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Episode Description: In this episode, Stephen David Miller reports in from the second half of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • The Phoenician Scheme • The Secret Agent • Eagles of the Republic • Alpha • Highest 2 Lowest • The History of Sound • Sentimental Value • Resurrection • It Was Just an Accident • The Mastermin...

Episode Description: In this episode, Stephen David Miller reports in from the first half of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Films: • Adam's Sake • Rendezvous with Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise • Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning • The Sound of Falling • Two Prosecutors • Sirât • Case 137 • Eddington • The Wave...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Thunderbolts*. Directed by Jake Schreier. With Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts....

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of The Legend of Ochi. Directed by Isaiah Saxon. With Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, and Emily Watson. In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy girl is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when she discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Sinners. Directed by Ryan Coogler. With Miles Caton, Saul Williams, and Andrene Ward-Hammond. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Show Notes Hosts: • Chris...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Drop. Directed by Christopher Landon. With Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, and Violett Beane. A widowed mother's first date in years takes a terrifying turn when she's bombarded with anonymous threatening messages on her phone during their upscale dinner, leaving her questioning if her charming...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Warfare. Directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza. With D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, and Cosmo Jarvis. A platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of The Ballad of Wallis Island. Directed by James Griffiths. With Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford. Follows Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schne...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Death of a Unicorn. Directed by Alex Scharfman. With Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, and David Pasquesi. Father-Daughter duo Elliott and Ridley hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to the wilderness retreat of a mega-wealthy pharmaceutical CEO. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Black Bag. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgård, and Cate Blanchett. When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband - also a legendary agent - faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Mickey 17. Directed by Bong Joon Ho. With Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, and Michael Monroe. Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Mickey 17 The Verdict: • S...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Last Breath. Directed by Alex Parkinson. With Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, and Finn Cole. A true story that follows seasoned deep-sea divers as they battle the raging elements to rescue their crew mate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of The Monkey. Directed by Osgood Perkins. With Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, and Christian Convery. When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing ap...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Companion. Directed by Drew Hancock. With Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, and Lukas Gage. A weekend getaway with friends at a remote cabin turns into chaos after it's revealed that one of the guests is not what they seem. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Re...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller talk about their experience with the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. They also join David Chen for a conversation about 10 of their favorite films. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Conversation with David Chen: • Our 10 Favorite Sundance 2025 Movies (youtube version) • Our 10 Favorite Mo...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Presence. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, and Callina Liang. A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Presence The Verdict: • S...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of September 5. Directed by Tim Fehlbaum. With Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, and Ben Chaplin. During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, an American sports broadcasting team must adapt to live coverage the Israeli athletes being held hostage by a terrorist group. Show Notes Hosts: • Chris...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller recap their favorite films of 2024. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Stephen's List: 1. Nickel Boys 2. Challengers 3. I Saw the TV Glow 4. The Substance 5. Anora 6. All We Imagine as Light 7. The Brutalist 8. A Real Pain 9. The Seed of the Sacred Fig 10. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of A Complete Unknown. Directed by James Mangold. With Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, and Elle Fanning. In 1961, unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar. He forges relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbre...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Flow. Directed by Gints Zilbalodis. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. 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 The Order. Directed by Justin Kurzel. With Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, and Tye Sheridan. A series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Gladiator II. Directed by Ridley Scott. With Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, and Pedro Pascal. After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people....

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Wicked. Directed by Jon M. Chu. With Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jeff Goldblum. Elphaba, a misunderstood young woman because of her green skin, and Glinda, a popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. After an encounter with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friend...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you an omnibus review of Memoir of a Snail, Juror #2, A Real Pain, and Small Things Like These. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Reviews: • Memoir of a Snail • Juror #2 • A Real Pain • Small Things Like These Memoir of a Snail Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher:...

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Smile 2. Directed by Parker Finn. With Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Lukas Gage. About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is fo...