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Filmspotting

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199 episodes

Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen review new and classic movies, offering "affable, insightful film analysis since 2005" (NY Times). This show includes AI-generated content.

Episodes

Featuring: Table Read Podcast | PV & FRANNY - Part 2

about 12 hours ago

17m


Blue Velvet at 40: Beneath the Surface | #1081

Sep. 18

1h 38m


Top 5 David Lynch Scenes | Archive

Sep. 16

40m


Existential Zones, Pt. 2 — It Ends

Sep. 15

1h 2m


We Can’t Look Away From Netflix’s Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly | SVU

Sep. 15

1h


"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun" with Rachel Walther | The Movie Racket

Sep. 14

58m


Introducing: Table Read Podcast | PV & FRANNY - Part 1

Sep. 12

20m


Coyote vs. Acme and The Rocky Horror Picture Show | #1080

Sep. 11

1h 36m


Top 5 Music Docs | Archive

Sep. 9

46m


Kenneth Branagh Can’t Rescue Apple TV’s Mayday | SVU

Sep. 8

1h 11m


Existential Zones, Pt. 1 — Solaris (1972)

Sep. 8

1h 8m


Stop Making Sense vs. The Last Waltz | Movie Death Match

Sep. 7

1h 36m


Featuring: Table Read Podcast | SuburbaKnight - Act 3

Sep. 5

45m


Ridley Scott Draft with Roxana Hadadi and Filipiñana | #1079

Sep. 4

2h 6m


Blade Runner with Michael Phillips | Archive

Sep. 2

35m


What Is Hulu’s Desert Warrior and Who Is It For? | SVU

Sep. 1

1h 42m


The Family That’s Prey Together, Pt. 2 — The End of Oak Street

Sep. 1

1h 1m


"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union" with Robert Daniels | The Movie Racket

Aug. 31

54m


Top 5 Needle Drops (Pt. 2)

Aug. 30

1h 1m


Featuring: Table Read Podcast | SuburbaKnight - Act 2

Aug. 29

1h 2m


Top 5 Needle Drops (Pt. 1) and It Ends | #1078

Aug. 28

1h 39m


The Family That's Prey Together, Pt. 1 — War of the Worlds (2005)

Aug. 27

1h 5m


Midnight Run | Archive

Aug. 26

46m


Don’t Say Good Luck and the Evolution of Happy Madison Productions | SVU

Aug. 25

1h 11m


"The hardest thing in film scoring is to know when to start and when to stop" with author Tim Greiving | The Movie Racket

Aug. 24

44m


The End of Oak Street, plus Tony and Late Fame | #1077

Aug. 21

2h 14m


Top 5 Kristen Stewart Scenes | Archive

Aug. 19

35m


The Last House and Netflix’s Apocalypse Obsession | SVU

Aug. 18

1h 31m


Anyone Can Cook, Pt. 2 — Tony

Aug. 18

1h 18m


"You owe everything to the movie and nothing to the original" with David Kajganich | The Movie Racket

Aug. 17

1h 14m


Marathon Awards | Dissident Cinema

Aug. 16

52m


Introducing: Table Read Podcast | SuburbaKnight Act 1

Aug. 15

25m


Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and The Brink of War | #1076

Aug. 14

1h 17m


Anyone Can Cook, Pt. 1 — Ratatouille

Aug. 13

1h 15m


Top 5 Movie Posters | Archive

Aug. 12

53m


Making Spidey Sense of Brand New Day’s Historic Box Office Haul | SVU

Aug. 11

1h 24m


"If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good" with Dana Stevens | The Movie Racket

Aug. 10

45m


The Circle: Oppression Is an Endless Loop | Dissident Cinema

Aug. 9

36m


Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Everybody to Kenmure Street, The Samurai and The Prisoner | #1075

Aug. 7

1h 26m


Top 5 Superhero-Director Combos (We'd Like To See) | Archive

Aug. 5

48m


Spider-Man 2 vs. Into the Spider-Verse | Movie Death Match

Aug. 3

1h 45m


Top 5 Spider-Man Scenes | #1074

Jul. 31

1h 40m


Home Sweet Homer, Pt. 2 — The Odyssey | Next Picture Show

Jul. 30

1h 14m


Spider-Man (2002) | Archive

Jul. 29

41m


Odyssey Fever! | SVU

Jul. 28

1h 32m


"A good movie is three good scenes and no bad ones” with Billy Mernit  | The Movie Racket

Jul. 27

58m


Introducing: The Black Guy Who Tips Podcast | Sitting Down! with Pete Dominick (Network Drop)

Jul. 26

1h 44m


The Odyssey: Nolan Makes the Ancient Epic His Own

Jul. 24

59m


Home Sweet Homer, Pt. 1 — O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Next Picture Show

Jul. 23

1h 15m


The Prestige | Archive

Jul. 22

47m


Budget Multi-Verse: Hulu's Redux Redux | SVU

Jul. 21

1h 38m


11 Rules for Box Office Appeal with Amy Nicholson | The Movie Racket

Jul. 20

42m


The Sorrow and the Pity: Dismantling the Gaullist Myth | Dissident Cinema

Jul. 18

49m


Top 5 Films of 2026 (So Far) | #1073

Jul. 17

1h 30m


Lady Justice, Pt. 2 — Supergirl | The Next Picture Show

Jul. 16

1h 1m


Top 5 Movie Tattoos (That We'd Get) | Archive

Jul. 15

43m


The State of Streaming: Tubi | SVU

Jul. 14

1h 46m


"Every film about war ends up being pro-war" with Michael Shannon | The Movie Racket

Jul. 13

43m


Fargo: Lies, Myths, and Murder, plus The Invite | #1072

Jul. 10

1h 46m


Miller's Crossing | Archive

Jul. 8

37m


Little Brother: Chaos Agent vs. Real Estate Agent | SVU

Jul. 7

1h 32m


Lady Justice, Pt. 1 — True Grit (2010) | The Next Picture Show

Jul. 7

1h 7m


Inception vs. Interstellar | Movie Death Match

Jul. 6

1h 30m


Introducing: Black True Crime | Teddy Pendergrass & The Murder of Taaz Lang (Network Drop)

Jul. 5

39m


Independence Day at 30: America Saves the Universe | #1071

Jul. 3

1h 26m


Interstellar | Archive

Jul. 1

42m


In The Hand of Dante: Pussycats and Purple Prose | SVU

Jun. 30

1h 31m


Toy Story 5 and The Death of Robin Hood, plus Rose of Nevada | #1070

Jun. 26

1h 27m


Top 5 Toy Story Scenes with Griffin Newman | Archive

Jun. 24

56m


Office Romance: Generic Title, Real Juice | SVU

Jun. 23

1h 26m


Disclosure Day: Can Spielberg Make Us Believe Again? | #1069

Jun. 19

1h 8m


Power Ranking Spielberg Decades | Archive

Jun. 17

34m


HBO’s Miss You Love You Belongs On Stage | SVU

Jun. 16

1h 35m


Z: Costa-Gavras’s Jolting Anti-Fascist Thriller | Dissident Cinema

Jun. 15

43m


Obsession and Power Ballad: Be Careful What You Wish For | #1068

Jun. 12

1h 27m


Top 5 Movie Bands | Archive

Jun. 10

37m


Netflix’s The Crash is an Ethical Sinkhole | SVU

Jun. 9

1h 29m


No Regrets for Our Youth: Kurosawa’s Bold Post-War Melodrama | Dissident Cinema

Jun. 8

37m


Backrooms and Exit 8: Liminality vs. Narrativity | #1067

Jun. 5

1h 17m


Top 5 Films of 1987 | Archive

Jun. 3

34m


Jack Ryan: Ghost War is a Simulacrum of Cinema | SVU

Jun. 2

1h 43m


Close Encounters of the Third Kind vs. E.T. | Movie Death Match

Jun. 1

1h 9m


Introducing : Cultivating H.E.R. Space Podcast | We Ride at Dawn: Ways We Show Up for Our Sisters with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford | Network Drop

May. 31

56m


The Mandalorian and Grogu and I Love Boosters | #1066

May. 29

1h 36m


Top 5 Single Location Movies | Archive

May. 27

32m


Ladies First: Sacha Baron Cohen Takes on the Matriarchy | SVU

May. 26

1h 29m


Tony Leung Talks Silent Friend, Plus Decorado and The Wizard of the Kremlin | #1065

May. 22

1h 25m


Top 5 Superhero Costumes | Archive

May. 20

44m


The State of Streaming: Netflix | SVU

May. 19

1h 24m


The Tree of Life at 15: Malick’s Cosmic Masterpiece Revisited | #1064

May. 15

1h 20m


Blue Heron: A Lyrical Debut — and an Early Golden Brick Contender

May. 14

37m


Top 5 Terrence Malick Scenes | Archive

May. 13

30m


Lord of the Flies: The BBC Brings Art to Netflix | SVU

May. 12

1h 49m


Rome, Open City: The Blueprint for Revolutionary Cinema | Dissident Cinema

May. 11

43m


Top 5 Meryl Streep Scenes | #1063

May. 8

1h 46m


The Devil Wears Prada 2: With a Defanged Miranda, What's Left?

May. 7

41m


Top 5 Overlooked Movies of the 2000s | Archive

May. 6

49m


People We Meet on Vacation: Rom-Coms Have a New Star | SVU

May. 5

1h 34m


The Great Dictator: Chaplin’s Act of Artistic Nobility | Dissident Cinema

May. 4

40m


Summer Movie Preview 2026 and ’40s Madness Champion | #1062

May. 1

1h 32m