I was curious what the general attitude of people here was towards reviews. To be more specific, I wondered whether most people listen to the podcast before or after having watched the movie reviewed in that episode.
All I can say is that it really depends. In general, I think Filmcasting does an outstanding job of discussing a film without spoiling it. /Filmcast puts their main review at the end where they announce when they will go into spoiler territory.
I seldom keep up with what is generally coming out or happening in the film industry, so I use a lot of the discussion here and on the Podcast to uncover films I potentially want to watch. I do have to hear about them from somewhere after all.
But once I have set my mind on something I really want to watch, I tend to avoid reading any reviews in any of the theads here. I usually intend to go back and read but that sadly is not usually the case. It would be too difficult. For example, It Follows and Ex Machina are probably my two most anticipated wanting to watch now. I was probably triggered by some short discussion here on It Follows but once I had it in my mind to watch I stopped reading any review of it and have no idea about it other then the poster. The Podcast episode is still unplayed.
I listened to the Podcast of Ex Machina which probably triggered me to want to watch it but I skipped all the reviews.
Once I watch them, I will go back to the Spoiler thread where it is easy to find discussions but not so much the reviews that are usually in the Respond to the Last Movie You Watched thread.