Movies Are Reel

Movies Are Reel
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Movies are Reel is a movie podcast hosted by Karrie Lyles, Ryan Lance and Jurge Cruz-Alvarez! They are a group of twenty-somethings who regularly watch movies and want to talk about them with you!

  1. Sep 7

    Discussing the Movies of June, July, and August 2026

    MEGA STUFFED EPISODE CATCHING UP ON SUMMER 2K26 BECAUSE JURGE HAD A BABY JUNE Backrooms (technically May) dir: Kane Parsons; Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass Scary MoVIe dir: Michael Tiddes; Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris,Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor Disclosure Day dir: Steven Spielberg; Emily Blunt, Josh O’Conner, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo Leviticus dir: Adrian Chiarella; Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen, Mia Wasikowska CAMP dir: Avalon Fast; Zola Grimmer,Alice Wordsworth,Cherry Moore,Lea Rose Sebastianis, Ella Reece Supergirl dir: Craig Gillespie ; Milly Alcock,Mattias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, Jason Momoa, Krypto the Superdog JULY Evil Dead Burn dir: Sébastien Vaniček; Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan,Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand, Maude Davey The Invite dir: Olivia Wilde; Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton The Odyssey dir: Christopher Nolan; Matt Damon, Little Tommy Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Samantha Morton, Zendaya, Charlize Theron Her Private Hell dir: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Penis; Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Havana Rose Liu Masters of the Universe dir: Travis Knight; Nicholas Galitzine, Camila Mendes, Alison Brie, James Purefoy, Morena Baccarin, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Kristen Wiig, Jared Leto ,Idris Elba Avatar Aaang: The Last Airbender dir: Lauren Montgomery Spider- Man: Brand New Day dir: Destin Daniel Cretton; Little Tommy Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Florence Pugh. Tramell Tillman, Marisa Tomei, Mark Ruffalo AUGUST Soulm8te (from the world of M3gan) dir: Kate Dolan; Lily Sullivan, David Rysdahl, Claudia Doumit The End of Oak Street dir: David Robert Mitchell; Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian Convery Insidious: Out of the Further dir: Jacob Chase; Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Lin Shaye Tony dir: Matt Johnson; Dominic Sessa, Emilia Jones, Dagmara Domińczyk, Rich Sommer, Stavros Halkias, Leo Woodall, Antonio Banderas Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma dir: Jane Schoenbrun; Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Jack Haven The Last House dir: Louis Leterrier; Greta Lee, Wagner Moura The Whisper Man dir: James Ashcroft; Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, Adam Scott, Michael Keaton Coyote vs. Acme dir: Dave Green; Wile E. Coyote, Will Forte, Lana Condor, John Cena Buddy dir: Casper Kelly; Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Patton Oswalt, Michael Shannon, Topher Grace, Keegan-Michael Key September? Fall 2: Deadpoint By Any Means Onslaught (from TGCU: The Guest Cinematic Universe) Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass Practical Magic 2 Resident Evil Forgotten Island Primetime Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother Unabomber Home --------------------------------------------------- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movies-are-reel/id1082173626 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2VE15E5fS0ZWtESo9bUWhn?si=e983275eb550499c&nd=1 Jurge - twitter: twitter.com/jcruzalvarez26 Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/jcruzalvarez26/​ Ryan- twitter: twitter.com/MrPibbOfficial Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/filmpiece/​ Karrie - twitter: twitter.com/kar_elyles Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/karrie/

    Discussing the Movies of June, July, and August 2026

  2. Jun 1

    Discussing the Movies of April and May 2026

    SPRING HAS SPRUNG, FOLKS. MAMA MIA! Join us as we discuss the movies of April and May 2026 April: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie dir: Aaron HorvathMichael Jelenic-Pierre Leduc ; Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Brie Larson, Donald Glover, Benny Safdie, Keegan-Michael Key, Kevin Michael Richardson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black The Drama dir: Kristoffer Borgli ; Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie, Hailey Gates, Jeremy Levick Lee Cronin’s The Mummy dir: Does anybody know who directed this movie, if only there was easy way to be aware of this information ; Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy Mother Mary dir: David Lowery ; Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, FKA twigs Over Your Dead Body dir: Jorma Taccone ; Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Juliette Lewis, Timothy Olyphant Omaha dir: Cole Webley ; John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis (Most of) May: The Devil Wears Prada 2 dir: David Frankel; Meryl Streep, Anthony Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Hokum dir:Daian McCarthy; Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot Obsession dir: Curry Barker; Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter for a little bit The Sheep Detectives dir: Kyle Balda; Humans: Huge Act-man, Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galizine, Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, Emma Thompson Animals: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O'Dowd,Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart Mortal Kombat 2 dir: Simon McQuoid; Karl Urban AS Johnny Cage, Adeline Rudolph as Kitana, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Josh Lawson as Kano,Martyn Ford as Shao Kahn, there’s like 2 dozen more but idk who was important to the story or not I can’t even say who any of these people were Passenger dir:Andre Ovrdal; Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Mesissa Leo, The Double R Dinner I Love Boosters dir: Boots Riley; Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonzalez, LaKieth Stanfield, Will Pulter, Don Cheadle, Demi Moore June: (Technically May) Backrooms Master of the Universe Scary MoVIe Disclosure Day? Toy Story f*****g 5 or whatever The Death of Robin Hood Stop! That! Train! The Invite Jackass: Best and Last CAMP Supergirl --------------------------------------------------- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movies-are-reel/id1082173626 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2VE15E5fS0ZWtESo9bUWhn?si=e983275eb550499c&nd=1 Jurge - twitter: twitter.com/jcruzalvarez26 Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/jcruzalvarez26/​ Ryan- twitter: twitter.com/MrPibbOfficial Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/filmpiece/​ Karrie - twitter: twitter.com/kar_elyles Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/karrie/

    Discussing the Movies of April and May 2026

  3. Apr 13

    Discussing the Movies of February and March 2026

    🎵 Movies, movies, let us tell you about the movies of February and March 2026! 🎵 FEBRUARY The Strangers: Chapter 3 The Moment Wuthering Heights Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie Scream 7 Whistle MARCH The Bride! Hoppers Undertone Dead Lover Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Project Hail Mary They Will Kill You Alpha Forbidden Fruits APRIL The Super Mario Galaxy Movie The Drama You, Me & Tuscany Faces of Death Exit 8 Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Mother Mary Normal Over Your Dead Body Michael --------------------------------------------------- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movies-are-reel/id1082173626 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2VE15E5fS0ZWtESo9bUWhn?si=e983275eb550499c&nd=1 Jurge - twitter: twitter.com/jcruzalvarez26 Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/jcruzalvarez26/​ Ryan- twitter: twitter.com/MrPibbOfficial Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/filmpiece/​ Karrie - twitter: twitter.com/kar_elyles Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/karrie/

    Discussing the Movies of February and March 2026

  4. Apr 13

    Best of 2025 - Day 2

    OOOPS I FORGOT TO UPLOAD THIS AND IT WAS DONE ON MY COMPUTER, SORRY !!!!!! - JURGE IT’S TIME TO WRAP IT UP, FOLKS. Here is day Day 2 of our Best of 2025 deliberations Standout Moment: The entire space needle disaster from Final Destination Bloodlines I Lied to You/Surreal Montage from Sinners Operation Boot Heel Sequence/”I've got a little Latino Harriet Tubman situation going on at my place” from One Battle After Another The ending from Presence The truck drive home/In Spite of Ourselves singing in the truck Die My Love Colin Ferrel is his dad talking to himself / Morgot Robbie talking to her mom from A Big Bold Beautiful Journey The Fancy Dinner Date from Materialists The ending / what’s in the attic from The Life of Chick The ending from It Was Just An Accident Florence Pugh’s crash out from Thunderbolts The ending in Bugonia The ending in Weapons Sleeping in the car in Weapons Aunt Gladys meets the principle in Weapons Jim Belushi and Imogen Poots hand out on the porch in The Chronology of Water Parts and Bits of Chapter 1 from The Chronologyof Water “Facebook:Your memories are deleting” from War of the Worlds Accidentally making the worst piece of Amazon Marketing from War of the Worlds Showtunes needle drops from Wake Up Dead Man Glenn Close final monologue from Wake Up Dead Man No Good Deed from Wicked for Good Firework scene from Eddington snowman sequence from The Naked Gun Everything Quaritch says and does in Avatar Fire and Ash Nazi murder party from Silent Night Deadly Night Best Performance: Michal B. Jordan as Smoke and Stack from Sinners Hailee Steinfeld as Mary from Sinners Miles Caton as Sammie Moore from Sinners Jack O’Conell as Remmick from Sinners Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim from Sinners Leonardo diCaprio as Bob from One Battle After Another Benicio del Toro as Sensei St. Carlos from One Battle After Another Teyana Taylor as Perfidia Beverly Hills from One Battle After Another Cooper Hoffman as Ramyond Garraty #47 from The Long Walk David Jonsson as Peter McVries #23 from The Long Walk Emma Stone as Michelle Fuller from Bugonia Jesse Plemons as Teddy from Bugonia Aidan Delbis as Don from Bugonia Jacob Elordi as the Creature from Frankenstein Imogen Poots as Lidia Yuknavitch from The Chronology of Water Amy Madigan as Gladys from Weapons Jennifer Lawrence as Maddie from Die My Love Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser from Marty Supreme Rose Byrne as Linda from If I Had Legs I’d Kick You David Corenswet as Clark Kent in Superman Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. in The Naked Gun Pamela Anderson as Beth Davenport in The Naked Gun Marlon Wayans as Isaih in HIM Sally Hawkins as Laura in Bring Her Back Josh O’Conner as Father Jud Duplenticy in Wake Up Dead Man Glenn Close as Martha Delacroix in Wake Up Dead Man Lea Myren as Elvira in The Ugly Stepsister Jack Champion as Spider in Avatar Fire and Ash Do Not Go In There Award: ughhhh Best Old Movie: Ryan- Paris, Texas; REC; Halloween H2O Karrie- Rope, Video Diary of a Lost Girl, Hardcore Jurge - Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., Little Darlings, Gattaca Top 10 Movies of 2025 Sinners Bugonia Frankenstein The Chronology of Water The Life of Chuck Final Destination: Bloodlines No Other Choice The Ugly Stepsister One Battle After Other The Long Walk Weapons Wake Up Dead Man Mickey 17 The Monkey A Big Bold Beautiful Journey 28 Years Later --------------------------------------------------- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movies-are-reel/id1082173626 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2VE15E5fS0ZWtESo9bUWhn?si=e983275eb550499c&nd=1 Jurge - twitter: twitter.com/jcruzalvarez26 Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/jcruzalvarez26/​ Ryan- twitter: twitter.com/MrPibbOfficial Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/filmpiece/​ Karrie - twitter: twitter.com/kar_elyles Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/karrie/

    Best of 2025 - Day 2

  5. Mar 23

    Best of 2025 - Day 1

    ALL THE STARS ARE HERE!!! Time for our Best of 2025 deliberations! Best Style: Sinners Wake Up Dead Man The Ugly Stepsister Bring Her Back Frankenstein A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Die My Love Dust Bunny Bugonia No Other Choice Mickey 17 The Black Phone 2 Presenece Keeper If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Resurrection Better Man Marty Supreme War of the Worlds Frankenstein Him ASH Seven Veils Boys Go to Jupiter Mr. K Best Horror: The Monkey Bring Her Back 28 Years Later The Ugly Stepsister Weapons Companion The Black Phone 2 Presence Keeper V/H/S Halloween Final Destination: Bloodlines Clown in a Cornfield Bone Lake The Conjuring Last Rites Good Boy Silent Night Deadly Night Until Dawn Heart Eyes The Woman in the Yard Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project Worst Movie: War of the Worlds The Strangers Chapter 2 Five Nights at Freddys 2 The Black Phone 2 A Minecraft Movie The Electric State Woman in the Yard Best Surprise: Final Destination Bloodlines Thunderbolts K-Pop Demon Hunters The Long Walk Predator Badlands Bone Lake Most Disappointing: Avatar Fire and Ash Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning HIM Wolfman Honey Don’t The Fantastic 4: First Steps F1 Death of a Unicorn Together --------------------------------------------------- iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movi…el/id1082173626 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2VE15E5fS0Z…75eb550499c&nd=1 Jurge - twitter: twitter.com/jcruzalvarez26 Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/jcruzalvarez26/​ Ryan- twitter: twitter.com/MrPibbOfficial Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/filmpiece/​ Karrie - twitter: twitter.com/kar_elyles Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/karrie/

    Best of 2025 - Day 1

  6. Feb 9

    Discussing the Movies of January 2026

    STEP RIGHT UP, LIVE FROM THE BONE TEMPLE, IT’S MOVIES ARE REEL TALKING ABOUT THE MOVIES OF JAN 2026! JANUARY We Bury the Dead🧟- dir. Zak Hilditch; Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith, Matt Whelan Primate 🙊- dir. Johannes Roberts; Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant, Gia Hunter, Benjamin Cheng 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple 🦴- dir. Nia DaCosta; Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, Chi Lewis-Parry No Other Choice 🪴- dir. Park Chan-wook; Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran Return to Silent Hill 😵‍💫- dir. Christophe Gans; Jeremy Irvine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Evie Templeton Send Help 🐗- dir. Sam Raimi; Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien, Edyll Ismail Iron Lung 🎮- dir. Markiplier; Markiplier NON JANUARY THAT WE DIDNT GET TO SEE UNTIL JANUARY Resurrection Ham Net The Testament of Ann Lee The Chronology of Water FEBRUARY The Moment The Strangers- Chapter 3 Pillion Dracula Crime 101 Goat Solo Mío This is not a test Cold Storage Whistle Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Wuthering Heights Nirvana: The Band- The Show-The Movie Wasteman Scream 7 Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert --------------------------------------------------- iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movi…el/id1082173626 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2VE15E5fS0Z…75eb550499c&nd=1 Jurge - twitter: twitter.com/jcruzalvarez26 Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/jcruzalvarez26/​ Ryan- twitter: twitter.com/MrPibbOfficial Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/filmpiece/​ Karrie - twitter: twitter.com/kar_elyles Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/karrie/

    Discussing the Movies of January 2026

  7. 12/29/2025

    Discussing the Movies of November and December 2025

    Happy Holidays, folks! Hope you have all enjoyed Fire and Ash after your 5th watch. We’re here to talk about the movies of November and December we enjoyed. ☃️❄️✨ November Bugonia - dir. Yorgos Lanthimos; Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone Predator: Badlands - dir. Dan Trachtenberg; Elle Fanning Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi Die My Love- dir. Lynne Ramsay; Jenifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield Keeper - dir. Osgood Perkins; Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland Birkett Turton, Eden Weiss The Running Man - dir. Edgar Wright; Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Colman Domingo, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy Wicked: For Good - dir. Jon M. Chu; Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang, apparently Coleman Domingo was the lion in this? Wake Up Dead Man - dir. Rian Johnson; Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church, Jeffrey Wright Karrie saw Splitsville and Lurker if she wants to talk about em December Jay Kelly - dir. Noah Baumbach; George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Jim Broadbent, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson, Greta Gerwig Jurge note - Hey did you know Netflix also released a Kathryn Bigelow and Richard Linklater movie this year? Can you name them? Sentimental Value - dir. Joachim Trier; Renate Reinsve Stellan Skarsgård Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas Elle Fanning Dust Bunny - dir. Bryan Fuller; Sophie Sloan, Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian Silent Night, Deadly Night - dir. Mike P. Nelson; Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, Mark Acheson, David Lawrence Brown, David Tomlinson Avatar: Fire and Ash- dir. James Cameron; Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin , Jack Champion, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Jemaine Clement, Giovanni Ribisi December (what we have not seen that we might) The Housemaid Marty Supreme Resurrection Anaconda Song Sung Blue Hamnet? No Other Choice? January: Greenland 2: Migration We Bury the Dead Primate 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple All You Need Is Kill A Private Life Iron Lung Return to Silent Hill Mercy Send Help The Moment (?) --------------------------------------------------- iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movi…el/id1082173626 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2VE15E5fS0Z…75eb550499c&nd=1 Jurge - twitter: twitter.com/jcruzalvarez26 Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/jcruzalvarez26/​ Ryan- twitter: twitter.com/MrPibbOfficial Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/filmpiece/​ Karrie - twitter: twitter.com/kar_elyles Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/karrie/

    Discussing the Movies of November and December 2025

  8. 11/17/2025

    Discussing the Movies of October 2025

    SPOOKY TIMES 2K25! Frankie, Good Boy, That Dang Black Phone is Back! Join us for the movies of October 2025. OCTOBER Bone Lake- dir. Mercedes Bryce Morgan V/H/S Halloween- dir. Bryan M. Ferguson, Casper Kelly, Micheline Pitt-Norman, R.H. Norman, Alex Ross Perry, Paco Plaza, Anna Zlokovic Diet Phantasma" (frame narrative) Coochie Coochie Coo Ut Supra Sic Infra Fun Size Kidprint Home Haunt Good Boy- dir. Ben Leonberg Deathstalker- dir. Steven Kostanski Black Phone 2- dir. Scott Derrickson Shelby Oaks- dir. Chris Stuckmann Bugonia- dir. Yorgos Lanthimos Frankenstein- dir. Guillermo del Toro Sorry, Baby - dir Eva Victor NOVEMBER Nuremberg Predator: Badlands Die, My Love Christy Sentimental Value The Running Man Keeper Now You See Me: Now You Dont The Carpenter’s Son Eternity Sisu: Road to Revenge A Very Jonas Christmas Movie Wicked: For Good Zootopia 2 Hamnet Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery --------------------------------------------------- iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movi…el/id1082173626 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2VE15E5fS0Z…75eb550499c&nd=1 Jurge - twitter: twitter.com/jcruzalvarez26 Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/jcruzalvarez26/​ Ryan- twitter: twitter.com/MrPibbOfficial Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/filmpiece/​ Karrie - twitter: twitter.com/kar_elyles Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/karrie/

    Discussing the Movies of October 2025
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Movies are Reel is a movie podcast hosted by Karrie Lyles, Ryan Lance and Jurge Cruz-Alvarez! They are a group of twenty-somethings who regularly watch movies and want to talk about them with you!

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    2016 - 2026
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