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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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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Good news! We're going to start doing more TV shows (in moderation). Of these four, which would you most like us to cover? (It'll be a while before any videos on this show would come out.)

P.S. We've got more episodes on The Good Place coming your way over the next few months!

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We're back with part 2 of our Twilight house LEGO livestream! Join us on Thursday, March 20th at 9am MT as we build the rest of the LEGO set and chill. The livestream is open to everyone (free!) on Patreon. Click the link below and join our Patreon for free to view the post and get the details. We hope to see you there!


www.patreon.com/posts/twilight-lego-2-124570851?ut…

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To celebrate the release of Cinema Therapy Studios's first short film, CyranØ, we're offering a huge discount on Patreon annual memberships: 20% off, that's more than 2 months free! 🤑

Our first Patreon-funded short film, CyranØ, is on Patreon now. You also get extended, ad-free director's cuts of every Cinema Therapy video, deep dives on therapy and filmmaking topics, bonus content like bloopers and sketches. And there's even more! 😱

If you can't join as a paid member, there's always free membership. We keep you updated on what's going on in Cinema Therapy land and we share freebies because we appreciate y'all. ☺️

Get a Patreon annual membership now through the end of March for 20% off. See you over on Patreon! 👋

www.patreon.com/c/CinemaTherapy

2 months ago | [YT] | 1,533

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Greetings! If you're free tomorrow at 9am MT, come join us for a chill livestream building a Twilight LEGO set and talking about CyranØ now that it's done! Open to everyone (free!) on Patreon. Click the link below and join our Patreon for free to view the post and get the details. We hope to see you there!

www.patreon.com/posts/post-cyrano-q-122795132?utm_…

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Jono here with a bit o' news! Alan and I have decided to put our sister channel, Cinema Therapy Reviews, on indefinite hold. [Edit: THIS main channel will keep going, to be clear].

Nothing's wrong, we just found that it was one commitment too many after our families, professional interests, self-care, and this main Cinema Therapy channel.

Our sincere thanks to those who worked on or supported it. We'll let you know if it starts back up again!

For now, catch our final planned review, of PADDINGTIN IN PERU, right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVMat...

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We made a short film: CYRANØ!

And while we won't be able to post it here on our channel for awhile, we did want to invite you (whoever can make it on such short notice) to the Cast & Crew screening of the film tonight, at 7:00pm MST.

www.eventbrite.com/e/cyran-castcrew-screening-tick…

The screening will be at the Megaplex Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. The film isn't that long. Only 12 minutes with credits, but we're having a Q&A, showing some behind the scenes footage, and just having a generally wonderful time. So if you can, please join us for a good ol' time at the movies!

2 months ago | [YT] | 1,202

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Captain America: Brave New World has received mixed reviews, but what does our movie-loving licensed therapist Jonathan Decker think of this entry in the MCU? And where's Alan!?

Have you checked out Cinema Therapy Reviews?

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