Cinema Faith

  When Kane Parsons was a teenager he posted videos to YouTube. A few years later he became the youngest director in A24 history. Welcome to the revolution taking Hollywood...

  Sam Raimi is best known for the Evil Dead franchise which established his signature dance between horror and comedy. Send Help is a welcome return to those roots. It's a thrill ride...

  Christopher Miller and Phil Lord are best known for The Lego Movie. But they're also known for something more: making movies that appeal to everyone. That's a hard task, but...

  The Oscars were on March 15 which means another year of film is officially over. Before moving on, Jon and Tim take a look back at all the highlights...

  The Oscar nominations are out and Sentimental Value is up for nine of them. That's the most nominations ever for a Norwegian film, and the honors are richly deserved. It's...

  I've always hated Shakespeare with a passion. Why watch a play if you can't understand what the characters are saying? Hamnet changed that for good. Not only is the movie...

  There's always a movie that flies under the radar only to end up being one of the best of the year. Sorry, Baby claims the title for 2025. The film...

  Paul Thomas Anderson may be the best director working today. His career as a writer/director transcends genre and convention with unique stories and characters every time he steps behind...

  Darren Aronofsky is best known as a writer/director of provocative films like Black Swan, Mother!, and Requiem for a Dream. Movies that are hard to watch and harder to forget. Caught Stealing is...

  2020 was a pivotal moment in American history. We disappeared into our homes and came out a divided nation. That's the backdrop for Eddington. Ari Aster, the writer/director best...

    In an age of superhero gluttony, do we need another Superman? Yes! In fact, Superman has exactly what the Marvel Universe has been lacking lately: fun. And James...

  At the beginning of June, Jon drove up to visit Tim in Kansas City. They ate junk food, went kayaking, and watched a ton of movies — male friendship...

  Oscar season is six months away, but we've already seen one of the best films of 2025. And believe it or not… it's a vampire movie. The difference is...

  Welcome to our first podcast of the 2025 movie season! We're starting things off with a bang — a British spy thriller from genre master Steven Soderbergh. Kathryn (Cate...

  Welcome to the season finale of the Cinema Faith podcast! 2024 was an incredible year for film and we're ending it by discussing a movie up for 10 Oscar...

  Every time Sean Baker makes a movie, it feels like an event. His 2017 film The Florida Project landed on numerous top 10 lists and earned Willem Dafoe an Oscar nomination....

  Conclave is what awards season is all about. A prestigious cast at the top of their game with an acclaimed director firing on all cylinders. Edward Berger's last film, All...

  Joker was the surprise hit of 2019. Not only did it crush the box office, it was released to critical acclaim and 11 Oscar nominations. Needless to say, expectations were...

  If you were told the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now has been working on a sci-fi epic for the last 40 years and invested $120 million of his own money...

  Oscar season is months away, but we may have already seen the best movie of 2024. I Saw the TV Glow is a haunting tour de force from writer/director...

  The marketing campaign for Longlegs was perfection. Glowing early reviews, a knockout trailer, and glimpses of Nicolas Cage in the title role as a demonic serial killer. The movie… was not....

  Ah summer. The time for dumb, big-budget action movies that explode on a movie theater near you. Unless you're Richard Linklater. Linklater's Hit Man contains all the fun of the season...

  June is the month where we break from the normal format of the Cinema Faith podcast and deliver something different. This year, Cinema Faith founder Jonathan Butrin talks directly...

  Releasing Civil War in an election year could have been irresponsible, but Alex Garland knows better. The writer/director, best known for Ex Machina, has crafted a sober warning to America. Is anyone still...

  March is a wasteland for film — the place bad movies go to die after being rejected by the Academy and the box office. Every once in a while,...