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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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237. BIGHT (2026) dir. Maiara Walsh

The Movies ·

2026/02/16

In BIGHT, a couple (Maiara Walsh & Cameron Cowperthwaite) struggling with intimacy is propositioned at their erotic photographer friend's (Mark Hapka) dinner party: He wants them in a nude rope bondage scene in order to break down all sense of ego, achieving total sexual, romantic and spiritual harmony. Kinky.But the second part of the phrase "erotic thriller" inevitably rears its head and as the consequences of revealed secrets unfold, boundaries are strained, even broken.BIGHT is

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00:42:43

236. GOAT (2026) dir. Tyree Dillihay & Adam Rosette

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2026/02/09

GOAT eschews the acronym "Greatest of All Time" for the literal: a teenage goat named Will Harris (Caleb McLaughlin) who dreams of changing the game of Roarball, an animalian version of basketball played on rocky, icy, thorny, or burning-hot terrain that's treacherous at best, deadly at worst.He wishes to follow in the paw prints of the G.O.A.T., a black leopard named Jett Fillmore (Gabrielle Union), whose hometown hero status goes all the way back to Will's childhood. She's

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00:21:59

235. The 2026 Oscars Nominations

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2026/02/08

It's time to talk about the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards, set to take place on Sunday, March 15th, 2026. Who was snubbed? Who was nominated for the 17th time (and still not expected to win)? Who made the cut to be considered in Best Picture? All shall be revealed.BUGONIA dir. Yorgos LanthimosF1 dir. Joseph KosinskiFRANKENSTEIN dir. Guillermo del ToroHAMNET dir. Chloe ZhaoMARTY SUPREME dir. Josh SafdieONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER dir. Paul Thomas AndersonTHE SECRET AGENT dir. Kleber

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00:20:35

234. The 2026 Oscars Best Picture Predictions

The Movies ·

2026/01/19

Before the nominations are announced this Thursday, January 22nd, let's talk about my predictions for this year's crop of Academy Award nominees for Best Picture.Remember, friends: no guts, no glory!---ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER dir. Paul Thomas AndersonSINNERS dir. Ryan CooglerFRANKENSTEIN dir. Guillermo del ToroHAMNET dir. Chloe ZhaoSENTIMENTAL VALUE dir. Joachim TrierMARTY SUPREME dir. Josh SafdieIT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT dir. Jafar PanahiTRAIN DREAMS dir. Clint BentleyTHE SECRET AGENT dir

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00:30:06

233. Best Picture Showcase '25: I'M STILL HERE dir....

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2026/01/19

If you routinely listen to the podcast, you've likely heard me say that art comes to you when you need it. So, is it mere coincidence that I wrap last year's Best Picture Showcase with I'M STILL HERE, a movie wherein a woman's husband is forcibly disappeared by a military dictatorship for the "crime" of assisting folks who criticize the government's policies, at a time when ICE kidnaps both undocumented immigrants and American citizens off of the streets, placing them

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00:14:56

232. Interview | GLENDORA Director Isabelle Armand

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2026/01/13

I interview Isabelle Armand about her documentary GLENDORA, ahead of its premiere at the Dances With Films: NY festival on January 16.The documentary, about a rural Mississippi town's struggle to redefine and strengthen its cultural history, is lovingly photographed by Armand, who sees the documentary as an exercise in collective memory, a way to archive generational history in a matter the town hadn't before gathered.Armand's previous project, a photobook titled LEVON AND KENNEDY,

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00:20:12

231. GLENDORA (2026) dir. Isabelle Armand

The Movies ·

2026/01/13

Isabelle Armand directs GLENDORA, a documentary about a rural Mississippi town's efforts to redefine and strengthen its cultural history amidst economic struggle.Glendora, Mississippi is the poorest city in Tallahatchie County, with a population of less than 200. Marked by a history of cotton gins and sharecropping, the economic viability of the town remains inseparably linked to segregation. Once the White community left, so did the money.The documentary showcases multiple organizations and

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00:27:47

230. PRIMATE (2026) dir. Johannes Roberts

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2026/01/12

PRIMATE is a stupidly simple movie. A pet monkey contracts rabies and lets loose a murderous rampage on its owners and their friends.I'm fine with this. In fact, after the movie's premiere during last year's Fantastic Fest, the buzz seemed to indicate the movie's execution of this concept was sufficiently wild, bloody, a gleefully wicked good time.However, I'm sad to say it: festival hype has hoodwinked me once more. There's no part of this movie that is devoid of

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00:25:11

229. 31 Days of Halloween '25: RAVENOUS (1999) dir....

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2026/01/07

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00:50:22

228. The 2025 Movies That Stuck With Me

The Movies ·

2026/01/04

The best way to start a new year is by celebrating the old! 2025 saw me watch less new films than usual but as per usual, I stuck up for the weirdos. In alphabetical order, these are the movies that stuck with me, kept me thinking and guessing and analyzing for months:BIRDEATER dir. Jack Clark & Jim Weir BUGONIA dir. Yorgos Lanthimos THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA dir. Samir Oliveros SINNERS dir. Ryan CooglerWOLF MAN dir. Leigh Whanell---Follow The Movies on ⁠Instagram⁠ & ⁠Letterboxd⁠Throw a

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00:18:04

227. The Movies: Year 5

The Movies ·

2026/01/03

Today marks the last episode of Year 4 of The Movies. As such and as part of a yearly tradition, I take the last episode of each year to reflect on the good, bad and generally insane aspects of the show. I thank everybody who came on the show and anyone who helped me keep this thing rolling. Finally, I lay out some goals for 2026 to help grow and strengthen The Movies for another 12 months.2025 ended up being my most prolific year to date but I'm just getting started, friends. Buckle in.---Credit

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00:36:29

S4E72. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 20: ONIBABA (1964)...

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2025/12/28

ONIBABA is one of Willem Dafoe's favorite movies, as his visit to the Criterion Closet confirms. In finally watching Kaneto Shindo's moody 1964 drama, I found it to have a spiritual cousin in one of Dafoe's films, THE LIGHTHOUSE.Both movies center on a couple isolated from most of the world, whose work provides the sole respite for their otherwise stress-addled minds. In the latter, it's two American lighthouse keeper from the early 20th Century. In ONIBABA, a mother and her

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00:43:01

S4E71. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 19: CRONOS (1992)...

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2025/12/24

Guillermo del Toro has yet to find any boundaries when it comes to intimacy within a story or the scope of its telling. He uses genre like a stained palette, leaving residue of fusions and clear-cut influences.So it makes sense that his debut, CRONOS, is no different. Del Toro reinvents the vampire using alchemy, entomology, Gothic principles, the mixture of Medevial and Renaissance periods. But anchoring this smattering of ideas is the simplest one: the unconditional love between a grandfather and

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00:40:00

S4E70. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 18: HALLOWEEN III:...

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2025/12/22

It's time to talk about the black sheep of the HALLOWEEN franchise: SEASON OF THE WITCH. This 1982 paranoid sci-fi thriller infamously did not center around Michael Myers but instead on Silver Shamrock, a company whose trendy Halloween masks become the subject of scrutiny after an elderly shop owner is murdered by a mysterious assailant in the hospital. The old man had arrived the night before clutching one of the masks, whispering to Dr. Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins) that "they're gonna

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00:57:37

S4E69. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 17.5: Mary Beth...

The Movies ·

2025/12/17

When writing the watchlist for this year's 31 Days of Halloween, I put on Coralie Fargeat's REVENGE because I adore THE SUBSTANCE and wanted to see more of her work. I listed BYSTANDERS because I'd been following director Mary Beth McAndrews, then editor of Dread Central, for years and wanted to see what her debut would have to offer.But it wasn't until I began to research BYSTANDERS that I realized what serendipity had casually placed in front of me: REVENGE was not only a massive

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00:35:45

S4E68. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 17: BYSTANDERS...

The Movies ·

2025/12/16

---Please rate and review THE MOVIES wherever you listen to podcasts!Follow THE MOVIES on Instagram, Bluesky & Letterboxd

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00:29:58

S4E67. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 16: REVENGE (2017)...

The Movies ·

2025/12/06

REVENGE is the feature directorial debut of Coralie Fargeat, Oscar-nominated for directing last year's total fucking banger THE SUBSTANCE.THE SUBSTANCE had a budget of $17 million. REVENGE had $3 million. And in comparing both movies, it gives me great joy to see that Fargeat's penchant for the surreal and gnarly diminishes not with a lowered budget. Her ideas remain just as ferocious and maximalist, like a sledgehammer to the face.REVENGE refers to the second part of the

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00:33:45

S4E66. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 15: MOTEL HELL...

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2025/10/21

MOTEL HELL arrived only months after FRIDAY THE 13TH, poised to be regarded as merely another slasher imitator looking to cash a quick buck. However, Kevin Connor's horror-comedy, penned by brothers Robert & Steven-Charles Jaffe, deceptively avoided the pitfalls of its contemporaries. This movie, about a farmer and motel owner (Rory Calhoun) killing wayward travelers to grind into the blend for his famous smoked meats, dives into psychedelia, satire, even thoughtful discussions regarding

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00:24:43

S4E65. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 14: POSSESSION...

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2025/10/19

*Apologies for the audio: I tried recording in the car & tweaked the sound as best as possible.*POSSESSION is simply a feel-bad movie. Andrzej Zulawski's chaotic magnum opus of divorce, abuse and horny tentacled fucks has to be seen to be believed. For those who grew up with Sam Neill as the heroic Dr. Alan Grant in JURASSIC PARK, prepare to have your childhood chewed up, spit out and bombed. This is a movie I don't often understand but within its swirling camera movements, frenetic

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00:21:15

S4E64. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 13: THE MONSTER...

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2025/10/17

THE MONSTER SQUAD brings the Universal Monsters of yore into the '80s with a healthy dose of sugar-blasted cereal and unmedicated ADHD. Directed by Fred Dekker (NIGHT OF THE CREEPS) & written by both Dekker and Shane Black (THE NICE GUYS, LETHAL WEAPON, KISS KISS BANG BANG, most of your favorite movies ever), this combined family drama, top-notch makeup effects and preteen comedy with unapologetic horror. Dracula calls a 5-year-old girl a bitch, because of course, he would? As was done to

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