Absolutely! Here’s the same set of show notes with chapter timestamps added to guide listeners through the episode: 🎙️ Mindframes – Episode 92 “Sinners (2025): Vampires, Blues, and the Power of Community” In this episode, Michael and…
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🎙️ Mindframes Episode 89: Mickey 17 “Clone Wars, Class Wars, and Saucy Politics in Space” In this episode, Dave Canfield and Michael Cockerill dive into Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho’s long-anticipated follow-up to Parasite. Set on a frozen alien…
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🎙️ Mindframes Podcast – Episode 91: Warfare 🎧 Hosts: Michael Cockerill & Dave Canfield 🎬 Film: Warfare (2025), dir. Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza 📍 Location: Music Box Theatre, Chicago ⏱️ Timestamps & Segment Summaries:…
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Sure! Based on the transcript from Mindframes Episode 90 – “Death of a Unicorn”, here are listener-friendly notes: Episode 90: Death of a Unicorn A Mindframes Film Conversation Guests: 🎙️ (Chicago film critic) 🎬 Basic Info Film:…
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Mindframes – Episode 88: The Monkey (2025) 🎙️ A sometimes half-assed but always wholehearted film conversation. 🔹 Hosts: Michael Cockerill & Dave Canfield 🔹 Episode Runtime: Approx. 56 minutes 🔹 Film…
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“Universal Language” is the second feature film from experimental Candian director Mathew Rankin. Rankin’s previous film, “The Twentieth Century” (2019), holds a special place in my heart and is often my go-to litmus test for people’s tolerance of weirdness. It is not that “The Twentieth Century” is only weird; it just happens to be expressive,…
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Episode Summary In this episode, Dave and Michael discuss Companion, the directorial debut from Drew Hancock. A mix of science fiction, dark comedy, and thriller, Companion follows Iris, a robot companion, as she navigates power…
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“I’m Still Here” (“Ainda Estou Aqui” in the original Portuguese) surprised some by being included in the Academy Awards nominations for Best Motion Picture, but perhaps no one who had seen it. This Brazilian film is set primarily in that country’s authoritarian military regime, expressly, what is considered just about the height of that regime’s…
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Mindframes: The Presence – A Steven Soderbergh Experiment Episode Summary: In this episode of Mindframes, Michael and Dave are joined by special guest Tarek Fayoumi (MoviesWithTarek.com, Chicago Indie Critics) to dissect Steven…
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I suspect that when Ali Abbasi pitched “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump’s fate was still in the air. Whether the makers of this film and its distributors knew that the Donald would come shrieking back to prominence and dominance, but as the film became available (first in theaters and later in streaming) was undoubtedly a factor…
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