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Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Those Who Wish Me Dead. Directed by Taylor Sheridan. With Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, and Finn Little. A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all....

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Mitchells vs the Machines. Directed by Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe. With Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, and Maya Rudolph. A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope. Show N...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Dry from the 2021 SFFILM Festival. Directed by Robert Connolly. With Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly, and Keir O'Donnell. Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl. Show Notes Hosts...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Naked Singularity from the 2021 SFFILM Festival. Directed by Chase Palmer. With Olivia Cooke, Bill Skarsgård, and Ed Skrein. When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, his life begins to unravel. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Naked...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller briefly discuss a ton of films they caught at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured films we both saw: • Language Lessons • The End of Us • The Fallout • Dear Mr. Brody • Bantú Mama Featured films only Stephen saw: • Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free • The Spine...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Father. Directed by Florian Zeller. With Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, and Mark Gatiss. A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality. Show No...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Zack Snyder's Justice League. Directed by Zack Snyder. With Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, and Gal Gadot. Zack Snyder's definitive director's cut of Justice League. Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Raya and the Last Dragon. Directed by Don Hall & Carlos López Estrada. With Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan. In a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schn...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Mass from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Fran Kranz. With Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, and Ann Dowd. Aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Mass The Verdict:...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Vigil. Directed by Keith Thomas. With Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, and Malky Goldman. A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review:...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Minari. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung. With Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, and Alan S. Kim. A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Minari The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Must See Music for this Episode: • Mi...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Judas and the Black Messiah. Directed by Shaka King. With Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, and Jesse Plemons. Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panther Party per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Party Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wag...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller "briefly" discuss a ton of films they caught at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured films we both saw: • Censor • CODA • Cusp • Flee • How It Ends • In the Earth • Jockey • Judas and the Black Messiah • Knocking • Land • Marvelous and the Black Hole • Mass •...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The White Tiger. Directed by Ramin Bahrani. With Priyanka Chopra, Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao. The epic journey of a poor Indian driver who must use his wit and cunning to break free from servitude to his rich masters and rise to the top of the heap. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Steph...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Our Friend. Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. With Dakota Johnson, Jason Segel, and Isabella Kai. After receiving life-altering news, a couple finds unexpected support from their best friend, who puts his own life on hold and moves into their family home, bringing an impact much greater and more pr...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of News of the World. Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, and Tom Astor. A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place tha...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Promising Young Woman. Directed by Emerald Fennell. With Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, and Alison Brie. A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Promisi...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Pieces of a Woman from the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Kornél Mundruczó. Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, and Ellen Burstyn. When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Wonder Woman 1984. Directed by Patty Jenkins. Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, and Kristen Wiig. Diana must contend with a work colleague and businessman, whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing. Show Notes Hosts: • C...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller recap their favorite films of 2020. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Stephen's Picks: #10: Babyteeth #9: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets #8: I'm Thinking of Ending Things #7: The Assistant #6: Palm Springs #5: First Cow #4: Shithouse #3: Nomadland #2: Small Axe, the series #1: Sound of Metal Christoph...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Soul. Directed by Pete Docter and Kemp Powers. With Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, and Graham Norton. A musician who has lost his passion for music is transported out of his body and must find his way back with the help of an infant soul learning about herself. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Step...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller are joined by David Klein for a review of Greenland. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh. With Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, and Roger Dale Floyd. A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Guest: • David Klein Featured Review: • Gree...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller are joined by David Klein for a review of Tenet. Directed by Christopher Nolan. With John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Elizabeth Debicki. Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission th...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Parallel. Directed by Isaac Ezban. Kathleen Quinlan, Alyssa Diaz, and Carmel Amit. A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequenc...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Wolfwalkers. Directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart. With Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, and Sean Bean. A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to t...