Film talk with a packed archive.
FilmFile is a brisk, conversational movie show built around regular voices, quick reactions, and long-running film habits. Recent episodes move from cinema-work stories and industry news into reviews, themed clip collections, box office roundups, and older-film discussions.
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FilmFile is a brisk, friendly film-discussion show built around a long-running conversation. It has the feel of a weekly catch-up that happens to know a lot about movies. The speakers move easily from tired work stories and cinema trips into news, reviews, box office notes, and older-film deep dives. The tone is casual, but the habit is committed. These are people who track franchise choices, casting stories, fan reactions, festival edits, Oscars timing, and the practical details of cinema culture. Recent episodes show a strong taste for genre material. Video game movies, Sonic casting, Super Mario, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Scream, Alien: Earth, The Mist, 28 Years Later, and Stephen King adaptations all sit naturally in the same lane. The show also likes a theme. A Mario release can become a wider look back at game-to-film adaptations, while a gap week can become a curated clip show built from old conversations. Milestone episodes matter here. The numbered edition becomes a chance to joke about comic-book numbering, spin-offs, restarts, and the strange size of the archive. That archive gives FilmFile its lived-in quality. It is not chasing the newest release at the expense of everything else. It keeps old reviews, physical media, quiz nights, listener questions, and recurring bits in circulation. The best moments come when the speakers list examples quickly, argue a preference, and then wander sideways into a joke before landing back on the point. It can be playful. It can be blunt about sequels, remakes, and nostalgia. It can also be genuinely reflective when a film, franchise, or cinema experience matters to them. The show is especially suited to film fans who like criticism with personality rather than a polished lecture. It has enough structure to follow and enough looseness to feel alive. FilmFile sounds like a continuing record of movie fandom as it is actually lived: tired, amused, opinionated, overstuffed, and still ready for the next screening.
Made for: For film fans who enjoy conversational reviews, franchise chatter, cinema news, and older-title deep dives. It especially fits listeners who like genre movies, geek culture, and a relaxed conversational dynamic.
What sets it apart: FilmFile stands out through its long archive and its mix of film coverage with lived cinema culture: work stories, quiz nights, box office notes, old reviews, and themed clip shows all feed the conversation.
The film show for film Geeks by film Geeks. With looks at the picks of film news, latest reviews, and a deep dive each episode into an older film of choice.Brought to you by two fans with links to film and cinema, there is chat, fun, and neat things to round things off.
Lee and Andy turn cinema news into the post-screening cafe chat you never wanted to end.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A nimble film-news catch-up that puts Lynne Ramsay's re-edit and Ben Kingsley speculation on the same busy map.
The Film File works best when film news opens into questions of revision, timing, and odd career turns. Lee Ford and Andy Bacon move from Lynne Ramsay returning to re-edit Die My Love after pressure around its Cannes deadline to the report that Alien Earth season two is set to…
Ford and Meakin revisit The Mist, weigh the next 28 Years Later film, and look ahead to Scream 7.
Lee Ford opens The Film File with a DVD swap idea before he and Andy Meakin return to a question from last week: why make another version of The Mist when they admire Frank Darabont's film?
A loose pre-Christmas film chat with Austin Butler news, sitcom nostalgia, and one very long nap.
The Filmphile treats the run-up to Christmas as a relaxed film-news catch-up, with Lee Ford and Andy Beacon moving from Andy's 14-hour couch sleep at the start of his week off into a run of familiar screen-world updates.
FilmFile returns with loose life chat, Ted Lasso debate, and clear-eyed Riddick verdicts.
FilmFile is back, with Lee Ford and Andy Meakin easing into the week's screen news through the kind of everyday detours that make the show feel lived in.
Star Wars minutiae, treated like headline news.
Fast jokes, big franchises, zero reverence.
Fast banter for serious Star Wars fans.
Star Wars, comics, and creator-room candor.
Old scares, fresh horror conversations.
Legends scrutiny with canon-aware bite.
Lee and Andy discuss their recent film viewing, including the Jumanji series and the movie Heads of State, and share personal anecdotes about waking up early.
Hosts Lee Ford and Andy Meakin return after a break, discussing personal chaos and reviewing 'The Crow' reboot.
Hosts Lee Ford and Andy Beacon discuss their geek credentials and listener submissions on the topic.
Lee Ford and Andy Meakin discuss their lack of Christmas spirit and recent events in a film podcast Christmas edition.
Lee Ford and Andy Meakin discuss the 50th anniversary restoration of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its enhanced sound.
Lee Ford and Andy Megan discuss 90s UK Saturday morning TV shows and the jingles that get stuck in your head.
Lee and Andy discuss the Oscar nominations and Lee's marathon viewing of nominated films, including his praise for the animated feature Flow.
Lee Ford and Andy Meegan connect Spider-Man's screen history to Peter Parker's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15.
FilmFile’s 300th numbered episode has Lee Ford and Andy Macon revisit the show’s development from kitchen-table recordings with Scott to a more conversational lockdown-era format.
A film podcast episode reviewing the Super Mario Galaxy movie and looking back at other video game adaptations.
Lee Ford and Andy Beacon discuss the challenges of recording early due to daylight saving time and their plans for the day.
FilmFile hosts Lee Ford and Andy Meakin cover the proposed animated Firefly continuation, which would fill the eight-month gap before Serenity and needs a broadcaster.
FilmFile’s Episode 297 covers the Oscars, listener choices for best and worst on-screen mothers, current film and television news, and a deep dive into Frank Marshall’s 1990 thriller Arachnophobia.
Lee Ford and Andy Bacon argue that J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek works because it creates the Kelvin timeline, not a straight reboot.
FilmFile hosts Lee Ford and Andy Meakin debate movie mashups, including Alien versus A Quiet Place's Death Angels, Pacific Rim versus Godzilla, and Barbie versus Jason.
Jason Statham will reportedly play himself in the action comedy Jason Statham Stole My Bike.