Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

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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• The Substance Behind the Scenes https://youtu.be/8H64HNvXrqU
• Guilty Feminist interview with Shiori Ito and Megumi Inman https://pod.fo/e/2a1532

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Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

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 episode in which we looked at his 2001 slice of LA Gothic Mulholland Drive.

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For this episode, we watched the 2001 David Lynch film Mulholland Drive, starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Robert Forster and Ann Miller. This film began life as a TV pilot and was eventually repurposed by Lynch as a one-off feature film. It was suggested by Patreon supporter Joel Aarons, made it on to our shortlist and came top of our Patreon poll, by a narrow margin.

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· Brand New Cherry Flavor https://youtu.be/wOzM3c33TVg

· Mel Gibson interview https://youtu.be/PdYjnIDfi9Q

· David Lynch’s sitcom https://youtu.be/YdfTQ29sca8

· Mulholland Drive explained https://youtu.be/VvgRLTP3U5Y

BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including…

- From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman

- UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI

- US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101

- UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108

- US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434

- Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4

To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group or find us on BlueSky.

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Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

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 Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh and Josh Hartnett, with acting Oscars for Murphy and Downey, contributing to its total of seven awards. We also discuss Barbenheimer, dream sequels and Sylvia Simms.

• No CGI is really just invisible CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo

BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including…

• From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman
• UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI
• US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101
• UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108
• US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434
• Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4

To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group.

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If you enjoy this podcast and you’d like to help us to continue to make it, you can now support us on Patreon for as little as £2.50 per month, but please be aware that future releases will continue to be sporadic.