The Best Actors of All Time, Ranked (Plus, DETROIT)

Published: Aug. 9, 2017, 6:21 a.m.

Is Brad Pitt the best actor of all time?

One of us submits that Brad Pitt is indeed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the best actor of all time. The other of us is wrong, but we haggle over the runners up anyway -- including Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hanks, Alec Guinness, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, and more!

Elsewhere, we dive into Kathryn Bigelow's explosive new film, "Detroit," and what it -- a historical retelling of a little-talked about incident that occurred during the Detroit Race Riots in the 1960s -- means for audiences in modern day America.

The show wraps up with a breakdown of Facebook's errant chatbots and a provocative article from Teen Vogue that posits that certain types of Reaction GIFs might be a form of "digital blackface."

Show Segments:

0:00 - Intro

3:36 - Rank Geeks: Best Actors Ever

34:59 - "Detroit" discussion

56:20 - The Most Least Important Things: Rogue Facebook Chatbots and Racist Reaction GIFs?

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