“The podcast used to be an in-depth discussion about films.
Over time it has morphed into more of a film social club, centred around listeners film reviews, and in-jokes. Listener reviews almost always have a political element to them and given it’s the BBC you can imagine what views are deemed acceptable to air.
Now, none of this necessarily makes this a worse podcast. Depends what you want from a film podcast, personally I’m not interested in listener reviews, I’m just interested in Mark Kermode’s reviews and judging film as an art form. Would be interesting to add another respected critic, if they wish to widen out the discussion rather than endless listeners reviews.
To be fair to Kermode, given his well known political stance, he does a pretty good job of judging films objectively on their artistic merit.”
jimmythejimbob via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
01/25/20