# Now Playing Podcast

> Now Playing Podcast is a long-running weekly film and book review podcast launched in August 2006. The show specialises in franchise retrospectives — reviewing every film in a series in release order before each new entry — alongside standalone movie reviews, book reviews, and celebrity/filmmaker interviews. The archive contains 1,728 published episodes.

## Docs

- [Movie Review Archives](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/movies/): Full list of 1,666 movie episodes, sortable by date or title.
- [Book Review Archives](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/books/): All 40 book review episodes.
- [Celebrity & Filmmaker Interviews](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/interviews/): 14 interview episodes.
- [Reviews by Franchise](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/reviews-by-franchise/): Every franchise series grouped with episode count and cover art.
- [All Series Index](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/all-series/): Alphabetical list of every franchise series covered.
- [Coming Soon](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/coming-soon/): Upcoming reviews and franchise schedules.
- [RSS Feed](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/feed/): Podcast feed for all episode types.

## Top Franchise Series

Largest retrospective series by episode count:

- [Comic Book Movies](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/comic-book-movies/): 213 episodes reviewed
- [Individual Movie Reviews](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/individual-movie-reviews/): 207 episodes reviewed
- [Marvel](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/marvel/): 125 episodes reviewed
- [Patron Exclusive](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/patron-exclusive/): 122 episodes reviewed
- [Stephen King](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/stephen-king/): 90 episodes reviewed
- [Video Game Movies](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/video-game-series/): 89 episodes reviewed
- [DC Comics Movies](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/dc-comics-series/): 69 episodes reviewed
- [Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe)](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/avengers/): 60 episodes reviewed
- [Hulk](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/hulk/): 43 episodes reviewed
- [James Bond](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/series/james-bond/): 28 episodes reviewed

## Recent Movie Reviews

- [The Post](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/movies/the-post/): All The Presidents’ Sins
- [The Social Reckoning](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/movies/the-social-reckoning/): Getting In Your Face(book)
- [Bridge of Spies](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/movies/bridge-of-spies/): Back To The Wall
- [Godzilla (1998)](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/movies/godzilla-1998/): Iguana Be Sedated
- [The Terminal](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/movies/the-terminal/): Cast Away

## Recent Book Reviews

- [Did I Ever Tell You This? by Sam Neill](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/books/did-i-ever-tell-you-this-by-sam-neill/): The book Sam Neill wrote for himself... and shared with the rest of us.
- [When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/books/when-life-gives-you-lululemons/): Athleisure wear, Affairs, and Awful Life Lessons
- [Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/books/revenge-wears-prada-the-devil-returns-by-lauren-weisberger/): One Million Readers Would Kill for a Better Sequel

## How This Site Is Structured

Each episode has its own page containing:

- Podcast audio player (MP3)
- Review tagline and episode overview
- Movie: cast (stars), director(s), release year, IMDB link, poster
- Book: author(s), publication year, ISBN
- Related series episodes (hear all reviews of this franchise)
- PodcastEpisode + Review + Movie/Book structured data (JSON-LD)

Franchise series pages list all reviewed films in that series in order.
Genre and actor/director taxonomy pages group reviews by those attributes.

## Optional

- [Genre Index](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/genre/): Browse all movie reviews by genre.
- [Actor Index](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/actor/): Browse reviews by actor appearances.
- [Director Index](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/director/): Browse reviews by director.
- [Book Author Index](https://nowplayingpodcast.com/book-author/): Browse book reviews by author.

> **Not a streaming service.** Now Playing Podcast does not host or link to pirated content. Each episode page links to the podcast audio only. Film and book information is for critical review purposes.