The Next Best Picture Podcast
A podcast by NextBestPicture.com that reviews the latest film and television releases and discusses various topics within the world of the awards season race.
Episodes
August 7, 2025 • 12 mins
"Deaf President Now!" had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its telling of the 1988 student protest at Gallaudet University, when a hearing candidate was elected over other deaf candidates. Directors and producers Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim were kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with us about their experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Plea...
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August 7, 2025 • 15 mins
"My Mother's Wedding" is a comedy-drama film directed by Kristin Scott Thomas from a screenplay she co-wrote with John Micklethwait. It stars Scott Thomas alongside Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham, Freida Pinto, and Thibault de Montalembert. It tells the story of three sisters who return to their family home to attend the wedding of their twice-widowed mother. Scott Thomas was kind enough to spend a few minutes spe...
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August 6, 2025 • 23 mins
"Sketch" had its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it received positive reviews for its premise, visual effects, and performances from the cast. It tells the story of a widowed father (Tony Hale) of two who is struggling to help his children Jack (Kue Lawrence) and Amber (Bianca Belle) come to terms with the death of their mother; however, one day the sketch book in which Amber has been dr...
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August 5, 2025 • 21 mins
"Alien: Earth" is an upcoming science fiction horror television series created by Noah Hawley ("Fargo" & "Legion"), based on the "Alien" franchise. It serves as a prequel set two years before the events of the original 1979 film "Alien." Creator, Executive Producer, Writer (Episodes 1-8) & Director (Episodes 1 &5), Noah Hawley, Executive Producer David W. Zucker, and cast members Sydney Chandler ("Wendy"), Alex Lawther ("Hermit"), ...
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August 4, 2025 • 25 mins
"The Penguin" is one of the most Emmy-award nominated television shows of the year, receiving an incredible 24 Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Lead Actor, Actress, and Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, and Deirdre O'Connell, respectively and Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Showrunn...
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August 4, 2025 • 18 mins
"Final Destination Bloodlines" is the sixth installment in the "Final Destination" series and was released in theaters fourteen years after "Final Destination 5." It was met with the best reviews and box office the franchise has ever seen, with a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and $285.3 million at the worldwide box office. Directors Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein were kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with us about their experiences...
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For Episode 453, no members of Next Best Picture were available today to join me for this week's episode so I looked in my contacts and called the one very special person who I felt would be most suitable to guest and discuss the announcement of the Closing Night film for the New York Film Festival (NYFF), Bradley Cooper's "Is This Thing On?," and what we believe will be announced for the Main Slate and Spotlight sections later thi...
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August 2, 2025 • 82 mins
For this week's main podcast review, Josh Parham, Joselyn Safadie & Giovanni Lago join me to review the latest film from Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer, "The Naked Gun," starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand & Danny Huston. The fourth film in the "The Naked Gun" franchise, the outrageously silly comedy, produced by Seth MacFarlane, is a legacy sequel to "Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult" (1994)...
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August 1, 2025 • 21 mins
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For this week's second podcast review, Ema Sasic & Josh Parham join me to review and discuss Michael Shanks' "Together," starring Dave Franco, Alison Brie & Damon Herriman. The perfect date night horror film had its world premiere in the Midnight Section of ...
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July 31, 2025 • 25 mins
THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture
Our 2009 retrospective continues with Jason Reitman's Best Picture nominee "Up In The Air," starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Danny McBride, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton, J. K. Simmons, Melanie Lynskey, Zach Galifianakis & Sam Elliott. Co-wr...
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July 30, 2025 • 25 mins
"The Penguin" is one of the most nominated television shows of the year, receiving an astounding 24 Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and Outstanding Lead Actor, Actress, and Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, and Deirdre O'Connell, respectively. O'Connell was kind enough to spend some time before the nominations were announced tal...
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July 29, 2025 • 27 mins
"The Naked Gun" serves as a legacy sequel to "Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult" (1994) and is the fourth film in the "The Naked Gun" franchise. Starring Liam Neeson as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., the film has been brought to the screen by director, co-writer and Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer ("Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping") with a reverence for the kind of clever comedy style that pays homage to the previous films while carvin...
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July 28, 2025 • 15 mins
"Weapons" is the latest horror film from director and writer Zach Cregger, whose feature directorial debut, "Barbarian," was a huge success when it was released in 2022. His follow-up has been greatly anticipated since then, and Warner Bros. has done an incredible job marketing the film to get audiences super interested in what the horror filmmaker has up his sleeve for his latest. Working with an all-star cast that includes Josh B...
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For Episode 452, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, and I recap and break down this massive week of film festival announcements including the full lineup for the 2025 Venice Film Festival, a majority of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) lineup, the Opening and Centerpiece announcements for the New York Film Festival, and what this all means for the Telluride Film Festival. For this week's poll, for Venezia 82 (mainly because we a...
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July 26, 2025 • 90 mins
For this week's main podcast review, Katie Johnson, Josh Parham, Ema Sasic, Sara Clements & Joselyn Safadie join me to review the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), "The Fantastic Four: First Steps," starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn, Julia Garner, Ralph Ineson, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser & Sarah Niles. Directed by Matt Shakman, this is the second reboot of the "Fantasti...
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July 25, 2025 • 26 mins
"2000 Meters To Andriivka" had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received a strong, positive reception, with critics praising it as a worthy follow-up to Mstyslav Chernov's Academy Award-winning film, "20 Days In Mariupol." The film follows Chernov and journalist Alex Babenko as they follow a Ukrainian platoon on a mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka across 2000 meters of land...
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July 24, 2025 • 25 mins
"Oh, Hi!" had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its story about a situationship by filmmaker Sophie Brooks, involving a new couple (Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman) who go on a weekend road trip that takes an unexpected turn. Both Gordon & Lerman were kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to bel...
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"The Fantastic Four: First Steps" is the latest attempt to bring Marvel's first family, the Fantastic Four, to the big screen, following the 2005 and 2015 films. It is the 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn as the titular team, alongside Julia Garner, Sarah Niles, Mark Gatiss, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ralph Ineson. Garner, Ineso...
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July 22, 2025 • 39 mins
THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture
For this week's second podcast review, Dan Bayer, Giovanni Lago, Daniel Howat & Brendan Hodges, join me to review and discuss the latest film from Ari Aster, "Eddington," starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, A...
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July 21, 2025 • 25 mins
"Together" is a new supernatural body horror film written and directed by Michael Shanks, making his directorial debut. The film stars real-life married actors Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a couple who move to the countryside but find themselves encountering a mysterious force that horrifically causes changes in their bodies. Shanks was kind enough to speak with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can list...
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