Yes.

Now Playing Podcast's Marvel retrospective is the most comprehensive series we've ever produced, with more than 120 reviews covering the entire history of Marvel on film. We didn't stop with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We reviewed every live-action Marvel feature we could find, from the earliest theatrical releases to obscure television movies, unreleased productions, and films based on Marvel's lesser-known imprints.

That includes everything from the Fox Generation X television movie and the David Hasselhoff Nick Fury movie to the unreleased Roger Corman Fantastic Four, Howard the Duck, and films based on Marvel-owned labels such as Kick-Ass and Kingsman.

With more than 120 reviews, the Marvel retrospective remains the largest series in Now Playing Podcast history, surpassing even our extensive DC retrospective by more than 50 reviews. If it's a live-action Marvel movie, chances are we've reviewed it.

Yes. If it's live-action Star Wars, we've almost certainly reviewed it.

Our Star Wars coverage goes far beyond the theatrical saga. In addition to every theatrical film, we've reviewed The Star Wars Holiday Special, the two Ewok television movies, and the live-action Disney+ series that expand the saga between films. We also covered The Clone Wars movie twice: first when it was released in 2008, and again as part of our complete Star Wars retrospective leading up to The Force Awakens in 2015.

Our goal has always been to present the complete story of Star Wars on screen. As new live-action series are released, we continue to add them to the retrospective, though we occasionally wait until a natural break in the release schedule to review multiple seasons or related series together.

Our Star Wars retrospective continues to evolve as the galaxy far, far away keeps growing.

Like most horror fans, our tastes vary widely.

Collectively, the Now Playing Podcast hosts love everything from classic Universal Monsters and psychological thrillers to slashers, supernatural horror, creature features, and modern independent films. Favorites frequently mentioned on the show include Alien, Psycho, The Shining, The Thing (1982), Poltergeist, Suspiria, Scream, Get Out, The Fly (1986), Jaws, It Follows, The Wicker Man (1973), Nope, Midsommar, Hellraiser, and many more.

For a complete look at what each host recommends, visit our Staff Picks page. Every host selects up to ten favorite films from any genre, offering a snapshot of the movies they most enjoy and recommend to listeners.

That's one of the questions we're asked most often, and the answer is different for every host.

The Now Playing Podcast team has a wide range of tastes, from Hollywood classics and blockbuster franchises to independent films, horror, comedy, science fiction, drama, animation, and documentaries. While hosts don't always agree on the movies they love, those different perspectives are one of the things that make our discussions interesting.

To share some of their personal favorites, each host has selected up to ten films for our Staff Picks page. These aren't necessarily "the greatest movies ever made," but rather the films each host most enthusiastically recommends to fellow movie fans. The list includes personal favorites, influential classics, overlooked gems, and movies we simply love revisiting.

If you're looking for a movie recommendation from one of the hosts, the Staff Picks page is the best place to start.

That's a tougher question than it sounds.

Now Playing Podcast doesn't assign numerical scores or rank every movie against every other film we've reviewed. Instead, each host gives an independent recommendation at the end of every review, meaning many movies have earned unanimous praise from the panel over the years.

Rather than naming a single "best" movie, we've created the Now Playing Podcast Approved list of the films that received unanimous recommendations from every host on the panel. That is updated as new reviews are released, making them the best place to discover the movies we've loved most.

If you're looking for recommendations, start with our Now Playing Podcast Approved page or browse our team's Staff Picks for personal favorites.

That depends on which version you're talking about.

The longest recording we've ever released is the unedited review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, available to supporters. Running 4 hours, 42 minutes, and 48 seconds, it preserves nearly every moment of a marathon recording session. We intentionally edited the public release into a much tighter episode.

The longest episode ever released in the main podcast feed is our review of WandaVision, which runs 4 hours and 26 seconds. While that's an exceptionally long podcast, it's still considerably shorter than watching the entire series.

If you're asking about movies rather than television, the longest review is IT: Chapter Two at 3 hours, 8 minutes, and 4 seconds. That's one of the very few occasions when our discussion actually outlasted the movie itself, about 19 minutes longer than the film's runtime.

While episode lengths vary widely, our goal has always been to make each review exactly as long as it needs to be...and no longer.

Like many things in the Now Playing Podcast archive, the answer depends on the era of the show.

The shortest movie review we've ever released is our original 2008 review of Slumdog Millionaire, which runs just 7 minutes and 45 seconds. Other early reviews, including Iron Man (8:11) and Burn After Reading (8:13), were also intentionally brief. At the time, Now Playing Podcast focused on short, spoiler-free reactions rather than the in-depth discussions listeners know today.

The podcast's format changed dramatically in 2009 with the launch of our Friday the 13th retrospective series. Since then, episodes have become much longer and more analytical. The shortest movie review produced in the modern retrospective format is Friday the 13th Part III, which runs 36 minutes and 21 seconds.

Some interviews and book reviews are shorter than our feature-length movie discussions, but even those are generally longer than the original short-form reviews from the podcast's earliest days.

There's no official "worst movie ever" at Now Playing Podcast, and if you asked each host, you'd probably get a different answer.

Over the years we've reviewed hundreds of movies that earned unanimous "Not Recommend" votes, from misguided blockbusters and disastrous sequels to low-budget curiosities that never should have left the editing room. Some were simply dull. Others were fascinating disasters. A few became legendary among listeners because of just how much the hosts disliked them.

Certain reviews have taken on a life of their own. Arnie famously set a copy of Alone in the Dark II on fire after recording the review, while Stuart has said that watching Face/Off felt like such an ordeal that it took him twelve hours to get through it. Those moments have become part of Now Playing Podcast lore, but they don't necessarily mean those films are "the worst."

If you're looking for the movies that earned the harshest criticism, browse our collection of reviews for those with three Red Arrows. Just don't be surprised if one host hates a movie that another host secretly enjoys.

Comedy is subjective, so there's no official ranking of the funniest Now Playing Podcast episodes. Ask ten listeners and you'll probably get ten different answers.

Fortunately, you don't have to guess.

To celebrate the show's first decade, we created a collection of more than 50 animated shorts featuring some of our favorite moments from the podcast. Each clip runs from about 45 seconds to a few minutes and highlights memorable jokes, unexpected tangents, and moments of complete insanity from reviews including Howard the Duck, Mortal Kombat, Righteous Kill, Ghost Rider, Seed of Chucky, and many more.

If a clip makes you laugh, you can easily jump to the full review to hear the complete discussion and discover why those moments became listener favorites.

It's also worth remembering that some of the funniest episodes weren't intended to be comedies at all. Sometimes the biggest laughs come from watching the hosts react to spectacularly bad movies, bizarre creative decisions, or conversations that take wonderfully unexpected turns.

A lot.

Retrospective series are the heart of Now Playing Podcast, and since 2009 we've covered hundreds of movie franchises, directors, and connected film series. Our archive includes some of the biggest names in film history, including Star Wars, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC Comics, James Bond, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, King Kong, Rocky (and Creed), Mission: Impossible, Planet of the Apes, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Terminator, Alien, Predator, The Fast and the Furious, and many more.

Not every retrospective is built around a traditional franchise. We've also explored the complete works of filmmakers such as David Fincher, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino, reviewed Stephen King adaptations, examined comic book publishers like Marvel and DC, Video Game Movie Adaptations, and grouped films by common themes, characters, or creative teams.

Our retrospective library continues to grow every year. The best way to explore everything we've covered is by visiting the Movie Reviews Archive, where you can browse every series alphabetically, by episode count, by most recent update, or search for your favorite franchise.