Saints and Cinema

Send us Fan Mail In their almost-one-year episode, Tim and Jay talk to Tyler Smith, writer and director of the film Reel Redemption , about God's Not Dead; Christians and movies; the relationship between Christianity and Hollywood; The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ; God's Not Dead; the best Christian movies that aren't Christian movies; God's Not Dead...

Send us Fan Mail In our second episode in as many weeks, Jay and Tim talk to Amanda Salazar about San Francisco International Film Festival and Camera Obscura, and we find out that she and Sarah Sleeger are essentially twins when it comes to rom-coms and Timothée Chalamet. Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi,&quot...

Send us Fan Mail Jay and Tim talk with Director of Programming Sarah Sleeger about 2020 Newport Beach Film Festival plans, rom-coms, and what it looks like to plan a film festival in the midst of a pandemic. (And the Ricky Gervais show is called After Life , not After Death .) Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi,&...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk about movies to watch in a pandemic, then temptation in A Hidden Life and Silence . Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot Sample from Steve Taylor's "Lifeboat" Come find us: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube  (starting wit...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk everything about Parasite [**MAJOR SPOILERS**] that they can cram into 40 minutes or so, plus a couple Bible stories that need making into movies, as they're self-quarantined (sort of). Link: Fear of God podcast on Parasite . Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Se...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk to Deona Hamilton, Senior Programmer with the Newport Beach Film Festival, about what she saw at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; what she likes of the 2019 Oscar nominees; and taking it easy with pure, no-thinking entertainment. Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi,&quot...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk  1917 [minor spoilers], other war movies, the Academy Awards (briefly), and whatever the name of the monkey is in David Lynch's new Netflix short film. Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot Come find us: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Yo...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk about their five favorite films that they saw in 2019, Tim picks one no one else will have, and also has trouble finishing his sentences. They also talk about their least favorite, how many times they watch the same movies, and what they're looking forward to in 2020. Thanks for listening over the past 6 months! Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Sta...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk The Irishman , Scorsese, gangster films, De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci. And, of course, film length and CGI. (And the show that neither of them could remember is Sneaky Pete .) Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot Link: Josh Larsen on The Irishman...

Send us Fan Mail We have Erik Forssell on to talk about his work at Orange Coast College, and we talk cinematography, documentaries, VR, and Free Solo (there might be a spoiler or two for that movie, if you haven't seen it). Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot Links:  Mae...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk Joker , Joaquin Phoenix, evil, and what people want from a villain. Be aware, there are SPOILERS! If you haven't seen Joker yet, and you want to, don't listen to this until you do. Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot Come find us: Website Instagr...

Send us Fan Mail Tim's audio is horrible (always make a back-up recording!), but the Sluders are great. We talk about their films, their approach to filmmaking, what they like in other horror movies, what they're looking forward to, and they put our Twitter follower count above 20. Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: &quot...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk about what they're watching, which includes Bloody Sunday , Mindhunter , Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood , and M. Night Shyamalan. Show notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot Come find us: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube  (starting with...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk with Scott Stiegemeyer, Lutheran pastor, professor, and ethicist, about horror movies, exorcism, the devil, Precious Moments figurines, and why people keep making movies that revolve around spiritual things. Show notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk about the movies they can watch over and over--and the movies they never want to see again. Also, submissions for the 2020 Newport Beach Film Festival are now open! So they talk about what they hope to see among those films. Then they announce their special guests for August in an epic two-part horror guestathon with Rev. Scott Stiegemeyer (co-host of the horror p...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Jay talk with filmmaker, writer, director, producer, et al., Thomas Torrey about art and commerce, religion and film,  Silence, Magnolia and Thomas's films,  Fare  and the upcoming  Minor Premise . Show notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot Links: Bad The...

Send us Fan Mail In the first Cutaway episode, Jay and Tim talk about what it means to watch a film made by someone with whose beliefs you might disagree, and what we're watching now. We also reveal our special guest for our July show. Show notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot S...

Send us Fan Mail In the inaugural episode, Tim and Jay talk Top 100 Lists, which movies they're supposed to like but don't, Scorsese, film school, What About Bob? , and what horror films can do. Show Notes: Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot Come find us: Website Instagram Faceb...