Movies imo

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movies imo. is a pop culture podcast where Daniel Crooke, Ben Empey, and Brandon Kirby talk about the week in film and television.

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The podcast currently has 107 episodes available.

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February 12, 2026 Be Italian!
Who was the all-star stage-to screen adaptation of Nine even for? Can a Golden Age of Hollywood producer secure revenge by winning Best Picture? Which cast member of The Phoenician Scheme deserves the undying love and loyalty of an audience every day of the year no matter how “big” their other performances may get? All these questions and more will be answered across this week’s edition of the movies imo encore. This week the fellas bring the following to discuss:
Ben: William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Daniel: Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
Brandon: The Mystery of Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue (2025); How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days (2003); Almost Famous (2000); The Skeleton Key (2005); Le Divorce (2003); Nine (2009); others)
They love to laugh and love to chat and love to have you around for a listen. This podcast rebooting season… Be Italian!
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2h 12min
January 29, 2026 I wish you well.
What is Quills? Is the reigning Emmy winner for Best Drama Series actually good? Who was on the SAG (“Actor”) Awards nominating committee and why don’t they trust the Scandinavian ability to let life imitate art? All these answers and more will be revealed in the second episode of the movies imo encore… and so will the new show format! After digging into this year’s Oscar nominations, the boys bring the following topics to the table:
• Ben! The Golden Age of Gwyneth Paltrow (1995–2005)
• Brandon! The Pitt (2024 — )
• Daniel! Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another (1966)
They have a really awesome time doing it and hope you have a really awesome time listening to it.
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1h 40min
January 15, 2026 Blessings... I mean it
Somehow Ben, Brandon, and Daniel returned. And they’re old now! With an even looser and less ambitious format than ever before, we kick off the first edition of our movies imo encore by pledging allegiance to the state in which we were born and raised. Yes, you read that correctly, it's (for all intents and purposes) the Ella McCay episode - but after this we're burying the new movie-of-the-week podcast structure of the past and embracing something even more scattered and amorphous with an eye towards the future. But rest assured: like James L. Brooks, the cross-talk is back. But everything else is different this time. Friendship reigns supreme. Long Live Agnès Varda.
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1h 34min
May 06, 2020 Live! From Quar Brain
Desperate times call for even more desperate measures, and your three fav film f*gz needed an excuse to catch up on a Z**m call! In this Very Special Quarantine Edition of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel get together virtually to share and discuss three of their favorite films watched while sheltering in place amidst the global pandemic, and maybe share a few laughs while they’re on the line. Ben takes the celestial escalator down to Earth in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, Daniel rides the Eurostar through purgatory in Chantal Akerman’s THE MEETINGS OF ANNA, and Brandon cuts a rug with Ingrid Bergman at a groovy nightclub in Gene Sak’s CACTUS FLOWER. Together, they enjoy friendship and film f*ggotry from a safe distance apart.
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2h 6min
January 10, 2020 Best Films of 2019 – Part 2
They say film fagz don’t belong in hot air balloons, and yet here they are flying high and yelling over each other for part two of their special year-end review of the top twenty movies of 2019. Ben mourns the inevitable death coming for us all, Daniel brandishes bourgeois objects in class warfare, and Brandon survives a miserable hangover to celebrate the bliss of watching a movie four times without becoming immune to it charms. The end!
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3h 13min
January 08, 2020 Best Films of 2019 – Part 1
The dead speak! In part one of a special year-end review episode of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about their collective twenty favorite movies of 2019. But first they discuss abstention from the internet, cinematic shames of the decade, and how it feels to see each other for the very first time since the podcast’s cancellation. Ben cries from the soul while celebrating two late auteur masterpieces, Daniel celebrates a great moment of onscreen con artistry, and Brandon takes the film fagz to school on his favorite directorial debut of the year.
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2h 14min
September 09, 2019 Films We Should Have Seen By Now
In episode one hundred of movies imo, Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about three movies they’d wished they’d had the chance to discuss on the podcast: Ben offers up Lars von Trier’s devastating death penalty musical DANCER IN THE DARK, Brandon brings Steven Spielberg’s bleak dystopian fantasia AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to the table, and Daniel serves to the group Alan J. Pakula’s paranoid thriller/podcast outro feature KLUTE. On this final episode of the podcast, they also list their ten individual favorite new-to-me films discussed while on the mic. Ben makes the case for Jane Fonda as one of the ten best Best Actress winners in Academy history, Daniel celebrates the seemingly askew coverage of Björk’s dance numbers, and Brandon debuts (and edits) his Spielberg ranking live on the air. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for listening - and we looking forward to meeting you all at 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Bruxelles for an ice cold Anchor Steam!
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2h 24min
September 02, 2019 Fleabag
In episode ninety-nine of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sublime comedy series FLEABAG. Ben swiftly denounces the cast and crew of THE SQUID AND THE WHALE between analysis of the show’s sly visual scheme, Daniel makes a declarative statement about YOU CAN COUNT ON ME while appreciating Waller-Bridge’s structure around psychology, and Brandon stands behind THE SAVAGES after worshipping at the altar of wit and wisdom in the final scene between Fleabag and her father.
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1h 39min
August 26, 2019 Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
In episode ninety-eight of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about Richard Linklater’s Cate Blanchett-led adaptation of the bestselling novel WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE? before discussing two other Linklater comedies with a magnetic movie star lead: SCHOOL OF ROCK and BERNIE, both starring Jack Black. Ben finds much to relate to in Blanchett’s breakdown of creative deprivation, Daniel remembers the first time he ever flirted with a man, and Brandon grapples with leaving off a Pixar from his best of the decade list.
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1h 39min
August 12, 2019 Sword of Trust
In episode ninety-seven of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about Lynn Shelton’s provocative new comedy SWORD OF TRUST before going on to discuss three more of her signature films: HUMPDAY, YOUR SISTER’S SISTER, and OUTSIDE IN. Ben believes Jay Duplass to be one of the finest actors of his generation, Daniel celebrates Marc Maron being born in a trunk, and Brandon shares inside intel on Shelton’s delightful demeanor offscreen.
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1h 30min

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How many episodes does Movies imo have?

The podcast currently has 107 episodes available.