Sep 14, 2018
Seeing and Believing 168: Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching and Josh & Jonathan Baker’s Kin
Wade and Kevin dip into genre cinema to see what they find with Searching starring John Cho. Then the guys take a look at Sci-fi thriller Kin.
Sep 7, 2018
Seeing and Believing 167: An Interview with Corin Hardy (The Nun) and Better Call Saul Season 4
Kick off September with Corin Hardy, director of The Nun. Then Wade and Kevin return AMC’s Better Call Saul.
Sep 7, 2018
Connection, Consolation, and the Power of Being Known in Netflix’s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
This desire, this need, to be known and loved is instilled in all of us. It’s God-given, and it draws us to God.
Sep 4, 2018
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and the Fragility of Hope
Did Mister Rogers die with his hope intact? Is hope itself fragile? Can it withstand life in America today?
Aug 31, 2018
Seeing and Believing 166: Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians
Wade and Kevin review a Spike Lee joint, BlacKkKlansman. They also look at the much-buzzed-about romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians.
Aug 27, 2018
Why Was It So Hard to Review Ferdinand?
What both secular liberals and conservative Christians struggle to accept about pacifism in bulls.
Aug 24, 2018
Seeing and Believing 165: A Retro Review of The Dark Knight and Our Top 5 Films of 2008
This summer marked the ten-year anniversary Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Does it still hold up? The guys then list their Top 2008 Films.
Aug 23, 2018
Crazy Rich Asians and the Limits of Representation
If people of color are the only ones raising their voices and celebrating increased representation, then our collective forward progress will be minimal, indeed.
Aug 14, 2018
Hope for Henry Higgins: My Fair Lady in the #MeToo Era
In the #MeToo era, an ending like that in My Fair Lady could give us all hope that people can change—something we desperately need to remember.
Aug 10, 2018
Seeing and Believing 164: Carlos Lopez Estrada’s Blindspotting and Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s The Endless
Wade and Kevin have gentrification on the mind this week, as they review two films about unwelcome new arrivals in the neighborhood: Carlos Lopez Estrada’s Blindspotting, a drama about race and indie sci-fi/thriller The Endless, the new neighbor is an otherworldly force revered by a backwoods cult.
Aug 9, 2018
The Ending Is the Drama: Mission: Impossible, Fairy Stories, and the Longing for Consolation
The Mission: Impossible films appeal to us because they offer a kind of terrifying drama that ends in assurance and consolation.
Aug 3, 2018
Seeing and Believing 163: Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Wade and Kevin review the latest Mission: Impossible film (alternate title: See Tom Run) and the latest indie darling from studio A24, Eighth Grade. Thrills and chills abound!
Aug 1, 2018
Leave No Trace and the Struggle to Leave Behind the Fears of Our Parents
As Leave No Trace teaches us, we’ve all been given lenses tinted by unhealthy fears because we live in a broken world that inflicts varying degrees of trauma on everyone.
Jul 27, 2018
Seeing and Believing 162: Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 2 and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder
Both movies this week involve a measure of mayhem, but the two directors’ personal approaches to their stories couldn’t be more different: The Equalizer 2 and The Third Murder.
Jul 25, 2018
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore Tackles the Existential Crisis
Mingled terror and hope will be with us so long as we live, as we can see in the indie black comedy I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
Jul 20, 2018
Seeing and Believing 161: Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
Wade and Kevin get lost in the woods for their first film this week: Leave No Trace, Debra Granik’s long-awaited follow-up to Winter’s Bone. Then things take a turn for the weird as the guys jump into Boots Riley satire of capitalism and racism run amok, Sorry to Bother You.