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Dyl, Raf, and Zach build their Top Fours from the wildly unpredictable career of Nicolas Cage — starting with the locks, bubbles, and cuts. They get into his best eras, the genres he somehow keeps making his own, where their lists overlap, and which Cage movies they still can’t believe the others left out. Plus the movies they’d rewatch forever, the ones they’d love to see again for the first time, and whether anyone changes their list by the end.

Dyl and Raf go back to the 72nd Academy Awards and redo 1999 — a year stacked with The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, Toy Story 2, The Mummy, and plenty more that barely got a look from the Oscars. They revisit the nominees, build their own picks across the major categories, throw in some wildcards, hit Raf’s Horror Corner, and figure out what the Academy got right, got wrong, and completely missed.

Mulan vs Hercules: two Disney Renaissance movies about the distant past released only a year apart, and two favourites that feel especially baked into younger-millennial childhoods. Dyl and Raf put them through the Smash Cut — story, performances, animation, quotes, scenes, endings, the Wife Pick, and more — to see which one comes out on top.

Dyl, Raf, and Zach build their own Top Fours from Ridley Scott’s filmography — starting with locks, bubbles, and cuts. They get into his ridiculous range, his best eras, the movies they all agree on, the ones they absolutely don’t, and whether any of their lists change by the end. Plus: what’s Ridley’s worst?

Dyl and Raf go back to the 90th Academy Awards and redo 2017. They revisit a stacked year in movies, rethink the major categories, build their own nominee lists, and get into what the Oscars got right, what they missed, and which movies and performances deserved more love. Plus casting, stunts, comedy vs drama, horror, and the biggest movies they still haven’t seen.

Dunkirk vs Saving Private Ryan: Nolan vs Spielberg, two very different World War II movies, and one Smash Cut. Dyl and Raf go category by category through scenes, performances, production design, shots, story, endings, the Wife Pick, and more to see which one comes out on top.

Dyl, Raf, and Zach build their own Top Fours for revenge movies, starting with locks, bubbles, and cuts. They get into what actually counts as a revenge movie, the genre’s best eras, the picks that have aged best, and the movies they still can’t believe the others left out.

Twenty years later, Dyl and Raf go back to the 79th Academy Awards and redo 2006. They revisit the year, rethink the major categories, build their own nominee lists, and get into the movies and performances the Oscars got right, got wrong, or somehow missed entirely. Plus wildcards, horror, casting, stunts, and a few 2006 confessions.

Mean Girls vs. Superbad: two defining high-school comedies from the 2000s, thrown into the Smash Cut. Dyl and Raf go category by category — story, performances, quotes, scenes, production design, endings, the Wife Pick, and more — to see which one comes out on top.

Dyl and Raf build their own Pixar Top Fours - with locks, bubbles, cuts, and a few painful omissions along the way. They get into Pixar’s best eras, the movies that aged the best, the ones nostalgia might be carrying, and which four actually deserve a spot on each list. Plus: best Pixar short.

Two best friends talking movies, making lists, arguing over favourites, and taking extremely subjective questions way too seriously.

Watchlistd is a movie podcast built around Top Fours, head-to-head Smashcuts, Oscars Rewinds, and whatever else gives Dyl and Raf an excuse to debate movies.

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