'Never Seen It' - Episode 17- Shh! It's Martin Scorsese's 'Silence'

Last year, Martin Scorsese's decades-in-the-making passion project -- Silence -- his third in a trilogy of heady faith-themed films (including The Last Temptation of Christ and Kundun), landed with a thud at the box office, but was largely well received by critics.

As a hardcore Scorsese devotee I was intrigued by this project and drawn in by its intense-looking trailer, but I never got around to catching it while it was in theaters.

Hence it may just be the perfect subject for a new episode of the best movie podcast around (slight exaggeration) -- "Never Seen It" -- in which my wife and I watch a movie separately (which is hard to do with our similar schedules and shared living space) and come together and discuss for the first time on tape.

Was Silence unfairly overlooked during Oscar season? Or was it the long bore that some people complained it was? The answer may fall somewhere in between.

Check out the podcast below to hear what we thought:


PREVIOUS 'NEVER SEEN IT' EPISODES:

Episode 1: Some King of Wonderful
Episode 2: XXX
Episode 3: Varsity Blues
Episode 4: Xanadu
Episode 5: An Affair to Remember
Episode 6: Blue Steel
Episode 7: Spy Kids
Episode 8: The Frisco Kid
Episode 9: Rising Sun
Episode 10: The Conjuring 2
Episode 11: Zootopia
Episode 12: Fear
Episode 13: The Cell
Episode 14: Nocturnal Animals
Episode 15: Kindergarten Cop
Episode 16: Clash of the Titans

Stay tuned for more!