Seeing and Believing 392 | Afire & The Quiet Girl
The heat of summer is here. Kevin and Sarah brave forest fires as they review Christian Petzold’s latest movie Afire, about a writer who can’t seem to finish his latest manuscript while on vacation....
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 393 | They Cloned Tyrone & Eyes Without a Face
Mad science is afoot in this week’s double feature. First up, Sarah and Kevin get to the bottom of the new Netflix mystery/comedy/science fiction thriller They Cloned Tyrone, starring John Boyega,...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 394 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem &...
Kevin and Sarah dive into the sewers with the titular teens from the new animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Then, Sarah and Kevin enter the magical world of Miyazaki’s 2004 film...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 395 | The Last Voyage of the Demeter & Das Boot
Sarah and Kevin vs. Dracula… on a boat. This week, they review The Last Voyage of the Demeter, an adaptation of a chapter from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. For the Watchlist, Kevin continues the theme...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 396 | Landscape with Invisible Hand & Modern Times
Sarah and Kevin explore a dystopian sci-fi story in the form of Landscape with Invisible Hand, the latest movie from Cory Finley adapted from an M.T. Anderson novel of the same name, about a pair of...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 397 | The Starling Girl & The Devil’s Backbone
Kevin and Sarah catch up with an indie movie they missed earlier this spring, Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl. For the Watchlist, Kevin introduces Sarah to Guillermo Del Toro’s 2001 ghost story The...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 398 | Bottoms & Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
This week, Sarah and Kevin review Bottoms, the latest from director Emma Seligman about a pair of high school seniors (Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri) who start a fight club to try to impress girls....
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 399 | A Haunting in Venice & Gosford Park
Kevin and Sarah retire to the drawing room, where they’ll be getting to the bottom of the mystery of both this week’s movies. First up is Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice, Kenneth Branagh’s...
View ArticleSeeing & Believing 400 | An Ethos of Faithful Filmgoing
After 400 episodes, we’ve reached the end. But before we go, Kevin and Sarah have a conversation about their ethos of faithful movie criticism, bringing the podcast full circle to a conversation Kevin...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 28 | Shemaiah Gonzalez on Joy: 100 Poems
Shemiah Gonzales talks with Jessica to kick off Season 3 of The Scandal of Reading to discuss the edited collection of Joy: 100 Poems. Shemiah is working on her own book called, Undaunted Joy and the...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 29 | Philip Yancey on John Donne
The Fruits of the Spirit theme continues for Season 3 with acclaimed author Philip Yancey discussing the devotionals of John Donne (1571 – 1631 A.D.), a cleric in the Church of England, and the...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 30 | Grace Hamman on Revelations of Divine Love
This week’s Fruit of the Spirit is Love. This week’s guest author is medievalist Grace Hamman. She and Jessica Hooten Wilson discuss the work of Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich....
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 32 | Lit Pulpit 2 on The Search
The search — what is it and why does it matter? Claude and Austin tackle this important theme from Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer. Whether you are reading along with us or simply want to know more about...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 33 | S. D. Smith on Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan...
Alan Paton’s novel is widely regarded as a source of hope and endurance amid pain and significant suffering. As The Scandal of Reading continues season 3’s theme about the Fruits of the Spirit, Claude...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 34 | Daniel Nayeri on Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Guest Daniel Nayeri joins Jessica to talk about their shared love for Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. In the discussion, a theory is posited that as we move towards a more and more visual culture...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 35 | Lit Pulpit – The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
In the final episode for this season’s spin-off series, Lit Pulpit, hosts Claude Atcho and Austin Carty discuss Walker Percy’s award-winning novel, The Moviegoer. Written in 1961, Percy’s book is from...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 36 | Winn Collier on Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow
Winn Collier joins Austin to discuss the work of American novelist and poet Wendell Berry. Within the fictional town of Port William, the pair discuss the power of incarnation and the sense of time...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Reading 37 | Tiffany Kriner on Louise Erdrich’s LaRose
Tiffany Kriner joins Claude Atcho in continuing the exploration of the fruits of the Spirit. This week’s selection of LaRose by Louise Erdrich focuses on Peace. The novel opens with a horrific...
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