Seeing and Believing 360 | The Fabelmans & The Young Girls of Rochefort
Movie magic! Musicals! Axe murders! All in a day’s work for Sarah and Kevin as they review a pair of movies that revolve around the power of cinema. First up is Steven Spielberg’s semiautobiographical...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 9 | Abigail Favale on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland
Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson and Professor Abigail Favale discuss feminist utopian novel Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Why is this novel still worth reading and reflecting upon today? What...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 361 | Pinocchio & Decision to Leave
Kevin and Sarah find themselves in the dark fairytale of Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson’s version of the beloved fairy tale reimagined in stop-motion animation. Then, Sarah and Kevin...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing December 2022 Bonus Episode | Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun
In this bonus episode, Sarah and Kevin review Aftersun, Charlotte Wells’ writing and directorial debut. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 10 | Tsh Oxenreider on Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
Jessica is joined by Tsh Oxenreider to discuss Walker Percy’s debut novel, The Moviegoer (1961). The pair discuss how the book, as does many of Percy’s following works, wrestles with the suicides of...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 362 | Avatar: The Way of Water and White Noise
Kevin and Sarah return to Pandora to review James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel to Avatar. Was the wait worth it? Or is The Way of Water simply more of the same? Then, Sarah and Kevin get into...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 11 | Austin Carty on Frederick Buechner’s Godric
Jessica is joined by Austin Carty to discuss Frederick Buechner’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel, Godric. The pair discuss the themes found not only in Godric, but in Buechner’s other novels that hint...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 363 | Babylon & Broker
Kevin and Sarah weigh the cost of greatness, and whether or not Damien Chazelle manages to pull off the gargantuan undertaking that is Babylon, his 3-hour epic about the silent era of Hollywood. Then,...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 27 | Lit Pulpit 5 – Go Tell It on the Mountain, Part 5
In Episode 5, Claude and Austin continue the discussion of “Gabriel’s Prayer” in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain. In this discussion they explore the concept and practice of forgiveness and...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 382 | Fast X & Out of the Past
Sarah is watching Aliens in the Big Apple so Kevin and special guest Chris Williams cover the 10th entry in the The Fast and the Furious saga, Fast X. After the high octane review the pair return to...
View ArticleMay Bonus 2023 | Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up
In this bonus episode, Sarah and Kevin review Kelly Reichardt’s latest movie, Showing Up, in which Michelle Williams plays an artist trying to hold it together as she prepares for a show. Have...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 383 | Master Gardener & Mikey and Nicky
Kevin’s a fan of the first two movies in Paul Schrader’s unofficial “Men with Guilt” trilogy. Sarah’s a little less enamored of those movies overall. Will the two be able to agree on the third film in...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 384 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse & RoboCop (1987)
Kevin and Sarah are both fans of the surprise 2018 movie introducing Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It’s been five years, and we’ve been waiting to see if the new sequel Spider-Man:...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 385 | Past Lives & A Room with a View (1985)
It’s spring, and romance is in the air. Sarah and Kevin each fall for Celine Song’s debut feature Past Lives, about two childhood sweethearts reconnecting decades later. For the Watchlist segment,...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 386 | The Blackening & Green Room
Kevin and Sarah take on horror-adjacent movies in two different flavors this week. First up, they review The Blackening, a comedy that aims to puncture common tropes about Black characters in horror...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 387 | Elemental & The Edge of Seventeen
This week, we review a pair of movies about coming of age and learning to live with yourself. Pixar specializes in stories that revolve around this topic, so naturally Kevin and Sarah were interested...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 388 | Asteroid City & War of the Worlds (2005)
Alien-invasion movies are perfect for exploring the question of who humanity is when they’re at their worst. First up, Kevin and Sarah review Wes Anderson’s latest movie Asteroid City, which...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 389 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny & The Last...
Kevin and Sarah don their adventuring gear and go exploring with Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny…but does this franchise belong in a museum? For the Watchlist, Sarah and Kevin...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 390 | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One &...
Sarah and Kevin’s mission, which they chose to accept, is to review the latest entry in the Mission: Impossible series. Will Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie pull it off once again? For the...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 390 | Oppenheimer & Barbie
Barbenheimer is upon us. Sarah and Kevin review two new releases this week: Christopher Nolan’s biopic about the father of the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer, followed by Greta Gerwig’s romp about a Barbie...
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