Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist (Movie Squad Podcast #197)

New year, same babes.

Movie Squad returns to RTRFM’s airwaves in 2025 with hosts Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo (aka the Blockbuster Babes, fka the Gemini Men), sharing their spicy film takes with Breakfast host Pam Boland (aka “the human airhorn”… actually, forget that, nickname not endorsed).

First up, Tristan and Simon review the polarising Golden Globe winner Emilia Pérez, starring Karla Sofía Gascón as a brutal cartel leader who fakes her death and undergoes gender-affirming surgery with the help of her lawyer, played by Zoe Saldana, and to the surprise of her wife, played by Selena Gomez. It’s also a musical.

Then, Simon covers Brady Corbet’s epic other Golden Globe winner, The Brutalist, in which Adrien Brody plays a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant who escapes the Holocaust to find sanctuary in America, only to discover the dark underside of the so-called American Dream.

Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam. From next week, each podcast will come with some bonus chatter, and keep listening throughout 2025 for some fun surprises as Movie Squad celebrates its 21st year on the air!

In the meantime, re-listen to Tristan and Simon’s best films of 2024 here.