The Top 20 Performances of 2025 + Train Dreams & Is This Thing On? Reviews

Project Big Screen

Barstool Sports

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 116 minutes

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On this episode of Project Big Screen, we rank our Top 20 Performances of 2025 — what did we miss? We also review three films, including Bradley Cooper’s latest directorial effort, ‘Is This Thing On?’, Netflix’s Oscar-buzzy ’Train Dreams’, and our first 2026 release yet, ‘Primate’. Stick around until the end of the episode to hear Gooch’s instructions on how to join our fan rankings! Make sure to like and subscribe! Timecodes: || Intro - (0:00) || Is This Thing On? Review - (2:35) || Is This Thing On? SPOILERS - (14:08) || Train Dreams Review - (24:26) || Train Dreams SPOILERS - (35:50) || Ad - (42:42) || Primate Review - (43:57) || Alamo Drafthouse - (53:52) || People We Meet On Vacation - (58:39) || Physical Media Corner - (1:01:44) || Ad - (1:07:25) || Top 20 Performances of the Year - (1:08:51) Follow us on Social Media: barstool.link/pbs X | Twitter | Letterboxd: @ProjBigScreen IG | Tik Tok: @ProjectBigScreen Our Personal Letterboxds: Jeff: @JeffDLowe Gooch: @BobGoochman Kenjac: @Kenjac Klemmer: @ChrisKlemmer Kirk: @KirkMinihane

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0:00.0	Hey, Project Big Screen listeners.
0:01.5	You can find us every Monday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.
0:05.6	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:13.0	On this episode of Project Big Screen, we have a big one.
0:19.4	Top 20 performances of 2025.
0:21.8	What are our favorites of the year?
0:23.8	Three reviews, two 2025 movies we have is this thing on, as well as Train Dreams, a movie
0:29.9	that more and more people are checking out and loving.
0:31.5	And then our first 2026 review of the year, Primate.
0:35.7	All that and more coming up on Project Big Screen. All right, coming up on Project Big Screen.
0:38.0	All right, episode 15 of Project Big Screen.
0:41.0	Jeffty Lowe, Ken Jack, Clemer, Gooch coming at you here.
0:43.6	The second episode of January, second episode of 2026.
0:48.1	First 2026 movie we're going to talk about today, too.
0:51.8	This fucking monkey movie.
0:57.5	People love, people love animals and horror man and monkeys a lot of people I don't want to hate out of too much because
1:06.0	quite a few people like this movie we'll talk about that We talk about a couple of 2025 movies, too.
1:12.4	Train Dreams is this thing on.
1:14.9	We have a couple more 2025 movies we're going to get to.
1:16.8	We're going to see.
1:17.4	We'll talk Testament of Anley in a few weeks.
1:19.3	We move that back because it's not quite out everywhere yet.
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