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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.

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

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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

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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

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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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00:37:06

S3E38. Look Into My Eyes (2024) dir. Lana Wilson

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2024/09/16

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show!--- LOOK INTO MY EYES, directed by Lana Wilson (MISS AMERICANA, PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS), centers on a group of seven New York psychics and the intimate readings they undergo with their clients. Some search for answers regarding their future. Others try to make sense of the past. People ask about their lost loved ones, both young and old. In these psychics, they look for comfort, but even more

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00:28:54

S3E37. Transformers One (2024) dir. Josh Cooley

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2024/09/15

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show! --- TRANSFORMERS ONE is a breath of fresh air for this (admittedly casual) Transformers fan. I lived through the decade of Michael Bay's destruction porn lens and to see a Transformers movie that's a thrilling and fun sci-fi adventure while also emotionally resonant and honest? AND establishes lore that helps me appreciate the cartoon even more so? It's a stellar feat, a glorious

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00:43:02

S3E36. The Anxieties of Parenthood in M3GAN

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2024/09/11

Please rate and review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Audible! --- Today marks a first on the podcast. Last year, I reviewed Gerard Johnstone's horror movie M3GAN (see Season 2, Episode 4) but after a recent rewatch with my wife, I found I have more to say about the PG-13 killer doll flick. I'm surprised by how much of the movie works as a cautionary tale for parents, highlighting certain anxieties of parenthood and the absolute wrong ways of handling them. So to my fellow

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00:48:42

S3E35. What to Watch at Fantastic Fest 2024

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2024/09/09

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify & Apple Podcasts! --- Fantastic Fest brings together the year's best offerings of genre film, crash landing in Austin, TX from Sept. 19-26. With more than 80 films to choose from, how can you whittle down the selection? Never fear, Daniel from The Movies is here! I'm covering the festival from home (lodging and tickets are expensive, yo) and have compiled a list of 23 selections that excite me to no end. We're talking folk horror, women seeking vengeance,

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00:21:51

S3E34. Interview | HAPPY CAMPERS Director Amy Nicholson

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2024/09/07

Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify & Apple Podcasts!--- Today's episode is an interview with Amy Nicholson, director of the documentary HAPPY CAMPERS. The movie chronicles the last summer for working-class denizens of Inlet View, an RV park in coastal Virginia, to enjoy their undisturbed slice of paradise before a developer tears the place down to build waterfront condos. Nicholson shares her love of capturing impromptu moments (which leads to, as her editor cheekily describes

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00:22:11

S3E33. Happy Campers (2024) dir. Amy Nicholson

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2024/08/28

Don't forget to rate & review the podcast! -- I love the hell out of this movie. Amy Nicholson's HAPPY CAMPERS (available on VOD September 10th) sees the denizens of a waterfront Virginia RV park through the last days of their working-class summertime paradise: "The Armpit of America," as lovingly described by a couple in the film. These folks, of different races, walks of life, even statehoods, congregate every summer under the simple banner of a good hang. They adorn their

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00:39:14

S3E32. Alien: Romulus (2024) dir. Fede Alvarez

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2024/08/19

Don't forget to rate & review the podcast!--- ALIEN: ROMULUS feels like a self-proclaimed victory lap for the almost-50-year-old franchise, blending elements from each movie (the greatest hits, some might say) to make an installment to please every ALIEN fan. From the COVENANT cultists to the ALIEN 3 truthers, there's a piece here for you. However, I'm not sure this movie is built to withstand so many ideas and callbacks. I find it works better as a low-scope, character-driven

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00:25:09

S3E31. Gladiator II Trailer Breakdown | Listener Request

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2024/08/09

Two years ago, I fulfilled a listener request from my friend Resa to review Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR (Season 1, Episode 37). It only makes sense, then, her next request was for me to talk about the trailer for GLADIATOR II!I love Ridley Scott flicks and this trailer hints towards another notch in the belt of successes for one of our greatest living directors. It's messy; it's violent; it's chockful of character actors entrenched in soapy political drama and fisticuffs (swordicuffs? stabisodes? I

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00:34:23

S3E30. National Anthem (2024) dir. Luke Gilford

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2024/08/07

Luke Gilford's debut feature NATIONAL ANTHEM sees Charlie Plummer (LEAN ON PETE, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD) as Dylan, a 21-year-old ranch hand who starts his journey of self-discovery through the age-old catalyst of meeting a girl. In this case, the girl is Sky (Eve Lindley), a rodeo performer who's part of a wider community of queer rodeo lovers who've crafted their own family and live off of the land, no corporations necessary. Dylan not only begins to fall for Sky but also takes his

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00:33:16

S3E29. Interview | ELIZABETH TAYLOR: THE LOST TAPES...

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2024/07/31

Academy Award-nominated Nanette Burstein's latest film ELIZABETH TAYLOR: THE LOST TAPES sees the director sifting through 40 hours of previously unheard interviews to build a portrait of actress and philanthropist Elizabeth Taylor using her own words.Taylor presents as a woman who suffers no fools, whether they be paparazzi demonizing her affair (and eventual marriage) to Eddie Fisher, journalists nagging her with questions about "sex symbol" status or critics quick to write her off

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00:38:37

S3E28. The QUIET PLACE Trilogy

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2024/07/21

Last episode, I interviewed the director of A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, Michael Sarnoski. In preparation, I watched all the movies in the trilogy and figured it was a good time, six years removed from the first film, to talk about the franchise as a whole - pregnancy, an Irishman's Southern accent and the mighty skill of one Lupita N'yongo.--- Follow The Movies on Twitter: @TheMovies_Pod Closing Music: "Featuring Mark Hoppus" - Hot Mulligan

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00:36:04

S3E27. Interview | A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE Director...

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2024/06/28

Today, I interview Michael Sarnoski, the director of the new horror movie A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE. This is the prequel to the A QUIET PLACE franchise where humanity has adapted to live as silently as possible to survive an alien invasion. You make a noise, you get eaten.But what if you don't know that? What if it's the first day the aliens land on Earth? What if they happen to land in New York, one of the loudest cities on the planet? That's the approach DAY ONE takes, following

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00:24:39

S3E26. Hundreds of Beavers (2024) dir. Mike Cheslik

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2024/06/20

Mike Cheslik's HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS feels like a small miracle: an homage to Looney Tunes silliness shot in black & white without dialogue. The beavers hunted by bumbling drunken applejack-turned-fur trapper Jean Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) are all represented by Disney World-style costumes (yep, big heads and cartoon faces). Hell, every animal is portrayed in cartoonish costume or felt puppetry. The absurdity leans into noir, sci-fi, romance. It's the best kind of throwback: an

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00:19:01

S3E25. Angelika Film Center in Plano, TX Closes After...

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2024/06/09

My favorite movie theater, the Angelika Film Center in Plano, TX, closed its doors this week after 20 years of operations. I feel like a piece of me closed along with it. Let's discuss.Follow The Movies on Twitter: @TheMovies_Pod End Song: "Hero" - Family of the Year --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themoviespodcast/message

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00:38:26

S3E24. Interview With "Lost Angel: The Genius of...

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2024/04/13

As an addendum to last episode, I interviewed Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom, the directors of LOST ANGEL: THE GENIUS OF JUDEE SILL, about the decade-long process of bringing their music documentary to life. They chat about the x-factor moment that brought the movie's structure to light, the responsibilities felt from telling the underrated & undervalued Judee's story and what it's like to make a movie about a musician with a less-than-musical background. I'm grateful to Andy

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00:21:00

S3E23. Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (2024)...

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2024/04/12

LOST ANGEL: THE GENIUS OF JUDEE SILL is a documentary detailing the life and music of '70s singer-songwriter Judee Sill using as much of her own voice as possible. This could devolve into another talking-heads affair but having Judee's voice narrate and her art take animated flight on screen gives the movie an authenticity and more intimate connection to its subject. Judee was never the type of person to cruise behind her producers, anyway. She always had to have a hand in every affair

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00:35:37

S3E22. Monkey Man (2024) dir. Dev Patel

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2024/04/06

MONKEY MAN is the directorial debut of Dev Patel. My best friend asked 'Wasn't that the guy who played Zuko in that bad Avatar movie?" Yes. Yes, he was. He's also built a strong genre-spanning body of work since then, starring in THE GREEN KNIGHT, HOTEL MUMBAI, THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD and LION, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2017.And yet, I find myself completely willing to throw all that

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