It’s the best podcast ever.

The show is charming above all else with fun tangents and great audio quality. Pro bits

This used to be a more fun podcast, and it still is on the patreon feed. But lately it feels like there’s been a lack of what I really loved about this show, which is idiosyncratic conversations between David/Griffin/Ben and friends, and more extremely famous people. And those conversations tend to be (politely worded) much more mannered and reserved and focused, which longtime fans will tell you is probably not what attracted them to the show in the first place. Suffering from success, I know, but I miss the way the show used to feel.

Best show!

Tried to listen to an episode about Spiderman movies, and these guys kept leaning away from the mic or lowering their voices and rambling about unrelated topics. Had to quit it, half of what they were saying was either too quiet or unintelligible.

Great show with encyclopedic knowledge of movies, and comedic banter. Best movie pod and it’s not even close! (This is not a Jimmy Smits burner account)

…and somehow missed these guys til now. They are heavyweights and have it all—knowledge, fun and funny, good chemistry, etc. And to think, it all started with a phantom menace!

Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.

David: Sure (smiling)

Great show to listen to if you want to hear what it’s like for rich private school guys with family in the industry waxing poetic about the discussions they had as 7 year olds with their parents about the philosophical ramifications of a movie I have never heard of from 1994 getting an Oscar. Griffin and Dave are aliens, they are truly bizarre people and I don’t care for them. I love the George Lucas talk show so go watch that.

Listened to the 28 Years Later episode, and it’ll probably be my last. It turned me off that they kept interrupting the female guest and as a woman interested in movies it felt like another film-bro podcast because of it. Maybe that’s unfair, and maybe they aren’t usually that way, but how hard is it to let someone finish a thought?

Love this show but—ffffff—I wish they would stop talking over each other and the guests. Sometimes you can hear the guests just give up because they can’t get a word in without getting ignored and bulldozed. Or the guest will keep talking for like an entire sentence in the hope that the hosts will get a clue and stop their interruption. It’s all enthusiasm, but still. That said, I love the show. It’s so fun and funny and informative. Definitely recommend.

The “28 Years Later” episode was fantastic, as usual. Is Marie now part of the on-air team? She’s wonderful, but this was the first show — at least that I can recall — where someone other than Griffin and David is part of the conversation the whole time…and yet isn’t a ‘Special Guest’ like Sean Fennessey or Timothy Simons. She definitely can “keep up” — which is saying something — and like Amanda Dobbins on “The Big Picture” (the only movie pod other than this one, that I have set to auto-download) her perspective is additive & complementary.

But I love this podcast.

I love this show but there are so many episodes covering movies that are just hard to get into. Ditch the current format and choose more engaging movies to cover please!

Do Andor!!! Love you guys and the podcast. You guys have given so much depth and interesting-ness to the movies I love and hate! But Rogue One, Andor season 1 and 2 is a perfect 3!

I started at the beginning at some point in 2025. I’ve made it to 149/150 and they made a big push for listeners to rate and review. So here I am. I’ve been listening daily for quite a while. Really enjoy it. Even checked out The Tick which was rad. IDK. I want to marry this podcast.

I’d love to listen to this but one of them sounds too much like Nick Wright

I’ve been listening for five years now and the Look Who’s Talking episode hit so hard that I realized I had to finally drop the 5 star bomb on the Apple reviews Sometimes I can’t get through an episode because the tangents are just too much on movies I simply do not care about but sometimes they are so wild that I become to engaged on discussion on Angelica from the Rugrats being “bilingual” that I realize a random podcast about a talking baby movie may be in my top 10 media of 2025 so far, right up there with Sinners Griffin, never change

I’ve been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant

Very little Smits

Ok screw it. I don’t understand them. They like certain movies of a quality that makes it feel like a bit. I don’t understand if they’re going for movie snob vibes with some approachability, or if they’re acting like a Ben type that occasionally nails a movie take. I am endlessly entertained but they confound me.

Of Dreams

They’re talking a lot, but they’re not saying anything

Nothing is more frustrating than a bunch of people yelling over and interrupting each other all while barely discussing the movie that’s described in the episode title for 3 hours. It generally takes them about an hour to actually get into the movie and even then it’s nothing but unfunny inside jokes. Listeners don’t care about your inside jokes guys. Editing would help this podcast tremendously. Sounds like a high school AV club.

I think at some point in this podcast’s history they sped up their theme song, but the podcast is still very long. I think it could stand to be longer though. Five stars.

Love these guys, one of the best film based podcasts ever. Glad Griffin doesn’t talk about semen as much nowadays but also happy he hasn’t stopped completely. I think it’s been long enough for them to realize Force Awakens is just as awful as the prequels.

As a non-Jew I watched this movie alone as a young man, and it was very impactful to me. I feel like the gang addressed the issues. They maintained the general spirit of their show, and they had a brave and challenging discussion about the current events in Palestine. I don’t often write reviews about podcasts even ones I enjoy, but I suspect that if blank check has not already received some blowback because of their discussion about the genocide in Palestine, they will, and I wanted to say that some, and hopefully most of the people listening, agreed with the opinion put forward that never again. Should any people be whole scale, slaughtered and disenfranchised by another group of people.

I thought this was a podcast on banking and money management. Unfortunately it’s not. The hosts seem nice though.

I left from my chair to give a one woman standing ovation after the Jurassic Park episode. The Spielberg series is knocking it out of the park. This is truly a Decade of Dreams.

👍👍 Perfect podcast, but my least favorite guest on my favorite movie, Jurassic Park lol please don’t make your podcast more like the Ringer’s. Ben is your heart, follow it! Movie good, movie bad, movie okay, we love movies, we don’t judge. Griffin, everything is fine, you’re the best. I liked it when you were more positive, but I get it, that’s not always the easiest thing for me either these days. You rock though

Great behind the scenes info, but please just stop talking over each other so much. It can get really chaotic.

These guys will make you want to watch more movies so you can listen to more podcasts and inform you about those movies.

In Scott Aukerman: you need to get right up on that mic though. Love you guys, bits and all. Never change. Side note: I think most of these one star reviews are from people who just don’t like podcasts and haven’t figured it out yet.

Have listened for years but the “griffin and occasionally the guest interrupting and exasperating David” schtick is getting old

BEST PODCAST EVER!!!!! don’t ask just listen

My comments apply to the temple of doom episode which is scatter brained chaotic, insufferable, belching wild takes tearing apart the movie, over analyzing uncomplicated things. They aren’t gonna change though so.

Do you want a podcast where two hosts go through a director’s filmography and provide knowledgeable insight? Well get screwed! Best we can do are two ramblers who do unfunny bits for 2.5 hours and talk about the movie for roughly 30 seconds

Marie and JD are such a value add to the podcast as guest hosts

Just talk. No real focus. Info is all over the place via first speak first say.

One of the ten best podcasts of all time. Cool, fun, insight, hope, memory, box office game, this is it!

I ENJOY the tangents, thank you very much.

You guys (and guests, also. Ben too!) are funny and have great repoire talking about movies, and your joy in talking about films is infectious! Plz tho, Griffen, STOP cutting off David and guests to interject your add-on to what they’re saying. I feel like this year it’s been a lil more outta control bc David is trying to balance twins and the podcast. I still love the show, and always will, but Griffen…please…the show’s better when it’s equal rep for all.

Unequivocally the best podcast with the worst fanbase. Love you Griffin and David. Congrats to the fans for your Jan6 pardons.

Good nice smart bois talk about good and bad movies and make me giggle and watch things and learn new things.

I really wanted to like this podcast after I saw the running time I thought great here’s another deep dive podcast like pure Cinema… But no it’s just bouncing off. the walls like a 60’s Super Ball million different directions at once babbling nonsense – verbally thrown on top of boredom to create a Washington Square hot dog of nothing I stopped trying to follow it because it was directionless and it started to hurt to try

People interrupting and talking over each other in random unplanned conversations that go off on painfully boring tangents. Even just some editing would be a significant improvement.

Had a friend tell me about this podcast so I decided to check out and I love. I’ve jumped around from so many episodes throughout the years on the films I watched. Getting to learn all the behind scenes and stuff is what I love. The cast is great though at times can feel like they get a bit negative about certain films. They also are long episodes but for me that doesn’t bother me.

I generally love this show, because of Griffin and guests. But…insufferable blow hard David constantly talking over people and randomly spoiling off topic movies is grating. And they say actors are insecure.

I’m about to be 64 years old and probably old enough to be their mom, but this is at the top of my list for podcasts about films. The format is great and I love that they have a sense of humor. I don’t remember how I found the show, but I’m glad I did. Thanks to Griffin, David, Ben and the guests for teaching this self taught film nerd so much. I highly recommend it!