Seeing And Believing With Wade Bearden & Kevin Mclenithan

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 and Wade had with Josh Larsen (Think Christian, Filmspotting, Fear Not!) in the earliest days of the podcast. This is our final weekly podcast episode. Thank you for listening. We're not packing up our critical gear entirely: Seeing & Believing is now a newsletter. Keep the conversation going by giving us a follow on Substack or Letterboxd. Watch Skhizein! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 third installment playing and directing a Hercule Poirot mystery. For the Watchlist, Kevin chooses Robert Altman's 2001 murder mystery of manners, Gosford Park. Episode 400 will be our final weekly podcast episode before we transform Seeing & Believing into a Substack. If you have any thoughts about the show, we'd love to hear them. Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc at gmail dot com, or follow us on Letterboxd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. For the Watchlist, Sarah introduces Kevin to Howard Hawks's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. We're launching a Seeing and Believing Substack! Subscribe HERE!. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com. Follow us on Letterboxd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Devil's Backbone. We're launching a Seeing and Believing Substack! Subscribe Here! Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 teens who live under a vaguely benevolent alien occupation that's drained the planet of its jobs and resources. For the Watchlist, Sarah and Kevin talk about another story that has to do with finding love in a hopeless economy: Charlie Chaplin's 1936 film Modern Times. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 of "danger on a boat" with his choice of Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 film Das Boot. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Howl's Moving Castle. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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, Teyonah Parris, and Jamie Foxx as a trio investigating strange goings-on in their neighborhood. For the Watchlist, Kevin introduces Sarah to one of his favorite horror movies, Eyes Without a Face. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Then, they take on a listener Patreon pick by reviewing the 2022 Irish Best International Feature Oscar nominee, The Quiet Girl. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 having an existential crisis. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com. 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 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 Watchlist, Kevin and Sarah square off over differing interpretations of Satoshi Kon's dreamlike movie Paprika. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com. 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 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 discuss Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film The Last Picture Show. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 juxtaposes lonely humans against an even lonelier universe as they try to make a connection with the unknown. For the Watchlist, Kevin introduces Sarah to the Steven Spielberg adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel of the same name, War of the Worlds. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email at seeingandbelievingcapc@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 to examine their latest release, Elemental, to see if it holds up against the rest of Pixar's offerning. Then, Sarah introduces Kevin to Kelly Fremon Craig's directorial debut, The Edge of Seventeen, starring Hailee Steinfeld. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 movies. Then, Kevin picks Jeremy Saulnier's much more serious film Green Room, about a punk band fighting for their lives, for the Watchlist segment. 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

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, Sarah introduces Kevin to the Merchant/Ivory adaptation of Edith Wharton's A Room with a View. 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

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: Across the Spider-Verse can live up to the promise of the original. Then, Kevin and Sarah take on Paul Verhoeven's satire, RoboCop. 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

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 Schrader's trilogy, Master Gardener? Then, Sarah introduces Kevin to Elaine May's work via her Watchlist pick, Mikey and Nicky. 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

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 thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 1947 for the watch list segment to discuss Jacques Tourneur's film noir classic, Out of the Past. All this, plus listener feedback in episode 382. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices