465 Best of THE CINE-FILES Shorts for 2025 Part 2

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 151 minutes

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, CINE-FILES FANS! On this week's episode, Steve Morris and John Rocha wrap up 2025 with Part 2 of their compilation of their favorite Patreon shorts from the year. These are shorts that are usually only heard by our Patrons, but we wanted to make them available to everyone as a thank you for the support and as a way of showing anyone not on the Patreon, a sample of the extra content you get from us for joining. On this compilation, we include our shorts on Objective vs Subjective, Managing the Insanity, our Crimson Tide debate, Captain America civil war, Editing as a career and a selected FMK. Thank you to everyone who supports, listens and/or promotes our show. We hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season and we wish you a Happy New Year!

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0:00.0	Hello and happy New Year's from the Cinefiles.
0:10.6	My name is Steve Morris.
0:11.6	I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
0:15.3	Happy New Year, everybody.
0:17.8	That's me.
0:18.5	I was unable to use my system here to make noise.
0:20.8	But happy New Year.
0:21.9	We are back in 2026 here.
0:25.0	I'm excited for us to introduce our second set of shorts that we're compiling here
0:32.0	for people to get a sample of what we do on the Patreon for a lot of our patron followers, and that is doing
0:39.0	shorts every week that you can enjoy from Steve and I on a number of topics. And this collection,
0:44.8	we go in a lot of directions with this collection, Steve. Yeah, the last compilation we released was
0:49.2	frankly very personal, touching on Rob Reiner and our friendship and a lot of things about kind of how we see the
0:55.3	world. And this one's a little bit more in the filmmaking area. It starts off with a heated
1:00.7	debate about whether or not art can ever be objective. One of us strongly believe that there
1:07.5	were objective elements in art and the other person denied any such possibility.
1:12.4	I'm not going to say who these people are. I don't want to name names. That would be offensive.
1:16.6	You will have to listen to the short to know where these sides are. But needless to say,
1:20.8	we did not agree. No. Subjectively, you just did a wonderful intro for that short.
1:26.7	And I thought it was objectively good.
1:30.4	I think you know which side we fall on. But yeah, it was a fun conversation. You know,
1:34.5	these are the things that we really enjoy. We don't always agree. And it's kind of rare when we don't
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