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: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Weapons The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • C...
Aug 21, 2025•49 min
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: Pass with Caveat The Fantastic Four: First Steps Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend with Caveat • Christophe...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 36 min
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 old-fashioned. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • S...
Jul 15, 2025•52 min
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 medical breakthrough. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: •...
Jul 15, 2025•37 min
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: • Stephen: Recommend with Caveat • Christopher: Recommend with Caveat Music for this Episode: • Flame...
Jul 08, 2025•35 min
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 not only the infected but other survivors. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Davi...
Jun 25, 2025•58 min
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: • Materialists The Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend with Caveat • Christopher: Recommend with Caveat Music for thi...
Jun 25, 2025•37 min
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: • Stephen: Wait for Rental • Christopher: Wait for Rental Ballerina Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend with ...
Jun 20, 2025•1 hr 31 min
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 Miller Featured Review: • Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning The Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend...
Jun 02, 2025•57 min
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 and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Fight or Flight The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait for Rental •...
Jun 02, 2025•32 min
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 Mastermind • Honey Don't! Music for this Episode: • 2025 Cannes Announcement Teaser Audio Contact the show: •...
May 29, 2025•57 min
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 • New Wave • Die My love • The Chronology of Water Music for this Episode: • 2025 Cannes Announceme...
May 21, 2025•55 min
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. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Thunderbolts* Th...
May 06, 2025•38 min
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 a quest to bring him home. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Feature...
May 06, 2025•29 min
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: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Sinners The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See ...
Apr 29, 2025•51 min
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 date is behind the harassment. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Feat...
Apr 28, 2025•39 min
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 Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Warfare The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Chris...
Apr 17, 2025•28 min
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 Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • The Ballad of Wallis Island The Verdict: • Stephen: M...
Apr 08, 2025•31 min
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 David Miller Featured Review: • Death of a Unicorn The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait for Rental • Christo...
Apr 01, 2025•34 min
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 country. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Black B...
Mar 25, 2025•25 min
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: • Stephen: Recommend with Caveat • Christopher: Wait for Rental Music for this Episode: • 100 bad night...
Mar 25, 2025•32 min
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 Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • Last Breath The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait for Rental • Chris...
Mar 11, 2025•49 min
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 apart over the years. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review...
Mar 06, 2025•54 min
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 Review: • Companion The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Must See Music for this Episode: •...
Feb 25, 2025•44 min
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 Movies from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (Writeup on Decoding Everything) Featured Films: • Omaha •...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr
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: • Stephen: Recommend with Caveat • Christopher: Recommend with Caveat Music for this Episode: • Im on Y...
Jan 30, 2025•53 min
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: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller Featured Review: • September 5 The Verdict: • Stephen: Recom...
Jan 28, 2025•31 min
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 Christopher's List: 1. A Real Pain 2. The Brutalist 3. The Assessment 4. The Salt Path 5. The Life ...
Jan 10, 2025•1 hr 56 min
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 groundbreaking performance that reverberates worldwide. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen D...
Dec 22, 2024•40 min
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 Featured Review: • Flow The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Must See Music for this Episod...
Dec 20, 2024•26 min
