The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast
A weekly podcast reviewing one or two new release titles every episode with an occasional free-for-all segment at the end we call Potpourri.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 103 minutes
- Episodes
- 486
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
OV266 - 2018 Year in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats
Happy 2019 and welcome to The Obsessive Viewer’s 2018 Year in Review episode! It’s our annual episode where Tiny, Mike, and myself share our movie viewing stats for the year, our top ten favorite mov…
OV265 - Roma - All Summers End, Big Mouth Season 2, The Ranch Season 5, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Private Life, Aquaman, and Robert Zemeckis
In our final episode of 2018, Tiny and I review the new Alfonso Cuaron movie, Roma. Then, in our potpourri segment, I share my thoughts on the coming of age movie, All Summers End and season 2 of Big…
OV264 - Bonus Ep - Aquaman, The American Meme, and Kevin Spacey's Let Me Be Frank (Featuring Robert Fekkes)
In this bonus episode, Fekkes and I review the new DCEU movie, Aquaman, determine it’s place within the DCEU, and discuss the future of DC movies. We also talk about the insanely bizarre Kevin Spacey…
OV263 - Welcome to Marwen - Bohemian Rhapsody, Blindspotting, Movie Theater Etiquette, and TV Show Swap: LOSTPoint (Featuring Kyrsten Lyster)
This week, Kyrsten and I review the new Robert Zemeckis movie, Welcome to Marwen and then we offer mini-reviews of Bohemian Rhapsody, and Blindspotting. I also share a harrowing theater experience. W…
OV262 - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - The Mule, Cam, Cheap Thrills, Silent Night Deadly Night, and Mandy (Patreon Selection)
This week, Mike and I review Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Mandy (as a special Patreon Review). We also discuss A-List and Letterboxd (as per usual), and Mike’s Ten Years of Shock list. For p…
OV261 - Hold the Dark - Avengers: Endgame Trailer, The Tale, Green Book, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Letterboxd Film Club
This week, Tiny and I review the latest Jeremy Saulnier movie, Hold the Dark. We also discuss the Avengers: Endgame trailer, Kevin Hart’s Oscar debacle, and Tiny and Kyrsten vying for the title of Ma…
OV260 – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Creed II, Instant Family, Finders Keepers, The Lion King trailer, and Facebook Live Police Chases (Featuring Robert Fekkes)
This week, Fekkes and I go in depth with our review of the latest Wizarding World movie, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. In Potpourri, we talk about the documentary Finders Keepers, Cree…
OV259 – Movie Theater Potpourri – Widows, Overlord, A Star is Born, First Man, Detective Pikachu trailer, Dear David movie, and Help Name Our New TV Swap Segment (Featuring Kyrsten Lyster)
This week, Kyrsten and I discuss the movies we’ve watched recently in the theater. Movies we discuss include Widows, Overlord, A Star is Born, and First Man. We also began our TV show swap project te…
OV258 – Extended Potpourri – RIP Stan Lee, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Born Strong, House of Cards, Bob's Burgers, Solo: A Star Wars Story, NYPD Blue and more
This week, Tiny and I settle in for a good, old-fashioned Extended Potpourri episode. We discuss Stan Lee’s passing, the 10th anniversary of The Shield’s series finale, the obnoxiousness of Bill Mahe…
OV257 – Letterboxd Potpourri – Halloween, Last Flag Flying, Mid90s, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Changing Lanes, The Walking Dead Movie Trilogy, and Breaking Bad Movie News
This week, Tiny and I pick movies from each other’s Letterboxd diaries for discussion in an extended Letterboxd-edition of potpourri. We also talk about AMC A-List, news of the Breaking Bad movie, an…
OV256 – Bad Times at the El Royale – The Oath, The Haunting of Hill House, and The Old Man and the Gun (Guest: Robert Fekkes)
This week, Fekkes and I review the new Drew Goddard movie, Bad Times at the El Royale. We also discuss movie theater food and etiquette, and talk about The Oath, The Haunting of Hill House, and The O…
OV255 – OV Live – Shocktober in Irvington 5 with Elsewhere World, Trebor Media, Amateur Hour Productions, Synapshot Media, 5 After 5 Productions, and Fair Creek Films
Recorded October 12th, 2018: It’s the 5th annual Shocktober in Irvington! This year we returned to Playground Productions Studio in Irvington where we were fortunate enough to screen 5 films from loc…
OV254 – HIFF2018: Part IV – Care to Laugh Review and Filmmaker Interviews: Emanuel, Live the Stream, Howard, On Her Shoulders, Thunder Road, Bathtubs Over Broadway, Radium Girls, and Tre Maison Dasan, and more
In part 4 of our coverage of the 27th Heartland Film Festival, I review the closing night film Care to Laugh, interview the filmmakers, and then Kyrsten and I interview several filmmakers who have fi…
OV253 – HIFF2018: Part III – The Samuel Project Review and Filmmaker Interviews: When Jeff Tried to Save the World, Palace, Fiddlin', Film School Africa, Bullitt County, A Thousand Miles Behind, and more
In part 3 of our coverage of the 27th Heartland Film Festival, Tiny and I review the beautifully funny and earnest The Samuel Project, and I interview several filmmakers who have films screening at t…
OV252 – HIFF2018: Part II – Crime + Punishment Review and Filmmaker Interviews: Fiddlin', Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, River Runs Red, The Samuel Project, The Turn Out, and more
In part 2 of our coverage of the 27th Heartland Film Festival, Kyrsten and I review the sobering documentary Crime + Punishment, and I interview several filmmakers who have films screening at this ye…
OV251 – HIFF2018: Part I – The Bikes of Wrath Review and Filmmaker Interviews: Amy & Sophia, Grateful, Hiroshima Carp Theater, Nathan's Kingdom, Palace, Phil's Camino, Spare Room, and more
In part 1 of our coverage of the 27th Heartland Film Festival, Kyrsten and I review the uplifting documentary The Bikes of Wrath, and I interview several filmmakers who have films screening at this y…
OV250 – IMDb Top 250 Picks (Rear Window and The Elephant Man) – Venom, Forged in Fire, Life Itself, Aquaman Trailer, and James Gunn's Suicide Squad 2
To commemorate our 250th episode, Tiny and I each selected a movie from the IMDb Top 250 for us to review. Tiny chose The Elephant Man for me and I chose Rear Window for him. We also discuss the late…
OV249 – Extended Potpourri – A Simple Favor, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Columbus, Searching, The Meg, Nathan for You, Teen Wolf, and The Twilight Zone (Guest: Kyrsten Lyster)
This week, Kyrsten joins me for an Extended Potpourri in which we discuss A Simple Favor, The Spy Who Dumped Me, The Meg, Searching, and Columbus. We also talk about Nathan for You and we made each o…
OV248 – Vanilla Sky (Patreon Selection) – The Happytime Murders, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Guardians Vol 3 on Hold, and more (Guest: Robert Fekkes)
This week, I am joined by Fekkes to review Vanilla Sky for one of our patreon supporters! We also talk about 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Happytime Murders, the latest news about Guardians of the Galax…
OV247 – Letterboxd Potpourri – Slender Man, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Crazy Rich Asians, ET at the Artcraft Theatre, 2001: A Space Odyssey in IMAX, and AMC A-List
This week, Mike and I chat about a bunch of things including AMC A-List, Letterboxd, The Artcraft Theatre in Franklin Indiana, seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey in IMAX, my method for compiling my top 100…