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DJ Lindsay's podcastThe best of summer 2022Quelques-uns des plus grands succès de l’été 2022, sélectionnés et mixés par DJ Lindsay.
1. Little Mix Feat. Saweetie ‘Confetti’ (Blinkie Remix), 2. HRVY ‘1 Day 2 Nights’, 3. Owen Westlake Feat. Lloyd Wade ‘So Much Love’, 4. Sigrid ‘Mirror’ (Paul Woolford Remix), 5. Becky Hill and David Guetta ‘Remember’, 6. Jonasu ‘Black Magic’, 7. Freejak ‘Ride Like The Wind’ (Club Mix), 8. Navos ‘Believe Me’ (Ben Rainey Remix), 9. Rudimental Feat. Norskov ‘Straight From The Heart’, 10. Shift K3Y Feat. Tinashe ‘Love Line’ (Shift K3Ys All Night VIP Mix), 11. Switch Disco ‘Everything’, 12. Calvin Harris Feat. Tom Grennan ‘By Your Side’, 13. Marshmello, Jonas Brothers ‘Leave Before You Love Me’ (DJ Safiter Remix), 14. Mabel ‘Let Them Know’...
2022-08-131h 16DJ Lindsay's podcastThe best of summer 2022Quelques-uns des plus grands succès de l’été 2022, sélectionnés et mixés par DJ Lindsay.
1. Little Mix Feat. Saweetie ‘Confetti’ (Blinkie Remix), 2. HRVY ‘1 Day 2 Nights’, 3. Owen Westlake Feat. Lloyd Wade ‘So Much Love’, 4. Sigrid ‘Mirror’ (Paul Woolford Remix), 5. Becky Hill and David Guetta ‘Remember’, 6. Jonasu ‘Black Magic’, 7. Freejak ‘Ride Like The Wind’ (Club Mix), 8. Navos ‘Believe Me’ (Ben Rainey Remix), 9. Rudimental Feat. Norskov ‘Straight From The Heart’, 10. Shift K3Y Feat. Tinashe ‘Love Line’ (Shift K3Ys All Night VIP Mix), 11. Switch Disco ‘Everything’, 12. Calvin Harris Feat. Tom Grennan ‘By Your Side’, 13. Marshmello, Jonas Brothers ‘Leave Before You Love Me’ (DJ Safiter Remix), 14. Mabel ‘Let Them Know’...
2022-08-131h 16
The Be Nation PodcastS1E9 Talent (SPECIAL GUESTS: OWEN PETCH, ANNA GREEN AND VOIX)Lets celebrate another big value TALENT. Today, we do have special guests: Owen Petch @owenpetch and Anna Green @annagreenmusic which they give their thoughts about the actual situation right now with the music industry and they presented their new singles and also we do have VOIX @wearevoix Andy and Mike are with us to introduce their new single LOST which its out today and also the best brand new music from around the world. Episode 10 next week and its gonna be big! Soon..
2020-05-071h 00
The Be Nation PodcastS1E9 Talent (SPECIAL GUESTS: OWEN PETCH, ANNA GREEN AND VOIX)Lets celebrate another big value TALENT. Today, we do have special guests: Owen Petch @owenpetch and Anna Green @annagreenmusic which they give their thoughts about the actual situation right now with the music industry and they presented their new singles and also we do have VOIX @wearevoix Andy and Mike are with us to introduce their new single LOST which its out today and also the best brand new music from around the world. Episode 10 next week and its gonna be big! Soon..
2020-05-071h 00
The Be Nation PodcastS1E9 Talent (SPECIAL GUESTS: OWEN PETCH, ANNA GREEN AND VOIX)Lets celebrate another big value TALENT. Today, we do have special guests: Owen Petch @owenpetch and Anna Green @annagreenmusic which they give their thoughts about the actual situation right now with the music industry and they presented their new singles and also we do have VOIX @wearevoix Andy and Mike are with us to introduce their new single LOST which its out today and also the best brand new music from around the world. Episode 10 next week and its gonna be big! Soon..
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2020-05-071h 00
The Be Nation PodcastS1E8 Diversity (With Special Guest: Taylor Stylez)It's time for the first guest of the podcast! We played his single GET UP a few times on The Be Nation Podcast, as it was requested by the members of The Be Nation and today he's joining us! TAYLOR STYLEZ is here to talk about inspirations and his brand new single BABY LETS CRUISE. (Follow @taylorstylezofficial on IG for more info) The theme of this Episode is DIVERSITY and we analyse why it's so important in the music Industry. We discover more details about PAYNE PLAY CITY and we are playing the best new music from around the world...
2020-05-011h 13
The Be Nation PodcastS1E8 Diversity (With Special Guest: Taylor Stylez)It's time for the first guest of the podcast! We played his single GET UP a few times on The Be Nation Podcast, as it was requested by the members of The Be Nation and today he's joining us! TAYLOR STYLEZ is here to talk about inspirations and his brand new single BABY LETS CRUISE. (Follow @taylorstylezofficial on IG for more info) The theme of this Episode is DIVERSITY and we analyse why it's so important in the music Industry. We discover more details about PAYNE PLAY CITY and we are playing the best new music from around the...
2020-05-011h 13
The Be Nation PodcastS1E8 Diversity (With Special Guest: Taylor Stylez)It's time for the first guest of the podcast! We played his single GET UP a few times on The Be Nation Podcast, as it was requested by the members of The Be Nation and today he's joining us! TAYLOR STYLEZ is here to talk about inspirations and his brand new single BABY LETS CRUISE. (Follow @taylorstylezofficial on IG for more info) The theme of this Episode is DIVERSITY and we analyse why it's so important in the music Industry. We discover more details about PAYNE PLAY CITY and we are playing the best new music from around the...
2020-05-011h 13
Set The TapeSTT Rewind: Episode 10Welcome to the tenth episode of STT Rewind with Owen Hughes, Steve Norman, and for the first time, Darren Mooney.In part one, the trio chat Avengers: Infinity War after Callum Petch's article on setthetape.com considering whether the fantasy blockbuster is an emotional flop, an ambitious triumph or an MCU breaker.In part two, Cancel Friday causes consternation after Brooklyn Nine-Nine is picked up after being put down, all on the same day.Matt Latham's Cassette Tape segment pays tribute to Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison, with Freeplay turning t...
2018-05-1736 min
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: London Film Festival 2017 SpecialWelcome to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast as hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by Callum Petch, fresh from this year's London Film Festival.We kick off the podcast with a chat about the ins and outs of the Festival itself as Callum explains what it's like being one of them proper critics that they have in London. He also rounds up five of the best (including Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, Irish Afghanistan animation The Breadwinner and NOT hip-comedy The Party) and a few of the rest.
2017-10-211h 43
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: London Film Festival 2017 SpecialWelcome to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast as hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by Callum Petch, fresh from this year's London Film Festival.We kick off the podcast with a chat about the ins and outs of the Festival itself as Callum explains what it's like being one of them proper critics that they have in London. He also rounds up five of the best (including Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, Irish Afghanistan animation The Breadwinner and NOT hip-comedy The Party) and a few of the rest.
2017-10-211h 46
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Blade Runner 2049, Loving Vincent, and The Mountain Between UsWelcome to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast. This one is actually being published within a reasonable amount of time since the recording. Aren't we spoiling you, eh! In it, hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes chat about the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer as well as react to the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse news. In What We've Been Watching, Steve reviews survival romance drama The Mountain Between Us, starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, and Owen takes a trip to the cinema for Loving Vincent, the hand-painted animated mystery noir about the life and death of...
2017-10-131h 17Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Blade Runner 2049, Loving Vincent, and The Mountain Between UsWelcome to another episode of the Failed Critics Podcast. This one is actually being published within a reasonable amount of time since the recording. Aren't we spoiling you, eh! In it, hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes chat about the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer as well as react to the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse news. In What We've Been Watching, Steve reviews survival romance drama The Mountain Between Us, starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, and Owen takes a trip to the cinema for Loving Vincent, the hand-painted animated mystery noir about the life and death of...
2017-10-131h 14Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: DunkirkIs it their finest hour and 17 minutes? With a stonking quiz hosted by guest Callum Petch, pitting hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes against each other, plus reviews of Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, 2016 mystery thriller Pet, and the extraordinarily awful documentary Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story, it might well possibly be! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-07-291h 17
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: DunkirkIs it their finest hour and 17 minutes? With a stonking quiz hosted by guest Callum Petch, pitting hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes against each other, plus reviews of Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, 2016 mystery thriller Pet, and the extraordinarily awful documentary Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story, it might well possibly be! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-07-291h 20
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: WFTBOTPOTANOOOOOOOOOOO-- I mean, yes, it's the latest episode of the Failed Critics podcast with Callum 'bright eyes' Petch and Dr Andrew Brookerzaius joining hosts Steve 'chimpan A' Norman and Owen 'chimpan Z' Hughes as they get their stinkin' paws on The Dawn of the War Beneath the Battle for the Planet of the Living Dead Apes, or whatever it's called. Elsewhere on a particularly shambolic episode, we mull over the casting of a woman (aka Jodie Whittaker) as The Doctor for the upcoming series of BBC sci-fi fantasy series Doctor Who, as well as the passing of legendary filmmaker, George A...
2017-07-181h 32Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: WFTBOTPOTANOOOOOOOOOOO-- I mean, yes, it's the latest episode of the Failed Critics podcast with Callum 'bright eyes' Petch and Dr Andrew Brookerzaius joining hosts Steve 'chimpan A' Norman and Owen 'chimpan Z' Hughes as they get their stinkin' paws on The Dawn of the War Beneath the Battle for the Planet of the Living Dead Apes, or whatever it's called. Elsewhere on a particularly shambolic episode, we mull over the casting of a woman (aka Jodie Whittaker) as The Doctor for the upcoming series of BBC sci-fi fantasy series Doctor Who, as well as the passing of legendary filmmaker, George A...
2017-07-181h 28
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: The Last Night Wasted On TransformersDare! Dare to believe you can survive [another Michael Bay Transformers movie]. You hold the future in your hand. Dare. Dare to keep all of your dreams alive [of never having to sit through another one]. It's time to take a stand. And you can win, if you dare [to stay home when the Bumblebee solo film comes out]. Yes, listeners, it's fair to say that the reaction from Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and Callum Petch to Transformers 5 / Transformers: The Last Knight / Trans5mers was less than positive. Perhaps it was the lack of Vince DiCola and Stan Bush that sour...
2017-06-301h 33Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: The Last Night Wasted On TransformersDare! Dare to believe you can survive [another Michael Bay Transformers movie]. You hold the future in your hand. Dare. Dare to keep all of your dreams alive [of never having to sit through another one]. It's time to take a stand. And you can win, if you dare [to stay home when the Bumblebee solo film comes out]. Yes, listeners, it's fair to say that the reaction from Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and Callum Petch to Transformers 5 / Transformers: The Last Knight / Trans5mers was less than positive. Perhaps it was the lack of Vince DiCola and Stan Bush that sour...
2017-06-301h 30Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Three M8s Deb8 F&F8 (It's Gr8!)Welcome to the Failed Critics Podcast as we review The Fate of the Furious, the eighth entry in the Fast & Furious series. It's an emotional rollercoaster this week. Tears have been shed about the noticeably absent (and some would even say crucial) member of the team, whose mere presence is what has made the previous entries so entertaining, so absorbing, and so full of heart and character. Alas, even without Owen around, Steve Norman, Callum Petch and James Diamond soldier on regardless. The 259th episode of the Failed Critics Podcast begins with a brief summary of another movie franchise to...
2017-04-201h 12
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Three M8s Deb8 F&F8 (It's Gr8!)Welcome to the Failed Critics Podcast as we review The Fate of the Furious, the eighth entry in the Fast & Furious series. It's an emotional rollercoaster this week. Tears have been shed about the noticeably absent (and some would even say crucial) member of the team, whose mere presence is what has made the previous entries so entertaining, so absorbing, and so full of heart and character. Alas, even without Owen around, Steve Norman, Callum Petch and James Diamond soldier on regardless. The 259th episode of the Failed Critics Podcast begins with a brief summary of another movie franchise to...
2017-04-201h 16
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: GITSAre we a podcast that exists inside your iPhone? Or is this an iPhone with the ghost of the latest Failed Critics Podcast inside of it? Hmm. Someone should make a movie out of that premise. Until then, don't worry about it. Just hit play and listen to four gits, Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Callum Petch and Matt Lambourne, as they guide you through a sort-of anime special in honour of our main release review, Ghost in the Shell. As well as the brand new movie starring Scarlett Johansson, we also take a look back at the original anime feature...
2017-04-041h 36Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: GITSAre we a podcast that exists inside your iPhone? Or is this an iPhone with the ghost of the latest Failed Critics Podcast inside of it? Hmm. Someone should make a movie out of that premise. Until then, don't worry about it. Just hit play and listen to four gits, Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Callum Petch and Matt Lambourne, as they guide you through a sort-of anime special in honour of our main release review, Ghost in the Shell. As well as the brand new movie starring Scarlett Johansson, we also take a look back at the original anime feature...
2017-04-041h 33Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: La La LateWell it seems we were a little hasty this week in recording the podcast. If only we'd have waited another 12 hours, we could have discussed the actual nominations for the Academy Awards and not just speculated. Although it doesn't seem to matter as we were broadly correct in our predictions and round-up our thoughts in a brief news section to open the show proper (after Steve Norman hosts the long-delayed quiz finale between Owen Hughes and Callum Petch). Speaking of delays - apologies to those of you who were expecting an episode last week. Fate conspired against us on a...
2017-01-261h 26
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: La La LateWell it seems we were a little hasty this week in recording the podcast. If only we'd have waited another 12 hours, we could have discussed the actual nominations for the Academy Awards and not just speculated. Although it doesn't seem to matter as we were broadly correct in our predictions and round-up our thoughts in a brief news section to open the show proper (after Steve Norman hosts the long-delayed quiz finale between Owen Hughes and Callum Petch). Speaking of delays - apologies to those of you who were expecting an episode last week. Fate conspired against us on a...
2017-01-261h 29
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Awards 2016 - part 2Fanfare, please! It's the final part of our Failed Critics Awards 2016 podcast. We've got the full list of all the films to make it onto our top 10 of the year, as voted for by you folks. Also in part 2, Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Andrew Brooker and Callum Petch reveal which have been the best performances of 2016 from both male and female actors. Spoiler: Mob Handed star, Yvette Rowland, didn't make the shortlist - but did Mob Handed make it onto our worst 3 films of the year? Or even our top 10? You'll just have to listen to find out. If you...
2016-12-311h 11Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Awards 2016 - part 2Fanfare, please! It's the final part of our Failed Critics Awards 2016 podcast. We've got the full list of all the films to make it onto our top 10 of the year, as voted for by you folks. Also in part 2, Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Andrew Brooker and Callum Petch reveal which have been the best performances of 2016 from both male and female actors. Spoiler: Mob Handed star, Yvette Rowland, didn't make the shortlist - but did Mob Handed make it onto our worst 3 films of the year? Or even our top 10? You'll just have to listen to find out. If you...
2016-12-311h 09
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Awards 2016 - part 1Welcome to the first part of this year's Failed Critics Awards! Rather than force you to sit through a two-hour podcast only days after our three-hour compilation episode came out, we've split this year's awards in half. In part one, hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by Andrew Brooker and Callum Petch to scowl, whoop and whine about the winners in: Best documentary; Best British film; Best film not in the English language; Best soundtrack. As well, of course, as our end of year quiz! We'll be back with the winners in our best male / female performances, worst...
2016-12-301h 07Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Awards 2016 - part 1Welcome to the first part of this year's Failed Critics Awards! Rather than force you to sit through a two-hour podcast only days after our three-hour compilation episode came out, we've split this year's awards in half. In part one, hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by Andrew Brooker and Callum Petch to scowl, whoop and whine about the winners in: Best documentary; Best British film; Best film not in the English language; Best soundtrack. As well, of course, as our end of year quiz! We'll be back with the winners in our best male / female performances, worst...
2016-12-301h 05
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: London Film Festival 2016 SpecialBefore writer Callum Petch had even got his foot through the door upon returning from Ben Wheatley's Free Fire last Sunday, he was answering a telephone call from Failed Critics to let us know exactly how it - and the rest of the BFI London Film Festival - had been this year. This special bonus podcast is the result of that call, as Callum kindly rounds up five of the best, and a few of the rest from the 60th LFF. If you've been following his posts on the site, you'll have a good idea of which movies came out...
2016-10-221h 23
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Sausage PartyIt's getting a bit musky in the FC HQ this week as Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and Callum Petch engage in their very own sausage party to review Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's latest collaboration. The foul-mouthed animated comedy pretty much divided the group down the middle, but you'll have to listen to find out who hated it, who thought it was fine, and who loved it. Elsewhere on the pod: hooked on an Ashton Kutcher-fix, Steve reviews time-travelling sci-fi The Butterfly Effect; Owen realises he should watch a film before coming on a film podcast so squeezes in a...
2016-09-061h 28Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Sausage PartyIt's getting a bit musky in the FC HQ this week as Steve Norman, Owen Hughes and Callum Petch engage in their very own sausage party to review Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's latest collaboration. The foul-mouthed animated comedy pretty much divided the group down the middle, but you'll have to listen to find out who hated it, who thought it was fine, and who loved it. Elsewhere on the pod: hooked on an Ashton Kutcher-fix, Steve reviews time-travelling sci-fi The Butterfly Effect; Owen realises he should watch a film before coming on a film podcast so squeezes in a...
2016-09-061h 26
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Pod HandedAwright, settle down you slags. The Failed Critics Podcast is here, keep your hair on you bunch of Berkley Hunt's. Influenced by the paedo-hunting vigilante killers in the expectedly awful geezer-movie Mob Handed, hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are up to no good with their partner in crime, Callum Petch. As well as a full-on dismantling of the aforementioned since-proclaimed "worst movie" that Owen and Steve have ever made each other watch (nudging out the likes of Kill Keith, United Passions and Spice World), we also cover the news this week that the animators on Sausage Party have been...
2016-08-161h 33Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Pod HandedAwright, settle down you slags. The Failed Critics Podcast is here, keep your hair on you bunch of Berkley Hunt's. Influenced by the paedo-hunting vigilante killers in the expectedly awful geezer-movie Mob Handed, hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are up to no good with their partner in crime, Callum Petch. As well as a full-on dismantling of the aforementioned since-proclaimed "worst movie" that Owen and Steve have ever made each other watch (nudging out the likes of Kill Keith, United Passions and Spice World), we also cover the news this week that the animators on Sausage Party have been...
2016-08-161h 30
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2016-07-062h 39
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Take-a-Break HourWelcome to this week's Failed Critics Podcast where hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes were joined by both Callum Petch and Andrew Brooker to review three new releases! Book-ending Callum's film-reviewing life in education with trips to Wonderland, he reveals that Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is the worst blockbuster of the 2010's - and why Alice Through The Looking Glass is no better. We also review Warcraft: The Beginning, confusing Steve no end as he can't tell the difference between it and Warhammer (direct your outrage to @FailedSteve). Finally, we collectively agree that Shane Black's noir-comedy The Nice Guys...
2016-06-071h 19Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Take-a-Break HourWelcome to this week's Failed Critics Podcast where hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes were joined by both Callum Petch and Andrew Brooker to review three new releases! Book-ending Callum's film-reviewing life in education with trips to Wonderland, he reveals that Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is the worst blockbuster of the 2010's - and why Alice Through The Looking Glass is no better. We also review Warcraft: The Beginning, confusing Steve no end as he can't tell the difference between it and Warhammer (direct your outrage to @FailedSteve). Finally, we collectively agree that Shane Black's noir-comedy The Nice Guys...
2016-06-071h 16
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Swingers VIPSorry, you won't find life's bare necessities on this page. Life's sort-of, not entirely annoying, mildly amusing leisure accompaniment? That sounds more like it. I suppose that means welcome to this week's Failed Critics Podcast, featuring the saddest sentence you'll ever hear another human say, plus hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by Callum Petch as they attempt a review of Disney's latest adventure movie, The Jungle Book. As usual, we start the show off with a quiz, but unusually we don't conclude it until the very end of the show. I blame Steve. In between all that...
2016-04-181h 26Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Swingers VIPSorry, you won't find life's bare necessities on this page. Life's sort-of, not entirely annoying, mildly amusing leisure accompaniment? That sounds more like it. I suppose that means welcome to this week's Failed Critics Podcast, featuring the saddest sentence you'll ever hear another human say, plus hosts Steve Norman and Owen Hughes are joined by Callum Petch as they attempt a review of Disney's latest adventure movie, The Jungle Book. As usual, we start the show off with a quiz, but unusually we don't conclude it until the very end of the show. I blame Steve. In between all that...
2016-04-181h 23
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: ZootopiatropolisplaceThis week's episode of the Failed Critics Podcast features Callum Petch, returning for the first time in 2016, to join both Steve Norman and Owen Hughes for four new-release reviews. With the latest entry in the Divergent Series franchise, it seemed almost impossible to record a show without Callum's input on Allegiant - particularly after his last appearance on the pod the week after the previous instalment, Insurgent, came out! Continuing to play to Callum's strengths this week, there are two new animated movies out. As if it wasn't already well set up for him with a new Dreamworks Animation out...
2016-03-171h 41Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: ZootopiatropolisplaceThis week's episode of the Failed Critics Podcast features Callum Petch, returning for the first time in 2016, to join both Steve Norman and Owen Hughes for four new-release reviews. With the latest entry in the Divergent Series franchise, it seemed almost impossible to record a show without Callum's input on Allegiant - particularly after his last appearance on the pod the week after the previous instalment, Insurgent, came out! Continuing to play to Callum's strengths this week, there are two new animated movies out. As if it wasn't already well set up for him with a new Dreamworks Animation out...
2016-03-171h 38Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: End of Year Awards 2015Votes have been counted, booze has been consumed and a resulting two hour long podcast has been produced, examining each of the winners (and some of the losers) in this year's Failed Critics Awards.With Steve Norman absent, it's up to Matt Lambourne to step in and host our final podcast of the year as Owen Hughes runs through who has won what in all eight of the different categories that our listeners have submitted votes in. Accompanying them both are special guests Callum Petch and Phil Sharman, who duke it out in the opening quiz, before laughing/lamenting the...
2015-12-292h 11
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: End of Year Awards 2015Votes have been counted, booze has been consumed and a resulting two hour long podcast has been produced, examining each of the winners (and some of the losers) in this year's Failed Critics Awards.With Steve Norman absent, it's up to Matt Lambourne to step in and host our final podcast of the year as Owen Hughes runs through who has won what in all eight of the different categories that our listeners have submitted votes in. Accompanying them both are special guests Callum Petch and Phil Sharman, who duke it out in the opening quiz, before laughing/lamenting the...
2015-12-292h 15
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: The Good Bridge of Dinosaur SpiesWe're back to our normal routine today with Steve Norman and Owen Hughes joined by Callum Petch. There's not a single professional comedian amongst them after the first episode of Paul Field and James Mullinger's Underground Nights popped up in your podcast subscription software of choice this past weekend.And what a bumper crop of new release reviews we have in store for you! Four new movies that have hit your cinema screens recently, including: The new Pixar dramedy, The Good Dinosaur; Black Mass, a crime biopic starring Johnny Depp; a film that Callum describes as "perfect" in Carol; and...
2015-12-021h 26Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: The Good Bridge of Dinosaur SpiesWe're back to our normal routine today with Steve Norman and Owen Hughes joined by Callum Petch. There's not a single professional comedian amongst them after the first episode of Paul Field and James Mullinger's Underground Nights popped up in your podcast subscription software of choice this past weekend.And what a bumper crop of new release reviews we have in store for you! Four new movies that have hit your cinema screens recently, including: The new Pixar dramedy, The Good Dinosaur; Black Mass, a crime biopic starring Johnny Depp; a film that Callum describes as "perfect" in Carol; and...
2015-12-021h 22
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Hunger Games SpecialMay the odds be ever in your favour as Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Callum Petch and Chris Haigh volunteer themselves as tributes for this Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 themed episode of the Failed Critics Podcast.We've got a young-adult adaptation inspired quiz to kick things off before covering news on: the latest sci-fi fantasy remake to get its own Hunger Games style franchise; Wonder Woman finally having an announced cast; and ask if it's right that cinema chains should ban the showing of an advert created by the Church of England.All of this, plus a review of the...
2015-11-241h 31Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Hunger Games SpecialMay the odds be ever in your favour as Steve Norman, Owen Hughes, Callum Petch and Chris Haigh volunteer themselves as tributes for this Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 themed episode of the Failed Critics Podcast.We've got a young-adult adaptation inspired quiz to kick things off before covering news on: the latest sci-fi fantasy remake to get its own Hunger Games style franchise; Wonder Woman finally having an announced cast; and ask if it's right that cinema chains should ban the showing of an advert created by the Church of England.All of this, plus a review of the...
2015-11-241h 29
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Ronaldo, World Cinema & Listener QuestionsBonjour, guten tag, konnichiwa, hola, namaste, aloha, salve, an-nyong, olá, goddag, ahalan, shalom, nei ho... and hello!Welcome to this week's Failed Critics Podcast as Owen and Steve take a break from reviewing new releases (sort of) to draft in special guests and world cinema aficionados (and podcast débutantes), Andy and Liam.Whilst it may be the first time on Failed Critics for the cultured duo, this episode does see the return of a feature from earlier this year called 'Listener Questions'. Through our Twitter and Facebook pages, we invited listeners and previous podcast guests to send in any qu...
2015-11-171h 37Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Ronaldo, World Cinema & Listener QuestionsBonjour, guten tag, konnichiwa, hola, namaste, aloha, salve, an-nyong, olá, goddag, ahalan, shalom, nei ho... and hello!Welcome to this week's Failed Critics Podcast as Owen and Steve take a break from reviewing new releases (sort of) to draft in special guests and world cinema aficionados (and podcast débutantes), Andy and Liam.Whilst it may be the first time on Failed Critics for the cultured duo, this episode does see the return of a feature from earlier this year called 'Listener Questions'. Through our Twitter and Facebook pages, we invited listeners and previous podcast guests to send in any qu...
2015-11-171h 34
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Panning Pan, Suffering Suffragette & Walking The WalkIn 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 some a whole (cinematic) universe away. The team also discuss the trailers for the first ever...
2015-10-131h 38Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Panning Pan, Suffering Suffragette & Walking The WalkIn 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 some a whole (cinematic) universe away. The team also discuss the trailers for the first ever...
2015-10-131h 35
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Legend, The Visit and Award Winning ComedyDo 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 join Owen and Brooker to review two new releases. Whilst Phil prepares a rant...
2015-09-161h 20Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Legend, The Visit and Award Winning ComedyDo 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 join Owen and Brooker to review two new releases. Whilst Phil prepares a rant...
2015-09-161h 17Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: A Place Of LearningSteve 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 is as broad as that. Good? Bad? Overrated? Underrated? Obscure...
2015-08-181h 39
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: A Place Of LearningSteve 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 is as broad as that. Good? Bad? Overrated? Underrated? Obscure...
2015-08-181h 43Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Fayled Crytycs Podcast: Termynator Genysys & Magyc Myke XXLCome 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 the Film4 FrightFest programme announcement and Inside Out smashing a...
2015-07-081h 36
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Fayled Crytycs Podcast: Termynator Genysys & Magyc Myke XXLCome 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 the Film4 FrightFest programme announcement and Inside Out smashing a...
2015-07-081h 39Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Small, Bald, Jaundiced CriticsWelcome 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 a special guest débutante to the Failed Critics podcast in Nick Lay, author of our articles on We A...
2015-07-011h 32
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Small, Bald, Jaundiced CriticsWelcome 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 a special guest débutante to the Failed Critics podcast in Nick Lay, author of our articles on We A...
2015-07-011h 34Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: TV Special 2.5Welcome 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 our previous TV Specials (part 1 & part 2), this is more like a TV Special 2.5 with a full...
2015-06-221h 43
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: TV Special 2.5Welcome 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 our previous TV Specials (part 1 & part 2), this is more like a TV Special 2.5 with a full...
2015-06-221h 46
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Spooks, Britishness & Bad ImpressionsWelcome 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 anthem renditions here. Just a veritable plethora of poor attempts at cross-country...
2015-05-131h 13Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Spooks, Britishness & Bad ImpressionsWelcome 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 anthem renditions here. Just a veritable plethora of poor attempts at cross-country...
2015-05-131h 11
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Avengers Minisodes: Episode 5 - Captain America: The First AvengerIn 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 series, our fifth episode of the Avengers Minisode podcasts sees the team turn t...
2015-04-1626 minFailed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Avengers Minisodes: Episode 5 - Captain America: The First AvengerIn 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 series, our fifth episode of the Avengers Minisode podcasts sees the team turn t...
2015-04-1623 min
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Furious 7, John Wick and Occasionally JokesWelcome 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 (or Furious 7, or whatever you want to call it...
2015-04-091h 18Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Furious 7, John Wick and Occasionally JokesWelcome 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 (or Furious 7, or whatever you want to call it...
2015-04-091h 15
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Here Comes The SummerWelcome 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...) but also look ahead to those due for release between June and September with a summer 2015 preview triple b...
2015-03-261h 48Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Here Comes The SummerWelcome 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...) but also look ahead to those due for release between June and September with a summer 2015 preview triple b...
2015-03-261h 44Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Eclectic AvenueCallum 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 loan from Sony. We mull over potential ramifications for existing Marvel films, casting choices w...
2015-02-111h 40
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Eclectic AvenueCallum 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 loan from Sony. We mull over potential ramifications for existing Marvel films, casting choices w...
2015-02-111h 42Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Little Villainous ThreeFollow 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 complete bafflement at Luxembourgian comedy The Notorious Guys, to Owen's elongated gushing over German high-brow arty-farty Werner Herzog film...
2015-02-051h 24
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: Little Villainous ThreeFollow 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 complete bafflement at Luxembourgian comedy The Notorious Guys, to Owen's elongated gushing over German high-brow arty-farty Werner Herzog film...
2015-02-051h 26
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: The Battle of the Four CriticsWelcome 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 on the run up to the big day and the...
2014-12-201h 31Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: The Battle of the Four CriticsWelcome 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 on the run up to the big day and the...
2014-12-201h 28
Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Amazing Transcendence, The Amazing Love PunchWelcome to this week's podcast; the first one since James took temporary leave (of his senses in trusting the pod to this lot).Callum Petch makes his return to the pod, and along with Steve and Owen reviews the latest blockbuster effort featuring the masked web-slinger, as well as Johnny Depp sans Tim Burton and white-face make-up in Wally Pfister's directorial debut Transcendence.Join us next week as we drag a stranger off the street to keep Owen and Steve company whole they try and find a new release to review that isn't The Other...
2014-04-242h 34Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Amazing Transcendence, The Amazing Love PunchWelcome to this week's podcast; the first one since James took temporary leave (of his senses in trusting the pod to this lot).Callum Petch makes his return to the pod, and along with Steve and Owen reviews the latest blockbuster effort featuring the masked web-slinger, as well as Johnny Depp sans Tim Burton and white-face make-up in Wally Pfister's directorial debut Transcendence.Join us next week as we drag a stranger off the street to keep Owen and Steve company whole they try and find a new release to review that isn't The Other...
2014-04-241h 16Failed Critics (2012-2019 episodes)Failed Critics Podcast: 300 Rise of a CriticThis week's podcast introduces a young, fresh-faced critic to the mix in Callum Petch. Much like the plot of Wes Anderson's new film The Grand Budapest Hotel, this episode sees a classy yet older gentleman (James) taking a young and enthusiastic outsider under his tutelage. At least that's how James sees it.We also have reviews of 300: Rise of an Empire and Escape from Planet Earth, as well as our plans for how to save the Die Hard franchise, and some bitter accusations of cheating in the quiz.Join us next week for reviews of...
2014-03-131h 37