Si Es Cine Podcast

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! 🎄  In this episode of Si Es Cine, Brittany Reyes and Michael Lozano travel back to 2003 to reflect on one of our favorite Christmas movies of all time: Jon Favreau's Elf 🎄  To this day, you won't go without seeing someone dressed up as Buddy, quoting the one of hundreds of iconic lines, or even listen to that classic theme song -- we're going to discuss...

We're sensing a theme here... Si Es Cine is back with a new episode! We're staying within John Carpenter's filmography, looking back at 1994's In The Mouth of Madness.  A horror/fantasy movie that brings the Carpenter staples while engrossing us in an H.P. Lovecraft-type world.  The film follows John Trent (Sam Neill), an insurance investigator, who goes searching for horror novelist Sutter Cane (...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 👻  As lovers of the spooky season, Brittany Reyes and Michael Lozano are ecstatic to talk on a staple of the holiday season: John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) 🎃  "The Shape", also known as Michael Myers, his iconic theme song, and its everlasting impact on the slasher genre makes it a fitting choice, and it's why we're posting this on October 31.  Sit back, relax, and geek out w...

In this latest episode of Si Es Cine, Brittany Reyes and Michael Lozano dive into mathematics with 1988's Stand and Deliver.  This wonderful Latino film follows an east Los Angeles high school teacher who decides to improve his students' math skills by pushing them to their limits.  The film provides you with laughs, sincerity, and plenty of quotable moments.  As always, spoilers ahead and Happy H...

As we kick off Hispanic Heritage Month, we felt that it was only fair to ring it in with Pixar's Coco.    If you couldn't tell from the name of our podcast or our last names, this is a particular special time for us to reflect on our own Latin heritage and how its shaped us into who we are today.    It was a senior level Latino Politics class, at the University of North Texas, that initially conne...

In this week's episode of Si Es Cine, Michael Lozano and Brittany Reyes have their hearts set on spooky season, hoping to escape these grueling Texas temperatures.  Thankfully, A24 provided us with the horrifying Talk to Me to close out the summer.  The Australian horror film is about a group of teenagers learning that they can summon and be possessed by spirits thanks to an embalmed hand which le...

In a world filled with parody and chaos, Mike Nichol's The Birdcage (1996) provides us with a comedy that has aged like fine wine. The Birdcage provides some tasteful and respectful LGBTQ+ representation, something that was sorely lacking in the 90s and is still not where it should be in the 2020s.  The powerhouse performances of Nathan Lane and the late-great Robin Williams inject some wonderful...

WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY:  Michael Lozano & Brittany Reyes stand in solidarity with SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America as they fight for fair wages, adequate residuals for streaming, and protection from A.I.  Pay them, protect them, and respect the faces who make up the backbone of Hollywood.  Barbie (2023)  In this week's episode, Si Es Cine enters Greta Gerwig's world of Barbie!  The b...

Alas, Shark Week beckons to those who adore these majestic creatures. It only makes sense that we discuss a film that spawned the 'summer blockbuster', a plethora of shark movies, and hurt the public image of a vital cog in the ocean's ecosystem for decades to come.  Si Es Cine's Michael Lozano and Brittany Reyes talk about a childhood favorite of ours in Steve Spielberg's "Jaws". 

Yes, as the title suggests, you're about to hear a plethora of film and TV goodness!  During Brittany Reyes and Michael Lozano's trial run, in March 2023, this recording got lost in the depths of our storage; but ALAS, it has been found and is ready for you to listen to!  We talk about why the indie-horror film, Skinamarink, continues to make our skin crawl to this day, why HBO's The Last of Us is...

In Celine Song's directorial debut, she brings us a powerhouse film in Past Lives (2023).    The film revolves around a decades spanning relationship that brings about the conversation of fate, what-ifs, and the paths that we chose.   It's a love story, it's an immigration story, it's a story about worlds colliding.    Brittany Reyes and I go on an hour-long discussion on why this film is so poign...

"One thing about living in Santa Carla I could never stomach. All the damn vampires.” On this episode of Si Es Cine, we discuss Joel Schumacher’s cult classic The Lost Boys, the movie that should set the standard for how all vampires look. We digress into why we think the Frog Brothers are really younger versions of Bill from HBO's The Last Of Us, and at no point can Brittany keep her cool about h...

In a world filled with superhero movies and sequels, it's only fair we get ANOTHER vampire-related film.    Except, this time, it stars Nicolas Cage. 'Nuff said.    Michael Lozano and Brittany Reyes discuss how we felt about the latest iteration of Dracula and the absolute CAMP this movie brings. 

Episode 1: La La Land  On this episode of Si Es Cine with Michael Lozano and Brittany Reyes, we break down why La La Land remains a beloved movie that resonates with so many audiences all these years later.  It's a film that can be best described by one of its more poignant song lyrics, "Here's to the fools who dream."    Thanks for listening and be sure to follow us on Instagram @SiEsCinePod !  ...