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Oscar Poker Podcast

Extras from Hollywood-Elsewhere.com, including Oscar Poker with Jeff Wells and Sasha Stone. heplus.substack.com

tv & film film history

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98:35

Laundry Room Ramble

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2023/04/30

Jeff and Sasha spend more time than usual due to Jeff’s need to do his laundry. The first part is slightly nosier than the second part. Topics covered: Louise Malle’s “Damage” and its sexuality, the new “Dead Ringers” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” toward the end. And of course, why “Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret” bombed. PROFANITY warning, F-bombs, etc. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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63:54

Talking Obsession (Damage) and Fatal Attraction

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2023/04/20

Jeff and Sasha dig into three filmed dramas with strong female leads — one excellent and two that are fairly deplorable. The goodie is “Full Time,” a currently-streaming French drama about a divorced mother of two struggling to stay afloat. Baddie #1 is “Obsession” (Netflix), a multi-part, woke-minded adaptation of Josephine Hart’s “Damage” but mainly a remake of Louis Malle’s same-titled 1992 film. Baddie #2 is “Fatal Attraction” (Paramount +), a limited series remake of the 1987 Adrian Lyne

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71:11

How to Talk About Nothing - Plus Upcoming Movies for...

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2023/04/10

Jeff and Sasha talked just to talk. Despite having nothing burning in their minds they wound up chatting for nearly an hour about…well, interesting stuff. Really. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heplus.substack.com/subscribe

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56:04

Oscars Post Game

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2023/03/14

Consumed by exhaustion and depression over the deranged and grotesque Oscar triumph of “Everything Everywhere All Once,” Jeff and Sasha contemplate the end of the Hollywood world they’ve known for decades…a world they lived on and off and worshipped like evangelicals since they were teenagers. And now it’s wokey-woke time, and the Monsters Are Feasting on Maple Street. In Memoriam segment: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus

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64:07

Talking the Awards Race Plus 1968

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2023/03/04

Jeff and Sasha talk about whether Everything, Everywhere All At Once and Bonnie and Clyde can be compared, along with the state of Hollywood and the awards race, and various issues in culture. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heplus.substack.com/subscribe

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61:45

Post DGA/BAFTA Best Picture Struggle Session

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2023/02/20

Jeff and Sasha assess the state of the world (and perhaps even the universe) in the wake of the glorious BAFTA Awards, which celebrated “All Quiet on the Western Front” and all but blanked “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Sasha basically ran the table and Jeff listened, but it was all to the good. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heplus.substack.com/subscribe

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51:49

Deliverance and Banshees of Inisherin

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2023/02/16

As if into a swimming pool, Jeff and Sasha slip into three topics of immediate interest — the death of Racquel Welch, reflections upon “Deliverance” and “The Banshees of Inisherin”, and a letter of complaint sent to the N.Y. Times about alleged “dangerous inaccuracies” in its reporting about trans issues. Our understanding is that the NY Times is totally in the woke progressive camp on pretty much all fronts, and that includes trans issues. What these woke bullies seem to saying to the Times is

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57:17

Armie Hammer and Pamela Anderson's Redemption

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2023/02/05

Hours after the Armie Hammer Air Mail story broker, Jeff and Sasha jumped right into it. They considered all the metaphors and woke ramifications. They also contemplated the Pamela Anderson doc (Netflix), which moved Sasha to tears, as well as Anderson herself (and, in Jeff's view, her appalling taste in husbands). Also some more Oscar stuff. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heplus.substack.com/subscribe

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64:28

Riseborough's Insurgent Oscar Campaign Controversy...

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2023/01/28

This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heplus.substack.com/subscribe

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55:12

Talking Top Gun and Best Picture

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2023/01/23

Two days ago (1.21) Sasha Stone and I discussed Tuesday morning's (1.24) announcement of the '23 Oscar nominations, and the obvious fact that Top Gun: Maverick, which will certainly be among the chosen few, is the only prospective nominee that feels truly commanding. Authoritatively, I mean."Despite the familiarity and the formulaic strategy, TG:M is the only finalist that feels home-runnish...not to mention the achievement of having joined forces with Avatar: The Way of Avatar to save and even

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83:02

Running Down the Oscar Categories

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2023/01/16

On Sunday afternoon Jeff (fresh from his Invaders From Mars screening at the Bedford Playhouse) and Sasha settled into another Phase One handicapping conversation. In and out, etc. And then Sasha broke through with another vein of thought and Jeff said, “Wait, wait…that’s good….this is better than before.” And it all flowed from there. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heplus.substack.com/subscribe

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43:04

Is "Everything, Everywhere All At Once" Finished as...

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2023/01/02

Rolling through West Virginia, Sasha Stone called Jeffrey Wells on Friday morning (12.30.22). The topics of discussion were (1) the possible end of Everything Everywhere All At Once, at least as far as it being a leading Best Picture contender; (2) Scott Feinberg having switched his allegiance, Best Picture prediction-wise, to Top Gun: Maverick; and (3) the sad saga of Damian Chazelle’s Babylon and why no one at Paramount stepped in and suggested certain strategetic measures that night have

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55:08

Jeff's 30 Favorite Movies

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2022/12/21

Sasha was driving across Colorado as we spoke so the podcast naturally happened over the phone. Jeff kicked things off with his list of the finest 30 films of 2022. It took us a bit less than an hour to discuss 20 of them. We danced as fast as we could, but certain digressions and detours were necessary to follow. His list is here. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heplus.substack.com/subscribe

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70:52

Oscar Poker Returns

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2022/12/09

Jeffrey Wells & Sasha Stone return for an all-new series of Oscar Poker chit-chats...candid, eloquent, super-insightful analytical Sasha trading quips, insights and confesslons with crabby, anguished, blurty-voiced Jeff about film, culture, film festivals, award speculation, streaming vs. theatrical, wokesters vs. East Berliners and all kinds of stuff in between. Episode #1 is a freebie, but then Jeff & Sasha will retreat behind a paywall. Five-minute excerpts of subsequent chats will be teased

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