Cinema Faith

  Welcome to the season finale of the Cinema Faith podcast! 2024 was an incredible year for film and we’re ending it by discussing a movie up for 10 Oscar...

  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....

  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...

  Joker was the surprise hit of 2019. Not only did it crush the box office, it was released to critical acclaim and 11 Oscar nominations. Needless to say, expectations were...

  If you were told the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now has been working on a sci-fi epic for the last 40 years and invested $120 million of his own money...

  Oscar season is months away, but we may have already seen the best movie of 2024. I Saw the TV Glow is a haunting tour de force from writer/director...

  The marketing campaign for Longlegs was perfection. Glowing early reviews, a knockout trailer, and glimpses of Nicolas Cage in the title role as a demonic serial killer. The movie… was not....

  Ah summer. The time for dumb, big-budget action movies that explode on a movie theater near you. Unless you’re Richard Linklater. Linklater’s Hit Man contains all the fun of the season...

  June is the month where we break from the normal format of the Cinema Faith podcast and deliver something different. This year, Cinema Faith founder Jonathan Butrin talks directly...

  Releasing Civil War in an election year could have been irresponsible, but Alex Garland knows better. The writer/director, best known for Ex Machina, has crafted a sober warning to America. Is anyone still...