Jen and the Film Critic

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 G...

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

Struggling to adjust to a monthly release, Paul reviews 11 films whilst Jen frantically googles the attractive people he mentions and offers him soft insults. Neither would have it any other way! Featuring: Creed 3, Antman and the Wasp Quantumania, Knock at the Cabin, Cocaine Bear, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Broker, Skinarmarink, What's Love Got to Do with It?, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, B...

Time to round up the big January releases and here in the UK we've got lots and lots of Oscar movies to cover! As well as a hilarious killer robot girl film, a hilarious Gerard Butler performance, and a good thriller! Featuring: M3GAN, Plane, Missing, Babylon, The Fabelmans, Empire of Light, The Whale, Man Called Otto, Till, and Tar.

It's four weeks ago! Paul is very sick and Jen is very full of rich food. Time to talk about the last month of movies! Featuring: Avatar: The Way of Water, Corsage, White Noise, All Quiet on the Western Front, Violent Night, She Said, Tori and Lokita, and Strange World.

Jen and her film critic have just a little bit more film festival to report! Thanks to the LFF's commitment to accessibility and digital methods of film distribution, a big bunch of movies were available online this year, and both Jen and her critic were able to dive on in! Featuring: Hidden Letters, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, Crows are White, Inland, Utama, An Avocado Pit, The Woodcutter's St...

Jen has her film critic experience some real highs and lows this episode with superhero movies, horror films and a gay rom com! Who could ask for anything more? Featuring: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Black Adam, The Woman King, Bros, Halloween Ends, The Menu, Barbarian, Smile, and Aftersun!

Paul has seen a ludicrous number of films and is ready to share his thoughts! This is a giant preview of some of the biggest movies heading your way in the next year! Featuring (deep breath): Matilda, You Will Not Be Alone, Joyland, Boy from Heaven, The Wonder, Aisha, Bones and All, Next Sohee, Godland, The Stranger, The Origin, Saint Omer, My Father's Dragon, Alcaras, The Whale, Enys Men, Triangl...

The LFF has started! And before he back absolutely overwhelmed with galas and Chalamet, the film critic was able to catch some choice press previews! Featuring: EO, NightMare, Blaze, Chee$e, One Fine Morning, Lynch/Oz, Blue Island, Fragments of Paradise, and Sick of Me.

September was a long and strange one and now it's time to reflect before the spooky month starts! We've got troubled productions, sexy genies, messy metaphors, and the first Christmas film of the year? Also Idris Elba punches a lion. Featuring: Don't Worry Darling, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Crimes of the Future, See How they Run, Moonage Daydream, Beast, and Ticket to Paradise.

The pressure is on as Jen races to record an episode with her film critic before her excellent holiday. Luckily she didn't sleep well and Paul just had a hot bath so both sides are quite sleepy. Come enjoy their thrilling, giddy energy! Featuring: Nope, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bullet Train, The Invitation, The Feast, Where is Anne Frank? and Prey.

Whoops! Paul over-compensated for a seemingly dry cinematic season and now has to talk about ten movies (well, nine and a bit). Come see some heated discussion of Marvel, Netflix, Elvis and the podcasts second ever hot take! Featuring: Thor Love and Thunder, Elvis, The Grey Man, The Black Phone, Where the Crawdads Sing, The Railway Children Return, Mad God, Ithaka and Man Vs Bee.

It's the summer blockbuster season! So what better time to talk about folk horror films Men and All My Friends Hate Me? We will also talk about the dinosaur movie and the plane movie and that one with Buzz Lightyear in it, but we know why you're really here! We also talk about casting a diverse James Bond! Featuring: Jurassic Park Dominion, Top Gun Maverick, Lightyear, Men, All My Friends Hate Me,...

It's Sundance London 2022 and Paul has spent 24 of the last 48 hours in a cinema watching movies. Now it's 11.00pm and Jen has to listen to this awful man review 12 films! Featuring: Brian And Charles, Good Luck To You Leo Grande, Free Chol Soo Lee, Hatching, Fire Of Love, Sharp Stick, Resurrection, The Princess, Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul, We Met In Virtual Reality, Watcher, and A Love Song!

It's multiple-multiverse films this week as Jen and her film critic explore the bizarre realities of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness and Everything Everywhere All At Once. Will they also happen upon a universe in which Stephen King adaptation Firestarter is good? Featuring: Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Firestarter, Vortex, Benedictio...

Two of the most anticipated films of the week came out this week, but never mind, it's time to discuss Viking revenge dramas, WW2 spy dramas, medieval lesbian nun dramas, Nicholas Cage dramas, and pregnancy drama drama! We also take a little look at the terrifyingly immense Cannes film festival all the goodies it has ins tore for you. Featuring: The Northman, Operation Mincemeat, Benedetta, The Un...

Jen and her film critic visit the always excellent BFI FLARE festival to experience the latest and greatest from the world of LGBTQI+ cinema! Featuring: Sublime, Sirens, Sound of Scars, Manscaping, Being Bebe, Fracture, North by Current, First Fallen, A Distant Place, Jimmy in Saigon and more!

In this massive episode we review eight brand new movies: Morbius, Sonic 2, The Lost City, X, Ambulance, Turning Red, Boiling Point, and Compartment No. 6.

Jen and her film critic, Paul Salt, take on The Batman and the three or four movies brave enough to share a release window with it. Featuring: The Batman, Ali and Ava, Red Rocket, Cyrano, The Duke, and The Godfather.

This week Jen has her film critic review Uncharted, Moonfall, Death on the Nile, Flee, Nightmare Alley, Amulet and The Worst Person in the World! Enjoy and sorry again that we're really bad at saying names.

Watch as the Film Critic completely destroys his credibility by disliking a critical darling and enjoying a silly bit of nonsense. Reviews: Scream, Parallel Mothers, Memoria, The Souvenir Part 2, Belfast, The 355, The King's Man and Men in Black, weirdly. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jen asks her film critic about that new Matrix film, the remake of West Side Story, the bafflingly titled Licorice Pizza, TITANE!, The Lost Daughter and The Tragedy of Macbeth. The only real tragedy would be to miss it! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Jen asks Paul to review Spiderman: No Way Home, Lamb, C'mon C'mon, Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City, House of Gucci, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and Spencer! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.