#616-617: Top 10 Films of 2016

Adam

1. Tower

2. Sing Street

3. O.J.: Made In America

4. Everybody Wants Some!!

5. Moonlight

6. The Handmaiden

7. Krisha

8. Born to Be Blue

9. La La Land

10. Sully

Josh

1. Hail, Caesar!

2. The Fits

3. The Lobster

4. Cemetery of Splendour

5. La La Land 

6. The Neon Demon

7. Moonlight

8. Cameraperson

9. Toni Erdmann

10. Loving

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Scott Tobias

1. Manchester by the Sea

2. Toni Erdmann

3. Silence

4. The Handmaiden

5. Paterson

6. Right Now, Wrong Then

7. Moonlight

8. Jackie

9. Elle

10. Aquarius

Genevieve Koski

1. The Handmaiden

2. Moonlight

3. Moana

4. Manchester by the Sea

5. 13th

6. The Fits

7. Loving

8. American Honey

9. Cloverfield Lane

10. Popstar

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Guest #1 Films

Pt. 1

Rian Johnson
Christine

Josh Youngerman (Listener)
Toni Erdmann

Tasha Robinson 
La La Land

Sam Smith
Cameraperson / Dekalog (Poster)

Ben Haworth (Listener)
A Monster Calls

Peter Labuza
O.J. Made In America / Cameraperson

Katey Rich
Jackie

Trey Shults
Arrival

Alissa Wilkinson
Moonlight

Max O'Connell
Happy Hour

Tina Hassannia
Certain Women

Pt. 2

Jim Pallini (Listener)
Green Room

Marya E. Gates
Moonlight

Randy Grimshaw (Listener)
The Handmaiden

Melissa Tamminga
Certain Women

Matt Singer
O.J.: Made In America

Odie Henderson
Fences

Alison Willmore
Toni Erdmann

Billy Ray Brewton (Listener)
Sing Street

Steven Hyden
The Nice Guys

#614: Top 5 Musical Numbers

Desiree Garcia

Director of Film and Media Studies, Associate Professor - Arizona State

1. “Bouncin’ the Blues,” THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY

2. “On Broadway,” ALL THAT JAZZ

3. “Trouble,” THE MUSIC MAN

4. Opening overture, THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT

5. The stair dance, THE LITTLE COLONEL

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Michael Phillips

1. “Singin’ in the Rain,” SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

2. “I’ll Be Hard to Handle,” ROBERTA

3. “The Man That Got Away,” A STAR IS BORN

4. “Isn’t It Romantic," LOVE ME TONIGHT

5. Jim Henry’s Paradise, CABIN IN THE SKY

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Adam

1. “On Broadway,” ALL THAT JAZZ

2. “Pick Yourself Up,” SWING TIME

3. “I Got Rhythm,” AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

4. "America," WEST SIDE STORY

5. “When Love Goes Wrong, Nothing Goes Right,” GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES

#613: Top 5 Teen Girl Movies Directed by Women

ADAM

1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

2. The Diary of a Teenage Girl

3. Eve's Bayou

4. The Edge of Seventeen

5. Fat Girl

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JOSH

1. Winter's Bone

2. An Education

3. Clueless

4. Sweetie/Holy Smoke

5. The Virgin Suicides

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MARYA E. GATES

1. Fish Tank

2. The Virgin Suicides

3. Clueless

4. Pariah

5. Bend It Like Beckham

#612: Top 5 Movies That Console and Restore Hope

ADAM

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

2. The World of Apu

3. A Moment of Innocence

4. Mad Max: Fury Road

5. The Martian

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JOSH

1. Lincoln

2. Children of Men

3. The Apu Trilogy

4. Tangerine

5. In Jackson Heights

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MICHAEL PHILLIPS

1. The Band Wagon

2. The Shop Around the Corner

3. Poetry

4. Ratatouille

5. Once

#605: Top 5 Denzel Washington Performances

W. Kamau Bell

1. Malcolm X

2. Training Day

3. Glory

4. A Soldier's Story

5. The Hurricane

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Adam

Josh

1. He Got Game

2. Glory

3. Devil in a Blue Dress

4. Malcolm X

5. Flight

1. Malcolm X

2. Inside Man

3. Devil in a Blue Dress

4. He Got Game

5. Deja Vu

#600: Top 5 Movies Future Historians Will Remember

Chuck Klosterman

1. Star Wars

2. Titanic

3. A Hard Day's Night + Over The Edge

4. The Matrix

5, Citizen Kane

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Josh

1. Amateur police shooting video

2. Unfriended

3. 28 Weeks Later

4. Under the Skin

5. The Happening

Adam

1. Inception

2. Dazed and Confused

3. The Wizard of Oz

4. The Passion of Joan of Arc

5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

#597: Top 5 Women Comic Book Characters (Done Right)

Josh

1. Lois Lane (Margot Kidder), SUPERMAN

2. Marjane (voiced by Chiara Mastrioanni), PERSEPOLIS

3. Selina Kyle/Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer), BATMAN RETURNS

4. Enid (Thora Birch), GHOST WORLD

5. Knives Chau (Ellen Wong), SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD

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Angelica Jade Bastién

1. Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), SUICIDE SQUAD

2. Selina Kyle/Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer), BATMAN RETURNS

3. Diana/Wonder Woman (voiced by Keri Russell), WONDER WOMAN (2009)

4. Andrea Beaumont (voiced by Dana Delany), BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM

5. Faora-Ul (Antje Traue), MAN OF STEEL

#588: Top 5 Movie Rivalries

STEVEN HYDEN, AUTHOR OF "YOUR FAVORITE BAND IS KILLING ME"

1. Star Wars vs. Star Trek

2. Charlie Chaplin vs. Buster Keaton

3. Brokeback Mountain vs. Crash

4. Pauline Kael vs. Andrew Sarris

5. No Country for Old Men vs. There Will Be Blood