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Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Sound of Metal. Directed by Darius Marder. With Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, and Paul Raci. A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Sound of Metal The Verdict: • Stephen: Must Se...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Mank. Directed by David Fincher. With Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, and Lily Collins. 1930's Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnes...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Hillbilly Elegy. Directed by Ron Howard. With Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Gabriel Basso. An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Fea...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Happiest Season. Directed by Clea DuVall. With Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Mary Steenburgen. A holiday romantic comedy that captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family's acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schn...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Run. Directed by Aneesh Chaganty. With Sarah Paulson, Kiera Allen, and Sara Sohn. A homeschooled teenager begins to suspect her mother is keeping a dark secret from her. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Run The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait for Rental • Christo...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Concrete Cowboy from the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Ricky Staub. With Idris Elba, Caleb McLaughlin, and Lorraine Toussaint. A teenager discovers the world of urban horseback riding when he moves in with his estranged father in North Philadelphia. Show Notes Hosts: • Christo...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Another Round from the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. With Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, and Magnus Millang. Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Nocturne. Directed by Zu Quirke. With Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, and Jacques Colimon. An incredibly gifted pianist makes a Faustian bargain to overtake her older sister at a prestigious institution for classical musicians. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Revie...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Evil Eye. Directed by Elan Dassani, Rajeev Dassani. With Sarita Choudhury, Sunita Mani, and Bernard White. A superstitious mother is convinced that her daughter's new boyfriend is the reincarnation of a man who tried to kill her 30 years ago. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Love and Monsters. Directed by Michael Matthews. With Dylan O'Brien, Jessica Henwick, and Michael Rooker. In a monster-infested world, Joel learns his girlfriend is just 80 miles away. To make the dangerous journey, Joel discovers his inner hero to be with the girl of his dreams. Show Notes Hosts: •...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Directed by Jason Woliner. With Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, and Tom Hanks. Follow-up film to the 2006 comedy centering on the real-life adventures of a fictional Kazakh television journalist named Borat. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Fea...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of On the Rocks from the 2020 New York Film Festival. Directed by Sofia Coppola. With Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, and Marlon Wayans. A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Re...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Kajillionaire. Directed by Miranda July. With Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, and Debra Winger. A woman's life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they're planning. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Revie...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Shithouse. Directed by Cooper Raiff. With Cooper Raiff, Dylan Gelula, Amy Landecker. A homesick college freshman goes to a party at Shithouse and ends up spending the night with his sophomore RA who's had a shitty day and wants someone to hang out with. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Ste...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Trial of the Chicago 7. Directed by Aaron Sorkin. With Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, and Sacha Baron Cohen. The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Black Box. Directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour. With Mamoudou Athie, Phylicia Rashad, and Amanda Christine. After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an agonizing experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Lie. Directed by Veena Sud. With Peter Sarsgaard, Mireille Enos, and Joey King. A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Directed by Jim Cummings. With Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, and Robert Forster. Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind h...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Dick Johnson Is Dead. A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Dick Johnson Is Dead The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Recommend with Caveat Music for this Episode: • "Troubles of the World"...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Enola Holmes. Directed by Harry Bradbeer. With Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, and Sam Claflin. When Enola Holmes-Sherlock's teen sister-discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspi...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of One Night in Miami from the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Regina King. With Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, and Aldis Hodge. One Night in Miami is a fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Nomadland from the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Chloé Zhao. With Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest, Patricia Grier. Follows a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling moder...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Spring Blossom from the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Suzanne Lindon. With Suzanne Lindon, Arnaud Valois, and Frédéric Pierrot. A 16 year old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Shiva Baby from the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Emma Seligman. With Rachel Sennott, Molly Gordon, and Polly Draper. At a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Directed by Charlie Kaufman. With Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, and Toni Collette. Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and hersel...