Episode 24: 2025 Catch Up

In this episode we discuss a litany of films we watched to fill in the gaps of 2025 releases, full spoilers for all films discussed. Time Stamps: (5:49) Broken Church  (19:36) Star Trek Section 31  (26:07) Avatar: Fire and Ash  (33:21) Black Bag (38:28) Sovereign  (43:31) Eephus (49:58) Train Dreams (56:41) The Phoenician Scheme  (1:01:21) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar  (1:06:15) Ballad of a Small Player  (1:09:49) The Mastermind (1:13:48) Presence (1:17:37) Weapons (1:22:17) Hag (1:28:24) Novocaine (1:32:42) Flight Risk (1:37:00) One of Them Days (1:42:53) Warfare (1:51:57) Caught by the Tides Works Cited: Avatar (And The Way of Water) Recap (Max Scoville, 2025) The Best of Times (Roger Spottiswoode, 1986) Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Turner Ross, Bill Ross IV, 2020) 'Broken Church' review by DoctorLizardBrain The Christmas Campaign (David DeCoteau, 2025) Crank (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, 2006) Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978) Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003) Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003) 'The Phoenician Scheme' review by Tristan 'Train Dreams' Is Afraid Of Its Own Shadow | Defector Saving Christmas (Darren Doane, 2014) 'Star Trek: Section 31' review by i_z [Brooks Otterlake]' 10 great early digital films | BFI (Sam Wigley, 2022) Email us at [email protected]! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict