Talk Film Society Podcast

Siobhan and Marcelo discuss their favorite lead performances of the year! Just like the best supporting performance episode, this is non-gendered! But they also talk about who will win the Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars, of course. You can vote in the 13th Annual Talk Film Society Awards now! Help select the best in film of 2025: TalkFilmSoc.com/Vote. Follow the TFSPod for awards season updates: TalkFilmSoc.com/TFSAwards.

Siobhan and Marcelo talk scores and soundtracks in this episode; more specifically, the best original scores of 2025 and the best original songs. Plus, some Oscar-nominated shorts talk and some Sundance 2026 talk. You can vote in the 13th Annual Talk Film Society Awards now! Help select the best in film of 2025: TalkFilmSoc.com/Vote. Follow the TFSPod for awards season updates: TalkFilmSoc.com/TFSAwards.

Siobhan and Marcelo talk writing, both original and adapted, as they pick their favorite scripts of 2025. They also predict who’ll win the BIG AWARDS. You can vote in the 13th Annual Talk Film Society Awards now! Help select the best in film of 2025: TalkFilmSoc.com/Vote. Follow the TFSPod for awards season updates: TalkFilmSoc.com/TFSAwards.

Siobhan and Marcelo are joined by special guest, film writer and author Richard Newby! They discuss their favorites of 2025 in the Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Costume Design categories. Plus, they discuss the snubs and flubs of this year’s Oscar nominations. You can vote in the 13th Annual Talk Film Society Awards now! Help select the best in film of 2025: TalkFilmSoc.com/Vote. Follow the TFSPod for awards season updates: TalkFilmSoc.com/TFSAwards.

Hi Ho, Cinema To The Letter here! With a new special coming soon to Disney+, it seemed like the right time to unleash our retrospective on The Muppet Show from last May onto the main feed! Join Thomas, Bryan and special guest star Heather Beattie as they discuss a selection of episodes from the original classic The Muppet Show! Episodes featuring esteemed guest stars like Steve Martin, Rita Moreno, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minelli and more!  Join our Patreon for $1 to hear monthly audio reviews of new releases which you can vote on at patreon.com/cinema2letter! Follow us @cinema2letter on socials! Artwork by Michelle Kyle! Usual theme music by Burial Grid!

Siobhan and Marcelo are joined by Formula 1 enthusiast Terra to live commentate over the Oscar nominations announcement! Then, they talk about the Golden Globes and their favorites in the Best Sound and Best Visual Effects categories in film in 2025!

Siobhan and Marcelo are joined by Thomas from Cinema to the Letter in this episode, where they discuss their favorite ensembles in film from 2025. Plus, they talk a lot about the Best Casting Oscar category. This is a good one. You can vote in the 13th Annual Talk Film Society Awards now! Help select the best of film of 2025: TalkFilmSoc.com/Vote. Follow the TFSPod for awards season updates: TalkFilmSoc.com/TFSAwards.

Siobhan and Marcelo pick their best lenses of the year as they discuss the best cinematography in film in the year 2025! You can vote in the 13th Annual Talk Film Society Awards now! Help select the best of film of 2025: TalkFilmSoc.com/Vote. Follow the TFSPod for awards season updates: TalkFilmSoc.com/TFSAwards.

Siobhan and Marcelo build sets and cut film through conversation as they discuss their favorites and their Oscar predictions for Best Production Design and Best Editing of 2025! You can vote in the 13th Annual Talk Film Society Awards now! Help select the best of film of 2025: TalkFilmSoc.com/Vote. Follow the TFSPod for awards season updates: TalkFilmSoc.com/TFSAwards.

Siobhan and Marcelo welcome back their best Best Animated Film guest, Joey Hamilton, to discuss the best animated films of 2025!

Siobhan and Marcelo welcome back Stage to Screen co-host Elise Poston to the show to discuss the best supporting performances of 2025. And yes, we’re changing the way we do things. No more supporting actress and actor categories; it’s all in one big category now! You can vote in the 13th Annual Talk Film Society Awards now! Help select the best of film of 2025: TalkFilmSoc.com/Vote. Follow the TFSPod for awards season updates: TalkFilmSoc.com/TFSAwards.

You can vote in the 13th Annual Talk Film Society Awards now! Help select the best of film of 2025: TalkFilmSoc.com/Vote. Follow the TFSPod for awards season updates: TalkFilmSoc.com/TFSPod. Siobhan and Marcelo return to talk about one of their favorite things: AWARDS. And in this episode, they do some awards season 2025 talk, but they mostly talk about their favorite non-2025 watches of the year.

Nothing says the holiday season like looking back at the good, the bad and the ugly parts of the west! For this brand new bonus podcast, Thomas is joined by Siobhan Irving and Sam Brutuxan to discuss The Dollars Trilogy aka The Man With No Name Trilogy from director Sergio Leone and star Clint Eastwood! Listen in as our trio discusses 60 years of this iconic western trilogy consisting of A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More and The Good The Bad And The Ugly! Please help Siobhan at her GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/b0a8d14ac Join our Patreon for $1 to hear monthly audio reviews of new releases which you can vote on at patreon.com/cinema2letter! Follow us @cinema2letter on socials! Artwork by Michelle Kyle! Music by Burial Grid! We’re a proud member of the TalkFilmSociety podcast network! 

Elise and Marcelo close out this season of Stage to Screen by looking back at some musicals they’ve seen recently, then they look ahead to season three, and finally, they review Wicked: For Good!

You've got a Full Franchise in me! For Cinema To The Letter's bonus podcast for this month, you can hear Thomas & Bryan's Full Franchise discussion of the Toy Story franchise in honor of the first film's 30th anniversary! Listen as our duo answers the crucial questions. How did Pixar innovate animation by debuting the first computer-animated film? Who is our favorite Toy Story side character? What is up with the Best Original Song Academy Award? Well, put down your Buzz Lightyear & Woody for a second so you can listen to find out! Join our Patreon for $1 to hear monthly audio reviews of new releases, which you can vote on at patreon.com/cinema2letter! Follow us @cinema2letter on socials! Artwork by Michelle Kyle! Music by Burial Grid! We’re a proud member of the TalkFilmSociety podcast network!

Elise and Marcelo get into a classic on both counts, the musical and the film adaptation of Cabaret. Liza, fascism, queer representation, jazz hands; it’s all here at the Pod Kast Klub!

Elise and Marcelo spend 4 hours and 20 minutes discussing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, from watching the original Broadway run (one of them did that) to the deep connection they have with the film (directed by the Wickedly talented Jon M. Chu).

Elise and Marcelo try something a little different in this episode. First, they talk about Stephen Sondheim’s classical musical Company, how important it is to one of them (guess who), and their experience watching a local production. Then, they talk about the classic documentary Original Cast Album: Company and the fact that there hasn’t been a film adaptation, yet.

Elise and Marcelo wish you a Happy Halloween by talking about the cult classic The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show! Featuring Joey Hamilton and special guest Rocky Horror creator Richard O'Brien.

To celebrate 100 years of Universal Monsters, this Halloween is going with a classic spooky Patreon unlock! Hear Bryan and Thomas celebrate the spooky season back in 2023 with a little drive-in marathon of some classic Universal Monster films! All of which Bryan saw for the first time! Listen to their live reactions to all five films (Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man & Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man) as well as the other entries in the Universal Monster canon. Join our Patreon for $1 to hear monthly audio reviews of new releases which you can vote on at patreon.com/cinema2letter! Follow us @cinema2letter on socials! Artwork by Michelle Kyle! Music by Burial Grid! We’re a proud member of the TalkFilmSociety podcast network!