218 independent film & TV blogs from around the world — each one visited, read and selected by the editors of WatchGuide, Germany's film & series community. No aggregators, no content farms: every site on this list published new work in 2026.
By the WatchGuide editorial team · Updated July 4, 2026 · Read our data story: The German Taste Gap
We spend a lot of time reading international film writing — it is how a German review community keeps its taste honest. This page collects the blogs we keep coming back to. Selection is editorial and unpaid; being featured costs nothing and cannot be bought. Featured blogs are welcome to show the badge below.
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34 blogs
Laura previews every TCM month like a trusted friend with an encyclopedic watchlist — B-westerns, film-noir festival dispatches and disc reviews included. One of the most consistent classic-film diaries on the web, posting several times a week since 2005.
John McElwee digs where nobody else does — vintage ads, booking ledgers and revival-house economics. Greenbriar reads like the trade-paper history of Hollywood that never got written anywhere else.
Jacqueline T. Lynch pairs classic-film essays with real research — she is also a published film historian — finding the social history inside Golden Age pictures.
Leah writes classic Hollywood with a comedian's timing — contrarian takes and well-argued deep dives that make seventy-year-old films feel like this week's discourse.
The reference point for Western cinema online: film-by-film histories, star studies and a running Peckinpah centenary series, written with a scholar's depth and a fan's grin.
Sisters Diana and Connie Metzinger dig past the canon into character actors, soundtrack albums and crew craftsmanship — their profiles of cinematographers and composers give classic-era below-the-line talent a rare spotlight.
Emily writes about the Golden Age the way you'd talk to a friend, weaving Holden, Monroe and pre-war glamour into her own life story — memoir-style classic film writing that has stayed personal since 2015. Start with her piece on The World of Suzie Wong (1960), where the personal and the classic meet.
Joe pairs silent-era scholarship with primary sources — vintage newspaper clippings and promo art — turning each post into a small archive; his label index reads like a silent-cinema encyclopedia.
Thomas has spent decades turning fandom into scholarship: original research from Louise Brooks' personal collections, estate collaboration, even a catalogued archive of theatre glass slides promoting her films.
Seleus mixes classic-film love with her own hand-drawn caricatures of Golden Age actresses and real road trips to Hollywood filming locations — nostalgia you can actually visit.
John Kenneth Muir writes cult film and TV with a scholar's depth — his running 'X Years Ago' retrospectives, revisiting the likes of Big Trouble in Little China, are close readings rather than nostalgia.
Ruth reviews old movies without a trace of reverence — 1940s studio pictures, censorship history, and a recurring spotlight on Canadian film that nobody else is keeping up.
Le Cinema Dreams goes long on the odd corners of late-sixties and seventies cinema — the films that were strange on arrival and stayed that way, written up at essay length.
Scopophilia works through the sixties, seventies and eighties title by title — On Golden Pond one week, a forgotten 1987 thriller the next, with no interest in what is currently fashionable.
Glenn Erickson has been reviewing restorations as DVD Savant since the format existed, and the pace has not slackened — The War Game, The Seventh Cross and Oh! What a Lovely War all landed inside the same fortnight.
The meeting point for silent-film people in Britain: screening news, festival dispatches and the books that matter, including Luke McKernan's essay collection on the moving image.
Early cinema treated as entertainment rather than homework. The running theme is lost films — the list of the twenty most wanted missing silents is the kind of thing only real obsession produces.
Long looks at classic movies where the point is staying with a film rather than filing a verdict on it.
A rediscovery project run at remarkable volume — a Ray Milland biography one week, the Bette Davis and George Brent partnership the next, with a viewing tally that passed five hundred films in a year.
Matches film frames to street corners across San Francisco. The invitation says it best: pick an intersection, any intersection, and there is usually a picture that shot there.
A fresh look at old films, one screenshot essay at a time. Recent entries on Bathing Beauty, Double Life and the studio-era craft behind them show the method: close reading of what is actually on screen, not plot summary. A regular blogathon host, which is how most classic-film readers find their way here.
Mark Evanier has been writing this daily since before blogs had a name, and the archive is a primary source in its own right: how The Daily Show happened, Comic-Con dispatches, obituaries for people nobody else remembers to eulogise. Industry memory written by someone who was there.
Life as viewed through sports, old movies and too many concussions. The Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies series is past volume 170, which tells you this is a long game, not a phase. A dependable blogathon participant and one of the odder, better ideas in classic-film blogging.
One film per episode, taken apart properly — Logan, The Prestige, The Big Lebowski — with an archive deep enough that most canon titles are already covered. Roughly a dozen voices across more than two hundred episodes, which is the ratio of a long-running crew rather than a desk.
Home for classic movie lovers, and the long-running Musical Monday series is the proof: Square Dance Jubilee, Montana Moon, Twilight in the Sierras, week after week. Deep-catalogue devotion that keeps forgotten musicals in circulation.
Where old movies go to live, as the site puts it - Streaming Saturdays rescues of blacklisted writers, a thrilling Vera Miles sighting, a mystery from the 1939 World's Fair actually solved. Written with real affection for the fringes of classic Hollywood.
A blogathon engine as much as a blog: the Classic Literature in Film Blogathon, the Luso World Cinema Blogathon, the Eddie's Year Blogathon all run through here, with entries on La Perla (1947), Desmundo and Ruthless People. Community-building disguised as film writing.
Pre-Code Girl Summer, banner art for the Luso World Cinema Blogathon, and the kind of classic-era enthusiasm that pulls other bloggers along with it. Beth Ann hosts as much as she writes.
An arts and culture conversation past episode 400, currently working through An American Comedy Century and a two-part series on the overlooked funny people of Hollywood's golden age. Long-form talk about the parts of film history that rarely get a second look.
Celebrating Pre-Code Hollywood, 1930-1934, when movies were sexy, smart, complex and a hell of a lot of fun - plus a monthly guide to every pre-Code airing on TCM and full festival coverage. The definitive address for the era.
Essay-length deep dives written under the monstergirl banner - a two-part study of Shadow of a Doubt, Abbott and Costello's The Time of Their Lives, and a regular presence in the CMBA's National Classic Movie Day celebrations. Classic film writing with real depth.
Classic Movie Travels tracing where the stars actually lived, Western RoundUp, Monsters and Matinees - a rotating column crew including Annette Bochenek and Jennifer Garlen, publishing steadily for the classic-film community.
Celebrating the Golden Age of Detection in books and on screen - a Miss Marple send-off one week, the Perry Mason/Maltese Falcon connection the next. Written by a genuine Golden Age obsessive who watches as much as he reads.
A classic movie club in blog form - St Elizabeth cinephile picks, reading lists and film reflections, run on pure enthusiasm for old Hollywood.
43 blogs
One of horror's essential newsrooms since 2006 — news, reviews and podcasts with genuine genre love, from franchise 4K reissues to indie discoveries.
Alex DiVincenzo champions horror on physical media — fresh VHS runs, 4K restorations and limited editions — with video reviews to match. A collector's compass for the genre.
Ian Sedensky scores horror on a strict 100-point scale and reviews far beyond the studio slate — precise, quotable indie-horror criticism without the hype.
Karina Adelgaard reviews streaming horror almost daily from Denmark — honest verdicts on what's worth your Netflix and Shudder queue, often before most sites have noticed the release.
Nobody else covers this beat: the movies and TV moments that scarred us as kids. Memoir-style reviews and reader-submitted trauma confessions make Kindertrauma equal parts therapy session and haunted rec room.
Dawn Keetley and her contributors take horror seriously so you don't have to — essay-grade analysis of body horror, found footage and folk horror, delivered through themed issues and three podcasts, without the academic paywall.
Wicked Horror blends sharp reviews and retrospectives with an irreverent editorial streak — plus its own free streaming arm, Wicked Horror TV, one of the few horror outlets that also hands you the movies it writes about.
Running since 2016 under the motto "Let's Get Scared", PopHorror pairs rapid-fire genre news with genuinely deep filmmaker and author interviews — fan-first coverage that treats indie creators as seriously as studio releases.
Kelli Marchman McNeely's team publishes daily with a wink — streaming guides sorted by platform, festival dispatches and reviews written in a voice that would rather make you laugh than pad a press release.
A UK team effort since 2010 — reviewing everything from Scream 7 to Z-grade creature features with blunt verdicts and a soft spot for boutique Blu-ray labels.
Under the banner "Making Horror Friendly", HorrorFam pairs monthly indie-horror roundups with warm subgenre deep dives — a rare horror site that champions unsigned filmmakers instead of chasing franchise news.
Jon has been digging through horror's crypt for decades — a book, the "Discover the Horror" podcast, mystery-photo games, and loving deep dives on showmen like William Castle.
Palvi's editorials interrogate horror villains' morality instead of just rating them — and her weekly Horror Horoscope pairing star signs with scary movies is an angle nobody else has.
Arthur and Meaghan go where algorithms don't — killer jeans, cursed audio and Canadian werewolf classics — backed by themed series like "Childhood Trauma" on horror's messiest productions.
487 episodes in, GregaMortis is still unearthing forgotten gialli and Indonesian devil movies most horror podcasts never touch, with decade retrospectives that treat genre history seriously.
Markus Keuschnigg has built Vienna's SLASH into one of the world's best-regarded genre festivals — a curator's love letter to fantastic film that German-speaking horror fans plan their autumn around.
Ginger Nuts of Horror brings literary seriousness to the screen — Hope Madden's film reviews, the weekly Shudder guide and the Fright Club rankings argue about horror films rather than just cataloguing them.
Halloween Love writes horror from memory and obsession — deep dives into practical-effects craft and cult mythology that most sites skim right past.
Norman Gidney's team reviews from inside LA's horror scene — certified-critic verdicts sitting next to haunts, immersive theatre and festival premieres like their Sundance dispatches.
Named after Michael Myers' hometown — a horror desk running news, reviews and interviews, with a title that tells you exactly which shelf of the genre its heart sits on.
Ash Hamilton owns HorrorFix and still writes for it himself — trailer debuts, small-label announcements and reviews filed with the enthusiasm of someone who never handed his site to a content team.
Horror Movie Blog was built to amplify the voices the genre press tends to skip, and covers festivals like Fantasia alongside the new releases — criticism from the fan's side of the aisle, deliberately.
ScareTissue tracks horror at ground level — trailer premieres, indie award sweeps and micro-label announcements that the bigger horror sites pick up weeks later, if at all.
Signal Horizon reads horror and science fiction for what they are actually saying — long-form analysis sitting next to Blu-ray reviews of films everyone else has moved on from.
Nightmare on Film Street pairs a long-running horror podcast with a full review desk — comedic on the mic, genuinely opinionated on the page, and rarely late to a release.
Covers the genre across film and fiction; the weekly news round-up and the five-must-read list are what people come back for.
Works through the canon one film at a time — The Exorcist, Ginger Snaps, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — usually with a guest host from another horror show.
A review podcast that gives new theatrical horror first call. The self-description — opinionated and accidentally funny — is accurate.
Festival coverage in unusual depth: the Popcorn Frights reporting works block by block through the shorts programmes that most write-ups skip entirely.
Fifteen years of cosmic horror as podcast, blog and community, with interviews that go somewhere unexpected — Nathan Ballingrud on depression, for one.
Goes back to the horror that frightened its writer as a child and asks, honestly, whether it still works.
Built around one specific format — the anthology — and the independent films keeping it alive, with comics and collectibles alongside.
Sits where horror meets comics, and the anger promised in the tagline is not decorative.
Grim D. Reaper reviews under a persona and keeps it up post after post — Hokum, Obsession, Masters of the Universe — without the bit ever eating the criticism. Horror-first, but happy to leave the genre when something deserves it.
Podcasting from the horrored halls of academia: 150-plus episodes pairing a single film with real critical framing — In My Skin, The Cell, Re-Animator, Paranormal Activity. Listener-funded rather than advertiser-funded, which shows in how long they are willing to sit with a film.
Western and Asian horror reviews, analysis and news, and the Asian half is the reason to read it — Third Window releases, festival juries, and oddities like the Hell's Highway documentary on driver-education gore films. Three regular writers, a few posts a week, nothing filed to hit a quota.
A blog dedicated to horror and cult films, literature and culture - from The Invisible Man (1933) and The Birds to a running spotlight on horror films directed by women. Horror writing that knows its classics.
Horror and alternative cinema with a rare habit: proper short-film reviews, run times and all - Animals, Projection, Sin Salida. Corin Savage covers corners of the genre nobody else files under review.
A podcast working through horror one film at a time, more than 120 episodes deep - Quarantine, Obsession, Backrooms. Justin Matters is building exactly what the name promises, episode by episode.
Horror's first and final destination, kept genuinely current: Evil Dead Burn and Leviticus reviewed the week they land, with two voices sharing the load.
Adam Groves reviews horror, sci-fi, cult movies and books - The Odyssey one day, deep-cult finds like Looker and Maniac Siren the next. Posting near-daily and reading everything.
Film reviews, mostly horror, written with an argument rather than a summary - Evil Dead Burn igniting something new in the series, the suburban paranoia of Adam Scott's The Saviors. Opinionated in the way only a single writer can afford to be.
Loving, supporting and preserving horror since childhood, now on version 3.0 - including a Horror Finds at Goodwill series that treats thrift-shop digging as legitimate archaeology. Recently back from a hiatus, which is its own kind of commitment.
21 blogs
Nick Creamer writes anime criticism the way literary critics write about novels — his episode essays on narrative structure and character psychology set the bar for the entire anibloggosphere.
Reading anime through a Christian lens sounds like a gimmick until you see how seriously this team takes both — thoughtful seasonal first impressions with a genuinely distinct angle since 2010.
Running since 2015, Yatta-Tachi's monthly release roundups and its guide to anime films hitting theatres are the kind of unglamorous, genuinely useful curation fans bookmark.
Blogging episode-by-episode since 2009, James covers yuri and slice-of-life anime with a completionist's dedication most seasonal reviewers abandoned years ago.
The rare blog that still cares about physical media — UK release news, reviews and hands-on Blu-ray region checks that save collectors real money and guesswork.
Peggy teaches graphic literature at college level, and it shows — reviews that bridge Mechademia-grade scholarship and accessible fan writing.
Not games-only: Naja covers anime, manga and webcomics alongside otome and BL titles, with walkthroughs and developer interviews delivered in gleefully unhinged, cozy-chaotic commentary.
La'Shell weaves anime, K-dramas and manga into honest personal essays — writing that treats fandom as part of a real life, not content fodder.
Jonathan has tracked anime theatrical releases in Canada since 2010 — from Ghibli restorations to Bleach premieres — a distribution niche nobody else covers this thoroughly.
OtakuPlay PH covers anime, movies, gaming and music for the Filipino fan scene with infectious enthusiasm — a window into one of fandom's most passionate corners.
Season rankings and reviews with zero deference to hype — willing to ask whether the year's biggest shonen actually earned its crown.
Amari Allah has recapped and reviewed film, TV and anime since 2011 — writing deliberately from the space between the casual fan and the professional critic.
Red writes essay-length pieces that treat anime and tokusatsu as history and craft, not plot recap — the kind of long-form fandom writing that is getting rare.
Running since 2004, this UK team files proper opinionated reviews of anime series, films and manga — long-form British criticism with a track record you can trust.
Weekly episode reviews carried through an entire season, then a wrap-up — the Spring 2026 run went thirteen weeks without a gap. Analyses and rants in equal measure, reader-funded, and willing to call a finale a trainwreck when it is one.
Panels and podcasts about anime and fandom, past episode 168, with convention panel notes published afterwards so the material outlives the room. Convention-floor perspective rather than press-release coverage.
Sara Aeschliman writes episode-by-episode through whole seasons, including shows nobody else is covering week to week. The archive works as a record of a season as it actually aired, not as it was later remembered.
Anime and manga criticism that takes volumes seriously as objects of study — The Summer Hikaru Died, seasonal secondary findings, and the occasional essay on what a series is doing structurally. Reader-supported, single voice.
Past episode 950, with Manga Pulse and Popcorn Pulse running alongside it — one of the longest-running anime podcasts still publishing. Five voices across a very large archive.
One of the few English-language sites covering Chinese animation seriously — cultivation power systems explained, arc analyses, and anime pilgrimage reports from actual locations. A niche with almost no competition and a writer who clearly knows it.
A writer posing as a reviewer - hey, it is still writing, as the site puts it. Episode-by-episode on Sparks of Tomorrow, and honest enough to say Persona 4 Golden: The Animation pales next to its predecessor rather than hedging.
9 blogs
511 episodes deep into British science fiction television, from Thunderbirds to Primeval — an archive of genre TV history no algorithm could ever assemble.
Jason P. Hunt has been "delivering the multiverse" since 2009 — a reviewer who still argues with his own fandom instead of flattering it.
Running since 2008, Maria's Pattinson archive tracks every project with a completeness official studio channels can't match — fan-site dedication at its most useful.
More than a news wire — SWNN pairs its Star Wars reporting with genuine editorial features like the weekly "This Week in a Galaxy Far, Far Away" column and deep-cut character spotlights.
A film musing literally every single day, hopping from new blockbusters to Finnish classics and German cult oddities — a range most daily bloggers wouldn't dare.
Established 1998 and still filing reviews, which makes it older than most film sites that cover the same character. Bill Ramey and a handful of regulars treat Batman as a continuous subject rather than a news beat — comics, film and the gaps between them.
A podcast that puts Chinatown and The Odyssey in the same season and argues about both, listener-funded, three hosts. Genre in the broad sense: whatever two people can disagree about for an hour.
Film and TV reviews with gaming alongside, filed the week things land - Star Wars: Visions Presents The Ninth Jedi, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Pinocchio Unstrung. Broad taste, quick turnaround.
Movies, TV, books, anime and Godzilla, which is a range that only works if someone actually cares about all of it - a wool-felt stop-motion short one day, the beauty of Gareth Edwards' The Creator the next. Chris follows curiosity rather than the release calendar.
12 blogs
World cinema's early-warning system: festival coverage and reviews of Asian, European and genre films most English-language sites never touch.
One of the web's first serious film journals (Melbourne, since 1999): peer-level auteur retrospectives and festival essays, completely open-access — academic rigour without the paywall.
The living archive of the former Chicago Reader critic: over 8,800 pieces spanning decades, still growing in 2026 — world-cinema criticism maintained as a public resource.
Baradwaj Rangan has reviewed Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi cinema almost daily since 2002 — and his "Readers Write In" essays have grown into a genuine critical community.
Stephen "Spling" Aspeling, FIPRESCI member and founder of South Africa's Film Critics Association, answers the only question that matters — "Is it worth watching?" — while covering local festivals few others reach.
A dedicated journal for the cinema of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus — festival reports and essays on filmmakers who rarely get serious English-language coverage.
Fantasia Festival dispatches next to a piece on DEFA folktales from 1955 to 1977 and a reassessment of Desperate Living — the range is the point. Reviews, podcasts and more by geeks, for geeks, funded by readers rather than advertisers.
Courtney Small writes short, precise reviews across festival titles and wide releases alike, with a consistent eye for films from outside the usual pipeline. Where all things film converge, and one person deciding what belongs there.
Sean Gilman's home for Chinese-language and Asian film - NYAFF and Japan Cuts covered in multi-part depth, Fantasia on top. Festival coverage backed by genuine expertise.
Sabina Stent writes where surrealism meets cinema: Francesca Woodman beside Sound of Falling, Leonor Fini beside Heated Rivalry. Art-literate film writing unlike anything else on this list.
British independent cinema and Spanish-language film, covered properly and in both languages - four sombre British shorts one week, three films on government, identity and resistance in Venezuelan independent cinema the next. Festival coverage without a press pass in sight.
Irish for Movies - Irish film news, festival coverage and reviews from Sunny Dancer to the latest Spider-Man, plus the industry beat (Section 481, funding rounds) nobody else covers for Ireland.
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Founded in 2007, The Playlist still breaks genuine exclusives on auteur cinema while keeping the obsessive, festival-first sensibility of its blog roots.
The Film Stage blends daily festival reporting with genuinely useful service journalism — its weekly repertory guide and "Posterized" column show curators who watch far beyond the release calendar.
Vern has spent two decades writing profane, weirdly scholarly defences of action cinema — from Seagal studies to his current summer-of-1996 retrospective — proving badass movies deserve real criticism.
Cancelled Sci Fi has turned renewal anxiety into a science: weekly cancellation watches, ratings-based survival odds and fan campaigns to save endangered genre shows — 100% human-written.
An independent London culture magazine (founded 2011) whose starred, bylined cinema reviews run alongside Berlinale, Cannes and Venice festival dispatches — volunteer-driven criticism with the polish of a professional arts desk.
A collective built around the tagline "Diverse Voices, Powerful Stories", spotlighting women filmmakers, LGBTQ+ cinema and documentaries through reviews, essays and interviews that larger outlets routinely overlook.
Rebecca reviews the indie circuit others skip — LFF, Raindance, BFI Flare, Sheffield DocFest — with meticulous festival-by-festival archives and a genuine commitment to short films and micro-budget work.
David Voigt's Toronto crew has reviewed theatrical, streaming and festival fare since 2015, with a companion interview podcast and an unusual soft spot for anime and international titles alongside the mainstream slate.
For over 15 years, Celluloid Junkie has covered the global cinema business with genuine insider depth — analysis of exhibition, distribution and micro-cinemas that industry people worldwide actually read.
Matthew Escosia writes with a real fan's candour, bridging Hollywood tentpoles and the Filipino film scene that most English-language blogs overlook entirely.
A long-running UK genre hub where named critics file opinionated reviews from indie horror to franchise tentpoles, alongside interviews and retrospectives.
Same-day recaps and ending-explained breakdowns for prestige TV and film — turning the 'wait, what just happened' moment into a clear, spoiler-deep read.
Sebastian Nadilo's one-man beat on the Asian and genre festival circuit — Fantasia, BiFan, JAPAN CUTS — with curated must-see lists and reviews the Western press misses.
Hope Madden and George Wolf review together and separately, and have done it long enough that their disagreements are part of the draw. Madden's horror writing also turns up at Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Minnesota-based critic Ruth Maramis writes FlixChatter on film and television — a personal review desk that kept its own voice instead of chasing the release calendar.
Author and critic Connie Corcoran Wilson runs Weekly Wilson with film criticism sitting alongside books, politics and reporting — written by someone with a byline history well outside the blog.
Cinema Scholars tracks what is coming — sequels, legacy franchises and the development news around them — with more patience for context than a news feed usually allows.
CinemaStance reviews new releases and runs a weekly 4K and Blu-ray roundup; the disc column is the genuinely useful part, and it has been reliable for years.
Free Kittens splits its time between new releases and revisiting old ones in 4K — the Harryhausen restorations get the same care as anything opening this week.
A blog about films, as the title says — steady review coverage from someone who watches everything, named after the best line in Pulp Fiction.
Life Between Frames runs recurring projects rather than a review treadmill — the Full Moon by the Numbers series works through a cult catalogue film by film, Tourist Trap included.
Lyles Movie Files covers films, box office and — unusually — action figure reviews, which turns out to be the same collector's eye applied twice.
Movies Move Me covers reviews, television and the festival circuit — an independent magazine filing on new releases at the pace of a far bigger desk.
Movie Reviews 101 posts a review nearly every day, mixing new releases with the low-budget horror coverage most outlets never get around to.
Punch Drunk Critics reviews from the Washington DC area — new releases covered promptly, with screening coverage aimed at the local audience it actually writes for.
The Weekly Gravy has passed its 300th instalment — a running review column, plus a periodically updated personal top 500 that is more useful than most published canons.
TheTwoOhSix files reviews on new releases at a steady clip — a one-person operation whose main virtue is simply that it keeps showing up.
Blazing Minds covers film, television and theatre from the UK, with a real soft spot for indie productions and the giveaways that keep a community coming back.
Loud and Clear runs reviews alongside proper interviews — cinematographers and crew rather than just cast, which is usually where the interesting answers are.
Screen Zealots reviews new releases with a critic's discipline and no house style to hide behind.
Live for Films catches what the news cycle drops — a 35mm Akira tour, a new Godzilla teaser — alongside reviews of the independent films it champions.
Movies, Films & Flix operates on the stated principle that movies rule, and backs it with reviews and its own irregular prizes — the Mid-Year Random Awards being exactly what they sound like.
Why We Watch runs series rather than one-offs — a Directorial Debuts strand opening with Spielberg's Duel tells you the level it is pitched at.
Extra Features works out of Toronto and interviews the independent filmmakers nobody else calls — "if they make it, we review it" turns out to be meant literally.
Flickreel is an online film magazine covering news, trailers and reviews, with features that reach past the release calendar.
Jonathan Broxton has reviewed film scores since 1997, and the range is the point — Ludwig Goeransson's Odyssey and Fumio Hayasaka's work for Mizoguchi sit within weeks of each other.
Several critics running side by side — the Two-Shot Review puts two of them on the same film — next to longer pieces like Jim Tudor's overview of 1920s Hollywood.
Long, argued pieces about single films that break down what an adaptation does to its source instead of just scoring the result.
Trash, art and the movies, as the masthead has it — capsule reviews alongside essays such as the one on how the MCU reflects America's moral dissonance.
Follows films from cinema through to home video, with the disc release treated as its own event rather than an afterthought.
Splits its coverage between new reviews, Blu-ray releases and interviews, with a Four-Star Corner reserved for the ones that clear the bar.
Written reviews paired with podcasts, including the recurring BAMP series that returns to the films the hosts keep arguing about.
Past episode 480 — two friends working through everything from the week's blockbuster to whatever surfaced on streaming.
Approaching six hundred episodes of reviews and banter, with Yazdi's half-year best-of list a fixture worth waiting for.
David Ferguson's one-man operation: steady coverage of new releases with no house style to conform to.
New releases and anime handled with the same steadiness, working through the week's slate without skipping the smaller titles.
Moves between current releases and older films without treating the older ones as a duty.
Reviews and spotlights with an eye for what a film is arguing — the piece on The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg reads big pharma rather than plot.
Original, unfiltered write-ups from Los Angeles that keep their own counsel rather than following the consensus line.
Film sits alongside food, music and travel here — an unusual mix that gives the movie pieces a looser, more personal frame.
Independent film news and interviews with directors and actors, with a soft spot for the projects that never reach a wide release.
An Irish nerd's eye look at the world of film, numbering its reviews past 440 — The Odyssey, Chainsaw Man, War of the Worlds — with the numbering itself a quiet record of how long this has been going. Long-form, single voice, no news filler.
Dr Bob Mann files star-rated reviews on current releases and doubles back for older titles — The Fifth Element got four stars and a Ba-da-boom — plus a daily movie-news round-up. Analysis-led, and clear about the rating scale it uses.
A podcast for movie lovers that enjoys everything from the multiplex to the arthouse, with written reviews published alongside the audio so the argument survives outside the feed. Franchise Detours and The Lair of Lynch run as side series.
Festival coverage from the circuit most outlets skip — Fantasia, Hot Docs, imagineNATIVE — with star ratings on shorts and indigenous programming that gets almost no English-language attention elsewhere. Reader-funded.
Unleashing honest reviews on movies and beyond, and the range is genuinely wide: The Kiss from 1896 and The Silent World from 1956 sit next to a Die Hard ranking. Prolific, and not precious about mixing canon with fun.
Iconic and interesting men's fashions from movies and TV, sourced down to the cut and cloth — James Stewart's western gear in The Man from Laramie, Sam Elliott's aloha shirt in Lifeguard, Tubbs' brown silk suit in Miami Vice. A niche almost nobody else covers at this depth.
A conversation beyond the silver screen, and mostly that means interviews others do not run — composers on their sound palettes, first listens to scores, voice actors on the craft. Marc Ciafardini has kept the below-the-line focus for years.
Movie love for movie lovers, past episode 830, with series like Fifty Before '50 working through pre-1950 cinema one film at a time — Gertie the Dinosaur included. Reader-funded and unembarrassed about enthusiasm.
Past episode 399 and still doing what the name says: the new releases, every week, in conversation. A long archive of what people actually thought at the time, before the consensus settled.
Mike Tyrkus and one editor cover new releases and the trailer-and-poster beat between them, a handful of posts a week. Small enough that the same voice carries across the archive — and a LAMB member of long standing.
Christian Toto writes the bulk of it himself at a pace most two-person sites could not keep, mixing reviews with industry commentary. Opinionated by design, and open about it.
One man. Thousands of movies. - and the Fantasia coverage alone (No Rest for the Wicked, Suzuki=Bakudan, The Seoul Guardians) shows the pace. Alex Brannan files festival-fresh reviews without a desk behind him.
Thoughtful. Engaging. Creator-Owned. - a small St. Louis crew filing proper reviews of what is actually playing, from The Odyssey to Evil Dead Burn. The creator-owned part shows.
Arthur Howell gives his two cents on films, TV and books - Backrooms, Obsession, The Devil Wears Prada 2 - short, honest and unbothered by consensus.
Entertainment through a different lens: recent verdicts on Obsession, Cold Storage and Netflix's The Boroughs, written plainly and without snark. A steady, personal review site.
Helping you decide what to watch one review at a time - The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Smashing Machine, One of Them Days - a single writer working through the release calendar verdict by verdict.
Vanessa Morgan catalogues every film a cat walks through: famous black cats of horror, a Japanese comedy about a cat running a ramen restaurant, even the Tales from the Crypt cat episode. Gloriously specific.
Simon Hooper's daily mix of trailers, box-office notes and disc news - The Name of the Rose in 4K next to Violent Night 2. One of the few news-style sites still run by a single film fan.
Movie reviews and more, established 2008 - a New This Week round-up every Friday plus full reviews of what is actually playing. Eighteen years of showing up is its own recommendation.
Reviews, trailers and more, kept current with the release calendar - The Odyssey reviewed, the Spider-Man: Brand New Day final trailer, Avengers: Doomsday. Jason has been filing steadily for years without ever turning it into a business.
Reviews with a verdict in the headline and a reason underneath - a sinking feeling on The Last House, a thrilling evolution for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. No hedging, no summary padding.
Making you feel guilty for laughing, as the tagline has it - Outcome, The Odyssey and Enola Holmes 3 all taken apart with the comic timing intact. Genuinely funny film writing is rarer than it should be.
Creating. Smiling. Coping. - and reviews that lead with the verdict: Believe The Hype for The Odyssey, Too Much Schmaltz for Disclosure Day, and a serious look at whether Backrooms is the best YouTuber movie yet. Personal without being self-indulgent.
Movie reviews and so forth, with a habit worth noting: when a new Spider-Man lands, Al goes back and re-reviews the previous ones too. Context built on purpose rather than assumed.
A film and theatre lover working across eras in the same week - Gosford Park (2001) beside Reminders of Him and The Housemaid. Reviews that treat a twenty-year-old film as no less current than this month's release.
Treating cinema in many forms of art, covering the smaller releases most sites skip - Open-A-Eye, Spades, Tony. The films that need a review the most and usually get none.
Streaming reviews with a sharp edge - a war drama with a sensible core, a hollow sci-fi thriller that means nothing, and an open question about why teen dramas are so stupid. Someone is actually watching all of it so you do not have to.
Non-spoiler reviews as a firm rule, not a marketing line - The Furious, Disclosure Day, Scary Movie (2026). If you have not seen it yet, this is a safe place to read about it first.
Serving up piping-hot film criticism to over a million readers, as the site puts it - Alley Cats, I Tonya and Black Rainbow in one recent stretch. High-volume, sharp and genuinely independent.
A modern guide to film and cocktail pairings - A Kiss Before Dying, Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing each matched with a drink. One of the most original formats in film blogging.
Movie reviews without spoilers, working through the canon at a steady clip - Videodrome, The Fourth Man and El Norte in a single stretch of 1983 coverage. The long game, played properly.
One of the 1,001 movies you should watch before you die, reviewed every day - The Blues Brothers one day, a Columbo detour the next. Discipline most blogs only promise.
Long-form writing covering film, TV and theme parks - Backrooms lore unpacked in review-and-theory form, MCU speculation with actual arguments. Written for readers with attention spans.
Vampire Bat reviews worthy movies, as the tagline goes - Tamil cinema like Thudakkam and Uyir next to A Working Man. A genuinely global palate you rarely find in one place.
Film, television and sports from Nashville - Fightland on STARZ reviewed the week it lands, with an NFL preview running alongside. A crew that covers what it actually watches.
Reflections on life, movies and music - The Odyssey and Superman reviewed in a personal register, Mac Miller close by. Small, honest, consistent.
The blog of the Holmes Movies Podcast - The Odyssey, the complete Evil Dead franchise and Kill List, all taken on with podcast-length attention.
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Calling itself "The Voice of Independent Filmmakers", Oladapo Bamidele's publication digs into how indie films actually get made — origin-story interviews, production case studies and festival breakdowns spanning four continents.
San Francisco screenwriter Paul Zeidman has chronicled his own path to professional screenwriting since 2009 — an unusually candid, craft-obsessed diary of drafts, rewrites and persistence, plus his "Go Ahead and Ask" interview series.
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Tom and Lorenzo review television twice: once for the writing, once for the wardrobe. Their costume-design breakdowns and red-carpet verdicts spare no one.
Sundance senior programmer Basil Tsiokos ran this as a daily documentary blog for over a decade; it now continues as a monthly nonfiction release calendar — still the quickest way to see which festival docs hit screens next.
Writing as Jiraiyan since 2013, Jerrell keeps up weekly episode coverage across multiple seasonal anime — a one-man consistency machine with a soft spot for sakuga and the themes behind the action.
books. film. period drama. pop culture. - and the period-drama beat is the draw: The Hardacres, The Chelsea Detective, PBS romances, covered at a pace most sites save for blockbusters.
Past episode 275, with honest conversations and interesting people - a filmmaker on costume gags, a blind man stuck in an airport, Kinza on the film festival community, plus a Star Wars Afterthoughts strand. Interviews that go somewhere unplanned.
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Reviews of movies, DVDs, laserdiscs, Blu-rays, 4K discs and books, with packaging shots and 1080p screenshots — the Jackie Chan Arrow Video set, Full Moon's Evil Bong 888, and a running This Week's Haul column that is usually four laserdiscs deep. One of the few places still writing seriously about the format, not just the film.
Spoiler-free reviews from a movie nerd with a heart of gold, as the site puts it, covering new releases the week they land and the disc editions after. Consistent, personal, and honest about when a film simply did not work.
Paul McGuire Grimes runs new-release reviews alongside 4K disc write-ups and interviews — a Juliette Lewis conversation covering Cape Fear and Scorsese sits next to his top five of the year so far. Boxset coverage without the collector snobbery.
A retro movie magazine in the best sense: American Ninja 2, Maniac Cop 2, Freddy's Dead, plus a This Month In... series that treats 1989 as a beat worth covering. A small crew keeping rental-era cinema in print.
Methodology: candidates come from public blog directories and our own reading; every blog is manually checked for an active feed (latest post within the last 12 months, verified July 2026) and a genuine editorial voice. No payment or link exchange is involved, in either direction. WatchGuide is a German-language film & series review community, publishing since 2022 — see also our Critics vs. Audience study and the European streaming index.
