Marisa and Matt are joined by Tom Moore to discuss some of the highlights from this year's New York Film Festival including Anora, Emilia Perez, Queer, Maria, and The Brutalist.

Staff writer Sean Cordy joins co-host Marisa Carpico to talk TIFF. In the episode, we discuss the films he saw and reviewed, the overall experience and how the festival shifted the Oscar conversation.

In the kick off to our season, PopBreak podcaster and writer Sam Niles joins Marisa to recap his second year at the Venice Film Festival. He gives a rundown of all the films he saw as well as an overview of what it's like to attend the Fest.

Matt and Marisa are joined by the winners of The Pop Break's annual Oscar pool, Kat Manos and Chris Diggins to chat surprises, highs, lows and Kimmel's hosting performance.

Matt and Marisa wrap up their annual category breakdowns with their weirdest grouping yet: Animated Feature, Directing and Picture. In the episode, they discuss the movie that had them recording down to the wire, Christopher Nolan's momentum and whether anything can beat Oppenheimer at this point.

Matt and Marisa start to wrap up their category breakdowns with some of the favorites each year, Best Lead and Supporting Acting. On the Actress side, they discuss the dead heat between Emma Stone in Poor Things and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon. For the Actors, they wonder if Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers might pull a win out from under Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with one of their perennial favorite episodes of the season, the Animated, Live Action and Documentary shorts.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with some of the harder films to watch this year, Documentary and International Feature. In the episode, they rave about seeing Perfect Days together at NYFF and Marisa tries to hide her bias in the Doc category.

Matt and Marisa return for another supersized episode with 3 technical categories: Cinematography, Sound Effects and Makeup and Hairstyling.

Matt and Marisa deliver another supersized and super rushed episode of their category breakdowns for this year's Oscar nominees. This time, they rave about the costumes and sets in Barbie and Poor Things, talk editing and wonder why Napoleon keeps popping up.

Matt and Marisa kick of this year's category breakdowns with a supersized episode. They cover both Screenplay categories, both Adapted and Original, Best Score and the category that haunts them every year, Best Original Song.

Matt and Marisa record live and in-person mere minutes after this year's SAG Awards to talk high, lows and Anne Hathaway crying during Barbra Streisand's speech.

Matt and Marisa give their initial reactions to this year's Oscar nominations, the surprises, the snubs and all the rest. In the episode, they lament the few nominees they still have to watch, celebrate the love for Maestro and note that there's still a way for an ex-Riverdale actor to win an Oscar this year.

Matt and Marisa finally kick off Awards Season with an in-depth analysis of the SAG Nominations for the film categories. In the episode, they defend Maestro, begin to analyze the cultural touchstone that was Barbenheimer and wonder what the hell happened with Ferrari.

Matt and Marisa are joined by winner of ThePopBreak.com's Oscar pool aka the site's Editor in Chief, Bill Bodkin, to break down the highs and lows of last night's Academy Awards.

Happy Oscar Sunday! We’re breaking down the 10 nominees for Best Picture.

A breakdown of the 2022 Best Director category.

Matt and Marisa return to talk about the boys. In Lead, they worry about the Brendan Fraser situation to the point that Marisa does a heel turn on Austin Butler. In Supporting, they surprise each other with their takes on the boys from The Banshees of Inisherin and wonder if anyone could possibly beat Ke Huy Quan.

Matt and Marisa return to talk about their favorite categories of every year: the actresses. In the Supporting category, they discuss the rapidly changing narrative for predicting who will win and list some of their favorite performances of the year in their alternates. In the Lead category, they break down the Andrea Riseborough controversy and pray for a Michelle Yeoh win.

Matt and Marisa tackle their last set of the non-major categories: Best Original and Adapted Screenplays. In the Adapted category, they relish the chance to praise Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, hype up Top Gun: Maverick once again and put their weight behind Sarah Polley's work with Women Talking. In the Original category, they use The Fabelmans to once again worship last year's West Side Story, Marisa argues Tár's epilogue ruins the whole movie and Matt suggests The Banshees of...

Our breakdowns of this year's categories continue with a double feature of some of our most unhinged categories: Score and Song. We complain (again) about All Quiet on the Western Front's many nominations, dissect the Diane Warren of it all and Marisa teases the dark evil that is her Spotify Wrapped.

Today's second episode focuses on a category we struggled to see before the ceremony: International Feature. Matt and Marisa once again complain about All Quiet on the Western Front, discuss the shocking twist of Close and Marisa goes to bat for The Quiet Girl.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with Documentary Feature. In the episode, they talk about being devastated by A House Made of Splinters, marvel at the footage in Navalny and offer up another movie that could have earned a nomination.

Matt and Marisa return to discuss some of the bigger technicals: cinematography and editing. They discuss their surprise over Bardo and ponder what Empire of Light is doing here.