#454 - The Hottest Movies Of The Awards Season! (aka. Our Palm Springs Adventure)

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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We were invited by the Palm Springs Film Festival to be jurors, so we took a week-long trip to the beautiful city, watched a lot of movies that are sweeping up awards season, and did a lot of our fun stuff - like see CASABLANCA with Leonard Maltin! Link to the website for the movie for BURT: https://www.joeburke.net/burt Here's a scan of the book FOR THE SAKE OF SHADOWS BY MAX MILLER (1936), which chronicles a journalist who went to a Hollywood studio in the 30s and tried to write a screenplay. SPOILER: He failed miserably: https://we.tl/t-va0eJxkfNt Send us stuff like zines, movie-related books, physical media or memorabilia c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada. Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us).

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:08.6	And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And this week, we're talking about all the hot, new award season films.
0:17.5	Our promised episode on the best films of 2025 is coming. It will be next week. Consider this
0:24.0	a appetizer. That's right. A preview of what you should keep your eyes peeled. And specifically,
0:29.7	it's because we visited the Palm Springs International Film Festival and saw a bunch of films that
0:34.0	would be considered for award season. Is this just a way to talk about a work
0:39.3	vacation that we took in the form of a podcast? I think it's up for the listener to decide.
0:44.3	Well, hang on. Hang on. We have a proud tradition on this podcast of talking about our work
0:48.7	vacations on the on this show. Listeners will remember our episodes about going to the Mahoning
0:54.0	drive-in. On location,
0:55.5	this is shoe leather reporting, folks, because Justin and I were both invited to take part in the
1:00.4	Palm Springs International Film Festival. Shockingly. We were each on different juries. That's right.
1:05.5	Justin and me, us two bozos, we had the future of cinema in our hands. We were invited to be on juries.
1:12.3	Justin was on new voices, new visions. And I was on the documentary jury. And so we each gave out a
1:18.7	prize. And with our jury members. With our jury members. While we were there, we also had a festival
1:24.6	pass. So we saw all sorts of movies, all sorts of the hot new Oscar contenders. So I had heard of the Palm Springs Film Festival, but I had never digged in to it. Because for me and Will, I think the film festivals that, you know, interest us the most are the ones that play the weirder stuff that we otherwise wouldn't see anywhere. Or it's like, you know, you got Khan, you got Venice. Yeah. I'm always kind of curious.
1:45.5	Curious about those.
1:46.4	There's TIF, which is close to us.
1:48.3	And then, you know, we're not in the industry. No. Although this week we were. Yeah, that's right. We were tastemakers. We were king makers. When we would go to parties and we're like, we're jurors.
1:57.8	People went, oh, wow, really, you are?
1:59.9	And that would shock me every time.
2:01.2	That's actually true.
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