Cinema Faith

Welcome to the last podcast of the 2023 movie season! And what a perfect show to end on. Yorgos Lanthimos doesn't make movies for everyone. He's an absurdist filmmaker who...

Now that the holidays are winding down, it's time to turn our attention once again to Oscar season. May December may have December in the title, but it's far from a...

Four years after The Irishman, Martin Scorsese is back in the director's chair. But this time, he leaves behind the familiar world of the Mob to explore a different kind of...

Remember your first cell phone? For some it was a BlackBerry, the do-it-all device with a physical keyboard that took the business world by storm. Today no one owns a...

We weren't able to record a Cinema Faith podcast for September, but fear not! We'll be back next month with a movie that was released to critical acclaim in 2023,...

Remember when Christopher Nolan made indies? We don't either. Gone are the days of Memento and Insomnia, movies buoyed to success by raw power and word-of-mouth. Now every film Nolan makes is...

On a hot summer night in June, Jon Butrin drove to Kansas City, MO to visit Tim Nelson for four days. They went swimming, ate barbecue, and watched Cocaine Bear....

Nine years ago Guardians of the Galaxy burst on the scene like a breath of fresh air. Just as Marvel was starting to become repetitive and stale, Gunn introduced a brand new...

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is the Top Gun: Maverick of 2023. A movie you go into expecting nothing and walk out from in movie heaven. How can a film based...

Damien Chazelle burst onto the scene with 2014's Whiplash, a perfect film and one of the most memorable theater experiences of all time. Two incredible movies followed: La La Land and First Man....

Steven Spielberg. The name associated with the biggest moments in movie history. From killer sharks to Oskar Schindler, Spielberg re-defined movie magic, touched our hearts, and brought out the child...

It's November and that can only mean one thing: Oscar season is officially here! For the next three months, studios will be rolling out their best releases of 2022. Want...

Halloween is almost here which means it's time for all things scary. To celebrate, we're reviewing a horror movie released in June called The Black Phone. Or as we call...

In the world of animation, Toy Story changed everything. With that instant classic in 1995, Pixar ushered in a new era of family entertainment with stunning visuals and and rich themes...

Few names in Hollywood carry with them event status. Jordan Peele is one of them. Ever since the first trailer dropped in February, Nope was marked as the event of...

Tim couldn't be with us this month, but fear not! We found a worthy replacement. After talking about him all year, Dan Baker is finally a guest on the Cinema...

Who thought a sequel to Top Gun would actually be worth watching? Not us. But director Joseph Kosinski had other plans. His sequel to the 1986 original feels like the...

Everyone is familiar with the multiverse thanks to Marvel, but we've never seen it quite like this. Everything Everywhere All at Once offers a fresh take on the concept of multiple...

Coda won the highest honor at this year's Oscars, but the academy failed to recognize the true best picture of 2021: Drive My Car. Car did win an Oscar for Best International Feature...

How many times can Batman be rebooted? We know the story. We know the villains. What fresh take could anyone add to the franchise? Enter Matt Reeves, a director with...

Welcome to the first Cinema Faith podcast in two years! Covid changed everything and Cinema Faith was no exception. Our website has been mostly dormant since March of 2020, but...

Christmas movies are overrated. Why not spend the holidays with a film full of sociopaths instead? That was Netflix's gamble when they released Martin Scorsese's latest offering on their streaming platform in December. According to them, 26 million people have streamed the movie to date. Clearly, the gamble paid off. Scorsese has made a lot of features in his 50+ years of filmmaking, but he'll alw...

As protests spring up worldwide and economic populism becomes the defining politic of the moment, it was only a matter of time before a film tapped into the zeitgeist. That film is Parasite. The movie, directed by Bong Joon-Ho, nabbed the Palm d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, opened in wide release across the country, and has already raked in close to $100 million domestically. Not bad fo...

No film in recent memory has been as polarizing as Joker. A scroll through Rotten Tomatoes reveals a spectrum of reactions ranging from the highest praise of the year to anger that the movie was even made. One thing's for sure though: everyone has seen it. Joker is officially the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time bringing in $856.3 million to date. And everyone who's seen it has an opinion...

Booksmart has been on our radar since its release in May. With a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score, it's one of the best-reviewed films of the year. But now, it's our turn. Does the movie live up to the hype? Booksmart is the directorial debut of actress Olivia Wilde. Whatever faults Wilde brings to her first outing, casting isn't one of them. Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein play Amy and Molly, two hig...