Episodes

In today's episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’re breaking out the D20 dice and classic controllers for another double-feature review of Dungeons & Dragons vs The Super Mario Bros. Movie. It's time to power up because this conversation is for the gamers. Firstly, we kick things off with a mini-review of Air, Ben Affleck's latest film about a different kind of game--basketball. Or rather, the story about Air Jordans, the most popular basketball shoes ever made. Hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Ch...

In today's episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we're entering the world of assassins living underneath the high table with Keanu Reeves in our review of John Wick Chapter 4. From our John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum review, Alexandra Bohannon, a former co-host of Sound Trek, rejoins Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman to weigh in on John Wick's latest vengeful globetrotting rampage. This week, we break the ice by taking a look at the late John Wick: Chapter 4 co-star, Lance Reddick. The beloved cha...

Remember listeners, when you're lost in the darkness without a good video game film or TV adaptation...Look for the light! Believe in the Fireflies and join us for this special one-off podcast discussion reviewing HBO's The Last of Us season 1. In today’s bonus crossover episode with The Cast Beyond the Wall we are joined by a panel of guests including our own The Cinematic Schematic podcast hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman, along with Static Media's Jo Light, the Tunes/Toons podcast's Haro...

Don’t pick up the phone, our dear listener. In this episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’re reviewing Scream VI, the sequel to last year’s Scream franchise revival, Scream(2022), made and released just fourteen months later. Can the directing duo of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett AKA “Radio Silence” create lightning in a bottle twice? Before diving into Ghostface’s latest stab at the franchise with guests Chris Oz McIntosh and Brock Lay, react to this year’s Oscars ceremony and award ...

It's time to lace up your gloves and bust out the bear-repellant! In this week's episode of The Cinematic Schematic podcast we're pitting two recent box office hits against each other in a Cocaine Bear vs Creed III showdown. Standing in the left corner, we have a movie featuring the most memable movie title since Snakes on a Plane. And in the other corner, we have the third entry in an unexpectedly solid sequel trilogy nobody not named Sylvester Stallone was asking for, Creed III. It's Michael B...

And the award for greatest 2023 Oscar predictions podcast featuring an Oklahoma filmmaker and an Oklahoma film critic podcaster goes to… …you guessed it, listeners! It’s time to roll out the red carpet and polish the little golden men because, on today’s special episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’ll continue our annual award season tradition by placing bets on our 2023 Oscar predictions. Hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman are back in our fifth-year pre-gaming the big night with our guesse...

The Cinematic Schematic is back from a short hiatus to do a winter 2023 film review round-up covering this season's biggest movies. The conversation starts with a discussion over M. Night Shyamalan's latest film, Knock at the Cabin before we take a look at the unexpected conclusion to the Magic Mike "Trilogy," Magic Mike's Last Dance. We then conclude the show with our thoughts on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and the state of the MCU at the beginning of "phase 5." Hosts Caleb Masters and La...

The Cinematic Schematic returns for our first episode of 2023 to dive into the most haunting TikTok dance we’ve seen yet with our review of M3GAN. We kick things off by responding to listener feedback and responses to our top 5 films of 2022. We then speculate what the highest-grossing movie at the box office in 2023 will be before jumping into our spoiler-free review of M3GAN. AI has been a fear of audiences for decades going back at least as far back as rogue robots like HAL in 2001: A Space O...

In this episode of The Cinematic Schematic, hosts Caleb Masters, Laron Chapman, Cinematropolis contributor Daniel Bokemper, and the GoodTrash Genrecast's Dalton Stuart, sit down to name their top 5 movies of 2022. The special episode starts with the group catching up on a few of the films watched during the “awards season sprint" of November and December before kicking off the year-end award round-up and countdown. What films were the cream of the crop in the especially uncertain year in Hollywo...

After thirteen years it’s time to dust off the 3D glasses and reignite our hunt for unobtainium because in this episode of The Cinematic Schematic we’re reviewing the long-awaited sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time, Avatar: The Way of Water. The world of filmgoing has changed considerably since James Cameron followed up his smash hit Titanic (1997) with another box office monster, Avatar, in 2009. The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the superhero genre have become the dominant blockb...

Thirteen years ago, James Cameron, the acclaimed director of Titanic, Terminator 1 & 2, The Abyss, and Aliens, released his most ambitious passion project yet – Avatar(2009), a film featuring the fictional alien race named “Na’vi,” set on their home planet of Pandora. Starring relative no-name turned “it” guy, Sam Worthington alongside Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Lang, and Giovanni Ribisi; the film was praised for its groundbreaking 3D visual effects before becomin...

From Rian Johnson’s upcoming Benoit Blanc sequel, Glass Onion, to David Fincher’s adaptation of his late father’s script, Mank; Netflix is known for giving top directors near unprecedented budgets and creative freedom for the awards season films. Oscar-winning genre king Guillermo del Toro is the latest auteur to team with the streamer for his biggest passion project, a stop motion animated feature film adaptation of the puppet turned real boy, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. The Shape of Water ...

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 fragile china set to solve another Rian Johnson whodunnit in his new film, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. To peel back the layers of Johnson's meticulously plotted story, we're joined by No Film School's managing editor, Jo Light, GoodTrash Media co-founder, Arthur Gordon, and our very own Daniel Bokemper and Caleb Masters to review t...

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 just one of the most promising performers of our time, but also the most famous black superhero in the world. Co-stars, collaborators, and fans from countries across the globe commemorated his life and celebrated his movies. T’Challa, king of Wakanda and a key ally to the Avengers, was gone. How could the Black Panther story continue without...

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 willing to butcher good storytelling to make a buck in the conclusion of the Blumhouse-produced and David Gordon Green-directed Halloween Ends. In this episode of The Cinematic Schematic, hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman are joined by guests Christopher Shultz and film studies educator and OKC councilperson James Cooper return to Hay...

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’ eve. Host Caleb Masters is joined by The Cinematropolis’s Daniel Bokemper and guest host Dalton Stuart from GoodTrash Media to discuss a few of this year’s 2022 horror movie highlights including Ti West‘s X/Pearl double feature and the chilling indie horror Watcher. We conclude this episode with an in-depth spoiler-filled discussion of the r...

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 Wall, reviewing the first two episodes of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series with The Cinematropolis‘s own Daniel Bokemper. If you enjoy this conversation, please consider rating The Cast Beyond the Wall on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and if you’re a fan of Game of Thrones or The Rings of Power, make sure to subsc...

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, Bullet Train, and Bodies Bodies Bodies. Special guests Dalton Stuart and Charles Elmore join Laron Chapman and host Caleb Masters in providing their thoughts on each film before doing a rapid-fire round covering several other movies from this summer. They then conclude the conversation by selecting their most anticipated movies remaining in 20...

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 odds, the franchise has found new life in the latest entry streaming on Hulu, Prey. In today’s special The Cinematic Schematic podcast interview, we are spotlighting some of the incredible behind-the-scenes talents that helped bring Prey to life! Coming right off the heels of the critically and financially underwhelming The Predator(2018), ...

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 our review of Jordan Peele’s latest movie, Nope. Laron Chapman and Daniel Bokemper rejoin host Caleb Masters on the show to answer the ice-breaker question, “What is your favorite film or TV sequence featuring a UFO,” before providing their spoiler-free thoughts and a verdict. The majority of the conversation is spent in spoilers covering s...

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 and Thunder. First-time guest Chad Parizman, a podcast host/producer and principal/founder of Ader communications, joins us for the review journey. Also returning to the show are Nathan Poppe of Oklahoma’s Curbside Chronicle fame, and longtime co-host and award-winning filmmaker Laron Chapman. We kick things off with our ice-breaker questi...

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 character of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story (1995). Is it a forgettable knock-off complete with a newly cast Buzz (Chris Evans), or have we entered into the next great spin-off phase for the beloved Pixar franchise? In this special edition of The Cinematic Schematic, we review Lightyear with Lauren Weingart from Video Peach Productions. We star...

When news broke director Scott Derrickson was leaving Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2020 due to creative differences, the moviegoing internet and fans of the film’s predecessor were understandably concerned. Why would such a talented director who fought so hard for the first film leave a project he was supposedly passionate about? The answer, at least partially, is the director’s latest project reteaming him with his Sinister writer, C. Robert Cargill, The Black Phone. Does this...

…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 the experience of watching Jurassic World: Dominion the words of the famous Ian Malcom quote echos strongly throughout the sixth (and allegedly final) entry in the dino-megablockbuster Jurassic Park franchise. Despite already being a massive hit at the box office (it’s grossed over $600 million worldwide as of this writing), the big questio...