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PODCAST

The Best Pick movie podcast

Film fans John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

The podcast in which we watch, assess and discuss every Academy Award Best Picture winner in no particular order. Hosted by film fans John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

01:50:06

BP324 Singin' in the Rain

The Best Pick movie podcast ·

2025/11/26

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 324: Singin' in the Rain Released 26 November 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1952 MGM musical Singin' in the Rain, directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly who also starred alongside Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Jean Hagen. Arthur Freed produced and wrote most of the songs alongside composer Nacio Herb Brown. Slightly overshadowed at the time by the enormous commercial and critical success of An American in Paris the

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01:50:58

BP323 2001 A Space Odyssey

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2025/10/29

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 323: 2001 A Space Odyssey Released 29 October 2025 For this episode, we watched Stanley Kubrick's iconic science fiction masterpiece 2001 A Space Odyssey, written by Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke and starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester and the voice of Douglas Rain. It was nominated for four Oscars and won one for its special effects, the only Academy Award which Kubrick ever won. It ranks sixth on the 2022 Sight &

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BP018 Redux - Annie Hall

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2025/10/12

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 18: Annie Hall (1977) recorded live at the London Podcast Festival. Released 26 September 2018. Rereleased 12 October 2025. For this episode – which we are re-running in honour of Diane Keaton – we watched Annie Hall, written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman and directed by Allen, who also starred alongside Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane and Paul Simon. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Actress for Diane

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01:33:14

BP322 Beau Travail

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2025/09/24

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 322: Beau Travail Released 24 September 2025 For this episode, we watched Claire Denis’s 1999 story of three men in the French Foreign Legion, drawn in part from Herman Melville’s unfinished novella Billy Budd. The film stars Denis Lavant, Michel Subor and Grégoire Colin and Denis also wrote the script along with Jean-Pol Fargeau. It has an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and it’s at number seven in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll. We

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01:22:11

BP321 In the Mood for Love

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2025/08/27

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 321: In the Mood for Love Released 27 August 2025 For this episode, we watched the Wong Kar-wai’s modern classic In the Mood for Love, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. It sits at a hugely impressive fifth place on the 2022 Sight and Sound list and has a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It has also run at the Prince Charles Cinema in London for a record-breaking 75 consecutive

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01:20:38

BP320 Man with a Movie Camera

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2025/07/30

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 320: Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek’s kinoapparatom) Released 30 July 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1929 experimental Soviet documentary Man with a Movie Camera, written and directed by Dziga Vertov. Our version had a soundtrack composed by Michael Nyman. For its age, it’s a relatively recent entry to the Sight and Sound list, making its first entry in 1992, making it to the top ten in 2012 and settling in ninth place in

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01:35:05

BP319 Vertigo

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2025/06/25

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 319: Vertigo Released 25 June 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, based on the French novel The Living and the Dead by Boileau and Narcejac and with a screenplay credited to Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor. It’s a favourite of countless subsequent movie makers and topped the 2012 Sight and Sound poll before being pushed down into second place by Jeanne Dielman

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01:05:57

BP318 Tokyo Story

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2025/05/28

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 318: Tokyo Story Released 28 May 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1953 Japanese classic Tokyo Story, directed by Yasujirō Ozu from a screenplay by Ozu and his frequent collaborator Kogo Noda. This film came in at number 4 on the most recent Sight & Sound critics poll and has often featured in the poll’s upper reaches as well as making strong showings in many other greatest-films-of-all-time lists. It has a 100% rating on Rotten

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44:44

BP317 Star Trek Deep Space Nine

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2025/04/30

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 317. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Released 30 April 2025 Today we watched two contrasting episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We kicked off with an episode from the fifth season, the celebratory romp Trials and Tribble-ations in which the 24th century crew revisits the action of the classic original series episode The Trouble with Tribbles. Pretty much all the senior writing staff had a go at this one. The story is credited to Ira

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BP316 Oscars 2025

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2025/03/03

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 316: Oscars 2025 Released 3 March 2025 For this episode, we quickly recapped the 97th Academy Awards which were broadcast in the UK in the early hours of Monday 3 March 2025. BEST PICK – the book is available now from all the usual places, and the paperback is out now. From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101 UK bookstore

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01:46:25

BP315 Jeanne Dielman

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2025/02/12

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 315: Jeanne Dielman Released 12 February 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, written and directed by Chantal Akerman and starring Delphine Seyrig. As well as holding a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film unexpectedly topped the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest movies ever made. We take the opportunity to explore what this poll is, how it has changed over

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BP314 Oscar Nominations 2025

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2025/01/23

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 314: Oscar nominations 2025 Released 23 January 2025. For this episode, we quickly reviewed the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards which were announced by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott. Donate today to help victims of the LA fires. https://mutualaidla.org The Substance Behind the Scenes https://youtu.be/8H64HNvXrqU Guilty Feminist interview with Shiori Ito and Megumi Inman https://pod.fo/e/2a1532 BEST PICK – the book is out

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01:22:23

BP231 Redux: Mulholland Drive

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2025/01/17

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 231: Mulholland Drive (REDUX) First released 19 October 2022. Rereleased 17 January 2025 in tribute to David Lynch. We lost David Lynch this week at the age of 78. In tribute to this giant of American cinema, we are rerunning this episode in which we looked at his 2001 slice of LA Gothic Mulholland Drive. Donate today to help victims of the LA fires. https://mutualaidla.org For this episode, we watched the 2001 David Lynch

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01:00:41

BP314 Red Dwarf - book launch

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2024/10/08

Tom's new book is out now wherever books are sold. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Dwarf-Discovering-TV-1988-1993/dp/1399034944 https://www.waterstones.com/book/red-dwarf-discovering-the-tv-series/tom-salinsky/9781399034944

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BP313 Red Dwarf - DIscovering the TV Series

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2024/09/02

Tom's new book is out now wherever books are sold. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Dwarf-Discovering-TV-1988-1993/dp/1399034944 https://www.waterstones.com/book/red-dwarf-discovering-the-tv-series/tom-salinsky/9781399034944 Get your tickets to the launch event on 3 October here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/952245641347

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Jessica Regan in 16 Postcodes at the Edinburgh Fringe

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2024/08/04

Twenty years, 16 postcodes, one city. In her debut storytelling show, Jessica Regan (BBC, Channel 4, Guilty Feminist) shares lessons lived and learned from a life in no particular order. Each show is drawn from true tales of love and landlords, of mice and men and more, told with help from the audience who will play their part in her odyssey as she moves North, South, East and West, finding out which is best. This is a journey through an impenetrable city with an all-too-open heart. You'll laugh,

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44:23

BP312 Chain of Command with Jessica Regan

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2024/05/01

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Jessica Regan Episode 312. Star Trek The Next Generation: Chain of Command Released 1 May 2024 Today we watched the two-part story “Chain of Command”, the tenth and eleventh episodes of The Next Generation’s sixth season, and the last two episodes transmitted before the start of the spin-off show Deep Space Nine. It was written by Frank Abatemarco and Ronald D Moore and directed by Robert Scheerer (Part I) and Les Landau (Part II). Continuing our short

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BP311 This Side of Paradise with Garrett Millerick

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2024/04/24

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Garrett Millerick Episode 311. Star Trek (TOS): This Side of Paradise Released 24 April 2024 “This Side of Paradise” is the 24th episode of the first season of Star Trek, first shown on 2 March 1967. It was written by Jerry Sohl and DC Fontana and directed by Ralph Senensky. Star Trek theme with lyrics https://youtu.be/x8UlFN0kNq4 Variety list of best Star Trek episodes https://variety.com/lists/best-star-trek-episodes/ Continuing our short season of

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BP310 The City on the Edge of Forever with Joy Wilkinson

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2024/04/17

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Joy Wilkinson Episode 310. Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever Released 17 April 2024 Today we watched “The City on the Edge of Forever”, the 28th episode of the original Star Trek’s first season. The script is credited to science fiction author Harlan Ellison, and the director was Joseph Pevney. It was first broadcast on 6 April 1967, and – yes, it’s the one with Joan Collins in. Lola https://youtu.be/8uSa8XkogRE Continuing our short season of

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BP309 The Devil in the Dark with Dan Starkey

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2024/04/10

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Dan Starkey Episode 309. Star Trek: The Devil in the Dark Released 10 April 2024 “The Devil in the Dark” is the 25th episode of the original Star Trek, from its first season. It was written by producer Gene L Coon and directed by Joseph Pevney, and it was first shown on NBC on 9 March 1967. Thanks to special guest Dan Starkey who can shortly be seen on the London stage in The Government Inspector.

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