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The Movies

I"m Daniel Berrios. This is my journey to learn about the movies - the art form I adore - one review, interview, editorial at a time. Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Take care of the movies.

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00:38:18

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

The Movies ·

2025/01/10

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 situation. Drinks flow, silliness inflates, but that's the thing about these kinds of nights: There's always a point of no return. The alcohol tips

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02:30:07

S4E2. The 2024 Movies That Stuck With Me

The Movies ·

2025/01/06

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 reflected upon most last year. --- (in alphabetical order) --- BABYGIRL dir. Halina Reijn - available in theaters THE BRUTALIST dir. Brady Corbet - available

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00:12:41

S4E1. The Movies: Season 4

The Movies ·

2024/12/27

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, that trailer) and thanking everyone who's given a hoot about the show during Season 3. So, pop some bubbly and raise that glass! It's time to celebrate a

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00:38:42

S3E55. Listener Requests | FREDDY VS. JASON (2003)...

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2024/11/24

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 the available body count, Freddy grows jealous and petty. The fight is on, with a group of teenagers caught in the middle.This movie underwent 17 years of

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00:21:24

S3E54. Fantastic Fest #5: WITTE WIEVEN (2024) dir....

The Movies ·

2024/11/17

WITTE WIEVEN, directed by Didier Konings, brings my Fantastic Fest 2024 coverage to a belated end.Frieda (Anneke Sluiters) is a pious woman struggling to conceive a child. In her medieval Dutch village, help only comes through God and the Church, via archaic fertility rituals. One day, the local butcher Gelo (Leon van Wass) assaults Frieda, threatening to rape her in the forbidden woods just outside the village. Legend says no one leaves those woods alive, but this day, something stops Gelo and

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00:13:27

S3E53. Listener Requests | TRIANGLE (2009) dir....

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2024/11/15

I kick off the first of 10 listener requests by fulfilling the most important one: my wife's.She chose TRIANGLE, Christopher Smith's 2009 horror film about a mother (Melissa George) whose sailing trip with friends ends with a storm and shipwreck.Their salvation comes in the form of a luxury yacht, but once aboard, the group discovers the yacht's only occupant: a masked axe-wielding killer.Sounds like FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VIII if it kept honest with its premise, right? Partially. What makes TRIANGLE

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00:26:12

S3E52. OKIE (2024) dir. Kate Cobb

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2024/11/12

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!--- Kate Cobb's directorial debut, OKIE, stars Scott Michael Foster as Louie, a writer returning to his rural hometown after his father's death. Going back home is always complicated, but more so because he's unflatteringly based his stories on said town and its community. What starts as a day trip to collect final mementos devolves into a weeklong excursion through old haunts, hanging out with

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00:26:45

S3E51. Interview | OKIE Director Kate Cobb, Writer...

The Movies ·

2024/11/08

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!---I got to interview the creative team behind OKIE: director Kate Cobb, writer Kevin Bigley and actor Scott Michael Foster. OKIE stars Foster as Louie, a writer returning to his rural hometown after his father's death. Going back home is always complicated, but more so because he's unflatteringly based his stories on said town and its community. What starts as a day trip to collect final

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00:21:54

S3E50. Alien Country (2024) dir. Boston McConaughey

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2024/10/22

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!--- Before we get started, no, I don't believe there's any relation to Matthew. Boston McConaughey is the director of ALIEN COUNTRY, a sci-fi horror comedy he co-produced and co-wrote with Renny Grames to kick off their production company. It follows Everly (Grames), an aspiring singer who's just discovered she's pregnant. First instinct? Get out of Dodge. Her small Utah town seems only conducive

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00:33:34

S3E49. Interview | I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE Actor...

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2024/10/18

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!---I interview Kenneth Trujillo, the lead actor of I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE, about the process of becoming a mute ex-con in DW Medoff's horror drama. Through his confident performance, he anchors the vicious downer with empathy and cautious hope. How does one prepare to be trapped inside a house for six days with one's trauma, manifested via a ghoulish witch? Trujillo says there's a lot of

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00:23:33

S3E48. I Will Never Leave You Alone (2024) dir. DW...

The Movies ·

2024/10/18

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!---I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE, directed by DW Medoff, is about Richard (Kenneth Trujillo), a mute ex-con whose first job out of prison is to spend six days isolated in a "haunted" house to ensure the removal of its spirits. His realtor boss says the job's as easy as lighting a candle and saying a prayer each night. Has she ever SEEN a horror movie?Richard's traumatic past blends with local myth

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00:24:36

S3E47. Fantastic Fest 2024 #4: Interview | WRECKED A...

The Movies ·

2024/10/16

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show! --- For their short, WRECKED A BUNCH OF CARS, HAD A GOOD TIME, directors James P. Gannon & Matt Ferrin had to learn to place faith into their film stock. The movie, which documents a Connecticut demolition derby through driver interviews and on-the-ground footage, was filmed in one frenzied evening with sub-optimal light and only a handful of chances to nab the right shots. In the moment,

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00:32:08

S3E46. Me, Myself & the Void (2024) dir. Tim Hautekiet

The Movies ·

2024/10/12

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show! --- In ME, MYSELF AND THE VOID, Jack (Jack De Sena) discovers his stand-up comedy routine has a rude punchline: It's not real. Jack is actually passed out on his bathroom floor and the comedian we see is Jack's mind, stuck in his subconscious alongside an imagined version of Jack's best friend, Chris (Chris W. Smith). Said space, which I assume to be the titular void, is just that: darkness,

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00:18:02

S3E45. Interview | ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE? Director...

The Movies ·

2024/10/11

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show! --- Maximina Juson comes onto THE MOVIES to discuss her new documentary, ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE? The movie tells the history of the electoral college, the actual Constitutional manner in which the president is elected. Following four Colorado electors during the 2020 presidential election, the movie provides an underseen look at the people who place the official votes for president. When we vote

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00:28:52

S3E44. One Person, One Vote? (2024) dir. Maximina Juson

The Movies ·

2024/10/11

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!---Maximina Juson's ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE? looks to demystify the electoral college. From examining slavery's influence on its inception to recounting the abuses of said system committed in the pursuit of political power, the documentary advocates for civic education and participation. Remember what GI Joe taught us: knowledge is power.The documentary jumps between evocative animated dramatizations

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00:24:43

S3E43. Fantastic Fest 2024 #3: WRECKED A BUNCH OF...

The Movies ·

2024/09/27

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!---Fantastic Fest hosts a wealth of shorts, celebrating the eclectic mix of filmmakers who make them. That being said, there was no way in hell I could cover this year's fest and not watch any, so today's episode gets into demolition derby mayhem: WRECKED A BUNCH OF CARS, HAD A GOOD TIME.Directors James P. Gannon & Matt Ferrin are currently working on a feature: HANDPAN, about a

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00:16:50

S3E42. Fantastic Fest 2024 #2: Interview | APARTMENT...

The Movies ·

2024/09/26

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!---Natalie Erika James, director of the new film APARTMENT 7A, stops by The Movies to chat all about her prequel to ROSEMARY'S BABY, streaming on Paramount + starting Sept. 27! We talk about bringing back 1960s New York design, the delicate art of balancing dark humor with even darker subject matter, how simply STELLAR Julia Garner is as an actress and much, much more!---Follow The Movies on

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00:24:05

S3E41. Fantastic Fest 2024 #1: Apartment 7A (2024)...

The Movies ·

2024/09/25

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!---APARTMENT 7A follows in 2024's tradition of independent directors helming prequels to successful horror franchises. We had THE FIRST OMEN and A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE. Now, Natalie Erika James takes the reins to ROSEMARY'S BABY, revealing the story preceding Roman Polanski's iconic 1968 movie.This story follows Terry Gionofrrio (Julia Garner), a New York dancer toughing her way

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00:26:06

S3E40. Hayride to Hell (2024) dir. Dan Lantz

The Movies ·

2024/09/24

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!---HAYRIDE TO HELL is about Farmer Sam (Bill Moseley). As is the case with most farmers, he's happiest living a simple life: growing crops, selling candy apples, making dad jokes so heinous you'd rather pull your own dad's finger after Sunday lunch. But the most exciting time of Sam's life arrives when he hosts the haunted hayride. This schlocky attraction brings together costumed

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00:19:07

S3E39. Invoking Yell (2024) dir. Patricio Valladares

The Movies ·

2024/09/19

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show! --- Patricio Valladares' INVOKING YELL is a frustrating movie. Three main elements make for a promising horror flick: black metal, found footage in the woods a la BLAIR WITCH and psychophony, the practice of recording sounds of spirits. So when I'm introduced to Invoking Yell, Chile's first all-female "depressive suicidal black metal" band, in the summer of 1997 when they

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