Written Off

Written Off's first ever AMA - Ask Mark Anything! Hosted by writer/director/idiot Bradley Freeman and his co-host, Mark Tasker, this ep has Bradley asking his smarty-pants co-host five film-centric questions. Has Mark ever sounded as unsure about an episode as this? Mates, jump on Instagram and tell us about YOUR favorite cinema snacks, and those of your home country! We hope you enjoy something a little different from WO. Expect more AMAs - Ask Mark Anything - in the future! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

“Arrrghhh - I love your d**k, and now I can't have it!” - Bradley Hosted by writer/director/idiot Bradley Freeman and his co-host, Mark Tasker, this ep has them - especially Bradley - losing their damn minds over the incredulously confusing movie that is 1998's SPHERE. Screenplay by Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, adapted by Kurt Wimmer, based on the novel by Michael Crichton. Directed by Barry Levinson. Has Bradley ever gone as hard on a movie before as this? Secret BONEYARD episode fo realz What is with the people in this film staring at each other coldly, then walking out of the room? Queen Latifah has never been done this dirty before! Hold on tight, mates. Let's talk about a movie so meh... you're likely to forget it and watch it again in a decade or two! Harass Bradley for a drunk audio commentary! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

“I'd be happy to be Kurt Russell's husband!” - Bradley Hosted by writer/director/idiot Bradley Freeman and his co-host, Mark Tasker, this ep has them talking about the fun yet lackluster 1995 film CONGO. Screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, based on the novel by Michael Crichton. Directed by Frank Marshall. Tim Curry alert! Bruce Campbell alert! How did this movie mess up the evil gorillas, brought to life by the legendary Stan Winston?! Can YOU pronounce Tim Curry's character's last name, huh? Hold on tight, mates. Let's go explorin'! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

“I enjoyed high school sex, what’re you talking about?” - Mark Writer/idiot/sometimes-director Bradley Freeman and his co-host, Mark Tasker, exhume 2024's SALEM'S LOT. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman. Why make a movie about a cursed town and not feature the town? Where's the most chilling scene (according to Bradley) from the book?! How can this be Mark's first Stephen King novel ever? Hold on tight, mates. Let's dig in! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

"I reckon I could probably choke someone out" - Mark Writer/idiot/sometimes-director Bradley Freeman and his co-host, Mark Tasker, take to the skies (cough) for 2023's PLANE. Written by Charles Cumming and J.P. Davis. Directed by Jean-Francois Richet. Why'd the movie decide to kill a good thing and get off the plane? How could they cast Daniella Pineda and not use her more?! Why didn't Mark watch any movies to talk about in the intro? Hold on tight, mates. Let's fly! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Writer/idiot/sometimes-director Bradley Freeman and his co-host, Mark Tasker, brave the waters (ugh) of 2017's Baywatch (ugh ugh). Written by Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Thomas Lennon, and Robert Ben Garant. Directed by Seth Gordon. Who had corpse penis in their Baywatch BINGO? How did Pamela Anderson get that impressive credit? What is with Mark's Geography teacher? Hold on tight, mates. Let's (ugh ugh ughhhh) dive in! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

"He told me I couldn't choose Irreversible..." - Mark Boom! Crash! Pop! Another holiday(ish) episode surprise, straight into your podcast app of choice! This time, mates, break out the chocolates and flowers, because it's Valentine's Day 2026! Push that start button and hear Bradley Freeman, Mark Tasker, and special guest Gina-Marie Cincinnati share some of their favorite romantic...ish films. Shake your head and make tsk tsk noises at their film choices! Agree with Gina's insightful comments! Laugh at Mark's driest zingers yet! Coming in parched like Laurence of Arabia. If you like our particular brand of silly, why not give us 5 stars and tell a buddy? Force them to follow the show, go on. They'll still love you... maybe. Find out more about Gina's amazing art, her exhibitions, and more HERE!   --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

"I don't know whether I'm impressed or disgusted." - Mark Host, writer, and Purge Freak Bradley Freeman and his politely disdainful co-host, Mark Tasker, enter one of the meh-er film franchises and start where it all began with The Purge. Listen along as they: Love the idea but not the execution Shake their heads at the sheer amount of diegetic exposition this film teeters under Agree that Lena Headey is the GOAT Have you seen as many Purges as Bradley and wear the scars? Let us know! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, and cartoon fan Bradley Freeman and his flabbergasted (there's a word not used enough. Let's bring that back, yeah?) co-host, Mark Tasker, court controversy and broken faith as they take a look at the beloved, seminal film that they can't quite get their heads around... Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Listen along as they: Can't believe some of the stuff Disney let the filmmakers get away with Scratch their dorky, non-animated heads over who this movie is for? The Boomerest movie to boom? Marvel at Bob Hoskins, AKA Yep-He's-Exactly-The-Kind-Of-Internationally-Successful, Popular-With-Kids-Actor-This-Film-Needed! Is the film a meh one? Well, our idiot hosts are gonna try to find out! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, and horror fan Bradley Freeman and his confounded co-host, Mark Tasker, start 2026 off with one of the mehiest mehs ever to meh: Bird Box Join them as they: Wish the movie focused more on the sisters, AKA characters you WANT to spend time with Feel let down by the movie's refusal to happily lean into its genre trappings Remember the time Mark got swarmed by Japanese folk eager for a photo Buckle up, you're in for a meh ride! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Surprise Motherf%$&er! It's New Year's Eve... or depending on when you listen to this episode and where you are, New Year's Day... or, I dunno, a Monday! Either way - SURPRISE! Tipsy-on-half-a-beer-Bradley Freeman and his not-drunk-at-all co-host, Mark Tasker, joke about, ponder, and admire their Top 3 films, TV, books, and whatever else of 2025! Gasp in fear at how quickly things go off the rails! Thrill at Bradley's first beer on-air! Laugh as they try to shoot each other down with sound effects! That was us, in 2025. We'll catch you in 2026, where we have so much more planned! HAPPY NEW YEAR, MATES! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, and reformed Xmas elf Bradley Freeman and his Mega Grinch co-host, Mark Tasker, gather under the mistletoe and talk Christmas movies. Huh? What else were they gonna do? Join them as they: Discuss the indoctrination of the American Christmas Mess up things right from the beginning by having the same film in the top Xmas movie spot Laugh at the odd choice of finding comfort in Dudley Moore and Tim Robbins at Christmas time Have a very Meh-ry Christmas, mates! Catch you in 2026! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, overall !MEGALON! lover Bradley Freeman and his casually impressed co-host, Mark Tasker, talk excitedly about one of the more unique movies they've covered on the podcast: Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis. Listen along as they avoid talking about John Voight's boner and shoot questions like arrows (that joke was a stretch), such as: In a film like this, does sensible characterization matter? This kind of film isn't normally Bradley's thing, so why'd he go crazy for it? Will this discussion increase Mark's interest in seeing it? Shia LeBouf was right. Revenge *is* better in a dress! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, romcom admirer Bradley Freeman, forces his co-host, Mark Tasker, to watch Nancy Meyers' It's Complicated. Mark hates it so much. Saving them both (in more ways than one), they are joined by storyteller, voice actress, audiobook narrator, and romantic genre nerd extraordinaire, Morgan Strueby, to ask: Do 88% of the film's problems lie with Alec Baldwin's smuggity smug character? What is up with the kids? THESE DAMNED KIDS!?!?! Was Bradley an idiot to be so easily charmed by this film? Yes. Yes, he was. Pour a wine, bake some croissants, and settle in for one of Written Off's best episodes yet! Need someone to narrate your home videos? Check out Morgan on Instagram or here! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, all-round Trekkie Bradley Freeman and his equally Trek-loving co-host, Mark Tasker, are joined by filmmaker, ultra Trekkie, and Written Off's first ever guest, Corran Lindsay, to discuss, debate, and experience Bij with Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Join them as they go to warp and ask: Has there ever been a nastier Trek moment than, "What we got back didn't live long..."? How did they not know how awesome this movie is? Are any of these idiot hosts able to claim their celibacy is on record? Pull out a tricorder, grab some raktajino, and enjoy the first of our bi-annual Trek discussions! Go check out Corran's film Taniwha Gorge on Facebook! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, meh-est muggle Bradley Freeman and his wrathful co-host, Mark Tasker, swear to never watch the third film in this meh trilogy because the second one almost gave them a headache trying to unravel the confounding, baffling, muchos meh choices in this soggy middle act of a Fantastic Beasts film! Mates, get ready as Mark lets it all fly in this episode! Join them as they (WTF?) touch wands and ask: What meh crimes were there, exactly? Why did they do our boy, Jacob, so dirty? Wizards are genetically different than humans? What's their mehdichlorian count? Sorry, not sorry. Nope. Not taking it back. Stop asking. No. That was a good one, dammit! What could've made this meh movie better? Listen and find outttttt! Does the Harry Potter ride make you sick, too? --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, and Indy Jones fan Bradley Freeman and his up against it co-host, Mark Tasker, scratch their beards, find comfortable sitting positions, and try to seek answers to why this film, by all rights a total slam dunk or easily obtained (why do you make me type this?) treasure, ended up so... so... meh? Join them as they (stop!) uncover the answers to: Why does the meh bad guy take a pole to the face and have nothing to show for it? What the f!&k was the CIA thing? Were the bad guys part of them? Pretending to be them in meh fashion? Still no (ugh) clue! Where was the horny t-aha, gotcha! Ha ha! Where would've been a better location for the meh end scene? What could've made this meh finale to a legendary series better? Listen and find outttttt! Think you have a better idea than these two fools (it's not hard, honestly)? --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, and animation nerd Bradley Freeman and his overburdened co-host, Mark Tasker, shake their heads in confusion at the most mega meh Ghibli movie there is. Join them as they (it hurts) animatedly ask: Why start so promising and then go all meh on us? Who's to blame for this (The meh movie itself and the meh events that transpire in the film)? Where's CUSTARD?! (Really, that's so fun to shout randomly) CUSTARRRDDDD! What could've made this meh movie better? Listen and find outttttt! Have some time to kill and animated kids to slap? --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, and lapsed Alien fanboy, Bradley Freeman, and his assailed co-host, Mark Tasker, meet in a dark, steamy metallic hallway (stop it, not like that) and walk slowly forward, deciding if Alien Romulus is a meh movie... or actually pretty good? It's a mini episode about the size of a chestbuster and just as slimy! Join them as they kid around (there are kids in this film. Har...har?) and ask: Were *they* necessary? Why did they have to say *that* line? Where was the horny turkey played by Jo-dammit! *Ahem!* Who expected such a moving relationship at the center of this film? --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Surprise! To celebrate the release of Bradley's new book, Momo & Matsu (link below), the team is throwing out the meh formula for something new, something fast-paced... and definitely something sillier than usual. Bradley's calling it 'The Roulette Episode,' in which he and his bemused co-host, Mark Tasker, joke about, complain, and admire a massive slate of films they've seen recently. But there's a catch. Nobody wants a 6-hour Written Off episode (or maybe that's how Canada starts listening?), so the rule is: One minute allowed per film (this goes right out the window at the beginning) Two hosts walk in, armed with 18 films each. Both walk out. Yeah, we know. WTF, right? Bradley doesn't know the meaning of the word 'roulette.' Some writer he is! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host and writer Bradley Freeman and his embattled co-host, Mark Tasker, try their very best to remain positive and focused as they work their way through zombie-infested Netfl-uh, Las Vegas. Join them as they (why? Just why?) load up and take aim at: Why have the opening? Solid case of movie blue balls. Zombie balls. Is the meh main character's daughter the sole cause of everyone's death? (YES.) Where was the horny turkey played by John Can-wait, that's Pocahontas. Still, a horny turkey would've made this meh movie (or possibly lower than meh?) better! What could've made this barely meh movie better? Listen and find outttttt! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host, writer, and historically dumb person Bradley Freeman and his beset co-host, Mark Tasker, come together (get your head outta the gutter!) to discuss the all-singing, all-meh-ing Disney film, Pocahontas! Will there be another cringy impression from Bradley? You bet'cha! Join them as they (ugh) break bread and ask: Why center a meh movie around real historical figures? Why is the pug the bad guy FFS?!?!? Where was the horny turkey played by John Candy? Who didn't want to see that gobbler getting down? *insert aroused turkey noises here* What could've made this meh movie better? Listen and find outttttt! Wanna chat? Got a request? Wanna call us SAVAGES SAVAGES - BARELY EVEN HUMAN!? Shit, now I gotta listen to the soundtrack again. --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Their best episode yet! Host, writer, and desperate '90s teen horror groupie Bradley Freeman and his under-siege co-host, Mark Tasker, go all-out for their biggest episode so far! Find out more than you ever wanted to know about the meh-iest of booms in the 1990s... that of soundtrack-pushing, TV-actor-promoting teen horror! Listen with horrified ears as Bradley tells you how he and two kids almost died making a feature-length horror movie when he was a mere meh fifteen years old! Shake your head in sadness as yet another meh requel/reboot/legacy sequel drops the ball! You'll be (oh no)... hooked as they flail around like (Jesus, two in one sentence?) worms on a hook and ask: What did happen last summer, because it was so meh, no one gave a damn?! Now, e-eventually, you plan to have gore in your-in your horror movie, yes? H-hello? Yes? Haaaaaa! Does Mark even know what's being discussed? Does he even care? Seems pretty meh about it all... What could've made this meh movie better? Listen and find outttttt! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host and noted skyscraper wench Bradley Freeman (@brad_is_writing) and his beleaguered co-host, Mark Tasker, attempt to (sigh) wrestle this episode to the ground. Who will win? Certainly not these two morons... but you, dear listener, just might! Join them as they ponder: Why set a meh movie in another country and not utilise it in the story? Oh, because money. Has there ever been a meh movie 'best friend' that so obviously HATED his buddy this much before? What in the A Cliff By The Seaside is The Pearl? What could've made this meh movie better? Listen and find outttttt! Wanna chat? Got a request? Bored AF? Find us on Instagram and leave a comment! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕

Host and writer Bradley Freeman (@brad_is_writing) is joined by his forever friend and long-suffering co-host, Mark Tasker, to try to explain just what you're in for with this series and these fools in general. They fail miserably, of course, but at least a (meh?) attempt was made. Three questions are asked: Who the hell are they? How'd they meet (Bradley *still* doesn't think anyone cares about this one)? What separates this show from the bajillion other movie podcasts out there? Scintillating hints on future episodes, the first (of many, many) weird voice-impression-thing(s) that Bradley loves to do for some reason... and even a pug! Why, it's so jam-packed full of content, you'd better follow this podcast now! Please?   Speaking of following, follow us on Instagram @writtenoffpod and throw a comment our way!   Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut - available September 22nd, 2025! ebook available for pre-order right now, yes, NOW! Crave something more tactile? Paperback and hardcover available on release day. Go buy a couple, spread the joy! --------- Wanna recommend a film? Need to get something meh off your chest? Get to it on Instagram HERE! Who is this Bradley guy FFS?! Have a look! Momo & Matsu: Director's Cut: Available on Amazon Thank you for listening. It means more than you know. 🍕Grab a slice and we'll catch you for the next one!🍕