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There Will Be Pod celebrates our 100th episode joined by OG [almost] cohost Bob Phelan (@theoriolereport) for a super bracket composed of 16 favorite movies of the quarter century and 16 favorite episodes of the podcast - Who Will Win, movie or episode? Allix & Sammy also share their 100 favorite movies of the century - on Letterboxd see Allix, Sammy and with the Listeners, the TWBP Consensus 100 Best 21st Century Movies. Full list of TWBP episodes can be seen here. Also check out this google sheet for every Listeners 25 favorites and more! Outre is from the bracket winner.

With October on deck, we celebrate the movies of September 2026 with Zach Cregger's Resident Evil and a draft of the best videogame movies with gaming expert Michael Beverage (@twitter). Reviews also for The Weight, Primetime, Forgotten Island, The Mandalorian & Grogu. NO SPOILERS in this episode! Also discuss listeners' favorite movies of the 21st century, based on top 25s shared -- see here for all listeners' lists and the top selected movies + on ⁠⁠Letterboxd⁠⁠ , TWBP Listeners' 100 Favorite Movies of the 21st Century. Also on this episode: Blindspot-Swap™ covers Brawl in Cell Block 99 ('17) and In The Dark ('00) and Classics Corner hits on Cowards Bend The Knee ('03), In The Mood for Love ('00), Brokerback Mountain ('05), Battle Royale ('00). For next episode #100 we are hosting a bracket of 16 of the best movies of the 21st century vs. 16 of the best episodes of There Will Be Pod. Stay tuned for the full bracket! Outro is Proto Culture, by Del the Funky Homosapien with Khaos Unique, from 2000 album Both Sides of the Brain.

The bracket to determine the best movie of 1976 - joined by ⁠Zach⁠ and ⁠Brendan⁠ of ⁠The Movie Ladder , along with listener callouts naming their favorite. See the bracket featuring the 21 movies competing, see ⁠here⁠. Our rankings of 1976 movies: Allix, Sammy, Brendan, Zach Mild SPOILERS for Carrie, Network, All The President's Men Originally published to GREAT ACCLAIM on Aug 25 before spotify cruelly deleted it

We dodge dinos and reel in the good and the bad of recent 2026 movies, reviewing The End of Oak Street [SPOILERS], Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Rose of Nevada, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Coyote vs Acme, Mutiny, Motor City, Normal, Avatar Aang, The Rivals of Amziah King, Carolina Caroline, I Love Boosters, Kontinental '25, The Moment, I Want Your Sex, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, Stop! That! Train! and Finding Emily, plus a second pass at Blue Heron and The Furious. Blindspot Swaps: The Grey (2011), The American Astronaut (2001) CLASSICS CORNER (01:09): Being There (1979), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) SPOILERS only for The End of Oak Street Outro is Safety Instructions, from the Stop! That! Train! OST

With Nolan tackling one of the world's greatest adventures in The Odyssey, we enlist two guests, Mike Zimm a Homer scholar and our own Diogenes in Prof. Shai (@⁠⁠slyjester⁠⁠). We also DRAFT favorite sword & sandal movies plus share listener rankings of Nolan's 13 movies. 55 minutes in, we review other July 2026 movies: BLUE Heron, The INVITE, Minions & MONSTERS, TUNER, Mother MARY, Over Your DEAD Body, Girls Like GIRLS. Blindspot Swap reviews Menashe (2017) and They Shoot Horses Don't They (1969) + Classics Corner. SPOILERS only for The Odyssey (and briefly for Life of Pi!) Outre is "Odyssey" from the soundtrack by Ludwig Göransson

The World Cup of Movies gets decided, as the movies representing the 16 final countries in the real soccer tourney compete for world cup movie glory. Lee Jutton (@leiladaisyj), film critic and archivist, joins us to decide the winner! See the bracket here. 42 minutes in, we turn to 2026 movies, reviewing DISCLOSURE DAY, Toy Story 5, BACKROOMS, Voicemails for Isabelle, THE FURIOUS, Over Your Dead Body, THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, and Power Ballad. Plus we catchup on last month's Blindspot Swaps - Sing Street and Tangerine - and go deep into Hugh Jackman's facial routine. SPOILERS ONLY for Disclosure Day (42:00-60:00) See here our 2019 episode with Lee on movies about soccer and hockey! OUTRE is We Dont Talk About Bruno from 2021's Encanto OST

We rip through some May movies - Mortal Kombat 2, Swapped, The Sheep Detectives, Is God Is, Hokum, Obsession - and [17:41] kickoff Stage 1 of the World Cup Movie Tournament, debating and deciding the 48 movies, each representing the countries in the real World Cup. Next episode is Stage 2, with 16 movies advancing into a BRACKET to win the 2026 World Cup Movie Tournament! See here for a list of the 48 movies selected, and the 12 group winners, in the World Cup tourney. Blindspot Swaps [01:02:50] reviews The Tale of The Princess Kaguya and The Last Temptation of Christ NO SPOILERS except for the Christ movie!! Cohost Sam recently joined The Movie Ladder Podcast episode on Match Point and This Century in Cinema episode on Oppenheimer OUTRE is Matador (Red Flags) by Jayo (2025) from the Obsession OST

With cohost Allix own wedding approaching, ⁠Laura Royden⁠ joins for THE DRAMA plus 30 minutes in we draft the best wedding movies. SPOILERS only for The Drama from 10:45 Outro is Elephant Love Medley from Moulin Rouge OST (2001) by Kidman, McGregor & Jaime Allen - EXCERPT used per right of cultural commentary, no rights violation!!

After the rousing success of our Apu Trilogy episode, our trilogist Prof. Chester (@slyjester) is back to discuss the romance, desire and anxieties of the two Oslo Trilogies by Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo August 31, The Worst Person in the World) and Dag Johan Haugerud (Sex, Dreams, Love). Plus Classics Corner! Outre: "Oslo in the Summertime" by of Montreal (2005) - NO LICENSE ISSUE AS ONLY A BRIEF EXCERPT

Project Hail Mary and The Bride! lead a March roundup, along with Hoppers, Heel, By Design, Undertone, Radu Jude's Dracula, Yes, Zach Cregger's Mars and Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. Plus, Aaron Brooks (@incubrooks) of ⁠⁠⁠Why We Love Horror⁠⁠⁠⁠ returns (53:00) to share the movies that made him who he is in our latest MovieBio. Also, Blindspot Swap™ reviews Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Four Lions, plus new swaps for next episode, as well as a Classics Corner. Outre: Sandra Huller cover of Harry Styles' "Sign of the Times" (2026) - NO LICENSE ISSUE AS ONLY A BRIEF EXCERPT

2026 has some of the best Dumpuary movies in years but before we get to Bone Temple, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die and Nirvanna: The Band The Show The Movie, we take a last look at 2025, interviewing the director (Daniel Robbins), producer (Daniel Goldschmidt) and star (Zack Weiner) of the political comedy CITIZEN WEINER + handing out our 2025 movie awards. Spoilers only for Citizen Weiner. Check out Citizen Weiner on Tubi and Amazon Our inaugural Beast Supporting Actor awards for 2025 went to Googoo the meerkat from Left-Handed Girl, and the Canadian Toller dogs from The Sparrow in the Chimney and Good Boy. Outro is The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden, 1982, EXCERPT only, used for cultural commentary so no licensing concern, thank you for your attention to this matter!

The bracket to determine the best movie of 2025 is here - after releasing the bracket in separate episodes, here you can tackle the ENTIRE (3 hour!) bracket! Joined for each bracket section by guests including Zach Brooks, Laura Royden, Navi, Adam Cohen and Grace Leeder, as well as many clips ("I Dont Have A Reason!") from listeners naming their favorite of the year. SPOILERS only near the end on the final 4 movies. The 32 movie Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Outro is from the soundtrack of the winner of the bracket, the best movie of 2025 according to TWBP!

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- and we have finally arrived at the finale, from the Elite 8 to the best movie of the year. Grace Leeder (goforgrace), movie critic and podcaster extraordinaire, joins us to finalize the bracket and debate the 8 finalists One Battle After Another, It Ends, Misericordia, Sentimental Value, If I Had Leg's I'd Kick You, Left-Handed Girl, No Other Choice, It Was Just an Accident. **SPOILERS Warning** The 2025 Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.⁠ Sam's ranking of 104 movies of 2025. Previous winners of TWBP annual best movie can be seen here and here for the movie animal of the year. Outro is from the soundtrack of the 2025 TWBP Best Movie of the Year

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week! On the FOURTH (and last!) bracket corner we are joined Down Under by Adam Cohen, to decide which movies will advance from No Other Choice, Ne Zha 2, KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners, 28 Years Later, Blue Moon, The Testament of Ann Lee, It Was Just An Accident, Bugonia. NEXT episode: the Elite 8 decides the overall winner! No spoilers. The 2025 Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Outro is - Rocky Road to Dublin, Jack O'Connell, Sinners OST - EXCERPT only used per right of cultural commentary, no rights violation!!

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week! On the THIRD bracket corner we are joined by Navi to decide which movies will advance from Marty Supreme, Magazine Dreams, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Kill the Jockey, Twinless, Wake Up Dead Man, Resurrection, Left-Handed Girl, Sorry Baby, Bring Them Down. No spoilers. The 2025 Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Outro is Think About Your Troubles, by Delaney Quinn from the OST of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You - EXCERPT only used per rights of cultural commentary, no rights violation!!