Awesome Movie Year

The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1991 features Josh’s personal pick, Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs . Written and directed by Wes Craven and starring Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer and Ving Rhames, The People Under the Stairs was partially inspired by a true-crime incident from the 1970s. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Vincent Canby in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/02/movies/review-film-mad-and-bloodsucking-landlords.html ), Henry Sheehan in the Chicago Reader ( https://chicagoreader.com/film-tv/die-yuppie-scum/ ), and Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemoviepod.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1991 episode, with our documentary pick, Apocalypse Now behind-the-scenes chronicle Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse .

The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1991 features the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, the Coen brothers’ Barton Fink . Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner and John Mahoney, Barton Fink also won awards at Cannes for Best Director and Best Actor. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/barton-fink-1991 ), Vincent Canby in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/21/movies/review-film-barton-fink-a-dark-comedy-from-joel-and-ethan-coen.html ), and Rita Kempley in The Washington Post ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/bartonfinkrkempley_a0a172.htm ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemoviepod.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1991 episode, with Josh’s personal pick, Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs .

The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1991 features the year’s biggest flop, Michael Lehmann’s Hudson Hawk . Directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Bruce Willis, Andie MacDowell, Danny Aiello, Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard, Hudson Hawk is based on a character created by Willis and songwriter Robert Kraft. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Janet Maslin in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/24/movies/review-film-bruce-willis-as-a-hip-cat-burglar.html ), Variety ( https://variety.com/1990/film/reviews/hudson-hawk-1200428876/ ), and Hal Hinson in The Washington Post ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/hudsonhawkrhinson_a0a682.htm ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemoviepod.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1991 episode, with the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, the Coen brothers’ Barton Fink .

The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1991 features our pick for a notable debut feature, John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood . Written and directed by John Singleton and starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long and Angela Bassett, Boyz n the Hood made Singleton the youngest-ever Best Director Oscar nominee. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/boyz-n-the-hood-1991 ), Janet Maslin in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/12/movies/review-film-a-chance-to-confound-fate.html ), and Desson Thomson in The Washington Post ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/boyznthehoodrhowe_a0b309.htm ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemoviepod.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1991 episode, with the year’s biggest flop, Michael Lehmann’s Hudson Hawk .

The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1991 features the box-office champion, James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day . Directed and co-written by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick and Joe Morton, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the second film in the long-running Terminator sci-fi action franchise. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/terminator-2-judgment-day-1991 ), Janet Maslin in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/03/movies/review-film-in-new-terminator-the-forces-of-good-seek-peace-violently.html ), and Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly ( https://ew.com/movies/1991/07/12/terminator-2-judgment-day/ ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemoviepod.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1991 episode, with our pick for a notable debut feature, John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood .

This bonus episode for our season on the awesome movie year of 1985 features Savage Steve Holland’s Better Off Dead . Written and directed by Savage Steve Holland and starring John Cusack, Diane Franklin, Curtis Armstrong, Amanda Wyss and Aaron Dozier, Better Off Dead is the first of two movies that Holland and Cusack made together in the 1980s. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Janet Maslin in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/11/movies/film-better-off-dead.html), Paul Attanasio in The Washington Post ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1985/10/17/better-off-dead/f8af2b50-e203-4dbb-8bc9-3f27a54b8b9b/?utm_term=.74f647aaacce) and Bill Cosford in the Miami Herald . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemoviepod.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for future episodes.

In this epilogue to our season on the awesome movie year of 1946, we talk about alternate movies we considered including in all of our different categories this season, and read suggestions from some listeners about their favorite 1946 movies. Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemoviepod.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in next time for the premiere of our season on the awesome movie year of 1991, featuring the box office champion, James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day .

The finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our audience choice poll winner, Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep . Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Martha Vickers, The Big Sleep defeated two other film noir classics in our 1946 audience choice poll. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/24/archives/the-screen-the-big-sleep-warner-film-in-which-bogart-and-bacall-are.html ), James Agee in Time magazine ( https://time.com/archive/6866713/cinema-the-new-pictures-aug-26-1946/ ), and William Brogdon in Variety ( https://variety.com/1945/film/reviews/the-big-sleep-1200414694/ ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemoviepod.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, our season epilogue.

The thirteenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our cult classic pick, horror movie The Beast With Five Fingers . Directed by Robert Florey and starring Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen and J. Carrol Naish, The Beast With Five Fingers is based on the short story by William Fryer Harvey. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1946/12/26/archives/the-screen-in-review-stairway-to-heaven-a-british-production-at.html), Variety (https://variety.com/1945/film/reviews/the-beast-with-five-fingers-1117788929/), and William R. Weaver in the Motion Picture Herald . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring our audience choice poll winner, noir classic The Big Sleep .

The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our producer David Rosen’s pick, musical comedy Swing Parade of 1946 . Directed by Phil Karlson and starring Gale Storm, Phil Regan, Edward Brophy, Mary Treen and the Three Stooges, Swing Parade of 1946 marks one of the Three Stooges’ relatively rare feature-film appearances. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Thalia Bell in Motion Picture Herald , Showmen’s Trade Review , and Wanda Hale in the New York Daily News . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Instagram at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring our cult classic pick, horror movie The Beast With Five Fingers .

The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives . Directed by William Wyler and starring Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy and Teresa Wright, The Best Years of Our Lives won seven competitive Oscars and two honorary Oscars. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times ( https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/years-re.html ), James Agee in The Nation , and Abel Green in Variety ( https://variety.com/1946/film/reviews/best-years-of-our-lives-1200414825/ ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring our producer David Rosen’s pick, musical comedy Swing Parade of 1946 .

The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features the Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion winner, Jean Renoir’s The Southerner . Directed and co-written by Jean Renoir and starring Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi and Charles Kemper, The Southerner is the fourth of six movies that Renoir made during his time in Hollywood. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1945/08/27/archives/the-screen-love-letters-drama-in-which-jennifer-jones-stars-comes.html ), Wolcott Gibbs in The New Yorker , and Nathan Kahn in Variety ( https://variety.com/1944/film/reviews/the-southerner-1200414432/ ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives .

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features Jason’s personal pick, Robert Siodmak’s The Killers . Directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien and Sam Levene, The Killers is based on the 1927 short story by Ernest Hemingway. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/29/archives/the-screen.html ), James Agee in The Nation , and Variety ( https://variety.com/1945/film/reviews/the-killers-2-1200414672/ ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring the Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion winner, Jean Renoir’s The Southerner .

The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our animation pick, Disney’s Make Mine Music . Directed by Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador and Robert Cormack, Make Mine Music is the third of six anthology films that Disney released during a break from producing full-length features. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/22/archives/the-screen-in-review-make-mine-music-animated-cartoon-by-walt.html ), Edwin Schallert in The Los Angeles Times ( https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-edwin-schallerts/59718454/ ), and Abel Green in Variety . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring Jason’s personal pick, Robert Siodmak’s The Killers .

The seventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our foreign film pick, Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast . Written and directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais, Josette Day and Marcel André, Beauty and the Beast is the first feature-film adaptation of the classic French fairy tale. Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1947/12/24/archives/the-screen-in-review.html ), Time ( https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,804455,00.html ), and Variety . Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring our animation pick, Disney’s Make Mine Music .

The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features Josh’s personal pick, Ernst Lubitsch’s Cluny Brown . Directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker and Richard Haydn, Cluny Brown was the last film Lubitsch completed before his death. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from James Agee in The Nation , A.H. Weiler in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1946/06/03/archives/the-screen-clany-brown-new-picture-at-the-rivoli-a-whimsical-film.html ), and Variety ( https://variety.com/1945/film/reviews/cluny-brown-1117789980/ ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring our foreign film pick, Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast .

The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our documentary pick, John Huston’s Let There Be Light . Directed by John Huston and featuring patients from Mason General Hospital, Let There Be Light was commissioned by the U.S. Army but barred from release until 1981. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from James Agee in The Nation , Vincent Canby in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/16/movies/let-there-be-light-john-huston-vs-the-army.html ), and Owen Gleiberman in The Boston Phoenix . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring Josh’s personal pick, Ernst Lubitsch’s Cluny Brown .

The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features one of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winners, David Lean’s Brief Encounter . Directed and co-written by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey and Cyril Raymond, Brief Encounter was one of 11 films to tie for the Grand Prix at the first-ever Cannes Film Festival. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/26/archives/the-screen-in-review.html ), Variety , and C.A. Lejeune in The Observer ( https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/16/brief-encounter-romance-archive-review ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring our documentary pick, John Huston’s Let There Be Light .

The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features the year’s biggest flop, Buster Keaton comedy Boom in the Moon . Directed and co-written by Jaime Salvador and starring Buster Keaton, Ángel Garasa and Virginia Serret, Mexican production Boom in the Moon marked Keaton’s final leading role in a film. Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring the one of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winners, David Lean’s Brief Encounter .

The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our pick for a notable debut feature, Ingmar Bergman’s Crisis . Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Inga Landgré, Stig Olin, Marianne Löfgren and Dagny Lind, Crisis is adapted from a Danish radio play by Leck Fischer. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode ( https://www.ingmarbergman.se/en/production/crisis ) come from Filmson in Aftonbladet , Barbro Alving in Dagens Nyheter , and Georg Svensson in Bonniers Litterära Magasin . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, featuring the year’s biggest flop, Buster Keaton comedy Boom in the Moon .