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The Cinematic Schematic
The Cinematic Schematic is a podcast dedicated to thoughtful, analysis-driven conversations on genre, independent and classic films from thecinematropolis.com. Hosted by Caleb Masters, Laron Chapman, and a rotating cast of filmmakers, critics, and special guests, this podcast takes you through some of the most prominent themes and conversations occurring in cinema each month.
Episodes
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review
It's time to pick up your pipe and magnifying glass because, in this episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’re going beyond the donut's donut hole and into the…
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – The Cinematic Schematic Review
In August 2020, we mourned the unexpected passing of the wildly talented and now iconic Chadwick Boseman. His quiet struggle with colon cancer had taken not…
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Halloween Ends – The Cinematic Schematic Review
But the truth is, evil doesn’t die. It changes shape. Laurie Strode Lock your doors, check the candy, and prepare to feel the fear of studio executive boogymen…
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2022 Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween – The Cinematic Schematic
The Cinematic Schematic celebrates this year’s spooky movie season by looking back at the 2022 horror films you should consider watching before all hallows’…
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BONUS – The Cast Beyond the Wall Reviews “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Series Premiere
The Lord of the Rings fans celebrate! Today we’re sharing a special bonus episode of our host Caleb Masters’s House of the Dragon podcast, The Cast Beyond the…
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August 2022 Movie Review Round-Up – The Cinematic Schematic
The Cinematic Schematic podcast is back to put a pin in this summer’s movie season with an August 2022 movie review round-up that includes a look at Prey…
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How Prey Sets a New Standard for Indigenous Representation With Producer Jhane Myers and Sunrise Tippeconnie – The Cinematic Schematic
It’s been thirty-five years since Arnold lathered himself in mud and shouted the now iconic internet meme, “Get to the chopper,” in Predator, and against all…
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Nope – The Cinematic Schematic Review
In today’s episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’re saddling up to wrangle an unidentified flying piece of discourse consuming every inch of the internet in…
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Thor: Love and Thunder – The Cinematic Schematic Review
The Cinematic Schematic returns this week on a mission to kill god…the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most beloved god, Thor Odinson, in our review of Thor: Love…
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Lightyear – The Cinematic Schematic Review
Attention listeners, it appears we have landed on a strange movie in a bonus review of Lightyear, the movie that’s said to have inspired Andy’s love for the…
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The Black Phone – The Cinematic Schematic Review
When news broke director Scott Derrickson was leaving Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2020 due to creative differences, the moviegoing internet…
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Jurassic World: Dominion – The Cinematic Schematic Review
…Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should. Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park When looking back on…
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The Cinematropolis deadCenter 2022 Recap
After more than 140 films screened, ten filmmaker podcast interviews, and more than a dozen written essays, The Cinematropolis deadCenter 2022 coverage comes…
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Furloughed Film Talks Returns to deadCenter – dCFF22
One of the unexpected outcomes of the pandemic was the way people quickly connected across the globe via the internet. Through those remote connections…
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Butterfly in the Sky Celebrates the Love of Reading Books – dCFF22
‘A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,’ said Jojen. ‘The man who never reads lives only one.’ – George RR Martin, A Dance with Dragons (2011) The…
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Getting It Back: The Cymande Story Jumpstarts the Return of the Influential Band – dCFF22
Like the dove that represents their spirit, the Cymande story soars once again, this time in OKC. The 2022 deadCenter Film Festival is the home of many…
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Chicken House Brings Autobiographical Comedy To Life – dCFF22
The 2022 deadCenter Film Festival is the home to a wide variety of Okie Features from multitalented filmmakers like Cate Jones. In 2020, Jones made her…
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Introducing Mickey Reece’s UndeadCenter “Midnight Movies” Programming – dCFF22
Today marks the first day of the deadCenter 2022 Film Festival and a return to fully in-person festivities after two years of hybrid events. Not only is…
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Mama Bears Makes the Case for Empathy Toward LGBTQ Communities – dCFF22
Today we continue our exclusive deadCenter 2022 coverage with a look at this year’s deadCenter opening night film from director Daresha Kyi, Mama Bears. Kyi…
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The Seeds of Greenwood Tells Inspiring Stories of Fellows Program – dCFF22
How do you raise a new generation to overcome more than a hundred years of setbacks? The Cinematic Schematic continues our exclusive deadCenter 2022 coverage…
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Out of Exile Brings the Big Screen Crime Thrills to deadCenter – dCFF22
Bank heists. Family character drama. Twisted morality. If you like to see any of these elements at the movies, writer/director Kyle Kauwika Harris’s new film…
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The Battle of Honey Springs is deadCenter’s Historical War Movie – dCFF22
In this exclusive deadCenter 2022 interview, we sit down with writer/director Bryan Beasley to discuss his new film and the festival’s war movie this year, The…
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The Official 2022 deadCenter Film Festival Sneak Peek
Today kicks off our exclusive coverage of the 2022 deadCenter Film Festival! To help listeners prepare for what to expect, The Cinematic Schematic is joined by…
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The Northman – The Cinematic Schematic Review
Following his one-two punch in elevated psychological horror with The Witch(2016) and The Lighthouse(2019), up-and-coming indie auteur Robert Eggers is back…
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Everything Everywhere All At Once – The Cinematic Schematic Review
In today’s episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we dive deep into The Daniels (that’s Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) wildly ambitious multiverse(move over Dr…
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Oscar Predictions 2022 for The 94th Academy Awards – The Cinematic Schematic
In the newest episode of The Cinematic Schematic, hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman return to continue the annual Oscar predictions episode for our fourth…
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The Batman – The Cinematic Schematic Review
“This isn’t the podcast you deserve, but it is the one you need right now.” – Alfred Pennyworth in some modern iteration of Batman, probably. The Cinematic…
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Scream(2022) – The Cinematic Schematic Review
Hello Sidney…we’re home. In this episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’re rejoined by recurring guests Laron Chapman, Zachary Burns, and Brock Lay to follow…
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Scream Series (1-4) Retrospective – The Cinematic Schematic
What’s your favorite scary movie podcast? The Cinematic Schematic is back for our first episode of the year to look back at Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s…
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The Matrix Resurrections – The Cinematic Schematic Review
The Cinematic Schematic is back to follow the white rabbit and see how close to the line between fiction and reality we can go in our review of The Matrix…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home – The Cinematic Schematic Review
Look out wallcrawler fans! Today, The Cinematic Schematic will web-sling through the multiverse and into a review conversation covering this year’s biggest…
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Nightmare Alley – The Cinematic Schematic Review
Step right up to The Cinematic Schematic! Is it more cinema or unruly beast? In this week’s episode, we’re rejoined by The Cinematropolis contributor, Daniel…
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The Matrix Trilogy Retrospective – The Cinematic Schematic
Eighteen years after the release of the last film in The Matrix franchise, we are just a week away from the unexpected series return with the fourth entry, The…
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November 2021 Movie Review Round-Up – The Cinematic Schematic
Before beginning the final stretch into the holiday season, The Cinematic Schematic is taking a moment to be thankful for all of the movies that came out this…
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Introducing HELL HATH NO FURY, a Dark Comedy about a Murderous Relationship
Planet Thunder Productions is at it again! On today’s special edition of The Cinematic Schematic, Jacob and Zachary Burns rejoin the show to discuss the Indie…
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The French Dispatch – The Cinematic Schematic Review
It’s time to step back into the old Wes Andersonian time machine to explore a fondly remembered era for journalists and print magazines. In today’s episode of…
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Dune – The Cinematic Schematic Review
The Cinematic Schematic returns after a short hiatus to wrangle the Shai-Hulud sandworms in our review of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part 1. The podcast can’t…
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The Suicide Squad – The Cinematic Schematic Review
In this week’s episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we take another trip into the DC Extended Universe(DCEU) to provide our spoiler-free review of THE Suicide…
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The Green Knight – The Cinematic Schematic Review
Rest your bones, listeners. Today, The Cinematic Schematic accepts a quest from a powerful and mysterious presence (also known as A24), to review and discuss…
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F9: The Fast Saga – The Cinematic Schematic Review
The Cinematic Schematic is back to our normally scheduled programming with a review of “the first film in the trilogy that will conclude the Fast and Furious…
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Between Waves Tells a Personal Story Through Interdimensional Travel – dCFF21
It’s the final day of deadCenter 2021 and we couldn’t close out the festival without a talk about a film in one of our favorite genres, sci-fi. Longtime…
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“Sardis” Sheds Light on Buried Oklahoma Stories – dCFF21
As the deadCenter 2021 Film Festival begins to wind down, we’re highlighting some of our favorite gems from this year’s schedule. Among the huge array of short…
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Furloughed Film Talks at deadCenter – dCFF21
The deadCenter Film Festival is hosted here in the heart of Oklahoma, but thanks to last year’s virtual cinema that was launched as part of the festival’s…
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deadCenter 2021 Keynote #1 – What Makes Oklahoma a Great Place to Make Movies in 2021?
Between out-of-state projects like the Killers of the Flower Moon, Minari, Reagan, Reservation Dogs, and Stillwater, and homegrown projects like Mickey Reece’s…
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Alien on Stage Is a Celebration of Passion Projects and Fan Cultures – dCFF21
The deadCenter 2021 film festival has always had a knack for finding the most memorable and emotionally satisfying documentaries of each year. In 2021, the…
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“Jabee: Hope” Realizes OKC Hip Hop Artist’s Autobiographical Vision – dCFF21
The deadCenter Film Festival is a place for all types of stories including the short stories found in music videos. One of the festival’s most notable short…
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“Feel So Good” Is an Auteur Film at Heart with a “Bad Faith” Passion – dCFF21
Guests: Ben Tefera, writer/director of Feel So Good Slyrex, co-producer, co-editor, sound designer and composer of Feel So Good Ben Stillwell White…
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The Official 2021 deadCenter Film Festival Sneak Peek
Today kicks off the beginning of the 2021 deadCenter Film Festival week for filmgoers around the state of Oklahoma. To give listeners and pass holders a tease…
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“A Long Road to Liberty” Retrospective Documents Valuable Oklahoma History – dCFF21
Our exclusive coverage of the deadCenter 2021 film festival continues on The Cinematic Schematic with an interview featuring the president and CEO of the…
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Instagram Post Turned Okie Short Film “Snow Day” Memorializes Challenging 2020 Winter Season – dCFF21
Special Guest Jacob Leighton Burns Writer/Director/Producer of “Snow Day” Co-Founder of The Cinematropolis We’re kicking off our coverage of the deadCenter…
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Lisa Broad – Three Films That Got You Through the 2020 Pandemic
The Cinematic Schematic’s Three Films That Got You Through the 2020 Pandemic interview series concludes in its final entry with the Oklahoma City Museum of Art…
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Mortal Kombat (2021) – The Cinematic Schematic Review
In today’s episode of The Cinematic Schematic, first-time special guests Brock Lay and Josh Reid are welcomed to the show to share their fond memories and…
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The 2021 Oscars Predictions Special – The Cinematic Schematic
The Cinematic Schematic maintains our annual tradition of hosting an Oscar predictions episode with recurring guest host, Laron Chapman. It’s our aim to give…
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Yousef Kazemi – Three Films that Got You Through the 2020 Pandemic
The Three Films That Got You Through the 2020 Pandemic interview series enters its final stretch on The Cinematic Schematic in part nine, our penultimate…
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Stephen Tyler – Three Films That Got You Through the 2020 Pandemic
The Three Films That Got You Through the 2020 Pandemic interview series continues on The Cinematic Schematic in part eight with the managing partner of Tower…
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Godzilla vs Kong – The Cinematic Schematic Review
Since 2014’s American Godzilla reboot, Legendary Pictures, Warner Bros and Toho have been slowly building up their combined “Monsterverse,” set to end in a…
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April 2021 Programming Update
Tune in for a special announcement regarding an update to our April programming. The post April 2021 Programming Update appeared first on The Cinematropolis.
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League – The Cinematic Schematic Review
For years, fans called on DC and Warner Bros. to #ReleasetheSnyderCut after the poor reception of the original 2017 release that was completed by Joss Whedon…
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Harold Storey – Three Films That Got You Through the 2020 Pandemic
The Three Films That Got You Through the 2020 Pandemic interview series continues on The Cinematic Schematic in part seven featuring the host and producer of…
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Raya and the Last Dragon – The Cinematic Schematic Review
The Cinematic Schematic returns for a review and spoiler-filled discussion of Walt Disney Animation’s latest film exploring a post-apocalyptic southeast Asian…