Ratings First: A Movie Nerd Podcast
Three filmmakers of unquestionable repute. One irrefutably questionable format. Zero apologies -- this is America, after all.
🎥 Ratings First is a movie review podcast hosted by working filmmakers Justin 👨🏻🦱, Ethan 👨🏼🦰, and Brandon 🧔🏻♂️ — a director, a cinematographer, and a guy who's done everything from first AD to sound design.
Together, they obsess over movies the way normal people obsess over therapy.
They’ve seen it all, argued about it all — and now they’re doing it on-mic.
The twist?
They rate the movie before they discuss it.
Because in a podcast ocean full of masters (WHM), legends (Filmspotting), and Letterboxd darlings (Paddington🧸🇬🇧)... doing it backwards felt like the only way forward.
🎬 Come for the takes, stay for the tension.
They may not be famous (yet), but they’re too geeky to quit — unless the nukes drop (fingers crossed), in which case, well... at least we tried.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 76 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2025
Caught Stealing — starring Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith
🎙️ Episode 15 — Caught Stealing 🐈🥃💥
This episode starts weird. Posha shows up after a health scare ❤️🩹, Brandon’s basically a zombie 🧟♂️… and then Austin Butler + Darren Aronofsky drag…
The No Episode Episode --> Join us, won't you?
🎙️ Episode 14 — Who’s Got to Go? 🎬⚔️🤔
No new release this week. No Nic Cage meltdowns, no Austin Butler abs, no midnight screenings. But hey — we weren’t about to ghost you. 👻
So instead,…
Nobody 2 — starring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd
🎙️ Episode 10 — Nobody 2 💥🕶️🥋
What if The Great Outdoors packed a rocket launcher? What if Summer Rental ended in a pile of roundhouse kicks? That’s basically Nobody 2 — an 80s-style act…
Classic Tease... American Werewolf in London!
🎙️ An American Werewolf in London (1981) — The Second Classics Tease 🐺🇬🇧🌕
Another ten minutes. Another dangling carrot. Another reminder that you’re not getting the whole episode unless …
Classic Tease... Playtime!
🎙️ Playtime (1967) — A Ten-Minute Tease 😴📐🇫🇷
Here’s the deal: you’re only getting the first ten minutes. Yep. Just enough to know we argued, got pretentious, and maybe nodded off while J…
Classic Tease... Bringing Out the Dead
🎙️ Bringing Out the Dead (1999) — The Third Classics Tease 🚑🌃🧠
You know the drill by now: ten minutes, then the door slams shut. 🔒
This time it’s Nic Cage, Scorsese, and Schrader — a curs…
Weapons — starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin
🎙️ Episode 9 — Weapons 🔪🍫🪞
No, you didn’t miss Episode 8.5 — that’s Freakier Friday, and technically it dropped inside this very episode. You’ll see.
Here’s the gist: two hosts watched We…
The Naked Gun (2025) — starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston
🎙️ Episode 6 — The Naked Gun (2025) 💥👖🍫
No, you didn’t miss Episode 5 — that’s Playtime, and it dropped over on our Classics Tier, aka the “Snickers Tier™” 🍫
Why Snickers? Because if you…
The Fantastic Four: First Steps — starring Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn
EPISODE 4: Fantastic Four (2025) — We’re Cookin’ 🔥👨👨👧👦🔥
What do you get when you toss two film nerds, one chaotic mediator, a superhero reboot, and a suspiciously blonde Hispanic chil…
Eddington — starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal
🧠💥🔥 Ari Aster goes full chaos mode.
This week, the Ratings First squad unpacks the utter madness that is Eddington — a dark, violent, twist-loaded character study set in a pandemic-era …
Superman -- starring David Corensweat, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Brosnahan
Superman: Legacy of Debate – Ratings First Episode 2
It’s Bizarro World this week as Justin drops a shocking Superman rating that might rupture the space-time continuum. Ethan’s flying h…
F1 -- starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Javier Bardem
🎙️ Three white guys start a movie podcast. Shocking.
In our chaoticly epic debut, Ethan, Justin, and Brandon stumble into F1 — the new Brad Pitt racing movie from Tim Cook starring Dams…