I'm Aye Shorasko and you're listening to the Sunday story.

A few months ago, I was lucky enough to get invited to a screening of Barbie at the British Embassy.

This is not the normal way I spend my evenings, but I was, you know, blessed to get invited to this event. I guess a lot of Barbie was filmed in the UK.

So they threw this big party for the film. I went with my sister. It was really beautiful.

Like everything was pink. they were like these pink

Barbie boxes for us to take pictures in the sushi was pink the burgers themselves

weren't pink but the buns were pink.

And then after that, they put us on this double-decker bus.

And we went to the movies, and we saw Barbie.

And I really, really enjoyed it. And not just because I have been buttered up with alcohol and food and

sushi. Tonight Barbie will be competing in multiple categories at America's yearly

celebration of all things movies, the Oscars. But I gotta be honest, I haven't watched

a lot of the nominated films this year. I'm a single mom so I'm really busy. I got about three jobs.

And I really just love like horror and murder on screens, not in real life, but on screen and that doesn't always

show up in the best movies of the year according to the Oscars.

So to help make sense of what I should have seen and what I should still see and what it all means

I'm turning to my colleagues Linda Holmes and Aisha Harris from Pop Culture Happy Hour.

Aisha, Linda, thank you for joining us today.

Thank you.

Yes, hi, yes, hi, yes, hi,

not just colleagues, friends.

Thank you, thank you so much. So let's start with like, you know, the big picture on the Oscars and really the best pictures. So best picture nominations. The only ones that I've seen are Barbie and I saw poor things for work, but liked it. What are the other ones that both of y'all think that I should prioritize seeing?

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