Come Back a Star: A Movie Award Podcast

Talking! Singing! Ukuleles! Comedy? It's all here in MGM's Hollywood Revue! Will this newfangled sound technology take off? What if moving pictures were in color? What if Buster Keaton did a dance for the god Poseidon? This movie dared to tackle all of these questions and more. Hollywood Revue! Starring everybody under contract by MGM!

It has been a good batch of films for the 1927/28 season. The competition for Come Back a Star's 1927/28 Notscar: A Movie Award Podcast Movie Award will be fierce. We will recap the Academy's nominees including the two we nominated for our own award. Who will win? Wings or 7th Heaven? Tune in to find out!

Charlie Chaplin won the very special Charlie Chaplin Academy Award for Charlie Chaplin with this one for being a writing, producing, and performing genius. Some say that The Circus needed its own Award to stop it from sweeping the first Academy Awards. How does the movie truly stack up against our other nominees though? Would it have been a floppy clown shoe-in?

No, not the old program on The WB.

7th Heaven was one of our favorites. It's simple and sappy, but it still manages to strike a chord that resonated with audiences back in 1927 and with us in 2020. It won four other Academy Awards, but was merely a nominee for Best Picture. Was the Academy correct to keep this movie to a mere nomination or was 7th Heaven robbed of the Best Picture award? Listen in to find out!

Mobster Scarsi and Police Officer McQuigg square off in this early gangster movie. Is it a battle between Lawful Good and Chaotic Evil? Or is indictment of both the heavy-handed police and the violent mob in the era of prohibition? Laura and Jason explore these theories in... THE RACKET.

MURDER! Sunrise gives us "A Tale of Two Humans" about love, fear, and runaway piglets. It's the second Academy Award winner we've covered for 1927/29.

But wait. There's two? Yup. Sunrise won the Unique and Artistic Picture, which only existed for the very 1st Academy Awards.

Will it win the coveted Notscar: A Movie Award Podcast Movie Award for Movies, though?

Our first movie review and it's of the first ever Best Picture winner. Do you like biplanes? How do you feel about LOTS of biplanes? If you answered yes to either, Wings is YOUR movie. (Seriously though, it is a great picture.)

We'll give the movie our own ratings in our Acting, Writing, Cinematography, and Overall categories. Maybe we'll give out a few bonus points too in our bonus rounds, Costumes/Sets, Boldness, Longevity, and Legacy.

Our introductory episode! We're going to rate and review every Best Picture winner and nominee from the 1927/28 Academy Awards onwards. It's bananas!