Best Supporting Podcast
Best Supporting Podcast is a weekly show dedicated to the Best Supporting Actress category at awards shows. Hosts Colin Drucker and Nick Kochanov discuss winners, nominees, and standout acting choices and moments. Each episode explores performances worthy of recognition, even if the praise comes only from the hosts themselves.
Episodes
Episode 267: The BSAs of the Best Supporting Podcast
It is alas our last supporting episode! After almost six years, we are looking back on our Top 10 favorite episodes, performances, quotes and new obsessions born out of hopping on microphones every week to talk about women (and sometimes men!) in supporting roles that we love. As a wise woman once said, it was never a burden, it was an honor. But as another wise woman once said while accepting an
Episode 266: The BSAs of "Angels in America": Ep 5 & 6 (2003)
It’s the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as Hannah, Prior, Louis, Harper and Joe know it. Roy is left with nothing but the haunting of Ethel Rosenberg in the end, who herself finds peace through tradition (and believe it or not, Louis). While Joe’s fairy tale comes crashing around him, Prior chooses life, Harper chooses San Francisco, Belize chooses forgiveness, and Hannah choos
Episode 265: The BSAs of "Angels in America": Ep 3 & 4 (2003)
The Angel, some ghosts and Mother Pitt descend upon New York. Harper vanishes to Antarctica by way of Prospect Park, Prior turns prophet, Hannah ends up in the Bronx, and Joe and Louis kick off a situationship straight out of East Hell. Speaking of which, Roy Cohn has become the demon of St Vincent’s, but Ethel Rosenberg has arrived to keep him company. Nevertheless, Belize persists.
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Episode 264: The BSAs of "Angels in America": Ep 1 & 2 (2003)
We are taking on the heaven-sent HBO television event of 2003, “Angels in America” and specifically the first two episodes this week. Not only is it a Big Important Gay Story, it’s directed by Mike Nichols and stars Meryl Streep, Mary Louise Parker, Emma Thompson and a series of straight men playing impeccably gay, especially Jeffrey Wright. And then there’s Al Pacino as Roy Cohn, in one of the bi
Episode 263: The BSAs of "Grey Gardens" (2009)
Edie, get some ice cream! We’re celebrating 2009’s “Grey Gardens” with that fine HBO polish, impeccable prosthetics, a sweeping score, the wild range of Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore working harder than anyone to bring Little Edie Beale to life in all her glory, misery and resilience. Jeanne Tripplehorn’s Jackie O, Malcolm Gets’s Gould and Ken Howard’s Phelan Beale, to say nothing of those Mays
Episode 262: The BSAs of "The White Lotus" - Season 3
How wonderful for us, to spend another 8 weeks in a season of “The White Lotus”, a show made up of essentially all supporting characters. We’re counting down our favorite guests, staff and scene-stealing accomplices as we pack our bags and head off towards whatever becomes the next pop culture moment to feed the meme machine and produce endless TikTok theories.
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Episode 261: The Movie "Diane"!
The 2018 Mary Kay Place vehicle “Diane” may be a bit of a gloomy drive around a weathered stretch of the Northeast, but luckily it includes a bevy of character actresses and Broadway legends in the passenger seat. Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Joyce Van Patten, LaChanze, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Phyllis Sommerville, Dierdre O’Connell and Glynis O’Connor bring life to a movie essentially about the in
Episode 260: The BSAs of "Forrest Gump" (1994)
Pull up a park bench at a bus stop cause we’re talking about a true 20th century American classic, “Forrest Gump”! Despite its comedic quotability and punchline of a lead character, it taught millennials with cable in the 90s so much about Vietnam, drugs, dad rock, and just about every way you can have shrimp. Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan is everything you want from a Best Supporting Actor, Jenny’s journ
Episode 259 : The BSAs of Anora (2024)
We’re heading all the way down to that mansion in Mill Basin for 2024’s Best Picture, “Anora”! Mikey Madison is the lucky lady having a wild two weeks on the arm of Ivan the Terrible, before Best Supporting Toros comes knocking. Yuriy Borisov gives a Sister Agnes style BSA nominated performance as Igor, Diamond shines, Lulu helps, Garnik barfs and that ending hits.
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Episode 258: Isabella Rossellini - "Conclave" (2024)
It’s gonna take more than a bus full of nuns, a few cans of smoke and a good copier to elect a new pope in 2024’s “Conclave”. Isabella Rossellini makes a meal out of what is essentially an extended cameo as Sister Agnes, quietly instrumental in helping to bring down potential papal candidates and making way for a somewhat hopeful twist ending.
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Episode 257: Jamie Lee Curtis - "The Last Showgirl" (2024)
Pam Anderson’s performance of Shelly in “The Last Showgirl” gets better the longer it marinates in your mind, but Jamie Lee Curtis as the cocktail slinging ashtray Annette is an instant high camp icon, and it’s clear that Jamie Lee is having the time of her life as the down but never out best friend of a Las Vegas showgirl in her final days on stage. Is this movie just Hysterical Blindness on the
Episode 256: Zoe Saldaña - "Emilia Pérez" (2024)
We’re finally talking about this year’s perplexing Oscars frontrunner Emilia Pérez! Is it absolutely El Mal? Well, Zoe Saldaña certainly deserves the BSAs this awards season, Édgar Ramirez is a total babe and Adriana Paz is a welcomed addition as Best Supporting Epiphania. But the more you know about this movie, the more you realize it’s giving Tommy Wiseau energy with a French twist and will more
Episode 255: The Best Supporting Room
We’re tearing it apart, Lisa! Our second Birthday Girl’s choice is the 21st century’s answer to Citizen Kane, “The Room”! Tommy Wiseau’s Johnny may be a beloved local figure and frequent favorite customer who is also up for a promotion at the bank, but his fiancé Lisa finds him boring and prefers his bearded best friend Mark. She’s also not concerned at all about her mother Claudette’s breast canc
Episode 254: It's Time to Talk About "The Lonely Lady"
It’s Birthday Girl’s Choice this week, and in the words of Veronica Randall, some people want everything! We are diving into the 1983 camp classic “The Lonely Lady,” starring the Frances McDormand of the Razzies, Pia Zadora as the tragically determined Jerilee Randall on her sleazy quest for Hollywood fame. She has a mercurial mother, a husband three times her age, a loyal gay friend, a cocaine fu
Episode 253: The BSAs of "Sing Sing" (2024)
We’re sing singing the praises of 2024’s feel good tearjerker about a prison theater program, “Sing Sing”! Colman Domingo should be a Best Actor Oscar frontrunner this year, with Clarence Maclin and Sean San Jose in the Best Supporting Actor category (to say nothing of Dino and Charlie stealing the show and our hearts). This may be the least actressy movie we’ve ever discussed but easily one of th
Episode 252: Joan Chen - "Didi" (2024)
We love a Best Supporting Mom, a Best Supporting Sister and 11th hour monologues, and Didi has all of that and more. This 2024 coming of age story is familiar territory for PEN15 fans but full of small surprises, some standout ensemble performances and a surprisingly emotional use of 2008 era technology. Joan Chen may not be on the Oscars shortlist where she belongs this year (and she’s also not i
Episode 251: Our BSAs of 2024
We’re kicking off the year by looking back! This week we’re counting down our Best Supporting movies, foods, music, reality TV, experiences and even furniture from the last year. We also briefly navigate a vacuum debacle and can’t stop thinking about a certain VHS-shaped cake.
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Episode 250: The Fourth Annual Westons
The most important, and certainly the most supportive awards show of the year is here, the Fourth Annual Westons! In this timeslot-busting episode, we’re celebrating the best supporting sisters, saints, moms and friends, the scene stealing featured ensemble members, moments that went to a 27, and even the men who shined in movies we discussed over the past year.
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Episode 249: "Tea with the BSAs"
The golden girls of the West End, British cinema and occasionally even modern classics like Dennis the Menace sit down for a talk and a chat about whatever they want really. "Tea With the Dames” may not be high in caffeine, but is instead a warm mug of chamomile on a rainy afternoon with a champagne chaser.
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Episode 248: The BSAs of "Elf" (2003)
Whether it’s because of the holiday season, a redemption for Will Ferrell or our blossoming love of Mary Steenburgen, we’re talking about “Elf” this week!
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Episode 247: "Beautiful BSAs"
Brovember concludes with some mid-30s male ennui in the mid-90s, “Beautiful Girls”. Despite the stacked ensemble cast of Oscar winners and nominees, only Rosie O’Donnell gets to steal the show for a couple minutes while Uma Thurman, Mira Sorvino, Annabeth Gish, Lauren Holly and Martha Plimpton get to play girlfriends and love interests and Natalie Portman is the literal girl next door in a very un
Episode 246: The "Step Brothers" Episode
Brovember is taking a big step into the early 2000s for, believe it or not, “Step Brothers”! We have more to say around bro humor than we do about the movie itself, though Mary Steenburgen is peak Mary Steenburgen here and Kathryn Hahn is really paying her dues.
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Episode 245: The BSAs of "Tommy Boy" (1995)
Holy schnikes, it’s Brovember! We’re going back to a simpler time and happier place this week, the mid-90s buddy road movie with a heart of gold, “Tommy Boy”! This is Chris Farley’s movie, but he’s surrounded by Queen Brian Dennehy, Julie Warner as Best Supporting Michelle, Razzie nominee Bo Derek, an uncredited Rob Lowe getting his shirt sucked off by a pneumatic tube, and of course David Spade a
Episode 244: The BSAs of "His Three Daughters" (2024)
A movie about preemptive grief is somehow exactly what we needed this week. “His Three Daughters” features Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne sistering out in a Lower East Side apartment while their father lingers through his final days in the other room. What could be better?
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Episode 243: The BSAs of "Pieces of April" (2003)
We’re gonna need an extra dozen glazed and a whole bunch of family therapy to get through—or even to!—Thanksgiving at April’s on the Lower East Side this year.
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Episode 242: "Eat, Drink and Be Scary" (w/ Justine Elizabeth)
Things are getting spooky on the Upper East Side this week as we revisit our favorite Best Supporting Housewives of New York for a disastrous Season 12 Halloween party. Helping us tackle this seafood tower of terror is The Shore Store’s Justine Elizabeth!
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Episode 241: The BSAs of "Closer" (2004)
It’s the date movie of 2004, “Closer”! Not a couples counselor in sight as four broken people bump traumas and look for love in all the wrong strip clubs. Clive Owen and Natalie Portman both got best supporting Oscar nominations, but we’re equally intrigued with Julia Roberts in one of her less-discussed roles, while Jude Law is a shadow of the hunk he played in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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Episode 240: The BSAs of "That Thing You Do!" (1996)
The rise and fall of the one-hit Wonders is packed with chart-topping performances and is a platinum record in our books! This week we’re fangirling over 1996’s “That Thing You Do”, with Tom Hanks doing triple duty as director, writer and co-star, Steve Zahn running away with the movie, Tom Everett Scott appreciating jazz, Charlize Theron, Obba Babatunde, Rita Wilson, Alex Rocco, Chris Isaak, Kevi
Episode 239: "Unfaithful" (2002)
Honestly, we just felt like talking about “Unfaithful” this week! It’s got strong fall vibes, an Oscar nominated Diane Lane, Kate Burton in the Friend role, a face journey on the Metro North, wind machines at a 27, that song in the trailer and two beloved BSAs in practically nonexistent cameos.
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Episode 238: The BSAs of "Juno" (2007)
Well leggo my eggo, Juno is preggo! While this 2007 Oscar winner was a career making moment for writer Diablo Cody and Elliott Page, it’s Jennifer Garner who runs away with this movie for us, with Allison Janney’s Bren close behind in a Previa.
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Episode 237: The BSAs of "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012)
“Silver Linings Playbook” brought home Oscar gold for Jennifer Lawrence and nominations all around for 2012’s Dirty Dancing for Manic Depressives in Philly. (Or is this some strange version of Garden State?) Jacki Weaver makes crabby snacks and drives a Cadillac, John Ortiz and Chris Tucker are some best supporting friends, Bradley Cooper is a babe and we can fix him, and it turns out that Robert
Episode 236: The BSAs of "Rabbit Hole" (2010)
We’re welcoming in the unofficial start of fall the best way we know how—talking about grief! 2010’s “Rabbit Hole” is easily one of Nicole Kidman’s best performances, and The Wiest as her mother with her own brick in her pocket almost makes us forget that Tyne Daly played that role on Broadway. Tammy Blanchard channels one of the greatest moments in this podcast’s history, Sandra Oh is a best supp
Episode 235: The BSAs of "Matilda" (1996)
We wrap up Family Movie Month with what can best be described as “Carrie” for kids. (With a surprising scoop of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and an important connection to “Scream 2”!) Despite its spooky undertones (and Roald Dahl roots), “Matilda” is also an enthralling coming of age story featuring small legend Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz’s Icon to the Introverted, Miss Honey, TV royalty Danny De
Episode 234: Lisa Ann Walter - "The Parent Trap" (1998)
We’re seeing double this week as we cover “It Takes Two”‘s refined identical twin, “The Parent Trap”! Lindsay Lohan gets the Nancy Meyers treatment twice over in her film debut, and Lisa Ann Walter makes denim shirts and Dockers iconic as Best Supporting Chessy. Plus Elaine Hendrix feasting on the evil future stepmother role, an unflinchingly cool Natasha Richardson, a number of clearly gay men, o
Episode 233: Rosie O'Donnell - "Harriet the Spy" (1996)
Family Movie Month is returning to the heyday of the oddball 90s kid this week with “Harriet the Spy”! We first run through the roster of our own childhood favorites as former Nickelodeon kids, and spend some time talking about how great A Little Princess and A League of their Own are. Speaking of which, Rosie O’Donnell as Old Golly completely makes up for that time she rode the bus with her siste
Episode 232: Bonnie Hunt - "Jumanji" (1995)
We’re kicking off what has turned into an annual tradition because we’ve now done it twice, Family Movie Month! This week we’re buying an old mansion with Bebe Neuwirth, rolling the dice with Kirsten Dunst and remembering a time when Bonnie Hunt was seemingly always on our televisions with 1995’s “Jumanji”! We also get a pitch perfect Patricia Clarkson making a meal out of the mom role, a pre-law
Episode 231: "This is Morocco."
A month of international interpersonal dramas between the Real Housewives of New York ends with the Season 4 melodrama that is Morocco. We’ve got all the original wives, including Alex fighting with the strength of ten out of control camels. (Or perhaps a herd of buffalo.) Kelly is here to make it weird, Jill Zarin digs up two seasons of resentment and has a lot of architecture related questions,
Episode 230: "The Blue Stone Manor Chainsaw Massacre"
We’re headed up to the Berkshires this week for another girls trip gone awry at Dorinda’s infamous and possibly sentient Blue Stone Manor. Ramona spends the afternoon dodging Elyse as an opening act before Luann takes center stage in, once again, a cabaret related drama, this time with an underpaid and overserved Sonja. Luckily the lady of the house is also a warrior. Is the house driving them mad
Episode 229: "Life is Actually Not a Cabaret"
Things go south in South Beach this week as we take another trip with the Real Housewives of New York, specifically Season 11’s “Life is Not a Cabaret.” Highlights include coercing Sonja to go to an AA meeting with recently sober Luann, which sends her spiraling out over a sandy cabana an hour later, poor little Barbara K trying to get in the game, a relatively docile Dorinda and Ramona in support
Episode 228: Parallel Widows
The only thing we love as much as Best Supporting Actresses is The Real Housewives of New York, so we will combine the two whenever possible. And there’s no better example of that than the Season 7 episode “London Calling” when cool Carole and a debut season Dorinda go to London to retrieve the ashes of Carole’s late husband. It’s an A24 movie begging to be made starring Vera Farmiga and Edie Falc
Episode 227: Kathleen Quinlan - "Apollo 13" (1995)
We’re just over the moon that Kathleen Quinlan got an Oscar nomination for playing Marilyn Lovell, the heart of 1995’s “Apollo 13”. But it’s also babe city with Ed Harris in that vest, Gary Sinise leaning against that car, Kevin Bacon’s elusive butt, a southern fried Bill Paxton and a baby faced Tom Hanks post-Gump and that line of hair. We also give some love to Ron Howard’s mom, learn a little a
Episode 226: The BSAs of "The Birdcage" (1996)
Not only do we queen out on “The Birdcage” this week, we also discuss some of our favorite Diane’s, a couple of Ron’s, at least two Mames, one singular Bonnie, a piece of Jason Alexander and just buckets of veteran actresses in lightweight ensemble comedies.
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Episode 225: The BSAs of "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion" (1997)
We’re ordering two businesswomen’s lunch specials this week and discussing the 1997 cult classic “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion”! Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow are iconically indelible (especially the Romy voice), but we also get cigarette acting from Jeneane Garafalo, Elaine Hendrix as a power lesbian Sue Snell, Julia Campbell’s cruel Christie (the way she eats that burger though!), and
Episode 224: The BSAs of "American Fiction" (2023)
This is a bestseller in our hearts! 2023’s “American Fiction” earned writer/director Cord Jefferson’s screenplay a much deserved Oscar, Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K Brown underdog nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, and introduced us to Queen Coraline, Ten Perfect Minutes of screen time from Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae in that conference room scene, THE Leslie Uggams, and of cou
Episode 223: The BSAs of "The Graduate" (1967)
Our sampler of the 60s ends this month with “The Graduate”! We get to see Annie Sullivan in a whole new light as the OG cougar Mrs. Robinson, one of our favorite Stepford Wives as her unwitting daughter Elaine, the mayor from Jaws in a surprisingly fascinating role as the spurned husband, Roz from 9 to 5 and Mr Feeney putzing around in the pool, a no nonsense Norman Fell, Dick Lemon working the fr
Episode 222: Patty Duke - "The Miracle Worker" (1962)
We’re staying in the 60s this week and with Patty Duke, but instead of sparkling as Neely O’Hara she’s learning to fold her napkin and beating the crap out of Annie Sullivan in “The Miracle Worker”! Duke and Anne Bancroft deservedly both won Oscars in this portrayal of Helen Keller’s arduous journey to learn not only how to read and speak but the concept of words and letters. And also discipline a
Episode 221: The BSAs of "Valley of the Dolls" (1967)
We are ascending the Mr Everest of camp this week to plunge into 1967’s “Valley of the Dolls”! While not necessarily a good movie, it is still a GREAT movie, with Patty Duke absolutely sparkling as Neely (especially when it comes to conquering Cystic Fibrosis!), Barbara Parkins laying on the beach briefly, everything Susan Hayward does in that bathroom but especially the iconic wig reveal, Lee Gra
Episode 220: Adriana Barraza & Rinko Kikuchi - "Babel" (2006)
We’re wrapping up a month of early 2000s prestige pictures that Nick potentially owned on DVD with the quintessential modern classic, 2006’s “Babel”! Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi joined a competitive race for Best Supporting Actress against Abigail Breslin’s Rick James inspired dance moves, a scandalous Blanchett shoving Judi Dench into a credenza and a Dreamgirl, and I am telling you I might
Episode 219: Marcia Gay Harden - "Pollock" (2000)
We were so full of Marcia Gay Pride from last week’s episode that it was time to break a decades long blacklisting of “Pollock” to discuss her dark horse Oscar win as Lee Krasner in Ed Harris’s punch drunk biopic of Jackson Pollock. We also get Amy Madigan going full Ullman, Jennifer Connelly as Worst Supporting Ruth, John Heard from "The Sopranos", a wacky cameo from Val Kilmer that takes us down
Episode 218: Marcia Gay Harden & Laura Linney - "Mystic River" (2003)
We’re shipping up to Boston this week for 2003’s modern day Greek tragedy, “Mystic River”! Sean Penn and Tim Robbins both took home Oscars for their rag-wrung performances, and Marcia Gay Harden was well and truly robbed of her second Oscar as the tortured Celeste. We’re of differing opinions on Laura Linney’s low-key Lady Macbeth, but eye to eye on the welcomed presence of Kevin Bacon and Laurenc
Episode 217: The BSAs of "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006)
It’s the Little Movie That Could of 2006, “Little Miss Sunshine”! It shined at the Oscars, including a frankly totally deserved Best Supporting Actress nomination for Abigail Breslin and equally wholly deserved wins for Michael Arndt’s screenplay and Alan Arkin as dirty grandpa. But there’s also the way Toni Collette eats that popsicle and Greg Kinnear dealing with a kinky cop and Steve Carell and
Episode 216: The BSAs of "Little Children" (2006)
Suburban strife in the early 2000s feels good in a place like this. This week we’re wading into a neighborhood pool full of dysfunction, premature midlife crisis and some fabulous features ensemble lady acting, it’s 2006’s “Little Children”! Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson are a veritable heat wave of extramarital chemistry but then there’s Jackie Earle Haley and Jane Adams on the date from hell,
Episode 215: The BSAs of "I Am Sam" (2001)
We’ve made an excellent choice this week covering 2001’s “I Am Sam”! Sean Penn’s performance is far from an infamous bus ride with one’s sister and he’s surrounded by an ensemble of women that includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Laura Dern and Loretta Devine, a Best supporting bunch of friends, an Easter egg hunt of great actors in featured ensemble roles, beautiful Beatles c
Episode 214: A Best Supporting Weekend in Pittsburgh
While we took a bit of a break last week, we were in fact in Pittsburgh TOGETHER for a weekend of eating, chatting, eating some more, and encountering a series of BSAs in the wild, including an extra goosey Lucy, the no nonsense matrons of the Friday fish fry, a psychic diner waitress and just a dazzling variety of baked goods along the way.
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Episode 213: The BSAs of TikTok
From talking cats to supportive husbands to dancing matriarchs, we just can't get enough TikTok. This week we're taking a break from the usual Oscar bait and high profile actressing to queen out on the Best Supporting TikTokers of our lives. May our picks find their way to your For You Page!
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Episode 212: "All of Us BSAs"
If all you know of this movie is the steamy, swoony Andrew Scott/Paul Mescal press tour, well get ready to have your heart broken. Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” is as much about the curious courtship of Adam and Harry as it is about grief, letting go of the past and feeling like a ghost in this world. Jamie Bell and Claire Foy’s Best Supporting Dad and Mum will make you weep at some point,
Episode 211: Jodie Foster - "Nyad" (2023)
Don your board shorts, your racquetball glasses and a wavering Connecticut accent and let’s help Annette Bening swim to Florida! This week we’re diving into the 2023 biopic, “Nyad,” with a deserving Best Actress/Best Supporting Actress nomination combination for Annette and Jodie Foster. The script itself may wade into the shallow end occasionally, but the performances and the focus on friendship
Episode 210: "Crazy Stupid BSAs"
Just in time for the big discounts on Valentine’s Day candy, we are going back to the good old days of 2011’s “Crazy Stupid Love”! It’s teeming with Oscar winners and nominees, including this year’s Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, a hot dog free Julianne Moore and Queen Steve Carell. To say nothing of Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon making the most with a little, the always welcome Beth Littleford and J
Episode 209: All About "All About Eve" (1950)
At long last, for this week’s Birthday Girl’s Choice we’re finally discussing the classic actressing buffet that is “All About Eve”! Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter took a lion’s share of Oscar nominations that year, and Best Supporting Venomous Fishwife Addison DeWitt earned George Sanders a well deserved win. We do a lot of fantasy casting, from Real Housewives to Black
Episode 208: The "Fun Mom Dinner" Episode
It’s Birthday Girl’s Choice this week and we can’t think of a better way to celebrate turning 39 than a bit of “Fun Mom Dinner”! It’s the quintessential love to hate to love kind of movie. It’s got a stacked cast with Toni Collette, Bridget Everett and Molly Shannon, but it’s also got a plot that mostly meanders around on a quiet Thursday night in a suburban downtown and eventually introduces us t
Episode 207: Rachel McAdams - "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." (2023)
We may not exactly be God, but we are definitely here for Margaret this week as we queen out on 2023’s adaptation of Judy Blume’s “Are You There God? it’s Me, Margaret.” Rachel McAdams glows in her mom era, giving us so many nuances in her own coming of age as Barbara Simon. We’ll buy Kathy Bates as a Jewish grandmother in New York, but what if it was Caroline Aaron? We discuss parallels to Eighth
Episode 206: Da'Vine Joy Randolph - "The Holdovers" (2023)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is practically lapping the other contenders in the race for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars this year for her performance in “The Holdovers.” And we may or may not quite get why! We try to figure out why we’re not holding strong feelings over Randolph’s grieving mother Mary, but we can agree that Paul Giamatti is at his Giamattiest and Carrie Preston is an A+ Assistant t
Episode 205: The BSAs of "May December" (2023)
There’s just never enough hot dogs in Todd Haynes’ brilliant “May December”! Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman are both monsters in sunglasses, and Charles Melton’s broken DILF makes us want to re-read Codependent No More immediately.
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Episode 204: The BSAs of "The Holiday" (2006)
It’s a Nancy Meyers Christmas this week as we take on 2006’s harbinger of the home exchange craze, “The Holiday”! Kate Winslet goes from Bridget Jones to Elizabeth Gilbert thanks to two weeks in LA, a formative friendship with Eli Wallach, and a sort of requisite love interest in Jack Black. Meanwhile Cameron Diaz spirals out in the English countryside till Jude Law shows up with those daughters a
Episode 203: The BSAs of "Carol" (2015)
We’re flung out of space this week for “Carol”! We have been sleeping on potentially the best LGBT movie on the shelf, with Oscar nominated and worthy performances by Her Majesty Cate Blanchett and the BSA with the dragon tattoo herself, Rooney Mara, as well as Sarah Paulson as Best Supporting Abbie and that Glassy score by Carter Burwell, We may not necessarily want to eat Carol’s lunch (so to sp
Episode 202: The BSAs of "Little Women" (1994)
We’re just a couple of Beths aspiring to be Jo, hoping to be Amy but happy to end up like Meg, to say nothing of Marmee! This week, we’re welcoming in the holiday season with a perfect early 90s cozy up on the couch and cry movie, “Little Women”! Kirsten Dunst nearly steals the show until Clare Danes pulls out all the stops, Winona Ryder earns her Oscar nod and Susan Sarandon finally brings up the
Episode 201: The BSAs of "The Savages" (2007)
We’re headed to a nursing home in Buffalo in the dead of winter this week! We’re discussing Tamara Jenkins’ darkly funny “The Savages,” with two Queen Philips, Bosco and Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney giving Best Supporting Sister, and some featured ensemble standouts like Debra Monk, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Margo Martingale. (To say nothing of Burt and Lizzie!) This movie brings up a lot of thoughts
Episode 200: The Third Annual Westons
Awards season has unofficially begun with The Third Annual Westons! It is literally our biggest episode of the year, as we celebrate the best supporting friends, sisters, moms, men, assistants to the BSA, kitchen acting, score and more from this past year of episodes, induct a new batch of Queens and announce our BSA of the Year!
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Episode 199: Uma Thurman - "Pulp Fiction" (1994)
We’re dancing with our fingers and finding out what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in France this week as we continue TarantiNovember/NovUMAber with the 90s modern classic, “Pulp Fiction”! Uma Thurman’s Oscar nominated performance as the mysterious and charming Mia Wallace steals the second act of the movie and much of our time in this week’s episode, when we’re not talking about lunch me
Episode 198: The BSAs of "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" (2004)
TarantiNovember aka NovUMAber continues this week with Volume 2 of Beatrix Kiddo’s quest to Kill Bill. The frenetic violence of the first movie gives way to a more plaintive western, but we still get the Texas funeral, Beatrix’s training montage with Pai Mei, the Budd and Elle one act play in a trailer in the middle of the desert, Daryl Hannah serving hysterical blindness, a potential “Hysterical
Episode 197: The BSA's of Kill Bill : Vol. 1
We’re wiggling all of our toes this week as we kick off TarentiNovember. The magnificence of Uma Thurman as an action star giving face journeys and nuance is enough to make both of swoon. We discover that Mr. Tarentino is the ultimate reference queen, the newfound sexiness of men in eye masks, and the magic of Lucy Liu.
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Episode 196: The Best Supporting Chainsaw Massacre
Who will survive and what will be left of us this week as we tackle the titan of terror herself, 1974’s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”! And despite the gruesome title, it’s a surprisingly beautiful movie with a lot to say about the horrors of meat eating and ultimately an account of what Queen Sally Hardesty will endure to escape becoming tomorrow night’s dinner. Along the way we wheel through a ro
Episode 195: Paula Prentiss - "The Stepford Wives" (1975)
We’ll just die if we don’t get to talk about Paula Prentiss in 1975’s “The Stepford Wives” this week! The original and far superior adaptation of Ira Levin’s potentially prophetic novel features a real Mary and Rhoda duo in Katherine Ross’s Joanna and Prentiss’s Bobbie, who along with Tina Louise’s Charmaine can’t understand why the other wives in town just love to keep their houses clean and thei
Episode 194: Annie Potts & Sigourney Weaver - "Ghostbusters" (1984)
We’re going back to another childhood favorite this week to kick off the best supporting spooky season! “Ghostbusters” may be a perfect vehicle for Bill Murray to do the Bill Murray thing, but we’re here for some long overdue Annie Potts appreciation as bespectacled receptionist Janine and to, of course, recognize the icon that is Dana Barrett’s apartment. (That fridge!) To say nothing of Sigourne
Episode 193: The BSAs of "Grease 2" (1982)
We're going back...back...back to sequels this week with the cult classic dud, "Grease 2"! It's off-kilter and amusing for about 45 minutes, and then it really goes into a ditch, but in the meantime we get Didi Conn, Lorna Luft, Eve Arden, Dodie Goodman, Adrian Zmed, Peter Frechette and of course, Michelle Pfeiffer as Stephanie, who's a total ketchup abuser and maybe kind of a jerk, and Maxwell Ca
Episode 192: A Very Special Aftershow
We’re changing up our regularly scheduled programming to bring the Aftershow from Patreon to the main feed this week! And we go deep this episode—-as the seasons change, so do the seasons of our lives. But then we’ve got a game, Best Supporting Assignments and of course, BSA of the Week! Susie Bannion baby, whaddya got?
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Episode 191: "Grumpier Old BSAs"
It’s Sequel September and we’re kicking things off with a staple from both our childhoods, the potentially superior Grumpier Old Men! Ann-Margret gets at least one of the best lines in the movie in an otherwise very supporting role, Sophia Loren takes our breath away as Spaghetti Regetti’s cousin Maria, Best Supporting Burgess shines in those outtakes, and it’s not a 90s comedy without a sweeping
Episode 190: The BSAs of "Look Who's Talking" (1989)
We’re winding down Family Movie Month with the definitively PG-13 talking baby movie that kicked off a trilogy, “Look Who’s Talking”! Kirstie Alley and John Travolta have chemistry for days, and Olympia Dukakis was born to play Long Island mom Rosie. (But have you seen her as the lesbian cowgirl?) We also get Twink Caplan as work bestie Rona, Abe Vigoda’s eyebrows, Bruce Willis riffing in a sound
Episode 189: Fiona Shaw - "Three Men and a Little Lady" (1990)
Family Movie Month continues with three men, a British baby mama, a charming little lady and one hell of a BSA in 1990’s “Three Men and a Little Lady”! Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg have us hot under the collars of our purple turtlenecks, we’re fascinated by Nancy Travis’s career and we can not say enough good things about Fiona Shaw as Elspeth Lomax, who zips away in a sidecar with this movie
Episode 188: The BSAs of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985)
Family Movie Month takes us to the basement of the Alamo and back in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure! The comedic genius of Paul Reubens is on full display here but we also get Elizabeth Daily as Dottie, Diane Salinger’s au revoiring Simone, a swoonworthy Judd Omen as Mickey, Jan Hooks teaching us to say “adobe” as tour guide Tina and Danny Elfman’s iconic best supporting score. Tell ‘em Large Marge sent
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