Episode 324: Oscars and Top 5 Never Seen Before Movies

About this episode

Robert and Ira discuss the Oscars and share their top 5 'never-seen movies' with guest film professor Eric Swelstad.

This week, Robert dives into the glamour, politics, and questionable taste of the Oscars, while Ira admits he’d accept an award just for staying awake through the whole thing. Join Robert and Ira with special guest film professor Eric Swelstad as they discuss THE OSCARS and share their top 5 ‘never-seen movies.’ Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you want to know everything about the Oscars, and we do mean everything, from Conan O’Brien dressed as the Weapons witch as he runs into the top movies, and the usual winners and losers and political rants, and the snubs and songs and speeches, and the ratings and relevance and rants, then this podcast is for you!

People in this episode

Hosts: Robert, Ira

Guest: Eric Swelstad

Topics covered

• Oscars
• film
• politics
• movie reviews

Keywords

• awards
• snubs
• political rants
• ratings
• relevance

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Books & works: Oscars

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