"Best & Worst Films of 2024" with Alexei Toliopoulos
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.6 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
It's one of the biggest weeks of the year at the box office. What's your most overrated and underrated movie of the year? Today, comedian and film buff Alexei Toliopoulos joins secret cinema nerd Josh Szeps to reveal which flicks to delight in and which to avoid. Plus, honourable mentions, the worst film of the year, and what to look out for from Hollywood in 2025. Merry Christmas, humans.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, humans. Welcome to a safe space for dangerous ideas. We have a festive holiday show for you today. No dangerous. Actually, there will be dangerous ideas. There will be very controversial, dangerous hot takes about the best and worst films of 2024. That giggling that you can hear in the background is the one and only Alexei Toliopoulos, |
| 0:21.4 | who is a comedian, an aficionado of cinema and the host of the great podcast, The Last Video Store. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello, Alexi. Hello, Josh. It is my pleasure to be perhaps the most notorious guest to ever |
| 0:33.0 | grace the seats here at uncomfortable conversations. I've just been waiting for this moment, Alexi. |
| 0:37.0 | Everything up until now have just been padding. So Alexi, your podcast is basically |
| 0:42.2 | famous or interesting people come on and they select either a new film that they like, |
| 0:47.7 | a couple of old films that they like. We kind of talk about, like, I'm all about |
| 0:51.7 | cinematic discovery and helping people find like the films |
| 0:55.2 | that they'll love for the rest of their lives. So on the last video store, we, I kind of frame |
| 0:59.3 | it. I would say it's almost like Desert Island Discs type thing. Yes, that's right, for |
| 1:03.0 | movies. People talk about their favorite films and a new release favorite as well. We kind of frame |
| 1:08.1 | it as if it's the last video store and I'm the clerk and we're |
| 1:11.9 | picking up a little rental combo. This is the last thing you're going to be able to watch, |
| 1:15.0 | basically. Well, you know, they've got to come back in seven days and return them and pick up |
| 1:18.4 | some more movies. And then you'll be out of business. Yeah, exactly. It is currently either |
| 1:23.5 | boxing day, the day after Christmas, we call it Boxing Day outside of the fine United States and Canada, or it's Christmas |
| 1:30.1 | Day if you're in a weird part of the world, like perhaps California. |
| 1:34.2 | So we thought that what we would do, because Boxing Day is a huge day for Hollywood normally, |
| 1:38.4 | everyone goes out to the movies, they drop some big tent pole blockbusters. |
| 1:42.4 | I am, you know, you may not know this about me, but I am a little bit of a movie buff. |
| 1:47.3 | And I love my cinema. |
| 1:48.5 | And I go to the movies a lot by myself, Alexi. |
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