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.
Ratings First: A Movie Nerd Podcast
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 💉🇺🇸.
🧔♂️ Joaquin Phoenix plays a right-wing sheriff with a god complex
🧑🎤 Pedro Pascal is the chill but doomed lefty mayor
👩 Emma Stone? Ethan says checked-out, J&B say locked in.
Lowkey terrifying, if this is now America. Not a single redeemable soul in sight.
⚠️ This movie has:
🔪 Small-town politics
😡 Screaming matches
💣 Surprise violence
🤯 Twists on twists
😬 And yeah... a very sloppy Act 3 (Justin & Brandon still kinda dug it tho)
Ethan?? HATED IT. Said it was a “total mess” and meant every word 💀🔥
🎧 Listen now to hear the full breakdown, the beef, and maybe a little screaming:
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