The Cinematic Schematic

Welcome back to The Cinematic Schematic, the official podcast of The Cinematropolis.com. Today I’m reviewing Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut, Promising Young Woman.  DISCLAIMER: Potentially triggering topics including rape and sexual assault are a central part of the plot and themes of Promising Young Woman. If you are sensitive to these subjects, this review and the film may not be for you. R...

The Cinematic Schematic podcast returns for our final episode of 2020. This week we’ll review the long-delayed sequel to 2017’s smash hit, Wonder Woman, and the latest continuation of the DCEU, Wonder Woman 1984. We’re rejoined by recurring guest co-host, Freaky AF and You People writer/director, Laron Chapman, and Geek Girl Features writer Chelsea Ratterman, to provide a spoiler-free review of th...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays, dear listeners! The Cinematic Schematic podcast is here with a special bonus episode reviewing Disney Pixar’s new movie releasing directly on Disney+ on Christmas Day, Soul. To meet the special occasion, we are joined by my 2020 COVID-pandemic partner in crime, the Video Peach, Lauren Weingart. Tune in to hear our reactions and analysis of one of this year’s big...

The Cinematic Schematic podcast is back this week to review one of 2020’s most highly anticipated films, Tenet, AKA “the film that will save cinema.” We’re rejoined by guest co-hosts Jacob and Zachary Burns, co-founders of Planet Thunder Productions and The Cinematropolis, to give our initial spoiler-free reviews before diving into the film’s details to determine whether or not it was worth the wa...

Welcome to The Cinematic Schematic, the official podcast of The Cinematropolis.com. Today, we’re introducing a new, shorter-form film review format. As detailed in our recent podcast announcement, this post is one of many changes being made to the podcast in order to give you, the listener, episodes more frequently. According to IMDB “1930’s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing so...

After being away on a several month-long hiatus in 2020, I have a special announcement to make. The Cinematic Schematic podcast is back! If you’ve been a longtime listener or The Cinematropolis reader, you’ve probably noticed things have been quiet here the last several months. There are a few reasons for this silence: The challenges presented to the film industry in 2020 due to the pandemic. A sh...

To celebrate today’s release of Planet Thunder Productions’ new film, Shifter, writer/director Jacob Leighton Burns and Zachary Burns rejoin The Cinematic Schematic to discuss a few of their favorite time travel films before we each make the case for the greatest time travel movie ever made. Before picking our favorites, we lay down the rules and criteria of what qualifies as a time travel film in...

Imagine a world where the mind is the scene of the crime inspired by the works of Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, The Matrix, and James Bond films that captures the best elements of an Oceans Eleven heist. On July 16, 2010, moviegoers were introduced to Inception, writer/director Christopher’s Nolan’s massive critical and box office hit that propelled him from a talented auteur to on...

After 10 days of films streamed at the 2020 deadCenter Film Festival for the event’s 20th anniversary, The Cinematropolis concludes our special coverage with a festival recap discussion between our entire festival team, Jo Light, Daniel Bokemper, Christopher Shultz, and myself. Tune in to the full discussion on today’s episode of The Cinematic Schematic! Each of us discusses our favorite feature f...

Special Guest Lance McDaniel Executive Director, deadCenter Director of Send Me Wings In this special interview on The Cinematic Schematic podcast, we talk with deadCenter’s executive director, Lance McDaniel, about how he is sending his tenure in the role out with a bang at deadCenter 2020. We start by discussing how his role has (or has not) changed in the shift to a largely virtual event and th...

LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW BY PUSHING PLAY ABOVE! Special Guest Stephen Tyler Director of Technology, deadCenter Founder of Mostly Harmless Media In this special interview on The Cinematic Schematic podcast, we talk with deadCenter’s director of technology, Stephen Tyler, about how deadCenter 2020 pivoted to a virtual film festival following the COVID-19 pandemic. We start by discussing how he s...

Special Guest Charles Elmore Director/Producer of “The Chest“ In this special interview on The Cinematic Schematic podcast, we talk with “The Chest” director/producer Charles Elmore about how he and his writer Tony DeLesDernier found just the right comedic tone for their Hitchcock-inspired short film. Elmore also discusses how he came to cast Danielle Evon Ploeger and Emmy-nominated actors Dylan B...

Special Guest Sev DeMy Writer/Director/ Producer of {Black Title Here} In this special interview on The Cinematic Schematic podcast, we talk with Black Title Here writer/director/producer Sev DeMy about how he approached creating his short film as a TV show pilot, creating a comedic take on the life of a production assistant (PA) and why they went about using on-screen texts to create unique punch...

LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW BY PUSHING PLAY ABOVE! Special Guest Cheryl Horner McDonough Director of Parkland Rising On February 14, 2018, a shooter opened fire on the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, killing 17 people. This tragedy shook the nation and inspired an entire generation of teenage activism that led to the March for Our Lives. What were the human stories behind the devastati...

LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW BY PUSHING PLAY ABOVE! It’s been four years since Planet Thunder Productions, writer/director Jacob Leighton Burns and producer Zachary Burns won deadCenter’s Best Oklahoma Narrative Feature Film in 2016. After next taking home the first-place prize from the 48-hour Film Project in 2016 with Let the Bodies Hit the Floor followed by their 2017 documentary about New View...

After more than a year and a half of fundraising, pre-production, filming and, post-production VFX, The Cinematropolis co-founders Jacob Leighton Burns and Zachary Burns are premiering their new time-travel body horror film, Shifter, at the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival in San Jose, California on Friday, March 6th. In part four of our ongoing Shifter Audio Diary series, found exclusively...

After a long hiatus, The Cinematic Schematic returns for a special episode to give listeners, cinephiles and people hoping to be impressive at this Sunday night’s 92nd Academy Awards watch parties everything they need to build a semi-accurate-ish Oscar ballot. Tune in to the conversation to prepare yourself for the Oscars 2020! Laron Chapman and I are back for our annual tradition of making the Os...

The Cinematic Schematic returns in our August edition to give a spoiler-free review of two of the month’s biggest releases, Hobbs and Shaw, and Lulu Wang’s The Farewell. With the summer winding down, we take a look at the final big-budget blockbuster of the 2019 summer season, Hobbs and Shaw, the first spin-off in the Fast and Furious series starring series regulars Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statha...

The Cinematic Schematic returns in our July edition to give a spoiler-free review of Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated ninth film, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and a huge all-star supporting cast. Before taking an in-depth look at QT’s latest, Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman discuss other notable films they’ve seen since the June issue. T...

The Cinematic Schematic returns in this special June edition to give a spoiler-free review of Jim Jarmusch‘s new film, a zombie comedy (zom-edy), The Dead Don’t Die. After spending the summer so far planning his new film and attending the 2019 deadCenter Film Festival, Laron Chapman returns to the co-host’s mic! Before digging into this week’s review, Caleb and Laron play a little bit of catch up...

After an entire weekend full of movies, parties, and reunions at the 2019 deadCenter Film Festival followed by a week full of film reviews and interviews here at The Cinematropolis, our special deadCenter coverage comes to a close with a festival recap discussion between our entire festival team, Jo Light, Daniel Bokemper, Christopher Shultz, and myself. Each of us discusses our favorite feature f...

The 2019 deadCenter Film Festival brought in a number of notable indie films, but perhaps our most anticipated was The Art of Self-Defense from writer/director Riley Stearns and Bleeker Street. The official synopsis for The Art of Self-Defense reads: The dark comedy The Art of Self-Defense stars Jesse Eisenberg and is set in the world of karate. Eisenberg plays a man who is attacked at random on t...

The deadCenter 2019 film festival has finally arrived and we are kicking off our coverage with a filmmaker interview on one of the festival’s most anticipated curiosities. Award-winning independent Oklahoma filmmaker Mickey Reece rejoins The Cinematic Schematic to talk about his new movie Arrows of Outrageous Fortune playing at this weekend’s 2019 deadCenter Film Festival in downtown Oklahoma City...

The Cinematic Schematic returns in this special May edition to give a spoiler-free review of one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. Sound Trek‘s Alexandra Bohannon joins us to look at the third entry of Keanu Reeve’s critically acclaimed John Wick action vehicle collaboration with director Chad Stahelski. Picking up moments after the twisted events of...

At long last, we’ve arrived at the conclusion of Marvel’s 22 movie epic that has spanned 11 years of filmmaking. After earning $350 million at the U.S. box office and $1.2 billion worldwide, it’s hardly hyperbole to say Avengers: Endgame is the most anticipated movie of the last decade. The Cinematic Schematic is here with a quick spoiler-free review followed by an in-depth discussion reflecting o...