Seeing and Believing 254 | Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth and David Dobkin’s...
Whether you’re in the mood for a quiet family drama or a silly over-the-top comedy, Seeing & Believing has you covered for the Independence Day weekend. First up is The Truth, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s...
View ArticleFunny Beliefs 4 | Stories
It’s hard to acknowledge an offensive joke. You’ve failed on two fronts: you weren’t funny and your words were harmful. It contradicts stories we tell ourselves, like “I wouldn’t make a racist joke”...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 255 | Aaron Schneider’s Greyhound and Andrew Patterson’s...
In any other summer, a Tom Hanks-starring, Tom Hanks-written movie about World War II would be the biggest movie of the weekend. This is not a typical summer, but Wade and Kevin are still interested...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 256| Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow and Max Barbakow’s Palm...
Kelly Reichardt’s latest film has finally made its way to a home release, and the guys are ready for it! First Cow, a period piece about two friends trying to eke out a living in the hardscrabble...
View ArticleFunny Beliefs 5 | Limits
This is a story of getting burned out on comedy and learning to love it again. It’s not a success story, but an enjoyment story that comes through accepting limits.
View ArticleFunny Beliefs 6 | Grace
Laughter is a gift. An excessive blessing without a practical purpose. Other things can bring relief, connect us with each other, and reveal our faults, but laughter does these things with playfulness...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 257 | Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Old Guard and...
Whether your tastes run toward the blockbuster or the literary, there’s a review for you this week. Wade and Kevin sit down with Netflix’s superhero-adjacent action flick The Old Guard, starring...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 258 | Dave Franco’s The Rental and Nicholas Ray’s In a...
This week, Seeing & Believing kicks off a new series on film noir! Our “Summer of Darkness” begins in a slightly unconventional place with the Humphrey Bogart-starring In a Lonely Place, about a...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 259 | James D’Arcy’s Made in Italy and Billy Wilder’s...
Two very different kinds of family melodramas are featured in this week’s episode. First is actor James D’Arcy’s directing/screenwriting debut, the Liam Neeson-starring Made in Italy, about a roguish...
View ArticlePersuasion 196 | Just Getting By
After four months of navigating COVID-19 worries and addressing societal inequalities, it seems that most of us are embracing the reality that our world is forever changed. We’re learning new ways to...
View ArticlePersuasion 197 | Getting By… with Wendy Alsup
In polite conversation, when someone greets you and asks how you are doing, the typical, benign reply is to say you “are doing just fine, thanks.” But today, that reply feels disingenuous at best,...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 260 | Michael Almereyda’s Tesla and Louis Malle’s...
Back from their one-week break, Wade and Kevin continue their Summer of Darkness series on film noir by crossing the Atlantic to check out Elevator to the Gallows, the Miles Davis-scored noir that...
View ArticlePersuasion 198 | Getting By… with Gina Dalfonzo
Our current moment of political, social, and even religious upheaval has been isolating in many inexplicable ways. COVID-19 restrictions have eliminated many of our opportunities to build friendships...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 261 | Amanda McBaine/Jesse Moss’s Boys State and Ida...
As election season spins up in earnest, the guys get into the spirit of the season with a new documentary. Boys State explores what happens when over a thousand bright high school boys from Texas get...
View ArticlePersuasion 199 | Getting By… with Luke T. Harrington
Humor has been rather hard to find in 2020. We’ve had month after month of very serious happenings. When the world is falling apart, laughter feels wrong—even callous. Serious things call for a...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 262 | Bill and Ted Face the Music and Roman Polanski’s...
Brush up on your air-guitar skills and get your SoCal dude-accents ready, because Seeing & Believing embarks on another excellent adventure this week. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter may be getting a...
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Persuasion 200 | For God and Country? with Kaitlyn Schiess
As if 2020 wasn’t hard enough already, we have yet another hurdle to jump this fall with the upcoming presidential election. We’ve already seen plenty of the usual rhetoric and outrage that has become...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 263 | Niki Caro’s Mulan and Rian Johnson’s Brick
The calendar says that summer is drawing to a close, but Seeing & Believing refuses to accept it! Blockbuster season goes on as the guys take the plunge on the Disney+ exclusive Mulan, the latest...
View ArticlePersuasion 201 | Taking America Back for God
Taking an active role in shaping our communities—and nation—is a valid way for us to fulfill Jesus’ mandate to love our neighbor. Such work is both Christian and political. It’s that intersection...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 264 | Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things...
With Wade on vacation, Kevin calls on Sarah Welch-Larson this week to help make sense of Charlie Kaufman’s latest brain-bender. I’m Thinking of Ending Things, now streaming on Netflix, features...
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