Jen and the Film Critic

Oh what, you managed to finish your list six months ago? Well good for you! It takes us exactly this long and here it is. The very best films of 2025 according to these legendary podcasters.

Jen is dead, long live Jen! Ok fine, she's not dead at all. But she is abroad, so we had to get another Jen. This one is faster, stronger, named Becs, and did I mention faster? She's fast. Featuring: Super Mario Galaxy, The Drama Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Mother Mary, Rebuilding, Impossible Address, Matter of Britain, An Incomplete Calendar, Filme Pin, Undertone, Dracula, Daria's Night Flower, The B...

Whoops! This should have gone out about three months ago. 0_0 Sorry about that! Remember Wuthering Heights? That cultural powerhouse? Well here's a hot take: it's not very good. Featuring: Wuthering Heights, History of Sound, Crime 101, Shelter, Send Help, Primate, Whistle, Iron Lung, Return to Silent Hill and Mercy. What a shocking start to the year.

The thrilling concluding chapter of Jen and the Film Critic episode 34. Jen and Paul have been captured by the empire (cinema chain) and can only escape the clutches of commercial cinema by talking about Tron Ares. Rated PG-13: Some Content. Featuring: The Running Man, Predator Badlands, Urchin, Relay, Shelby Oaks, Tron Ares, The Black Phone 2, The Smashing Machine, Him, The Shadow's Edge, One Bat...

Oof, we have not done one of these in a whiiiiile. We have SO many movies to review that we're going to have to do this in two damn goes. Featuring: Avatar: Fire and Ash, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Rental Family, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Hamnet, Anaconda, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, Animalia, Elia Mackay, Silent Night Deadly Night, Zootopia 2, Wicked For Good, Eternity, Blue Moon, Zodi...

Oops! In perhaps our latest episode yet, we time travel back to September 2025! We've got the next episode coming the next few episodes which will get us right up to date! Featuring: Eddington, Life of Chuck, The Roses, The Naked Gun, Materialists, Sorry, Baby, Freakier Friday, Young Mothers, Fantastic Four, Together, Weapons, Bring Her Back, Nobody 2, The Kingdom, and What Does That Nature Say to...

Good lord, it's that time of year again! The London Film Festival has happened and Paul saw way too many movies in a very narrow time period! Also mum might have a think or two to add too... Featuring: (deep breath) My Father's Shadow, Exit 8, Romeria, The Secret Agent, Lucky Lu, Chronology of Water, Train Dreams, The Blue Trail, Peter Hujar's Day, Mare's Nest, The Ice Tower, Bad Apples, Father Mo...

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: L...

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 Ac...

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 B...

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 surpris...

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...

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, Bl...

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...

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.scienceandmediam...

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 Frank...

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 Bag...

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, Sa...

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...

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 Hero...

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,...

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-ver...