In the run up to the latest hotly anticipated Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron , Steve and Owen have been busy putting together a series of short 20-25 minute long minisode podcasts. With clips from the films, trailers, retro reviews taken from our archived podcasts as well as brand new retrospective reviews featuring a varied mix of different guests for each episode, we’ll be running through all of the MCU movies thus far in chronological order. Ushering in phase two of the Marvel Cin...
Apr 19, 2015•26 min
In the run up to the latest hotly anticipated Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron , Steve and Owen have been busy putting together a series of short 20-25 minute long minisode podcasts. With clips from the films, trailers, retro reviews taken from our archived podcasts as well as brand new retrospective reviews featuring a varied mix of different guests for each episode, we’ll be running through all of the MCU movies thus far in chronological order. The longest episode in our Avengers Min...
Apr 18, 2015•32 min
In the run up to the latest hotly anticipated Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron , Steve and Owen have been busy putting together a series of short 20-25 minute long minisode podcasts. With clips from the films, trailers, retro reviews taken from our archived podcasts as well as brand new retrospective reviews featuring a varied mix of different guests for each episode, we’ll be running through all of the MCU movies thus far in chronological order. Already at the half way point in our se...
Apr 16, 2015•23 min
Welcome to the latest episode of the Failed Critics Corridor of Praise podcast. Originally, the CoP was set up to honour the work of icons and legends of the film world who have been overlooked by the academy and other major award ceremonies. Therefore, our sixth inductee - and long overdue as it may be - is the Muscles from Brussels himself, Mr Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg; otherwise known to you and me as Jean-Claude Van Damme! A professional karate and kickboxing champion in his...
Apr 15, 2015•1 hr 11 min
In the run up to the latest hotly anticipated Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron , Steve and Owen have been busy putting together a series of short 20-25 minute long minisode podcasts. With clips from the films, trailers, retro reviews taken from our archived podcasts as well as brand new retrospective reviews featuring a varied mix of different guests for each episode, we’ll be running through all of the MCU movies thus far in chronological order. The fourth episode of our Avengers Mini...
Apr 12, 2015•20 min
In the run up to the latest hotly anticipated Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron , Steve and Owen have been busy putting together a series of short 20-25 minute long minisode podcasts. With clips from the films, trailers, retro reviews taken from our archived podcasts as well as brand new retrospective reviews featuring a varied mix of different guests for each episode, we’ll be running through all of the MCU movies thus far in chronological order. Up next we're taking a look at the firs...
Apr 12, 2015•24 min
In the run up to the latest hotly anticipated Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron , Steve and Owen have been busy putting together a series of short 20-25 minute long minisode podcasts. With clips from the films, trailers, retro reviews taken from our archived podcasts as well as brand new retrospective reviews featuring a varied mix of different guests for each episode, we’ll be running through all of the MCU movies thus far in chronological order. Our second episode funnily enough takes...
Apr 12, 2015•25 min
In the run up to the latest hotly anticipated Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron , Steve and Owen have been busy putting together a series of short 20-25 minute long minisode podcasts. With clips from the films, trailers, retro reviews taken from our archived podcasts as well as brand new retrospective reviews featuring a varied mix of different guests for each episode, we'll be running through all of the MCU movies thus far in chronological order. Therefore, in this episode we go right ...
Apr 12, 2015•19 min
Welcome to this week's Failed Critics podcast! Back down our normal run time of just over an hour you'll be glad to hear after our mammoth 150th episode podcast last week. Regulars Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by Callum Petch and making his debut on one of our proper podcasts, the equivalent of us bringing in Jason Statham to our franchise I'm sure you'll all agree, is Jackson Tyler. On that topic, the team review new releases including the box office juggernaut Fast & Furious 7 (...
Apr 08, 2015•1 hr 15 min
Hello and welcome to the 150th episode of the Failed Critics podcast! It seems almost unbelievable that we've made it this far, but somehow we have. Both Steve and Owen would like to extend their thanks to each of you who have ever downloaded our podcast and are eternally grateful for your support. To celebrate reaching this milestone, we've got a new logo, a new theme tune and as a one off treat, we've got an extra long triple-triple bill podcast to share with you. And believe me when I say tha...
Apr 03, 2015•4 hr 55 min
Welcome to this week's Failed Critics Podcast with Steve Norman once again returning to hosting duties. He's joined as ever by Owen Hughes, with guests Callum Petch and Mike Shawcross. Unlike the British summer time, we're bringing you a podcast that seems to go on forever as the team not only review new releases Princess Kaguya, Spongebob Squarepants: A Sponge Out of Water, The Gunman, The Voices AND Divergent Series: Insurgent (or Divergent 2) (or Divergent: Insurgent) (...or just Insurgent......
Mar 26, 2015•1 hr 45 min
For the first time ever (we think) there's no Steve Norman on this week's Failed Critics podcast as he's still recovering from the pummeling he took at a recent charity boxing match. Rumours that it was actually Owen who sparked him out after a fracas over a cold dinner have neither been confirmed nor denied. Internal investigations are still ongoing. Instead, taking over the hosting duties for one week only is Matt Lambourne, who is joined by Owen Hughes and Andrew Brooker as they each pick the...
Mar 21, 2015•1 hr 37 min
We are alive, we are consciousness, we are reviewing Neil Blomkamp's latest science fiction action thriller, Chappie . By "we", that of course means podcast regulars Steve Norman and Owen Hughes, who are joined this week by Andrew Brooker (for the second week in a row) and Jack Stewart from Not This Again making his Failed Critics debut. The news section this week sees the group discuss the hype (or apparent lack of) for the latest Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer and the announcement that Tim Bu...
Mar 11, 2015•1 hr 5 min
We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most....
Mar 04, 2015•1 hr 11 min
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this glitzy star-studded episode of the Failed Critics Podcast, brought to you by Matt Lambourne's well tickled bottom, in association with Paul Field's Slander. Steve Norman is donning his sharpest tuxedo to present the podcast, whilst Owen Hughes runs around backstage like a lunatic handing out golden envelopes as we reveal the results of the 87th Academy Awards - and more importantly, we discuss which categories that we correctly predicted last week. There's a...
Feb 25, 2015•1 hr 11 min
As always, your illustrious host Steve Norman and ever present Owen Hughes lead the way through a tightly packed episode. Coming into your earholes to review the 18-rated, arse-ticklingly rude 50 Shades of Grey is Failed Critics debutant, Paul Field. Also joining them this week is Matt Lambourne, mainly so he can recount the story of why he didn't see the (not so) erotic flick. The team also craftily knocked out reviews for two other new releases before climaxing with 50 Shades of Grey , as Will...
Feb 19, 2015•1 hr 12 min
Callum Petch, Callum Petch, does whatever Callum can - i.e. talking even more than James used to as he swings straight from last week's episode to this week's edition of the Failed Critics podcast. He joins your regular podcast host Steve Norman and hanger-on Owen Hughes to discuss the big film news over the past seven days. Chiefly, Tuesday's long-expected announcement that the rebooted Spider-Man will definitely be making his first appearance in an upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, on ...
Feb 11, 2015•1 hr 41 min
Follow us down the secret service elevator to this week's Failed Critics Podcast. Fist-bumping his way onto this episode is our very own Callum Petch. The main release reviews this week see the team chat about Matthew Vaughn's new action-comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service starring Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Mark Strong and Taron Egerton; as well as the latest in Disney's recent animation resurgence, Big Hero 6 . From Steve's second excursion through the Harry Potter franchise and Callum's c...
Feb 05, 2015•1 hr 24 min
Opening the pod bay doors on this week's Failed Critics Podcast and simultaneously rescuing us from the brink of disaster is our special guest, Matt Lambourne. Matt joins regulars Owen and Steve for a one-off 'Artificial Intelligence' themed episode! And by that we don't just mean Owen is pretending to be cleverer than he actually is again... There's still a main review which sees the team discuss Alex Garland's directorial debut, Ex Machina; the story of a potentially sentient machine called Av...
Jan 30, 2015•1 hr 10 min
Welcome to the Failed Critics podcast. Keeping to Steve & Owen's tempo this week are two more guests! Returning for his first appearance since the end of year awards episode is James Diamond, ready to demolish you with his reviews of Whiplash and all things Luc Besson. Joining James is horror-fanatic and best mates with 'Scream Queen' Jessica Cameron; it's Mike Shawcross finally making his long overdue debut with American Sniper , Testament of Youth and 80's b-movie creature feature Alligato...
Jan 22, 2015•1 hr 23 min
DISCLAIMER: If you've downloaded this podcast in order to torture ears belonging to either you or somebody else with horrendous screeching sounds and unbearably loud-then-quiet distortion, then you've come to the wrong place. Steve and Owen somehow managed to keep the podcast from trying to destroy itself and have produced their first actual audible episode of 2015. Quite the achievement, I'm sure you'll agree. Not only is the sound quality bearable, but our debutant guest this week, Andrew Broo...
Jan 15, 2015•1 hr 16 min
A happy new year to all of our listeners! Welcome to the first Failed Critics podcast of 2015 with a bumper-crop of brand new releases. As announced earlier in the week , the podcast has undergone a bit of structural reform. The first guests to join Owen and Steve in the new series should be familiar to listeners old and new! Returning after more than a year since his last appearance, Gerry McAuley returns to review new(ish) release Enemy and newer release The Theory of Everything . Not only tha...
Jan 08, 2015•1 hr 12 min
Like our beloved founder and his gut/disdain for the films of Seth MacFarlane, we're sure that you can't contain your excitement for the 2014 Failed Critics Awards any longer! It's that most magical time if year again, where four people who've seen some films this year are shunned by their family, set up in a dark corner of the house with their laptop and some booze, and talk you through the good, the bad, and the ugly in cinema from the last twelve months. Steve and Owen are joined by Matt Lamb...
Dec 24, 2014•1 hr 30 min
Welcome one and all to a very merry penultimate edition of the Failed Critics Podcast 2014! We took a couple of weeks off in a bid to resolve our audio issues, but have returned just in time for Christmas. Joining stalwarts Owen and Steve are our special guests Matt Lambourne and Callum Petch. Foregoing any news this week, mainly in an effort to keep spirits high, we kick off the festivities with a twist on the regular quiz theme. The team run through which Christmas movies they've been watching...
Dec 20, 2014•1 hr 29 min
A few days ago, in a galaxy quite close to where you are right now, three people got together to record this podcast! This week, as you've probably guessed already, the team mull over the teaser / trailer / pre-trailer-teaser / clip things for Jurassic World and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens and decide if they're 'clever girls' or just stinky old nerf herders. Also on this episode, we have a review of the first part of the third part of the Hunger Games series with Mockingjay, Part ...
Dec 01, 2014•59 min
This week the Failed Critics join the Scottish Bafta's in paying homage to Lorraine Kelly, review new releases The Imitation Game and The Drop as well as having a look at the latest series of The Walking Dead and expose David Attenborough. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 20, 2014•1 hr 43 min
Welcome to this week's super-professional well-researched spick-and-span highly-polished episode of the Failed Critics podcast! The main release review this week is Christopher Nolan's $165m space-time-travelling science fiction thriller Interstellar . A film so long, we extended our podcast an extra 15 minutes with the return of our Spoiler Alert section alongside our regular spoiler-free review. Despite that, there was even time for Owen to take in the first two (well, one and a half) Lord of ...
Nov 14, 2014•1 hr 26 min
I did not hit her. it's not true! I didn't do it, it's bullshit. I didn't hit her-- oh, hi listeners. Welcome to this week's edition of the Failed Critics podcast, full of excessively long sex scenes and soundtracked by MTV Base circa 2002. Following Carole's quiz triumph last week, Owen and Steve were forced to watch the cinematic masterpiece* that is The Room ., written by, produced by, directed by and starring the unstoppable sex machine and all round nice guy Tommy Wiseau. (*At least, that's...
Nov 05, 2014•47 min
Recorded in Spooky Audio the Failed Critics talk their favourite recent horror movies as well as reviewing Nightcrawler and going cray cray over Marvel's latest announcement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 31, 2014•1 hr 22 min
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Oct 23, 2014•1 hr 1 min
