Come Back a Star: A Movie Award Podcast

And we're back! Sorry about the delay. We have been waylaid by moves and technical difficulties.

 

State Fair features not one but two rather mundane, yet risqué, romances. There are also piggys! Ring tosses! Trapeze artists on giant swings! Carnie antics! It is a State Fair after all.

Wow. We actually have a competition for the 1931-32 season. Several very good pictures came out this year and we only covered the official nominees from the academy! Which will take home the coveted Notscar: A Movie Award Podcast Movie Award for Movies? Will it be the hard hitting newspaper drama, Five Star Final? The Skippy prequel, The Champ? The Academy's choice, Grand Hotel? Listen in and share your own thoughts via twitter at @ComeBackAStar or via email ComeBackAStarPodcast@gmail.com or on our Facebook page!

How to describe Grand Hotel? It's a tough one. One character even claims nothing ever happens there, but oh it does. It does. This is the official Oscar winner and features a truly all-star cast with John and Lionel Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and Wallace Beery. Tune in and hear if we agree it was worthy of all the hype and high priced actors.

Like Cimarron, Arrowsmith was based on an epic novel about an adventurous hero man except this hero man adventured in SCIENCE! Is the movie able to capture the book, or is Hollywood still struggling like they did with Cimarron? Listen in!

It's a highly risqué movie poster for a fairly sweet everyday married couple. Will the movie hold up even if it doesn't live up to its poster?

A boxing movie? Sort of? It also has a race horsie and Jackie Cooper as a kid who is more or less Skippy again. We like to think of this film as part of the greater Skippy cinematic universe.

In our first Edward G Robinson picture that was also nominated by The Academy, we see the classic mobster run a muckraking newspaper in a similarly amoral way. Robinson's Joseph Randall, newspaper editor, is ruthless and cold as he goes after the traumatic past of a private citizen. The film gives Robinson and Randall a chance to prove that he can be more than just a heartless monster though, as the newspaper editor struggles with his conscience and what he has done. 

TW: This movie involves suicide. Please take care of yourself. :)

No, you're not accidentally re-listening to The Smiling Lieutenant. It's another Maurice Chevalier movie and this time it's a romantic conundrum for old Maurice choosing between two women he's attracted to. Wait... that was in the Smiling Lieutenant too. Hm... this time he's a doctor instead of a lieutenant. There we go. There's the diff.

Marlene Dietrich is back with her first movie nominated by the academy in this story of intrigue! Mystery! And rich Westerners generally being obnoxious on a train! Along with Dietrich we get to see Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong rule the screen. Also Clive Brook is there! Will Dietrich and Wong's magnetic performances save the train and the movie? Will it survive to earn a prestigious Notscar nomination?

It's like The Love Parade but slightly less misogynistic and you can hear the people talking and singing. It's a significant boost over our last Chavalier movie, but is it enough to pull off a Notscar: A Movie Award Podcast Movie Award for Movies.