The Big Picture
The Ringer
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins review the movies you need to see. Plus: Top 5s, Movie Drafts, Oscars analysis, and more, featuring a rotating cast of Ringer colleagues like Chris Ryan, Van Lathan, and Bill Simmons.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Big Picture podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 7 episodes
THE NICKEL BOYS
Colson Whitehead
#2 Mentioned in 5 episodes
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
#3 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Conclave
Lawrence D. Klausner
#4 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet
#5 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Wicked
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire
#6 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Anora
Tessa Escalera
#7 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Nosferatu
Henrik Galeen
Bram Stoker
F. W. Murnau
#8 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Substance
Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
#9 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Piano Lesson
August Wilson
#10 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Queer
A Novel
William S. Burroughs
#11 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Sing Sing Files
One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
Dan Slepian
#12 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Dune
Frank Herbert
#13 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Dune Part 2
Frank Herbert
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Blitz
Hetty Burlingame Beatty
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
It's What's Inside
Greg Jardin
#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Gladiator
Philip Wylie
#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
I'm still here
Ramona Baillie
#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Heretic
The Grail Quest
Bernard Cornwell
Sean Barrett
