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“Started to download this after they cancelled the excellent show presented by Jason Solomans. Jason was a real film fan - Brooks and his colleagues are the worst sort of film reviewers: pretentious and elitist. Any film that emanates from Hollywood or has populist appeal is sniffly and disrespectfully dismissed and discounted. The reviewers seem overly concerned to demonstrate their own pseudo academic and self defining purveyors of good taste credentials by showboating their own preferences for obscure and difficult foreign language movies. If it's three hours long in Mandarin Chinese and has long lingering shots of empty landscapes and minimal dialogue then guaranteed Xan and his middle class London media fellow travellers will rave about it. All this despite the fact that it will probably only get a couple of showing at the BFI on London's Southbank. Whereas a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster will get derided and scorned at by this group of sneering show offs who despise the greater mass of the movie going public.
I have deleted and unsubscribed from this appallingly awful podcast. Any genuine film fan who appreciates movies should do so too. Mark Kermode on Radio 5 Live remains my critic of choice - an intelligent articulate genuine film fan. Capable of appreciating a good old fashioned Hollywood blockbuster, alongside a well crafted children's movie as much as some obscure art house showing that he passionately believes should get a broader audience.
It pains me to say this as a life long Guardian buying and reading fan but this podcast is the worst type of elitism exactly the kind of thing I always thought the Guardian fought against.”Read full review »
Schmike via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
11/30/13
More reviews of The Guardian's Film Weekly
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“"Film Weekly" has definitely become my favourite film review program. It's highly entertaining and you feel you need to see almost every film discussed. Best of all, the reviewers are in no way elitist critics who see themselves as chosen to separate the sacred from the profane in the...”Read full review »
Lukas Hunziker via Apple Podcasts ·
Switzerland ·
01/20/10
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“2008 was for me the year I discovered podcasts and now my week is not complete without my ritual of loading up my iPhone with this week's offerings. As an avid film fan my obvious choices include Kermode/Mayo and Jason S. They make for a very complementary pair of bookends. Despite what...”Read full review »
Geegovah via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
07/10/09
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