Jen and the Film Critic
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Jen loves movies, but who has the time to watch them all or even most of them? The Film Critic does! So join us for a light-hearted take on the week's biggest movies and obscure gems! A Screen Mayhem podcast.
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In possibly the very quickest turnaround yet, this episode comes to you only one massive superhero movie behind! Fantastic Four next time, but for now, Jen and her film critic shall reckon with a few dozen franchise entries and some good films at the end so stick around! Featuring: Superman, Jurassic World: Rebirth, F1, Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning, Ballerina, Ellio, Karate Kid: Legends, I Know What You Did Last Summer, 28 Years Later, M3gan 2.0, Clown in a Cornfield, The Phoenician Scheme, The Shrouds, Tornado, Tree of Authenticity, The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire, Pavements, Ballad of Wallis Island and Hot Milk.
What I love most about preparing for this podcast is realising I haven't actually uploaded the last episode. Whoops! Sorry everyone, but the good news is that there's a whole 'nother ep' coming by end of next week! Featuring movies you remember...won't that be fun?!Featuring: Sinners, Thunderbolts*, Final Destination: Bloodlines, The Surfer, Siticulosa, Good One, Bogancloth, Motel Destino, The Accountant 2, The Amateur, The Minecraft Movie, Cloud, Warfare, Four Mothers, Death of a Unicorn, Drop, La Cochina and The Woman in the Yard, Jesus!
Happy 30th everyone! Good lord, we've done 30 of these things and to celebrate, we have way too many movies to discuss! Enjoy this bumper episode of Jen and the movie guy! Featuring: Novocaine, Love Hurts, A Working Man, Marching Powder, Mickey 17, In the Lost Lands, Snow White, Captain America: Brave New World, Opus, Companion, Hans Zimmer and Friends: Diamonds in the Desert, Kim's Video, Black Bag, September 5th, I'm Still Here, Seed of a Sacred Fig, Sister Midnight, The Last Showgirl, The Monkey, Heart Eyes, Flow, Memoir of a Snail, Hard Truths, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and The Alto Knights
Oof, sat on this one for a hot month! Sorry for that folks, but hopefully it will help bridge the gap because episode 30 is going to be with you in April. But find here all the best that January had to offer! Featuring: The Brutalist, Nosferatu, A Better Man, A Complete Unknown, A Real Plan, Flight Plan, Babygirl, Wolf Man, Maria, Sonic 3, We Live in Time, Vermiglio and a surprise film! (a surprise even to Paul).
Jen is back! And she has a word or two to say about that fake Jen we had last time. Mostly complimentary ones. But she's back now, and it's time for the last bunch of movies of 2024 before we spend the first half of 2025 watching movies from 2024. Whoo! Featuring: Murder Most Fowl, Red One, Hot Frostie, Nickel Boys, Gladiator 2, Mufasa, Moana 2, Wicked Part 1, Kraven, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, Scenario(s), Nightbitch, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, All We Imagine As Light, Conclave, Juror No. 2, and Heretic.
The film critic has finished his degree and is ready to catch up on all the movies he missed this year! ....and then just two short months later he's ready to release that episode! Next episode with the last of the year coming soon! Featuring: Inside Out 2, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Horizon: Chapter One, A Quiet Place: Day One, Kinds of Kindness, Maxxxine, Longlegs, Twisters, Trap, Alien: Romulus, Blind Twice, AfrAId, Kneecap, The Substance, Speak No Evil, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Joker: Folie à Deux, A Different Man, Transformers One, and Megalopolis.
Our coverage of LFF 2024, including brand new feature: Mum reviews! Oh, except Jen couldn't make it so Sara Keep fills in. She's better than Jen in every single way. Featuring: (in alphabetical order) 2073, Anora, Architecton, Blitz, Cats of Gokogu Shrine, Chain Reaction, Eight Postcards from Utopia, Endurance, Grand Theft Hamlet, Harvest, Hemel, Hexham Heads, Holloway, In Heat, It's Not Me, Kamay, Mother Vera, My Stolen Planet, Pepe, Piece by Piece, Queer, Room Next Door, Rumours, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Savages, Shadow Scholars, Stranger Eyes, The End, The Wailing, The Wild Robot, and When the Light Breaks
It's the most wonderful time of year again! ...no, not that one...or that one...Ok, you can stop guessing; it's Widescreen Weekend! A brilliant celebration of the widescreen formats of the 1950s and beyond! Jen and her film critic review this year's festival programme. Also, we have clips from Pauls interview with festival programmer Rebecca Hill! Come to the festival: https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/widescreen-weekendRead the full interview: https://screenmayhem.com/widescreen-weekend-2024-line-up-revealed/
Stop listening to this and go see Furiosa, damn it! Jen's seen it since, I've seen it again, do your part! Watch Furiosa! Then come back to see if I liked it...I'm seeing it again tomorrow. Featuring: Furiosa, Challengers, Fall Guy, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Hit Man, The Beast, If, Sting, Strangers: Chapter 1, Abigail, Hoard, and Made in England: The Films of Michael Powell.
Jen and her film critic want to talk about one of the biggest films of the year! Unfortunately, one of them is a little weirdo who likes complicated and contrived bits that go on too long. And now that's your problem too! Featuring: Civil War, Back to Black, Godzilla X Kong, Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, Monkey Man, The First Omen, Immaculate, Mother's Instinct, Late Night with the Devil, Lisa Frankenstein, Robot Dreams, La Chimera, Wicked Little Letters, Evil Does Not Exist, Perfect Days, The Sweet East, Drive Away Dolls, Love Lies Bleeding and another one...
Oops, we're running late again! No Dune Part Two this time, folks. Don't worry, though; we've got a great big review of that coming right up. But first relive those heady pre-Arrakis days of February 2024. Featuring: Argylle, The Taste of Things, Madam Web, Mean Girls, The Iron Claw, The Colour Purple, American Fiction, The Kitchen, The Boys in the Boat, One Life, The Beekeper, Night Swim, and Baghead.
January has been a wild month! We can now bring you the December episode of our podcast, which includes all the big releases from the last six weeks of 2023, including some very divisive films!Featuring: Ferrari, Aquaman 2, Rebel Moon, Godzilla Minus One, The Three Musketeers Part 2: Milady, Wonka, Femme, Anselm, Wish, Napoleon, The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Thanksgiving, Saltburn, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, and Silent Night.
October and November continued the 2023 narrative of cinematic disruption as Marvel floundered and indie films reigned! Indie films backed by massive institutions or globally famous celebrities, sure, but indie nevertheless! Take that, big studios. Please save cinema, Taylor. Featuring: Killers of the Flower Moon, The Marvels, The Eras Tour, The Eternal Daughter, Anatomy of a Fall, Five Nights at Freddy's, Cat Person, How to Have Sex, Bottoms!, Dream Scenario, The Exorcist Believer, and Sumotherhood.
It's that time of year again! Yes, one month after LFF when Paul finally finished editing the monster batch of reviews that include some of the biggest films of next year and some obscure little gems! Featuring: Cobweb, Fingernails, Memory, The Goldman Case, Samsara, The Pigeon Tunnel, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, May December, Maestro, Priscilla, The Killer, Occupied City, The Boy and the Heron, Red Rooms, Fallen Leaves, Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World, Monster, Eileen, The Holdovers, Close Your Eyes, The Royal Hotel, Scala!!!, The End We Start From, All of Us Strangers, The Zone of Interest, and Poor Things.
Already feeling the pinch of the then-upcoming film festival, Paul tries to review 11 films without notes but with a terrible cough. He also experiences audio issues so apologies if the audio drops out a little in places. Jen, meanwhile, would rather talk about Babies, the stock market, and genuinely helpful life advice. What a nerd. Featuring: The Creator, Equaliser 3, Exepnd4dables, Dumb Money, Haunting in Venice, Cobweb, The Nun 2, Scrapper, The First Slam Dunk, The Old Oak, and Love Life!
Uh oh, the unnamed film critic has covid. So be prepared for a slightly more medicated than usual rundown of the biggest films of the month! Featuring: Blue Beetle, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Gran Turismo, Haunted Mansion, The Meg 2, Strays, Joy Ride, Kokomo City, Theatre Camp, Paris Memories, and The Innocent.
Jen and her film critic have gathered to discuss the film event of the year: the simultaneous release of Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. They're going to need some help though. Jen has invited a friend of the podcast, Katy Maydon, to bring a bit of historical background and Barbie energy to proceedings.Featuring: Oppenheimer, Barbie
What a chaotic month! Sure things flopped and flop things flipped! Into the box office that is. What? It's a been a month of surprises, so Jen needs her film critic to break it down into easy to manage pairs of films! How long shall this conceit last? You might be surprised! Featuring: Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Spiderman: Across the Spider-verse, The Flash, Asteroid City, No Hard Feelings, Insidious: The Red Door, The Boogeyman, Pretty Red Dress, Medusa Deluxe, Elemental, and Reality
We recorded a couple of weeks ago so we have Eurovision on our minds as we discuss the big movies of May! Also all the smaller better movies of May. Featuring: The Little Mermaid, Fast X, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Beau is Afraid, Evil Dead Rise, Hypnotic, Return to Seoul, The Blue Caftan, The Eight Mountains, Under the Fig Trees, Polite Society, The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan, Sisu and Master Gardener.
Jen had a lovely holiday in Japan! Yay! Now she has to catch up on six weeks of film releases. Yor. Featuring: Renfield, Dungeons and Dragons: Among Thieves, Super Mario Brothers, Shazam 2, John Wick 4, Scream 6, Air, Suzume, 65, Rye Lane, Pearl, God's Creatures, The Night of the 12th, and the Pope's Exorcist
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