Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Divergent & Insurgent. Directed by Robert Schwentke. With Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James. Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Divergent & I...
Mar 25, 2015•1 hr 39 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Run All Night. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. With Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman. Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick an...
Mar 19, 2015•47 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review CHAPPiE. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. With Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman. In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • CHAPP...
Mar 18, 2015•1 hr 19 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Focus. Directed by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa. With Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro. In the midst of veteran con man Nicky's latest scheme, a woman from his past - now an accomplished femme fatale - shows up and throws his plans for a loop. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: •Focus The Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend (with Caveat) • Christopher: R...
Mar 03, 2015•1 hr 7 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller discuss The Oscars and review Hot Tub Time Machine 2. Directed by Steve Pink. With Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke. When Lou finds himself in trouble, Nick and Jacob fire up the hot tub time machine in an attempt to get back to the past. But they inadvertently land in the future with Adam Jr. Now they have to alter the future in order to save the past - which is really the present. Show Notes Ho...
Feb 26, 2015•1 hr 8 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Kingsman: The Secret Service. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson. A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Kingsman: The Secret Service The Verdict: • Stephen:...
Feb 19, 2015•58 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Carson Patrick review Jupiter Ascending. Directed by The Wachowskis. With Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne. In a bright and colorful future, a young destitute caretaker gets targeted by the ruthless son of a powerful family who lives on a planet in need of a new heir, so she travels with a genetically engineered warrior to the planet in order to stop his tyrant reign. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patri...
Feb 12, 2015•48 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Project Almanac. Directed by Dean Israelite. With Amy Landecker, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Virginia Gardner. A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Project Almanac The Verdict: • Carson: Pass (with Caveat) • Stephen: Wait fo...
Feb 03, 2015•1 hr 12 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review American Sniper. Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and St...
Jan 20, 2015•1 hr 8 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Selma. Directed by Ava DuVernay. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth. A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Selma The Verdict: • Carson: Must Avoid • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Wait for Rent...
Jan 18, 2015•46 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller recap the films of 2014. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick & Stephen Miller Carson's Picks Top Five • The Rover • Joe • White Tiger • Mood Indigo Stephen's Picks Whiplash • Calvary • Birdman • Boyhood • Inherent Vice Christopher's Picks The One I Love • Gone Girl • Nightcrawler • Whiplash • Big Hero 6 Music for this Episode: • DJ Earworm Mashup - United State of Pop 2014 (D...
Jan 16, 2015•2 hr 16 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Unbroken. Directed by Angelina Jolie. Jack O'Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, Domhnall Gleeson. After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Unbroken...
Jan 13, 2015•23 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Into the Woods. Directed by Rob Marshall. With Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine. A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Into the Woods The Verdict: • Carson: Pass (with Caveat) • Stephen:...
Jan 08, 2015•17 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review The Interview. Directed by Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen. With James Franco, Seth Rogen, Randall Park. Dave Skylark and producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight." When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher ...
Jan 07, 2015•21 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies. Directed by Peter Jackson. With Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage. Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Hobbit: Battle of th...
Jan 06, 2015•20 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Wild. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. With Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann. A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent catastrophe. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Wild The Verdict: • Carson: Must Avoid • Stephen: Wait for Rental • Christopher: Must Avoid Music for this E...
Jan 06, 2015•19 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review The Imitation Game. Directed by Morten Tyldum, With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode. During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Imitation Game The Verdict: • Carson: Must See • Stephen: Must See • Christ...
Jan 04, 2015•19 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller engage in some Trailer Talk. We discuss the trailers for Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, Terminator: Genisys, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller The Trailers: • Avengers: Age of Ultron • Jurassic World • Terminator: Genisys • Star Wars: The Force Awakens Music for this Episode: • "Warning" - The Peacocks Contact the show:...
Jan 01, 2015•1 hr 28 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Exodus: Gods and Kings. Directed by Ridley Scott. Read by Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley. The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Exodus: Gods an...
Dec 24, 2014•1 hr 2 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review The Babadook. Directed by Jennifer Kent. With Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall. A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Babadook The Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend (with Caveat) • Chri...
Dec 10, 2014•1 hr 9 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Carson Patrick review Horrible Bosses 2. Directed by Sean Anders. With Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day. Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick Featured Review: • Horrible Bosses 2 The Verdict: • Carson: Recommend ...
Dec 02, 2014•31 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Foxcatcher. Directed by Bennett Miller. With Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo. Wrestler Mark Schultz forms a relationship with his new sponsor, millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances as both men feel inferior to Mark's revered brother, Dave. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen...
Nov 27, 2014•1 hr 22 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. When Katniss destroys the games, she goes to District 13 after District 12 is destroyed. She meets President Coin who convinces her to be the symbol of rebellion, while trying to save Peeta from the Capitol. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and St...
Nov 25, 2014•1 hr 5 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Rosewater. Directed by James Marsh. With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior. A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Theory of Everything The Verdict: • Carson: Must Avoid • Stephen: Recommend (with Caveat) • Christopher: Wait for Rental Music ...
Nov 20, 2014•1 hr 5 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Rosewater. Directed by Jon Stewart. Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas. Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Rosewater The Verdict: • Carson: Wait for Rental • Stephen: Recommend (with Cave...
Nov 17, 2014•48 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Interstellar. Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain. A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to find a potentially habitable planet that will sustain humanity. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Interstellar The Verdict: • Carson: You should probably see it, but I ...
Nov 13, 2014•1 hr 50 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Big Hero 6. Directed by Don Hall, Chris Williams. With Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie Chung. The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Big Hero 6 The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Must See Mus...
Nov 10, 2014•1 hr
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Nightcrawler. Directed by Dan Gilroy. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton. When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Mil...
Nov 07, 2014•58 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Birdman. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. With Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton. A washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Birdman The Verdict: • Carson: Must ...
Nov 04, 2014•1 hr 12 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese, Carson Patrick, and Stephen Miller review Whiplash. Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist. A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Carson Patrick and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Whiplash The Verdict: • C...
Oct 31, 2014•53 min
