Seeing and Believing

Kevin and Sarah dive into another parallel universe with the latest Marvel movie,  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Then, they keep the conversation going with feedback from listeners about past episodes. Finally, they bring on guest Elijah Davidson, who introduces them both to the French New Wave film  Jules and Jim . Sarah has a grand unifying theory about the MCU. Listeners can sig...

Kevin and Sarah discuss whether his new meta movie  The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent  manages to live up to its title. Then they have a standoff over the latest Watchlist pick,  Face/Off . Kevin gets animated about doves. Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Murder, mayhem, and revenge...just another episode of Seeing & Believing. Kevin and Sarah trade opinions about Robert Eggers' latest movie, The Northman . Then they turn their gaze toward a Patreon pick, Alfred Hitchcock's classic suspense movie Rear Window . Sarah does a passable Robert Plant impression. Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

It's Holy Week. To observe Good Friday, Kevin and Sarah contemplate Andrei Tarkovsky's 1966 masterpiece Andrei Rublev for the Watchlist segment. But first, they discuss Michael Bay's latest action movie, Ambulance . Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Kevin and Sarah sink their teeth into a pair of vampire movies. To her surprise (and Kevin's), Sarah had fun with the new Jared Leto superhero movie Morbius . For the Watchlist segment, Kevin introduces Sarah to the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In . Musical interlude "We'll Be Fine" by The Surface of the Deep, used with permission. Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon...

Kevin and Sarah take on the multiverse in their review of Daniels' latest film, Everything Everywhere All At Once . Then they turn their attention to Barbra Streisand's grift in Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 comedy What's Up, Doc?/i> The leopard from Bringing Up Baby makes a surprise guest appearance. The You Must Remember This season about Polly Platt can be found here Musical interlude by Wayne Jo...

This week, Kevin and Sarah grapple with their complicated feelings about Mariama Diallo's feature debut, Master . For the Watchlist segment, they compare notes on Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in the 1941 screwball comedy The Lady Eve. Sarah shares a fun fact about flowers. Music interlude by Wayne John Bradley, “Just Breathe.” Used under Creative Commons license 3.0. Check out the Seeing &...

Kevin and Sarah find themselves in an animated disagreement over Pixar's latest movie, Turning Red . In the Watchlist segment, they reconvene over the Studio Ghibli film Kiki's Delivery Service . Woodland wildlife is discussed. Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week: quiet, contemplation, and a pair of very good movies. Kevin and Sarah find themselves enamored of Kogonada's new film, After Yang. Then, they shift their attention to Hirakazu Kore-eda's 1998 film, After Life. Kevin waxes poetic about Ozu. Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Kevin and Sarah discuss Matt Reeves' take on The Batman . Is it a good Batman, or is it the most Batman? In the Watchlist segment, they split over Cathy Yan's feature debut Dead Pigs . Sarah makes an argument for unexpected musical numbers at the end of movies. Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mid-February means romance movies, new and old. First up, Kevin and Sarah take on the new adaptation of Cyrano , directed by Joe Wright. Along the way they discuss whether or not the movie works as a musical, and they split over the merits of war scenes in romance movies. For the Watchlist, they turn their eyes toward Todd Haynes's 2015 film Carol . Kevin explains why the movie's worth a revisit,...

Need an investigator? Kevin and Sarah are on the case! First, they unpack the mystery at the heart of Kenneth Branagh's latest movie, Death on the Nile . Then they go to the Watchlist for a discussion of James L. Brooks' 1987 movie, Broadcast News . It's detectives, reporters, and your intrepid podcast hosts all coming together on this week's episode of Seeing & Believing. Check out the Seeing...

It's family relationships week at Seeing & Believing. First, Kevin and Sarah discuss Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut The Lost Daughter , and its use of ambiguity as a storytelling device. Then, they ramp up the tension by continuing last week's Asghar Farhadi discussion with a chat about his Oscar-winning masterpiece A Separation . Finally, the new segment is christened with a name. Chec...

This week, we're playing catch-up! First, Kevin and Sarah discuss Asghar Farhadi's latest film, A Hero , and where it stands in relation with other 2021 releases. Then, they kick off a new segment with a turn to a villain from the distant past, as they consider the iconic Universal monster movie, Dracula . Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon Music interlude is "Savior" by Pipe Choir. Used...

Westerns often pit humans against nature. This one features Benedict Cumberbatch as a force of nature himself. Kevin and Sarah discuss Jane Campion's latest, The Power of the Dog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Matrix has you (again) Neo... Lana Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, and Carrie-Anne Moss return to the Matrix franchise for a remix of a beloved story. But does the remix work? Kevin discusses with Sarah Welch-Larson. Plus, an exciting announcement about the future of the podcast! Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin and critic/author Sarah Welch-Larson reconvene to discuss their favorite movies of 2021. Along the way, they contemplate the state of the movie industry and of criticism at the end of a very strange year. Check out the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Seeing & Believing sends 2021 out with a bang by reviewing one of the biggest movie musicals of all time, remade by one of the biggest American directors of all time. Kevin is joined once again by Sarah Welch-Larson to talk about the new version of West Side Story , releasing 50 years after the original film brought the Sondheim/Bernstein/Laurents stage musical to the big screen. Steven Spielb...

Kevin is joined this week by critic/author Sarah Welch-Larson to chat about a film that is on both of their most-anticipated lists for the year: Mike Mills's C'mon C'mon . The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as a radio journalist who finds himself unexpectedly charged with taking care of his precocious nephew (Woody Norman) when the mother has an unexpected emergency. Naturally, life lessons are learne...

How do you imprint a memory onto celluloid? Kenneth Branagh attempts to answer that question with his latest film, Belfast , based on his own memories of growing up as a young boy during the Troubles in 1960s Northern Ireland. Kevin is joined once again by Chris Williams of We're Watching Here to examine whether Branagh succeeds. Together they discuss the performances from heavyweights like Judy D...

Put on your dapper clothes and be seated in the geometrically perfect room of your choice, because we're looking at a Wes Anderson film this week! Delayed due to COVID, Anderson's The French Dispatch is finally enjoying its theatrical release, and Kevin is joined by See/Hear Brother cohost and critic Joshua Wilson to talk about it. Framed as a series of stories in a fictional magazine modeled afte...

Halloween is receding into the mists of the past, but it's never too late to enjoy a spooky movie, and this week's episode offers a doozy: Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho . Thomasin Mackenzie ( Leave No Trace , Jojo Rabbit ) stars as a young woman nostalgic for the bygone era of the 1960s, who allows herself to be transported in her dreams back to that time only to find that the past has its sha...

After myriad COVID-related delays, it's finally here: the long-awaited adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi opus, Dune . Director Denis Villeneuve ( Arrival , Blade Runner 2049 ) returns once again to the sci-fi genre with this new film starring Timothee Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, and Rebecca Ferguson as the leaders of House Atreides, the noble house that vows to tame the desert planet of Arrakis and...

takes some time out to review another Patron Pick, the newly released indie drama Mass . The Cabin in the Woods star Fran Kranz makes his writing and directing debut with this film, which takes place almost entirely inside a single room in a small community church. As four grieving parents sit down in this room to sift through the wreckage left behind by a tragedy that affected them all, the film...

that's the way things have been for twenty-four films and nearly sixty years. The twenty-fifth film in the Bond franchise, No Time to Die , aims to shake up the Bond formula even as it serves as Daniel Craig's swan song portraying the iconic British superspy. Kevin is joined by special guest Don Shanahan to discuss Bond in general, Daniel Craig's Bond specifically, and whether this film is an effe...