Film Reviews Podcasts

A recommendation becomes useful when you can hear what produced it. On Reel Talk with Honey & Jonathan Ross, EP 112: Scream 7, How to get to Heaven from Belfast, The Moment moves from family catch-up into Honey’s dissatisfaction with Scream 7’s character relationships. Jonathan complicates the discussion of its AI ideas by suggesting that rapidly changing technology can outpace a script during production. A disappointed reaction becomes a conversation.

Linoleum Knife makes its verdict tangible in 696. Backrooms, Obsession, Is God Is, The Mandalorian and Grogu, Pressure. The hosts read Obsession through a man’s deprivation of a woman’s agency, praise Indy Navarone’s performance and acknowledge narrative situations they find goofy. They explicitly withhold the worse events that follow. A prospective viewer gets the film’s concerns and the hosts’ reservations without spending its surprises.

Knowing a movie well changes the questions you ask of it. The Rewatchables uses recurring categories to turn affection into something the panel can argue over: the scene worth replaying, the memorable shot, the food that somehow deserves recognition. In ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan, the panel considers how the film explains racing to an audience, comparing it with financial dramas in which characters need complicated ideas translated into ordinary language. A sports-movie conversation becomes a question about how storytelling teaches.

Awesome Movie Year puts affection under different pressure in The Goonies (1985 Jason's Pick). Josh Bell finds the overlapping chatter an obstacle to understanding the setup; Jason Harris defends it as the way children behave. Neither saw the film as a child, yet they describe different attachments to it. Admiration has to explain itself. Watch the film before either detailed discussion, then follow the Classic & Cult Films page for more retrospective listening.

History can begin with a performer in the corner of the frame. On Micheaux Mission, Len Webb and Vincent Williams give supporting actors attention alongside the leading names. Trepass (1992) travels through actor connections and television credits before reaching the film itself. Their praise of Walter Hill’s direction becomes specific to the warehouse space and the images they say could hold attention even with the sound off. Arrive willing to follow a career conversation before the review.

Trylove approaches a familiar filmmaker through a close argument. In Episode 377: THIEF (1981) with Kelly Krantz, the roundtable discusses the force of the Tangerine Dream score, then considers Frank’s hope of combining criminal work with an unaffected personal life. One participant wishes the film gave more space to his partner’s earlier life. The conversation keeps asking what the film shows, and what it leaves outside the frame. Choose this when you want interpretation to accompany the return to a classic.

Horror makes the before-or-after decision unusually consequential. The Evolution of Horror announces full spoilers at the start of MAN-MADE MONSTERS #27: Pulse (2001) & One Missed Call (2003) and asks listeners to watch both films first. Mike Muncer and Stacie Ponder distinguish Pulse’s ghosts from the murderous adversaries viewers might expect, interpreting its fear through loneliness. Their discussion revisits the early internet as something exciting and unknowable. The pairing gives the films a shared technological setting without flattening their differences.

Fright Mic makes the effort of following a film audible. In Now Playing: It's What's Inside, Sam and Liz admire the actors’ body-switching performances, then repeatedly correct themselves while sorting out who occupies which body. Their enthusiasm survives the confusion. This is company for someone who has already watched and wants to puzzle it through, with patience for conversational backtracking. Continue to the Horror Film Reviews page for more genre listening.

A review can raise a question that an interview then answers. /Film Weekly combines those forms in undertone (with Writer/Director Ian Tuason), V For Vendetta's 20th Anniversary (with James McTeigue), and More. The reviewers question how undertone portrays podcast recording; Tuason explains how studying Paranormal Activity helped him work out what would make the film’s audio recordings frightening. Save it until after viewing if you want to preserve the discovery: their discussion reaches plot details.

Business talk becomes revealing when it changes how you understand a film’s presentation. In The Filmcast’s Ep. 861 - The Wrecking Crew, the hosts debate an advertisement that omits the movie’s title. They suggest it may be selling a subscription more than an individual film, while joking about knowing what to search for. Their interpretation of the marketing has a recognisable viewer problem attached. For a wider route across screen conversation, use the TV & Film page.

Recognition becomes criticism when someone explains why it matters. Masters of the Nerdiverse Podcast does that in MOTN Reviews: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). Mike G and Wash linger on musical memories and the staging of the pipe sequences, praising how the film makes the game’s navigation legible on screen. Their delight is emphatic and assumes an appetite for Mario references. Begin here if remembering the games is part of your reason for watching.