Filmspotting

12/27/2025

4 critics + 10 films each = 4.5 hours of audio (and video!), available on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. Always a pleasure to reflect on the cinema year with Michael Phillips, and to welcome Vulture's Alison Willmore to the roundtable for the first time!

What was your favorite film of 2025?

11/28/2025

To all current Filmspotting Family members, we're so grateful for another year ( #20!) of your support! If you're not a member, we hope you'll consider the benefits by visiting the link. We're offering 20% off all subscriptions for a limited time with code FS20! https://filmspotting.supportingcast.fm/join?sc_promo=FS20

Our November bonus episode, Ask Us Anything, includes questions about the best thing that’s come out of doing the podcast, and the exact moment Sam and I realized it had become something more than we had bargained for. ⁠The month before, we drafted Tom Cruise Movies. Plus, you get access to every episode from the archive. And more!

11/14/2025

Chicago Filmspotters! See HAMNET early, for free, on us Nov. 17. https://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/FILMSPOTTING.HAMNET

11/08/2025

Honored to be part of + the Chicago Film Office’s month-long tribute. Screening my Siskel & Ebert-inspired pick LONE STAR and taping a conversation after with Michael Phillips. Join us! It’s free. https://luma.com/pwlqid75

10/18/2025

How was my haul? Good times inside The Criterion Collection Mobile Closet at the 61st Chicago International Film Festival!

10/15/2025

Michael Phillips and I made a pip of a pair sharing our Top 5 Movies Adapted from Iowa Writers at 2025. Thanks to all who made it out!

📸David Greedy / Refocus Film Fest

09/12/2025

You can find this week's full VIDEO show available on Spotify and YouTube. Fitting that we'd launch this new phase with a deep dive into a Filmspotting Pantheon movie, and one of the all-time greats.

Filmspotting's review of Martin Scorsese's gangster masterpiece GOODFELLAS, plus quick takes on LURKER and THE ROSES.

08/16/2025

With faces for podcasting, we’re entering the brave new world… this week’s review of WEAPONS is up on YouTube.

Filmspotting's review of Zach Cregger's WEAPONS.

07/12/2025

SINNERS, ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL and more... Our Top 5 Films of 2025 (So Far), plus a 65th Anniv. review of THE APARTMENT. https://www.filmspotting.net/episodes-archive/2025/7/10-1022-top-5-films-so-far-apartment

07/04/2025

We've upgraded the Filmspotting Merch store and offerings. Shirts, hats, hoodies and more. Sale going on now! https://www.filmspotting.net/shop