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
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. EPISODE. 🎤💥
Justin hated it. 😠
Ethan loved it. 😍
Brandon tried to be the bridge. He drowned. 🪦
This did wrap as a tight 76-minute episode. But then came the side quests ✨✨.
Somewhere around the 1-hour mark, post-Fantastic, we enter Tangent Purgatory™ — barking studio beef, microphone trauma, and why Sue Storm gave birth to a California Abercrombie model.
PLUS:
🐉 Our Top 3 Nic Cage movies (Spoiler: Ghost Rider makes an appearance)
🎬 Don't ask why, just enjoy.
4th episode. Fantastic Four. We’re nothing if not lazy geniuses. 🧠
🎧 Main feed is poppin’. Sub to the Classics Tier in August.
📬 justin or brandon or ethan@ratingsfirstpod.com
🧡 For the Faithful Fifteen who stuck with us all the way through Eddington
Check out the website! https://ratingsfirstpod.com/
