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 haunted by the ghosts of his past. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured ...
Oct 20, 2021•32 min
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 the most iconic mob boss of all time. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Fe...
Oct 12, 2021•40 min
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 Rental • Christopher: Recommend with Caveat Music for this Episode: • Free Guy (Original Motion Picture S...
Oct 07, 2021•33 min
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 • Saloum • Silent Land • Silent Night • The Electrical Life of Louis Wain • The Eyes of Tammy Faye • ...
Sep 28, 2021•3 hr 17 min
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 for Rental • Christopher: Pass with Caveat Music for this Episode: • Annette (Original Motion Picture...
Sep 09, 2021•32 min
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 to learn the truth about her. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Re...
Sep 01, 2021•41 min
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 See • Christopher: Must See Music for this Episode: • The Green Knight (Original Motion Picture Soundt...
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 6 min
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 her parents. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • CODA The...
Aug 21, 2021•40 min
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 Featured Review: • Pig The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Must See Music for this Episod...
Aug 19, 2021•34 min
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 of Corto Maltese. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The ...
Aug 11, 2021•40 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Jungle Cruise. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. With Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, and Edgar Ramírez. Based on Disneyland's theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles but with a supernatural element. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Jungle Cruise The Verdict: • Stephen: Rec...
Aug 04, 2021•36 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of A Quiet Place Part II. Directed by John Krasinski. With Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Cillian Murphy. Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats lurking beyond the sand path. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featu...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of No Sudden Move. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, and David Harbour. A group of criminals is brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • No Sudden Move The Verdict: • Stephen: Re...
Jul 20, 2021•26 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Tomorrow War. Directed by Chris McKay. With Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, and J.K. Simmons. A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Tomorrow War The Verdict: • Stephen: Pass with Caveat • Christopher: Recommend with Caveat Music for ...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain from the 2021 Tribeca Festival. Directed by Morgan Neville. With Anthony Bourdain, Ottavia Bourdain, and David Chang. A documentary about Anthony Bourdain and his career as a chef, writer and host, revered and renowned for his authentic approach to food, culture and travel. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Roadru...
Jun 23, 2021•37 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of In the Heights. Directed by Jon M. Chu. With Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, and Leslie Grace. A film version of the Broadway musical in which Usnavi, a sympathetic New York bodega owner, saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • In the Heights The Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend with Caveat • ...
Jun 17, 2021•43 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Directed by Michael Chaves. With Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, and Ruairi O'Connor. The Warrens investigate a murder that may be linked to a demonic possession. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It The Verdict: • Stephen: Pass with Caveat • Christopher: Recommend with Caveat Music...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Riders of Justice. Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. With Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Andrea Heick Gadeberg. Markus, who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and...
Jun 04, 2021•28 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Cruella. Directed by Craig Gillespie. With Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, and Joel Fry. A live-action prequel feature film following a young Cruella de Vil. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Cruella The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait for Rental • Christopher: Wait for Rental Music for this Episode: • Cruella (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Contact the show: • ...
Jun 03, 2021•27 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Army of the Dead. Directed by Zack Snyder. With Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, and Ana de la Reguera. Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Army of the Dead The Verdict: • Stephen: Pass with...
May 28, 2021•56 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Oxygen. Directed by Alexandre Aja. With Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, and Malik Zidi. A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there. As she's running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Oxygen The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait for Rental • Christop...
May 25, 2021•54 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Those Who Wish Me Dead. Directed by Taylor Sheridan. With Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, and Finn Little. A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Those Who Wish Me Dea...
May 20, 2021•37 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Mitchells vs the Machines. Directed by Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe. With Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, and Maya Rudolph. A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Mitchells vs the Machine...
May 05, 2021•46 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Dry from the 2021 SFFILM Festival. Directed by Robert Connolly. With Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly, and Keir O'Donnell. Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Dry The Verdict: • Stephen: Recomm...
Apr 21, 2021•45 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Naked Singularity from the 2021 SFFILM Festival. Directed by Chase Palmer. With Olivia Cooke, Bill Skarsgård, and Ed Skrein. When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, his life begins to unravel. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Naked Singularity The Verdict: • Stephen: Recommend with Caveat • Christopher: Pass with Caveat Music for...
Apr 15, 2021•51 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller briefly discuss a ton of films they caught at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured films we both saw: • Language Lessons • The End of Us • The Fallout • Dear Mr. Brody • Bantú Mama Featured films only Stephen saw: • Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free • The Spine of Night • Swan Song Featured films only Christopher Saw: • Recovery • Gaia • Here Before • Violet C...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Father. Directed by Florian Zeller. With Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, and Mark Gatiss. A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Father The Verdict: • Ste...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Zack Snyder's Justice League. Directed by Zack Snyder. With Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, and Gal Gadot. Zack Snyder's definitive director's cut of Justice League. Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions. Show Not...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Raya and the Last Dragon. Directed by Don Hall & Carlos López Estrada. With Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan. In a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Raya and the Last Dragon The Verdict: • Stephen: Wait ...
Mar 10, 2021•47 min
Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Mass from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Fran Kranz. With Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, and Ann Dowd. Aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller Featured Review: • Mass The Verdict: • Stephen: Must See • Christopher: Must See Music for this Episode: • Mass Credits Contact the show:...
Mar 06, 2021•50 min
