Películas que debiste ver en el cine - Net Flicks vs Chill 91

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A man fakes a transfer request to please his wife, but gets sent from Yucatán to Tijuana instead, confronting stereotypes in 'Welcome al Norte'.

1. 'Churros y Palomitas' episode 91 is recorded at Cinemas WTC Sala 2 in Mexico City and focuses on films that deserved or still deserve a cinema screening. 2. Hosts Dan and Cristina identify themselves as weekly cinema-goers who also cover streaming; the episode bridges both worlds. 3. The episode's premise is that certain films—especially action spectacles and visually distinctive work—lose impact on small screens, and the hosts want to help listeners recognize those. 4. Cristina recommends 'Welcome al Norte' (Disney+), a Mexican film about a man from Yucatán who is caught lying to get a transfer and ends up stationed in Tijuana, using the road trip to challenge his stereotypes about northern Mexico. 5. She argues that films like Welcome al Norte, which show Mexico's diverse landscapes, deserve theatrical support in their opening weekend to fund future Mexican productions. 6. Dan recommends 'The Fall Guy' (Apple TV/YouTube rental), directed by David Leitch, starring Ryan Gosling as a stunt double for a character played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emily Blunt as a director who calls him out of retirement. 7. Dan frames The Fall Guy as an overdue tribute to stunt performers, referencing an earlier episode of their podcast where they spoke with Román Rangel about safety on film sets. 8. Dan introduces 'The Apprentice' as a film about the political transformation of Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan with orange skin and blond hair, guided by lawyer Roy Cohn played by Jeremy Strong. 9. The research was done by Gabriel Sherman, the film was directed by Alia Brasi, screened at Cannes and Tel Aviv, and required a US release before it could open in Mexico. 10. Roy Cohn's core lesson to Trump in the film is 'declare that you won, even if you didn't, because everything else is perception'. 11. Cristina recommends 'Bros' (Prime Video), an LGBTQ+ romantic comedy about a man who runs a podcast and has just been appointed director of the first LGBTQ+ museum in New York, described as a fully conventional rom-com in structure but with queer characters. 12. She recalls watching it in a cinema where she and her friend were the only women and the only heterosexual people in the audience, and argues for bringing more romantic comedies to theatrical screens. 13. Dan recommends 'It's What's Inside' (Netflix), a body-swap psychological thriller set at a pre-wedding party where a tech-startup acquaintance introduces a device that lets guests swap consciousness, triggering relationship confessions and an irreversible event. 14. Dan praises the film's visual style—dynamic editing, experimental lighting—and says it premiered at Sundance and screened at festivals in the US and Canada before Netflix acquired it. 15. Dan recommends 'Venom: The Last Dance' as a theatrical release directed by Kelly Marcel, who wrote the first two films and also wrote Fifty Shades of Grey and Cruella, noting she is making her directorial debut. 16. Cristina describes Poor Things (Disney+), which won Emma Stone her Oscar, as a surrealist film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos in which a scientist transplants a stillborn baby's brain into its recently dead mother, creating a being raised without social norms. 17. Cristina notes she left the screening turning over its philosophical implications about how cultural conditioning shapes what people believe is natural or acceptable. 18. Dan recommends 'Furiosa' (Max), the Mad Max prequel directed by George Miller, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as the young Furiosa and Chris Hemsworth as an unrecognizable cult leader, calling it a kinetic film that physically moves you and must be seen on the largest screen possible. 19. The episode ends with a brief mention of Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' (theatrical), starring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, and Shia LaBeouf, as a film Coppola self-financed partly by selling his vineyards. 20. Cinema fans who want a curated map of what is on streaming vs. in theaters, especially viewers who missed theatrical releases, will get the most from this episode.

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