Episode Description:

In this episode, Stephen David Miller reports in from the first half of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Films:

• Adam's Sake

• Rendezvous with Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise

• Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning

• The Sound of Falling

• Two Prosecutors

• Sirât

• Case 137

• Eddington

• The Wave

• New Wave

• Die My love

• The Chronology of Water

Music for this Episode:

• 2025 Cannes Annoucement Teaser Audio

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• email: [email protected]

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Additional Coverage:

Read Stephen's contributions in David Chen's newsletter, Decoding Everything.

• Cannes 2025 Dispatch #1: Early Festival Highlights

Episode Description:

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

Directed by Jake Schreier. With Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Thunderbolts*

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Must See

Music for this Episode:

• Stay Right There by Michael Shynes

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Episode Description:

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

Directed by Isaiah Saxon. With Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, and Emily Watson. In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy girl is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when she discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• The Legend of Ochi

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Wait for Rental

• Christopher: Pass with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Fagradalsfjall feat Gaia Yuval by Blackbard

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Episode Description:

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

Directed by Ryan Coogler. With Miles Caton, Saul Williams, and Andrene Ward-Hammond. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Sinners

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Must See

Music for this Episode:

• Howling at the Moon by D Fine Us

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Episode Description:

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

Directed by Christopher Landon. With Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, and Violett Beane. A widowed mother's first date in years takes a terrifying turn when she's bombarded with anonymous threatening messages on her phone during their upscale dinner, leaving her questioning if her charming date is behind the harassment.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Drop

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Wait for Rental

• Christopher: Wait for Rental

Music for this Episode:

• Open up My Heart by Foster

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Episode Description:

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

Directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza. With D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, and Cosmo Jarvis. A platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Warfare

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Futuristic War by Ian Post

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of The Ballad of Wallis Island.

Directed by James Griffiths. With Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford. Follows Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• The Ballad of Wallis Island

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Lost in You by The Likes Of Us

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Episode Description:

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

Directed by Alex Scharfman. With Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, and David Pasquesi. Father-Daughter duo Elliott and Ridley hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to the wilderness retreat of a mega-wealthy pharmaceutical CEO.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Death of a Unicorn

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Wait for Rental

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Let Out the Beast by Ombré

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Episode Description:

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

Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgård, and Cate Blanchett. When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband - also a legendary agent - faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Black Bag

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Must See

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 Mickey 17.

Directed by Bong Joon Ho. With Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, and Michael Monroe. Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller

Featured Review:

• Mickey 17

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Wait for Rental

Music for this Episode:

• 100 bad nights - TJ Hickey

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