Cinema Wellman

Join us for our 1st ever "animated" episode, so it's better to watch it than to listen to it although you'll still get the information. But if you listen and not watch, you'll miss the fun drawings our artistic director Denise created of me in studio.

Join us for a short episode of NON-basketball movies we screened during our March of Madness! One was a bomb, but we also have four movies we think are worth your time.

Cinema Wellman ranks this year's Best Picture Oscar Nominees from #10 to #1, which is really the only way rankings should ever be unveiled.

Cinema Wellman opens the envelopes a day early and unveils their choices for this year's Oscars.

Join us as we unveil Cinema Wellman's "Mt. Rushmore" of Film Composers! We also have another four film composers to celebrate in an extremely honorable mention category! You may not know ALL of them by name, but you know all eight of these masterful composers!

Since everyone else does a "Year in Review," why can't Cinema Wellman? Well, we can, and we did, and it's all the facts and stats from our screenings in 2025 that, frankly, nobody asked for. And yet here it is! Happy Season 5 of Cinema Wellman, and Happy 2026!

It's a WRAP for Season 4 of Cinema Wellman AND 2025! Join us as we break down the Best & Worst of the 4th quarter of 2025. Happy New Year!

Happy Festivus! That means it's once again time to air our annual list of grievances when it comes to movies! We'll also thank some people who are very special to us here at Cinema Wellman. Happy Holidays!

Ho Ho How could we put ourselves through this punishment so close to Christmas?! We have once again saved you from coal in your stocking by screening all five, yes, they made five, movies in the "Silent Night, Deadly Night" series. This series wasn't good at all, but the WORST of the bunch was pretty evident!

Since we were away for the tail end of last year, we weren't able to drone on and on about a bunch of movies we loved (or hated!). Lucky you, that's what today's episode is all about. As always, we have some films we think you should check out and other we would suggest you avoid like the pox. 

We decided to do our Top 10/Bottom 5 lists quarterly in 2025 instead of monthly for a couple of reasons outlined in our Season 4 opening episode. Today we present our Top 10/Bottom 5 for the 1st quarter of the year (the months of January, February, and March). There are more than a few we highly recommend, and that nasty handful to stay away from, of course. 

Have you ever watched a movie, heard a song used in the soundtrack and think to yourself, "This song again?! Is this song in every movie ever made?!" The answer for some songs is closer to yes than no! Today's episode will cover a playlists worth of songs that appear over and over and over and over and over again. Sometimes in strange films that seem like odd fits.  So if you like P...

We are back with our 8th installment of one of our favorite recurring segments; WHICH WAS WORSE?! As always, we pit two obviously bad films against one another, we grade it using our official WWW Rubric, and then we put it through the Lightning Round of Abuse in order to ultimately decide Which Was Worse! Spoiler Alert: I LOVED one of today's films! Go figure!

Just when you were starting to think we had gone dark forever, Cinema Wellman is BACK with Season 4!! Today's episode will attempt to explain our lengthy hiatus that was not our idea.  We will also run down our rankings of the most recent Best Picture nominees. If that seems like it was forever ago, it was.  We are very happy to be back, and we're glad you're back with us!

Join us in Cinema Wellman as we break down the worst and best movies we screened here during the month of July! Beware: there are sequels involved....and prequels!!! read: cinemawellman.com watch: @YouTube

Join us as we welcome Wes Anderson to our Director's Corner AND our Friends of Cinema Wellman Hall of Fame simultaneously! We enlisted the help of seven other esteemed critics to compile a comprehensive ranking of all 11 of Wes Anderson's feature films.  No spoilers here at all since we'd love for you to explore the wonderful world of Wes Anderson on your own. We'll just give y...

Join us for our 4th City Spotlight episode and our 100th overall episode! We take a look at 9 films that successfully use London as a character. The genres vary from action to rom com to horror to crime, and London changes along with the films. 

Join us in Cinema Wellman as we break down the Best & Worst of the month of June (even though it technically isn't over). One bad, four good! Can't argue with that. Mentioned in this episode: Frank Bonner of "W.K.R.P. in Cincinatti" Joanna Cassidy (without her snake) and more! 

Join us for a relatively quick episode detailing some of the items we somehow forgot to include the first time around.  Plus, a quick salute to the late Donald Sutherland. Our "Director's Corner"/Wes Anderson Lovefest has been moved to next month in order to allow for rescreening of all 11 of his films. Further scrutiny! :)

Back in the day, the Cinema Wellman DVD Vault was overflowing with all sorts of movies, tv shows, live music, and comedy specials. Oh, and cartoons! Today we'll begin a new series, and today's first episode will only take up seven minutes of your time! Give us a listen as we go through some DVD "Combo Platters" found in the Cinema Wellman DVD Vault. read: cinemawellman.com watc...

Every month's end means another Cinema Wellman Best & Worst episode! May's list is short, but there's still a lot to talk about, including a movie so bad I needed to ask friends for help destroying it.  read: cinemawellman.com watch: @youtube

We have another special guest in studio this week (she won't say much, but you can see her if you watch the episode on YouTube) as we screened nine dog movies that were new to us here at Cinema Wellman! You'll be amazed at how much some of these animals can accomplish without the benefit of opposable thumbs! read: cinemawellman.com watch: @YouTube 

For only the second time in three seasons, we have a GUEST on this week's Cinema Wellman podcast! Join us as we welcome (Executive Producer) Hannah for a grisly discussion of all the ways to die presented in the Final Destination Series! We will discuss how we'd like to go along with the deaths we want no part of! Spoiler Alerts Galore! Along with buckets of blood! We'll keep an eye...

There was a major milestone at Cinema Wellman during the month of April, and it had nothing to do with Kiefer Sutherland! Join us for the Best & Worst of the month to find out everything you ever wanted to know about Wuxia! read: cinemawellman.com watch: @YouTube