Podcast Episode 414: Poker Face Premiere and Quick Checks: Tar, Elvis, Pressure Cooker and All Quiet on the Western Front

 

In this week's episode David, John and Kyle discuss the filming conditions of the Squid Game reality series (1:50), the Writers Guild Award nominations and what this means for the Oscar best picture race (8:45) and how The Academy is looking into Andrea Riseborough's possibly concerning social media Oscar campaign (15:00). We also review the series premiere of the Peacock mystery series Poker Face (22:10). Finally, we have mini-reviews of Tár (32:30), Elvis (36:05), All Quiet on the Western Front (40:45) and Pressure Cooker (45:00). 

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Dual Redundancy's March Madness Bracket - Strongest Best Picture Nominees - Results

March is over so it is time to end our March Madness bracket. After your weekly votes we finally have an answer to what year had the strongest batch of best picture nominees!

How were the seeds figured out? What were the final voting results? Do we agree with 1994 being the winner? Watch the live video reveal below or by listening to episode 240 of the podcast!

Dual Redundancy's March Madness Bracket - Strongest Best Picture Nominees - Final Round

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Inspired by a debate on the podcast we wanted to try and figure out which year had the strongest best picture nominees!

Every week we will have the best picture nominees of each year face up against each other until only one year remains! Some years have a stronger crop of nominees than others and it is time to finally decide which year The Academy had the “best” best picture contenders.

Voting will end on Tuesday, April 2nd and the winner we be revealed LIVE during our Twitch stream at 8 PM ET that night!

Speaking of voting THE FINAL ROUND HAS BEGUN! Please only one vote per person.

How were seeds figured out? Check out our initial blog post or the below video:

Dual Redundancy's March Madness Bracket - Strongest Best Picture Nominees - Round 4

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Inspired by a debate on the podcast we wanted to try and figure out which year had the strongest best picture nominees!

Every week we will have the best picture nominees of each year face up against each other until only one year remains! Some years have a stronger crop of nominees than others and it is time to finally decide which year The Academy had the “best” best picture contenders.

Voting for each round will close on Wednesday night and the next round of match-ups will begin on Thursdays. Keep an eye on the blog, our Twitter feed and each episode’s show notes for the voting link!

Speaking of voting ROUND FOUR HAS BEGUN! Please only one vote per person.

How were seeds figured out? Check out our initial blog post or the below video:

Dual Redundancy's March Madness Bracket - Strongest Best Picture Nominees - Round 3

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Inspired by a debate on the podcast we wanted to try and figure out which year had the strongest best picture nominees!

Every week we will have the best picture nominees of each year face up against each other until only one year remains! Some years have a stronger crop of nominees than others and it is time to finally decide which year The Academy had the “best” best picture contenders.

Voting for each round will close on Wednesday night and the next round of match-ups will begin on Thursdays. Keep an eye on the blog, our Twitter feed and each episode’s show notes for the voting link!

Speaking of voting ROUND THREE HAS BEGUN! Please only one vote per person.

How were seeds figured out? Check out our initial blog post or the below video:

Dual Redundancy's March Madness Bracket - Strongest Best Picture Nominees - Round 2

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Inspired by a debate on the podcast we wanted to try and figure out which year had the strongest best picture nominees!

Every week we will have the best picture nominees of each year face up against each other until only one year remains! Some years have a stronger crop of nominees than others and it is time to finally decide which year The Academy had the “best” best picture contenders.

Voting for each round will close on Wednesday night and the next round of match-ups will begin on Thursdays. Keep an eye on the blog, our Twitter feed and each episode’s show notes for the voting link!

Speaking of voting ROUND TWO HAS BEGUN! Please only one vote per person.

How were seeds figured out? Check out our initial blog post or the below video:

Dual Redundancy's March Madness Bracket - Strongest Best Picture Nominees - Round 1

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Inspired by a debate on the podcast we wanted to try and figure out which year had the strongest best picture nominees!

Every week we will have the best picture nominees of each year face up against each other until only one year remains! Some years have a stronger crop of nominees than others and it is time to finally decide which year The Academy had the “best” best picture contenders.



How were the seeds figured out you ask? Math! We looked up the average rating of each best picture nominee on the online movie social network service Letterboxd. These ratings were than averaged together to get one rating for each year. For instance, 1994 received a 3.98 because that was the average between Forrest Gump (4.1), Four Weddings and a Funeral (3.3), Pulp Fiction (4.4), Quiz Show (3.7) and The Shawshank Redemption (4.4). If there was any ties in these yearly averages each film’s domestic box office was averaged together for the year. Whatever year had the higher total average between the two took the higher seed. (Box office totals could not be just added together because after 2009 there was more than five best picture nominees).

Voting for each round will close on Wednesday night and the next round of match-ups will begin on Thursdays. Keep an eye on the blog, our Twitter feed and each episode’s show notes for the voting link!

Speaking of voting ROUND ONE HAS BEGUN! Please only one vote per person.

A Dual Redundancy Short Take: Who Will Win Best Picture?

Here is a snippet from episode 124 where Kyle and Dave try to predict the 88th Academy Awards. Here Dave, who may be overthinking the Oscar race, spills his best picture research on Kyle. Who do both think will win the best picture Oscar?

Click here to listen to the full podcast on iTunes and click here to watch the show on YouTube!

Dual Redundancy's 2nd Annual March Madness Bracket: Round 6

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Even though we do not discuss sports we still wanted to join the bracket fun and make one for ourselves.

This year Dual Redundancy wants to know what is the best movie? After some intense and very close match-ups we finally have our final two! What film will be named the best film of all time? 

Seeds were figured out by calculating how many Oscars were won by each film. The film with the most wins goes up against the film with the least amount of wins. If the number was the same we go in alphabetical order.

The winner will be announced on the next podcast episode of Dual Redundancy coming up this week!

Click here to vote in the final round! Only one vote per person.

Dual Redundancy's 2nd Annual March Madness Bracket: Round 5

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Even though we do not discuss sports we still wanted to join the bracket fun and make one for ourselves.

This year Dual Redundancy wants to know what is the best movie? After some intense and very close match-ups we finally have our final four! What film will make it to the final round?

Seeds were figured out by calculating how many Oscars were won by each film. The film with the most wins goes up against the film with the least amount of wins. If the number was the same we go in alphabetical order.

Each new round of voting and the results will be announced here on the Dual Redundancy Blog as well as Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to vote in round five! Only one vote per person.

Dual Redundancy's 2nd Annual March Madness Bracket: Round 4

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Even though we do not discuss sports we still wanted to join the bracket fun and make one for ourselves.

This year Dual Redundancy wants to know what is the best movie? After some intense and very close match-ups in the first three rounds we have finally made it to the Elite Eight!

Seeds were figured out by calculating how many Oscars were won by each film. The film with the most wins goes up against the film with the least amount of wins. If the number was the same we go in alphabetical order.

Each new round of voting and the results will be announced here on the Dual Redundancy Blog as well as Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to vote for round four! Only one vote per person.

Dual Redundancy's 2nd Annual March Madness Bracket: Round 3

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Even though we do not discuss sports we still wanted to join the bracket fun and make one for ourselves.

This year Dual Redundancy wants to know what is the best movie? After some intense and very close match-ups in round one and two we have finally made it to the Sweet Sixteen!

Seeds were figured out by calculating how many Oscars were won by each film. The film with the most wins goes up against the film with the least amount of wins. If the number was the same we go in alphabetical order.

Each new round of voting and the results will be announced here on the Dual Redundancy Blog as well as Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to vote in round three! Only one vote per person.

Dual Redundancy's 2nd Annual March Madness Bracket: Round 2

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Even though we do not discuss sports we still wanted to join the bracket fun and make one for ourselves.

This year Dual Redundancy wants to know what is the best movie? After some intense and very close match-ups in round one we are moving on to round two with 32 movies.

Seeds were figured out by calculating how many Oscars were won by each film. The film with the most wins goes up against the film with the least amount of wins. If the number was the same we go in alphabetical order.

Each new round of voting and the results will be announced here on the Dual Redundancy Blog as well as Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to vote in round two. Only one vote per person.

Dual Redundancy's 2nd Annual March Madness Bracket: Round 1

It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Even though we do not discuss sports we still wanted to join the bracket fun and make one for ourselves.

Last year we learned that Arrested Development was the best television show. This year Dual Redundancy wants to know what is the best movie? We have chosen 64 films and have them competing head to head against each other. They are separated by if they won the best picture Oscar and if they were the runner-up or snub that year. Choose what you think is the best between each match-up and hope they make it into the next round. The winner of each category (best picture winners and best picture redemption movies) will go head to head in the final round to determine the best picture of all time!

Seeds were figured out by calculating how many Oscars were won by each film. The film with the most wins goes up against the film with the least amount of wins. If the number was the same we go in alphabetical order.

Each new round of voting and the results will be announced here on the Dual Redundancy Blog as well as Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to vote in round one. Only one vote per person.

Podcast Episode 26: And The Next Oscar Goes To...

In their annual Oscar special, David and Mike give their predictions for the 85th Annual Academy Awards in all the major categories including acting, screenplay, director, and picture.

To listen to the episode use the player below or download/listen to the episode on iTunes!