Best Ivory George Podcasts (2026)

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12. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2022) dir. David Blue Garcia 26:17

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Leatherface returns, with all sequels, remakes and prequels scrubbed, in TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. A group of 20-somethings arrive at a dilapidated Texas town with hopes of rejuvenating it with a community of fresh faces and business. Preparing the buildings for auction, they stumble across the last residents: an elderly woman and her son. They don'…

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11. THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021) dir. Jane Campion 25:29

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Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) is an asshole. He's the kind of guy who delights in picking at someone's worst insecurities, like a kid pulling a fly's wing to watch it squirm. Great rancher; he and brother George (Jesse Plemons) have built a strong company together. But God, he's a dick. So what happens when Phil comes across meek widow Rose (…

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10. STUDIO 666 (2022) dir. BJ McDonnell 17:07

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Foo Fighters (my favorite band) made a horror movie featuring dark-ass metal music and gnarly head trauma? Sign me up. When the Foos record their new album in a creepy mansion, the murderous history of said mansion resurfaces, its spirits ready to feast on the new souls in their domain. This may not be for everybody, but it sure is for me! --- Foll…

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9. KIMI (2022) dir. Steven Soderbergh 18:42

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KIMI is a paranoid thriller about an agoraphobic woman (Zoe Kravitz) who, working quality control for a Siri-style personal assistant program, overhears a crime on one of her feeds. Determined to help, she involves herself into a deeper, darker plot, unknowingly putting herself in danger. It's a lean, kickass flick chock-full of character - appropr…

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8. WEST SIDE STORY (2021) dir. Steven Spielberg 24:09

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Steven Spielberg's remake of "West Side Story" dropped on Disney + this week. I watched it to fulfill part of my series covering this year's Best Picture nominees for the Oscars. I was not a fan. Why make a love story with leads as dry as burnt toast? --- Follow The Movies on ⁠Instagram ⁠& ⁠Letterboxd⁠ Financially support the podcast via the ⁠tip j…

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7. ANOTHER ROUND (2020) dir. Thomas Vinterberg 21:34

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Thomas Vinterberg's "Another Round" sees four middle-aged high school teachers inspired by a strange theory: Humans have a blood alcohol deficiency, and should be consistently buzzed (think 1-2 glasses of wine) to achieve optimal performance. They embark on this experiment, hoping to add some color and subtract some control from their drab lives. I…

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6. UNCHARTED (2022) dir. Ruben Fleischer 26:53

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"Uncharted," adapted from the popular series of PlayStation games, sees Tom Holland as Nathan Drake, a petty thief with a penchant for the histories of adventurers and explorers. Recruited by Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Mark Walhberg), a veteran treasure hunter, to find the multi-billion dollar Lost Treasure of Magellan, Nathan navigates a world of bo…

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5. DON'T LOOK UP (2021) dir. Adam McKay 33:39

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Today, I review Adam McKay's satirical black comedy "Don't Look Up" as the first entry in a series covering this year's Best Picture nominees for the 94th Academy Awards. When two astronomers (Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) discover a planet-killing comet hurtling towards Earth, they scramble to warn everyone. Some believe them. A lot don…

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4. The Problem With SCREAM (2022) 33:39

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Last night, I watched the new "Scream," a.k.a "Scream 5," "5cream" or "Scream Part V: A New Beginning," directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. As Spike Lee says, "It wasn't my cuppa tea." Why? Because this movie mocks trends that it follows blindly. --- Follow The Movies on ⁠Instagram ⁠& ⁠Letterboxd⁠ Financially support the podcast vi…

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3. SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) dir. Jon Watts 23:33

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Well, the most anticipated episode of the show is here! I share my thoughts on Spider-Man: No Way Home (sans spoilers, of course), the character's place in the MCU, my love for Spidey as a property and much more. --- Follow The Movies on ⁠Instagram ⁠& ⁠Letterboxd⁠ Financially support the podcast via the ⁠tip jar!…

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2. The 2021 Movies That Stuck With Me 50:30

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*2026 Daniel here: The ANNETTE segment of the episode is badly muffled at the beginning but eventually resolves itself. I'm gonna blame that on me fumbling around with my pillow. Sorry.* --- Let's wrap up 2021 by talking about the movies that wouldn't leave my brain. In alphabetical order: Annette | Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes | Dune | Hallowee…

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1.75. In Four Films: Rosa Parra 1:48:25

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*Daniel from 2026 here: I'm reorganizing the podcast feed and as such, including a few episodes from the prototype of The Movies, The Daniel Berrios Podcast. This one's another installment of In Four Films, featuring critic Rosa Parra.* --- This episode of "...In Four Films" is a treat. I bring on the co-creator of the Latinx Lens podcast, a Rotten…

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1.5. In Four Films: Hannah Ringswald 1:46:04

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*Daniel from 2026 here: I'm organizing old and new episodes to spruce up the podcast feed. This is a holdover from the prototype for The Movies, The Daniel Berrios Podcast. This, my friends, is the very first installment of IN FOUR FILMS.* --- "In Four Films" sees me interviewing friends and colleagues to see what four movies helped shape the essen…

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1. The Tender Bar (2021) dir. George Clooney 21:21

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Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Movies (a self-explanatory podcast)! Today's episode centers on "The Tender Bar," George Clooney's adaptation of JR Moehringer's 2005 memoir. JR (whose younger and older versions are played, respectively, by Daniel Raineri and Tye Sheridan) grows up in his grandfather's (Christopher Lloyd) house with his moth…

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S4E67. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 16: REVENGE (2017) dir. Coralie Fargeat 29:58

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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 budg…

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S4E66. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 15: MOTEL HELL (1980) dir. Kevin Connor 33:45

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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) killin…

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S4E65. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 14: POSSESSION (1981) dir. Andrzej Zulawski 24:43

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*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 …

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S4E64. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 13: THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987) dir. Fred Dekker 21:15

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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 m…

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S4E63. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 12: SCARY MOVIE (2000) dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans 24:33

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SCARY MOVIE is a staple of my childhood, an entryway into horror movies during a time where I wasn't allowed to watch most of them. It's a time capsule, for better and worse, of the late '90s/early '00s sense of humor & general fatigue regarding the slew of teen slashers riding SCREAM's coattails. This was my intro to the Wayans Bros, Regina Hall, …

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S4E62. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 11: WE ARE STILL HERE (2015) dir. Ted Geoghegan 23:36

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WE ARE STILL HERE occupies a crossroads in the horror genre: that of the '70s & '80s-inspired supernatural chillers, the gorefests from guys like Lucio Fulci and the patient character studies of grief popularized in the '10s (anything A24 would touch). These elements shouldn't work so well together but I guess when you got a horror nerd like Ted Ge…

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S4E61. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 10: IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN (1966) dir. Bill Melendez 25:26

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We're 10 days into the 31 Days of Halloween and I feel like we need a palate cleanser. Recently, we've been talking about reanimating dead bodies, torturous twins, eating warm pizza off of cold corpses. I think it's time we take the holiday back to a more innocent, nostalgic time, where we only concern ourselves with what costume we're gonna wear a…

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S4E60. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 9: GOODNIGHT MOMMY (2014) dir. Veronica Franz & Severin Fiala 37:00

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GOODNIGHT MOMMY is the feature debut of aunt-nephew duo Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala (THE LODGE, THE DEVIL'S BATH). Patient, tense and psychologically disturbed, this movie drew me in and kept me guessing all the way to the end. Twin brothers Lukas and Elias (Lukas & Elias Schwarz) live in pastoral Germany, spending their summer days exploring pi…

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S4E59. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 8: THE INVITATION (2015) dir. Karyn Kusama 26:20

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In Karyn Kusama's THE INVITATION, Will (Logan Marshall-Green) is invited to his ex-wife Eden's (Tammy Blanchard) dinner party in the Hollywood Hills after two years of radio silence following the accidental death of their 5-year-old son. Returning to his old home and stepping back into his son's room conjures the guilt and pain Will's tried to bury…

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S4E58. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 7: THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982) dir. Amy Holden Jones 30:06

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After a long week of watching Halloween movies, it's good to grab some friends, get cozy in your pajamas, munch on a pizza, sip some beer, smoke some weed and settle into a slumber party. If you're lucky, it might even be a slumber party MASSACRE! 1982's THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE, directed by Amy Holden Jones, is one of my all-time favorites: a cl…

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S4E57. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 6: FRANKENHOOKER (1990) dir. Frank Henenlotter 42:22

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Donate to the Go-Fund-Me for Gabe Bartalos here. --- Just cause I've wrapped up the Universal Monsters series doesn't mean I'm quite yet done with the classics! Frank Henenlotter takes his goofy and gaudy turn with the FRANKENSTEIN story in his 1990 opus FRANKENHOOKER. This movie sees Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) as certifiably cuckoo-for-Cocoa-P…

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S4E56. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 5: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) dir. Jack Arnold 28:22

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Today, we're wrapping up the Universal Monsters with CREATURE OF THE BLACK LAGOON! The Monsterverse jumps into the Atomic Age of the '50s as a group of scientists/archeologists venture on a fossil-finding expedition in the Amazon. What are they looking for? An evolutionary missing link between animals of the sea and land, teased by a webbed long-fi…

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S4E55. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 4: THE WOLF MAN (1941) dir. George Waggner 21:39

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S4E54. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 3: THE MUMMY (1932) dir. Karl Freund 21:49

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🎶 On the 3rd Day of Halloween, my true love gave to me a stone knife to the stomach and promises of eternal life as a mu-mmy 🎶 1932's THE MUMMY sees Boris Karloff (now marketed as KARLOFF THE UNCANNY after FRANKENSTEIN's success) as an ancient Egyptian sorcerer, revived after 3,000 years with a mission to revive his love, Princess Anck-es-en-amon. …

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S4E53. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 2: FRANKENSTEIN (1931) dir. James Whale 33:28

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*God, if I can somehow get Clancy Brown to introduce this show, it'd be beautiful but now, you'll just have to imagine his deep, rich voice* DAY 2! GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 2, EVERYONE! 31 Days of Halloween continues down the Universal Monsters track. Not even a year after DRACULA's release, wunderkind producer Carl Laemmle Jr. comes back swinging with F…

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S4E52. 31 Days of Halloween - Day 1: DRACULA (1931) dir. Tod Browning 30:16

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Merry October, you beautiful people! For a holiday as fun as Halloween, who has the right to limit the party to one day? No-fucking-body. That's why on THE MOVIES, I'm celebrating for 31 straight days. This project allows me to further dig down the rabbit hole of my favorite genre, horror, discovering subterranean weird-ass, BARBARIAN-esque detours…

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S4E51. Best Picture Showcase: NICKEL BOYS dir. RaMell Ross 1:03:27

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NICKEL BOYS is one of a kind. That's not to say the narrative is brand-new. Two Black teens struggling to keep their sanity while stuck in an abusive institution brings to mind ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, THE GREAT ESCAPE, the millennial cinematic classic HOLES. But where NICKEL BOYS differs, as the great Roger Ebert wrote, is in HOW it's abou…

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EP 16 "He Bought Plato" a conversation with John Dillon 2:11:15

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John Dillon, Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin, is an Irish classicist and philosopher considered a world authority in ancient philosophy and Platonism. Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1939, he returned to Ireland as a child and studied Classics at Oxford before earning a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. He taught at Berkeley from 1…

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S4E50. DROP Blu-ray Review (2025) dir. Christopher Landon 40:56

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DROP follows Violet (Meghann Fahy), a widow/single mom going on her first date after the violent death of her abusive husband. All looks promising across the dinner table: Henry (Brendon Sklenar) is a charming, attractive, thoughtful guy. He's a photographer for the mayor. He bought a trinket for her 5-year-old. He's got a good wit. Perfect first o…

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EP 15 The Ghosts of Monto: Terry Fagan on 1950s Dublin 53:32

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Terry Fagan is a renowned Irish local historian and storyteller from Dublin's North Inner City. Born in the 1950s and raised in the historic heart of what was once Europe's largest red-light district, the Monto, Fagan witnessed firsthand the rapid transformation, and often erasure, of the surrounding Dublin tenements and their culture. He is, to th…

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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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200. 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…