The Fan & The Critic

The Fan & The Critic

Intellectual, beer-fueled discussion about movies. Each episode we bring in new guests to talk about their favourite movie genres, share their favourite audio clips, describe themselves using movie characters, and ultimately to get in a fight with us by end of each episode. Instagram: thefanandthecritic

Episodes

Ep 66 - 80s Fantasy Movies and Playing DnD (feat. Peter)

September 8, 2025 • 131 mins
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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Movie Reviews - Wicked and Emilia Perez

July 13, 2025 • 93 mins
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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Ep 65 - Andor S2 and Rogue One revisited

June 8, 2025 • 95 mins
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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Ep 64 - Jackie Chan (feat. Ben and Carlos)

March 10, 2025 • 96 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic Just 4 dudes sitting around talking about how much they like Jackie Chan....'s movies.
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Ep. 63 - Top 10 Movies of 2024

January 19, 2025 • 101 mins
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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Movie Reviews - Joker 2 and Megalopolis

November 29, 2024 • 83 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic It's end of year, there are tons of great movies finally being released - so let's watch the worst 2 that came out? I barely have enough time to watch the movies I want to watch. I have a lengthy backlog of good movies to watch - why am I doing this to myself?
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Ep. 62 - Zombie Movies (feat. Ben and Carlos)

September 26, 2024 • 86 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic We've somehow gone 7 years of doing this podcast without having an episode dedicated to zombie movie, a genre that we all love. And so...it is time...and instead of talking about our favourite zombie movies we talk about two movies that no one has ever heard of: One Cut of the Dead, and Seoul Station. We forget to say it during the episode, but SPOILER WARNING. If you're going to put in the time to li...
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Ep. 61 - Starship Troopers Franchise (feat. Aleks and Dan)

August 21, 2024 • 88 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic Sure you've probably seen the original Starship Troopers movie, but did you know it also had two terrible sequels? We do now and we've watched them both. We invite Aleks and Dan back onto the show to share their suffering - I mean - to share their thoughts on how well they live up the original.
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Ep. 60 - Horror Movie Recommendations (feat. Ben and Carlos)

July 5, 2024 • 112 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic Last time Ben and Carlos were here we talked about 2 horror movies in the same franchise. This time, we expand our scope by having each person bring their horror movie recommendation. We will like them? Will we hate them? We will decide to stop watching horror movies?
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Ep. 59 - Dune 2 and Rebel Moon 2 (feat. David and John)

April 21, 2024 • 90 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic We designed this episode so we could compare two part twos - a good one a bad one - little did we expect that Dune Part Two would be absolute garbage and Rebel Moon Part Two would be the most amazing movie of the year!
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Ep. 58 - The Conjuring & Annabelle (feat. Ben and Carlos)

February 12, 2024 • 138 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic Carlos makes us watch horror movies that he considers some of the best in recent years. We discuss them but also get VERY off topic. Ben and Carson also try to join the conversation while trying to admit they were too scared to watch them all the way through.
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Ep. 57 - Rebel Moon

January 23, 2024 • 64 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic It's been a while since we did an episode focused on a single movie, but Rebel Moon is just one of those movies that we had to get together and discuss. Is it the worst thing we saw all year? Is it something almost great? We still dont know!
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Ep. 56 - Top 10 Movies of 2023

January 15, 2024 • 72 mins
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 copy/pasted this description from last year's top 10 episode, and it's still true!)
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Ep. 55 - Movie Dads (feat. Ben and Stephen)

December 9, 2023 • 97 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic 4 dads get together and talk about watching movies and being dads.
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Ep. 54 - Oppenheimer & Ranking Every Nolan Movie (feat. Antoni)

August 1, 2023 • 119 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic We review Christopher Nolan's latest film, Oppenheimer, and then discuss his entire filmography and how we would rank them.
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Ep. 53 - Best Movie Sidekick (feat. Kyle)

June 25, 2023 • 82 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic What makes a good sidekick or supporting character in a movie? Kyle from 'Kyle and Dave vs the Machine' joins us to help answer this question. We formed a bracket and voted/argued to decide, tune to find out who the 3 of us eventually agreed on. Check out Kyle's podcast, Kyle and Dave vs The Machine, where a machine forces them to watch and review movies from a particular year. Find it at: https://...
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Ep. 52 - Movies based on books/IPs (feat. Tracey)

April 15, 2023 • 100 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic What makes a movie adaptation good or bad? Should you stick close to the source material or have your freedom to make it your own? Tracey, a fellow movie podcaster, joins us to explore this subject. Check out Tracey's podcast, Off My Shelf, where she reviews movies right off the shelf for her DVD. Find it at: https://offmyshelf.underbellyofsunshine.com/
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Ep. 51 - Asylum Studios Part 2 (feat. Dan and Mena)

March 23, 2023 • 100 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic We didn't learn our lesson! 4 Years ago we did an episode on Asylum Studio's awful low-budget movies, thinking it would be fun - and it turned out to be boring and awful, so we did it again! Since we've now done 2 episodes, we're considering ourselves as experts on this studio and their usual tricks. Two Headed Shark Attack - 13:26 Jurassic Domination - 36:26 Atlantic Rim: Resurrection - 55:15 Dracu...
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Movie Reviews - Ant-Man 3 and The Banshees of Inisherin

March 9, 2023 • 59 mins
Instagram: thefanandthecritic Would you rather live in the Quantum Realm of the MCU or the island of Inisherin? Paolo and Carson's answers are as you'd expect and oddly are at the root of why they like or dislike each of these movies.
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Ep. 50 - Top 10 Movies of 2022

January 1, 2023 • 103 mins
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!
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