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📽️ Monthly film podcast. We are a chaplain, a deconstructed millennial & an anarchochristian GenXer somewhere to the left of the post-evangelical wilderness. Film reviews & movie essays going back to 2015 at cinemafaith.com

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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 01/10/2026
THE INVITE is entertaining and expertly made, but it also contains profound insight on the ups and downs of modern-day relationships. #FilmSky cinemafaith.com/podcasts/the...
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'The Invite' Is A Relatable And Insightful Look At Relationships
Anyone who's ever been in a long-term relationship will find something to appreciate in The Invite. The dialogue is eerily relatable. We've had these fights. We've said these things. This is Olivia Wi...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 02/09/2026
THE ODYSSEY is the ultimate summer escape movie. But with Christopher Nolan at the helm, it's also so much more. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/the... #FilmSky
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'The Odyssey' Is A True Epic Worthy Of The Big Screen
The Odyssey is still selling out IMAX screenings six weeks after its release. People are hungry for escape and they want that escape on the biggest screen possible. But Christopher Nolan has more on h...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 31/07/2026
DISCLOSURE DAY has its moments, but it's another subpar effort from a once-great filmmaker whose best days are behind him. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/dis... #FilmSky
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'Disclosure Day' Continues Spielberg's Modern Mediocrity
Steven Spielberg is one of the best filmmakers of all time. Jaws, E.T. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan are bona fide classics. But it's also true that...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 31/07/2026
DISCLOSURE DAY has its moments, but it's another subpar effort from a once-great filmmaker whose best days are behind him. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/dis... #FilmSky
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'Disclosure Day' Continues Spielberg's Modern Mediocrity
Steven Spielberg is one of the best filmmakers of all time. Jaws, E.T. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan are bona fide classics. But it's also true that...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 02/07/2026
There are many ways to interpret the fragmentation at the heart of BACKROOMS. But God is still the restorer of all that is broken. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/bac... #FilmSky
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God Is Redeeming All Of Our 'Backrooms'
When Kane Parsons was a teenager he posted videos to YouTube. A few years later he became the youngest director in A24 history. Welcome to the revolution taking Hollywood by storm.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 29/05/2026
Sam Raimi is back to his horror/comedy roots with SEND HELP. A timely look at how power can corrupt even those who are most deserving. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/sen... #FilmSky
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'Send Help' Shows The Danger Of Power In The Wrong Hands
Sam Raimi is best known for the Evil Dead franchise which established his signature dance between horror and comedy. Send Help is a welcome return to those roots. It's a thrill ride first and foremost...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 01/05/2026
At a time when we feel more divided than ever, PROJECT HAIL MARY reminds us that we're all in this together. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/pro... #FilmSky
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'Project Hail Mary' Is The Movie We Need Right Now
Christopher Miller and Phil Lord are best known for The Lego Movie. But they're also known for something more: making movies that appeal to everyone. That's a hard task, but it's exactly what we need ...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 01/04/2026
With the Oscars behind us, it's time to officially say goodbye to 2025. Join us as we discuss the best movies and performances of the year. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/goo... #FilmSky
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Goodbye 2025
The Oscars were on March 15 which means another year of film is officially over. Before moving on, Jon and Tim take a look back at all the highlights the year had to offer. They begin with the Oscars ...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 13/03/2026
The Oscars are March 15! Here are our final picks where we choose who should win for Best Director and Best Picture. cinemafaith.com/articles/osc... #FilmSky
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Oscars 2026 -- Who Should Win? (Part Four)
Welcome to part four of our Oscar picks! Remember, these aren't the movies that will win, these are the movies that should win. Here are our picks for Best Director and Best Picture.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 09/03/2026
The Oscars are March 15! Here's part three of our picks. Who deserves to win for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay? cinemafaith.com/articles/osc... #FilmSky
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Oscars 2026 -- Who Should Win? (Part Three)
Welcome to part three of our Oscar picks! Remember, these aren't the movies that will win, these are the movies that should win. Here are our picks for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screen...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 04/03/2026
The Oscars are March 15! Here's part two of our picks. Who deserves to win for Best Actress and Best Actor? cinemafaith.com/articles/osc... #FilmSky
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Oscars 2026 -- Who Should Win? (Part Two)
Welcome to part two of our Oscar picks! Remember, these aren't the movies that will win, these are the movies that should win. Here are our picks for Best Actress and Best Actor.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 22/02/2026
The Oscars are on March 15! Here's Part One of our picks for the big show across eight major categories. Which movies deserve the gold? cinemafaith.com/articles/osc... #FilmSky
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Oscars 2026 -- Who Should Win? (Part One)
Do the Oscars still matter? Ethan Hawke recently defended them on the Keep It! podcast. His argument was that the Oscars are important because they’re good for movies: “What’s great about the Oscars a...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 29/01/2026
SENTIMENTAL VALUE is a moving story about the healing power of art that also happens to be a work of great art. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/sen... #FilmSky
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'Sentimental Value' Deserves Every One Of Its Nine Oscar Noms
SENTIMENTAL VALUE is a moving story about the healing power of art that also happens to be a work of great art.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 31/12/2025
HAMNET isn't a traditional Shakespeare biopic and it's all the better for it. His art has never felt more alive or more relevant. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/ham... #FilmSky
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'Hamnet' Is Shakespeare As You've Never Seen Him Before
I've always hated Shakespeare with a passion. Why watch a play if you can't understand what the characters are saying? Hamnet changed that for good. Not only is the movie sure to be nominated in every...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 27/11/2025
Can a movie about sexual assault be redemptive? In the hands of writer/director Eva Victor, the answer is a resounding yes. #FilmSky cinemafaith.com/podcasts/sor...
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'Sorry, Baby' Is The Most Redemptive Movie Of The Year
There's always a movie that flies under the radar only to end up being one of the best of the year. Sorry, Baby claims the title for 2025. The film was released in June to little fanfare. The critics ...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 31/10/2025
Paul Thomas Anderson's latest movie shows us many ways to fight against injustice. Which of them most resembles the way of Jesus? cinemafaith.com/podcasts/one... #FilmSky
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How To Love Our Neighbor When It's 'One Battle After Another'
Paul Thomas Anderson may be the best director working today. His career as a writer/director transcends genre and convention with unique stories and characters every time he steps behind the lens. But...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 01/10/2025
The writer/director best known for 2000's REQUIEM FOR A DREAM makes his most accessible movie to date. Is it still worth watching? #FilmSky cinemafaith.com/podcasts/cau...
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'Caught Stealing' Is A Mainstream Pivot For Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky is best known as a writer/director of provocative films like Black Swan, Mother!, and Requiem for a Dream. Movies that are hard to watch and harder to forget. Caught Stealing is none ...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 29/08/2025
Taking place in 2020, Ari Aster's dark comedy EDDINGTON zooms in on the inflection point that led to our current state of discontent. #FilmSky cinemafaith.com/podcasts/edd...
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'Eddington' Holds A Magnifying Glass To A Divided Nation
2020 was a pivotal moment in American history. We disappeared into our homes and came out a divided nation. That's the backdrop for Eddington. Ari Aster, the writer/director best known for horror movi...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 01/08/2025
Is SUPERMAN political? Let's talk about it. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/sup... #FilmSky
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'Superman' Is Only Woke To Those Who Have Fallen Asleep
In an age of superhero gluttony, do we need another Superman? Yes! In fact, Superman has exactly what the Marvel Universe has been lacking lately: fun. And James Gunn is the perfect director for the j...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 01/07/2025
In this special live edition of the Cinema Faith podcast, Jon and Tim share a mic to discuss FRIENDSHIP... the movie and their own. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/fri...
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'Friendship' Is Hilarious And Uncomfortably Relatable
At the beginning of June, Jon drove up to visit Tim in Kansas City. They ate junk food, went kayaking, and watched a ton of movies — male friendship at its finest. They also recorded a live podcast fr...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 11/06/2025
It's only May but we're already starting our top ten list for 2025. One movie guaranteed to hold a spot is Ryan Coogler's SINNERS. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/sin... #FilmSky
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'Sinners' Is An Early Lock For Top Ten Movies Of 2025
Oscar season is six months away, but we've already seen one of the best films of 2025. And believe it or not... it's a vampire movie. The difference is these vampires are directed by Ryan Coogler.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 30/04/2025
Who does Jesus want us to be loyal to? That's the question up for debate in our first podcast of the 2025 movie season BLACK BAG. #FilmSky cinemafaith.com/podcasts/bla...
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'Black Bag' Is A Smart Spy Thriller About The Limits Of Loyalty
Welcome to our first podcast of the 2025 movie season! We're starting things off with a bang - a British spy thriller from genre master Steven Soderbergh.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 28/02/2025
Join us for the season finale of the Cinema Faith podcast as we discuss THE BRUTALIST and the truth it reveals for our current moment. #FilmSky cinemafaith.com/podcasts/the...
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'The Brutalist' Is An Immigrant Story For This Moment In Time
Join us for the season finale of the Cinema Faith podcast as we discuss THE BRUTALIST and the truth it reveals for our current moment.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 30/01/2025
Who is our neighbor? Writer/Director Sean Baker is back with another story about a sex worker and one of the best films of the year. cinemafaith.com/podcasts/ano... #FilmSky
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Sean Baker's Heart For The Marginalized Shines Again In 'Anora'
Every time Sean Baker makes a movie, it feels like an event. His 2017 film The Florida Project landed on numerous top 10 lists and earned Willem Dafoe an Oscar nomination. This year's Anora is no diff...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 23/01/2025
My favorite "new" podcast of 2024 (new to me) is hands down What Went Wrong hosted by Lizzie Bassett and Chris Winterbauer. It's like all the best bonus content from your favorite DVD but without the secret menu buttons. Film commentary, jokes and even tears. Subscribe! www.whatwentwrongpod.com
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 23/01/2025
Wonderful piece from @artwithin.bsky.social over at @TheRabbitRoom connecting INTERSTELLAR, A Christmas Carol, TS Eliot and incarnation. "The reality of love still provides an opportunity to redeem what was once thought to be forever broken." www.rabbitroom.com/post/a-chris...
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A Christmas Carol, Interstellar, and The Cosmic Redemption of Time
What do Christopher Nolan, Charles Dickens, and T. S. Eliot have in common?
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 16/01/2025
MERRICK I feel as if I've traveled my whole life just to stand here.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Pray (2022)
Pastor Skemte recites 2 Peter 2:12-14 to his youth group through a series of screeches and voice clicks
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 15/01/2025
Quick reminder: there are FOURTEEN "The Land Before Time" movies. That's XIV for those keeping count. Anyway just something to mull over as the Polar Vortex descends on the upper midwest.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Excited to learn how his life was forever changed when he was bitten by a radioactive loaf of bread
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 13/01/2025
The @nplusonemag.com top 25 films of the year list is just as wonderfully recondite as you might expect. Yes, MEGALOPOLIS is on there. Bless you, @hamrahrama.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Clamp Lights, Beige Cities | A. S. Hamrah
British movies these days—from good ones like The Old Oak to OK ones like Bird to wretched ones like Saltburn—present British people as ruthlessly mean to each other, petty, conniving, classist, vulga...
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 11/01/2025
Great interview with Brady Corbet at #TIFF24 about #TheBrutalist youtu.be/0-o2IR8MoFQ?... "[America, Religion, Art] these are not big ideas, they are the ONLY ideas. You got 250 people together and you made a movie about a break up?!? I struggle with [that] as a viewer... a lot."
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THE BRUTALIST Q&A with Brady Corbet | TIFF 2024
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 10/01/2025
Nice little post about GLADIATOR 2 from #NewTestament scholar @nijaykgupta.bsky.social nijaykgupta.substack.com/p/the-roman-... His final word on the matter: "Watch the film, enjoy it for entertainment, and don’t be a history snob."
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The Roman World of "Gladiator 2" (The Movie)
A NT Scholar Discusses "Gladiator 2"
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 03/01/2025
Watched a lot of Jane Austen adaptations with my wife over the holiday break. The only question I kept asking was "Why is there no Austen-verse?" All of these stories and characters should have been connected. Missed opportunity, Jane.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 20/12/2024
When art is the goal, truth will follow. CONCLAVE is one of the best films of the year and a model for what Christian art should be. #FilmSky cinemafaith.com/podcasts/con...
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'Conclave' Is What Christian Films Should Be
Conclave is what awards season is all about. A prestigious cast at the top of their game with an acclaimed director firing on all cylinders. Edward Berger's last film, All Quiet on the Western Front, ...
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Tom Peyer @tompeyer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Krypto wins an Oscar. Panel by Jerry Siegel and George Papp, Adventure Comics #272, 1960
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 19/12/2024
Finally SING SING is number one on a list. Moving and powerful ... no: True, beautiful and good. This is human flourishing amongst the principalities and powers. Cannot wait for this film to get a wider audience on streaming & at awards time. #BFCC deadline.com/2024/12/blac...
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Black Film Critics Circle Names ‘Sing Sing’ Best Film; Cynthia Erivo & Colman Domingo Among Winners – Full List
Black Film Critics Circle named 'Sing Sing' best film of 2024, and its Colman Domingo took Best Actor. Cynthia Erivo won Best Actress for 'Wicked' -- full list.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 19/12/2024
Speaking of Mary, @faithfullymagazine has a review up about the new Netflix film. Looks like another dialed-to-eleven, action-adventure drama about Jesus' mom! Enjoy it over the holidays with your favorite bourbon. faithfullymagazine.com/review-netfl...
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'Mary' Movie on Netflix Is a Reverent Disappointment (Review)
Despite the film’s reverence and its strong elements, most of the "Mary" movie on Netflix is simultaneously overstuffed and underdeveloped.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 18/12/2024
Happy Birthday to Steven Spielberg (with some other guy), from the set of his greatest film, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)🐵🧠
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 17/12/2024
We've got another "10 best", this time from @theatlantic.com's David Sims. Spoilers his #1 is also NICKEL BOYS. (Sidebar I absolutely love the animated illustration for the article. Well done Joanne Joo.) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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The 10 Best Movies of 2024
Another year of existential crisis for Hollywood, and an excellent year for cinema itself
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 13/12/2024
Pasolini's Mary from the GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST MATTHEW. "I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit bourgeois. I want to re-consecrate things as much as possible." Happy Christmas! 🎄
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
So, if a movie is not set on a submarine, my first question is why not? Do they have a good reason to set it anywhere else? They usually do not.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 12/12/2024
Esau McCaulley interviews NYT critic @alissawilkinson.bsky.social with a few of her top film picks of 2024. Her #1 is the Colson Whitehead adaptation NICKEL BOYS which opens Dec 13. Listen to Esau's podcast here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsa4...
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Best Movies of 2024 with NY Times Film Critic Alissa Wilkinson
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 06/12/2024
Surprising colon stats coming your way today! www.statsignificant.com/p/are-movie-... Movie titles: are they getting out of hand?
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 05/12/2024
Ok. With the holidays approaching, why not revisit HOLIDAY (1938) starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn? cinemafaith.com/reviews/holi... Writer Bree Parman uncovers themes of oppression, anti-capitalism, and queer family. Happy Holidays! 🎄
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'Holiday' Dares To Imagine Something More
In the 15 minutes of Googling I did about home renovation, the best advice I found was from Steve Watson. “You bought [your home] for a reason, because you liked that style. So keep your new design, y...
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
this attitude is the antidote to our plot hole-obsessed, cinemasins-poisoned discourse around movies. movies are not a video game boss for you to beat. they are not a race between you and the plot to see who can figure it out first. they are light, space, tone, color, music, acting and, yes, script.
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 05/12/2024
Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are Muppets. @thejoedante.bsky.social's THE BURBS Bruce Dern "I was eighteen months in the bush and I could snap your neck in a heartbeat." Maybe my favorite comedy of all time. 💖
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Cinema Faith 📽️ @cinemafaith.com · 04/12/2024
Weird films from around the world. Animation, genre, experimental, documentaries. Hand-picked from the weirdos at Eternal Family eternal.tv/categories/s... Weird.
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