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Watch With Jen™

3-time national award-winning writer & full time walking movie encyclopedia Jen Johans of FilmIntuition.com delivers a steady stream of great movie recommendations, thoughtful career deep dives, & first rate conversations with critics, authors, actors, journalists, filmmakers, and more on Watch With Jen.™️ Originally launched on Patreon (https://patreon.com/FilmIntuition), where new installments premiere first, once each episode is unlocked to the public, you"ll be able to find every episode here

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Watch With Jen - S7: E6 - "When You Wish Upon a...

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2026/04/18

Current and aspiring writers of all backgrounds will love this episode, devoted to storytelling, humanism, empathy, and creativity. Horror author Laurel Hightower makes her Watch With Jen pod debut, exploring some of Disney's magic-minded movies of the past few decades, particularly ENCHANTED, ENCANTO, and WISH. A sprawling, soulful chat with a woman who instantly felt like an old friend, I can't recommend this conversation enough.Bio: Laurel Hightower is a bourbon-loving, pitbull-snuggling native

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Watch With Jen - S7: E5 - Coming-of-Age Movies with...

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2026/04/11

Recently on the pod, I reunited with the gifted arts journalist Candice Frederick, one of my oldest friends from the early days of Film Twitter. Candice was one of the first guests I ever had on Watch With Jen, and we had a ball logging on to discuss some of the best and most under-discussed coming-of-age movies of the past 40+ years, including those we first saw as adults in our early 40s. While initially we were going to focus on RUNNING ON EMPTY, PARIAH, and JUNO, we wound up having a breezy,

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Watch With Jen - S7: E4 - Forgotten Film Noir with...

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2026/04/04

In honor of that time I went on an Easter Egg Hunt as a toddler in 1984 and had no luck, I'm giving everyone this Easter egg of an episode a day early. Hope you and yours have a safe, happy, healthy, and lovely weekend full of good movies and great memories.This week, I'm honored to bring back one of my oldest Film Twitter buddies, the great Brian Saur, who I've known and collaborated with on various projects for over sixteen years, from the blog Rupert Pupkin Speaks to DVD Netflix to pods. Gifting

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Watch With Jen - S7: E3 - The Devil Wears Prada with...

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2026/03/29

It's always such a joy when I can bring on a friend I know IRL who lives in my home state, so it is with great pleasure that I scheduled a Zoom hang with the critically acclaimed, wondrously creative, and darkly comedic journalist-turned-author Amina Akhtar. More of a breezy, nostalgic chat about life, Gen X, print journalism, and the '90s, than a traditional episode devoted to the movies, with the release of Devil Wears Prada 2 right around the corner, it was the perfect time to talk to Amina about

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Watch With Jen - S7: E2 - Delroy Lindo with S.A....

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2026/03/22

Two of my favorite buddies, New York Times bestselling, award-winning KING OF ASHES author S.A. Cosby and WBUR and Spliced Personality film critic Sean Burns, return to the podcast to celebrate the career of the great character actor Delroy Lindo. Originally conceived at the end of last season before life and scheduling got in the way, with Lindo's recent Oscar nomination for SINNERS, this winter/spring was the perfect time to discuss one of our favorite scene-stealers of the last 35+ years on Watch

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Watch With Jen - S7: E1 - John Carpenter with Duane...

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2026/03/15

We're back with the first episode of our seventh season! CALIFORNIA BEAR author Duane Swierczynski returns to the podcast to discuss his brand new graphic novel DEAD FLOWERS for John and Sandy Carpenter's Storm King Comics, digs into the way that filmmaker and composer John Carpenter's work has inspired him, and introduces Jen to THE FOG, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, & IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS.Originally Posted on Patreon (3/15/26) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153124788Shop Watch With Jen logo

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Watch With Jen - S6: E26 - 21st Century Westerns -...

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2025/12/22

Sharply intelligent, dazzlingly analytical, & a genuinely kind soul, my gifted friend, freelance writer and Letterboxd editor Mitchell Beaupre is one of my favorite guests for a reason. Returning to the pod for the first time in a year, this episode kicks off the start of a new Watch With Jen miniseries covering some of our favorite westerns of the twenty-first century. Beginning with 2020-2025, Mitchell and I take a deeper look at Kelly Reichardt's FIRST COW, Jane Campion's THE POWER OF THE

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Watch With Jen - S6: E25 - Psychics, Fate, & Free...

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2025/12/10

Lina Chern, the Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Play the Fool, is here this week to discuss psychics solving crime, predestination and tarot onscreen, and the beauty of free will on film in Minority Report, The Dead Zone, The Gift, and Three Colors: Red. Her delightful sequel to Fool, Tricks of Fortune, was released over the summer, and we did a full-length video interview about the book, her writing, and our taste in pop culture, which you can see on the Poisoned Pen Bookstore YouTube

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Watch With Jen - S6: E24 - Jane Austen Movies with...

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2025/11/24

Happy Thanksgiving! There's nothing like curling up under quilts and blankets by the fire with your loved ones and watching lush period movies in the winter. The delightfully knowledgeable Jane Austen expert, bestselling Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls author Natalie Jenner, returns to the podcast to discuss the life, work, and history of Jane Austen, and the film adaptations of Sense and Sensibility (1995), Pride & Prejudice (2005), and Emma (2020).Originally Posted on Patreon

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Watch With Jen - S6: E23 - Jackie Chan with Jordan...

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2025/11/12

When we wrapped last year's wonderful fan favorite Watch With Jen episode on Jean-Claude Van Damme, my guests Jordan Harper, Priscilla Page, Jed Ayres, & I knew that we needed to have another martial arts movie chat in Season 6. Although Jed bowed out of this conversation (but did recently appear on a cool installment devoted to Andy Garcia you need to check out), Jordan and Priscilla returned to discuss the filmography, history, skills, range, & persona of the once-in-a-generation talent

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Watch With Jen - S6: E22 - The "Paddington" Trilogy...

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2025/11/04

Los Angeles based Variety & Fresh Fiction film critic Courtney Howard returns to the podcast for a breezy, nostalgic, spirited, & informal chat about everyone's favorite Peruvian bear. You'll hear us celebrate the imaginative & talented cast & crew of PADDINGTON, PADDINGTON 2, & the most recent installment, PADDINGTON IN PERU, as well as the way its overall themes resonate especially well today. A shorter installment of Watch With Jen that's just an easy chat among friends, it's

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Watch With Jen - S6: E21 - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"...

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2025/10/28

Happy Halloween! We don't dedicate too many episodes of Watch With Jen to television shows, mostly because of the time & effort involved in rewatching several seasons over a long period of time. But if a TV series touches us enough, if it's beloved, created & executed with a true original vision, raises & sets the bar, has been unfairly overlooked, or if it's something that has impacted an entire generation of fans, then we want to be sure to celebrate its greatness. After all, in every

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Watch With Jen - S6: E20 - Stephen King Movies with...

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2025/10/20

Watch With Jen is releasing two Halloween episodes this year for your listening pleasure & we're starting with an appreciation of a man who is synonymous with spooky season! New York Times bestselling author S.A. Cosby (All the Sinners Bleed, King of Ashes) & award-winning novelist William Boyle (City of Margins, Saint of the Narrows Street) return to the podcast to discuss their decades long affection for the written & filmed work of prolific horror master Stephen King.A fast-paced

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Watch With Jen - S6: E19 - Video Game Movies with Pat...

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2025/10/14

It's such a joy to introduce everyone to my delightfully knowledgeable work buddy Pat King (aka PK), who's a veteran bookseller at Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ. One of our most beloved employees with decades of experience, PK is a Book Ninja, in that you can walk in, tell him what you're interested in or the kind of stuff you like & he'll find you your new favorite read. This week, I brought him on to discuss another one of his passions beyond Science Fiction & Horror. As a video

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Watch With Jen - S6: E18 - "Bring Me the Hair of Andy...

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2025/10/08

We're back from our mid-season hiatus! My great pal, author Jed Ayres returns to the podcast once again to explore one of his favorite topics: the hair of Andy Garcia! Lol, no, seriously, while he is admittedly "fascinated" & somewhat obsessed with the man's gorgeous head of hair, over the years, the two of us bonded over our love of Garcia calling Michael Douglas "babe" in Ridley Scott's wild homoerotic action movie BLACK RAIN, having a snowcone fight in 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE, & so much

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Watch With Jen - S6: E17 - Physical Media: Part 5 -...

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2025/07/29

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down over Zoom & chatting with one of my favorite couples, Chris & Elizabeth Cantwell. An L.A.-based television & comic book writer, listeners first heard Chris discuss his work on the brilliant series he co-created HALT & CATCH FIRE in one of Watch With Jen's most popular episodes. His wife is the ever-insightful, poet, teacher, scholar, & Bright Wall/Dark Room essayist & editor Elizabeth Cantwell, who has taught me so much about

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Watch With Jen - S6: E16 - Physical Media: Part 4 -...

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2025/07/07

Welcome to the fourth installment in our Summer '25 suite of episodes devoted to recent Physical Media releases from The Criterion Collection. This will be the last new episode of Watch With Jen before I go on a brief summer hiatus but I'm hoping to return with more wonderful shows & conversations you'll love in mid to late August. SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET novelist William Boyle returns this week to discuss Claude Berri's lush, tragic masterpieces JEAN DE FLORETTE & MANON OF THE SPRING,

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Watch With Jen - S6: E15 - Physical Media: Part 3 -...

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2025/06/27

I've been pre-scheduling podcast episodes this summer &, forgetting that we are now living in a time of anything goes chaos in the U.S., last week's conversation wound up publishing in the hours after the news involving Iran. Hopefully anyone who knows me knows that I wouldn't normally pivot from major world news to self-promotion but I still wanted to take this opportunity to apologize for any confusion or insensitivity that the accidentally ill-timed new episode caused. To make up for that

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Watch With Jen - S6: E14 - Physical Media: Part 2 -...

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2025/06/22

We're back with part two of our ongoing summer series devoted to the newest physical media releases from The Criterion Collection & today's episode is a must for neo-noir fans everywhere. First up, you'll hear from bestselling award-winning authors S.A. Cosby (whose newest novel KING OF ASHES just hit shelves last week) & Jordan Harper (SHE RIDES SHOTGUN & EVERYBODY KNOWS) on director Stephen Frears' outstanding adaptation of author Jim Thompson's THE GRIFTERS. Then we leave the '90s

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Watch With Jen - S6: E13 - Physical Media: Part 1 -...

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2025/06/15

It's cowboys, & truckers, & samurai, oh my! In the first part of a summer suite of Season 6 episodes devoted to Physical Media released this year by The Criterion Collection, you'll hear conversations with some of my dearest friends (& your favorite guests). Just in time for Father's Day, we're embracing Dudes Rock (or at times, ironically, "Dudes Don't Rock") Energy for the first quartet of classic film favorites. I kick things off here in the West with THE GET-OFF author Christa Faust

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