For Episode 354, I am joined by Lauren Cohen, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Giovanni Lago & Tom O'Brien. On this week's packed and exciting show, we discuss the 2023 Venice & Toronto International Film Festivals lineups. We also announce the 2011 NBP Film Community Award Nominations, give our reactions to the trailers for "Saw X," "The Exorcist: Believer," go over the polls, answer your fan-submitted questions, and more! Thank you all for your continued support (which you can also share by donating to the Entertainment Community Fund for SAG & WGA members here), and enjoy!

Check out more on NextBestPicture.com
For more about Regal Unlimited - https://www.regmovies.com/static/en/us/unlimited

Please subscribe on...

SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast

Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw

And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture

Episode 354 - The 2023 Venice & TIFF Lineups, Trailers For "Saw X" & "The Exorcist: Believer"

For our 400th episode we indulge in a pair of horror sequels, both heavy on faith, possession, and Christianity. One is part of a modern universe of interconnected stories, characters, and demons, the other represents the reignition of a series whose sequels have been produced intermittently for fifty years without receiving anything like the acclaim of the film that spawned them. The Nun II is the eighth film in the ten-year-old Conjuring Universe; The Exorcist: Believer is only the sixth Exorcist film in half a century. Truly, they don't make them like they used to.

Neither film in this double bill is very good in totality, but The Nun II contains imaginative and effective set pieces and visual ideas, while The Exorcist: Believer is content to discard a reasonably interesting first act in favour of useless and charmless reference to, and pathetic reenactment of, William Friedkin's 1973 original. We discuss what we think the films are about, wittingly or otherwise - horror is commonly understood to often allegorise and express the ills and worries of the societies that produce them, and we consider the ways in which these films might be doing so. And there's much to compare and contrast between them, including their characters' attitudes to the supernatural; the ways in which religion, be it Catholicism specifically or Christianity more generally, plays into their stories and atmospheres; and the kinds of imagery through which they attempt to instil fear in their audiences. And we take time to criticise many, many examples of the weakness of the storytelling in Believer.

The Nun II, like its 2018 predecessor, is not very good, but it is fun. The Exorcist: Believer is neither good nor fun. Happy 400th episode!

Recorded on 9th October 2023.

400 - The Nun II and The Exorcist: Believer

Reviews start the show, including The Killer, Five Nights At Freddy's and its Box Office, The Exorcist: Believer, Dicks: The Musical, and a list of horror movies. Then it's a awards news from the Gothams and AFI Fest before a Documentary Feature deep dive after 4 sets of nominations or shortlists.

The Killer, Five Nights At Freddy's, AFI Fest & The Doc Feature Dive - ORC 11/2/23

The wait is over and episode 55 is finally here. Recorded way back in October 2023 we talk all things film, TV and games. Worth the wait… you decide!

We start in Troll Corner with JT taking on the wresting nerds on the then new social media platform, X. Ste tells us about what he got up to in Berlin. A brief chat about some farcical celebrity boxing.

On to games, Joe tells us about The Quarry, Tails Noir, and Observation he’s played recently. JT puts Hotline Miami in his top 5 games of all time. Ste played Starfield leading to a debate about what is the best Bethesda game. And Sam talks about his new Steamdeck.

In the movies we’ve seen this pod, Joe mispronounces Dune a lot and Jono and JT review Dumb Money, The Exorcist:Believer, and The Blackening.

1:21:31 - The main film reviewed in this episode is Mulholland Drive - recently voted as the best film of the 21st Century. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films

Get in touch with us:
Email - dontspoiltheending@gmail.com

Episode 55 - Mulholland Drive

A podcast by NextBestPicture.com that reviews the latest film releases and discusses various topics within the world of film and the awards race.

A podcast that talks all things games, TV, and film
Joe hosts JT, Sam, Ste, and Jono

MMO is talk radio for movie fans with weekly news shows, reviews, previews, and special guests. We celebrate the Oscars by making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. If you love cinema, if you love showbiz, welcome home.

"I have this romantic idea of the movies as a conjunction of place, people and experiences, all different for each of us, a context in which individual and separate beings try to commune, where the individual experience overlaps with the communal and where that overlapping is demarcated by how we measure the differing responses between ourselves and the rest of the audience: do they laugh when we don’t (and what does that mean?); are they moved when we feel like laughing (and what does that say about me or the others) etc. The idea behind this podcast is to satiate the urge I sometimes have when I see a movie alone – to eavesdrop on what others say. What do they think? How does their experience compare to mine? Snippets are overhead as one leaves the cinema and are often food for thought. A longer snippet of such an experience is what I hope to provide: it’s two friends chatting immediately after a movie. It’s unrehearsed, meandering, slightly convoluted, certainly enthusiastic, and well informed, if not necessarily on all aspects a particular work gives rise to, certainly in terms of knowledge of cinema in general and considerable experience of watching different types of movies and watching movies in different types of ways. It’s not a review. It’s a conversation." - José Arroyo.

"I just like the sound of my own voice." - Michael Glass.

New tracks tagged #The Exorcist: Believer