Single Serving Cinema
Single Serving Cinema looks at one critical scene in a movie every other week. We explore how the scene is constructed, what the scene achieves, and what it can tell us about the movie as a whole. Hosted by Tim & Tay.
Episodes
113 episodes
SSC 108: Black Christmas (Clark, 1974)
During Christmas break, a group of sorority sisters at Pi Kappa Sigma begin receiving disturbing obscene phone calls from an unknown stranger. As the festive season continues, the mysterious caller's threats escalate from harassment to deadly v...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:33:21
SSC 107: Pan's Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006)
In Pan's Labyrinth, a young girl seeks her mythical royal heritage in a magical labyrinth during the Spanish Civil War.Starring Ivana Baquero, Sergi López and Doug Jones and directed by Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth was r...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:28:51
SSC 106: The Shape of Water
In The Shape of Water, a mute janitor working in a government laboratory forms a bond with a captive amphibious creature. Starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones and Michael Shannon and directed by Guillermo del Toro, The Shape ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:31:19
SSC 105: Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
In Halloween, a masked killer returns to his quiet suburban hometown after escaping a mental institution and begins stalking a babysitter and her friends on Halloween night.Starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence and dire...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:23:56
SSC 104: The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
In The Shining, a family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. The young son, gifted with psychic abilities, witnesses disturbing visions of the past and future....
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:27:35
SSC 103: Weapons (Cregger, 2025)
In Weapons, a small town is shaken when an entire third-grade class vanishes overnight, leaving only one child behind, and no clear answers as to where the children went. Starring Julia Garner and Josh Brolin and directed by Za...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:23:55
SSC 102: 28 Years Later (Boyle, 2025)
In 28 Years Later, a father and son leave their quarantined community on a remote island to venture into the zombie-infested mainland.Starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Jack O’Connell, and directed by Danny Boyle, <...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:11:23
SSC 101: 28 Days Later (Boyle, 2002)
In 28 Days Later, a man wakes up in an abandoned hospital to find the world devastated by a mysterious virus. He soon joins a group of survivors, they face both the infected and the horrors of what humanity has become.Starring C...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:34:22
SSC 100: Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)
In Zodiac, policemen, journalists and a cartoonist become obsessed with identifying the titular killer, whose cryptic letters and brutal murders haunt the Bay Area. As the years pass, the case consumes those chasing the truth.
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2:19:08
SSC 99: Prometheus (Scott, 2012)
In Prometheus, a team of explorers travels to a distant planet hoping to uncover the origins of human life. What they find instead is a threat beyond anything they imagined.Starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, and direc...
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Season 3
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Episode 99
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1:30:28
SSC 98: Alien (Scott, 1979)
Alien focuses on the crew of a commercial spaceship who investigate a distress signal and unknowingly bring a deadly alien lifeform aboard. One by one, the crew is hunted in the isolation of deep space.Starring Sigourney Wea...
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Season 3
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Episode 98
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1:27:24
SSC 97: Annihilation (Garland, 2018) w/ James Stacey
Annihilation is a sci-fi mystery about a group of scientists who enter the Shimmer—a strange, mutating zone to investigate a phenomenon no one understands. As they journey deeper, the landscape—and their minds—begin to unravel.S...
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Season 3
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Episode 97
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1:35:13
SSC 96: Ex Machina (Garland, 2013)
Ex Machina is a sci-fi drama about a young programmer who’s invited to test a humanoid robot’s intelligence. As the experiment unfolds, he begins to question the motives of both the robot and its creator.Starring Domhnall Glees...
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Season 3
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Episode 96
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1:17:06
SSC 95: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coens, 2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a Depression-era comedic-adventure-musical that follows three escaped convicts as they journey across Mississippi in search of hidden treasure, encountering bizarre characters and unexpected twists along t...
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1:25:26
SSC 94: Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens, 2013) w/ Andrew Finlay Stewart
Andrew Finlay Stewart is an artist and musician, and the host of the podcast The Rules of the Show, which you can find on Instagram (@theruleso...
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Season 3
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Episode 94
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1:53:40
SSC 93: A La Carte 2024
In this special annual episode, Tim and Tay highlight a few notable scenes from 2024. Not necessarily the best or our favourites, but certainly worth seeing!Links:THR Direc...
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Season 3
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Episode 93
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1:24:01
SSC 92: Snowpiercer (Bong, 2013)
Snowpiercer is a dystopian thriller set in a frozen post-apocalyptic world, where the last remnants of humanity survive aboard a perpetually moving train—divided by a brutal class hierarchy that erupts into rebellion.Starring C...
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Season 3
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Episode 92
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1:31:59
SSC 91: Parasite (Bong, 2019)
Parasite is a social satire about a poor family infiltrating the lives of a wealthy household, leading to unexpected consequences and a scathing critique of class inequality.Starring Song Kang-ho and directed by Bong Joon-ho, <...
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Season 3
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Episode 91
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1:31:11
SSC 90: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher, 2011)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a gripping mystery about a disgraced journalist and a brilliant hacker who team up to uncover a decades-old family secret involving murder, corruption, and lies on a secluded Swedish island.St...
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Season 3
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Episode 90
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1:35:15
SSC 89: Wind River (Sheridan, 2017)
Set in the remote wilderness of Wyoming, Wind River follows a skilled tracker and an inexperienced FBI agent as they investigate the mysterious death of a young woman on a Indigenous reservation.Starring Jeremy Renner and Elizab...
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Season 3
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Episode 89
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1:40:49
SSC 88: Little Women (Gerwig, 2019)
Show NotesSaoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern & Greta Gerwig Break Down a Scene from 'Little Women' (Vanity Fair)
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Season 3
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Episode 88
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1:05:23
SSC 87: Lady Bird (Gerwig, 2017)
Show NotesSaoirse Ronan on her career (Vanity Fair)Stanley Tucci, nominated for an OscarS...
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1:29:37
SSC 86: Kingdom of Heaven (Scott, 2005)
Show Notes"Kingdom of Heaven | Why The Director's Cut Is Better" by Daniel NetzelSynopsisA bereaved French peasant discovers his noble heritage and embarks on...
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1:23:25