectively last year, there's always a few that slip through our fingers. Let's remedy that!

Amanda watches Hamaguchi's Oscar win follow up EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (2024) and Zac watches time hopping Bonelo film THE BEAST (2024)

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MICKEY 17, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING, 28 YEARS LATER and more! Movies from Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Maggie Gyllanhaall, and more! How lucky are we!!

Zac and Amanda go through 30 movies they can't wait to see in 2025

Theme is: movies with less than 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, aka "underrated." Just because the people say it's bad doesn't mean it's actually bad. We swapped films that we'd ride for, even if it's really not that good of a film.

Amanda watches Denzel go bad in his most famous team-up with Tony Scott in MAN ON FIRE (2004) and Zac watches sapphic internet favorite JENNIFER'S BODY (2009) from Diablo Cody.

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Zac and Amanda are joined by their good friend Maya Patrose to cover their top 5 movies of the year, favorite scenes, film's MVP, shirtless Dev Patel, and excellent movies we saw in 2024! Lisan al-Gaib!

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Theme is: director's final films. Wether it's intentional or by fate, eventual an auteur director creates their final film, bookending their career. Sometimes they walk away from movie making, sometimes they never live to see what putting Kidman & Cruise through hell actually turned out looking like.

Amanda watches brother heist gone wrong from director Sidney Lumet BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (2007) and Zac watches sex cult, mind fuck from director Stanley Kubrick EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)

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