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The Best Pick movie podcast

Welcome to BEST PICK, the podcast in which we watch, assess and discuss every Academy Award Best Picture winner in no particular order. Hosted by @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan and @TomSalinsky.

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Nov 26, 2025

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 324: Singin’ in the Rain

Released 26 November 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1952 MGM musical Singin’ in the Rain, directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly who also starred alongside Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Jean Hagen. Arthur...


Oct 29, 2025

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 323: 2001 A Space Odyssey

Released 29 October 2025

For this episode, we watched Stanley Kubrick’s iconic science fiction masterpiece 2001 A Space Odyssey, written by Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke and starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester...


Oct 12, 2025

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 18: Annie Hall (1977) recorded live at the London Podcast Festival.

Released 26 September 2018. Rereleased 12 October 2025.

For this episode – which we are re-running in honour of Diane Keaton – we watched Annie Hall, written by Woody Allen and...


Sep 24, 2025

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 322: Beau Travail

Released 24 September 2025

For this episode, we watched Claire Denis’s 1999 story of three men in the French Foreign Legion, drawn in part from Herman Melville’s unfinished novella Billy Budd. The film stars Denis Lavant, Michel...


Aug 27, 2025

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 321: In the Mood for Love

Released 27 August 2025

For this episode, we watched the Wong Kar-wai’s modern classic In the Mood for Love, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. It sits at a hugely...