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Filmspotting

Almost Famous (Archive)

Filmspotting

Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Cameron Crowe's ALMOST FAMOUS turns 25 this fall, so we dig into the archive for a 2018 Sacred Cow (or should we say Golden God?) review of Cameron Crowe's autobiographical film with bonus insights from ⁠Uproxx rock critic Steven Hyden⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What kind of a show are you guys putting on here today?

0:06.5

You're not interested in art?

0:07.6

No.

0:08.1

Now look, we're going to do this thing.

0:09.4

We're going to have a conversation.

0:12.7

Hey, film spotters.

0:14.3

You know this movie is one of my all-time favorites.

0:18.0

One that if it was up to me, I'd put in the film spotting pantheon, though

0:22.6

I don't think it will ever get there.

0:25.4

It is turning 25 Cameron Crows, almost famous.

0:31.3

Back in 2018, we gave it the Sacred Cow Treatment.

0:35.6

I think it was in honor of Stephen Hayden's book coming out, a book about classic rock.

0:42.5

So we decided to talk about this film and also do our top five classic rock moments and movies.

0:50.3

Yeah, that was a fun one to put together and Almost Famous, a great movie to revisit.

0:54.5

I don't remember if I blocked any sort of proposal to put it in the Pantheon, but it was

1:01.1

fun to take another look at Almost Famous.

1:04.6

And, you know, the archive, the film spotting archive, we have reviews like this one.

1:09.5

We have top fives like the classic rock top five and all

1:13.4

sorts of stuff going all the way back to 2005 and to get access to those shows, those lists,

1:20.2

those reviews. You should become a film spotting family member. That's one of the benefits

1:25.0

you get by being a member of the film spotting

1:28.0

family. You can learn about all those details over at film spotting family.com. For now,

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