The Best Pick movie podcast

The Best Pick movie podcast

The podcast in which we watch, assess and discuss every Academy Award Best Picture winner in no particular order. Hosted by film fans John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episodes

August 27, 2025 82 mins

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Episode 321: In the Mood for Love

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Episode 320: Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek’s kinoapparatom)

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June 25, 2025 95 mins

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Episode 319: Vertigo

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May 28, 2025 65 mins

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Episode 318: Tokyo Story

Released 28 May 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1953 Japanese classic Tokyo Story, directed by Yasujirō Ozu from a s...

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April 30, 2025 44 mins

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 317. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Released 30 April 2025

Today we watched two contrasting episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We kicked off with an episode from the fifth season, the celebrat...

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March 3, 2025 19 mins

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Episode 316: Oscars 2025

Released 3 March 2025

For this episode, we quickly recapped the 97th Academy Awards which were broadcast in the UK in the ...

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February 12, 2025 106 mins

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 315: Jeanne Dielman

Released 12 February 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxell...

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January 23, 2025 36 mins

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Episode 314: Oscar nominations 2025

Released 23 January 2025.

For this episode, we quickly reviewed the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards which were announced by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott.

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January 17, 2025 82 mins

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Episode 231: Mulholland Drive (REDUX)

First released 19 October 2022. Rereleased 17 January 2025 in tribute to David Lynch.

We lost David Lynch this week at the age of 78. In tribute to this giant of American cinema, we are rerunning this episod...

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December 18, 2024 100 mins

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Episode 96: Oppenheimer

Released 18 December 2024

For this episode, we watched the 2023 Best Picture winner Oppenheimer written and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. The cast includes C...

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Twenty years, 16 postcodes, one city. In her debut storytelling show, Jessica Regan (BBC, Channel 4, Guilty Feminist) shares lessons lived and learned from a life in no particular order. Each show is drawn from true tales of love and landlords, of mice and men and more, told with help from the audience who will play their part in her odyssey as she moves North, South, East and West, finding out which is best. This is a journey thro...

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Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Jessica Regan

Episode 312. Star Trek The Next Generation: Chain of Command

Released 1 May 2024

Today we watched the two-part story “Chain of Command”, the tenth and eleventh episodes of The Next Generation’s sixth ...

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Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Garrett Millerick

Episode 311. Star Trek (TOS): This Side of Paradise

Released 24 April 2024

“This Side of Paradise” is the 24th episode of the first season of Star Trek, first shown on 2 March 1967. It was written...

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Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Joy Wilkinson

Episode 310. Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever

Released 17 April 2024

Today we watched “The City on the Edge of Forever”, the 28th episo...

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Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Dan Starkey

Episode 309. Star Trek: The Devil in the Dark

Released 10 April 2024

“The Devil in the Dark” is the 25th episode of the original Star Trek, from its first season. It was written by producer Gene L Coon ...

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April 3, 2024 32 mins

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Andy Stanton

Episode 308. Star Trek The Next Generation: Tapestry

Released 3 April 2024

“Tapestry” is the 15th e...

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Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Natalie Bochenski

Episode 307. Star Trek (TOS): The Enemy Within

Released 27 March 2024

“The Enemy Within” is the fifth episode of the first season of Star Trek, f...

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March 12, 2024 28 mins

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The Oscars 2024

Released 12 March 2024

Following an unsuccessful attempt to record an episode immediately following the transmission of the 96th Academy Awards on ITV, we reconvened a couple of days la...

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