Episode 94 – The Annual Richard Lester Year-End Dinner: 2022
It’s been a year-end tradition that me, Aaron Smith, and Ted Haycraft usually meet sometime after Christmas but before New Years at an IHOP or Denny’s, recap the year among friends, and eventually get into an argument as to whether Richard Lester is the father of the music video. It happens. Every year. For the third podcasting year, we’ve continued away from in-person dining to the podcast episode, where the three of us talk:
- why Ted after three years of doing this, forgot to make a list this year;
- if Jordan Peele’s Nope overrated of this generation’s Jaws;
- and the difference between a normal top ten list and spectacle experiences in-person at the theater.
Also:
- the mutual love of The Northmen from different directions;
- our mutual best surprise of the year coming from late summer;
- and my surprise and enthusiastic pick for #2, which barely appeared on other critics’ top ten lists.
Aaron Smith is the lead manager at Showplace Cinemas Newburgh in Evansville, IN.
Ted Haycraft is film critic for WFIE-14 and co-hosts Cinema Chat on its Midday show. He can also be found on Cinema Chat’s Facebook page.