I was curious as to what shows out there are ranked among the Best Movie Podcasts. I poked around and located a handful of lists and did a very unscientific survey of them to come up with what are consistently ranked the top five shows. Here's what I discovered:
Top Over All (4 or More Votes)
- /Filmcast (10)
- Filmspotting (9)
- Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews (6)
- The Projection Booth (6)
- Filmspotting SVU (5)
- How Did This Get Made (5)
- Slate.com Spoiler Specials (5)
- The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith (5)
- Doug Loves Movies (4)
- Film Junk (4)
- KCRW's The Business (4)
- KCRW's The Treatment (4)
- Scriptnotes (4)
Supporting data:
| 32 INCREDIBLE PODCASTS YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING TO by James Walker of WOW 24/7 |
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| Pod City: 19 Popcorn-Worthy Movie Podcasts (Part 2) by Whitney Matheson of Mental_Floss |
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| Ten Movie Podcasts for Your Ears' Enjoyment by Movie Vigilante |
| THE TOP 10 FILM PODCASTS PLUS 10 OTHERS YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE TO by Geoff Todd |
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| 10 Movie-Related Podcasts You Should Be Listening To by James Garcia |
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| Pop Podcast Primer: My top 10 film podcasts by Whitney Matheson |
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| The Best Movie Podcasts by WixPix |
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| Essential podcasts for movie geeks by Glen Chapman |
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| Five Film Podcasts You Should Be Listening To by Kate McCall |
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| 5 Movie Podcasts you Should be Listening to by Adam |
| 5 Best Movie Podcasts by Thomas Winward |
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| The Guardian (UK Newspaper/Website) did their own survey recently, The Q&A and Box Angeles: readers recommend the best film podcasts. |
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| And Film.com had their list of "11 Must-Download Podcasts for Movie Lovers." |
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| Filmmaker Magazine did a list of A Guide to the World of Film Podcasts |
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| Shipra Gupta at IndieWire wrote 10 Podcasts for Filmmakers, Film Fans and Industry Folks |
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| Karen Kemmerle at Tribecca Films listed the 5 Best Podcasts for Movie Lovers: |
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Finally, if you can't believe a random person on Reddit then who else are you going to believe?
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For what it's worth, my recent favorites in no particular order have been: TPB, The After Movie Diner/Dr. Action and the Kickass Kid (and anywhere else Jon Cross graces his presence,) Schlock Treatment, Bloodbaths and Boomsticks, Drunk on VHS, Badasses, Boobs, and Body Counts, and B-Movie Breakdown.
ReplyDeleteI used to be a regular listener of both Film Sack and Bad Movie Fiends, but something about each turned me off over time. I remember liking BMF more, so perhaps I'll revisit them first. Your Favorite Podcast kind of lost me when they decided to tweak their format a bit, but Jim and Josh are damn hilarious so I definitely owe it to them and myself to catch up.
Not to sound like "that guy," for as popular as a lot of those listed podcasts apparently are, I've honestly only heard of 2 or 3 of them I didn't already mention. Yay... ?
No Outside the Cinema on any of those lists. Shame on every single person above.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Any show that is foolhardy enough to have us on it multiple times is doing something right. :)
DeleteBesides tuning in each week to the Projection Booth, I am a loyal every-episode listener of both the Rialto Report and the B-Movie Cast, but these are both specialty-interest shows with fairly narrow focus. If old B movies or 1970s porn don't interest you, you probably don't listen to these programs. It seems like, by and large, these "best movie podcasts" lists are dominated by more general-interest, across-the-board type shows with a wider appeal. TPB is probably the only show in that category I really listen to. I used to listen to both Filmspotting and Battleship Pretension, but I kind of lost interest in those and gravitated toward more niche podcasts.
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