Far from Hollywood, any number of independent filmmakers continue to ply their trade, making movies that range from high-intensity action-adventures to slow, meditative explorations of everyday life. On this week’s show, Dan Webster and Nathan Weinbender discuss a couple of movies that are nothing if not independent, in both spirit and execution. First up is the theatrical release “Good One,” followed by the Netflix streamer “Rebel Ridge.”

On this week’s show, Dan Webster and Nathan Weinbender discuss two films designed to give us night chills—one a long-awaited sequel to the 1988 comedy-horror exercise “Beetlejuice,” the other a delving into the mind of a serial killer, titled “Strange Darling.”

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss favorites and hidden gems from 1999, one of the greatest years for 20th-century film.

In the world of movies, the genre of crime covers a wide range of themes and tones, from comic-mystery murder to the travails of those locked up for the acts they have committed. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two such films that, though loosely linked through the theme of crime, couldn’t be more different in tone—Zoë Kravitz’s idiosyncratic murder mystery “Blink Twice” and Greg Kwedar’s men-behind-bars saga titled “Sing Sing.”

On this week's show Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of films that, each in its own way, deals with some aspect of characters coming of age. The first is titled, simply, "Kneecap" and the second is titled the equally succinct "Dìdi."

Like all art forms, the object of a film is—or at least should be—to hold an audience’s attention. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of films that, each in its own particular way, tries to do exactly that. The first is the offbeat exercise in existential horror, “Cuckoo,” while the second is a film about the chance relationship between a young woman and an older cab driver titled “Daddio.”

We’re all prey to our emotions, whether we’re talking about pangs of fear, the warmth of connection or the angst of loss. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two movies that take their audiences on a virtual road trip through a maze of emotions—the latest from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, titled “Trap,” and the Oscar-nominated animated film from 2023, “Robot Dreams.”

We’re well into the summer-movie season, and the blockbusters just keep coming. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two of those summer-movie specials, “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “Twisters.”

Who among us, when as a child, didn’t at least once feel chills run down our spine as we walked alone, at night, along some dark hallway? On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of movies that are designed to re-create that feeling. The first is “MaXXXine,” the third installment in writer-director Ti West’s so-called “X” series. The other is “Longlegs,” a film by Oz Perkins that stars Nicolas Cage as a kind of demonic serial killer.

As everyone knows, or should know, the 1960s comprised a decade full of tempestuous energy and a drive toward social change. As captured by the movies, though, it lives on in our minds more as an idea than anything resembling reality. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two movies that are set in the 1960s. The first is the space-race romantic comedy “Fly Me to the Moon” and the second is the engine-driven drama “The Bikeriders.”