Why Don't These Perfectly Good Movies Have Any Oscar Buzz?
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A Quiet Place, Chappaquiddick, and Blockers are all worthy of your attention, but getting statues to go with it will be a bit harder. Plus, a discussion of the new TBS series The Last O.G.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the Awardees and Podcasts from Vanity Fair and |
| 0:09.6 | Panoply. I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.comcom and we have in our New York studio three people we have our digital director Mike Kogan |
| 0:17.0 | Hey Katie we have our chief critic Richard Lawson hello and in from the coast we have our senior writer Joanna Robinson. |
| 0:23.0 | Hi, Katie. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm back from vacation. |
| 0:25.0 | Thank you all for letting me escape. |
| 0:26.0 | I appreciate your generosity and letting me run away for a minute. |
| 0:30.0 | But we have a lot to talk about now that we're back in. |
| 0:32.0 | We've got a bunch of new releases and we're also going to start verging into talking about television as Emmy season approaches. |
| 0:38.0 | To kick things off, we wanted to look back a little bit to last weekend. |
| 0:41.0 | We didn't really get into Ready Player player one which was the big box office |
| 0:44.0 | winner of the weekend it's the new Stephen Spielberg movie it is by all means |
| 0:48.1 | some level of an event even if it isn't as huge as Spielberg's movies have been in the |
| 0:52.1 | past joanna you talked about it briefly from seeing it at Southby isn't as huge as Spielberg's movies have been in the past. |
| 0:52.8 | Joanna, you talked about it briefly from seeing it at South By. |
| 0:55.2 | Richard, you managed to see it and I think you were a fan, right? |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah, I liked it. |
| 0:58.8 | I saw it as a civilian would in that I paid for a movie ticket. I got popcorn and soda. |
| 1:03.6 | What a concept? |
| 1:04.8 | Sat with the Hoy Poloy in one of those reclining seats. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, I enjoyed it. |
| 1:08.8 | I mean, I think that a lot of the discourse on Twitter |
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