talkabout: A Film Podcast

talkabout: A Film Podcast sounds like film criticism after it has been allowed to breathe. Ellis and Gwilym build episodes around films, trailers, franchise news, television spin-offs, and awards, but the real shape comes from the way their conversations wander. A review can begin with a skit about time travel, a stranded-island confession, or a mock quiz about animation and TV prequels. Then it turns practical. They talk about performances, dialogue, scene construction, tonal choices, and the moments where a film had an obvious stronger route and did not take it. The Scream 7 discussion, for example, weighs fun set pieces against thin characters and missed meta potential. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die brings out a more analytical mode, with talk about AI, grief, absurd bureaucracy, and a school-shooting allegory that initially feels risky before earning a more serious response. Send Help becomes a debate about manipulation, vulnerability, and what an ambiguous shot might imply. The show is not afraid of silly texture. Christmas tree etiquette, festival memories, vegetarian ham preferences, gym fleeces, rooftops, impressions, and concert rankings all get room. Those tangents do not replace the film talk; they give it personality. The speakers can be blunt about weak writing, but they also stay curious about why a scene lands or fails. Their awards format broadens the scope into film, TV, animation, cinematography, score, music moments, cinema moments, production work, and oddball categories. That mixture keeps the show from feeling like a standard review roundup. It is casual without being empty. It is opinionated without pretending every reaction is final. Listeners get jokes, bits, arguments, specific scene memories, and a sense of two recurring voices building a shared movie year as they go.