Kevin and Sarah sink their teeth into a pair of vampire movies. First up is Renfield, which is loosely based on characters from Bram Stoker's Dracula, and which features Nicolas Cage as the vampire. Then, Sarah introduces Kevin to one of her favorite movies, Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 vampire/Western film Near Dark. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about...

Kevin and Sarah take the opportunity to let their nerd flags fly as they review Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. They continue the swordplay with their Watchlist pick, the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do video games count as good art? That's what Kevin and Sarah want to know as they reviewTetris, a dramatization of the efforts to purchase the rights to distribute the game of the same name. Then, they review a Patreon pick, the Oscar-winning 1984 film Amadeus. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sarah and returning guest Abby Olcese find themselves reviewing not one but two adrenaline-soaked action movies this week. First, they take on John Wick: Chapter 4, the latest in the action/revenge franchise starring Keanu Reeves as a lone assassin against the rest of the world. For the Watchlist segment, Abby and Sarah discuss Walter Hill's 1979 film The Warriors, in which a gang must fight their way back across New York City to get safely to their home turf. Mikey Neumann's series about...

In this bonus episode, Sarah and Kevin sit down with Chris Staron of Truce Podcast to discuss Inherit the Wind, a 1960 drama about the Scopes Monkey Trial. This episode is part of the Truce Podcast's ongoing series about Christian fundamentalism. Click to find out more about the Truce Podcast Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices....

Sarah and Kevin find themselves in survival situations this week. First up is the new movie 65, starring Adam Driver as a space traveler who crash lands on Earth...in the time of dinosaurs. For the Watchlist segment, Kevin introduces Sarah to Robert Redford's solo outing as a desperate, resourceful sailor in the 2013 film All Is Lost. Kevin and Sarah also take a moment to share their thoughts about last weekend's Oscars. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us...

Kevin and Sarah spend this week contending with morality and the heavy questions of faith...which, to be honest, they do every week, but this time both movies they're reviewing are explicitly about religion. First up, they journey to the heart of Iceland in Hlynur Pálmason's new film Godland. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah and Kevin have a conversation about Éric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's. Sarah also delivers a special report on the state of the True/False film festival. Have thoughts...

Kevin and Sarah strap on their boxing gloves and go a few rounds with the latest Rocky sequel, Creed III. For the Watchlist segment, Kevin and Sarah discuss one of Kevin's favorite movies, Raging Bull, and the ways that it demonstrates Martin Scorsese's ability to make sophisticated religious films. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Music provided by...

Kevin and Sarah take on the latest MCU installment, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The movie is set to launch Phase 5 of the ambitious film franchise, but is it thinking too big? For the Watchlist segment, Sarah introduces Kevin to the 2014 sci-fi action movie Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise playing against type as a cowardly soldier trapped in a time loop during an alien invasion of Earth. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter...

It's raining men! Kevin and Sarah review Steven Soderbergh's latest movie, Magic Mike's Last Dance. Is it light on its feet, or does it land with a thud? For the Watchlist segment, Sarah and Kevin talk about Frank Perry's 1968 adaptation of John Cheever's short story The Swimmer, in which Burt Lancaster attempts to swim home, backyard pool by backyard pool, across an increasingly strange county. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at...

Kevin and Sarah confront the truth in all its forms. First, they take on a rare review of a TV show, the Rian Johnson howcatchem murder mystery starring Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face, about a woman on the run who solves murders with her ability to tell when anyone is lying. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah and Kevin discuss Drew Goddard's 2018 movie Bad Times at the El Royale, a movie concerned with the nature of truth and identity starring a murderer's row of excellent actors. Dave Courtney's...

In this bonus episode, Sarah and Kevin talk about the movies they're most interested in seeing in the coming year. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin and Sarah take on an apocalypse or two. First up, their review of M. Night Shyamalan's latest outing, Knock at the Cabin, about a family vacation gone wrong when four strangers appear on their doorstep, demanding that the family make a terrible choice in order to prevent the end of the world. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah and Kevin discuss Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols's intimate psychological drama about a man who dreams about the end of the world. Follow us on...

This week on the podcast: two movies about the cost of making art. Kevin and Sarah review Jafar Panahi's latest film No Bears, in which a lightly fictionalized version of Jafar Panahi retreats to a remote border village in order to direct a movie based in reality, with very real stakes. Then, Sarah introduces Kevin to her latest watchlist pick, Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, in which Roy Scheider plays a lightly fictionalized version of Bob Fosse at the height of his career…and perhaps the end of...

We're digging ourself out of the year-end lists and getting back into the swing of things for 2023 with a new release and a watchlist pick. This week, Kevin and Sarah pair their Watchlist review of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru with their review of its 2022 remake Living, written by Kazuo Ishiguro and starring Bill Nighy. Does the remake do justice to the original? Or is it simply populated with a lot of boxes that need to be checked? Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing &...

It's the triumphant return of Seeing & Believing! After taking careful notes, watching as many movies as we could, and tallying our favorites, we've assembled a list of our favorite films…as well as a few guest voices to help us along the way. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Read Sarah's essay about After Yang for Bright Wall/Dark Room Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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, Sarah and Kevin turn their attention to Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest, Broker. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 literary adaptations in Noah Baumach's filmed version of the Don DeLillo novel, White Noise. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 swoon over Park Chan-wook's romantic thriller Decision to Leave. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 The Fabelmans, which presents pieces of Spielberg's legacy alongside a loosely fictionalized version of his own life growing up. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah introduces Kevin to Jacques Demy's musical take on Hollywood with a French twist, The Young Girls of Rochefort. Follow us on...

This week, we give thanks for whodunnits. Sarah and Kevin assemble in the drawing room to get to the bottom of the mystery at the heart of Rian Johnson's new mystery, Glass Onion. Then, Kevin introduces Sarah to Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece High and Low. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sarah and Kevin report on Maria Schrader's film She Said, a dramatization of the investigative journalism by Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) that brought down Harvey Weinstein in 2017. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah introduces Kevin to Sandi Tan's 2018 Netflix documentary Shirkers, about the creation and loss of her 1992 student film of the same name. Both of this week's movies interrogate power imbalances and the places where women are made unwelcome in film;...

Kevin and Sarah test the limits of friendship in their review of The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh's movie about a friendship that suddenly vanishes. Sarah gives a capsule review of the latest Marvel movie, Ryan Coogler's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Finally, for the Watchlist segment, Kevin introduces Sarah to the 1991 comic book movie, The Rocketeer. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

In this bonus episode, Sarah and Kevin review the 2021 horror-drama movie Agnes, directed by Mickey Reece. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices