Ratings First: A Movie Nerd Podcast
Three filmmakers of unquestionable repute. One irrefutably questionable format. Zero apologies -- this is America, after all.
🎥 Ratings First is a movie review podcast hosted by working filmmakers Justin 👨🏻🦱, Ethan 👨🏼🦰, and Brandon 🧔🏻♂️ — a director, a cinematographer, and a guy who's done everything from first AD to sound design.
Together, they obsess over movies the way normal people obsess over therapy.
They’ve seen it all, argued about it all — and now they’re doing it on-mic.
The twist?
They rate the movie before they discuss it.
Because in a podcast ocean full of masters (WHM), legends (Filmspotting), and Letterboxd darlings (Paddington🧸🇬🇧)... doing it backwards felt like the only way forward.
🎬 Come for the takes, stay for the tension.
They may not be famous (yet), but they’re too geeky to quit — unless the nukes drop (fingers crossed), in which case, well... at least we tried.
Episodes
14 episodes
The No Episode Episode --> Join us, won't you?
🎙️ Episode 14 — Who’s Got to Go? 🎬⚔️🤔No new release this week. No Nic Cage meltdowns, no Austin Butler abs, no midnight screenings. But hey — we weren’t about to ghost you. 👻So instead, we broke out a little game: Who...
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Episode 14
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34:50
Nobody 2 — starring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd
🎙️ Episode 10 — Nobody 2 💥🕶️🥋What if The Great Outdoors packed a rocket launcher? What if Summer Rental ended in a pile of roundhouse kicks? That’s basically Nobody 2 — an 80s-style action comedy throw...
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Episode 13
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Classic Tease... Bringing Out the Dead
🎙️ Bringing Out the Dead (1999) — The Third Classics Tease 🚑🌃🧠You know the drill by now: ten minutes, then the door slams shut. 🔒This time it’s Nic Cage, Scorsese, and Schrader — a cursed little holy trinity that somehow ...
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Episode 12
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Classic Tease... American Werewolf in London!
🎙️ An American Werewolf in London (1981) — The Second Classics Tease 🐺🇬🇧🌕Another ten minutes. Another dangling carrot. Another reminder that you’re not getting the whole episode unless you subscribe. 🍫This time, it’s John...
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Episode 11
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12:52
Classic Tease... Playtime!
🎙️ Playtime (1967) — A Ten-Minute Tease 😴📐🇫🇷Here’s the deal: you’re only getting the first ten minutes. Yep. Just enough to know we argued, got pretentious, and maybe nodded off while Jacques Tati rearranged some chairs. 🪑
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Episode 10
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Weapons — starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin
🎙️ Episode 9 — Weapons 🔪🍫🪞No, you didn’t miss Episode 8.5 — that’s Freakier Friday, and technically it dropped inside this very episode. You’ll see.Here’s the gist: two hosts watched Weapons. One host… did not. ...
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Episode 9
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Classics No. 3: Bringing Out The Dead — starring Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Tom Sizemore
🎙️ Episode 8 — Bringing Out the Dead 🚑🌃🧠Nic Cage. Martin Scorsese. Paul Schrader.If that lineup doesn’t move you, check your pulse — and maybe your soul.This week’s Classics Tier drop is ...
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Episode 8
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Classics No. 2: American Werewolf in London — starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne
🎙️ Episode 7 — An American Werewolf in London 🐺🇬🇧🌕Another Classics Tier drop? You spoil us.This week, the boys sink their teeth into John Landis’ 1981 horror-comedy An American Werewolf i...
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Episode 7
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The Naked Gun (2025) — starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston
🎙️ Episode 6 — The Naked Gun (2025) 💥👖🍫No, you didn’t miss Episode 5 — that’s Playtime, and it dropped over on our Classics Tier, aka the “Snickers Tier™” 🍫 Why Snickers? Because if you subscribe for $6/month, ...
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Episode 6
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1:51:04
Classics No. 1: Playtime — starring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek
🎙️ Playtime (1967) — The First Classics Tier Drop 😴📐🇫🇷Welcome to the first-ever Classics Tier™ drop, and ohhhh boy… we really went full film school on this one. 🎓Jacques Tati’s Playtime
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Episode 5
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps — starring Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn
EPISODE 4: Fantastic Four (2025) — We’re Cookin’ 🔥👨👨👧👦🔥What do you get when you toss two film nerds, one chaotic mediator, a superhero reboot, and a suspiciously blonde Hispanic child into the Tri-Pod studio? THIS. DAMN. EPISOD...
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Episode 4
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Eddington — starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal
🧠💥🔥 Ari Aster goes full chaos mode. This week, the Ratings First squad unpacks the utter madness that is Eddington — a dark, violent, twist-loaded character study set in a pandemic-era American town 💉🇺🇸.<...
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Episode 3
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1:51:53
Superman -- starring David Corensweat, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Brosnahan
Superman: Legacy of Debate – Ratings First Episode 2It’s Bizarro World this week as Justin drops a shocking Superman rating that might rupture the space-time continuum. Ethan’s flying high in Superman Heaven, Brandon’s cortisol is...
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Episode 2
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1:48:50
F1 -- starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Javier Bardem
🎙️ Three white guys start a movie podcast. Shocking. In our chaoticly epic debut, Ethan, Justin, and Brandon stumble into F1 — the new Brad Pitt racing movie from Tim Cook starring Damson Idris and Javier Bardem.We ...
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Episode 1
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