At the movies with LexG

I'm still struggling to find new regular podcasts to listen to after a couple of long-term favourites faded away a couple of years ago. I definitely needed a new movie podcast, and tried out a whole lot of them, but there was just too much braying, too many bad jokes, too much outright shilling. 

My standards for a regular podcast, one that I can listen to every week, are stupidly high. I was very much enjoying one I found that really dug into movie history, but just could not get past the comedy accents the host would often use. And so many podcasts with two or three hosts invariably descend into dumb in-jokes that go on and on.

But there are still some decent ones out there, and a recent favourite is this dude LexG, who talks about all sorts of movies in a direct, funny, informative and surprisingly nuanced way.

You can find his episodes here, and I do highly recommend his stuff. I'm not just saying that because we're about the same generation, and had the same films blow our minds at the same time. He's just there to riff on movies, and their themes and suck, not just out to make shitty puns.

Like all the best critics, I viciously enjoy all his hot takes that I disagree with, just as much as it's fun to nod along enthusiastically in agreement. The riffs do go off on glorious tangents - LexG does have loads of interesting stories because he was a huge film nerd in the 1990s Los Angeles, so he's met a lot more Bond villains than I have - but that just makes it feel like you're hanging out with a good film buddy.

There's no frills, no formats, it's just some guy talking about movies. But he really does know what he's talking about, and that's enough.