Awful, awful podcast. Glad this show looks to be over. Good riddance you loser.

It is rare to find a podcast where smart people who know so much about cinema are somehow also funny and relatable. This show does that. Jesse Hawken seems to be able to entertainingly discuss high art as easily as Hollywood slop without a predisposition to be dismissive or boring and his guest bench is deep and interesting.

What more do you want from a film podcast if not a host who is also an intelligent and critical person about art and the world generally

Sad ramblings of a 60 year old incel pretending he is 20 that is way too addicted to twitter

When a brief clip of “TEASER - Danpilled” shows up in your feed for the hundredth time and you stare at the wall and contemplate your mortality 😊

I noticed Jesse on Twitter & quite appreciated his sense of humor & tweaking of the very robotic fandoms that are known to swarm around those who dare to critique various corporate film franchises. A scan of his topics convinced me to subscribe to this podcast. Roger Moore’s 007 debut LIVE AND LET DIE has always been a guilty pleasure of mine, so JF’s deep dive into that flick hooked me. Episodes on the cult-neo noir CUTTER’S WAY and most recently RISKY BUSINESS have been really great too. I especially like Jesse’s Socratic approach to film criticism & analysis. The guests I’ve heard have all been quite effective at building interest in each week’s theme. This show is really engaging, entertaining & educational. A nice addition to my aural menu of podcasts & radio programming.

The first episode was very promising, and some of the early episodes were really good, but the show's subjects became increasingly mainstream, and the format is frustrating. Hawken invites on a different cohost each week, and, as often as not, doesn't generate much chemistry with them, which is deadly for a conversational, rather than interview-based, podcast like this. And considering the guests tend to be well-known online personalities and/or published writers, it's disappointing that many of them aren't especially articulate, any more than you'd expect from any random podcast or YouTube channel.

I still think about the Punch-Drunk Love episode all the time.

Has excellent guests which is half the battle.

Jesse is one of the few who truly understands that movie mindset is the only thing that can save us from this reality. May Menaker Movie Mindset save us all

great pod a+

Loved every episode so far, excited for the future of the pod!