Cinematic highs and lows on Academy Vs Audience

1943... the world's at war, and the film world is reacting, but in ways good and bad. For you see, inside all of us are two wolves: Rick's Café American, and the Stage Door Canteen. And the Academy and Audience fed very different wolves. The Oscars hand the top trophy to Casablanca, about as correct a choice as can be made, while the audience turned out for army fundraiser This is the Army with Ronald Reagan, which our returning guest Munsi Parker-Munroe likens to the US funding Al Qaeda in the 80s: not one of the ten worst things Reagan did, but still not good. It's a best of times, worst of times situation for film, but a best of all worlds scenario for you, the listener, as we get to appreciate something beautiful, then tear down something distinctly not. Join us! Click below to listen now.