Seeing and Believing with Wade Bearden & Kevin McLenithan show

Seeing and Believing with Wade Bearden & Kevin McLenithan

Summary: Wade Bearden & Kevin Mclennithan search for the sacred on screen each week by reviewing the both the mainstream and indie film scene with the occasional special guest.

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 Seeing and Believing 165: A Retro Review of The Dark Knight and Our Top 5 Films of 2008 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

This summer marked the ten-year anniversary Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. Does it still hold up? The guys then list their Top 2008 Films.

 Seeing and Believing 164: Carlos Lopez Estrada’s Blindspotting and Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s The Endless | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Wade and Kevin have gentrification on the mind this week, as they review two films about unwelcome new arrivals in the neighborhood: Carlos Lopez Estrada's Blindspotting, a drama about race and indie sci-fi/thriller The Endless, the new neighbor is an otherworldly force revered by a backwoods cult.

 Seeing and Believing 163: Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Wade and Kevin review the latest Mission: Impossible film (alternate title: See Tom Run) and the latest indie darling from studio A24, Eighth Grade. Thrills and chills abound!

 Seeing and Believing 162: Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 2 and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Both movies this week involve a measure of mayhem, but the two directors' personal approaches to their stories couldn't be more different: The Equalizer 2 and The Third Murder.

 Seeing and Believing 161: Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Wade and Kevin get lost in the woods for their first film this week: Leave No Trace, Debra Granik's long-awaited follow-up to Winter's Bone. Then things take a turn for the weird as the guys jump into Boots Riley satire of capitalism and racism run amok, Sorry to Bother You.

 Seeing and Believing 160: Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp and Tim Wardle’s Three Identical Strangers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The guys review a very big movie about a very tiny pair of heroes this week with the Marvel offering for July, Ant-Man and the Wasp. Also on the docket is another unusual story: a documentary about a set of triplets, separated at birth, who come to find one another later in life. Hijinks may or may not ensue.

 Seeing and Believing 159: Stefano Sollima’s Sicario: Day of the Soldado and Our Cinematic Gateway Drugs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The release of Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the sequel to Denis Villeneuve's acclaimed 2015 thriller about the U.S.-Mexico drug war, has the guys thinking about the gateway drugs that got them into movies in the first place.

 Seeing and Believing 158: J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Gary Ross’s Ocean’s 8 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Wade and Kevin decide to investigate whether Jurassic Word: Fallen Kingdom is a worthy successor to its ancestors. Then they decide to spend some time with some smooth criminals in the star-studded Ocean's 8, in which Sandra Bullock leads a squad of thieves in - what else? - a daring heist.

 Seeing and Believing 157: Brad Bird’s The Incredibles 2 and Morgan Neville’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The guys tackle two family-friendly flicks on this week's episode, as they review Brad Bird's fourteen-years-in-the-making sequel to Pixar's superhero smash The Incredibles 2.A fond return to Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood is on the itinerary as well as Wade and Kevin discuss Won't You Be My Neighbor?

 Seeing and Believing 156: Paul Schrader’s First Reformed and Ari Aster’s Hereditary | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Spiritual warfare can take many forms, as shown by the two films on this week's episode. First up is Wade and Kevin's most anticipated film of the summer, First Reformed, followed by A24's latest foray into horror: Ari Aster's Hereditary.

 Seeing and Believing 155: Netflix’s Wild Wild Country and Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Netflix's new documentary miniseries Wild Wild Country tries to get to the bottom of a 1980s dispute between a religious commune and the Oregon community next door. Also the Nick Offerman-starring Hearts Beat Loud, a feel-good indie movie about a dad trying to get the band back together with his college-bound daughter.

 Seeing and Believing 154: Bart Layton’s American Animals and Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke’s Cargo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The guys take it down a notch after the blockbusters of last week. First they review American Animals, director Bart Layton's follow-up to The Impostor.

 Seeing and Believing 153: Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story and David Leitch’s Deadpool 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Scoundrels everywhere can rejoice as Wade and Kevin tackle Solo: A Star Wars Story, the new Han Solo prequel from Disney, and amoral scoundrels everywhere can rejoice (possibly) over their review of the sequel to 2016's R-rated breakout smash about the Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool 2.

 Seeing and Believing 152: A James Stewart Retrospective and a Patreon Launch! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

It's James Stewart's 110th birthday this year, which gives Wade and Kevin the excuse to look back over his career and recount their top 5 Stewart moments. Listen, enjoy, and don't forget to share your own favorite performances from Stewart with us.

 Seeing and Believing 151: Summer Movie Preview & Agnes Varda and JR’s Faces Places | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The weather is warm and the skies are clear, so Wade and Kevin break out the sunscreen and beach umbrellas for their summer-movie preview. Then they round things off with a short review of last year's contender for a documentary Oscar, Faces Places.

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