Making sense of life, one blockbuster at a time.
Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and professional filmmaker Alan Seawright break down your favorite movies, searching the characters, themes, and plots to find things you can use to improve your mental health, your life, your looks? and your cardiovascular fitness (nope.)
Join them and their guests as they try to improve life, laugh at each other, and keep Alan from crying over everything.
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CyranØ is playing at FilmQuest!
Monday, October 27th at 8:00pm as part of the Best of the Beehive shorts block. Come see our short film, and loads of others from Utah filmmakers. It'll be a whole thing!
www.filmquestfest.com/
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CT in NYC! Join us for a meetup at:
Van Leeuwen Ice Cream in Hudson Yards🍦
Saturday, October 11th from 6pm till whenever!
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IMPORTANT FANX UPDATE! Our panel has been moved to Friday, September 26th at 4:00 pm in Room 250A in order to give us a larger room to accommodate the number of you lovely fans who show up to our panels.
We are truly sorry for any of you who bought Saturday-only tickets or made plans for Saturday based on the original panel announcement. As you navigate the situation with FanX (either changing to Friday, getting a refund, or upgrading to a multi-day pass), please consider politely letting them know your frustration with our being given too small a room, year after year (with 2024 being the only exception).
This has been a recurring issue. We love FanX and we love the people running it. In many ways it's our favorite convention. We hope to continue appearing there for many years. We just don't want any of you to be turned away at the door to our panel again, much less by the hundreds.
The change in day-and-time this year, while not ideal, is the result of our demanding a larger space so we can see as many of you as possible. While we are frustrated with the recurring issue, we are also grateful to FanX for the last-minute change this year to address it. If you choose to voice your frustration, please also share your gratitude that they went out of their way to make it right.
It's a monumental task, organizing an event like this, and on the whole they do an amazing job every year. We've literally had private conversations about how it's the smoothest-run convention we've ever been to overall. We don't know why they struggle with us, but hopefully it'll never be an issue again.
We love you all and look forward to seeing you on Friday, September 26th at 4:00 pm in room 250A.
If you can't catch us then, we're also both appearing on a panel celebrating the 20th anniversary of SERENITY (the movie that cemented our friendship). That's Thursday, September 25th at 7:50 pm in room 251D.
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UPDATE: Our panel has been moved to room 250A on Friday, September 26th at 4:00 pm so we could have a larger room to accommodate as many of our fans as possible.
Who's coming to FanX SLC? We hope to see you there!
Cinema Therapy LIVE: 5th Anniversary Panel
Saturday, September 27 - 2:00-3:00 pm
Room 150A (PLEASE SEE UPDATE ABOVE, THE DATE, TIME, AND ROOM HAVE CHANGED)
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Announcing our 2025 fan convention appearances!
FanX Salt Lake City (our hometown con!) fanxsaltlake.com/
September 25-27
New York Comic Con www.newyorkcomiccon.com/
October 9-12
To celebrate 5 years of Cinema Therapy, we're doing a nostalgic panel. Talking about movies that have defined us + a Q&A sesh. It will be fun... and maybe emotional? Come and find out!
Panel information to come. Go to fan conventions, and watch movies!
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What’s better than seeing UNBREAKABLE on the big screen? Seeing it with Jono & Alan alongside filmmakers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods!
Get your tickets now for this one-night only event, including a Q&A and meetup after the screening! All the details and tickets at the link below:
www.lastpicturehouse.com/movie/unbreakable-with-ci…
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What summer movie releases are you most looking forward to? See what Alan and Jono are looking forward to below. We couldn't fit all the movies in the poll, so if you're excited about one that's not here, tell us in the comments!
Alan: Jurassic World: Rebirth has a great recipe: writer of the original film. One of my favorite directors. Basically ignoring the characters and many of the events of the previous films. It's the film I'm looking forward to the most (Jurassic Park made me want to make movies, for crying out loud!) But also, Elio. It's so good fam.
Jono here! Superman was my first fandom as a child, and I'm beyond excited to see the character portrayed as a kind, selfless, helpful hero on the big screen! He has had a major influence on the type of person I try to be. I'm also very hyped to take my kids to see Elio. Pixar is always a win!
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Let's hang out and watch Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning together!
When? Thursday, May 22nd (meetup at 8:30pm, movie at 9:15pm)
Where? AMC Bay Street 16 in Emeryville, CA
Why? Because we love watching movies with y'all!
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Cinema Therapy Turns 5 + A Shiny New Intro! 🥳
It’s hard to believe, but Cinema Therapy turns 5 years old today. Our little baby is off to YouTube Kindergarten! We began by talking about radical acceptance and our beloved Frodo. Since then, the channel has gone places we never dreamed of: conventions and meetups, dream guests, and launching a movie studio with our viewers just to name a few.
And we’ve had such an amazing time making this show, talking about movies, and sharing feelings with you all, that we wanted to give you a little peek behind the scenes of our new, original score, composed and conducted by Caleb Blood, a name that we’re confident will be VERY famous in another few years. Seriously, his music is unbelievable!
Jonathan wasn’t able to join us for the recording session, but he was very involved in the composition phase, and he responded (almost) as emotionally as Alan did to the music once it was recorded by the wonderful musicians we got to work with. We hope you enjoy seeing (and hearing) this music as much as we enjoyed the process of making it. Here’s to five more years of Movie Feelings! (Close runner up for the title of our show. Not really. We’re much cleverer than that.)
View the video here! www.patreon.com/posts/cinema-therapy-5-125877781?u…
Listen to the full track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgcU1...
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Jono here! Are any of you on Letterboxd? It's free and if you'd like to read movie reviews from Alan and I (with more to come) you can follow us here! I just got started.
Jono: letterboxd.com/CinemaTherapist/
Alan: letterboxd.com/dyslexicon/
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