Screen Life 4Life!

***This Review of Searching has a Spoiler Section***

We’ll have a non-spoiler first half & then give the plot a full breakdown after some spoiler music warning, which also happens to be the song of the summer. Not a lot of people know this, but it’s true. (Nobody knows it. Though I take nothing back.)

Searching: Non-Spoiler Review

Cast & Crew / Bye Bye Google - 1:32

Production Notes / The Screen Life Genre - 7:11

Specs / A Sundance & Audience Favorite - 12:33

Expectations / Soderbergian Influences - 16:39

Review of Production Values - 18:23

Performances - 22:30

Final Thoughts / What Else Can Screen Life Cover? - 25:38

Spoiler Music - 28:35

Searching: Spoiler-Filled Review

Immediate Carryovers / Worst Scenes - 29:57

Best Scenes / We Like Fish N’ Chips - 38:35

The Service - 40:00

Grades - 42:38

Outro / Social Media / Words of Wisdom - 45:21

From Russia with love, we get Timur Bekmambetov’s production company pumping out a slew of new films in the Screen Life genre where the entire film plays out on all the screens we know and love and can’t live without in our daily lives. Our production notes covers the cast & crew, where the director leaves a lucrative career most would kill for in order to writer mysteries about characters who would kill for other reasons. Then we dive into our full OSP (Oscar Sprint Profile) review treatment of Searching.

Both our non-spoiler and spoiler review covers insights into our psyche’s as well as that of John Cho’s rich character work of the last few years. Our spoiler review also breaks down all the major highlights of the plot and the movie going experience of Mikes with buttery popcorn hands in hands. This is an underrated film in our minds, and we hope to do it justice in our full review here.

This is our 14th 2018 Oscar Sprint profile. Go back & listen to our back catalog of episodes to catch up on all the Oscar contenders we’ve covered including Crazy Rich Asians most recently, Black Panther, A Quiet Place, Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Hereditary, The Incredibles 2, Sorry To Bother You, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Eighth Grade, Isle of Dogs, and BlacKkKlansman.

We’ve also covered the major news stories hitting the trades over the past month including the Best Popular Film outrage from the Academy, which we fixed in episode 92. We also chronicled the Moviepass saga in halfisode 17. Then we’ve covered all the buzz coming out of the fall film festival circuit including 3 Oscar Contender Trailer round-ups and monthly previews of everything hitting theaters, and we’ve just begun The Nun preview with a Conjuring Universe rewatch, which we’ll continue for you mid-week. So stay tuned.

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