Oscars 2022: NIGHTMARE ALLEY review
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4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
PRE-OSCARS REVIEW: As part of our 2022 Oscars prep we review NIGHTMARE ALLEY.
Synopsis: In 1940s New York, down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to a clairvoyant and her mentalist husband at a traveling carnival. Using newly acquired knowledge, Carlisle crafts a golden ticket to success by swindling the elite and wealthy. Hoping for a big score, he soon hatches a scheme to con a dangerous tycoon with help from a mysterious psychologist who might be his most formidable opponent yet.
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| 0:00.0 | Here come the most beautiful words in the English language. |
| 0:05.2 | This is a brunch pre-Oscar's mini podcast. |
| 0:07.5 | It contains spoilers, but we can't imagine you care. |
| 0:09.7 | If you haven't seen the movie and you're afraid of spoilers, |
| 0:11.7 | there is no way you would logically seek out a podcast about the movie. |
| 0:16.0 | Let us begin. |
| 0:17.7 | Pete, give me the honors. |
| 0:19.4 | Nightmare. |
| 0:20.6 | Nightmare out. Boy, it's been honors. Nightmare. Nightmare All. |
| 0:22.6 | Boy, it's been forever since I've been able to do one of those things. |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.0 | One of the, uh, give me the movie. |
| 0:28.8 | This is the first one that we're doing of the brunch Oscar mini episodes. |
| 0:34.1 | This week is Nightmare Alley and Coda. |
| 0:36.5 | You'll have that with this little package. |
| 0:38.5 | Neither of us had seen either of these movies. And Nightmare Alley was one. I really knew like |
| 0:44.4 | nothing about. Honestly, I didn't even know until the first scene that Bradley Cooper was in it. |
| 0:50.0 | I had heard of Nightmare Alley as an idea. I don't recall ever seeing like a trailer. |
| 0:57.0 | It kind of slipped under the radar for me. |
| 0:59.0 | But as soon as it came up with like, oh, this is the Guillermo del Toro movie with |
| 1:04.0 | Bradley Cooper. |
| 1:05.0 | I remembered hearing about that in production. |
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