This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: very long films, much shorter film festivals, virtual futures and much more. The CineHistorians It’s a brand new series of the podcast as Dr. Carl Sweeney and Raquel Stecher unite for a season based on the 2022 Sight and Sound greatest movies poll, starting with the winner ... Film Stories Podcast Network | Jeanne Dielman, LFF 25, Tron and more
This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: very long films, much shorter film festivals, virtual futures and much more.
The CineHistorians
It’s a brand new series of the podcast as Dr. Carl Sweeney and Raquel Stecher unite for a season based on the 2022 Sight and Sound greatest movies poll, starting with the winner – Chantal Akerman’s 1975 bum number Jeanne Dielman…
The Time Is Now
After three years in the wilderness, Kurt North announces the return of the podcast in the run up to Millennium's 30 year anniversary in 2026…
You Have Been Watching
“Let’s hias to the nearest hostelry and expose our prodigiousness!”
“Or let’s listen to AJ Black and Rob Turnbull, with guest and author Paul Tanter, chat early 90s cult sitcom Bottom.”
“Hey, it’s a better idea than mine, I didn’t even know what I was talking about!”
“Nor did I!”
Three Circles
Strap on your visors and tune into some VR as Geoff Owen and Violet Hammond plug in for a chat about 1982’s sci-fi classic Tron…
Modern Horror
The Month of Usher comes to a close as AJ Black, Hugh McStay and guest Emma Arneil bring the curtain down on The Fall of the House of Usher, chatting 1×07 and epic 1×08 finale ‘The Raven’…
Vampire Videos
It’s that time of year again as Hugh McStay and Dan Owen unite with guests for a Halloween special, here chatting anthology vampire stories from everything from the V/H/S franchise to Inside No. 9…
Reel Talk
Straight from the 2025 London Film Festival, Sam Stokes and guest Bo Nicholson chat about some of the fresh cinematic morsels they’ve digested there…
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Writers on Film
Returning to the podcast after discussing her book Screen Deep, John Bleasdale is joined by critic Ellen E. Jones to chat the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award…
Britcom Goes to the Movies
Possibly plumbing new depths, Rob Heath and Guy Walker are joined by Nina Buckley to chat the Leigh Francis abomination, Keith Lemon: The Movie…
A Dream Given Form
Dark truths linking the Shadows to human history begin to be unearthed on Babylon-5 3×08 ‘Messages from Earth’, as Baz Greenland, Luke Winch and guest Charlynn Schmeidt discuss…
The Magic Box
The focus returns to Sun and Jin this time around on Lost 2×05 ‘…And Found’, which sees Kurt North joined by new guest Rob Heath. Don’t miss his orientation episode earlier in the week too…
MovieVersaries
A slice of punk sci-fi to celebrate 30 years of as host Violet Hammond and guest Ashley Thomas chat the Lori Petty-starring Tank Girl...
CineMortuary
A modern contender for some of the worst offal Rob Yeomans, Dave Walker and Chris Wilson have sat through, here they look at Amazon’s 2025 Ice Cube-fronted adaptation of H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds…
Wild Wild Podcast
Teen hijinks this time as Adrian Smith and Rod Barnett look at Lina Wertmuller’s 1966 film Rita the Mosquito…
Frame to Frame
A pre-Halloween shudder for Andy Williams and Sean Wilson this time around as they chat the 1922 Nosferatu and 2015’s The VVitch…
Make It So
Perhaps today is a good day to… listen, not die, as the Klingons would have it, as Geoff Owen is joined by Baz Greenland and Kurt North to chat Deep Space Nine S4 game-changer, ‘The Way of the Warrior’…
Shipwrecked and Comatose
A deep dive Red Dwarf-adjacent call back as Mark Adams and Carl Bryan chat the Rob Grant short-lived sci-fi sitcom, The Strangerers…
The X-Cast
As we approach the coverage of 11×08 ‘Familiar’, we haul from mothballs a 2018 chat between Carl Sweeney and writer Benjamin Van Allen about writing this X-Files episode…
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