Join us as we find out what happens when aliens don't land in America, when a 21-year-old is the most dedicated person on a movie set, and when you give Paul Verhoeven 100 million dollars to make an adaptation. Things are sure to be out of this world. Come find out what makes the cut!

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This bracket features:

• The Fifth Element
• Alien
• Predator
• Arrival
• The Thing
• Starship Troopers
• Independence Day
• District 9

The Tough Cut Podcast goes out of this world! We're talkin' the best alien in town... or in the universe? Galaxy? To be perfectly honest the scale is unclear to me.

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This bracket features:

• The Fifth Element
• Alien
• Predator
• Arrival
• The Thing
• Starship Troopers
• Independence Day
• District 9

Honorable mentions, a perfect submission, and a classic finale -- what more could you want from an episode of the tough cut? Join as we finish out celebrating one of our hosts and we try to understand why Jake keep saying "Shernshank"

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This bracket features:

• Shrek
• Frozen
• Jurassic Park
• Midnight in Paris
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
• Kung Pow Enter the Fist
• The Princess Bride
• What We Do in the Shadows

The Tough Cut hired a new intern! Unfortunately, none of his audio recorded and it was too much work to edit out the parts where we talk to/about him. Oh well! Here ya go.

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This bracket features:

• Shrek
• Frozen
• Jurassic Park
• Midnight in Paris
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
• Kung Pow Enter the Fist
• The Princess Bride
• What We Do in the Shadows

Jake's computer is full of ghosts, so Matt and Alex are flying fast and loose today. We've got four fast food commercials and we have to find a winner in under half an hour!

Join us as we get down and dirty with part two of the Alex bracket and we continue to explore the movies that mean the most to one of our hosts. As a pre-show quiz, did Alex pick a movie that means a lot to him because it reminds him to be a champion of the downtrodden or because he watched that movie on an airplane as a child?

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This bracket features:

• Shrek
• Frozen
• Jurassic Park
• Midnight in Paris
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
• Kung Pow Enter the Fist
• The Princess Bride
• What We Do in the Shadows

Happy birthday month to our very own good good host Alex. He picked all the movies, so for better or worse, blame him for what you're about to hear.

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This bracket features:

Shrek

Frozen

Jurassic Park

Midnight in Paris

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Kung Pow Enter the Fist

The Princess Bride

What We Do in the Shadows

Oh yeah, it's all coming together in this epic finale of the Tough Cuts annual Oscars bracket. We celebrate 100 (not really at all) and something special comes in right in the nick of time.

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This bracket features:

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story

Banshees of Inisherin

Marcel the She with Shoes On

Barbarian

RRR

Bullet Train

Morbius

It's the semifinals of our 2023 Oscars bracket, the first half might be your everyday Oscars nominated films, but we promise the two movies int he second half aren't winning anything. Come for the good film analysis, stay for the good vibes.

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This bracket features:

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story

Banshees of Inisherin

Marcel the She with Shoes On

Barbarian

RRR

Bullet Train

Morbius

A double feature!? That's right, part 2 of the Oscars Bracket 2023 is out right now! Even if the Oscars were last weekend, that doesn't mean we can't all have a good time talking about the most snubbed performance of the year... Mommy Milkers.

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This bracket features:

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story

Banshees of Inisherin

Marcel the She with Shoes On

Barbarian

RRR

Bullet Train

Morbius

It's awards season and this episode might be coming out after the Oscars, but that doesn't mean we don't think we know what should have gotten attention. I'm looking at you Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Listen along as we pick what movie should have won the Oscars this year.

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This bracket features:

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story

Banshees of Inisherin

Marcel the She with Shoes On

Morbius

Bullet Train

Barbarian

RRR

Matt and Alex stall for time because Jake is sick. What horrible twisted fanfic will they come up with today? Listen and find out!

Join Alex, Jake, Matthew (and Trumpet Boy) as they share their predictions for the 95th Oscars. Play along with us as we yet again call out our "head" and "heart" picks in each category.

Watch the Oscars live Sunday, March 12, 2023, and follow along with us on social media @Toughcutpod

It's the Jaket finale and we get to the bottom of the big question. The one that's been on everyone's mind... Is Jake a Man or a Muppet?

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This bracket features:

Clue

The Muppets

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

It's Such a Beautiful Day

Spirited Away

One Cut Of The Dead

Coherence

In and Of Itself

In this episode, the tough cut lads settle the semi-finals of Jake's celebratory birthday bracket while trying to avoid the irresistible temptation of getting trapped in an endless nightmare of their own creation.

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This bracket features:

Clue

The Muppets

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

It's Such a Beautiful Day

Spirited Away

One Cut Of The Dead

Coherence

In and Of Itself

In part two of Jake's celebratory birthday bracket, we get personal. We finally talk about our greatest passions; skin suits, Starcraft 2, and Bill Gates.

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This bracket features:

Clue

The Muppets

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

It's Such a Beautiful Day

Spirited Away

One Cut Of The Dead

Coherence

In and Of Itself

It's been 20 days, but our New Year's sabbatical has come to an end. The Tough Cut boys are back and healthy and we're celebrating Jake in this all-new bracket.

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This bracket features:

Clue

The Muppets

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

It's Such a Beautiful Day

Spirited Away

One Cut Of The Dead

Coherence

In and Of Itself

Join us for a totally normal Tough Cut Episode where there is nothing awry except for the fact that we are doing a bonus episode. We get into some wacky and wild movie trailers in this speed bracket as we talk about bullying movie studios, being misled, and just what it was like as a moviegoer in 2010.

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This bracket features:

• Skinmarrink
• Us
• Suicide Squad
• The Last Airbender
• Sonic
• Social Network

...Wait a minute that isn't actually Alex. Who has infiltrated the Tough Cut???

There's a stink and Alex has to smell it in this epic finale for the Family bracket. The tough cut boys talk about their and your honorable mentions, so let's see what almost made the cut.

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This bracket features:

Furious 7

Spy Kids 2

Hereditary

Lilo and Stitch

Royal Tenenbaums

Parasite

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Little Miss Sunshine

Mommy's back and she's here for a good time... or at least Matt is. Let's just say this one sure could have used a little parental supervision on our end...

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This bracket features:

• Furious 7
• Spy Kids 2
• Hereditary
• Lilo and Stitch
• Royal Tenenbaums
• Parasite
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• Little Miss Sunshine