Faith in Focus

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

First up is perhaps one of the most unique films to ever be made: Being John Malkovich.

Tracy and Jason are back with a recap of all the ins and outs of this year's 97th Academy Awards, and a sneak peek into our upcoming (and final) season. 

We're finishing our 13th year with one more director and their clear outlier (plus a sneak peek of our next season!). 

This episode, we look to the "Old Man," Francis Ford Coppola – and his outlier: Jack (1996). 

We also take a first look, by way of his progeny (Sofia), at the epic, incredible, and wildly creative/productive year for movies: 1999. 

This year, Faith in Focus is asking, "Wait...who directed this?" We're looking at directors and their outlier films – and, in this case, there's a fight! 

In the arena of ideas, of course. This episode, we welcome back the original Friend of the Pod™, the thoughtful, brilliant, fellow cinephile, Derrick Weston, to talk the late, the great: Stanley Kubrick. 

Derrick thinks one movie of this unparalleled director deserves the title of Outlier, while Jason believes the title is best bestowed elsewhere. Hovering above the ring, sporting her own Kubrick stare, Judge Tracy presides over all. And she brooks no nonsense. Let the games begin! 

Jason & Tracy are back with the lucky 13th season of Faith in Focus, where we're looking at movies that seem way outside the general vibe of their director. 

This episode we look at the brilliant Ava DuVernay's portfolio of work, and what we would consider her (clear?) outlier: a 2018 adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's landmark book, A Wrinkle in Time (1962). 

Jason & Tracy are back with the lucky 13th season of Faith in Focus, where we're looking at movies that seem way outside the general vibe of their director (or do they?). 

This episode we consider the remarkable Ang Lee, and his insistence on *always* deviating. And, thus, our outlier film...is sort of a trick question. :) 

Tracy and Jason are back with the lucky 13th season of Faith in Focus, where we're looking at movies that seem way outside the general vibe of their director (or do they?). 

This episode we consider the Brothers' Coen, and their Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and, as always, ask the question: why should people of faith watch this? 

Tracy and Jason are back with the lucky 13th season of Faith in Focus (Happy Friday the 13th, by the way!), where we're looking at movies that seem way outside the general vibe of their director (or do they?). 

This episode we consider Spike Lee's inventive 2013 reinterpretation of Park Chan-wook's brutal, brilliant Oldboy (2003) – how remakes rarely measure up, the old, old story of revenge, and what a person of faith might discover within this violent story. 

Tracy and Jason are back with the lucky 13th season of Faith in Focus, where we're looking at movies that seem way outside the general vibe of their director.  

This episode we welcome back an OG podcast guest, the delightful Danette Rosenberg, to talk about Stanley Kramer's outlier: the wacky, zany, over-the-top It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World from 1963.

Tracy and Jason are back for the 13th season of Faith in Focus! Spooky awesome! 

This season, we'll be looking at specific directors and seeking their outlier movie – the one that's not quite like the others. The movie you're watching and finding yourself saying, "Wait...who directed this?" 

Our first episode post-Oscars focuses on one of that night's biggest winners: Christopher Nolan; and one of his seemingly divergent films: Insomnia (2002).