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Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller discuss 8 award-winning films from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • 892 • After Yang • blood • Cha Cha Real Smooth • Emergency • Klondike • Nanny • Navalny • Palm Trees and Power Lines Music for this Episode: • 2022 Sundance Film Festival Jingle...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Cha Cha Real Smooth from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Cooper Raiff. With Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, and Evan Assante. A young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Steph...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller recap their favorite films of 2021. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Stephen's list: 1. C'Mon C'Mon 2. Pig 3. Power of the Dog 4. Flee 5. Test Pattern 6. Bo Burnham: Inside 7. The Green Knight 8. Identifying Features 9. The Killing of Two Lovers 10. Compartment No 6 Christopher's List: 1. Mass 2....

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of C’mon C’mon. Directed by Mike Mills. With Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, and Woody Norman. When his sister asks him to look after her son, a radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his energetic nephew to show him life away from Los Angeles. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Power of the Dog. Directed by Jane Campion. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons. Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possib...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of tick, tick…BOOM!. Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. With Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, and Robin de Jesus. On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Last Night in Soho. Directed by Edgar Wright. With Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Matt Smith. An aspiring fashion designer is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to c...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of No Time to Die. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. With Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, and Rami Malek. James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangero...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. With Simu Liu, Awkwafina, and Tony Chiu-Wai Leung. Shang-Chi, the master of weaponry-based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese a...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of I’m Your Man. Directed by Maria Schrader. With Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, and Sandra Hüller. In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy....

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Dear Evan Hansen. Directed by Stephen Chbosky. With Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, and Kaitlyn Dever. Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance following the suicide of...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Titane. Directed by Julia Ducournau. With Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, and Garance Marillier. Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years. Titane: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys....

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Dune. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya. Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel, about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy. Show Notes Hosts: • Ch...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Worst Person in the World. Directed by Joachim Trier. With Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Maria Grazia Di Meo. The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Last Duel. Directed by Ridley Scott. With Matt Damon, Adam Driver, and Jodie Comer. King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Last Duel T...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Card Counter. Directed by Paul Schrader. With Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, and Tye Sheridan. Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler hau...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Many Saints of Newark. Directed by Alan Taylor. With Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., and Jon Bernthal. Witness the making of Tony Soprano. The story that reveals the humanity behind Tony's struggles and the influence his family - especially his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti - had over him becoming...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Free Guy. Directed by Shawn Levy. With Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, and Taika Waititi. A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal, open world video game. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Free Guy The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait for Renta...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller "briefly" discuss a ton of films they caught at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured films we both saw: • Aloners • Arthur Rambo • Bergman Island • Compartment No. 6 • Earwig • Huda's Salon • Întregalde • Lakewood • Montana Story • Petite Maman •...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Annette. Directed by Leos Carax. With Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, and Simon Helberg. A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a 2 year old daughter with a surprising gift. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Annette The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait f...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Reminiscence. Directed by Lisa Joy, With Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, and Thandiwe Newton. Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the alluring world of the past when his life is changed by new client Mae. A simple case becomes an obsession after she disappears and he fights...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Green Knight. Directed by David Lowery. With Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, and Joel Edgerton. A fantasy re-telling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Green Knight The Verdict: • Stephen: Must Se...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of CODA. Directed by Sian Heder. With Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, and Troy Kotsur. As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Pig. Directed by Michael Sarnoski. With Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, and Adam Arkin. A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller F...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Suicide Squad. Directed by James Gunn. With Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, and John Cena. Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island...