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Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you part 3 of their coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • No Other Choice • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery • Eternity • Adulthood • The Christophers • Rental Family • Sentimental Value • Left-Handed G...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you part 2 of their coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • The Smashing Machine • Frankenstein • Ballad Of A Small Player • Eternal Return • The Last Viking • Orphan • The Wizard Of The Kremlin • The Love That...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you part 1 of their coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • Rose of Nevada • Hamlet • Sacrifice • Bad Apples • Nuremberg • Dead Man's wire • Hamnet Music for this Episode: • Сrystalline by Romeo Contact the sho...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Highest 2 Lowest. Directed by Spike Lee. With Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and Ilfenesh Hadera. When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Hi...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Weapons. Directed by Zach Cregger. With Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. Show Notes Hosts: • Christop...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you an omnibus review of Eddington, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Together, and The Naked Gun. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Reviews: • Eddington • The Fantastic Four: First Steps • Together • The Naked Gun Eddington Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Pas...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Superman. Directed by James Gunn. With David Corenswet, Alan Tudyk, and Grace Chan. Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Jurassic World: Rebirth. Directed by Gareth Edwards. With Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey. Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medic...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of F1: The Movie. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. With Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, and Javier Bardem. A Formula One driver comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • F1: The Movie The Verdict: •...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of 28 Years Later. Directed by Danny Boyle. With Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes. A group of survivors of the rage virus live on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Materialists. Directed by Celine Song. With Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal. A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Materiali...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you an omnibus review of The Phoenician Scheme, Karate Kid: Legends, Ballerina, Bring Her Back, and The Life of Chuck. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller The Phoenician Scheme Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend with Caveat • Christopher: Wait for Rental Karate Kid: Legends Verdict: • S...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, and Ving Rhames. Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David M...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Fight or Flight. Directed by James Madigan. With Josh Hartnett, Charithra Chandran, and Katee Sackhoff. A mercenary takes on the job of tracking down a target on a plane but must protect her when they're surrounded by people trying to kill both of them. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese a...

Episode Description: In this episode, Stephen David Miller reports in from the second half of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • The Phoenician Scheme • The Secret Agent • Eagles of the Republic • Alpha • Highest 2 Lowest • The History of Sound • Sentimental Value • Resurrection • It Was Just an Accident • The Mastermin...

Episode Description: In this episode, Stephen David Miller reports in from the first half of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • Adam's Sake • Rendezvous with Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise • Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning • The Sound of Falling • Two Prosecutors • Sirât • Case 137 • Eddington • The Wave...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Thunderbolts*. Directed by Jake Schreier. With Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts....

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of The Legend of Ochi. Directed by Isaiah Saxon. With Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, and Emily Watson. In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy girl is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when she discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Sinners. Directed by Ryan Coogler. With Miles Caton, Saul Williams, and Andrene Ward-Hammond. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Show Notes Hosts: • Chris...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Drop. Directed by Christopher Landon. With Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, and Violett Beane. A widowed mother's first date in years takes a terrifying turn when she's bombarded with anonymous threatening messages on her phone during their upscale dinner, leaving her questioning if her charming...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Warfare. Directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza. With D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, and Cosmo Jarvis. A platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of The Ballad of Wallis Island. Directed by James Griffiths. With Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford. Follows Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schne...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Death of a Unicorn. Directed by Alex Scharfman. With Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, and David Pasquesi. Father-Daughter duo Elliott and Ridley hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to the wilderness retreat of a mega-wealthy pharmaceutical CEO. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Black Bag. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgård, and Cate Blanchett. When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband - also a legendary agent - faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Mickey 17. Directed by Bong Joon Ho. With Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, and Michael Monroe. Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Mickey 17 The Verdict: • S...