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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. All of us keep the movies alive.

tv & film film reviews

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40. Burial (2022) dir. Ben Parker

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2022/09/01

BURIAL follows a group of Russian soldiers tasked, after WWII's end, to deliver a package to Moscow. This mission is of such importance that orders came directly from Stalin. So little people are allowed to know about this that the crew can't afford to fly or ride by train - no communication at all. Led by intelligence officer Brana (Charlotte Vega), the team finds themselves in trouble when stumbling into a Polish village full of Werewolf, German stragglers who still fight for Hitler from within

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00:24:02

39. Prey (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

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2022/08/30

Dan Trachtenberg's PREY takes place 300 years before 1987's PREDATOR, in a Comanche village where Naru (Amber Midthunder) uses her survival and tracking skills to stave off wild animals, French fur trappers and a gigantic murderous space monster (Dane DiLiegro). The monster's got infrared tech and a laser-guided cannon. She has an axe and a dog. Let the hunt begin. | Follow me on Twitter: @TheMovies_Pod --- Send in a voice message:

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00:21:26

38. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) dir. Anthony Fabian

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2022/08/18

In MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS, Lesley Manville plays *Beanie Feldstein voice* the TITULAR ROLE, a exorbitantly generous (almost to a fault) cleaning lady living in 1950s London. After her soldier husband is reported killed in action, Mrs. Harris finds herself in a bit of a midlife crisis, wondering if the day-to-day of working for pittance followed by drinking off the strain in the pub is worth it. After stumbling across one of her clients' Christian Dior dresses, which absolutely stuns her, her

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00:28:29

37. Gladiator (2000) dir. Ridley Scott | RECOMMENDED...

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2022/08/16

Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR is a film to be discussed with 'magnum opus' reverence, the epic story of one man's quest to obtain vengeance for the murders of his wife and son. Set in the era of the Roman Empire, Maximus' (Russell Crowe) fall from general to slave at the hands of the emperor Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) sees him navigate a Rome in transition, as murmurs of the empire's waning strength grow with each gladiatorial victory. As the epics-with-a-capital-E tend to do, it tackles the questions

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00:28:46

36. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) dir. Halina Reijn

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2022/08/09

Bodies Bodies Bodies sees a group of 20-somethings (Rachel Sennott, Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Chase Sui Wonders, Myha'la Herrold and Pete Davidson) and 40-something Greg (Lee Pace) party at one of their parents' mansions during a hurricane. While playing the game Bodies Bodies Bodies, in which the "murderer" stalks the rest of the group, killing with a tap on the shoulder, one of the friends is actually discovered dead, neck slit. So, now the game of whodunnit turns disturbingly real. |

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01:53:05

35. In Four Films: Cassandra Hager

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2022/08/04

IN FOUR FILMS is a series where I bring on friends from the film-loving community to talk about the four movies that made them who they are. These don't have to be their favorites: They can have come at a formative time, have comforted in stressful years, taught them a new way to look at films. On this episode, I talk to critic Cassandra Hager about her four films and get into an eclectic, stellar blend of horror, drama, and comedy. Her picks reveal lessons learned about the movies along the way;

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00:37:56

34. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) dir. Taika Waititi

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2022/08/01

Thor: Love and Thunder's is the MCU's first real Dad Movie™, an absurdly constructed yet delicious stew of '80s sci-fi, hard rock, goofball comedy, horror imagery by way of Roald Dahl and Tim Burton, beefcake-whirling action, fears regarding one's death and the loss of those loved, the practical and emotional responsibilities one has towards their chosen families...and flying goats. It might not be for everyone, but I'm grateful it's for me.| Follow Daniel on Twitter: @TheMovies_Pod --- Send in a

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00:20:13

33. Karmalink (2022) dir. Jake Watchel

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2022/07/28

Jake Watchel's Karmalink is a futuristic vision of Cambodia built on changing global powers (hint: America ain't it), a growing wealth gap and bodily modifications that augment reality without the need for a headset. In the middle of all this lies Leng Heng (Leng Heng Prak), a 13-year-old Buddhist boy who dreams of his past lives - more specifically, the golden statue of Buddha which appears in all of them. Leng Heng teams up with street-smart teen orphan Srey Leak (Srey Leak Chhith) to find the

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32. The Righteous (2022) dir. Mark O'Brien

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2022/07/25

The Righteous is a religious psychological thriller about a priest (Henry Czerny) who, after suffering an exorbitant loss, finds himself praying for God to punish him for his sins. Around this time, he welcomes an injured stranger (Mark O'Brien) into his home. The man knows little to nothing about how he was hurt or even why he was out by the priest's house in the first place. However, it doesn't take long for the priest to realize the two men's meeting isn't as random (nor benign) as first

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00:10:32

31. Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (2022) dir. Kevin...

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2022/07/23

Equal parts psychedelic and chilling, Kevin Kopacka's "Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes" follows a couple, Margot (Luisa Taraz) and Dieter (Frederik von Luttichau), as they travel to a dilapidated castle in the forest, hoping to fix and flip it for a quick profit. However, the longer they stay in the house, the more they feel the presence of the house's spirits, spectators to the couple's relationship drama. | Follow Daniel on Twitter: @TheMovies_Pod --- Send in a voice message:

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00:28:45

30. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) dir. Sophie Hyde

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2022/06/24

I recorded this less than five minutes after learning the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. What follows are the earliest thoughts, blended in with the themes I admire from Sophie Hyde's new comedy, "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande." The plot follows Nancy (Emma Thompson), a recently widowed and retired schoolteacher who books sex worker Leo Grande (Daryl McCormack) for a session. Through her interactions with Leo, Nancy explores her sexual repression, shame, self-judgment and mental roadblocks

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29. Eternal Spring (2022) dir. Jason Loftus

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2022/06/14

"Eternal Spring" is a stellar documentary, revisiting, on its 20th anniversary, the March 2002 hijacking of Chinese national TV in the city of Chungchun by Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong, a religion which spins off of Buddhist tradition, garnered a wealth of support in the '90s, and when its membership grew large, became a threat to the government's cultural control. As a result, Falun Gong was banned and its practitioners made pariah. Protests ended in beatings, deaths, you name it. Some

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28. 18 1/2 (2022) dir. Dan Mirvish

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2022/06/13

"18 1/2," set in 1974, follows Connie (Willa Fitzgerald), a White House transcriber who stumbles onto the political unholy grail of the time: the missing audio (18-and-a-half minutes long) of President Richard Nixon discussing the Watergate Hotel break-in with one of his cohorts. What's on this tape that couldn't be released to the public? Connie needs to know and teams up with a New York Times reporter named Paul (John Magaro) to find out. Unwilling to just hand over the tape, Connie agrees to

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27. Family Dinner (2022) dir. Peter Hengl

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2022/06/11

As I type, writer/director Peter Hengl's debut horror film, "Family Dinner," premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. It's a horror film about 15-year-old Simi (Nina Katlein in a tour-de-force debut performance), who travels to her nutritionist aunt Claudia's (Pia Hierzegger) for Easter weekend in hope she'll help Simi lose weight. Soon, Simi is isolated in Claudia's forest home, with nothing to look at but trees, her misogynist cousin Fillip (Alexander Sladek) and Claudia's post-divorce

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00:32:59

26. Host (2020) & Dashcam (2022): Rob Savage's Covid Duo

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2022/06/03

Rob Savage broke through the horror indie scene with 2020's screen horror ghost flick "Host," released at the pandemic's fever pitch of quarantines and lockdowns. By filming on Zoom and addressing the pandemic head-on, Savage became one of the few filmmakers to fully tackle the events of the day (more like a year and a half, but whatever). HIs found footage/livestream follow-up, "Dashcam," further explores the pandemic's potential as a horror backdrop. I believe Savage uses his films and the tropes

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00:14:53

25. Torn Hearts (2022) dir. Brea Grant

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2022/05/29

"Torn Hearts" refers to the name of the country music duo of Jordan (Abby Quinn) and Leigh (Alexxis Lemire). The duo travels to the mansion of their reclusive idol, Harper Dutch (Katey Sagal), in hopes of getting her to write a song with them, but dark secrets of the past threaten to infect and poison the friends' relationship in the present. | Follow Daniel on Twitter: @TheMovies_Pod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themoviespodcast/message

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00:22:44

24. Images of a Nordic Drama (2021) dir. Nils Gaup

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2022/05/26

Nils Gaup's "Images of a Nordic Drama" chronicles the decades-long journey of Norwegian art collector Haakon Mehren to have the country's National Museum recognize and celebrate the paintings of Askel Waldemar Johannessen, a late 19th Century contemporary of the likes of Edvard Munch ("The Scream"). Mehren found the paintings in a barn in the '90s, where they'd gathered dust, lost, for 70 years. Discovery of a lifetime, should be a winner, right? The museum hates the work. Johannessen's depictions

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23. Emergency (2022) dir. Carey Williams

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2022/05/20

When Black college students and best friends Sean (RJ Cyler) and Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) discover a blonde white girl passed out in their apartment, they scramble to get her some medical help without attracting any unwanted attention. You know what people would think of two Black teens lugging around an unconscious white girl? You know what the cops would think? Exactly. It should be easy enough; just drop the girl off at the ER and move on. But the movies - hell, life - never makes it easy

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00:27:11

22. Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (2022) dir....

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2022/05/16

Is it too on-the-nose for two guys named Daniel to direct this Daniel's favorite movie? | Follow me on Twitter: @TheMovies_Pod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themoviespodcast/message

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00:17:03

21. Daniel Blathers Giddily About THE NORTHMAN...

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2022/05/14

Robert Eggers' "The Northman" bowled me over so hard that it compelled me not to waste any time in sharing my thoughts. So here they are, fresh from the theater! | Follow me on Twitter: @TheMovies_Pod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themoviespodcast/message

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