Best Daniel Berrios Podcasts (2025)

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S4E49. In Four Films: Megan Loucks 2:12:02

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Film critic Megan Loucks, better known as Wonder Meg, comes on THE MOVIES to share who she is using only four films. The Lansing, Michigan native and I chat about an encyclopedia of topics: motherhood, growing up in a tight-knit family, the Snyder Cut fandom (Meg co-founded Justice Con, an virtual charity convention that brought together Snyder Cut…

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S4E48. THE WOMAN IN THE YARD Blu-ray Review (2025) dir. Jaume Collet-Serra 25:31

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Thanks once again to Universal Pictures Home Entertainment for shipping me a review Blu-ray copy of THE WOMAN IN THE YARD! This has been a good way to catch up on movies I missed in the theaters. The teaser for this movie sucked me in right away because it's simple: a family living at a farm house, with no neighbors as far as the eye can see and al…

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S4E47. Interview | TORNADO Director John Maclean 35:00

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I interviewed John Maclean, the director of the coming-of-age samurai revenge movie TORNADO. The titular character is a teenage girl (Koki) avenging her father's murder at the hands of a band of thieves led by Sugarman (Tim Roth) and his son Little Sugar (Jack Lowden). I swear I didn't mean for this episode to drop on Father's Day but it feels appr…

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S4E46. TORNADO (2025) Dir. John Maclean 15:41

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The titular character of TORNADO is a teenage girl played by Kôki, living with her Japanese father (Takehiro Hira) as a marionette/samurai performer in 1790s Britain. When Tornado swipes a bag of stolen gold from a gang led by the villainous Sugar (Tim Roth), the gang murders her father and thus begins the revenge of this tale.MacLean borrows from …

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S4E45 (200th Episode!) Interview | THE KISS Director Bille August 24:42

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First things first: Thank you for 200 episodes! It's been continuously joyful to keep showing up for y'all, to chat about the art form that fuels my love and obsession. I gave myself a goal to get here by December, so the fact that it's May tells me I've put a decent-sized proverbial fire under my ass. Today, I interview Bille August, the director …

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S4E44. THE KISS (2025) dir. Bille August 13:55

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THE KISS is based on Stefan Zweig's novel BEWARE OF PITY. Pity is the word. It's the emotion that keeps Anton (Esben Smed) at an arm's length from Edith (Clara Rosager). Anton is a poor kid trying to raise his social status by rising through military ranks. Edith is the wheelchair-bound daughter of the wealthy Baron Løvenskjold (Lars Mikkelsen). He…

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S4E43. ADA: MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT (2025) dir. Yael Melamede 20:52

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ADA: MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT is a documentary directed by Yael Melamede, the daughter of the titular mother, Ada Karim-Melamede. Karim-Melamede is one of Israel's finest architects, receiving the Israel Prize for architecture in 2007, an honor she shares with both her father and brother. She co-designed Israel's Supreme Court with her brother from …

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S4E42. Cannes 2025 Lineup Part Deux | Oscar Voters - Now? - Required to Watch All Nominees Before Voting 34:20

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This week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced some new rule changes regarding eligibility and voting for the Oscars. The main change? Oscar voters are, as of this season, REQUIRED to watch all nominees in each category they vote in. Why this wasn't a rule beforehand is beyond me, but y'know, if the best time to throw water at…

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S4E41. Listener Request | I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun 24:49

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S4E40. Best Picture Showcase - A COMPLETE UNKNOWN dir. James Mangold 29:19

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S4E39. Cannes Film Festival Announces 2025 Lineup 40:13

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This week, the Cannes Film Festival announced its lineup for their 78th edition. Taking place in the beachside town of Cannes, France from May 13-24, the festival opens up the movie lover's summer to the widest swath of exceptional global cinema, blockbuster premieres and the first glimpses of next year's Oscars contenders. This episode sees me fum…

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S4E38. Best Picture Showcase - WICKED dir. Jon M. Chu 34:39

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Just because ANORA wears the Oscars' Best Picture crown doesn't mean the movies nominated turn to dust. In fact, as the Best Picture nominees slowly trickle out to home video, discussing them feels more pertinent. A movie's lifespan isn't limited to the awards calendar, especially when it comes to WICKED. Jon M. Chu's fantasy musical, based on the …

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S4E37. THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA (2025) dir. Samir Oliveros 29:10

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THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA stars Paul Walter Hauser as Michael Larson, an ice cream truck driver who travels from Ohio to California with hopes of contesting for the Big Bucks on PRESS YOUR LUCK. What follows is a lucky streak that'll put Larson in the history books...that is, if the game show execs don't discover his secret and pull the plug. Dir…

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S4E36. Interview | THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA Director Samir Oliveros 13:05

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Samir Oliveros directs THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA, a comedy starring Paul Walter Hauser as a man who, in 1984, takes game show execs and a studio audience for the thrill of a lifetime as he aims to pocket the most money ever won on PRESS YOUR LUCK. The execs say he must be cheating. The audience cheers him on, a bumbling working-class zero given t…

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S4E35. WOLF MAN Blu-ray Review (2025) dir. Leigh Whannell 41:36

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I missed Leigh Whannell's newest film, WOLF MAN, in theaters. Bit of a bummer since he's a director who's earned my highest personal honor of earning my view purely off of goodwill - no trailer, no social media post needed. So what was I to do? Nothing, but that's where Universal Pictures stepped in and (thankfully) sent me a review copy of the WOL…

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S4E34. In Four Films: Tara Giancaspro 2:23:53

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Today on IN FOUR FILMS, we ask Tara Giancaspro: "Using only four films, who ARE you?" She's a New Jersey-based writer, poet, songsmith, pop culture muser, frequent podcaster, actress, production assistant, music video extra and doting mother to two cats, Simone & Lugosi. To call her a multi-hyphenate just feels like I'm underselling it. Tara's four…

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S4E33. Interview | AUDREY'S CHILDREN Director Ami Canaan Mann 11:57

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Ami Canaan Mann directs AUDREY'S CHILDREN, the story of Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), an oncologist whose staging system revolutionized the way we treat childhood cancers. Before the '70s, the pediatric neuroblastoma survival rate was 10%. After implementing her work, the survival rate is now over 80%. I interview Canaan Mann about meeting Dr.…

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S4E32. AUDREY'S CHILDREN (2025) dir. Ami Canaan Mann 27:17

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AUDREY'S CHILDREN stars Natalie Dormer as Dr. Audrey Evans, the oncologist whose staging system revolutionized how childhood cancers are treated. Before her work in the '70s, these cancers were handled with a sort of one-size-fits-all approach. The result of Evans' research was a categorization of cases, impacted by age, tumor location, length of t…

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S4E31. Interview | HOOD WITCH Director Said Belktibia 34:08

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I interview HOOD WITCH writer/director Said Belktibia about his new thriller, which sees Golshifteh Farahani play the target of a literal witch hunt through urban France. She makes a living selling mystical products and alternative healing remedies and after one of her clients dies by suicide, is accused and then chased by the mob. Now, she, along …

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S4E30. HOOD WITCH (2025) dir. Said Belktibia 17:25

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HOOD WITCH stars Golshifteh Farahani as Nour, a single mom living in urban France who makes her living selling supplies for alternative healing, witchcraft, spells, you name it. She sees herself akin to the ones who sold shovels during the Gold Rush. If people want to believe, she'll happily oblige them. However, after one of her clients dies by su…

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S4E29. THERE'S STILL TOMORROW (2023) dir. Paola Cortellesi 22:44

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THERE'S STILL TOMORROW eclipsed BARBIE at the Italian box office, earned six --- Please rate, review & subscribe to The Movies wherever you listen to podcasts! Follow The Movies on Instagram & Bluesky: linktr.ee/themovies_pod

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S4E28. VOICES CARRY (CINEQUEST 2025) dir. Abby Brenker and Ellyn Vander Wyden 25:45

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In Abby Brenker and Ellyn Vander Wyden's VOICES CARRY, which premiered last Saturday, March 15 at the 2025 Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California, a woman (Gia Crovatin) returns to her lakefront childhood home, confronting the difficult memories of her mother's untimely death. Discovering an old diary in the shed, she's shocked to discover…

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S4E27. ANY DAY NOW (2025) dir. Eric Aronson 31:05

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In 1990, millions of dollars worth of art was robbed from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. The crime remains unsolved but provides a backdrop for ANY DAY NOW to explore a story of an insecure 20-something to learn the value of self-respect and the confidence that comes with exercising such respect. Steve (Taylor Gray) is the 20-something i…

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S4E26. Interview | ANY DAY NOW Actor Paul Guilfoyle 21:21

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I interview Paul Guilfoyle, star of the new coming-of-age-meets-heist-film ANY DAY NOW about his relationship to Boston as one of its sons, the Dropkick Murphys, classism, the eternal struggle of discovering (or uncovering) one's authentic self & the delicate balance of being both vulnerable and tough on screen. In ANY DAY NOW, Guilfoyle plays art …

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S4E25. THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE (2025) dir. Lior Geller 29:19

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To describe Lior Geller's THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE as a rough watch seems an understatement. This tells the story of two Jewish prisoners, played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen & Jeremy Neumark Jones, who escape a Polish Nazi death camp and end up providing the world's first eyewitness account of the Holocaust. And god, what an account. This movie's less th…

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S4E24. Interview | THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE Director Lior Geller & Actor Jeremy Neumark Jones 26:15

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On this episode, director Lior Geller and actor Jeremy Neumark Jones join me to discuss their new film, THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE. Based on a true story, the film centers on two men, played by Jones and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who escape a Polish Nazi death camp, delivering the world's first eyewitness account of the Holocaust. This movie's a devastatin…

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S4E23. Best Picture Showcase - EMILIA PEREZ dir. Jacques Audiard 34:53

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EMILIA PEREZ, Jacques Audiard's audacious trilingual crime musical, is our next stop on the Best Picture Showcase! The most critically divisive of the nominees tells the story of a Mexican drug kingpin (Karla Sofia Gascon) who enlists a junior lawyer (Zoe Saldana) to help her transition into living life as a woman via securing gender-affirming surg…

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S4E22. Best Picture Showcase - ANORA dir. Sean Baker 30:45

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The next stop for the Best Picture Showcase leads us to the nominee widely considered the frontrunner for this year's Best Picture Oscar, ANORA. This movie, produced, edited, written and directed by Sean Baker, follows the whirlwind romance of a Brooklyn sex worker named Anora (a hot-headed Mikey Madison, and by the way, it's Ani, not Anora, she do…

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S4E21. Interview | COLD WALLET Director Cutter Hodierne & Actors Josh Brener, Raul Castillo and Melonie Diaz 22:16

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Today on The Movies, I got a double-interview episode! I interviewed the director and actors from COLD WALLET, a new crypto thriller about a group of Redditors looking for revenge against the influencer responsible for scamming them out of a "life savings" level of money. They break into the influencer's home in pursuit of his cold wallet, a USB dr…

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S4E20. COLD WALLET (2025) dir. Cutter Hodierne 28:03

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In COLD WALLET, a trio of Redditors (Raul Castillo, Tony Cavalaro, Melonie Diaz) take it upon themselves to make a crypto influencer (Josh Brener) pay for tanking the coin, freezing user assets and suddenly demanding they owe the app almost double what they paid to get to said position. Their plan? Find the influencer, steal his cold wallet drives …

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S4E19. Best Picture Showcase - CONCLAVE dir. Edward Berger 27:23

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The Best Picture Showcase rolls on with Edward Berger's CONCLAVE, a drama about the election of a new Pope after the sudden death of the old Holy Father. Left with the responsibilities of wrangling every cardinal from 'round the world, along with their egos and ideologies, is a soon-to-be-exhausted Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes). As the d…

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S4E18. ARMAND (2025) dir. Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel 24:40

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ARMAND follows Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve), a single mother of the titular 6-year-old. She's called into Armand's school for a parent-teacher conference alongside Sarah (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) and Anders (Endre Hellestveit) the parents of Armand's best friend, Jon. To say it's bad news is the most severe understatement. Jon has accused Armand of sex…

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S4E17. Interview | LIFELINE Director Feras Alfuqaha 32:15

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Feras Alfuqaha loves to gab about moviemaking. His directorial debut, LIFELINE, premieres in select theatres and VOD on February 21st. It's the story of a suicide hotline volunteer (Josh Stewart) who receives a call from someone he believes to be his younger self (Judah Lewis). The caller says they're at a motel with gun in hand; they'll kill thems…

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S4E16. LIFELINE (2025) dir. Feras Alfuqaha 16:14

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Feras Alfuqaha's LIFELINE stars Josh Stewart as Steven Thomas. Steven's spending his New Year's Eve volunteering at a suicide hotline during the graveyard shift. He's the only guy in the office during a time of year in which folks tend to really feel their pain. The holidays can be rough on some of us. Steven handles a series of calls but one stand…

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S4E15. Interview | WE BEAT THE DREAM TEAM Director Michael Tolajian 28:53

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I interview Michael Tolajian, the director of the new basketball documentary WE BEAT THE DREAM TEAM, premiering on Max February 17. We talk the personal impact the 1992 Dream Team had on Tolajian, the process of establishing relationships with his documentary subjects, which of his favorite directors could stand a chance in the NBA and a whole. lot…

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S4E14. WE BEAT THE DREAM TEAM (2025) dir. Michael Tolajian 22:58

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A name like the Dream Team understandably comes with baggage. Who could make up a roster so great, the result can only be described as a dream? In the basketball world, guys like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, John Stockton, Karl Malon-shall I go on? These men were recruited to represent the United States in the 1992 Bar…

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S4E13. I LOVE YOU FOREVER (2025) dir. Cazzie David & Elisa Kalani 24:03

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I LOVE YOU FOREVER is an anti-romcom. I don't say this in a way that suggests a cheeky, defiant stance against Valentine's Day. I say this because it weaponizes romcom tropes against us in its telling of an abusive relationship. You can track the trajectory: lonely 20-something girl (Sofia Black D'Elia) meets accomplished 20-something guy (Ray Nich…

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S4E12. Best Picture Showcase - THE SUBSTANCE dir. Coralie Fargeat 43:55

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Continuing the Best Picture Showcase, in which I cover this year's Oscars nominees for Best Picture, the road takes us to a tour-de-force of an original, pulse-pounding, "sickly entertaining" movie, Coralie Fargeat's THE SUBSTANCE. This is an audacious, whip-smart body horror movie that's bound to break your heart as much as it'll force you to reco…

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S4E11. Best Picture Showcase - DUNE: PART 2 dir. Denis Villeneuve 25:37

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I continue covering this year's Oscars nominees for Best Picture with Denis Villeneuve's DUNE: PART 2, the continuation of Villeneuve's attempt to create high-minded blockbuster fantasy to a new generation. When I was a kid, I had LORD OF THE RINGS. As a 30-year-old, I have this.Think the darkness of EMPIRE STRIKES BACK with the expansive scale of …

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S4E10. The FANTASTIC FOUR Trailer Is Okay, But That's Just Not Good Enough. 21:02

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Marvel Studios released the first teaser for THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, premiering July 25th in theaters. After decades of attempts to try and get Marvel's "First Family" right, this movie, directed by Matt Shakman, looks to plant its flag as the first entry in the franchise to satisfy both fans and critics alike.What did I think of the trail…

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S4E9. Best Picture Showcase - THE BRUTALIST dir. Brady Corbet 32:33

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Welcome to the Best Picture Showcase, a miniseries on THE MOVIES where I review each nominee for this year's Academy Award for Best Picture. With each installment, I hope to answer the following: 1) What's the movie about? 2) What's it feel like to sit through the movie? 3) Did I like it? 4) Should it and will it win Best Picture? What's my current…

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S4E8. Interview | ART AND LIFE: THE STORY OF JIM PHILLIPS Director John Makens 16:44

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I interview John Makens, the director of ART AND LIFE: THE STORY OF JIM PHILLIPS. The 81-year-old graphic designer Jim Phillips may not be instantly recognizable, his art - the "Screaming Hand," the "red dot" Santa Cruz Skateboards logo, the myriad of custom skateboarding full-board decals, the cartoonish California outdoor mosaics, the rock poster…

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S4E7. ART AND LIFE: THE STORY OF JIM PHILLIPS (2025) dir. John Makens 22:02

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Jim Phillips is an artist whose cartoonish mosaics of California outdoor life have informed public understanding and appreciation of skateboarding, surfing, hot rod and rock music cultures. In ART AND LIFE: THE STORY OF JIM PHILLIPS, documentarian John Makens tells his story, from the times when Phillips sketched for fiberglas companies amidst a su…

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S4E6. Listener Request | DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) dir. George A. Romero 37:15

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On this episode of The Movies, I fulfill another listener request! My buddy Jarrett Barnard sent me a stone-cold classic to cover: 1978's DAWN OF THE DEAD, directed by George A. Romero. Widely regarded as the best of Romero's DEAD franchise, this film about a group of survivors waiting out the zombie apocalypse inside a shopping mall is a hallmark …

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S4E5. The 2025 Oscars Nominations 27:19

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The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards dropped yesterday morning to the usual flurry of praise and disappointment. (No BABYGIRL? Academy, you will ROT.) Today, I list the Best Picture nominees along with their other nominations, discuss some other movies that jumped out at me and set the stage for the Best Picture Showcase. Before the ceremony…

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S4E4. Interview | BIRDEATER directors Jack Clark & Jim Weir 34:33

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On this episode, I interview BIRDEATER directors Jack Clark and Jim Weir. The movie, about a bride-to-be invited to her fiance's unhinged bachelor party, has taken Australian audiences by storm since its Sydney Film Festival premiere in 2023. Featuring at Melbourne International Film Festival & SXSW, the movie's garnered audience and critical prais…

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S4E3. BIRDEATER (2025) dir. Jack Clark & Jim Weir 38:18

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In Jack Clark and Jim Weir's BIRDEATER, a Aussie bride-to-be (Shabana Azeez) is invited to her fiance's (Mackenzie Fearnley) "bucks party" - a bachelor party to us in the States, but god, doesn't that just sound cooler? She's not alone, as one of the boys also brings his girlfriend to this cabin in the Outback, but it's more of a friend-of-a-friend…

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S4E2. The 2024 Movies That Stuck With Me 2:30:07

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Sticking with a season-opening tradition, here are the 2024 movies that stuck with me! These are the films I thought about on drives to work and during showers, the ones about which I'd wax poetically to any captive audience I could muster. They made me weep and cackle. They made me whoop with joy. Art requires reflection; this is the cinema I refl…

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S4E1. The Movies: Season 4 12:41

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Welcome to Season 4 of The Movies! It's wild to think this will be my fourth year reviewing movies, interviewing critics, authors and filmmakers, waxing poetic over the majesty of one Rachel McAdams.This episode sees me addressing the state of my union, sharing goals for the new year (interview Danny Boyle for 28 YEARS LATER, because dear JESUS, th…

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S3E55. Listener Requests | FREDDY VS. JASON (2003) dir. Ronny Yu 38:42

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FREDDY VS. JASON brings together two titans of '80s horror: Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund) and Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger). In a bid to regain his strength through surging fear through the souls of Elm Street, Freddy manipulates Jason to doing some killing on his behalf. However, when Jason starts taking the credit and hacking through more of t…