Filmspotting WBEZ

I started listening to Filmspotting about 3 months ago and I love it so much! I enjoy going back to old episodes on movies I love and listening to the newest ones each week. I have a very long commute every morning and afternoon, but Filmspotting makes my drives so much fun and has become the best part of my days. Adam and Josh have introduced me to so many new films that I have added about 300 movies to my already 600-movie long watchlist. I can’t wait to dive in! If you’re a cinephile, I don’t know why you don’t listen already.

This is an excellent podcast if you are interested in film, and its great to hear Josh and Adam discuss. I especially appreciate that they grapple with questions of gender, race, and class, and evaluate films thoughtfully while considering what has changed in society since the film was made.

It is certainly a podcast that has a very languid pace, and can drag or feel like its been fluffed up a bit with extraneous content. I would personally prefer a more streamlined episode, but there are moments where I'm happy to shift into their unhurried time warp.

Every week hosts Josh and Adam bring more than an hour of insightful and Amusing film commentary. A current movie is reviewed, a top five list is given of movies which are outstanding on a related team director or actor, And there are other recurring themes such as massacre theater in which the host act out a scene (which I can never remember). There are two fantastic reasons to watch the show. One, it tells you which of the current movies are worth seeing, without ever spoiling the movie. To it gives you many old movies which are worth seeing on streaming outlets allowing you to fill in gaps in your film history. It’s a great podcast and I highly recommend it