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October 25, 2004
Podcast Review: Reel Reviews
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4 and a half stars
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Format: Reviews
Content: Movie Reviews
Rating: 
What I'm going to do: subscribe
Typical Length: 5 - 10 minutes
I listened to the first 3 posts of Michael Geoghegan's podcast, Reel Reviews this morning.
Here's a fellow who has a real love for movies. He has a great deal to share about the movies he reviews, and his reviews are in-depth; covering characters and plot in plenty of detail, not to mention his own impressions of the theme and quality of the movie along with some cultural commentary. Seemingly there's enough information for Michael's podience to decide if they want to see the movie. He also includes some background information about the movie and the cast/production team.
So far Michael hasn't panned any of the movies he reviews - all three have been recommended - I don't know if he intends only to review movies he likes (and given that he's probably not getting paid for his time, I can see why he would want to spend his time talking about movies he doesn't like) or if he's going to give negative reviews as well, but the tag-line to the review section of his blog says "...Films Worth Watching", so my guess is that these are going to be more along the lines of recommendations.
His podcast has just enough lead-in and lead-out music to provide some transition and catch your interest. His speaking is clear with no distractions, allowing you to pay close attention to what he's saying. My only complaint here is that it was a little too soft on my Lyra MP3 player.
Another interesting tidbit close to my own heart is that Michael has registered the domain name podcastreviews.com. I noticed
this fact immediately after registering the nearly identical name podcastreviews.net. If he approaches reviewing podcasts with the same enthusiam and quality that he does reviewing movies then I may be redundant in short order, although I think there are far more podcasts than any one person can review.
Subscribe to mp3s. His blog also has text versions of his reviews.
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Posted by cori at October 25, 2004 02:19 PM