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The Academy’s Captive Audience

The Academy’s Captive Audience

By: Kitrick Callis Benjamin Allen
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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!Copyright 2025 All rights reserved. Art
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  • Episode 22: Is Your Therapist a Wall?
    Jun 3 2026

    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...

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    Nicholas and Alexandra

    The Last Picture Show

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Reel Forum: Episode I
    May 20 2026

    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.

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    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://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast

    theacapodcast@gmail.com

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    59 mins
  • Episode 21: That's the Trilogy
    May 6 2026

    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...

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    Norma Rae

    All That Jazz

    Kramer vs. Kramer

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    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://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast

    theacapodcast@gmail.com

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    1 hr and 13 mins
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