The Undercurrent Movie Podcast

"In the Line of Fire" is a tense political thriller about a veteran Secret Service agent (played by Clint Eastwood) haunted by his past failure to protect President John F. Kennedy. When a highly intelligent and obsessive assassin begins targeting the current president, the agent is drawn into a psychological cat-and-mouse game. As the killer taunts him and exploits his guilt, the agent must confr...

Anaconda is a modern reimagining of the classic jungle thriller, following a group of travelers drawn into the Amazon by a sense of nostalgia and adventure. What begins as a throwback-inspired journey quickly turns into a fight for survival when they become the target of a massive, deadly anaconda, forcing them to confront both the dangers of the wild and the illusion of the past they were chasing...

"Children of Men" is a gripping dystopian thriller set in a near-future world where humanity faces extinction after two decades of global infertility. Society has collapsed into chaos, and governments have turned authoritarian in a desperate attempt to maintain order. The story follows Theo played by Clive Owen, a disillusioned former activist, who is unexpectedly tasked with protecting a miraculo...

Welcome back to the undercurrent movie podcast season three. Now I’m Had kicking this season off by doing something a bit different this time. I’m going back to a movie that I’ve already covered but not for the reason that you think. In this episode, we are jumping back into the matrix but we’re not doing this to cover what we’ve already know. we’re actually going back in to find a completely diff...

Collateral Beauty (2016) is a drama about a successful New York advertising executive, Howard Inlet, who falls into deep depression after the tragic loss of his young daughter. As he withdraws from life, his friends and his work, he begins writing letters to Love, Time, and Death—abstract concepts he blames for his pain. Concerned for both him and the company, his friends devise an unusual plan th...

Would you steel a loaf of bread to feed your family?  Would you rob a bunch of little banks to end the generational poverty in your own family even though it could mean jail time or death.  Hell or High Water is a gritty, character-driven modern Western that follows brothers Toby and Tanner Howard as they rob a string of small-town Texas banks. Their crimes are not driven by greed, but by desperat...

What would you do if you stopped aging at 25 and could live for centuries but, everything you had to buy was charged in minutes. Would that make you pause with what you spent your time on? In Time is a sci-fi thriller set in a future where time has literally become the currency. People stop aging at 25 and must earn, borrow, or steal time to stay alive. The rich can live forever, while the poor st...

The Count of Monte Cristo. It’s an adventurous drama made in 2002 based on the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas. It follows Edmond Dantès (played by Jim Caviezel) a young sailor who is falsely accused of treason by his best friend (played by Guy Pearce) and betrayed by those he trusted. Imprisoned for years on a remote island, he uncovers a hidden treasure and escapes, reinventing himself as the w...

In this episode we discuss the movie “Signs”. “Signs” is a science fiction thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The 2002 film follows Graham Hess (played by Mel Gibson), a former priest living on a Pennsylvania farm with his two children (played by Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin) and brother (played by Joaquin Phoenix). When mysterious crop circles appear in their corn fields, the...

In this episode we tackle the epic film “No Country for Old Men” made in 2007. This movie is a neo-Western crime thriller directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy. Set in 1980s Texas, the story follows Llewelyn Moss (played by Josh Brolin) a hunter who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and takes a suitcase filled with drug money. He is pursued by Anton Chigurh (playe...

Moneyball (2011) is a sports drama  based on the true story of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team. Faced with a limited budget, Billy Beane takes an unconventional approach to building a competitive team by using something called sabermetrics. What it is is a data-driven analysis to evaluate and recruit undervalued players. With the help of a young Yale economi...

Contact (1997) is a science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the novel by Carl Sagan. The story follows Dr. Ellie Arroway, a determined astronomer played by Jodie Foster, who discovers a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence. As she works to decode the message and navigate political, scientific, and personal obstacles, Ellie embarks on a profound journey that challenges he...

 In this episode, I sit down with my good friend Vitaly Prokopets to talk about the movie there will be blood.  There Will Be Blood (2007) is a dramatic epic directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based loosely on Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!. Set in the early 20th century, it follows the ruthless rise of Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oil tycoon, portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in an Oscar-winni...

What lengths would you go to escape tragedy?  What lengths would you go to protect your family?  Would you isolate yourself from the world to try to escape harm and is that even a possibility In this podcast I talk with my wife Tiffany about the movie “The Village” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Bryce Dallas Howard.    The Village” (2004) is a psychological thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan. T...

What would you do if you could travel back in time to any moment in your life and change what happened.  Would that make your life better.  Would you take more chances  Would you have as much control as you think you do or would it force you to live the life you already have in a more intentional way.  These are the questions this movie forces you to ask.    I sit down with a life long friend Bran...

Limitless (2011) is a sci-fi thriller starring Bradley Cooper as Eddie Morra, a struggling writer who discovers a mysterious drug called NZT-48. The pill dramatically enhances his cognitive abilities, allowing him to access his brain’s full potential. As Eddie rises to success in finance and life, he attracts dangerous attention and faces deadly consequences as the drug’s side effects and the peop...

in this episode we talk about the movie Interstellar. Interstellar (2014), directed by Christopher Nolan, it is a haunting and beautiful science fiction epic that follows a team of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet, as Earth faces ecological collapse. The film blends emotional storytelling with complex scientific concepts like time dilation, black holes,...

Would you choose a life of ignorance and bliss or a life of truth and hardship. We talk about the deeper symbolism of the film relates faith and humanity.    We discuss the film The Matrix. The Matrix (1999) is a science fiction film where a hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that the world around him is a simulated reality controlled by machines. He joins a group of rebels led by Morpheus...

This episode I sit down with my sister, Angela Landis. she’s a wife and a mother of three a former foster parent. In this conversation, we bring to light of the true battles people fight every single day with parenting and marriage and jobs and how to find inspiration to continue through faith and persistence. 

I sit down with my cousin Tony to talk about his experience in the world of narcotics in Northern California. A great discussion on the Mexican drug cartel and what is the best moral way to defeat it. The movie posses the question to be a bit harder to answer than you think. 

A conversation about the 2016 movie "Arrival" anywhere from the God to life to language.