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Saints and Cinema
Timothy Winterstein and Jay Winterstein
Frequency: 1 episode/28d. Total Eps: 89

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Episode 89 - WAKE UP DEAD MAN with Rev. Dr. Ryan Tinetti
Episode 89
jeudi 12 février 2026 • Duration 58:07
Tim and Jay talk to Ryan Tinetti, professor at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, about the newest Knives Out mystery, Wake Up Dead Man. Religion in movies, Christianity, pastors, and culture war in the church and in the world. Check it out!
Also, Ryan has a new book out (which we should have mentioned!), Quiet Ambition, which you can find here.
Some of the films we mention in this episode: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Silence, Godfather Part III, Calvary, Stars in My Crown
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot
Episode 88 - Christmas with THE CHOSEN
Episode 88
mercredi 17 décembre 2025 • Duration 34:34
Tim and Jay watch Christmas with The Chosen - Holy Night and continue the discussion from episode 85 on what works well and what doesn't work as well, along with what comes from the Gospels and what does not. Choices were made.
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot
Episode 79 - What the Oscars Got Right and What They Got Wrong
Episode 79
lundi 10 mars 2025 • Duration 01:06:53
Jay and Tim talk about what the Academy Awards got right and what they got wrong. We talk about Hollywood, agendas, propaganda, and Oscar surprises.
Some of the movies we mention in this episode are: Oscar nominees.
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot
Episode 78 - What We Loved and Didn't in 2024
Episode 78
mercredi 5 février 2025 • Duration 01:44:46
Jay and Tim get into the films they saw from 2024, their favorites, and their less-than-favorites.
Some of the films we mention in this episode: The Brutalist, Gladiator II, Challengers, The Substance, Joker: Folie á Deux, Civil War, Trap, Hard Truths, Smile 2, Heretic, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Hundreds of Beavers, Monkey Man, Dune II, Long Legs, Didi, A Different Man, Nosferatu, The Wild Robot, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot
Episode 77 - LONG DECEMBER with Writer/Director/Producer Thomas Torrey
Episode 77
lundi 9 décembre 2024 • Duration 01:08:39
Jay and Tim reconnect with Thomas Torrey about his film Long December, new to streaming. We talk about the creative process, music and film, marathon running (well, Jay and Thomas), and how new projects come together when things fall apart.
Long December
Long December Instagram
Register for a Zoom watch party on December 15 with cast and crew!
Our first episode with Thomas about his movies (among other things)
Our episode with Thomas on Robert Machoian's The Killing of Two Lovers
Some of the films we mention in this episode: Long December, Fare, Minor Premise, Once
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot
Episode 76 - HERETIC, Religion, and True Believers
Episode 76
mardi 26 novembre 2024 • Duration 01:07:38
Tim and Jay talk about the new movie Heretic, true belief, and playing games with choice and control.
Some of the other movies we mention in this episode: Hard Truths, September 5, Small Things Like These, Saw, Nosferatu, and some others that I forgot about.
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot
Episode 75! Newport Beach Film Festival 25th Anniversary Preview with Travis Garcia
Episode 75
vendredi 4 octobre 2024 • Duration 01:06:56
Jay and Tim talk with Travis Garcia, the co-director of the features programming team for the Newport Beach Film Festival, two weeks out from its 25th anniversary. We hit some of the films we've already seen, as well as some we're looking forward to. Come and join us, October 17-24!
The Newport Beach Film Festival
See the schedule and get tickets here.
Some of the films we mention in this episode: Whatever It Takes, Memoir of a Snail, Wake (short film), Thelma, Hard Truths, The Ghost/An Taibhse, I Can't Be Sorry (short film), Bob Trevino Likes It, Seed of the Sacred Fig, Small Things Like These, Blitz, Come and Save Me (music video), Calf (short film), The Last Showgirl
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot
Episode 74 - Party Like It's 1999, Major Director Edition: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD and THE INSIDER
Episode 74
vendredi 27 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:13:24
Jay and Tim talk about vocation, doing the right thing, how do you know what the right thing is, ambulances, and cigarettes...plus far too many outtakes
Some of the films we mention in this episode: The Insider, Bringing Out the Dead, Fight Club, and probably some others that Tim forgot to write down
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot
Episode 73 - Party Like It's 1999, Documentary Edition: ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER and AMERICAN MOVIE
Episode 73
mardi 20 août 2024 • Duration 01:18:34
Tim gets echoey in his new house as he and Jay talk documentaries, history rhyming, and the life you make when you're trying to make something else.
Some of the films we mention in this episode: One Day in September, American Movie, Coven, Buena Vista Social Club, Who Took Johnny, Liberated, Abducted in Plain Sight, Love Me, Karl Marx City.
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot
Episode 72 - Party Like It's 1999, Foreign Language Edition: BEAU TRAVAIL and RUN, LOLA, RUN
Episode 72
lundi 15 juillet 2024 • Duration 01:07:44
In this episode, Tim and Jay talk about two seemingly opposite films, the primarily French-language Beau Travail and the German-language Run, Lola, Run. But maybe the themes and questions aren't as far apart as we initially thought!
We discuss free will, choice, human nature, and a bit of slow cinema.
Some of the films we discuss in this episode are: Beau Travail; Run, Lola, Run; Silent Light, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Uncut Gems, Good Time, The Butterfly Effect, Fight Club, High Life, Rosetta; Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.
Come find us:
Website
YouTube (starting with Episode 81)
Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

