Episodes

  • Ep. 69 - Top 10 Movies of 2025

    Ep. 69 - Top 10 Movies of 2025
    Jan 24 2026
    Instagram: thefanandthecritic Carson and Paolo talk about their favorite movies from the past year. As usual, Carson's list is full of pretentious indie movies and Paolo's list is full of dumb Hollywood movies. There's something for everyone! (note: I've used this description for the last three years and it's finally not true! Carson's list is full of schlock and Paolo's list is almost exclusively horror movies!)
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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • Ep 68 - Christmas Movie Trivia (feat. Ben)

    Ep 68 - Christmas Movie Trivia (feat. Ben)
    Dec 17 2025
    Instagram: thefanandthecritic On this episode, Carson wildly overestimates how much other people know about Christmas movies by creating trivia questions that no one knows the answers to. He is also shocked that not everyone has watched Scrooged (1988) over 20 times each.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Ep 67 - Horror Franchises (feat. Ben and Peter)

    Ep 67 - Horror Franchises (feat. Ben and Peter)
    Oct 30 2025
    Instagram: thefanandthecritic
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    2 hrs and 3 mins
  • Ep 66 - 80s Fantasy Movies and Playing DnD (feat. Peter)

    Ep 66 - 80s Fantasy Movies and Playing DnD (feat. Peter)
    Sep 9 2025
    Instagram: thefanandthecritic After we finished recording this episode, we said to ourselves: "Boy that was fun to do. I'm not sure if anyone is going to enjoy listening to this, but at least we enjoyed this." So yeah, welcome to another 2 hour long episode and we hope you sit through all of it.
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    2 hrs and 12 mins
  • Movie Reviews - Wicked and Emilia Perez

    Movie Reviews - Wicked and Emilia Perez
    Jul 13 2025
    Instagram: thefanandthecritic On this month's episode, Carson is tied to a chair and forced to watch Musicals against his will. He finds at least one good thing to say about each. Our guests are more musically sophisticated and better able to articulate what is good and bad about these movies.
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Ep 65 - Andor S2 and Rogue One revisited

    Ep 65 - Andor S2 and Rogue One revisited
    Jun 8 2025
    Instagram: thefanandthecritic 10 years ago Rogue One was released to theatres and created strongly divided opinions between the Fan and the Critic. More recently, Andor season 2 was released and was received well by both. Perhaps it is time to revisit Rogue One and see if the passage of time yields a more favourable response. Will the Critic walk back his hatred? Will the Fan be less hyped?
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Ep 64 - Jackie Chan (feat. Ben and Carlos)

    Ep 64 - Jackie Chan (feat. Ben and Carlos)
    Mar 11 2025
    Instagram: thefanandthecritic Just 4 dudes sitting around talking about how much they like Jackie Chan....'s movies.
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Ep. 63 - Top 10 Movies of 2024

    Ep. 63 - Top 10 Movies of 2024
    Jan 20 2025
    Instagram: thefanandthecritic Carson and Paolo talk about their favorite movies from the past year. As usual, Carson's list is full of pretentious indie movies and Paolo's list is full of dumb Hollywood movies. There's something for everyone! (note: I've used this description for the last two year's top 10 episode, and it's always true!)
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    1 hr and 42 mins