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The Family Pictures Podcast

The Family Pictures Podcast

By: Jim Groom Michael Branson Smith
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 A podcast exploring the best and worst family dynamics on screen – the cinematic highs and lows of family behavior, from heartwarming moments to unforgettable dysfunction. Hosted by Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith2025 Art
Episodes
  • Damn It I Want This Family To Love Me – The Royal Tenenbaums

    Damn It I Want This Family To Love Me – The Royal Tenenbaums
    Feb 23 2026

    Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith unpack Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums as a story about adult children trapped inside the myth of their own childhood genius and a father desperate to rewrite himself back into relevance, while asking whether Anderson’s ironic stylization deepens or dilutes the emotional stakes of estranged parents and adult children.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • This Is For Your Own Good – The Savages

    This Is For Your Own Good – The Savages
    Feb 16 2026

    Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith take on caregiving, cold winters, and fluorescent-lit reckoning in Tamara Jenkins' The Savages, where estranged children are forced into proximity with each other and with a father they barely know.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Just in the Nick of Time – On Golden Pond

    Just in the Nick of Time – On Golden Pond
    Feb 9 2026

    Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith explore On Golden Pond (1981), a film about identity at the end of life, the persistence of childhood hurt, and the possibility of connection in the shadow of death.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
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