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Best Kiss 2011: Double Eclipse of the Heart

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Best Kiss 2011: Double Eclipse of the Heart

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Kenny and Ben’s journey through the Twilight Saga hits its peak this week with a twofer as Kristen Stewart gets nominated for kisses with both Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner in Eclipse. Did the right Twilight kiss win? Did the kisses from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Inception and Black Swan really stand a chance? Kenny and Ben set the record straight while also picking a firm side in the Edward/Jacob debate, strongly clearing up the ambiguous ending of Inception, and not really clearing up the ending of Black Swan. Plus Kenny tells the story from his youth about his struggle to read Deathly Hallows without interruption and a lot of other stuff happens as well. You won’t want to miss it!

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2010: Halloween Special: Featuring Valentine’s Day

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Best Kiss 2010: Halloween Special: Featuring Valentine's Day

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It’s the spookiest time of year: mid-October, and love is in the air. Kenny and Ben talk about Twilight some more as New Moon wins several trophies this year, including Best Kiss. But should it have won over The Runaways, The Proposal, Valentine’s Day, and Avatar? Our heroes get into it. Plus: Kristen Stewart pulling double nomination duty, music biopics, alternate endings, a stirring defense of Valentine’s Day, the long wait for Avatar sequels, and more! It’s quite the episode so make sure to listen!

October 14, 2021October 14, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2009: We’re All in Kiss Together

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Best Kiss 2009: We're All in Kiss Together

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Pass the Golden Popcorn enters its Twilight era- literally -as Kenny and Ben tackle the first of four Twilight films that won Best Kiss at the MTV Movie Awards. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson rule the category during this era with an iron fist (and probably iron lips) but is their debut kiss really better than the kisses in Wanted, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, I Love You, Man and High School Musical 3? Only our intrepid hosts are brave enough to find out. Discussions of the Mario movie casting news, which half of Slumdog Millionaire is the interesting half, San Francisco, the apparent first meeting of two Brooklyn Nine Nine stars, and so, so, so much High School Musical talk abound! Plus learn the origin story for this podcast! This episode is a major one so get ready to listen because it’s now or never! (Not really though)

October 6, 2021October 6, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2008: Part-Time Podcasters, Full-Time Friends w/ Emilio Diaz

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Best Kiss 2008: Part-Time Podcasters, Full-Time Friends w/ Emilio Diaz

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Kenny and Ben are joined by Emilio Diaz from the Cannes I Kick It episode, who offers a lot of insight as they all look at Best Kiss 2008, led by street dancing movie Step Up 2: The Streets. But does Step Up 2 have the moves to hold its own against other nominees Enchanted, Juno, Disturbia, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? You just know we’ll get to the bottom of this! Plus: a debate about putting a kiss right after a big dance sequence redundant, some Grey’s Anatomy talk, indie soundtracks, Ben has got some fixes for Disturbia, Kenny breaks down the differences between the Harry Potter movies and book, a weird amount of discussion about a movie being covered next week and more! It’s a fun one! (NOTE: Due to technical issues Emilio’s audio cuts out at the end but we still get his plugs in)

September 29, 2021September 29, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2007: If You Ain’t First, Little Man is Still Last

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Best Kiss 2007: If You Ain't First, Little Man is Still Last

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It’s the year of the jock as Kenny and Ben tackle multiple films that could be considered as sports movies, led of course by Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and one of the better comedy kisses to date. But The Holiday, Stomp the Yard, and Invincible have also come to play and the competition is fierce. Plus Little Man is also there unfortunately. As Kenny and Ben try to determine the winner, they also discuss Pat Benitar, if Jack Black has ever done a subdued dramatic role, their confusion at how stomp dancing works, Ben’s football expertise, the awfulness of Little Man and more! So get ready because we’ll all be winners after we listen to this episode.

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2006: Ennis and Jack Were More Than Just Friends

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Best Kiss 2006: Ennis and Jack Were More Than Just Friends

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Kenny and Ben tackle another iconic 00s movie kiss this week with Brokeback Mountain but how does it hold up in one of the best kissing years they’ve ever covered? Yes, with one very guessable exception, the kisses in Hustle & Flow, Just Friends, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Sin City are also strong this week. As Kenny and Ben sort this all out they also talk about which bit part actor in Brokeback Mountain they hung out with at a party, that great chemistry between Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, toxic masculinity and why the “friend zone” is a bad concept, the simple appeal of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, male power fantasies and more. It’s quite the episode so buckle up!

September 16, 2021September 17, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2005: The NoteBurp

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Best Kiss 2005: The NoteBurp

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Kenny and Ben take on another iconic Best Kiss winner with The Notebook, known both for its epic on-screen kiss and for Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdam’s acceptance speech kiss. But a surprising challenger from the nominees of Garden State, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Elektra, and The Girl Next Door could lead to the biggest upset in PTGP history. Plus we touch on sexism in and around movies, Zach Braff, Scrubs, how wild it is that Sky Captain isn’t based on anything, the misconception of Jocks as being “too cool for school” and much more! Also Ben loudly burps on mic at one point. Sorry. Please listen anyways. I promise it’s a good episode.

September 9, 2021September 8, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2004: A Pro Determinism Podcast w/ Jesse Catherine Webber

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Best Kiss 2004: A Pro Determinism Podcast w/ Jesse Catherine Webber

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Kenny and Ben are joined by Canne I Kick It? host Jesse Catherine Webber to discuss the Best Kiss films of 2004, headed up by Starsky and Hutch, the first 3-way kiss to win an MTV Movie Award. But did it really deserve to win over Monster, Bruce Almighty, The Matrix Reloaded, and X2? They try to get to the bottom of a weirdly weak year for kisses while also discussing the award presenting team of Snoop Dog and Paris Hilton, another kiss featuring a serial killer, the premise of Free Guy, if the plot of Bruce Almighty could be summed up in a limerick, why the Matrix sequels are good actually, X-Men lore, and much more. Was America ready to kiss again in 2004? You’ll have to listen to find out!

September 2, 2021September 1, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2003: New York, The Irish, and Sandler Drama w/ William Taylor

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Best Kiss 2003: New York, The Irish, and Sandler Drama w/ William Taylor

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Kenny and Ben are joined by famed Internet commenter and Film Twitter personality William Taylor as they tackle one of the most iconic movie kisses of all time: the upside-down kiss in Spider-Man. But was it the best kiss that year in a field that also has Daredevil, Drumline, Gangs of New York and Punch-Drunk Love? The answer may surprise you. Meanwhile the gang also discusses the plethora of New York movies this year, Joey Pants, the concept of competitive marching band, anti-Irish sentiment, why Adam Sandler is an underrated performer, and more. Plus the podcast takes a number of big stands on stuff that they are official for and against. It’s a very loose episode but somehow it works!

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2002: You’ve Been Weighed, Measured and Found Listening

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Best Kiss 2002: You've Been Weighed, Measured and Found Listening

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Moulin Rouge. A Knight’s Tale. Not Another Teen Movie. Bridget Jone’s Diary. 4 very good to incredible movies with 4 very good to incredible kisses. Too bad they lost to American Pie 2 this year and its very gay-panicky “comedy” kiss. Kenny and Ben dive into this controversy head on to set the record straight while also trying to adequately express how much they love one of these movies, discussing if jousting really had “hype men,” giving a very detailed breakdown of the plot of Not Another Teen Movie, looking for the titular diary in Bridget Jones’s Diary and more! Plus: A surprising revelation about the enigmatic producer of the MTV Movie Awards! And someone fights a crow?! You’ll have to hear it to believe it!

August 19, 2021August 18, 2021Leave a Comment

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