The Failed Critics Podcast is the first and original show produced under the Failed Media network of podcasts.

Each week, Steve Norman (Host) and Owen Hughes (Producer) invite a variety of guests onto the show to review the latest cinema release, talk about what else they’ve been watching in the past seven days and discuss news from the film world (if it happens to have crossed their Twitter feeds prior to recording). That is when they’re not picking three movies each to fit a themed Triple Bill episode, or pitting their wits in a short quiz.

If you want in depth reviews of the key components that make an individual movie good or bad, then you’re looking in the wrong place. If you want to listen to a group of people chat about film and be occasionally humorous with it, then that’s what the Failed Critics Podcast is all about. They pride themselves on being slightly shambolic. Think of it as a podcast about films, rather than a film podcast.

Created by James Diamond

Episodes produced by Owen Hughes

Hosted by Steve Norman

Contributions from: Gerry McAuley, Carole Petts, Matt Lambourne, Callum Petch, Andrew Brooker, Mike Shawcross, Brian Plank, James Diamond and loads more.

Special guest appearances by other podcasts: Black Hole Cinema (Tony Black), The Bottle Episode (Matt Latham), Wikishuffle (Jack Stewart, Chris Wallace and Phil Sharman), The Punch Up (Nicholas Lay), Underground Nights (Paul Field and James Mullinger)

All music by Kevin MacLeod of http://incompetech.com (remixed by James Yuill from episode 150 onwards)

“The Bandit” Kevin MacLeod – Direct Link: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100050
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

All podcasts hosted with Acast: http://acast.com/failedcritics/

RSS Feed: http://rss.acast.com/failedcritics  (copy into your podcast management software or RSS reader)

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If you’re new to the Failed Critics Podcast and aren’t sure where to join in from, then the latest episode is always the best. We hardly ever have in-jokes or call backs to podcasts older than maybe one or two weeks, so hopefully you won’t feel left out! Just take a look at the home page of our website to find the most recent episode. Check out our trailer for the podcast below:

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Alternatively, you can try some of these classic ‘new-release review’ or ‘triple bill’ podcasts:

2015:

• The Failedastic Four – Fantastic Four, Inside Out & Diary of a Teenage Girl (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Carole Petts and Brian Plank) – 11 Aug 2015
• TV Special (S3, Ep2) – After discussing the forthcoming Emmy Awards in part one, part two focusses on current TV shows (Owen Hughes, James Diamond and Matt Latham) – 31 Jul 2015
• Spooks, Britishness and Bad Impressions – Britishness in film triple bill + listener questions (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Matt Lambourne) – 13 May 2015
• Age of Ultron and our Avengers Minisodes – Age of Ultron review + ten additional short individual podcast reviews of each of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Matt Lambourne and Carole Petts) – 29 Apr 2015
• The Failed Black Wikishuffle Hole Quizcast – A fun quiz-only episode (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Matt Lambourne, Wikishuffle (Jack Stewart, Chris Wallace, Phil Sharman), Black Hole Cinema (Tony Black, Matt Latham)) – 20 Apr 2015
• Episode 150 And As Shambolic As Ever – An extra long (5 hours to be precise) triple-triple bill podcast (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Matt Lambourne, Paul Field and Andrew Brooker) – 3 Apr 2015
• Your Unconventional Desire – Predestination, Focus & 50 Shades of Grey (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Matt Lambourne and Paul Field) – 19 Feb 2015
• The Pod in the Machine – A.I. triple bill, Ex Machina (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and Matt Lambourne) – 30 Jan 2015

2014:

• End of Year Special! – Results of the 2014 Failed Critics Awards (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Matt Lambourne and James Diamond) – 24 Dec 2014
• James? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need James – James begins his official semi-retirement, desert island discs triple bill, Expendables 3 (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Carole Petts and James Diamond) – 22 Aug 2014
• Guarding the Galaxy from Sharknadoes – Guardians of the Galaxy, Sharknado 2, Boyhood, Chef (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and Carole Petts) – 5 Aug 2014
• Episode CXV – A New Sound Quality – Under The Skin, A Million Ways To Die In The West, Edge of Tomorrow (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and James Diamond) – 5 Jun 2014
• The Failed Critics Podcast v Godzilla: Destroy All Critics! – Godzilla special (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, James Diamond and Matt Lambourne) – 22 May 2014
• Glasgow Film Festival 2014 (feat. Pappy’s) – Festival round-up, Zero Theorem, The Double, Mood Indigo, Calvary, 20 Feet From Stardom (James Diamond, Dave McFarlane, Paul Fisher and Pappy’s (Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry)) – 2 Mar 2014
• 100 Episodes in and EVERYTHING IS AWESOME! – The Lego Movie, Her, RoboCop, Dallas Buyers Club, Cuban Fury, The Monuments Men (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and James Diamond) – 19 Feb 2014

2013:

• 2013 in Review, and the FC Awards – Results of the 2013 Failed Critics Awards (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Gerry McAuley, Matt Lambourne and James Diamond) – 30 Dec 2013
• Gravity, Being Smug & Steve’s Big Mouth – Gravity, Kon-Tiki (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and James Diamond) – 18 Nov 2013
• Captain Phillips, London Film Festival and glorious Arnie – LFF13 round-up, Captain Phillips, Escape Plan, Le Week-End (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Carole Petts and James Diamond) 25 Oct 2013
• Great Performances in Bad Films – Triple bill of best performances in bad films (Steve Norman, Gerry McAuley and James Diamond) 31 May 2013

2012:

• Skyfall and our Bond Triple Bill special – Skyfall + other Bond movies (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and James Diamond) – 30 Oct & 4 Nov 2012
• Paranormal Activity 4 – Paranormal Activity 4, Safety Not Guaranteed, Speed Racer, Holy Motors (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Gerry McAuley and James Diamond) – 25 Oct 2012
• The Dark Knight Rises BATMAN SPECIAL – The Dark Knight Rises + other Batman movies (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Gerry McAuley and James Diamond) – 22 Jul 2012
• Episode 1 – The very first episode of the podcast, Cabin in the Woods (Steve Norman, Gerry McAuley and James Diamond) – 25 Apr 2012

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If you’re looking for something a little more specific, you could try one of our Corridor of Praise episodes, where we induct actors, directors and studios who have been cruelly overlooked by the Academy into the highly coveted Failed Critics echelons of prestige:

• 1. Harrison Ford (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Gerry McAuley and James Diamond) – 4 Dec 2012
• 2. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Gerry McAuley and James Diamond) – 29 Jan 2013
• 3. Stanley Kubrick (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Gerry McAuley and James Diamond) – 28 Mar 2013
• 4. Studio Ghibli (James Diamond, Owen Hughes and Gerry McAuley) – 13 Oct 2013
• 5. Paul Verhoeven (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and Matt Lambourne) – 4 May 2014
• 6. Jean-Claude Van Damme (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Hollie and Richard Trondsen) – 16 Apr 2015
• 7. Danny Dyer (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Paul Field, James Mullinger and Jonathan Sothcott) – 26 Aug 2015
• 8. James Bond (Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Tony Black and Brian Plank) – 29 Oct 2015

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ALL ARCHIVED PODCASTS, INCLUDING THE LATEST EPISODE AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE, CAN BE FOUND HERE