Film History Podcasts

Classic Movie Musts

134 episodes - Latest episode: about 22 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 513 ratings
A weekly podcast featuring a different movie must every episode. We explore what makes these movies classics.

Switchblade Sisters

145 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 391 ratings
Switchblade Sisters is a podcast providing deep cuts on genre flicks from a female perspective. Every week, film critic and screenwriter April Wolfe sits down with a phenomenal female film-maker to...

Based on a True Story

164 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 260 ratings
We've all seen the movies that claim to be 'based on a true story', but have you ever wondered how historically accurate they are? That's what we'll aim to find out as we compare Hollywood with his...

It Happened In Hollywood

27 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 130 ratings
On this podcast, Seth Abramovitch, senior writer at The Hollywood Reporter, and Chip Pope, an Emmy-winning TV writer and comic, take you behind the scenes of the indelible pop culture moments that ...

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Anime Podcast

173 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 118 ratings
MSB is a weekly Gundam podcast for new fans, old fans, and not yet fans. Nina (a Gundam first-timer) and Thom (a lifelong Gundam fan) analyze, review, and research all 40-years of the iconic sci-fi...

Story Matters

104 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 103 ratings
A weekly podcast with creators Curt Mega, Kim Whalen and Mike Tobias, exploring the art of storytelling with retrospectives on films and stories new and old, examining their impact, their legacy an...

Slums of Film History

74 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
Slums of Film History is an in-depth podcast on niche film topics that aren't normally discussed in polite company. We take turns weekly discussing a single topic from everything to bodily fluids t...

Off the Highway

48 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
Off the Highway is a podcast that is recorded literally, right on top of a highway. Despite this, and the many vehicular puns within the show, it's not about traffic safety it's about movies and po...

Casual Cinecast: Blockbuster Movies to Criterion & Classic Film

139 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 72 ratings
Casual Cinecast is a weekly film and TV podcast where we discuss current movies, watch through the Criterion Collection and much more! Every review has a spoiler free section!

Cinematically Correct

130 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
We are a podcasting couple who likes to talk about movies and argue about the weird knowledge both of us have about the most random subjects. When a boring finance man and a wannabe creative get to...

Hold My Popcorn

113 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
Several village idiots have risen from the deepest depths of immaturity to deliver their unprofessional commentary on movies. If you want to feel drunk without taking a sip of alcohol this is the ...

Disney One-by-One

65 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
A chronological look at every Disney Animated Classic... and beyond!

And the Runner-Up Is

116 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
"And the Runner-Up Is" is the movie review show that highlights the film that was the probable runner-up for Best Picture at the Oscars in any given year. Host Kevin Jacobsen and special guests bre...

Rogues Gallery

22 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 59 ratings
Kristen, Mike, and Chris investigate pop-culture's most memorable villains, antiheroes, and misunderstood monsters to find out how they make being bad look so good. New episodes every other Wednesday.

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods

58 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratings
Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods... the podcast that honors the art of making movie trailers, teasers, key art, and all the strategic content that launched the movies, TV shows, and games you love.

Decades of Horror 1980s

55 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratings
From the grue-crew behind Horror News Radio, Decades of Horror 1980s covers the horror, sci-fi and fantasy films from the Eighties. Classics from John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, David Cron...

Hypnogoria

517 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 57 ratings
Welcome to Hypnogoria, Britian's longest running horror podcast! Coming to you from the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a comfy armchair by the fireside to talk of all th...

Total Reboot with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos

165 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
A weekly film podcast where comedians Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos pair reboots, remakes, and rip-offs to compare and contrast them with their originals. Formerly titled "The Blank Slate Mov...

Scream, Queen!

18 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 53 ratings
Scream, Queen! Is a podcast about scary movies, by people not typically depicted in scary movies. Hosts Drea Washington and Tommy Pico dish about what goes bump in the night—from a black/queer/indi...

Circuit Breaker! - The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast

80 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Talking Oscars, Emmys, awards, and the movies and TV shows in between

Midwest Film Nerds

227 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
Film news and reviews from the midwestern U.S.

Burst Your Bubble

80 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
Burst Your Bubble is a podcast that looks at racism, sexism, homophobia, and all of the other -isms and -phobias within our society through pop culture. From music and movies to comic books and g...

Scarred For Life

55 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
On Scarred For Life, hosts Terry and Mary Beth open up old wounds by talking about the films that scared us when we were kids. They interview writers, directors, and more about that one film that g...

Full Cast And Crew

86 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 42 ratings
FULL CAST & CREW is a funny, informative, and sometimes surprising movie podcast. Hosted by Jason Cilo, a TV producer and production executive, each episode features a wealth of amazing and enterta...

Horror Business

78 episodes - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Horror Business is an ongoing conversation about Horror Films. Lifelong horror fans Justin Lore and Liam O’Donnell gather monthly to discuss and dissect horror films in  a sophisticated yet accessi...

Dolewhip and Dreams Podcast

37 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Welcome to The Dolewhip and Dreams Podcast where we take a deep dive into the Disney Vault, where we talk about your favorites from the mouse with the most. Join me for bi weekly episodes where I'...

Back to the Future: The Podcast

121 episodes - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
A retrospective on the stories, characters, and crew responsible for one of the greatest trilogies of all time. When this podcast hits 88 mph, you're going to hear some serious s***.

Podcasting After Dark

46 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
Podcasting After Dark is a deep-dive into the world of cult horror, sci-fi, and action movies from the 70's, 80's, and early 90's. Each episode, Corey Stevenson and Zak Shaffer breakdown and revie...

Classic Film Jerks

112 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★ - 40 ratings
Join movie fans Michael DiGiovanni and Andrew Bloom as they set out to determine if all these so called classic films are indeed just that.

Decades of Horror | Movie Reviews of 1970s Classic Horror Films

55 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
Doc Rotten and The Black Saint from Horror News Radio recap and review the best and worst horror films from the 1970s. Grindhouse. Blacksploitation. Hollywood Blockbusters. B Movies. Films like Exo...