Poditive Spin: The Friendly Fan Club
Do you love talking all things movies, TV, and pop culture, but tired of all the toxicity online? Do you wish you could take the guilt out of your entertainment guilty pleasures?
Poditive Spin is the podcast haven you need.
Come and join the Friendly Fan Club, where we push back against nitpicking, naysaying, and negativity. Where we champion the positives, celebrate storytelling, and believe no media is without merit.
May Poditive Spin be a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out.
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Episodes
32 episodes
Guardians of the Awesome Mix Tapes
This month, the Guardians of the Galaxy had their cinematic swansong space spectacular, and a new Guardians movie means another carefully curated soundtrack!For a trilogy where the music has been such a fundamental part of the experienc...
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Episode 6
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1:32:08
What We Talk About When We Talk About Stories (feat. David Faggiani of The EscapeGoat Podcast)
This month on Poditive Spin, we dissect the ever-growing toxicity of internet fan culture, hoping to discover a healthier approach to film and media criticism.If you’re an arts fanatic, chances are you’ve gotten involved in your fair sha...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:07:20
The Last of Us - Best Video Game Adaptation Ever?!
Following the conclusion of HBO’s The Last of Us (Season 1), we discuss the overwhelmingly positive response to both the show and the original video game sensation. Friendly Warning: Spoiler spores galore!Do we ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:08:06
QUICK SPIN! Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
It's Lang (and co.) vs Kang the Conqueror!This month on Poditive Spin we're putting Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania under the microscope...geddit?While lots of mixed-to-negative spin has already surrounded the movie, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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The 2023 Oscar Nominees (ft. Special Guest Oscars Correspondent)
From intimate portraits of the human experience to epic battles across the sky, the sea, and the multiverse, this year's nominees for Best Picture at the Oscars are a smorgasbord of experiences. Here in the Friendly Fan Club, we thought a round...
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Episode 2
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S2.E1: The 2023 Watchlist (feat. Three Bears and a Barbie)
New Year: New SEASON of Poditive Spin!To get us off the starting blocks of 2023, the Friendly Fan Club looks into the near future to decide what upcoming projects should get everyone sweating with anticipation for this coming year. Be p...
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Episode 1
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1:12:43
Ep. 26 - The Hobbit: The Battle of A Certain Number of Armies
As the sun sets on 2022, so too does the Friendly Fan Club end its retread of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy. Near-universally considered the low point of Middle-Earth cinema, The Battle of the Five Armies was never even ori...
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Episode 26
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Ep. 25 - Rogue One: Putting The WAR In Star Wars
It's a Star Wars movie unlike any other: gritty, nuanced, and it even gets the fanbase to agree on something! In honour of the first season of Andor on Disney+, the Friendly Fan Club revisits the daring efforts of Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, and t...
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Episode 25
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Ep. 24: #JusticeForSmaug
The Friendly Fan Club continues its quest to unearth the treasures of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. The Desolation of Smaug famously found itself retrofitted into a 'middle chapter' when Warner Bros. decided mid-p...
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Episode 24
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Ep. 23 - Black Panther
It's been almost five years since Marvel's Black Panther became a global cultural phenomenon, and a landmark of African American representation at the movies. It introduced the world to Wakanda, a highly advanced nation of Afric...
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Episode 23
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Ep 22 - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
It's been ten years since moviegoing audiences returned to Middle-Earth for the first instalment of The Hobbit trilogy, itself debuting almost a decade after the commercial, critical, and cultural phenomenon that was The Lord of th...
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Episode 22
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58:15
Ep. 21: Queens of the Screen
The Friendly Fan Club celebrates the most iconic queens in the pop culture kingdom, as tribute to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Featuring good queens, evil queens, young queens, old queens, serious queens, and silly queens (but no dancing ...
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Episode 21
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1:13:11
Ep. 20: Greatest Movie Star Career Switches
Fame is a fickle friend. One moment you're a pro-wrestler, or a singer, or a footballer. Next, you're starring in blockbusters and Oscar-winners. Inspired by the recent Harry Styles Don't Worry Darling drama (and the upcoming release o...
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Episode 20
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1:22:42
Ep. 19: FRIENDLY FILM FIGHT! 'Alien' vs 'Predator'
It's time to crack out our balloon swords once more for another friendly film night in the Friendly Fan Clubhouse! Mr's Alex and Patrick pit two iconic and beloved works of sci-fi cinema against each other in a contest of merits. Will the Xenom...
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Episode 19
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1:23:17
Ep 18. 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL! Best & Worst Worlds for a Birthday Party
Can you believe it?! Poditive Spin is officially 1 year old! To celebrate, Mr's Patrick and Alex debate which fictional world would be best for having a birthday party (as well as which world would guarantee the WORST party). Also, we talk our ...
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Episode 18
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Ep. 17 - Obi-Wan Kenobi
It's been seventeen years since the world witnessed the rise of the Galactic Empire, the purging of the Jedi, and Anakin Skywalker donning the infamous black helmet. Now, an untold chapter of Obi-Wan Kenobi's story - his years in exile - has ar...
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Ep 16. The Jurassic Park Sequels
A game-changing mid-90s blockbuster that spawned a franchise spanning six movies over nearly three decades...and yet all the rest have not been received anywhere near as positively as the original? That's, that's chaos theory, and that's the fo...
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Ep.15 - Running Up That Hill (Pitch-Perfect Movie Music Moments)
Stranger Things have happened, but Kate Bush's 1985 single 'Running Up That Hill' is witnessing a historic comeback, thanks to the hit Netflix show! The Friendly Fan Club reconvenes with thoughts on this cultural phenomenon, and other ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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Movie Marriages!
We are back! After a two-month hiatus (due to one of us having to say 'I do'), the Friendly Fan Clubhouse reopens its doors for a quick recap of what we've missed since we last met, followed by a topical chat on various wedding-centric works of...
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Episode 14
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Interstellar
The Friendly Fan Club ventures gently into that good night to explore the astronomical questions of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Does it buckle under the weight of its own ambition to realistically capture mind-bending inte...
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Batmen, Robins and Banes, Oh My!
As the Caped Crusader returns to cinemas around the world (except Russia) in Matt Reeves' 'The Batman', the Friendly Fan Club takes a walk back down Memory Crime Alley to visit the big-screen outings of the Dark Knight that haven't stood the te...
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Oscar Noms 2022 + Friendly Film Fight: Godzilla v Independence Day
Awards season is officially underway and the Friendly Fan Club meets for a quick run-through of this year's contenders for the coveted golden statuettes across an array of categories. Then, it's Emmerich vs Emmerich in our new segment: Fr...
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Back To The Matrix
The Friendly Fan Club reconvenes to take a couple of red pills and discuss some of the biggest questions there are: What is 'Real'? Is Hugo Weaving the GOAT? And were the Matrix sequels really that bad?Mr A and Mr P sweep throu...
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