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...and Dan shows how fun he is at parties by presenting multiple ranked lists. What's leading the Oscar race so far? What Wicked: For Good hot takes do we have? Why is Dan actively rooting for an Avatar sequel? Find out!
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AVA looks back at 2025 — Writing Therapy Productions
As the year comes to a close, it's time to look back at a year of cinema, and look forward to what our 2025 episode may look like. Erin, Claire, and Dan try to figure out what might be crowned Best Pi...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
...and Dan shows how fun he is at parties by presenting multiple ranked lists. What's leading the Oscar race so far? What Wicked: For Good hot takes do we have? Why is Dan actively rooting for an Avatar sequel? Find out!
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www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava25review
Dan weighs in as someone who knew he wasn't supposed to like certain girl-coded shows, but figured what the patriarchy didn't know wouldn't hurt it. What holds up when you stop letting gender norms tell you what to like? Find out!
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— Writing Therapy Productions
As we take our last between-decade break, Munsi Parker-Munroe returns to challenge Dan to a game. Munsi looks back at franchises from their joint youths, and asks Dan to guess which they genuinely lik...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Dan weighs in as someone who knew he wasn't supposed to like certain girl-coded shows, but figured what the patriarchy didn't know wouldn't hurt it. What holds up when you stop letting gender norms tell you what to like? Find out!
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But then it's off to Pandora, to dig into the groundbreaking visuals and threadbare narrative of Avatar, the global phenomenon everybody forgets is one of history's most successful movies. Which do our hosts prefer? Find out!
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AVA heads to Iraq and Pandora — Writing Therapy Productions
Awards season 2009 came down to a telenovela-worthy duel between Kathryn Bigelow with her war drama The Hurt Locker, and her ex-husband James Cameron, delivering his second consecutive Highest Grossin...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
But then it's off to Pandora, to dig into the groundbreaking visuals and threadbare narrative of Avatar, the global phenomenon everybody forgets is one of history's most successful movies. Which do our hosts prefer? Find out!
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www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava09
But the people's champion became a snub that changed everything, as Nolan's Batman saga reached its apex in The Dark Knight. It changed the very face of the Oscars going forward, and we have some takes. Lock in your final answer: listening in.
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Destiny and Justice as AVA hits 2008 — Writing Therapy Productions
After the directors of Goodfellas and Fargo won Oscars for their bleakest movies to that point, Danny Boyle won over the Academy with something basically uplifting: the story of a poor Indian youth ch...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
But the people's champion became a snub that changed everything, as Nolan's Batman saga reached its apex in The Dark Knight. It changed the very face of the Oscars going forward, and we have some takes. Lock in your final answer: listening in.
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www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava2008
@recoveredpod.bsky.social's Keith Kollee returns to help Erin, Claire, and Dan break it down. Join in, lest Anton Chigurh hunt you down for refusing.
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Coens, Pirates, and Spidered-Men as AVA hits 2007 — Writing Therapy Productions
In the wake of Martin Scorsese getting nominated for his bleakest movie (pre-Silence), the Coen Brothers deliver their bleakest effort (pre-A Serious Man) with No Country For Old Men, pitting an oppor...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
@recoveredpod.bsky.social's Keith Kollee returns to help Erin, Claire, and Dan break it down. Join in, lest Anton Chigurh hunt you down for refusing.
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www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava2007
Audiences were torn between threequels that fail to live up to the originals, as Jack Sparrow and Spider-Man face off. Is At World's End a better Pirates movie than it gets credit for? Which Spider-Man villain should have been cut out?
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Coens, Pirates, and Spidered-Men as AVA hits 2007 — Writing Therapy Productions
In the wake of Martin Scorsese getting nominated for his bleakest movie (pre-Silence), the Coen Brothers deliver their bleakest effort (pre-A Serious Man) with No Country For Old Men, pitting an oppor...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Audiences were torn between threequels that fail to live up to the originals, as Jack Sparrow and Spider-Man face off. Is At World's End a better Pirates movie than it gets credit for? Which Spider-Man villain should have been cut out?
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Audiences came back to Tortuga for the return of Jack Sparrow and the gang in Dead Man's Chest. Fish Monsters and colonizing capitalists pursue, our heroes backstab each other. We dissect both, while flummoxed by which actor got an Oscar nod. Join in!
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Rats infest the cops, the mob, and Black Pearl on AVA — Writing Therapy Productions
It's 2006, and get ready for the most thrilling, action packed, high quality bummers of a movie. The Oscar finally found its way to Martin Scorsese, with his tense remake of Hong Kong flick Infernal A...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Audiences came back to Tortuga for the return of Jack Sparrow and the gang in Dead Man's Chest. Fish Monsters and colonizing capitalists pursue, our heroes backstab each other. We dissect both, while flummoxed by which actor got an Oscar nod. Join in!
www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava2006
www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava2006
Dan hit 72 years of Oscars darlings to sum up potential remakes: which could be, which must not, which have been, and some fancasts as we go. Do we need a 2020s take on Gone With the Wind? Marty? Platoon? Dan assumes you asked, and has the answers.
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Do the Best Pictures of the 20th century need a remake? — Writing Therapy Productions
While schedules align, Dan presents a one-man crossover between us and Recovered by asking the question... do the Best Pictures of the 20th century need or warrant a remake? From Wings to American Bea...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Dan hit 72 years of Oscars darlings to sum up potential remakes: which could be, which must not, which have been, and some fancasts as we go. Do we need a 2020s take on Gone With the Wind? Marty? Platoon? Dan assumes you asked, and has the answers.
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www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/avaremake
Will the box office champ improve things? It's Revenge of the Sith, often called the best Star Wars prequel, which is either a badge of honour or akin to Roman Scandals being the best Eddie Cantor vehicle. Which side do our co-hosts and guest fall on?
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Sith and racism as AVA hits 2005 — Writing Therapy Productions
It's 2005, and Munsi Parker-Munroe rejoins Erin, Claire, and Dan to discuss what is often called one of if not the worst Best Picture winner ever... by people who have not seen The Broadway Melody. It...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Will the box office champ improve things? It's Revenge of the Sith, often called the best Star Wars prequel, which is either a badge of honour or akin to Roman Scandals being the best Eddie Cantor vehicle. Which side do our co-hosts and guest fall on?
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...audiences had a relapse of Shrek Fever, flocking to Shrek 2 in greater numbers than they had for multiple pop culture icons that year. One has a long epilogue engineered to ruin your day, one has needle-drops every time the escapades pause. Which do we prefer? Find out!
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Boxing and Ogres as AVA hits 2004 — Writing Therapy Productions
In the wake of Lord of the Rings dominating the Oscars the previous year, the Academy decided to go small and serious again, while the audience remain here for fantasy good times. The Oscar went to Mi...
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September 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
...audiences had a relapse of Shrek Fever, flocking to Shrek 2 in greater numbers than they had for multiple pop culture icons that year. One has a long epilogue engineered to ruin your day, one has needle-drops every time the escapades pause. Which do we prefer? Find out!
bit.ly/465KFF4
bit.ly/465KFF4
Gina Stewart is back to help break down the full Rings experience, as we follow Frodo all the way to Mount Doom. Who's the real king? What was Peter Jackson right to cut from the books, and wrong to cut from the theatrical releases?
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One Rings to Rule Them All on AVA — Writing Therapy Productions
It's 2003, and we reach our final Joint Champion, as after two years of being Best Picture nominees and lurking near the top of the box office, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy reached its gr...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Gina Stewart is back to help break down the full Rings experience, as we follow Frodo all the way to Mount Doom. Who's the real king? What was Peter Jackson right to cut from the books, and wrong to cut from the theatrical releases?
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www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava2003
But only one man could triumph over Frodo, Star Wars, AND the boy wizard in one year...a SPIDER-Man. Erin, Claire, and Dan dissect the year that Academy and Audience decided not to think too hard and just have a good time. Have a good time with us!
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AVA is swinging through 2002 — Writing Therapy Productions
It's 2002, and Hollywood is swinging, be it to all that jazz, or by webs through the city. The Academy, still waiting to see if Lord of the Rings could stick the landing, gave the big prize to musical...
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August 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
But only one man could triumph over Frodo, Star Wars, AND the boy wizard in one year...a SPIDER-Man. Erin, Claire, and Dan dissect the year that Academy and Audience decided not to think too hard and just have a good time. Have a good time with us!
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www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava2002
The audience was all about fantasy, and of the 3 franchises that kicked off in 2001, we present the timeless tale of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl are ogres, also there is a donkey with Shrek. Crank some Smash Mouth and join the journey!
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Love, Math, and Ogres on Academy Vs Audience — Writing Therapy Productions
In 2001, the question on the mind of Academy voters was "Well we can't risk just awarding Lord of the Rings three years in a row, can we?" and thus an alternate Best Picture was needed: Ron Howard's c...
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July 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The audience was all about fantasy, and of the 3 franchises that kicked off in 2001, we present the timeless tale of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl are ogres, also there is a donkey with Shrek. Crank some Smash Mouth and join the journey!
www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava2001
www.writingtherapyproductions.com/home/ava2001