Single Serving Cinema

In this special annual episode, Tim and Tay highlight a few notable scenes from 2025. Not necessarily the best or our favourites, but certainly worth seeing!
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Mission: Impossible follows IMF agent Ethan Hunt as he goes rogue to expose a mole within his own organization after being framed for the deaths of his entire team.
Mission: Impossible was released on May 22, 1996, and stars Tom Cruise. It was directed by Brian De Palma.

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Casino Royale follows a newly minted James Bond on his first mission as 007, tasked with defeating a terrorist financier in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro.

Casino Royale was released on November 17, 2006, and stars Daniel Craig, Eva Green, and Mads Mikkelsen. It was directed by Martin Campbell.

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Sneakers is a 1992 comedy thriller about a reformed hacker who leads a team of security specialists that break into companies to expose their vulnerabilities. When two mysterious NSA agents recruit them to steal a powerful encryption-cracking device, the crew discovers the job is far more dangerous than it seemed.
Sneakers was released on September 11, 1992, and stars Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley and Mary McDonnell. It was directed by Phil Alden Robinson.
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In The Matrix, an unfulfilled computer hacker discovers that reality as he knows it is a simulated world created by machines, and that he may be destined to lead the resistance to free humanity from its digital prison.

The Matrix was released on March 31, 1999, stars Keanu Reeves and was directed by the Wachowskis.
Notes:
Sam Altman on what "real" is
Keanu reminisces about bullet time
Taking the Red Pill: An Analysis of Don Davis’ Score for The Matrix by Christopher James Heckman
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