Hosted by Ben Tito Friedman · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 144 episodes
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Ben Talks Film s is a conversation about movies hosted by "film critic" Ben Friedman, so come for the movie reviews, Oscars discussion, and popcorn bucket reviews, but stay for the love of all things movies!
Ben Tito Friedman hosts Ben Talks Film, a tv show with 144 episodes published.
From Apple comes The Lost Bus, a 2025 American survival drama film directed by Paul Greengrass, who co-wrote the screenplay with Brad Ingelsby. It is based on a section of the non-fiction 2021 book Paradise: One Town's S
With the fall movie season arriving it is time to talk the best actor Oscar race for 2026, which at this moment is wide open and it is anyone's for the taking. There are no clear frontrunners, so who will get nominated i
@WarnerBros capped off an amazing 2025 by releasing what may be the best movie of 2025 and now the frontrunner to win Best Picture at the Oscars in One Battle After Another! Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starrin
From @A24 comes Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's first serious film in well over a decade... The Smashing Machine! Directed by Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems, Good Times) The Smashing Machine tells the story of Mark Kerr, one of th
From @LionsgateMovies comes The Long Walk directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson The Long Walk follows a group of men in a dystopian American who are drafted to participate in a totalitar
From A24 and Apple comes Spike Lee's newest movie and 5th collaboration with Denzel Washington: Highest 2 Lowest which is a remake/reimagining of Kurosawa's masterpiece High and Low. Highest 2 Lowest follows Paul King, a
Today: full podcast festival breakdown. I start with the biggest premieres at Venice and Telluride — winners, surprises, and which films actually left me excited. Then I roll into my Oscar power rankings (who’s rising, w
From Columbia Studios and Sony Pictures comes Darren Aronofsky's latest film Caught Stealing starring Austin Butler... and unlike most of Aronofsky's other films, I did not hate this movie. Caught Stealing follows a form
In honor of the release of @A24 Highest 2 Lowest, it is time to talk about the 10 best Spike Lee Joints! So join film critic, Ben Friedman, as we explore the films of Spike Lee: From Do the Right Thing to Highest 2 Low
The 2026 Oscars rapidly approach! With the Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Telluride Film Festival all around the corner ititss time to blindly preview the films in contention for the 98th
From @WarnerBros comes one of the craziest films of the decade in Weapons directed by Zach Cregger. The film follows a Pennsylvania suburban town that is shaken when 17 school kids run out at night at 2:17am and are neve
Two weeks after setting the comedy world on fire for their vicious satire on President Trump South Park is back with a new episode where they go nuclear on JD Vance, ICE, and the dog killer Kristi Noem who is now directo
From @neonrated comes the latest body horror film Together, which stars Allison Brie (Community and Glow) and Dave Franco. Together follows a codependent couple that stumble upon a mysterious cavern that begins to morph
From @Netflix and Happy Madison comes the sequel 30 years in the making... Happy Gilmore 2 starring Adam Sandler! Happy Gilmore 2 follows Happy Gilmore who isn't done with golf — not by a long shot. Since his retiremen
From @marvel and @Disney comes the 37th film within the MCU, Fantastic Four First Steps directed by Matt Shakman and starring Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards. Fantastic Four First Steps (2025) follows the Fantastic Four on
@paramountpictures reached a deal with the creators of South Park for 1.5 billion dollars, and 48 hours later, they turned around said F U to Paramount and blasted the President of the United States calling him a pedop
Released by @A24 Eddington is the 4th film from filmmaker Ari Aster and stars Joaquin Phoenix as Sheriff Joe Cross. Eddington follows a small town in New Mexico in the summer of 2020 as the residents are confronted with
@WarnerBrosPictures and @paramountpictures and @dcoff @dcofficial brings you Watchmen Chapter II (2024). In 1985, the murder of a government sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement and into a
Distributed by @disneyanimation and @Disney Moana 2 is a sequel to the beloved 2016 film Moana starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Moana 2 follows Moana, who after receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors
With Wicked just debuting and becoming a phenomenon it seems like an apt time to discuss the Best Supporting Actress race which Ariana Grande has now officially joined for Wicked! The award contenders and nominations are
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