Dan and Simon say goodbye to the dumpster fire that was 2021 with a mix of reviews and a Best of 2021 movie list.

Up for review:

Then Dan and Simon each present their Best of 2021 movies lists. A top 10, if you will. What were these Top 10 movies? And will there be any overlap in their lists? You gotta press play - I ain't giving you all the answers.

A monster episode of Screen Watching this week.

Reviews. We got 'em:

Best of list. We got one of those too:

Interviews? Again, it's covered:

Yeah, this is a long podcast.

A HUGE week for HUGE titles. This week Dan and Simon review:

Firebite is an awesome Aussie vampire show from celebrated filmmaker Warwick Thornton. We interview him and his co-collaborator Brendan Fletcher. 

This is a good one. Hit play.

What an episode!

Dan interviews Bebe Neuwirth. Best known for playing Lilith Crane on Cheers and on Frasier, she has had a hugely extensive career on stage and screen including roles in Jumanji, Madam Secretary, The Good Fight, Law & Order: SVU. She is one of the voice actors in the really very good animated police noir comedy musical animated show Ultra City Smiths. 

Of course, there are also reviews:

It's our huge 50th episode extravaganza. We celebrate with reviews and conversation about the big movie and TV releases of the week. Really mixing up that formula.

This week we dive deep on:

It's a blockbuster week on the Screen Watching podcast this week as we have two huge new Marvel releases and a number of other anticipated movies and TV shows. Dan and Simon take a gander at:

A huge week for reviews this week as Simon and Dan take a gander at:

Simon also has a chat with director Rogue Rubin. Her film Lion Spy follows the director going undercover with the thrill killers of living things to fight the pending extinction of wild lions in Africa. Creating a false identity, she infiltrates the male dominated world of trophy hunters in Africa and puts herself at tremendous personal risk in doing so.

A huge week for reviews. Like, really, really big.

We discuss:

Simon also poses the question: Which faded stars are due a Tarantino-style comeback a la Pam Grier, John Travolta, and Robert Forster. Dan and Simon then answer that question in the most compelling segment of all time.

A big week for movies and TV this week. Dive into reviews of:

Dan and Simon also have a chat about how we feel about watching blockbusters in the current age.

It's Halloween at Screen Watching HQ. So we talk about horrors both real and imagined. Up for discussion:

Which of these horrors were real? Which imagined? You decide.