Seeing and Believing 275 | Pete Docter and Kemp Powers’ Soul and Patty...
On this episode of Seeing and Believing, Wade is joined by Sarah Welch-Larson of Think Christian to discuss Pixar’s new film, Soul. Soul tells the story of a jazz musician named Joe (voiced by Jamie...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 276 | The Top Ten Films of 2020
Back from his break, Kevin rejoins Wade on the show to count down their favorite films of a very unusual year. With most mainstream films either missing in action or forced into unconventional release...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 277 | Paul Greengrass’s News of the World and Lee Isaac...
In his continuing journey to give an award-worthy performance in every existing film genre, Tom Hanks is back in 2021 with his first crack at a Western, Paul Greengrass’s News of the World. Based on...
View ArticleSeeing & Believing 278 | Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger
The show eases off the accelerator to focus on a single film this week. Acclaimed director Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo) is back with a new film for Netflix that positions itself as the...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 279 | John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things
It’s not every day that a new Denzel Washington-starring film gets released, especially when that film has been a quarter-century in the making. John Lee Hancock’s screenplay for The Little Things has...
View ArticlePersuasion 209 | Finding Common Ground
The past few years have been tough on relationships. Social and political ideals have clashed, leaving rifts among neighbors, colleagues, friends, and family members. As the gaps grow, emotions do...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 280 | Simon Stone’s The Dig
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, but the only love affair that Seeing & Believing has time for is that between Ralph Fiennes and archaeological excavations. Netflix’s The Dig tells the...
View ArticlePersuasion 210 | Dust to Dust
Death has been a constant thought this past year, due to the pandemic that continues to rage among us and around the globe. It’s rare in our society to think much about the end of our days. We tend...
View ArticlePersuasion 211 | Universal Language, with James Beitler and Richard Gibson
Communicating with others is something we’re born doing. We emerge from the womb with limited skills, of course. Our skills grow in time, from wails to words and eventually to full sentences and fully...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 281 | Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah
Seeing & Believing closes out Black History Month with a look at the buzzed-about new film that is based on the true story of the death of Fred Hampton. Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah...
View ArticlePersuasion 212 | Garden Variety, with Sarah Pabody
Among living creatures, humans alone have a sense of self. The awareness prompts existential awareness and dread in equal measure and sends us each on a quest to discover what our own life is all...
View ArticlePersuasion 212 BONUS | Interview with Sarah Pabody
Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson invited Sarah Pabody to Persuasion to share the lessons she’s learned working Triple Wren Farms, the flower farm she runs with her husband. You can listen to Hannah’s...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 282 | Chad Hartigan’s Little Fish + Interview with...
On this week’s special double-length episode, we offer something for lovers of blockbuster sci-fi/horror and indie sci-fi dramas. Wade and Kevin sit down with fellow critic Sarah Welch-Larson to talk...
View ArticlePersuasion 213 | Survival Instinct
Last week we discussed our shared call to cultivate goodness in the world. While that is true, it’s not the whole picture. Because as we work, we also find another shared experience. We all struggle...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 283 | Carlos Lopez Estrada and Don Hall’s Raya and the...
Disney+ keeps the big releases rolling with Raya and the Last Dragon, an animated adventure about a fantasy world teetering on the edge of apocalypse, with magical dragons holding the key to saving...
View ArticlePersuasion 214 | Interlude
In the last episode, Erin and Hannah discussed the hurdles and struggles we face in our attempts to cultivate goodness, finding another point of shared experience in the brokenness of the world. In...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 284 | Zack Snyder’s The Justice League
It’s not every day that a franchise’s fanbase is able to will a movie into existence, but that’s exactly the rare occurrence that is under consideration on this week’s episode. With Wade away from the...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 285 | Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong
With the coming of spring, there’s a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, which means two things: movie theaters are becoming an option once again, and blockbusters are being released to take...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 286 | Florian Zeller’s The Father
Oscar season may be long over, but the Oscars themselves are just peeking over the horizon. Wade and Kevin catch up with one of the Best Picture nominees that eluded them at the end of 2020: Florian...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing Episode 288: A Retro Review of The Night of the Hunter
With a slight lull coming between awards season and blockbuster season, Wade and Kevin pause for a retro review of a film regarded by many critics as the best directorial one-off in cinema history....
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