Filmspotting (weekly series)

Series produced by WBEZ

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"Filmspotting" is an hour-long program about film, including: movie reviews, interviews, top 5 lists, listener feedback and insightful film talk. Filmspotting is available on PRX by noon (CST) on Fridays. Promos are available on PRX earlier in the week.

"Filmspotting" is an hour-long program about film. Each week, hosts Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen bring you movie reviews, interviews, top 5 lists, listener feedback and insightful film talk. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune joins in once a month.

Special features include "Massacre Theatre," movie marathons and "sacred cow" discussions, in which Filmspotting looks back and reexamines films considered to be among the greatest of all time.

"Filmspotting" (formerly known as "Cinecast") began in March of 2005, and has cultivated a loyal and growing audience. It can currently be heard at www.filmspotting.net and on WBEZ, and other PRX stations. We hope your station will be next. Please feel free to contact us for more details.


154 Pieces

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Caption: Best Performances of 2022 / Sight & Sound
With Adam and Josh facing a deadline for submitting their Chicago Film Critics Association best of the year ballots, they use this episode to hash ...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Avatar: The Way of Water'
It's been so long since the first "Avatar" that it came out two years before Josh was even on the show. But back in 2009, Josh was a fan of James C...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Top 10 Films of 2022, Part 1
Filmspotting returns with its 18th annual "films-of-the-year roundtable." Or, as listeners call it: The Top 10 Films of the Year. This is part 1 of...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Top 10 Films of 2022, Part 2
Filmspotting returns with part 2 (of 2) of their look back at the Top 10 Films of 2022 -- aka, Filmspotting's 18th annual "films-of-the-year roundt...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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This week, Filmspotting offers up a lookback at two meaty pieces from the past year. Starting things off, Adam and Josh revisit their review of the...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'White Noise' / Top 5 Noah Baumbach Characters
With the help of regular collaborators Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach leaves the big city -- and reality -- behind for his ambitious a...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Filmspotting 2022 Wrap Party, Live from Brooklyn
Delayed nearly three years by the pandemic, but, in many ways, 18 years in the making, the show's live NYC debut was worth all the waiting. Joined ...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 2023 Movie Preview
Gerwig, Nolan, Wes, Scorsese. The new movie year is full of promise. For their '23 Movie Preview, Adam and Josh look to avoid getting burned by the...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Top 5 M/ Night Shyamalan Moments / 'Knock at the Cabin' review
M. Night Shyamalan is on the short list of big-budget filmmakers who reliably bring original stories to the multiplex, which means that enthusiasm ...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: The Enduring Power of Hitchcock’s “Psycho”
After a string of lush, star-filled productions in the ’50s, Alfred Hitchcock went small and sinister with "Psycho," which went on to become Hitchc...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Top 5 Magic-est Mike Moments, Quantumania / 'Magic Mike’s Last Dance'
With Steven Soderbergh’s sly, sexy, and exuberant contribution to the musical genre coming to a close with the release of the third and, presumably...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Top 5 Films of 1973 / 1960s Madness Play-Ins
Coming on the heels of the era-defining “The Godfather” in ’72, the 1973 movie year had a lot to live up to. But if Adam and Josh’s Top 5 of 1973 i...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 2023 Oscar Picks
Adam and Josh compare Oscar ballots with the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips, sharing picks for who will win, who should win, and who should hav...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Creed III'
It takes a star of great confidence to play opposite the electrifying Jonathan Majors. And while "Creed III’s "Michael B. Jordan is up to the chall...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'The Big Lebowski' at 25
The Coen Brothers followed up their Oscar-winning "Fargo" with a stoned, shaggy-dog film noir riff, "The Big Lebowski." The box office bomb went on...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Books That Should Be Adapted Into Movies
The new book from film writer Kristen Lopez asks, “But Have You Read The Book?” Kristen joins Adam and Josh for a conversation about books they hav...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'John Wick: Chapter 4' - Endurance Test or Series’ Best
John Wick 4's 169-minute run time could be seen as a betrayal of its lean and mean origins, or a welcome embrace of its byzantine mythology and inc...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Showing Up' / 'Air'
This week, we find out where Adam and guest host Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune) stand on Ben Affleck's bio-sports-pic on Chicago's hero, Michae...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' review
Daniel Goldhaber's "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" shows impressive craft and is fueled by real generational anxiety about the climate crisis, but does...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Florence Pugh in Ari Aster's 'Midsommar'
Guest critics Tasha Robinson (The Next Picture Show, Polygon) and Angelica Jade Bastién (Vulture, New York Magazine) join Josh for a lively debate ...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9