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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you part 2 of their coverage of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Films:

• Conclave

• The Wild Robot

• Queer

• Riff Raff

• The Brutalist

• Under the Volcano

• A Missing Part

• Babygirl

• The End

Music for this Episode:

• Sensational by Ben Fox

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you part 1 of their coverage of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Films:

• We Live in Time

• The Life of Chuck

• All of You

• The Room Next Door

• Eden

• The Last Showgirl

• The Assessment

• Heretic

Music for this Episode:

• Sensational by Ben Fox

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Alien: Romulus.

Directed by Fede Alvarez. With Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, and Archie Renaux. While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Alien: Romulus

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• See Me Fly by Roza

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Cuckoo.

Directed by Tilman Singer. With Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt, and Marton Csokas. A 17-year-old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Cuckoo

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Wait for Rental

Music for this Episode:

• Mama Knows by Gaela Braun

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Trap.

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, and Saleka Shyamalan. A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Trap

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Wait for Rental

• Christopher: Wait for Rental

Music for this Episode:

• Move Silent by HALP

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Deadpool & Wolverine.

Directed by Shawn Levy. With Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and Emma Corrin. Deadpool is offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority, but instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Deadpool & Wolverine

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Wait for Rental

• Christopher: Must See

Music for this Episode:

• Hell Yeah by Ride Free

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Twisters.

Directed by Lee Isaac Chung. With Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos. A retired tornado-chaser and meteorologist is persuaded to return to Oklahoma to work with a new team and new technologies.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Twisters

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Tornado by Ben Bostick

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller sit down for Part 2 of Stephen's recap of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Films:

• Black Dog

• Armand

• Rumors

• The Balconettes

• Emilia Pérez

• Horizon: An American Saga

• The Substance

• The Apprentance

• The Shrouds

• Anora

• All We Imagine As Light

• Beating Hearts

• The Seed of the Sacred Fig

• The Most Precious of Cargoes

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For more in-depth coverage from the festival, checkout Stephen’s Cannes 2024 Dispatches over at David Chen’s Substack: Decoding Everything:

• Cannes 2024 Dispatch - Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

• Cannes 2024: Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' Is a Bewildering Mess

• Cannes 2024: 'Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1' Is Barely A Movie

• Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ Is One of the Best Films of the Year

Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

Directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. With Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, and Vanessa Hudgens. This Summer, the world's favorite Bad Boys are back with their iconic mix of edge-of-your seat action and outrageous comedy but this time with a twist: Miami's finest are now on the run.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Bad Boys: Ride or Die

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Wait for Rental

• Christopher: Wait for Rental

Music for this Episode:

• Raw Energy by SOURWAH

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Hit Man.

Directed by Richard Linklater. With Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, and Austin Amelio. A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Hit Man

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Must See

Music for this Episode:

• Temptation by Ride Free

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