Movie news with teeth and context.
Slash Film Weekly is a fast-moving roundup of film and television news from the SlashFilm orbit. It pairs industry context with casual critical reactions, interviews, trailer talk, horror discussion, and the occasional sharp aside about where the business is headed.
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Slash Film Weekly is a film-and-TV news show with the tempo of an editorial meeting that never quite turns into a lecture. It starts with the week’s headlines and usually moves fast. Casting news, studio acquisitions, franchise updates, trailers, release plans, and filmmaker interviews all pass through the same practical filter. The show is comfortable naming names, connecting credits, and remembering older work without making the listener feel trapped in a reference contest. Ben Pearson’s introductions give the episodes a clear frame, and the conversations tend to stay topic-led even when the banter loosens up. A segment on Faces of Death can turn into a discussion of how horror now treats police as fallible or useless. A Super Mario Galaxy Movie conversation can become a sharper worry about Nintendo’s approach to storytelling. A Paramount and Warner Brothers item is not treated as abstract industry chess; the show lingers on the human cost of layoffs and consolidation. That gives the weekly format some bite. It also leaves room for sillier turns, from a Jason Statham title gag to questions about beaver sounds in Hoppers. Horror is a recurring thread, especially when the show talks about gore, low-budget craft, audio-driven fear, or new entries in familiar franchises. But the coverage is wider than horror. Episodes move from The Bride! to King Conan, from V for Vendetta’s anniversary to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, from Robert Duvall’s legacy to Super Bowl trailers that look too digitally scrubbed. Interviews are used as extensions of the conversation rather than ornamental add-ons. The show often explains the setup, states a reaction, then lets a filmmaker, actor, or guest clip add texture. Its judgments can be blunt. They rarely feel grandiose. The appeal is the combination of fast news utility, movie-nerd memory, and a willingness to say when something looks flimsy, cynical, strange, charming, or better than expected.
Made for: Built for film and TV followers who track casting, franchises, studio moves, horror releases, trailers, and filmmaker interviews. It works best for listeners who want informed reactions delivered casually, without trade-paper stiffness.
What sets it apart: The show blends headline rundowns with critic-style conversation and interview excerpts, so news rarely sits there as raw information. It gives industry stories, franchise developments, and genre movies the same brisk, skeptical attention.
Movie news, television news, interviews, and analysis from the editors and writers at slashfilm.com.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
/Film Weekly connects current screen-industry news with specific criticism and interviews involving the actors and filmmakers behind featured projects.
Ben Pearson, an editor at SlashFilm.com, moves /Film Weekly from casting and production news into candid criticism and filmmaker interviews. The magazine-style format keeps industry developments close to conversations about finished work, with contributors willing to disagree…
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