Best Pick

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 5: American Beauty (1999) Released 28 March 2018. For this episode, we watched American Beauty, written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes, both making their feature film debuts and both winning Academy Awards. Music was by Thomas Newman (nominated) and cinematography was by Conrad Hall (won). The cast includes Kevin Spacey (winning Best Actor), Annette Bening (nominated), Thora Birch, Alison Janney, Peter Gallagher, Mena Suvari, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper. In total, the film won five awards from eight nominations, the best haul of any film that year. Next time we will be discussing Ben-Hur. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 4: From Here to Eternity (1953) Released 14 March 2018. For this episode, we watched From Here to Eternity, written by Daniel Taradash from the novel by James Jones, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine. As well as Best Picture, From Here to Eternity won a further seven Academy Awards out of thirteen nominations, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Sinatra) and Best Supporting Actress (Reed). Next time we will be discussing American Beauty. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney,

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 3.5: Oscar Winners 2018 Released 7 March 2018. Join our three hosts, somewhat blearily at 5:00am GMT as they quickly sum up the 90th Academy Awards. Next time we will be discussing From Here to Eternity. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 3: Gladiator (2000) Released 21 February 2018 For this episode, we watched Gladiator, written by David Franzoni, John Logan and William Nicholson, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen and Oliver Reed. As well as Best Picture, Russell Crowe won for Best Actor and it also won for Visual Effects, Costume Design and Sound Mixing. How Star Wars was Saved in the Edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMyMxMYDNk Next time we will be discussing From Here to Eternity. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also sign up to

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 2: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Released 7 February 2018 For our second episode, we watched All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Lewis Milestone and produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. ("Uncle Carl Laemmle has a very large faemmle.") As well as Best Picture (then known as “Outstanding Production”), Milestone won for Best Director and it was also nominated for Best Writing and Best Cinematography. Next time we will be discussing Gladiator. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes UK or iTunes USA. To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also sign up to our mailing list to ge

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 1.5: Oscar Nominations 2018 released 26 January 2018. Although the podcast is only on its first movie, we couldn’t wait to get back in front of the mics and talk to you about the Oscar nominations for this year. We don’t have a movie to watch but we have all sorts of confident predictions to make. FiveThirtyEight’s Oscar coverage https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/2018-academy-awards Razzie Awards http://www.razzies.com/index.html Next time we will be discussing All Quiet on the Western Front. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes UK or iTunes USA. To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also sign up to our mailing list to

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 1: The Sting (1973) Released 24 January 2018 **SPOILER WARNING** This podcast gives away major plot-points of The Sting, and we also discuss – among others – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wrestler, Fight Club, Ocean’s Eleven and The Sixth Sense.  For our first episode, we watched The Sting, written by David S Ward, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Robert Shaw with music arranged and composed by Marvin Hamlisch. As well as Best Picture, The Sting won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Music. It was also nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Sound and Redford was nominated for Best Actor (Jack Lemmon won for Save the Tiger). Next time we will be discussing All Quiet on the Western Front. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amaz

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 0: It Begins… Released 10 January 2018 Our quest begins in the time-honoured way by assembling the team and assessing all of our special skills. Next time we will be discussing The Sting. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes(UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n