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The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Best Movies of 2024

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It’s that time of year! Which is to say, a little late! The SportsAlcohol.com crew has to think about their entire year and change before they do a best-movies-of-2024 group list and podcast discussion. That discussion is now live, as a Valentine’s Day present for you, our loyal listeners. Hear Sara, Ben, Marisa, Jeremy, Nathaniel, and Jesse discuss our collective list of the best movies of 2024 at great length — plus a bunch of outliers that only made one list apiece! So gather around your favorite podcast-listening service, or listen/download below, and glory to our hot takes on the tennis matches, formal experiments, boundless appetites for blood, body horrors, Gas Town trips, frawd marriages, and other best movies of 2024!

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The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Summer Movies of 1984

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SportsAlcohol.com belatedly ventures into a brand-new, way-old decade for summer movie nostalgia. Having conquered the 1990s, and while continuing to make our way through the 2000s, we’ve added a new set of anniversary years into the rotation, examining summer movies from 40 years ago. For this summer (or for this year, anyway; technical difficulties delayed release), that meant exploring a different world, where gremlins, ghosts, jocks, breakdancers, and nerds all jostled for mass-cult attention.

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The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Summer 1994 B-sides!

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Having semi-recently completed our quest to cover all the biggest summer blockbusters of the ’90s, your pals at SportsAlcohol.com decided to circle back and take a look at some summer movies just or sometimes very far outside the 1994 blockbusters that kicked this whole series off more than a decade ago! Jesse, Marisa, Sara, Jeremy, and Becca got together to talk about summer movie ranging from sorta unconventional takes on superheroes to Oliver Stone going sicko mode to a noirish thriller you may never have heard of! It’s all here, from goths to preps!

Movies, Parenting

Stop Trying to Make My Kid Cry!

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Listen, I get it. I think back on some of my favorite childhood movies, and there’s a darkness there.  I’m part of the generation that watched Dorothy get shock-treatment at the beginning of Return to Oz, saw Artax sink into the Swamp of Sadness in The NeverEnding Story, and realized that, even if Inigo Montoya got his revenge in The Princess Bride, he’d never get his father back — and I emerged a mostly functional adult. So yes, I understand that kids can handle tough emotions in media. And that it’s probably healthy for them to experience those feelings in small doses in a  controlled, safe environment, where they can build up some resilience they can draw upon and use in other, real-life situations.

But seriously, you have to quit it. Stop trying to make my kid cry at the movies.

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The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Summer Movies of 2004

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Remember 2004? Remember the summer? Remember the summer movies you saw and how maybe only one starred a superhero because you didn’t see Catwoman? Remember Tom Cruise going gray? Remember seeing the new M. Night Shyamalan movie at the Ziegfeld in Manhattan, your first time there since Brother Bear? Remember the IMAX in Nyack where you saw the new Harry Potter movie and how it was demonstrably better than its predecessors within about 15 seconds? Remember that you found out that real IMAX screen closed a few years ago? Remember Uncle Rico? Remember the Shins and Natalie Portman and Natalie Portman telling you to listen to the Shins? Remember that she was recommending stuff off of Oh, Inverted World even though Chutes Too Narrow was already out? Remember when Hugh Jackman wanted more than Wolverine? Remember animated prequels to Universal franchise-starters that didn’t start?

Remember Riddick?

SportsAlcohol.com remembers. And we’re ready to help you remember, too, with this action-packed look back at the summer movies of 2004!

This is the latest in a series and if you want the other 2000s-era installments in the series, here they are:

2000
2001
2002
2003

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The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Oscar Special 2024

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In the spirit of the Oscars’ natural excess, your friends at SportsAlcohol.com have prepared not one but TWO podcast episodes for you ahead of this weekend’s 96th Annual Academy Awards! In the first episode, Sara, Jeremy, Ben, Jesse, and Marisa go through the eight biggest categories with our predictions, preferences, and lists of SNUBS! In the second, we get a bit more granular on this year’s Oscars, covering categories related to animation, music, international film, and more!

You can stream both episodes below, or download them, or find us on Apple or whatever; we’re not picky.

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The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: The Best Movies of 2023

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Once again, SportsAlcohol.com has assembled a crew of movie experts/fans/nerds to talk about the best movies of the year, for our Best Movies of 2023 podcast episode. Nathaniel, Jeremy, Sara, Jesse, Marisa, Becca, and Ben all submitted lists of their best movies of 2023, which were then aggregated into a master list for a lengthy discussion. Indies, blockbusters, auteurs, Godzillas; it’s all here in our Best Movies of 2023 extravaganza! Listen, download, whatever you want, using the player below. And scroll past if you want to go directly to our list and a little bit of contextual discussion outside of our audio joshing.

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The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Best Music of 2023

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Just in time to miss the Grammys entirely, and following a three-year hiatus, the SportsAlcohol.com music enjoyers are back to talk about how they experienced the best music of 2023, whether that’s through indie rock, pop, old favorites, new discoveries, streaming or old-fashioned LPs. Sara, Marisa, Rob, Jeremy, and Jesse are all on hand to chat about trends and antitrends in the year’s music, including thoughts on Boygenius, The National, Caroline Polachek, Olivia Rodrigo, Belle & Sebastian, Blondshell, The Hold Steady, ancient legacy acts, the best shows and albums and singles of the year, and, of course, Joe Jackson.

You can listen or — if you still have a device that plays mp3s — download using the player below. Better yet, you can download the mp3, break it into two parts, and burn it onto a pair of CDs to make the double-album podcast of your dreams!

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The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Godzilla Minus One

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Godzilla: He’s the King of the Monsters, and also, right now, the King of All Media. As Godzilla Minus One sets unexpected box office records in the U.S., Monarch: Legacy of Monsters finishes up its first season on Apple TV, and Godzilla fights the damn Justice League in a current comics series, AND with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire coming out in just a few short months, Jesse and lifelong Godzilla fan/expert Nathaniel sat down to talk about the new movie and the general state of the Godzilla Union. This deep dive is a must for newfound fans of Godzilla Minus One, which may turn up again on our upcoming list of the best movies of 2023… in the meantime, get to stomping!