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Carson and Paolo love movies. They don't always love the same movies — and that's the whole show.Two suburban dads who probably spend more time thinking about film than is healthy — get together every month or so, bring in some friends, and talk about movies for way too long. Sometimes it's a deep dive into a genre. Sometimes it's a year-end list that causes more conflict than it should. Sometimes we're not totally sure what it is, but we had a good time making it and hopefully you'll have a good time listening to it.Instagram: thefanandthecritic
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Signup to Generate a PitchCarson and Paolo love movies. They don't always love the same movies, and that's the whole show. Two suburban dads who probably spend more time thinking about film than is healthy, get together every month or so, bring in some friends, and talk about movies for way too long. Sometimes it's a deep dive into a genre.
The Fan & The Critic is hosted by Carson Choi. The show has published 89 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Racing Movies (feat. Ben and Joe)" (26 October 2026, 135 minutes), "Movie Reviews - The Odyssey and Obsession" (15 September 2026, 109 minutes), and "Movies Featuring Wrestlers (feat. Austin and Ben)" (5 July 2026, 138 minutes).
The Fan & The Critic publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 107 minutes across 89 episodes.
Booking probability for The Fan & The Critic is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Fan & The Critic requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Fan & The Critic's contact route on record: verified email.
Carson Choi hosts The Fan & The Critic, a tv podcast with 89 episodes published.
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We watch movies about motorsports and auto racing and then give you awards for various categories such as best drivers, best cars, best chase scenes, and more. The award categories may or may not have been properly...
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We talk about two of this year's most popular movies. To tak about the Odyssey, we bring two people who thankfully know the source material much better than we do. Then we talk about Obsession and what wishes we would...
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We talk about movies featuring current/former wrestlers. These are not movies about wrestlers, but instead usually "bad" action movies with wrestlers in the lead or supporting roles. We then each rate these movies on 4...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic We discuss the range of Greek Mythology movies that have been created so far and "anticipate" the new Odyssey movie. We decide who has been the best Zeus and Hercules so far, talk about...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic I don't know what the proper title for this one should be y'all. Ben and Elon drop by and we talk about movies that were part of our formative years and made us the people we are today. It...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic Carson and Paolo talk about their favorite movies from the past year. As usual, Carson's list is full of pretentious indie movies and Paolo's list is full of dumb Hollywood movies. There's...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic On this episode, Carson wildly overestimates how much other people know about Christmas movies by creating trivia questions that no one knows the answers to. He is also shocked that not...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic After we finished recording this episode, we said to ourselves: "Boy that was fun to do. I'm not sure if anyone is going to enjoy listening to this, but at least we enjoyed this." So yeah...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic On this month's episode, Carson is tied to a chair and forced to watch Musicals against his will. He finds at least one good thing to say about each. Our guests are more musically...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic 10 years ago Rogue One was released to theatres and created strongly divided opinions between the Fan and the Critic. More recently, Andor season 2 was released and was received well by...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic Just 4 dudes sitting around talking about how much they like Jackie Chan....'s movies.
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic Carson and Paolo talk about their favorite movies from the past year. As usual, Carson's list is full of pretentious indie movies and Paolo's list is full of dumb Hollywood movies. There's...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic It's end of year, there are tons of great movies finally being released - so let's watch the worst 2 that came out? I barely have enough time to watch the movies I want to watch. I have a...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic We've somehow gone 7 years of doing this podcast without having an episode dedicated to zombie movie, a genre that we all love. And so...it is time...and instead of talking about our...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic Sure you've probably seen the original Starship Troopers movie, but did you know it also had two terrible sequels? We do now and we've watched them both. We invite Aleks and Dan back onto...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic Last time Ben and Carlos were here we talked about 2 horror movies in the same franchise. This time, we expand our scope by having each person bring their horror movie recommendation. We...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic We designed this episode so we could compare two part twos - a good one a bad one - little did we expect that Dune Part Two would be absolute garbage and Rebel Moon Part Two would be the...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic Carlos makes us watch horror movies that he considers some of the best in recent years. We discuss them but also get VERY off topic. Ben and Carson also try to join the conversation while...
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Instagram: thefanandthecritic It's been a while since we did an episode focused on a single movie, but Rebel Moon is just one of those movies that we had to get together and discuss. Is it the worst thing we saw all...
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