Kimmel cracked wise. Emma Stone cried. No one was surprised. This was the 96th Academy Awards ceremony.By Spro and Lee

Just in time for Oscar weekend, Spro & Lee bring you their takes on the 96th Academy Awards.By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee finally dish on Barbenheimer, adrenechroming, and all manner of scuttlebutt from the year of our lord, 2023.By Spro and Lee

The boys welcome Robert Ruggeri, Spro's longtime friend and a producer on Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter. The three talk about the cocksure confidence of youth, making movies in the great state of Ohio, and minimum quotes.By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee land the plane that is season five with their second discussion on scripts - reading, writing, and evaluating them - and in the process, a Hollywood institution is relieved of one of his four Oscars. It's season finale time.By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee caught up with their old friend, Emily, who spent a good portion of 2023 on strike.By Spro and Lee

The Oscars have always favored socially important dramas, bloated biopics, and history under glass, but Spro & Lee say "What about comedies?"By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee step in to mediate the legal termination of Laura Dern's best supporting actress Oscar from 2020. They tried their best to get her some visitation rights, but no dice.By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee travel eighty years into the past to pose one burning question to the Academy of yesteryear: exactly how green WAS your valley? Mercifully, they're joined by the Worthy Boys (Jon & Ben from The Worthy Podcast) and Kyle Bruehl (from I Know Movies and You Don't) who help measure the viridescence of said valley.…

Spro & Lee's old friend, MC (Second Chance Cinema & The Mount Rushmore Podcast), returns to join their discussion on the best and worst Oscar winning songs of all time.By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee bring you part III of "The Streep Effect", an examination and evaluation of each and every Oscar nomination Meryl Streep has ever received.By Spro and Lee

Claire (from Why the Flick?) joins Spro and Lee to help take the Best Picture Oscar away from yet another bonehead pick by The Academy. It's time to go to the Piggly Wiggly...and nowhere else.By Spro and Lee

Spro and Lee are back and wasting no time getting controversial. Will some of you see this episode as a cheap shot? An overreaction? Or a slap in the face? Maybe. Nevertheless, the boys are ready to put themselves between a Rock and a nut case.By Spro and Lee

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It's not the years, honey...........okay, it's the years.By Spro and Lee

Lee welcomes director Randall Miller, producer Jody Savin, and writer David Rollins to chat about their new film, Coffee Wars (available now on Prime Video, Google Play, and iTunes).By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee share their opinions on the 95th Oscars. Featuring MC from Second Chance Cinema & The Mount Rushmore Podcast. YouTube Clips Used-- Jimmy Kimmel Opening Monologue Hugh Grant Awkward Interview Hugh Grant / Andie MacDowell Lady Gaga Sings Rihanna Sings Best Supporting Actress Intro Top Gun Sound Best Picture to Everything Everywhere All At …

You didn't think Spro & Lee were sitting this one out, did you?By Spro and Lee

The boys look back at 2022. Spro tries to talk news. Lee gets pissy. It's a gas, man.By Spro and Lee

The boys welcome Aliya Kanani: comedian, actor, writer, self-described vagabond, and a cast member from SALTOTA's Best Picture in the World (2021), Scarborough.By Spro and Lee

The boys welcome Conor M. Casey: actor, writer, artist, former OSU Buckeye, and a cast member from SALTOTA's Best Picture in the World (2021), Scarborough.By Spro and Lee

To cap off Season Three of SALTOTA, Spro and Lee go 'round the world in twelve movies - all of which won their country's ostensible "Best Picture" award - and in the end, the boys choose what they believe to be...THE BEST PICTURE IN THE WORLD, two-thousand and twenty-two!By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee bring you part II of "The Streep Effect", an examination and evaluation of each and every Oscar nomination Meryl Streep has ever received. Also in this episode, the boys stumble upon an Oscar winner in serious need of dethroning.By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee finally welcome back their old chum and fan favorite, Emily. By SALTOTA reckoning, Kevin Spacey only has one Oscar left - his best supporting actor win of 1996 for playing Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects - and it's time to wipe the slate clean...By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee welcome a pumpkin patch of guests, each one armed with a horror movie they believe was overlooked by sons of witches over at the academy. So grab a pillowcase and enjoy Spro & Lee's Horror Show.By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee welcome author, educator, world traveler, and old friend, Joe Lewis, who joins the boys on a trip twenty-one years into the past where they discuss college, the films of 2001 and Ron Howard's ill-gotten best director Oscar for A Beautiful Mind.By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee turn back the clock thirty-five years to talk about the best original screenplays of 1987; Spro shares his strategies for writing a first-draft of a screenplay; and finally, the boys welcome back MC (2nd Chance Cinema; The Mount Rushmore Podcast) to sell everyone on his favorite script of the year, which wasn't even nominated.…

Spro & Lee present part I of their ongoing series, "The Streep Effect", in which they look at each and every Oscar nomination Meryl Streep has ever received and decide if the Queen of Hollywood deserved them all.By Spro and Lee

Season three begins with the boys strong-arming their old friend and the founder of Odd Dog Coffee, Mike Hancock, into discussing perhaps the most egregious best picture winner of all time - Crash. This one's been a long time coming...By Spro and Lee

It’s time to cut the carbs, find the dress, shine the diamonds, and get ready for Season Three of Spro and Lee Take on the Academy...beginning Monday, August 29th.By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee welcome actor/writer Morgana O'Reilly. She tells the boys all about life in show business, being a mom, and her 2014 horror/comedy "Housebound".By Spro and Lee

Spro & Lee recap some of the events from the 2022 Oscars ceremony, and MC (Spro's cohost of Second Chance Cinema) joins the boys for an in depth conversation about why the Oscars aren't for him.By Spro and Lee

Spro and Lee try to get excited about the 94th Academy Awards.By Spro and Lee

Spro and Lee reflect on 2021 with their special brand of "hateful nostalgia". They talk season 2 mistakes, Spielberg, streaming, Chinese propaganda, and the Golden Globes scandal.By Spro and Lee

Spro and Lee welcome director Randall Miller and writer Jody Savin, two independent filmmakers who made three films (Bottle Shock, CBGB, and Nobel Son) with Alan Rickman. They share their memories of the man with the voice thereby giving a glimpse of the remarkable human being Rickman was when the cameras weren't rolling. In their own words, "He wa…

Spro and Lee cordially invite you to the first half of their season two finale - a celebration of the late, great Alan Rickman. Friends of the show, Emily and Rudy, join the boys for a lengthy lovefest to cover the lore, the laughs, and the legacy of the man with the voice.By Spro and Lee

The final link in the Poli-Academy chain is here!!! Last time, Denzel got the gold for Malcolm X. This time, he gets the gold snatched away for his comic-book antagonist, Alonzo Harris, in Training Day. Yeah...we're expecting to get some crap for this one...bring it on.By Spro and Lee

Spro and Lee welcome Laurence back to the show. Together, the three de-Oscar Sir Richard Attenborough whose 1982 film, Gandhi, won a host of Academy Awards, the most unconscionable of which was the best director statuette.By Spro and Lee

Just as way leads on to way, Oscar mistakes beget Oscar mistakes. Last time, Pacino was the recipient; this time, he's the target. Join Spro and Lee for Part II of the "Poly-Academy" series where the boys go back almost 30 years to the spring of 1993 to take away Big Al's Best Actor statue for Scent of a Woman. Hoo-Ahh indeed...…

Part 1 of a 3 part series where Spro and Lee examine the political motivations which motivate Academy voters but baffle the rest of us. The first installment will take you almost 47 years back to the 47th Academy Awards where they're gonna take the little gold man for best actor away from Art Carney.…

The Academy loves a fairy tale, and the fantasy adventure Slumdog Millionaire played on those affections, seducing its way into a handful of Oscars. 13 years later, Spro and Lee still aren't feeling it - especially that Oscar it won for Best Picture.By Sprosty

Spro and Lee can't lie - they love Sandra Bullock. But they don't love her enough to let her keep the Oscar she won for The Blind Side. Sorry, Sandy. Love to the kids.By Sprosty

Season 2 of SALTOTA is here and wasting no time getting controversial. Guest host Jeremy Cordy (director/writer of Troma's Porking Mandy) convinces the boys to take two Oscars away from two of the greatest American directors of all time - Joel and Ethan Coen. This week...No Oscars for Old Men.By Sprosty

We warned you we'd be back. Season 2: The Second Wave begins Monday, September 6.By Sprosty

Interested in the Oscars this year!?!? Yeah...nobody really was....but Spro and Lee came together anyway, just to spite you!! The boys share their hopes and predictions, opinions and secret desires as they discuss the underwhelming filmic year that was 2020.By Sprosty

Originally, Spro and Lee planned this to be a nice quiet reunion to record a "Year-in-Review" episode. Instead, these turkeys turned out a two-part episode that totaled over four hours of recordings (don't worry...Spro edited). The boys talk about COVID's impact on the industry, analyze the Academy's woke new rules, try to answer some tough viewer …

Spro and Lee cordially invite you to the Season One Finale - Best Picture of 1979. Their friend, Laurence, stops in to help the right the wrong that was "Kramer vs. Kramer".By Sprosty

Emily (the new mommy!!) returns to round out "The Quickie Trilogy". This time, the old friends discuss the Best Director Oscar of 2002, an award shamelessly given to a man who couldn't attend the ceremony to accept as he is wanted for rape in the United States. That man's name is Roman Polanski.By Sprosty

Spro is finally granted a platform upon which to spout his anti-Stone rhetoric. This week, Emma and La La Land take some beatings and the Best Actress Oscar of 2017 gets passed on to a more deserving artist.By Sprosty

The boys welcome back their old friend, Emily, for the second of three Quickies. In this episode, the three will strip disgraced Hollywood darling, Kevin Spacey, of his 1999 Best Actor win for American Beauty, and give the award to someone who isn't persona non grata.By Sprosty