Don’t pick up the phone, our dear listener. In this episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’re reviewing Scream VI, the sequel to last year’s Scream franchise revival, Scream(2022), made and released just fourteen months later. Can the directing duo of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett AKA “Radio Silence” create lightning in a bottle twice? Before diving into Ghostface’s latest stab at the franchise with guests Chris Oz McIntosh and Brock Lay, react to this year’s Oscars ceremony and award winners. We then debate “who is the best Ghostface killer so far” before doing a short spoiler-free review of the film followed by a new series ranking. We close out the conversation with a lengthy and in-depth spoiler discussion about whether this film lives up to the Scream franchise’s *so far* successful track record. Is this entry the killer hit the series needs to immortalize its legacy? Tune in to hear our full verdict and analysis. Podcast Discussion Timestamps 0:15 – Introductions 4:19 – 95th Academy Awards Reactions 20:00 – Ice-Breaker Question – “Which Scream killer reveal is your favorite?” 30:30 – Scream VI spoiler-free review 104:00 – Scream VI spoilers discussion Special Guests Brock Lay The “Brockness Monster” of graphic designers Follow Brock on Instagram @brockness_monster Chris Oz […]

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And the award for greatest 2023 Oscar predictions podcast featuring an Oklahoma filmmaker and an Oklahoma film critic podcaster goes to… …you guessed it, listeners! It’s time to roll out the red carpet and polish the little golden men because, on today’s special episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’ll continue our annual award season tradition by placing bets on our 2023 Oscar predictions. Hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman are back in our fifth-year pre-gaming the big night with our guesses for who will win, who should win, and other important filmmakers who should have been nominated in most of the categories. To celebrate the continuing tradition, we’re joined by two first-time special guests from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy McDonnell, an award-winning arts and entertainment journalist from The Oklahoman and also a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, makes her debut on The Cinematic Schematic to share her hopes, expected winners, and 2023 Oscar frustrations including the contentious Best Lead Actress race between Tár‘s Cate Blanchett and Everything Everywhere All at Once‘s Michelle Yeoh. Seth Stuart, a co-host of The Reel Deal Podcast, also makes his first appearance to share his enthusiasm for films not nominated, […]

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The Cinematic Schematic returns for our first episode of 2023 to dive into the most haunting TikTok dance we’ve seen yet with our review of M3GAN. We kick things off by responding to listener feedback and responses to our top 5 films of 2022. We then speculate what the highest-grossing movie at the box office in 2023 will be before jumping into our spoiler-free review of M3GAN. AI has been a fear of audiences for decades going back at least as far back as rogue robots like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968. Over the decades, there have been hundreds of movies exploring what potential horrors these learning machines could bring if not kept in check by the impulses of their creators. Lest we forget, we dedicated several essays to the role of AI in cinema back in October 2017. Furthermore, with AI evolving so rapidly through recent innovations like ChatGPT and design bots, the fears feel more timely than ever. Enter producer James Wan, writer Akela Cooper, and director Gerard Johnstone. After cracking a winning formula for silliness in 2021’s sleeper flick, Malignant, the former two creatives have reunited to make this horror-comedy for gen-Z and the […]

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