My Favorite Movie is...

My Favorite Movie is
My Favorite Movie is...

Hello and welcome to My Favorite Movie is..., the podcast celebrating our favorite movies through fresh, positive perspectives from passionate movie lovers!! New episodes every week!

  1. JAWS Teaches Us How To Confront Our Fear of the Unknown (with Taylor D. Adams)

    08/08/2022

    JAWS Teaches Us How To Confront Our Fear of the Unknown (with Taylor D. Adams)

    Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter How do we conquer our fear of the unknown? We’ve discussed a number of horror films on this show and, at the end of the day, almost all of their scariest elements come down to fear of the unknown. Cannibal families, demonic cults, seeing dead people, they’re all really bizarre and frightening because of it. But sometimes, even things closer to home can be just as elusive. Say, something we share our oceans with? Spielberg understood this when he ignited his career with Jaws, one of cinema’s first ever blockbusters, but there’s more to it than just fear. In fact, according to today’s guest, it’s a movie about facing your fear. Taylor D. Adams is a fellow storyteller and podcaster who hosts the Film Nuts Podcast, where he talks to artists of all backgrounds and concentrations about their favorite movies and television shows. Today, the turns have tabled, and now he will be talking about his favorite movie, Jaws, and how it taught him, and can teach us, the key to conquering our fear of the unknown. Listen to me talk Liar Liar on the Film Nuts Podcast Follow Taylor on Twitter Created, Produced, and Hosted by Larry Fried  Assistant Direction by Steven Reyes Edited by Fernando Queiroz Graphic Design by Monica Sarmiento Motion Graphic Design by Elton Greenfield Original Music by Matt Gordeuk

    45 min
  2. Is INDEPENDENCE DAY actually about colonization?? (with Marlin Williford)

    07/04/2022

    Is INDEPENDENCE DAY actually about colonization?? (with Marlin Williford)

    Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter It's the Fourth of July! And yet, it doesn't quite feel like a time to celebrate. Regardless of wherever you stand on whatever issue, our country is just in a really weird place, more divided and isolated than ever. So it might sound weird to suggest that an antidote to all of these feelings might just be...Independence Day. No, I'm not talking about the holiday this time. I'm talking about Roland Emerick's 1996 landmark blockbuster. The movie is certainly patriotic, but more in a 1996 kind of way, rather than a 2022 kind of way. It was pre-9/11 after all, and that often makes the film feel more like an oddity or a time capsule than a modern masterpiece. But I recently heard a perspective that had me reconsidering all of that, courtesy of podcaster and educator, Marlin Wilford. He is the host of his own solo podcast, Marlin's Corner, as well as one of the co-hosts on the roundtable podcast, Geek Force. Both shows focus on pop culture, media, and politics through a POC lens. When Marlin explained his take on sci-fi and aliens and Independence Day, I was floored. It was inspiring to hear that even a movie as massive and as 90s as Independence Day could still speak to the current cultural moment and imbue it with hope. He completely reshaped the way I saw this movie and by the end of this episode, it's gonna do the same for you. Check out Larry's guest appearance on Marlin's Corner Listen to Marlin's Corner wherever you get your podcasts Follow Marlin on Facebook and Instagram Created, Produced, and Hosted by Larry Fried  Assistant Direction by Steven Reyes Edited by Fernando Queiroz Graphic Design by Monica Sarmiento Motion Graphic Design by Elton Greenfield Original Music by Matt Gordeuk

    39 min
  3. How M. Night Shyamalan Expertly Portrays Childhood Trauma in THE SIXTH SENSE (with Anna Chazelle)

    06/28/2022

    How M. Night Shyamalan Expertly Portrays Childhood Trauma in THE SIXTH SENSE (with Anna Chazelle)

    TW: Child Abuse, Child Neglect Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter Very few filmmakers can honestly, and accurately, portray the plight of very young children on screen. But one of those filmmakers has always been M. Night Shyamalan. Despite his divisive reputation, he has often featured young characters at the heart of his stories while always maintaining a sensitivity in how he has them interact with the horror and thriller elements of his movies. This all started from the jump with The Sixth Sense, M. Night's directorial debut. His fall from grace has shrouded this movie in the past, but its honest portrayal of childhood, not to mention its iconic twist, keeps it just as memorable as it was over twenty years ago. But how does M. Night place someone so young at the center of something so tragic without turning them into a martyr? Why is he still one of the only filmmakers who can take such a vulnerable age group and treat them with such respect and dignity? To answer this, I brought in a Sixth Sense superfan and a horror lover through and through: Anna Chazelle. She is an incredibly talented triple threat--an actor, writer, and director--whose directorial debut, Narrow, proved that she knows what goes into making an effective psychological horror story. Today, she's going to share with us her insight into how the The Sixth Sense's central relationship, gripping performances, and terrifying ghosts make for one of cinema's most effective stories on childhood trauma. Follow Anna Chazelle on Instagram Watch Anna's short film, Narrow, on Short of the Week Created, Produced, and Hosted by Larry Fried  Assistant Direction by Steven Reyes Edited by Fernando Queiroz Graphic Design by Monica Sarmiento Motion Graphic Design by Elton Greenfield Original Music by Matt Gordeuk Additional Original Music by Daniel Grunberg

    51 min
5
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15 Ratings

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