Faith in Focus

Christmas comes early this year. Turns out, Faith in Focus had one bonus episode still in the hopper! 

In a throwback to our penultimate season (back in 2023-24) – Wait, Who Directed This? – we have one more conversation to share with you.

This final time, Tracy and Jason talk about Guillermo del Toro's fascination with monsters, and his (seemingly) monster-less outlier: Nightmare Alley. 

Jason and Tracy wrap up their season as they do all seasons: with the annual Academy Awards. (This year, the 98th.) 

They met up beforehand for a pre-Oscars game ("Spread The Love"), talked about said ceremony afterwards, and then, bittersweetly, said goodbye to this fourteen-season podcast! Dang.

Fare thee well, beloveds! Keep watching movies through the lens of faith.

Tracy and Jason are back for the penultimate episode of Faith in Focus – and, appropriately enough, we welcome back fellow cinephile and Friend of the Pod™, the brilliant Derrick Weston, to talk about Kevin Smith's 1999 classic: Dogma. 

Faith in Focus is in its last season! This bittersweet swan song of a year is immersed in the Best Year in Film™: 1999.

Tracy and Jason begin their last category of films – Staying Power – with a look back at what feels like it could have been filmed just this last year: Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's masterpiece: The Talented Mr. Ripley.

**CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses a movie that includes rape.

Faith in Focus is in its last season! This bittersweet swan song of a year is immersed in the Best Year in Film™: 1999.

Tracy and Jason finish up their "Trendsetter" category of films with a look back at two movies on polar opposite ends of 1999: Boys Don't Cry, and Message in a Bottle. 

º Jason watched "Message in a Bottle" while Tracy actually watched "The Notebook," which it many ways worked better for this theme. :) 

Faith in Focus is in its last season! This bittersweet swan song of a year is immersed in the Best Year in Film™: 1999.

Tracy and Jason begin their "Trendsetter" category of films with a look back at Mike Judge's eminently-quotable masterpiece, Office Space.

Faith in Focus is in its last season! This bittersweet swan song of a year will look at the Best Year in Film™: 1999.

Tracy and Jason end their "Prophetic" category of films with a look back at David O. Russell's incendiary Three Kings – and we do so with beloved friend of the pod, storyteller Danette Rosenberg!  

Faith in Focus is in its last season! This bittersweet swan song of a year will look at the Best Year in Film™: 1999.

Tracy and Jason begin their "Prophetic" category of films with a look back at Ron Howard's frenetically-fueled EDtv. 

Faith in Focus is in its last season! This bittersweet swan song of a season will look at the Best Year in Film™: 1999.

This episode, Tracy and Jason finish up our Unique segment with a look back at M. Night Shyamalan's instant classic, "The Sixth Sense." 

Faith in Focus is in its last season! This bittersweet project will look at the Best Year in Film™: 1999.

This episode, Tracy and Jason look at the trendsetting, culture-shifting Blair Witch Project.