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Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Room. Directed by Lenny Abrahamsson. With Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, and Sean Bridgers. After 5-year-old Jack and his mother escape from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a thrilling discovery: the outside world. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Mille...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Bridge of Spies. Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, and Alan Alda. An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Bridge of Spies The Verdict:...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review The Walk. Directed by Robert Zebecks. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Baillargeon. In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Ste...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review The Martian. Directed by Ridley Scott. With Matt Damon, Jessica Chasten, and Kristen Wiig. During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager su...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Sicario. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicia Del Toro. An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller F...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Pawn Sacrifice. Directed by Edward Zwick. With Tobey Maguire, Live Schreiber, and Peter Sarsgaard. Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review The Visit. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan. A single mother finds that things in her family's life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Visit The Verdi...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Queen of Earth. Two women who grew up together discover they have drifted apart when they retreat to a lake house together. Directed by Alex Ross Perry. With Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Queen of Earth The Verdict:...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Z for Zachariah. Directed by Craig Zobel. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, and Margot Robbie. In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with S...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Meru. Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. With Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, and Jimmy Chin. Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing. Show Notes...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review No Escape. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. With Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, and Owen Wilson. In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed. Show Notes Ho...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Mistress America. Directed by Noah Baumbach. With Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Seth Barrish. A lonely college freshman's life is turned upside down by her impetuous, adventurous soon-to-be stepsister. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Mistress America The Verdict: • Stephen...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review The End of the Tour. Directed by James Ponsoldt. With Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Chlumsky. The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'I...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review The Gift. Directed by Joel Edgerton. With Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton. A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than 20 years. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Sc...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. Directed Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner. Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF. Show Notes H...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese is joined buy guest Jesus Velazquez to review Pixels. Directed by Chris Columbus. With Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan. When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with guest Jesus Velazquez Fe...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Southpaw. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence. Boxer Billy Hope turns to trainer Tick Willis to help him get his life back on track after losing his wife in a tragic accident and his daughter to child protection services. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephe...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Paper Towns. Directed by Jake Schreier. With Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams. A young man and his friends embark upon the road trip of their lives to find the missing girl next door. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Paper Towns The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait for...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Ant-Man. Directed by Peyton Reed. With Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll. Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, cat burglar Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world....

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Inside Out. Directed by Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen. With Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black. After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school. Show Notes Hosts:...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. With Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke. High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cance...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review San Andreas. Directed by Brad Peyton. With Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario. In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his daughter. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Mad Max: Fury Road. Directed by George Miller. With Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult. In a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, two rebels just might be able to restore order: Max, a man of action and of few words, and Furiosa, a woman of action who is looking to make it back to her childhood...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Avengers: Age of Ultron. Directed by Joss Whedon. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo. When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it's up to the Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans. Show Not...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Ex Machina. Directed by Alex Garland. With Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac. A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese wi...