Voiceover: Movies that Move Us

Awe & the Sublime

Why can a movie make you feel closer to God one minute and terrified of existence the next? From 2001: A Space Odyssey and Baraka to Nosferatu and Omaha, this episode exp

Jaws: Shared Terror

Why does Jaws still make people afraid to go in the water? And how did a broken mechanical shark help Steven Spielberg create one of cinema’s most enduring suspense films

Signs: Fate or Coincidence?

Signs was advertised as an alien invasion movie, but what if it's about something so much more? A pastor revisits M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 thriller and finds a story abo

Voiceover X Proofread

Why do we feel betrayed when a movie changes the book we love? And can a new adaptation reveal something the original story could not? Heather talks with Kacy Faulconer

Hidalgo

What if Hidalgo was never really about winning the Ocean of Fire? In this film commentary, Heather and Cindy Quinney revisit the 2004 Viggo Mortensen movie to unpack Fran

Catch Me if You Can: Searching for Fathers

Catch Me If You Can looks like a slick con-artist movie, but its real emotional engine is a kid trying to rebuild the family he lost. This conversation unpacks why Carl H

10 Commandments: Moving Stained Glass

What if The Ten Commandments isn't really the movie we remember it being? Seventy years later, Cecil B DeMille's biblical epic reveals something fascinating about old Hol

Heroism & Resilience of 9/11: An Interview with Michael Gier

What if the most important 9/11 stories are not the ones you already know? Michael Gier explains why his new 9/11 documentary looks beyond the attacks to the untold stori

Hit the Road: Exile & Goodbye

A chaotic family sings, jokes, and bickers across Iran—but the trip is hiding a goodbye none of them can face. Hit the Road turns a familiar family road movie into a deva

Dr. Strangelove

Dr Strangelove was supposed to make nuclear war look absurd. Decades later, one of its darkest inventions no longer looks like fiction. Nuclear disarmament activist Jim T

Hotel Rwanda: Constrained Choices

Chelsea Allen, a producer at Ninth Mode Media, revisits Hotel Rwanda with Heather, discussing how she's changed since she first saw the film as an idealistic high schoole

Spartacus: Vicious v Virtuous

Philosopher Barry Lam joins Heather for a chat about Spartacus (Kubrick, 1960). Spartacus is remembered as a massive Hollywood epic, but its most dangerous idea has lit

Red Turtle: Trapped by Beauty

Kelly Loosli, co-founder of the BYU Animation Program, discusses The Red Turtle (Dudok de Wit, 2017) and how it's a film with "spirit." The Red Turtle looks like a survi

Apollo 13: Career Day

Sarah Ruiz, aerospace engineer, describes how Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995) propelled her toward a career with NASA. Apollo 13 was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and won

Empire of the Sun: Fantasy & Erasure

Jenny Chan of Pacific Front Untold podcast joins Heather to discuss Asian representation--they focus their remarks on Empire of the Sun (Spielberg, 1987). Empire of the

The Hunger Games: Gen Z Canon

Two Gen Z all-stars join Heather to discuss whether the Hunger Games influenced them or not as young people. Claire and Cyrus were once members of the high school chess

Ikiru: Sustaining Change

Gareth Higgins, a Reconciliation scholar from Belfast, Ireland, talks to Heather about Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), a film about a city bureaucrat who decides to build

Bonus. Chief of War: Hawaiian Spirituality

Kawika Allen and Leone Saaga joined Heather for a bonus discussion about Chief of War (2024) and Hawaiian spirituality. Chief of War is a limited series created by Jaso

Rebecca: Twisted Fairy-Tale

Nina McConigley talks to Heather about her new novel How to Commit a Post-Colonial Murder (Pantheon, 2026) and how her feelings have changed about Alfred Hitchcock's Rebe

Bonus — Check Out These May/June Movies on BYUtv!

Heather chats about three films playing on BYUtv: It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The King's Speech, and Young Victoria. Hear a few things to look for in each o