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Episode 93: Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning

  🎙️ Mindframe(s) Podcast – Episode 93 Mission: Impossible: Final Reckoning (and Franchise Retrospective) 🎬 Film Details Title: Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning Director: Christopher McQuarrie Writers: Christopher…

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The Shrouds

Certain directors always merit consideration. Certainly, belonging to this list would be David Cronenberg, who, despite his quirks, never makes an uninteresting film. This year’s entry in Cronenberg’s catalog is “The Shrouds,” a rumination on the intersection of technology and death. In what seems to be the near future or perhaps the present day, Karsh…

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Episode 92: Sinners

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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Episode 89: Mickey 17

🎙️ 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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Episode 91 – Warfare

🎙️ 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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Episode 90 – Death of a Unicorn

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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Episode 88 – The Monkey

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 Langauge

“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 87: Companion

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

“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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