Robert Duvall – This Had Oscar Buzz

We keep losing movie legends, but this week we wanted to memorialize the great Robert Duvall. In 2010, the actor entered the race with Get Low, a tale (based on regional legend) of a town outcast who decides to throw his own funeral. With Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, and Lucas Black filling out the ensemble, the film is a forgiveness and guilt fable that has its humble charms, but ultimately was unable to net the career honors for Duvall that would come a few years later with (eek) The Judge.

This episode, we talk about Duvall’s Oscar history and his place in some of the most important films of the 1970s. We also discuss Spacek’s post-2000s run of brilliant supporting turns, hostile Today Show appearances, and Sony Classics many 2010 Oscar nominees.

Topics also include Murray Six Timers, video games, and the 2010 Best Actor race.

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You asked for it and it’s finally here! To close the year, we are doing another Listeners’ Choice episode and the landslide victor is 2018′s Widows. The follow-up to Steve McQueen’s Best Picture winning 12 Years a Slave, Widows places Viola Davis at the head of a group of Chicago women caught in the middle of political corruption when their husbands all go down in a heist gone wrong. Highly received by early critics (including your hosts), the film disappointed at the box office and stumbled throughout the precursor season. Now and forever, Justice For Widows!

This episode, we go into the film’s mixed receptions by audiences expecting something more in line with traditional heist fare and 2018′s disconnect between the films that emerged most victorious and the film’s left on the outside. We also discuss the film’s incisive look at Chicago, Brian Tyree Henry’s incredible 2018, and how Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox left this film underserved by its studio.

Topics also include Robert Duvall yelling “I’m old!”, the Bird Box phenomenon, and what other contenders came close in your Listeners’ Choice votes.

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