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Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Wicked: For Good (2025). Directed by Jon M. Chu. With Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jeff Goldblum. Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical. Show Notes...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of The Running Man (2025). Directed by Edgar Wright. With Glen Powell, Alyssa Benn, and Sienna Benn. A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to flee anywhere in the world, are pursued by "hunters" hired to kill them. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Fe...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Die My Love (2025). Directed by Lynne Ramsay. With Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and Sissy Spacek. Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her compan...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Bugonia. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. With Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, and Emma Stone. Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of A House of Dynamite (2025). Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, and Gabriel Basso. When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Step...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of After the Hunt. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. With Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, and Andrew Garfield. A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to co...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Tron: Ares. Directed by Joachim Rønning. With Jared Leto, Greta Lee, and Jeff Bridges. A highly sophisticated Program, Ares, is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Tron: Ares...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of One Battle After Another. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro. When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Lurker. Directed by Alex Russell, With Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, and Sunny Suljic. A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death. Show Notes Hosts:...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Caught Stealing. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Austin Butler, Regina King, and Zoë Kravitz. Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a trea...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you part 4 of their coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • Blue Heron • Poetic License • Glenrothan • If I Had Legs I'd Kick You • Steve • Hedda • Roofman • The Man in My Basement • Eleanor the Great • The Fen...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you part 3 of their coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • No Other Choice • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery • Eternity • Adulthood • The Christophers • Rental Family • Sentimental Value • Left-Handed G...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you part 2 of their coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • The Smashing Machine • Frankenstein • Ballad Of A Small Player • Eternal Return • The Last Viking • Orphan • The Wizard Of The Kremlin • The Love That...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you part 1 of their coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • Rose of Nevada • Hamlet • Sacrifice • Bad Apples • Nuremberg • Dead Man's wire • Hamnet Music for this Episode: • Сrystalline by Romeo Contact the sho...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Highest 2 Lowest. Directed by Spike Lee. With Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and Ilfenesh Hadera. When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Hi...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Weapons. Directed by Zach Cregger. With Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. Show Notes Hosts: • Christop...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you an omnibus review of Eddington, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Together, and The Naked Gun. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Reviews: • Eddington • The Fantastic Four: First Steps • Together • The Naked Gun Eddington Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Pas...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Superman. Directed by James Gunn. With David Corenswet, Alan Tudyk, and Grace Chan. Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Jurassic World: Rebirth. Directed by Gareth Edwards. With Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey. Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medic...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of F1: The Movie. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. With Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, and Javier Bardem. A Formula One driver comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • F1: The Movie The Verdict: •...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of 28 Years Later. Directed by Danny Boyle. With Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes. A group of survivors of the rage virus live on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Materialists. Directed by Celine Song. With Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal. A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Materiali...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you an omnibus review of The Phoenician Scheme, Karate Kid: Legends, Ballerina, Bring Her Back, and The Life of Chuck. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller The Phoenician Scheme Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend with Caveat • Christopher: Wait for Rental Karate Kid: Legends Verdict: • S...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, and Ving Rhames. Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David M...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Fight or Flight. Directed by James Madigan. With Josh Hartnett, Charithra Chandran, and Katee Sackhoff. A mercenary takes on the job of tracking down a target on a plane but must protect her when they're surrounded by people trying to kill both of them. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese a...