Looking for thoughtful analysis and friendly banter to navigate the pop culture waters? Have no fear: The Thrill, Maclean’s pop culture podcast is here! Every week, Maclean’s arts writers Adrian Lee, Emma Teitel and Julia De Laurentiis Johnson will gather to discuss and break down the hottest topics in TV, film, books and music. Expect discussion, analysis, and interviews, all replicating the feeling of having a coffee and talking pop with your friends!

On this week’s podcast, we do an extra-long segment about Sunday night’s Academy Awards, and we bring in film critic John Semley to help us make our picks and figure how much accuracy a biopic owes us. And to discuss the film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey, we’ve invited Colin Munch, the writer of the internationally touring show Spank: A Fifty Shades Parody, to figure out who the movie was even for.

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RELATED STORIES

• OSCAR PREDICTIONS
  Adrian Lee and Jaime Weinman make their Oscar picks

• ON THE REAL SHOCKER OF FIFTY SHADES
  Emma Teitel on the movie’s revolutionary joylessness

• ON JUPITER ASCENDING
  John Semley on what the Wachowski siblings are up to now

• ON THE MATH OF FIFTY SHADES
  Patricia Treble reviews the movie

• ON COSTUME DESIGN’S BIAS
  Why costume designers on a subtle modern-era film, need not apply for Oscars

• ON AN OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT
  Michael Fraiman on Torill Kove’s short animated movies

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