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The Academy’s Captive Audience

Podcast by Kitrick Callis, Benjamin Allen

English

Culture & leisure

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About The Academy’s Captive Audience

Welcome one and all to The Academy’s Captive Audience! Here your hosts Ben and Kit will delve into the award winning and rightfully nominated films since the creation of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our goal is to create an audio record of these films. Our reactions, thoughts, and overall experience will be here as a guide post to navigate all those films you may have never heard of and always wondered why they won. Without any further ado, Let’s roll that film!

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30 episodes

episode Episode 23: It was a Heavy Year artwork

Episode 23: It was a Heavy Year

Ben and Kit finish up the 44th Academy Awards and it is a doozy. We describe this year as a rather bleak year for cinema. Iconic in every sense of the word as we step off the stage to the familial strife of a beloved Russian Jewish family before taking a turn for the not so great. Be warned that the dark underside through the eyes of a youthful delinquent is not for the faint of heart. So if you wish to avoid watching this little horror show, you're in the right place because we basically tell you the whole story. Compared to this story however, the hero of the Oscar Best Picture winner is a saint. The following films in this episode are... - Fiddler on the Roof A Clockwork Orange The French Connection - Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit those notification buttons for future episodes!  If you enjoy what you've heard, please share this episode with a friend or two and leave us a comment wherever you are listening! Also follow us at our social media feeds or email us to interact and let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience... https://x.com/theacapodcast [https://x.com/theacapodcast] https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast [https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast] theacapodcast@gmail.com [theacapodcast@gmail.com]

Yesterday - 1 h 6 min
episode Episode 22: Is Your Therapist a Wall? artwork

Episode 22: Is Your Therapist a Wall?

Ben and Kit return to their regularly scheduled programing to bring you the 44th Academy Awards. We start the year with the birth of the Tsar and Tsarina's fifth child and first son and boy what a life he lives. Then we mosey on down to a small oil town in Texas to salute the last ticket sale of the town's movie theater. The following films of the 44th Oscars are... - Nicholas and Alexandra The Last Picture Show - Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit those notification buttons for future episodes!  If you enjoy what you've heard, please share this episode with a friend or two and leave us a comment wherever you are listening! Also follow us at our social media feeds or email us to interact and let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience... https://x.com/theacapodcast [https://x.com/theacapodcast]  https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast [https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast]  theacapodcast@gmail.com [theacapodcast@gmail.com]

3 Jun 2026 - 1 h 1 min
episode Reel Forum: Episode I artwork

Reel Forum: Episode I

Ben and Kit are breaking off from our regular schedule to interact with some questions asked by our listeners. We also engage in the current discussion on The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan and take a look at the new rule implemented by the Academy for next years' Oscars and beyond. - Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit those notification buttons for future episodes!  If you enjoy what you've heard, please share this episode with a friend or two and leave us a comment wherever you are listening! Also follow us at our social media feeds or email us to interact and let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience... https://x.com/theacapodcast [https://x.com/theacapodcast] https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast [https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast] theacapodcast@gmail.com [theacapodcast@gmail.com]

20 May 2026 - 58 min
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Episode 21: That's the Trilogy

With the final films of the 52nd Academy Awards coming to a close, Ben and Kit make a huge discovery. After punching in to the life of a textile factory worker, we live it up once again on Broadway hitting the after party of a lifetime, before bringing down the ultimate ruling on a never before witnessed trilogy of films. The following films are... - Norma Rae All That Jazz Kramer vs. Kramer - Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit those notification buttons for future episodes!  If you enjoy what you've heard, please share this episode with a friend or two and leave us a comment wherever you are listening! Also follow us at our social media feeds or email us to interact and let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience... https://x.com/theacapodcast [https://x.com/theacapodcast] https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast [https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast] theacapodcast@gmail.com [theacapodcast@gmail.com]

6 May 2026 - 1 h 12 min
episode Episode 20: Dream of Golden Butter artwork

Episode 20: Dream of Golden Butter

We begin this journey into the heart of the 52nd Academy Awards by going through a brief overview of what was happening during the latter part of the 1970's. Ben then takes us on a descent through the thick overgrowth of the Vietnam jungle, and Kit takes us on a well needed and timely bicycle tour around Bloomington Indiana. Go Hoosiers! The films in this episode are... - Apocalypse Now Breaking Away - Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit those notification buttons for future episodes!  If you enjoy what you've heard, please share this episode with a friend or two and leave us a comment wherever you are listening! Also follow us at our social media feeds or email us to interact and let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience... https://x.com/theacapodcast [https://x.com/theacapodcast] https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast [https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast] theacapodcast@gmail.com [theacapodcast@gmail.com]

22 Apr 2026 - 54 min
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