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  • Philomena: Forgiving the Past

    Philomena: Forgiving the Past
    2025/07/14
    Producer Matthew Janzen shares Philomena, a film that challenges our perceptions of forgiveness and truth. Matthew Janzen is the Head of Film at ACE Entertainment, which produces Gen Z & Millenial feature films and tv series. Previously he was the Senior Vice President of Production & Development at Lionsgate.
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    47 分
  • The Wiz: Finding Courage

    The Wiz: Finding Courage
    2025/07/07
    Robert Monson shares why this 1978 musical still resonates today and explores its themes of spirituality, community, and empowerment. Robert Monson is a writer, musician, and scholar that looks closely at Black and womanist theologies as well as Black disability theology. He is currently a PhD student and is a host for two podcasts: Black Coffee and Theology and Three Black Men: Theology, Culture, and the World Around Us.
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    39 分
  • Bonus — Book of Clarence: Black Jesus at the Movies

    Bonus — Book of Clarence: Black Jesus at the Movies
    2025/06/30
    Multi-talent Danor Gerald joins Ian and me to work through Jeymes Samuel's 2024 Book of Clarence, a sword and sandal movie with an all-Black cast. What does this movie get right and why didn't it connect with Black audiences? Danor Gerald is an actor, director, writer, and producer, as well as the President of Monark Media, PC, and Chief Creative Officer at Brand One Media, llc. He also co-hosts and produces the award winning TV series "Roots, Race and Culture" for PBS Utah.
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    50 分
  • Bye Bye Tiberias: Mother & Daughters

    Bye Bye Tiberias: Mother & Daughters
    2025/06/23
    Cinema curator Marie-Laure Oscarson shares Bye Bye Tiberias (Lina Soualem, 2023) about the relationship of mother and daughter against the backdrop of war, displacement, exile, and autonomy. Marie-Laure Julien Oscarson is a native of France who has been living in Utah the last couple decades. She has always been a film enthusiast. She remembers learning English watching classic American films on TV. Marie-Laure graduated from Brigham Young University with an MA and wrote her thesis on Franco-Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors Trilogy. For the last ten years she has worked as the assistant director and curator for BYU’s International Cinema, a university cinematheque that programs about 90 films per year for the BYU community. Most days you can find her hiking in the mountains, and she has never lost her love of world cinema.
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    39 分
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild: Authentic Childhood

    Beasts of the Southern Wild: Authentic Childhood
    2025/06/16
    Educator Evan Martin-Casler dives deep on childhood in the movies with a discussion of Ben Zeitlin's 2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild, a handmade movie that resulted in an Oscar nomination for six-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis. Stay tuned for more coming-of-age movie recs at the end! Evan Martin-Casler is teaching faculty at the University of Arizona and holds an MA from Tufts University in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Leadership.
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    33 分
  • A Room with a View: Falling In Love

    A Room with a View: Falling In Love
    2025/06/09
    Lisa Valentine Clark shares the romance A Room with A View.
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    45 分
  • Bonus — Conclave: Catholic Representation

    Bonus — Conclave: Catholic Representation
    2025/06/02
    Justin Petrisek of Notre Dame joins Ian and Heather to work through Edward Berger's 2024 Conclave, and how the film portrays Catholics, the papacy, and spiritual life.
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    53 分
  • Dune 2: The Forks in the Road

    Dune 2: The Forks in the Road
    2025/05/26
    Heather teams up with In Good Faith host (and her boss!) Steven Kapp Perry for an examination of Denis Villeneuve's 2024 Dune 2.
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    40 分