Movie series, side roads, blunt opinions.
Another Look treats film criticism like a long table conversation among movie obsessives. Episodes move from fantasy cycles and 1994 retrospectives to Wes Anderson and David Lynch, with side paths through books, video games, old rental habits, and recent viewing.
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Another Look is a film podcast built around revisiting movies in clusters rather than chasing only new releases. The panel follows filmmakers, genres, years, eras, and movements, then lets each episode breathe like a casual post-movie argument. It can be sharp. It can also wander. A fantasy run can begin with Excalibur, move through Clash of the Titans and Conquest, and still make room for medieval video games, crime books, and stray jokes about the world feeling like bad fantasy. The tone is conversational, with quick handoffs, interruptions, and the ordinary rhythm of people remembering what they watched. That looseness is part of the appeal. The movie talk often starts from concrete details: sound effects in Excalibur, Play-Doh-like effects in Clash of the Titans, the bus, elevator, train, and cargo-plane escalation in Speed. The panel has a clear fondness for set pieces, genre mechanics, and the small choices that make a scene work or fall apart. It is not only about hits. The show spends time with hits, misses, overlooked titles, odd transitional media habits, and the changing rituals around watching movies. During the 1994 episodes, memories of Blockbuster and Redbox sit beside discussion of Quiz Show, Exotica, Speed, and Forrest Gump possibilities. Recent viewing also shapes the conversation. Hoppers becomes a way to talk about Pixar, kid reactions, and whether a film is just solid fun. Cuckoo opens a debate about atmosphere, cool images, narrative confusion, Hunter Schaefer, Dan Stevens, and the value of a strong backbone. Books recur as a parallel obsession, especially crime books and The Dark Tower. Those digressions rarely feel random, because they reveal how the speakers connect movies to taste, nostalgia, and genre storytelling. Another Look is best for listeners who enjoy criticism with texture rather than polished lecture notes. It sounds like a group still figuring out what they think while the microphones are on. That gives the show its charm: film analysis as a living conversation, full of jokes, side roads, blunt opinions, and genuine attention to the movies themselves.
Made for: For film fans who like conversational criticism, filmmaker and genre runs, and long-running movie-club energy. It especially fits listeners who enjoy tangents about books, games, rental culture, and recent viewing alongside the main film discussion.
What sets it apart: Another Look stands out by treating film series as a loose shared memory map, not a sealed lecture format. Its tangents into Redbox, crime books, Pixar, fantasy games, and everyday viewing habits make the criticism feel personal without losing the movie thread.
Welcome to Another Look, a film podcast where we go back and discuss a filmmakers body of work . From their hits to their often overlooked and even forgotten films as well as genres, eras, movements and everything in between.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A fond, funny return to Speed's bus premise, nineties charge, and increasingly silly train finale.
Speed comes through as a nineties action machine that still runs hot. The hosts return to the bus premise, then track how the movie keeps widening its playground through elevators, automobiles, a cargo plane, trains, and unusually effective cops.
A loose Lynch-focused episode tests stylish genre pleasures against the stories beneath them.
Another Look returns to David Lynch in a loose, conversational mode, with Ian Killian, Jordan Muschino, and Ben Reilly moving from Cuckoo and Monkey toward Mulholland Drive.
A focused Raimi discussion finds the zip in a tournament western's style, shticks, and revenge frame.
Another Look's Westerns run arrives at The Quick and the Dead, the 1995 Sam Raimi film centered on a frontier-town dueling tournament and a gunfighter's revenge for her father's death. The episode is at its best when it looks at why that shape keeps working.
Solo-narrated video essays decoding film and TV endings, symbolism, and cultural meaning.
Kim Masters and Puck's Matt Belloni break down Hollywood's dealmaking and executive shake-ups.
Film culture, festival heat, awards nerves.
Story analysis with jokes still attached.
The hosts of Another Look discuss David Lynch's 1992 film 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me', a prequel to the TV series.
A film podcast episode discussing Wes Anderson's 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' as part of a series on his body of work, with casual banter about movies and personal anecdotes.
The hosts of Another Look open with casual discussions about recent watches like Krampus and the Netflix film Carry On.
The hosts of Another Look discuss video games, specifically Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, before diving into fantasy movies.
Another Look - A Film Podcast reviews Desmond Davis’s 1981 Clash of the Titans, starring Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier, and Maggie Smith, with Perseus facing Medusa and the Kraken.
A film podcast panel discusses fantasy movies, starting with Excalibur, and shares recent movie-watching experiences.
The hosts of a film podcast introduce their discussion of the 1994 film Exotica, reminiscing about video rental stores and Redbox.
Another Look - A Film Podcast reviews Robert Redford’s 1994 film Quiz Show, starring Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, and Rob Morrow as a lawyer investigating a potentially fixed television contest.
Ian Killian, Jordan Muschino, and Ben Reilly review Speed, Jan de Bont’s 1994 action film starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper.
Another Look - A Film Podcast revisits Brian Levant’s 1994 The Flintstones, starring John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, and Rick Moranis.
Another Look - A Film Podcast examines Kevin Smith's Clerks, released January 22, 1994, through its convenience-store setting and characters Dante and Randall.
A podcast episode analyzing Wes Anderson's film 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' as part of a series, beginning with a sponsor ad for IQ Bar.
The hosts of Another Look discuss David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and briefly review the film Cuckoo.
The hosts of Another Look discuss the film 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' and share their thoughts on recent movies like 'Joker: Folie à Deux' and 'Juror #2'.
A podcast panel discusses Sam Raimi's 1995 Western 'The Quick and the Dead' and its place in the genre.