The Consensus Movie Podcast

We rank the top 30 directors in a power ranking format as of May 2026.

We each give our top 10 favorite films of the year 2025 as well as provide awards to the categories winners.

Kordell and Luke rank all 26 James Bond films and provide a guide on which ones to watch and why.

All Bond Films available on Netflix.

(0:00) - Top ten

(2:29:00) - Awards

Today we rank the John Carpenter celebrate the career and filmography of John Carpenter as well as ranking them best to worst.

(0:00) - Intro

(12:20) - The History of John Carpenter

(46:28) - The Rankings

Top 10 (0:12:30)

Box Office (2:23:00)

Awards (2:28:00)

(0:00) Part 1: Fantastic Four review (Spoiler free) -

(0:35) Part 2: F4 Spoiler discussion

(1:25:34) Part 3: Superman review and comic book adaptations w/ Jadon Moore

(1:42:31) Part 4: Superman Spoiler Discussion

(2:17:16) Part 5: Superman Rankings

We rank all the films Lucas either directed or wrote and produced.

(DISCLAIMER: Kordell's mic goes out half way through. He is still being recorded just in a lower quality. Should still be okay to hear though.)

References for other Lucas related content:

Lucas's style: https://youtu.be/AAAoqrCLC-E?si=vGRfUEohZp4ST7Ph

https://youtu.be/MSnuP5Xq3rg?si=CjpNzA3GDhLBJBbS

Video Essays:

https://youtu.be/vqnjzVX8EKA?si=BX-4GPifphvoGQTi

https://youtu.be/4hhfEzgfvZ8?si=A0v_uMVJYxYIjw11

https://youtu.be/rD2G0D-nyLA?si=sMBo0oyTIKgBi_6A

https://youtu.be/olqVGz6mOVE?si=R1aWujltSpp_6AGp

Short Films:

Lucas short film: https://youtu.be/12m7gRSfy7U?si=vMXENs7bXT3CAEQ8

21-87: https://youtu.be/7-tMhRKS9Jo?si=1JyPZwffmaFFvbav

(0:00) - Rankings

(2:07:35) - Box Office

(2:14:25) - Awards

In this episode we are drafting films from this decade and then ranking them in our top 20s of the decade.

(0:00) - Draft

(1:57:21) - Top 20

Editors Note: Kordell's audio is slightly off. The audio is not bad but one will notice a difference in sound.