Few discussion topics lend themselves as well to the podcast format as movies.
The inherent, closed-off nature of movies — you spend two hours or so in the dark and get told a hopefully complete story — means that a podcast discussing them can pretty readily switch topics from week to week while still staying “on topic,” as opposed to, say, an episode-by-episode TV review podcast taking on the same show week after week.
There are, of course, hyper-minutiae-focused movie podcasts, like Star Wars Minute and its many minute-cast imitators. But most movie podcasts either take the tack of discussing recent releases in a way that opens up to discussing film history (like the long-running, venerable Filmspotting) or have central premises that allow for hopping and skipping through cinema’s past (as with my beloved Blank Check or The Next Picture Show, featuring Vox’s own Genevieve Koski). And the seemingly endless onslaught of bad movie podcasts from a few years back…
