Sibling Cinema

About Sibling Cinema

Welcome to Sibling Cinema! Dennis and Bonnie are siblings and we're here to talk movies! Dennis is an obsessive cinephile and Bonnie is a super casual movie watcher. In this series we are embarking on a countdown of the Academy Award Best Picture winners. We aggregated several different lists (our trailer goes into more detail on how) that rank the ninety-four winners of the Best Picture Academy Award in a rough attempt to get a consensus. It is not intended to be rigorous or definitive. It's just a framework to guide our journey through cinema history.

Publisher

Bonnie and Dennis

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Nov 2022

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

190 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   The Color Purple (1985)

   This week, we discuss Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple. It's a change of pace for Spielberg and starts a new era of his career. It also prompted one of our lengthiest discussions. SPOILER ALERT We will be talking about this movie in its entirety. If you haven't seen this classic, we strongly suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A Amblin Entertainment production, released by Warner Bros. on December 18, 1985. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Screenplay by Menno Meyjes, based on the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Akosua Busia, and Willard E. Pugh. Cinematography by Allen Daviau. Edited by Michael Kahn. Score by Quincy Jones.

2. 

   8 Oct 2026

   The Apartment (1960) Revisit

   This week, we return to Billy Wilder’s masterpiece, The Apartment. We reviewed it a few years back as part of our Best Picture winners series and come back to it now with our Wilder series. SPOILER ALERT We will be talking about this movie in its entirety. If you haven't seen this classic, we strongly suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A Mirisch Company production, released by United Artists on June 15, 1960. Directed and produced by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, and Jack Kruschen. Cinematography by Joseph LaShelle. Edited by Daniel Mandell. Score by Adolph Deutsch (featuring Charles Williams's theme "Theme from The Apartment").

3. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Saludos Amigos (1943)

   This week, we continue our countdown of Walt Disney Animation Studio's animated feature films with the seldom-seen package film, Saludos Amigos. The ranking is based on an aggregate of each film's IMdB, Letterboxd, FlickChart, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores, and this one comes in at #57 out of 65. SPOILER ALERT We will be talking about this movie in its entirety, for what it's worth. If you haven't seen this classic, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A Walt Disney Productions presentation, released by RKO Radio Pictures on February 6, 1943 (following a special premiere in Rio de Janeiro in August 1942). Directed by Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, and Bill Roberts. Written by Bill Cottrell, Ted Sears, Erdman Penner, Ralph Wright, Roy Williams, DeLess Cleveland, Harry Reeves, and Joe Grant. Starring the voices of José Oliveira (as Zé Carioca), Fred Shields, Frank Graham, and featuring appearances by Walt Disney and his artists. Music by Edward H. Plumb, Charles Wolcott, and Paul J. Smith.

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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Peter Lorre
• Leslie Banks
• Edna Best
• Nova Pilbeam
• Frank Vosper

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5.0 / 5

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Spotify

4.4 / 5

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Social presence

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Engagement

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