Seeing and Believing

Every week, Kevin McLenithan and Sarah Welch-Larson search for the sacred on screen as they review the latest films and television shows.

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Episode 232 | The Best Films of 2019!
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Episode 231 | Little Women and Uncut Gems
75 min
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Episode 230 | J.J. Abram's "Star Wars IX: The R...
77 min
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Episode 229 | Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life a...
79 min
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Episode 228 | Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman an...
74 min
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Episode 227 | Rian Johnson's Knives Out and Chr...
65 min
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Episode 226 | Marielle Heller's A Beautiful Day...
71 min
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Episode 225 | Doctor Sleep and Light From Light
It's not Halloween anymore, but Seeing and Believing experiences a pair of hauntings all the same with the two films this week. First up is the Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep, a sequel to The Shining in which a grown-up Danny Torrance must...
67 min
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Episode 224 | Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit and R...
Seeing & Believing wades into some deep waters with today's pairing of films. Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, set in Nazi Germany, is about a young boy who's a member of the Hitler Youth and has an imaginary friendship with Adolf Hitler. He faces...
61 min
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Episode 219 | Judy and The Peanut Butter Falcon
Whether you like biopics of golden-age Hollywood stars or picaresque tales about people pursuing their pro-wrestling ambitions, Seeing & Believing's got you covered in this episode. Renee Zellweger makes her bid for an Oscar this year with her...
58 min
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Episode 217 | John Crowley's The Goldfinch and ...
Seeing & Believing begins the transition into awards season with this week's episode. The guys review John Crowley's latest literary adaptation, this time of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning The Goldfinch. They also offer a glimpse of their...
76 min
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Episode 216 | Andrés Muschietti's IT Chapter Tw...
With Kevin out this week, Wade is joined by Grindhouse Theology's Blake Collier to discuss "IT Chapter Two." "IT Chapter Two" picks up 27 years after 2017's "IT," bringing the now grown up cast (which features Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill...
64 min
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Episode 215 | 'Ready or Not' and 'The Last Blac...
With Kevin out this week, Wade is joined by film critic Sarah Welch-Larson to discuss 'Ready or Not, the new horror-comedy from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. The film's synopsis is pretty straightforward: on her wedding night, a young bride...
48 min
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Episode 214 | Blinded by the Light and Where’d ...
The music of the Boss figures prominently in this week's episode, as Wade and Kevin review Blinded by the Light, the latest film from the director of Bend It Like Beckham. Based on the memoir by Sarfraz Manzoor, Gurinder Chadha's new film centers on a...
71 min
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Episode 212 | The Farewell and The Souvenir
Seeing & Believing features something (slightly) old and something (very) new with the two semi-autobiographical films being reviewed on this episode. The guys take a look at Lulu Wang's quirky, touching The Farewell, a story about a family coming...
63 min
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Episode 211 | Once Upon a Time…. in Hollywood a...
Quentin Tarantino is back with another period piece, this time set in Hollywood during the closing days of the 1960s. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie lead a cast that retells the events surrounding the Manson murders of 1969,...
62 min
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Episode 210 | Jon Favreau’s The Lion King and T...
Join Wade and Kevin for an episode featuring the incredible heights that humankind is capable of achieving with technology! Witness the power of Disney to create all the wildlife of the savannah out of 1s and 0s in their remake of The Lion King!...
66 min
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Episode 209 | Netflix’s Stranger Things Season ...
Jump in the way-back machine with Wade and Kevin and travel back to Hawkins, Indiana, as they review the latest season of Netflix's hit original series Stranger Things. The Duffer brothers take a page out of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix's...
75 min
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Episode 207 | Jon Watts’s Spider-Man: Far from ...
With the threat of Thanos ended in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Peter Parker can go back to being a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man or can he? That's the question that comes up in the latest entry in the MCU: Spider-Man: Far from Home. Wade and...
74 min
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Episode 206 | Josh Cooley's 'Toy Story 4' and S...
'Seeing and Believing' goes to infinity and beyond this week with two much-anticipated reviews. First up is their take on 'Toy Story 4'. Directed by Josh Cooley—who makes his feature film debut with the project—the newest entry in Pixar’s...
84 min
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Episode 198 | Claire Denis’s High Life and Penn...
Wade is off for the week, so Kevin gets Dave Canfield of Screen Anarchy and Mindframe(s) to help him plumb the depths of two complex films: Claire Denis's sci-fi experiment High Life and Penny Lane's documentary about the Satanic Temple, Hail, Satan?...
78 min
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Episode 197 | Joe and Anthony Russo’s Avengers:...
It’s a moment eleven years in the making. Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame is here, resolving the events not only of Infinity War but also of the nearly two dozen Marvel films to have come out since 2008’s Iron Man. Wade and...
70 min
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Episode 196 | Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Kille...
Seeing and Believing takes a journey into a realm whose bounds are that of imagination in today's episode. Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is a movie more than two decades in the making, but it's finally out. With Adam Driver as a...
68 min
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Episode 194 | Tim Burton’s Dumbo and A Conversa...
Tune in this week to hear our interview with authors Kutter Callaway and Craig Detwiler about the book they co-authored with Robert K. Johnston: Deep Focus: Film and Theology in Dialogue. Kutter and Craig sit down with Wade to discuss the...
70 min
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Episode 192 | J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier an...
The guys lean into the rule of threes with this week's pair of films. First up is Triple Frontier, the first collaboration between director J.C. Chandor (All Is Lost), screenwriter Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty), and Netflix. Is this film's story of...
60 min