The Movie Podcast

Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcast Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review David Gordon Green's HALLOWEEN ENDS. After 45 years, this is Laurie Strode’s last stand against the embodiment of evil, Michael Myers. Only one of them will survive. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Will Patton, Rohan Campbell, and Kyle Richards. Halloween...

Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcast Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Michael Giacchino's WEREWOLF BY NIGHT, A Marvel Studios Special Presentation. Inspired by horror films of the 1930s and 1940s, the chilling special aims to evoke a sense of dread and the macabre, with plenty of suspense and scares along the way as we explore a new corner of the Marvel Cinemat...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by Director and Composer MICHAEL GIACCHINO, Co-Executive Producer BRIAN GAY and Actress LAURA DONNELLY aka Elsa Bloodstone of WEREWOLF BY NIGHT (A Marvel Studios Special Presentation). Inspired by horror films of the 1930s and 1940s, the chilling special aims to evoke a sense of dread and the macabre, with plenty of suspen...

Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcast On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by Director ANNE FLETCHER and the cast of Disney+ Original Film HOCUS POCUS 2 including SAM RICHARDSON, DOUG JONES, WHITNEY PEAK, BELISSA ESCOBEDO, & LILIA BUCKINGHAM. It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17t...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Anne Fletcher's HOCUS POCUS 2, a Disney+ Original movie. It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century sisters, and they are looking for revenge. Now it is up to three high-school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow’s Eve. The film stars Bette Midl...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by SPECIAL GUESTS ANDREW SCOTT & JOE ALWYN of Catherine Called Birdy. The film is Directed by Lena Dunham and stars Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper, Andrew Scott, Lesley Sharp, Joe Alwyn, Dean Charles Chapman, and Isis Hainsworth. Based on the children's novel by Karen Cushman, Lady Catherine (known as Birdy) is the youngest ch...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Anthony are joined by LAUREN GRAHAM & JOSH DUHAMEL of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Season 2! After winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, our squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Lauren Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, C...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by SPECIAL GUESTS MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ & STEPHEN LANG of James Cameron's AVATAR to celebrate the rerelease of the 2009 film. Written and directed by Academy Award winner James Cameron, Avatar also stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, and Sigourney Weaver. Avatar is the most successful film of all time and returns to theatres...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Star Wars ANDOR, a prequel series from showrunner Tony Scott set five years before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue where Cassian Andor will embark on the path that is destin...

Daniel and Shahbaz review Olivia Wilde's DON'T WORRY DARLING. Florence Pugh and Harry Styles star as Alice and Jack Chambers, a young, happy couple in the 1950s, living in the seemingly perfect company town of Victory, California, which has been created and paid for by the mysterious company for which Jack works. Curiosity about the nature of her husband's work on the secret "Victory Project" begi...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by SPECIAL GUESTS GENEVIEVE O'REILLY (Mon Mothma), ADRIA ARJONA (Bix Caleen), KYLE SOLLER (Syril Karn), and DENISE GOUGH (Dedra Meero) of Star Wars ANDOR. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an era filled with danger, deception a...

Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcast On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, we're joined by Actors EWAN MCGREGOR & ETHAN HAWKE of Rodrigo García's RAYMOND & RAY as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. The film stars Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke as long-estranged half-brothers who reunite to bury their father. The...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, we're joined by Actor BRENDAN FRASER and Screenwriter SAMUEL D. HUNTER of Darren Aronofsky's The Whale as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. In our Round Table discussion with Brendan and Samuel, we‘re also joined by Rachel Ho of Exclaim! and Steve Norton of ScreenFish who have generously allowed us to includ...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Martin McDonagh's THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. Set in 1923 on the fictional island of Inisherin, the film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as lifelong friends Pádraic and Colm, who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. The film also...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Rian Johnson's GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. In the follow up to Rian Johnson's KNIVES OUT, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects. The film stars Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn...

Daniel and Anthony review Ti West's PEARL, as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. Set within the twisted world of X, Pearl is an origin story of the iconic villain and follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. It stars Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, and Emma Jenkins-Purro. Pearl will be available to watch beginning...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Brett Morgen's MOONAGE DAYDREAM as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. David Bowie had a multitude of personas as a musician, painter, actor, and world traveller. This documentary portrait, told in his own words from decades of interviews, is as bold and visually inventive as he was and screening exclusively in IMAX at TI...

Daniel and Shahbaz review Rodrigo García's RAYMOND & RAY as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. The film stars Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke as long-estranged half-brothers who reunite to bury their father. The film also stars Maribel Verdú, Tom Bower, Vondie Curtis Hall, and Sophie Okonedo. Raymond & Ray will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on October 21...

Daniel and Shahbaz review Steven Spielberg's THE FABELMANS as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. The Fabelmans is Spielberg's most personal film yet. It's based on the master director’s childhood passion for moviemaking, and the family dynamics that found their way into his work. It stars Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Jeannie...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Darren Aronofsky's THE WHALE as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. The film is written by Samuel D. Hunter and based on his 2012 play of the same name. The Whale invites us to identify with a man in a precarious state of isolation that has been exacerbated by a potentially lethal mix of technology and our culture of body...

Daniel and Shahbaz review Nicholas Stoller's BROS as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. The film stars Billy Eichner, the first openly gay man to co-write and star in his own major studio film—and featuring an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast, including Luke Macfarlane, Ts Madison, Monica Raymund, Guillermo Díaz, Guy Branum and Amanda Bearse. Bros is now p...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Eric Appel's WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY as part of The Movie Podcast's 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. The film is the unvarnished, “true” account of ”Weird Al” Yankovic’s meteoric rise from a humble accordion player who replaced the lyrics of popular songs with funny new ones to a rich and famous celebrity accordion player who continued to re...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are each joined by Writer & Director Zach Cregger of BARBARIAN. Zach is an actor, comedian, writer, director, producer, and Twitch streamer. He first came to prominence as one of the three founding members New York City-based comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know. Barbarian releases in theatres September 9, 2022 by 20th Century Stud...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Robert Zemeckis' PINOCCHIO, a live action and CGI retelling of the beloved tale of a wooden puppet who embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy. The film stars Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Joseph Gordon- Levitt, Keegan-Michael Key, Lorraine Bracco, with Cynthia Erivo and Luke Evans. A Disney+ Day premiere, Pinocchio will launch September 8, 202...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Zach Cregger's BARBARIAN. In the film, a young woman traveling to Detroit for a job interview books a rental home. But when she arrives late at night, she discovers that the house is double booked, and a strange man is already staying there. It stars Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, Matthew Patrick Davis, Richard Brake, Jaymes Butler and Kurt Brauno...