In today's episode, I am joined by Chris Etrata, the winner of the 2025 Oscar prediction contest on The Oscar Project. We talk about our reactions to the 97th Academy Awards, some movies from 2025 so far, and what we're looking forward to in the rest of 2025.
Books mentioned in this episode include:
- Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton
Films mentioned in this episode include:
- Wicked directed by Jon M. Chu
- Anora directed by Sean Baker
- Conclave directed by Edward Berger
- A Complete Unknown directed James Mangold
- The Brutalist directed by Brady Corbet
- Mickey 17 directed by Bong Joon Ho
- Parasite directed by Bong Joon Ho
- Captain America: Brave New World directed by Julius Onah
- Joker directed by Todd Phillips
- Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning directed by Christopher McQuarrie
- Jurassic World Rebirth directed by Gareth Edwards
- Jurassic World directed by Colin Trevorrow
- Barbie directed by Greta Gerwig
- Oppenheimer directed by Christopher Nolan
- Top Gun: Maverick directed by Joseph Kosinski
- A Minecraft Movie directed by Jared Hess
- Wicked: For Good directed by Jon M. Chu
- Avatar: Fire and Ash directed by James Cameron
- Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiard
- I'm Still Here directed by Walter Salles
- RRR directed by S. S. Rajamouli
- One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse directed by Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, and Rodney Rothman
- The Wild Robot directed by Chris Sanders
- Flow directed by Gints Zilbalodis
- Inside Out directed by Pete Docter
- Inside Out 2 directed by Kelsey Mann
- Predator: Badlands directed by Dan Trachtenberg
- Prey directed by Dan Trachtenberg
- Superman directed by James Gunn
- Guardians of the Galaxy directed by James Gunn
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 directed by James Gunn
- No Other Land directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor
- Porcelain War directed by Slava Leontyev and Brendan Bellomo
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham
Check out the full list of films mentioned on Letterboxd.
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