The Good, The True, and The Cinema

Ep. 9 - Godzilla Minus Zero and Our October Watchlist

Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero picks up two years after Godzilla Minus One. Koichi Shikishima, Noriko, and Akiko are trying to build a life in post-war Japan when

Ep. 8 - Fjord and a Palme d'Or Movie Draft

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord won this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes. It’s his second win, after 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days in 2007. Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan play a co

Ep. 7 - Wildwood and the Philadelphia Film Festival

It took Laika 1,155 days, 142,000 3D-printed faces and more than 715 miles of brass wire to build the woods outside Portland, Oregon, one frame at a time. The result is W

Ep. 6 - You Can See Everything and The Battle Over Narnia

Thirty-five days before Elizabeth Holmes reported to federal prison, she let Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into the rented house outside San Diego that she shared wi

Ep. 5 - The Social Reckoning and a Good, True, and Beautiful Review of The Tree of Life

A Facebook data scientist has the files to prove the company knew its algorithm was feeding outrage, and a Wall Street Journal reporter wants the story. Sixteen years aft

Ep. 4 - Digger and Our September Watchlist

It's the near future. Methane under a new Greenland drilling field ignites, and an ice shelf the size of Maryland breaks loose and drifts toward Norway. Oil magnate

Ep. 3 - Primetime plus a Good, True, and Beautiful Review of The Princess Bride

It's 2006. Post-9/11 America is hungry to see justice served, and Jeff Zucker hands To Catch a Predator the 9 p.m. slot. Lance Oppenheim's Prime Time follows Ch

Ep. 2 - The Weight plus a Good, True, and Beautiful Review of Casablanca

Eugene, Oregon, 1933. The Great Depression is four years old, a widowed veteran has lost his home and his daughter, and a warden offers him a way out: six days on foot th

Ep. 1 - The Uprising and Our Favorite Movies of the Summer

England, 1381. The Black Death has taken half the population, a boy king is tormented by dreams of demons, and the council decides the peasants will pay. Paul Greengrass&

The Good, The True, and The Cinema

This is The Good, The True, and The Cinema, a film podcast in pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful. Join Joshua Johnson, cultural critic and host of Shifting