Mission Impossible (1996)

The Oscar Went To is back! If you don't want to listen to this 11 mins preamble, here's the point: Watch 1999's Best Picture Winner American Beauty and join us for our next episode.

Max and Nick choose to accept their mission of unpacking the espionage action thriller that started it all. Light the fuse. 

Max and Nick are smiling from ear to ear discussing the ultra-pleasantness of the 1996 fan fav That Thing You Do!

Harvest time for the money lenders, ha! Max and Nick put on their nightgowns and deconstruct what has quickly become a holiday classic.  

Max and Nick discuss the good yet boring commercial and critical success: 1996's The English Patient. 

Tornados, aliens, patients who are English; Nick and Max dissect the year in film that was 1996. 

1.21 Gigawatts?! Get your life preservers on and join us while we fulfill our density by deep diving the 1985 mega-hit, Back to the Future. Also, stay tuned to the end to hear friend of the podcast Jimmy Shoemaker make his first appearance. DISCLAIMER: Max inaccurately says Robert Zemeckis has a cameo in the first few minutes of this film. The crewmember driving the jeep is in fact stunt coordinator, Walter Scott.

Max and Nick continue their "Movies We Can't Wait to Watch with Our Kids" theme by revisiting the 1993 cult classic The Sandlot. Topics include unadvised chewing tobacco, unapproachable 20 year-old babes as ten year olds, and the weekly shoutout to Richard Linklater. 

Max and Nick are back to discuss the iconic psychological horror classic and muse on twist endings, spoilers, and dead puppies. 

The guys get deep: talking anxiety, death and Woody's alternate existence in a college dorm room on this episode of The Oscar Went To!