In this episode of the Failed Critics Podcast, hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by guests Andrew Brooker and Callum Petch to take a look over the latest film releases, review what else they've been watching in the past seven days, and to cast their beady eyes over recent news.With the score tightly poised at 1-1, Steve's ground breaking, Earth shattering, cataclysmic quiz kicks off this week's episode, swiftly followed by some news close to home [INSERT 'NEW WEBSITE' KLAXON] and som...
Oct 13, 2015•1 hr 35 min
Is this a dagger I see before me? No, it's just this week's triple bill edition of the Failed Critics podcast!Acclaimed Glaswegian author Escobar Walker debuts alongside noted-neds and podcast regulars Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and Paul Field, to review the Scottish play-turned-movie Macbeth and to each pick their three favourite films from north of the border.We kick things off as we always do with a quiz,one that is - yes, you guessed it - Scottish themed. Before that though, we have a short p...
Oct 07, 2015•1 hr 22 min
Hello and welcome to this week's Failed Critics Podcast, released slightly earlier than usual to try and push it out just before the end of International Podcast today (that's today for the next couple of minutes, anyway!) As such, we recommend you check out our fellow podcast comrades Wikishuffle, Black Hole Cinema and Diamond & Human; all of whom are deserving of your time during your commute or whilst boiling the spuds, or whatever you do whilst you're listening to us.Joining Mexican assa...
Sep 28, 2015•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast. As promised, Steve Norman is back in the host's chair this week as the award winning duo of Jack and Phil from Wikishuffle depart to be replaced by Matt Lambourne from the award winning video-game podcast Retro Asylum, such is the quality of guest on our shows these days!As ever, they are both joined by Owen Hughes for this week's triple bill episode, where each member of the team pick three films made for one million dollars or less in a...
Sep 22, 2015•1 hr 13 min
Do you want to hear a magic trick? How many C's are there in Failed Critics?Answer: Four! Specifically, Owen Hughes, Phil Sharman, Andrew Brooker and special guest host, Jack Stewart. I will leave it to your imagination to work out what the 'C' stands for......All right, it was 'critics', of course! Failed ones, but what else could I have possibly meant..?Unfortunately there's no Steve Norman on this week's episode, but the award winning duo of Phil and Jack from the comedy podcast Wikishuffle j...
Sep 15, 2015•1 hr 17 min
Welcome to another edition of the Failed Critics podcast. This week, hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by Paul Field (making his first appearance since the Corridor of Praise: Danny Dyer episode) and Phil Sharman, one third of the award nominated comedy podcast Wikishuffle.On top of the news about Danny Boyle confirming production will begin on Trainspotting 2, there are two new release films reviewed by the team this week; Nima Nourizadeh's stoner comedy American Ultra, starring Jes...
Sep 08, 2015•1 hr 22 min
You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge as four white boys from the UK discuss N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton on this week's Failed Critics Podcast. Joining crazy mother-flipper Steve Norman and another crazy arsed bad mother-flipper Owen Hughes on our latest episode is Andrew Brooker, a dangerous mother-flipper raising hell, and controlling the automatic is Mike Shawcross.We're not entirely as gangster as you might expect, believe it or not, as we kick off the podcas...
Sep 02, 2015•1 hr 20 min
What else are you going to do on a Wednesday morning? Sit in your fucking armchair, listening to Kermode & Mayo's Film Review? Then go and spunk your wages on Twilight DVDs and merchandise? Fuck that for a laugh. We know what we'd rather do! An entire podcast dedicated to Danny Dyer. Love it!That's right. In this episode, the Failed Critics will be honouring the work of Britain's most unappreciated actor, Danny Dyer, by inducting him into our illustrious Corridor of Praise and dedicating a s...
Aug 25, 2015•2 hr 8 min
Steve Norman? Here. Owen Hughes? Here. Callum Petch? Here.Now that the register has been taken, the latest Failed Critics Podcast may commence. Please take your seats, spit your chewing gum in the bin and we'll start this week's quiz and hear Owen's reaction to Steve's choice of film for winning last week with the sports documentary Next Goal Wins. We also have a triple bill where the team each pick three films set in a place of learning - and that's all the criteria they were given! It really i...
Aug 17, 2015•1 hr 40 min
On an audio-pod adventure, they got hit by cosmic rays. And the four would change forever, in some most fantastic ways! Oh, Steve Norman is sarcastic, Brian Plank's unusually polite. Carole is obsessed with Bill Murray, and Owen's opinions are a crock of shite. Call for Four... Failedastic Four!Yes, that's right listeners. This week's main release review is the not particularly well received [ahem] latest superhero film from Josh Trank, Fantastic Four. Or Fantfourstic if you're going to take the...
Aug 10, 2015•1 hr 9 min
This week's episode of the Failed Critics Podcast will first require a pass key to access. You can find said pass key by looking in the sole of your left shoe for a microchip which can then be inserted into the back of your phone. It will beam holographic cryptic instructions on the whereabouts of the access code before self-destructing in 5... 4... 3... 2...Only joking. Why make the podcast more of a challenge to listen to than it already is, right? There's so secret combination required to lis...
Aug 05, 2015•1 hr 9 min
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground. But the game of the Failed Critics Podcast is a bit more accommodating and has more of a flexible work-life balance. Plus it has much less incest too.This episode is part two of our third TV Special podcast, featuring Owen Hughes as host in place of Steve Norman. As in part one, Owen is joined by Matt Latham from The Bottle Episode and Failed Critics founder James Diamond.With the Emmy's chat firmly done and dusted...
Jul 30, 2015•1 hr 6 min
The Failed Critics TV Special revolution will not be televised, brother. Although, it will still be a conveniently downloadable audio podcast. No change there, then.However, what is different, for our third TV Special episode, there's no Steve Norman. Instead, Owen Hughes leapt into Steve's upholstered velvet host's chair whilst it was still warm, swivelled himself around, and read questions from the teleprompter to our special guests for this episode. Owen was joined by both Matt Latham from th...
Jul 28, 2015•1 hr 16 min
Welcome one and all to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast where Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are this week joined by special guests Andrew Brooker and Matt Lambourne to review big-budget pint-sized Marvel superhero movie Ant-Man! There's both a spoiler-free discussion on the film and a return of our 'spoiler alert' right after the end credits where we go into more specific details.Also featured on this week's podcast: Owen discusses the 1970's Werner Herzog movie Stroszek; Brooker fin...
Jul 21, 2015•1 hr 22 min
The last time you might have heard Wikishuffle appear on our podcast was back in April during the Quizcast and, as ever, Steve kicks off this pod with a quiz of his own before the team discuss latest new releases. There's disappointment over Seth McFarlane's controversial comedy sequel Ted 2. The Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominated dramady Dear White People doesn't quite live up to its hype. Even the animated Irish fantasy film Song of the Sea squeezes its way into this edition.Despite this epis...
Jul 14, 2015•1 hr 20 min
Come with us yf you want to lyve in a world where there are only 25 letters of the alphabet.Or stay in your regular 26-letter alphabet world if you like? You can still come with us through another 90 minutes of Failed Critics Podcast film chatter. On this episode, the usual voices of Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by the returning Callum Petch to review new releases Terminator Genisys and Magic Mike XXL.Also on this episode, the team take a look over the past week's film news, including...
Jul 07, 2015•1 hr 36 min
Welcome to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast where the team are at their most despicable.No, we haven't brought back Brooker and Paul!! I'm talking about the prequel to Illumination's Despicable Me franchise, all about those little yellow goofy sidekicks. Joining Steve Norman and Owen Hughes to review Minions is our animation expert Callum Petch. The team also take a look at action thrillers Everly (starring Selma Hayek) and Eli Roth's Knock Knock (starring Keanu Reeves).We also have...
Jun 30, 2015•1 hr 32 min
Welcome to possibly the most offensive, extraordinarily explicit episode of the Failed Critics Podcast to date. Which probably suggests our guests this week need no introduction! But for the sake of posterity, hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by Andrew Brooker and Paul Field.To tie into last week's release of Entourage: The Movie, a spin-off from the popular HBO series, "the boys" have turned this episode into a TV Special. Not quite a full continuation of the first two entries to o...
Jun 21, 2015•1 hr 43 min
Huh? Where's the podcast gone...?...oh, no......IT'S CAMOUFLAGED!No, wait, here it is. And it looks like Steve Norman and Owen Hughes have spliced together some DNA and created a monster of their own in Mike Shawcross. You might think that's an insult, but remember, 'monster' is relative. To a mouse, a cat is a monster. To Hammer Horror, Christopher Lee is a monster. To our audience, we are monsters.Anyway, in this episode we review Colin Trevorrow's new mega-blockbuster box office-record-breaki...
Jun 16, 2015•1 hr 21 min
What happens when you reunite the filthy minds of [The Mirror's film correspondent] Paul Field and Andrew Brooker on the same podcast as Steve Norman and Owen Hughes?If you guessed "clean, mild mannered discussion on various films in the cinema" then you'd be wrong. This episode is explicit with a capital E. And a capital X, P, L, I, C, I and T as well. You have been warned! Although there are still plenty of films discussed this week.Together, in-between the carnage, the team manage to put toge...
Jun 09, 2015•1 hr 19 min
Dogged this past week by claims of corruption, rigged voting and overweight power mad men running the show... No, it's not Steve and Owen here at Failed Critics!No. It's not even Sepp Blatter at FIFA. It's actually our guest Tony Black, who is joining us from Black Hole Cinema. After an open and equal voting process, Tony won his opportunity to join us this week completely fairly. Owen's new sports car and Steve's new handbag are just mere coincidences.The quiz this week has a slightly tongue in...
Jun 02, 2015•1 hr 16 min
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast! Joining hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes this week are Andrew Brooker and Jackson Tyler, sharing their opinion on the latest installment of the Pitch Perfect franchise, as well as George Miller's triumphant return to post-apocalyptic Australia with Mad Max: Fury Road.Starting off the podcast as ever is our quiz - in its new revamped format! With things teetering on a knife edge, will Steve lose and be forced to watch Kill Keit...
Jun 02, 2015•1 hr 6 min
They're heeeerrrrreeeee....And by 'they', we of course mean 'we'. We're here to host another triple bill edition of the Failed Critics Podcast!This week, Mike Shawcross and Matt Lambourne step into the fold along with regulars Steve Norman and Owen Hughes as they each pick their three favourite child performances in film. From sweary little girls, to doom-bringing seven year old boys, we've covered all of the best young performances that we could fit into 100 minutes of podcast.Amongst that, we ...
Jun 02, 2015•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to another edition of the Failed Critics Podcast where hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by special guest Matt Lambourne.In this episode, the team take a look at the big screen continuation of the long running and oft heralded BBC TV series with Spooks: The Greater Good. In honour of this very British espionage thriller, we have a triple bill where our trio each pick the three films they think sums up Britishness in movies best. Don't worry, there's no flag waving or national...
May 13, 2015•1 hr 12 min
Welcome to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast! Our special guests this week are Mike Shawcross and Andrew Brooker (that we know of, there could also have been a spooky spectre lurking on our Skype call) who join our regular hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes. We review two new releases, the cyber-slasher Unfriended and the "infuriating" Monsters: Dark Continent alongside our usual quiz, news and 'what we've been watching' sections. The latter of which sees Steve finally complete the H...
May 05, 2015•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast as we use our words to describe the eleventh and latest entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron ! This week we also celebrate our third birthday (hip hip!) Joining Steve and Owen for this extravaganza is the returning Carole Petts, for the first time on a proper feature podcast this year - although she has appeared on our Avengers Minisodes and reviewed Age of Ultron on the site of course! Also on th...
Apr 29, 2015•1 hr 15 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. Welcome to the very last episode in our...
Apr 22, 2015•25 min
Welcome to the Failed Critics podcast-- or should I say, "quizcast"! For the first time in Failed Critics history, we're teaming up with some fellow podcasters for 60 minutes of quizzing. With our regular host Steve Norman in the quiz master's chair, it was up to Owen Hughes and Matt Lambourne to represent Failed Critics. Up against them, from the weekly film review pdocast Black Hole Cinema , was Tony Black and Matt Latham. The third and final team on the quiz (and the only non-film related pod...
Apr 19, 2015•1 hr 13 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. In the penultimate podcast of our Aveng...
Apr 19, 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 eighth Avengers Minisode takes a lo...
Apr 19, 2015•22 min
