Movie Review

For this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart first discuss “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” Following that, however, Nathan regales everyone with thrilling tales of his 2025 Seattle International Film Festival shenanigans.

More than a simple blockbuster, “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is a plea for theatrical relevance, Dan Webster says.

Comedies can be hard to review. Either you laugh or you don’t. Nathan Weinbender says you’ll either roar with laughter or sit stone-faced during “Friendship,” starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a selection of movies—and the writer-directors who made them—that they’ve enjoyed over the years, and that they think our listeners might enjoy as well.

The Seattle International Film Festival wraps this week, and Nathan Weinbender recaps some of the notable titles in this year’s lineup.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart offer their thoughts on two great film talents who passed earlier this year, the visionary director David Lynch and the Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss three movies that tell stories involving death: David Cronenberg’s latest release “The Shrouds,” the Netflix crime saga “Havoc,” and the African streaming feature “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.”

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that are examples of pure entertainment—while, at the same time, offering up other qualities as well. Specifically “The Wedding Banquet,” writer-director Andrew Ahn’s remake of the 1993 Ang Lee film, and the streaming baseball feature “Eephus.”

The intriguingly titled “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is an African woman’s cry for the social justice that she deserves, Dan Webster says.

“Eephus” is an ode to the rituals of baseball, and a strange comedy about male friendship. Nathan Weinbender says the low-budget ensemble film is one of the small jewels of the year.