Filmspotting

Panoply

Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen review new and classic movies, offering "affable, insightful film analysis since 2005" (NY Times).

Episodes

Jack Ryan: Ghost War - A Simulacrum of Cinema | SVU

Close Encounters of the Third Kind vs. E.T. | Movie Death Match

Introducing : Cultivating H.E.R. Space Podcast | We Ride at Dawn: Ways We Show Up for Our Sisters with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford | Network Drop

The Mandalorian and Grogu and I Love Boosters | #1066

Top 5 Single Location Movies | Archive

Ladies First: Sacha Baron Cohen Takes on the Matriarchy | SVU

Tony Leung Talks Silent Friend, Plus Decorado and The Wizard of the Kremlin | #1065

Top 5 Superhero Costumes | Archive

The State of Streaming: Netflix | SVU

The Tree of Life at 15: Malick’s Cosmic Masterpiece Revisited | #1064

Blue Heron: A Lyrical Debut — and an Early Golden Brick Contender

Top 5 Malick Scenes | Archive

Lord of the Flies: The BBC Brings Art to Netflix

Rome, Open City: The Blueprint for Revolutionary Cinema

Top 5 Meryl Streep Scenes | #1063

The Devil Wears Prada 2: With a Defanged Miranda, What's Left?

Top 5 Overlooked Movies of the 2000s | Archive

People We Meet on Vacation — Rom-Coms Have A New Star | SVU

The Great Dictator: Chaplin’s Act of Artistic Nobility

Summer Movie Preview 2026 and ’40s Madness Champion | #1062