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Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Return to Seoul. Directed by Davy Chou. With Park Ji-min, Oh Kwang-rok, and Guka Han. A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey t...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Past Lives. Directed by Celine Song. With Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro. Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and d...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Asteroid City. Directed by Wes Anderson. With Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Hanks. Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to hav...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Elemental. Directed by Peter Sohn. With Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, and Ronnie Del Carmen. Follows Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Elemental The Verdict: • Stephen: Reco...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Directed by Joaquim Dos SantosKemp PowersJustin K. Thompson. Witg Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, and Brian Tyree Henry. Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When th...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Directed by James Gunn. With Chris Pratt, Chukwudi Iwuji, and Bradley Cooper. Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful. Show No...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Beau Is Afraid. Directed by Ari Aster. With Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, and Amy Ryan. Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Ste...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Renfield. Directed by Chris McKay. With Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, and Awkwafina. Renfield, Dracula's henchman and inmate at the lunatic asylum for decades, longs for a life away from the Count, his various demands, and all of the bloodshed that comes with them. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Sch...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Directed by Daniel Goldhaber. With Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, and Lukas Gage. A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • How to Blow Up a Pipeline The Ve...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of John Wick: Chapter 4. Directed by Chad Stahelski. With Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, and George Georgiou. John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Creed III. Directed by Michael B. Jordan. With Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, and Jonathan Majors. Adonis has been thriving in both his career and family life, but when a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy resurfaces, the face-off is more than just a fight. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Cocaine Bear. Directed by Elizabeth Banks. With Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, and O'Shea Jackson Jr. An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. Show Notes Hosts: •...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Magic Mike’s Last Dance. They also discuss Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Jemelia George, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Llaca. Mike takes to the stage again, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. Mike heads t...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Directed by Peyton Reed. With Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, and Michael Douglas. Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne, along with Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, explore the Quantum Realm, where they interact with strange creatures and embark on an adventure that goes beyond th...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Plane. Directed by Jean-François Richet. With Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, and Tony Goldwyn. A pilot finds himself caught in a war zone after he's forced to land his commercial aircraft during a terrible storm. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Plane The Ver...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller discuss 8 award-winning films from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Slow (Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic) • Scrapper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic) • Magazine Dreams (U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision) • Shayda...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller discuss their favorite films of 2022. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Stephen's List: 1. Aftersun 2. Everything Everywhere All at Once 3. The Banshees of Inisherin 4. TÁR 5. RRR 6. Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 7. The Menu 8. We're All Going to the World's Fair 9. Bones and All 1...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Directed by Rian Johnson. With Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, and Kate Hudson. Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Bones and All. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. With Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, and Mark Rylance. Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Bones and All The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • C...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Menu. Directed by Mark Mylod. With Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nicholas Hoult. A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Fe...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Banshees of Inisherin. Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Kerry Condon. Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Aftersun. Directed by Charlotte Wells. With Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, and Celia Rowlson-Hall. Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father sh...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Decision to Leave. Directed by Park Chan-wook. With Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, and Lee Jung-hyun. A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing. 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 Tár. Directed by Todd Field. With Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, and Nina Hoss. Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra....

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Triangle of Sadness. Directed by Ruben Östlund. With Thobias Thorwid, Harris Dickinson, and Charlbi Dean. A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Rev...