Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller discuss some highlights and lowlights from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Highlights:

• Carousel

• Levitating

• LADY

• Run Amok

• Burn

• How to Divorce During the War

• If I Go Will They Miss Me

• Josephine

• American Doctor

• The Incomer

Lowlights:

• Zi

• Union County

Music for this Episode:

• The Rain Part by Assaf Ayalon

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller recap their top 10 favorite films of 2025.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Stephen's List:

1. One Battle After Another

2. Sentimental Value

3. It Was Just An Accident

4. Marty Supreme

5. The Chronology of Water

6. Sinner

7. The Secret Agent

8. Hamnet

9. Bugonia

10. Die My Love

Christopher's List:

1. Sinners

2. One Battle After Another

3. The Christophers

4. Wake Up Dead Man

5. Sorry, Baby

6. Rental Family

7. Hamnet

8. The Man In My Basement

9. Together

10. Lurker

Music for this Episode:

• Chemtrails by Semo

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025).

Directed by James Cameron. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, and Sigourney Weaver. Jake and Neytiri's family grapples with grief after Neteyam's death, encountering a new, aggressive Na'vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Wait for Rental

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Vicious Attack by Tilman Sillescu

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025).

Directed by Rian Johnson. With Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, and Glenn Close. Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Must See

Music for this Episode:

• Into the Transcendence by Tilman Sillescu

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of The Chronology of Water (2025).

Directed by Kristen Stewart. With Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, and Jim Belushi. Through loss, love, and self-discovery, a woman transforms pain into art-and writes a life on her own terms.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• The Chronology of Water (2025)

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Blackout by Roza

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Train Dreams (2025).

Directed by Clint Bentley. With Joel Edgerton, Clifton Collins Jr., and Felicity Jones. Based on Denis Johnson's beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Train Dreams (2025)

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Wait for Rental

Music for this Episode:

• Forest Fire by Louis Island

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Wicked: For Good (2025).

Directed by Jon M. Chu. With Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jeff Goldblum. Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Wicked: For Good (2025)

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Pass with Caveat

• Christopher: Must Avoid

Music for this Episode:

• Why Do I Hide by Lone Wild

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of The Running Man (2025).

Directed by Edgar Wright. With Glen Powell, Alyssa Benn, and Sienna Benn. A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to flee anywhere in the world, are pursued by "hunters" hired to kill them.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• The Running Man (2025)

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Wait for Rental

Music for this Episode:

• Hell or High Water by Southern Call

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Die My Love (2025).

Directed by Lynne Ramsay. With Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and Sissy Spacek. Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion, Jackson, increasingly worried and helpless.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Die My Love (2025)

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Pass with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Mess I Made by Pizza Rat

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Episode Description:

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

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. With Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, and Emma Stone. Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Bugonia

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Hostage by Jane The Boy

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