The Cinematologists Podcast
1) Best films of 2025 and our final podcast.
Welcome friends.As always, our final episode of a calendar year is a look back at our cinematic highlights, structured around Neilâs and my top ten films lists. We always try to put this in something ...Show More
2) The Clinical Trials of David Cronenberg w/Violet Lucca
The final regular episode of the podcast, not just for the season, but yes, for good, is a doozy. Writer Violet Lucca returns to the podcast for the first time since 2017 and for her first full, solo ...Show More
3) Taxonomy of the Lone Killer
Welcome, friends.I have to admit that Iâve experienced a questionable amount of pleasure in researching for this latest episode of The Cinematologists Podcast. When I say âresearchâ, I basically mean ...Show More
4) Bonus Episode - Evoking The Cinematic in Sorry, Baby and Nickel Boys
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dariollinares.substack.comThe notion of the cinematic is an oft-floated term: a kind of critical get-out clause for when a writer (or spea...Show More
5) Culture & Creativity w/ Gwenno
Gwenno, on the set of her short film, Tresor (2022) [Copyright: Bosena / Alex Fish]We have the perfect theme song for our podcast, courtesy of the musician, artist and writer Gwenno. In Bristol in Sep...Show More
6) David Lynch's Lost Highway (featuring director Mark Jenkin)
As always on The Cinematologists podcast, we like to address topics of salience, but in our own way and in our own time. The death of David Lynch left an irreplaceable hole in the fabric of cinema and...Show More
7) London Film Festival 2025
It felt apt that Neil and I were both in London for this yearâs edition of the festival. Over the years of The Cinematologists, weâve covered a range of international events, always striving to captur...Show More
8) Don't Look Now and Then (w/Justin John Doherty)
Filming Donât Look Now. Copyright: Peter Cassell.Neil and Justin John Doherty have been friends since 1995. To mark thirty years of friendship, in the latest episode of the podcast they talk about Jus...Show More
9) PTA's latest, Redford reflections and some big podcast news
We are back! Season 22 kicks off with a stellar, loose, multi-layered, melancholic, heated and nervy, shambling odyssey of an episode, which befits the central discussion, centred as it is around the ...Show More
10) The Cinematologists Present: Students on Screen
This special episode of The Cinematologists is a contribution to the Students on Screen  project convened by Dr Kay Calver and Dr Bethan Michael-Fox, to coincide with a special issue of Open Screens t...Show More