SINNERS, BUGONIA, ONE BATTLER AFTER ANOTHER, and THE SECRET AGENT- 2026 Oscars Best Picture Series

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 119 minutes

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It's Oscars season! The Cine-Files hosts John Rocha and Steve Morris wrap up their exploration of the 2025 Best Picture nominees in their Oscars Best Picture Series with this conversation and review of three Best Picture nominees: SINNERS, BUGONIA, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, and THE SECRET AGENT. They discuss the performances, filmmaking, storylines, scripts and constructions of these films. They also give you their thoughts on the chances of them winning in all the categories they are nominated in including Best Picture. Don't forget to vote in our Second Annual Oscars show by signing up for our Patreon as a free or paying member. Everyone gets to vote and we will announce the winners on our live The Cine-Files Oscars show on March 14th at 3pm PT!

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0:00.0	Hello, Cine Falls fans, and welcome back to our final installment for this year on the
0:13.3	26 Best Picture Nominees.
0:16.6	We are going to go, we're going to talk about four films in this particular episode here.
0:21.9	I am John Roker-Jones, as always, by my co-host here, Steve Morris.
0:26.0	Well, hello, sir. How are you?
0:27.7	Hello, I'm, I tell you, I'm good, but we're on the precipice of a very busy weekend.
0:34.0	You and I are going to be hosting a live Cinefiles Award show or second annual one.
0:39.3	Plus, you and I, I'm sure, are going to be watching the Oscars. I'll be doing a live watch along. I'm sure you'll be chilling out watching it where you're watching. And so there's a lot. There's a lot that's going on this weekend. And I've read a lot of Oscar coverage. I'm kind of, Oscars doubt by Monday morning.
0:52.8	I'll tell you this right now.
0:54.0	But I am excited to sit down and talk about these films with you here on this particular installment here.
0:59.6	I am too, and we should probably say that that Cine Files Award Show, the second annual, by the way, will be at 12 o'clock. We did have to rearrange the time because one of the hosts of this show made an error in
1:13.2	their schedule. I'm not going to say who it was because that would be rude. It was me. And so at 12 o'clock
1:19.6	now on tomorrow, which is Saturday, the 14th of March. Yes. On our YouTube channel, we will be
1:26.1	having the second annual Cinephiles Awards. Yes. 12 p.m. P.T. 12 p.m. March. Yes. On our YouTube channel, we will be having the second annual Cinephiles Awards.
1:29.2	Yes, 12 p.m. PT, tomorrow.
1:33.0	And yes, one of us decided to have a family and then it screwed everything up all these
1:37.1	years later.
1:38.4	Talk about irresponsible.
1:40.5	Well, I didn't you think of it.
1:42.2	But in this particular installment, we are going to talk about Bagonia. We're going to talk about sinners. We're going to talk about a secret agent. And we're going to talk about one battle after another. But what's going to be unusual about this installment is that we already spoke about sinners. And we already spoke about one battle after another months ago after we had seen both of us
2:02.5	had seen the movie so those are going to be our conversations and they were essentially our
2:07.7	shorts at the time but those are going to be our conversations but begonia and secret agent
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