Mr Smokes Blunts.
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I'd say that Wossy's the kinda critic whose personal tastes are well-known enough that you can probly judge whether to agree or disagree with his recommendations based on what you know of his taste. Personally, I'd say he has damn fine taste in terms of "World Cinema" (especially Far Eastern stuff) and also genre films (meaning sci-fi, fantasy, horror, "cult" kinda stuff) and would most likely agree with his recommendations of such fare. I'd suspect he gets to mention the more obscure stuff that he does mixed in with mainstream stuff on Film 20xx cos I presume he's semi-freelance. The low-budget/foreign/limited release stuff that gets a mention towards the end of the show would be more personal recommendations based on specialist knowledge of such stuff cos he's a well-known fanboy of those films. The Hollywood reviews are bread and butter that gives the show mass-appeal. And he's an all-round film buff anyway. I actually do rate his reviews meself. And may be well off the mark with the "semi-freelance" suggestion. Seems that's the case to me anyway cos he definitely slips in plenty of cultish fillums you don't tend to see mentioned by most mainstream critics.
In vaguely related news, he did some comics/graphic novels a while back which looked great. Bet he'd turn out better films than his missus does if he got the chance anyway :D
The thing that really made me begin (a little too late admittedly) to respect his opinion on films was when he actually reviewed his own wife's film. I mean he gave it a slightly higher rating than he might otherwise have done, but he did actually give it fairly level headed criticism. The best thing about him is that you can gauge how good a film is by the amount of enthusiasm in his voice for it. But if it's a ridiculously niche Japanese film then you really really can't trust him at all (unless you love that sort of thing).