Midday Movies

Mar 06 2025 230 ep. 25 mins

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Welcome to the Midday Movies podcast, provider of fun & funny media reviews 3x a week. Streaming on @radiotacoma101.9 every Tues/Thurs/Sat at 3pm.

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Midday Mini Ep 1: “Companion” (2025, Dir. Drew Hancock)

Mar 06 2025 5 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday we’re sharing a Midday Mini! That means a super-short, super-fun discussion of our key takeaways from the romance-themed thriller, “Companion” (2025). This film stars Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillen, and Rupert Friend. It was written and directed by Drew Hancock, whose previous work is mostly televi

Ep 209: “The Brutalist” (2024) Examines Immigrant Experience and the American Dream (Dir. Corbet)

Mar 04 2025 32 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday we’re discussing the Oscar Best Picture nominee, “The Brutalist” (2024). Written and directed by Brady Corbet and starring Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” narrativizes the disorienting and hostile experience of a Jewish immigrant escaping the cataclysm of World War II. In some ways friendly and hospitable, but in others chillingly m

Ep 208: “Nickel Boys” (2024) the Reformatory, Sentient POV & the Jim Crow South (Dir. RaMell Ross)

Feb 27 2025 27 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday we’re talking about Oscar Best Picture nominee, “Nickel Boys” (2024). Adapted from the 2019 Colson Whitehead novel of the same name and based on the experiences of students at the real-life Dozier School for Boys in Florida, this film shows us the Jim Crow era South literally through the eyes of our protagonists, alongside supplementa

Ep 207: “Dune: Part Two” (2024) The Empire, The Spice, and The Holy War (Dir. Denis Villeneuve)

Feb 25 2025 31 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday, the next stop on our tour of Oscar Best Picture nominees is, “Dune: Part Two” (2024). This is the second adaptation of the classic midcentury sci-fi series by Frank Herbert and it takes us right back to the barren desert of Arrakis, where we left our heroes in “Dune: Part One” in 2021. Expanding the world to include the galactic em

Ep 206: “Wicked” (2024) and the Wonderful World of Oz (Dir. Jon M. Chu)

Feb 20 2025 30 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday we’re discussing our next Oscar Best Picture nominee, “Wicked” (2024). Adapted from the Broadway blockbuster of the same name, which was adapted from the Gregory Maguire book of the same name, which owes its inspiration to the Wonderful Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum — a 20th-century American political satirist. It is brought t

Ep 205: “Conclave” (2024) is Rich with Papal Secrets and Intrigue (Dir. Edward Berger)

Feb 18 2025 23 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday we’re discussing the papal thriller and Oscar Best Picture nominee, “Conclave” (2024). Starring Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, and Isabella Rossellini, and based on a Robert Harris novel of the same name, “Conclave” is a political thriller that takes viewers inside the secret, sacred world of pope elections. After the

Ep 204: “Emilia Pérez” is 2025’s Transformational, Most Oscar-Nominated Film (Dir. Jacques Audiard)

Feb 13 2025 26 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday we’re beginning our review series of OSCAR’s Best Picture Nominees, starting with “Emilia Perez” (2024), the most academy-nominated film this year. With 13 nomination nods including Best Picture, “Emilia Perez” follows the stories of four remarkable Mexican women — one a literal cartel boss (Karla Sofia Gascon), one who is a m

Ep 203: “The Last Showgirl” (2025) Eulogizes the Lost Vegas of Last Century (Dir. Gia Coppola)

Feb 11 2025 21 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday we’re reviewing the much-anticipated Las Vegas morality tale, “The Last Showgirl” (2025). Directed by Gia Coppola and written by “Good Place” screenwriter Kate Gersten, “The Last Showgirl” stars Pamela Anderson as a professional dancer whose long-running show on the Las Vegas Strip abruptly closes and leaves her reflecting on

Ep 202: “Babygirl” (2024) and the Mixed Blessing of Having It All (Dir. Halina Reijn)

Feb 06 2025 23 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday we’re discussing the transgressive romantic thriller, “Babygirl” (2024). Written and directed by Halina Reijn and starring Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl” follows an aspirational female CEO — who absolutely “has it all” — whose unexpected affair with a male intern (played by Harris Dickinson) sparks an inner exploration that cha

Ep 201: “Nosferatu” (2024) and the Vampire’s Cinematic Origins (Dir. Robert Eggers)

Feb 04 2025 53 mins

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIESToday we’re discussing Robert Eggers’ vampire thriller, “Nosferatu” (2024). Released over Christmas and with a knockout cast containing Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgard, and Willem Dafoe, this version of Nosferatu is an Eggers passion project more than a decade in the making. Here we discuss the production of this and other