A year-end bad-movie list that turns the rules into part of the joke.
Bad Movies We Love leans on its year-end run to frame the best bad movies of 2025, and the charm is how Nick Scheiss turns the rules into part of the joke.

Affectionate criticism for movies with bruised reputations.
Bad Movies We Love treats low-scored and reputation-damaged films as objects worth arguing over, not easy targets. Nick Scheiss mixes score context, guest conversation, rankings, and personal reappraisal into a warm movie-club format.
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Bad Movies We Love is a film-review podcast about movies that are too odd, glossy, misjudged, chaotic, or commercially wounded to fit cleanly into respectable canon talk. Nick Scheiss hosts with a mix of casual banter and structured criticism. The show likes a framework. It looks at aggregate scores, release context, casts, directors, box office, genre placement, and the lingering afterlife of a movie's reputation. Then it makes the more interesting move: it asks what remains fun, memorable, or strangely effective once the easy jokes are out of the way. That gives the series a different rhythm from pure bad-movie ridicule. It can call a film messy and still care about its performances. It can laugh at an over-the-top Cage turn in Deadfall while treating that energy as a real reason to watch. It can describe Charlie's Angels as an MTV-era vibes machine and still count the songs, the texture, and the pop construction. Women's Month episodes bring that same reappraisal to titles including The First Wives Club, Josie and the Pussycats, and Spice World. Those conversations often become a mix of nostalgia, release-year context, celebrity memory, genre affection, and practical questions about why a film worked for some audiences and missed others. Guest episodes are warm rather than combative. The talk leaves room for longer arguments, personal attachments, and friendly corrections, but the episode usually circles back to the movie itself. Solo installments are more list-like and curated, including best-of episodes built around the show's own scoring criteria. Bad Movies We Love also runs Filmmaker in Focus conversations, where the attention shifts from reception to creation. Interviews with Emanuel Duga and with Josie and Mitchell Robinson foreground local filmmaking, debut features, creative partnership, post-production, screenings, and the ordinary confusion of growing into a life in movies. That strand keeps the show from being only retrospective. It is also interested in how small films get made, seen, and remembered. The best fit is a listener who already enjoys film culture and wants a companionable critic who can defend the uncool shelf without pretending every movie on it is secretly perfect.
Made for: For film fans who enjoy cult reviews, reputation rehab, guest banter, and detailed context around movies that were dismissed, over-marketed, or remembered strangely. It especially suits listeners who like bad-movie talk with warmth instead of pile-on jokes.
What sets it apart: The show combines score-based eligibility, practical film details, recurring theme months, and filmmaker interviews. Its strongest lane is affectionate reappraisal: finding what still works without sanding away what is awkward, excessive, or uneven.
Whether you call them guilty pleasures, B-movies, shlock, or bad movies, acknowledging what we like and embracing why we like it is essential. So, join me and a carousel of guests as we delve into the bad movies we hold dear and discuss what makes them loveable.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Nick Scheiss gives disreputable movies patient, funny criticism built from close attention to performances, story choices and production context.
Bad Movies We Love treats a film's shaky reputation as an invitation to look closer. Host Nick Scheiss works with guests through character choices, performances, plot mechanics and the strange decisions that can make a compromised movie memorable.
Nick Scheiss gives Supernova's villain a character-development hearing, so your bad-movie affection gets to think aloud.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A year-end bad-movie list that turns the rules into part of the joke.
Bad Movies We Love leans on its year-end run to frame the best bad movies of 2025, and the charm is how Nick Scheiss turns the rules into part of the joke.
A local filmmaker conversation that connects movie making to the practical uncertainty of growing up.
Bad Movies We Love uses its Filmmaker in Focus format to center Emanuel Duga, and the result feels like a grounded local filmmaking conversation with an adult-life thread running through it.
A warm defense of a 1996 comedy with strong box-office numbers.
Nick Scheiss and Kristen spend the episode on why she keeps coming back to The First Wives Club from 1996, and the discussion stays grounded in the film's odd balance of adult appeal and broad success.
A sci-fi misfire gets a warm, skeptical defense that keeps circling its alien-artifact logic and cast.
Bad Movies We Love treats Supernova as a decent case for a bad movie that still leaves something to talk about. The episode keeps coming back to the film's age games, the alien-artifact logic around Peter Facinelli's character, and the small lift Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert…
A Thanksgiving special built around Nick Scheiss and Vanya Garraway talking Perfect with easy, specific enthusiasm.
Nick Scheiss and Vanya Garraway spend this Thanksgiving special on James Bridges' 1985 aerobics romance journalism movie Perfect, and the episode lands best when it sticks to the trailer, the club spaces, and the reporter angle.


Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.




Nick Scheiss opens Bad Movies We Love’s best-of-2025 rundown by laying out the rules for who makes the list.
Bad Movies We Love opens the mic for Emanuel Duga.
Host Nick Scheist and guest Seth Vargas discuss Nicolas Cage's famously over-the-top performance in the 1993 film Deadfall as part of the Cage Against the Machine month celebration.
Bad Movies We Love closes Women's Month with The First Wives Club.
Host Nick Scheiss and guest Bethany Summersizzle discuss and celebrate the 2001 film Josie and the Pussycats, exploring its themes of music and fighting capitalism.
This episode features an interview with writer-director team Josie and Mitchell Robinson discussing their beginnings in film, collaborative process, and debut feature movie Somnia, including their experience with recent sold-out screenings.
Host Nick Scheiss and guest Raph discuss the 2000 film Charlie's Angels as a beloved bad movie, celebrating its MTV-style vibes and soundtrack.
Host Nick Scheiss and guest Bethany discuss the movie Spice World as part of a celebration of Women's Month, sharing their love for the film.
Host Nick Scheiss kicks off Women's Month by discussing the 1997 film Spice World with guest Tara Jabari.
Host Nick Scheiss introduces a new monthly solo format to connect directly with listeners and discuss bad movies.
Host Nick Scheiss introduces a month-long series on women's team-up movies, starting with a discussion of Angela Robinson's 2004 film 'Devs' with guests from Two Beer Cinema Club.
Host Nick Scheiss and guest Everett discuss the cult film Rubber, a movie about a killer tire, as part of a doubleheader episode celebrating bad movies.
Host Nick Scheiss and guests discuss the 1983 film Bloodbeat, exploring why they love bad movies.
Host Nick Scheiss and guest Stephen discuss the 1969 Mexican horror film 'Night of the Bloody Apes' from the Video Nasties list.
Host interviews filmmaker Wes Clark about his inspirations, filmmaking in Philadelphia, and his new film How to Start a Cult in Five Easy Steps.
Host Nick Scheiss and guest Jonathan Janz discuss the 1992 folk horror satire Ravenous as part of Horror Month.
Host Nick Scheiss and guest Jamie Ray discuss the 1984 cult horror film 'Blood Suckers from Outer Space' as part of the podcast's Horror Month theme.
Host Nick Scheiss and his wife Kristen discuss the 1987 Disney Channel TV movie 'Not Quite Human' as part of a series celebrating bad movies.
A podcast where the host interviews filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee about her career and her film Paying For It, within a show dedicated to celebrating bad movies.
Nick Scheiss opens season five with a quick set of show updates before settling into the movie.
This episode features an interview with writer-director Alex Kugelman discussing independent filmmaking, distribution challenges, and lessons from short films applied to his feature film Don't Trip.
This episode of Bad Movies We Love features hosts discussing the 1984 cult film Buckaroo Banzai with guests Evan Rissi and Vanya Garraway, while encouraging listener engagement and support for the podcast.
Nick Scheiss opens a special Thanksgiving episode with a thank-you to listeners and a note that this is a standalone episode, not another NickVember Nicolas Cage movie.
The host introduces the podcast's Nick Vember series, promotes subscriptions and a $5 membership tier for exclusive content, and teases an upcoming review of the 2017 movie 'Mom and Dad'.
A preview of a members-only series where the host and a guest discuss the 2025 film 'Anemone' by Ronin Day-Lewis, exploring why they love a movie that is widely considered bad.
An interview with filmmaker Topher Graham about his career and upcoming short film, part of a series celebrating bad movies.
Host Nick Scheiss interviews filmmaker Elliot Hasler about his film Vindication Swim and his experiences at film festivals.
A sneak preview of a new series where hosts discuss the 1996 sci-fi film 'The Arrival' and its place in bad movie canon.
The hosts discuss Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis and debate whether it will become a beloved bad movie or remain critically panned.
A preview of a new members-only series where the host and a guest discuss the 2024 film Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola.
The host and guest discuss a currently-in-theaters bad movie, analyzing why it's disliked and what makes it enjoyable.
Host Nick Scheiss interviews filmmaker Stephen Bernstein about his career and new project GRQ, as part of a series spotlighting creators behind beloved bad movies.