They like movies. They like TV. And they like overthinking it. Welcome to the Podcast of Critics - a film & TV review show where a cast of so-called ”critics” led by hosts Garrett & Ashley take you through varying franchises and thematically linked series of movies - walking scene by scene and giving you the takes you didn’t ask for, but never knew you needed.
We're finally at the end of our Hunger Games series, closing out with Mockingjay Part 2, once again joined by guest critic Addie. The war is well underway here at the end as we debate the merits of Katniss's moral stance, the dangling threads of a YA love triangle that's been wearing out its welcome, and an ending that's as bittersweet now as it was back in 2015. We appreciate all of you listeners who have sat through this series with us, and hope to see you in the next one! In the meantime, remember who the real enemy is, and keep up the good fight.
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6 May 2026
Episode 13: Mockingjay Part 1 - Escape from the Atlanta Marriott
We're nearing the end of our Hunger Games series where we dive deep underground to District 13, and even deeper into Katniss's growing trauma. Ashley and Garrett are joined once more by guest critic Addie, as we follow Katniss's journey to become the Mockingjay whether she wants to or not. Much like we had to suffer through Liam Hemsworth's acting to bring you this episode.
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22 Apr 2026
Episode 12: Catching Fire - Yearnin' for You
We pick up our Hunger Games series with the second movie, where Katniss isn't just catching fire, but feelings too. Guest critic Addie joins Ashley and Garrett once again as new tributes enter the arena - many of them veterans of stage and screen here to help steal the show. The stakes are higher than ever as President Snow runs it back on Katniss. Good thing this is just a movie, and Presidents don't come back in a sequel and do the same thing but worse, right?
...anyway, they get a good smooch in this one, that's nice at least.
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8 Apr 2026
Episode 11: The Hunger Games Part 2 - Death of the Fandom
We continue with the second half of the first Hunger Games movie - and judging by some of these takes, that girl isn't the only thing on fire. Will Addie successfully defend the fandom from being cringe? How many more passages from the book is Ashley going to read? Is Garrett actually starting to like this movie? All this and more in this conlusion to the first in a series with plenty more to come.
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8 Apr 2026
Episode 10: The Hunger Games Part 1 - Teenage Dirtbag
At long last we're back on the air, joined by our friend and guest critic Addie to talk about the 2010s teen dystopian sensation: The Hunger Games! This super-sized episode has been split into two halves because as millenials, we couldn't help but want to keep party rocking back to 2012. We've come back big with this series so strap in as we dive deep over the next few weeks into the trauma, terror, and regular old teen angst that dominates this touchstone that defined a generation.
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14 Aug 2024
Episode 9: Armageddon - You Got Soft Hands, Boy
In the last of our '90s Disaster series, a new critic joins the cast! Mitchell - Garrett's brother and Michael Bay aficionado - joins us to talk 1998's Armageddon. It's the end of the world - and this series - as we know it, going out with a literal bang as Bruce Willis and the boys blast off to drill an asteroid before time runs out. Guns in space, animal crackers, Aerosmith - trust us, you don't want to miss a thing in this episode.
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31 Jul 2024
Episode 8: Dante's Peak - Pretty Privilege Pierce
We're just ERUPTING with lava-hot takes as we continue our journey through our '90s Disaster series with a ~heated~ look at 1997's Dante's Peak. Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton star as a very competent scientist and a very incompetent mayor - whose stirring and not-at-all forced romance is interrupted by that gosh darn volcano right down the street - and it would have gotten away with it too! If it weren't for that meddling Pierce knowing how to solve every problem ever- and looking way too good doing it.
17 Jul 2024
Episode 7: Twister - Into the Suck Zone
Don't let the title of the episode fool you - the tornados may suck but this movie sure doesn't! Join the cast on a wild ride across Oklahoma as we kick off a new series featuring '90s Disaster Movies, starting with a conveniently (and not at all intentionally) timed pick that has a sequel coming out this week: the 1996 classic - Twister!
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10 Jul 2024
Episode 6: Motocrossed - You mean I'm NOT gay?!
In the final episode of our Disney Channel Original Summer series, Garrett and Ashley race to the feminist finish line with the X-TREMELY thrilling Motocrossed from 2001, following "Andi" as she takes on the man's world of motocross - where gender barriers are smashed, engine-repair records are broken, and one poor dude's sexuality gets severely questioned.
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26 Jun 2024
Episode 5: Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior - What is Homecoming Anyway?
In Ashley's pick for our Disney Channel Original Summer series, we watch Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior - THE action-packed girl power flick of 2006 that's surprisingly culturally resonant in between all the catfights, cappuccinos, and Kung Fu.
(Also Ashley cries in this episode so there's that)
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12 Jun 2024
Episode 4: Now You See It - Not Like Other Magicians
Pick a card? No, pick ME! The cast set the stage for their Disney Channel Original Summer series with Garrett's pick: Now You See It - an obscure Disney Channel gem brimming with true magic, mystery, a plot to decapitate a teenager, and uh...friendship or something?
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22 May 2024
Episode 3: Ocean's Thirteen - Bleed the Willy Dry
In the conclusion to the cast's review of the Ocean's trilogy, Ashley & Garrett talk through the satisfying revenge story that is Thirteen, where Clooney and the gang get back to doing what we loved em for in the first place - stealing our hearts.
AND millions of dollars, but mostly our hearts.
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22 May 2024
Episode 2: Ocean's Twelve - Backpack Flashback
On the second of the cast's look into the Ocean's series, Ashley & Garrett follow the Eleven to Europe to size up whether the second in the trilogy is as egg-celent as the first, or if Twelve is more concerned with out-foxing the audience than entertaining them...
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In the inaugural episode of the (Pod)Cast of Critics, Garrett & Ashley go back to 2001, with the first of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's trilogy - Ocean's Eleven.
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