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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Oscars Recap with Ben Lyons + Million Dollar Baby

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Oscars recap with Ben Lyons. Adnan is wearing a tuxedo. Ashley Graham vs Hugh Grant. Why Red Carpets are so awkward. A story from Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars after party. Million Dollar Baby. Who is the next Brendan Fraser? The Elephant Whisperers. Is Sundance the G League of Hollywood? Cover the Oscars or live stream with Mario Chalmers? The Quiet Girl. Chris knows something. Le Pupille. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Clean Eastwood's million dollar baby is a masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true.

0:26.9

It's from Roger Ebert, Chicago sometimes. That's our old movie this week because it is the Academy Awards.

0:32.3

Special edition here is a cinephile and that's why I want to talk about a million dollar baby which did a phenomenal job of the Academy Awards back in 2004,

0:38.8

winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor.

0:43.0

Of course, the actress being Hillary Swank and Morgan Freeman.

0:45.2

Our new film this week is The Quiet Girl, which did not win at last night's Academy Awards,

0:49.6

but it's a terrific film from Ireland. It's the final of the nominees I've seen for Best International Feature Film.

0:54.4

I'm also going to do real quickly a few of the shorts as well because those are readily available now on streaming services.

1:00.4

But enough blabbing out of me. We're going to get to the man of the hour. Ben Lions who has carried the Academy Awards.

1:05.2

He's in it with me. He's been a voice of entertainment in this country.

1:08.2

Here's me and Ben breaking down the Oscars right now.

1:13.5

As promised, everybody Ben Lions is back. His annual appearance here on the Academy Awards.

1:17.4

The first thing that Ben noticed of course, and was around and wearing it as a great job, he's basically running Amazon Sports Content

1:22.6

as a morning show called Bonjour.

1:24.4

And Bonjour, we say to Ben right now Ben, I'm wearing a Tixedo because this is the Tixedo you told me to get when you got me to the Oscars and we did it twice together.

1:31.7

And most famously, after we did the Oscars together, you said, you want to go in an outburger?

1:35.2

And we went to in an outburger in our Tixedo. It felt like a scene in a Pulp Fiction.

1:38.3

Well, I'm proud of you for only having in an outburger on Oscar night so you can still fit into that Tuxedo,

1:44.6

which is now about seven years old, I think. Eight years old on the Tux.

1:48.6

So, and now I don't know if it's the Pilates, the Hot Yodhaw, whatever that treatment was that Jimmy Kimmel mentioned that all the celebrities are doing now in a way to say,

1:57.3

then you look good, buddy.

1:58.5

I appreciate it, man, due to I did have to kind of give a suck in on the waist a little bit, but yes, we did get the Tixedo on.

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