Silver Screen Snobs

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Tom and Jesse go back to the care-free days of 1997 to talk about their favourite films released in that year. Also: Elmer Gantry, Holy Smoke, The Master, The Anderson Tapes, The Big Knife, The Addams Family and Auto Focus. Sorry about Jesse's mic in this episode, that'll be fixed next week

Tom and Jesse talk Sorry Wrong Number, Come Back Little Sheeba, Mary Poppins Returns, Emma, The Death of Stalin, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Life After Beth, Yesterday, Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken, Fail Safe, The Lorax, The Professionals, Atlantic City, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

So many Invisible Men...so little time. For our retrospective we dug up an underseen John Carpenter take from the 90's starring Chevy Chase to pair with Leigh Whannell's new version starring Elisabeth Moss. Is this gaslighting analogy 2020's scariest film? Let's find out! Also, some news. Just like a real episodes.

Tom and Jesse some recent movie news then get into talking Honeyland, Judy, Zombieland 2: Double Tap, A Beautiful Day in the Nieghborhood, Bombshell, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Jojo Rabbit, Brightburn, Pain and Glory, Rollerball, In Time, Harriet, A Simple Favor, Wild Rose, Front Page Woman, Ready or Not, Three on a Match, All Screwed Up, Thunder Road, Marked Woman, Le Doulos and Windy City Heat

Oscars recap! How accurate were our predictions? Not very! Kirk Douglas tribute! News! Three films! We delve into three new features this week, including Birds of Prey: and The Fantaboulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (AKA A crappy group focus tested title that puts the emphasis on the recognisible IP), True History of the Kelly Gang and the Safdie brothers latest anxiety attack: Uncut Gems

A bit of movie news to get the train moving then Tom and Jesse tear through every category at the Academy Awards and tell you, the good listener, exactly who is going to win. We are 100% correct as we are actually from the future so I'd advise all of you to indulge in some Biff Tanner-style shenanigans and place your bets with wild abandon. Good day!

The hilarity and wacky antics of World War I get filtered through two different director's lens: Aussie Peter Wier with his 80's epic, Gallipoli and Brit Sam Mendes with his one-take wonder, 1917. We compare and contrast the different takes as is our wont

Tom and Jesse talk the Oscar nominations and then get into Marriage Story, Don't Fuck with Cats, Dragged Across Concrete, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Gentlemen, The Farewell, Ready or Not, Jumunji: The Next Level, The Omega Man, Crawl, Holes, The Two Popes, Fighting with My Family, Apollo 11, Free Solo, The Art of Self-Defense, A Monster in Paris and Little Women

A big 'ol list episode! Honourable mentions, a few of the years worst films, the most underrated and overrated films of the year and of course our personal Top 10 lists for the year in film. Get into it!

Star Wars special! Tom and Jesse welcome esteemed special guest, Jesse's Dad, to help us parse out the cultural legacy of Star Wars before tackling the lightsaber-weilding elephant in the room: Rise of the Skywalker

Tom and Jesse catch up with some 2019 releases including Parasite, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, The Lighthouse, Yesterday, The Nightingale, The Angry Birds Movie 2, The Death of Dick Long, Smallfoot, The Irishman, Borg vs McEnroe, Low Tide, Being Evel, Ford v Ferrari, The Report, Hustlers, Frozen II

We're back! Our hiatis extended a little longer as Tom got lost in the wild backwoods of Vermont but eventually found his way back to the Melbourne Snobcast studio! This week Tom and jesse crack open a couple of reasonably priced domestic beers and catch up with Rian Johnson's loving tribute to the whodunnit, Knives Out plus a grab bag of 2019 releases we've not recorded ourselves talking about yet. For shame! Films discussed: Ad Astra, Dumbo, Joker, The Lion King, Dolemite Is My Name, Alladin, Terminator: Dark Fate

Epidode 300 Spectacular! O.G. Podcast host David Lees returns to the studio for an epic list epsisode as Tom, Jesse and Dave count down thier favourite films released during the life of this very podcast. That's 2012 to this week. There'll be honourable mentions. There'll be tangents. Jesse will forget films to inlcude, Tom will forget math and Dave will just forget. Our lists will follow for reference. If you don't want spoilers for the episode AVERT YE EYES!! Otherwise, he's the films we talked about: Dave's Honourables: The Spectacular Now 10. Still Alice 9. The Disaster Artist 8. Enemy 7. mother! 6. The Wolf of Wall Street 5. Interstellar 4. The Hateful Eight 3. Amour 2. Nocturnal Animals 1. Manchester by the Sea Jesse's Honourables: Hail Ceasar, The Hateful Eight, La La Land, High Rise, Baby Driver, Interstellar, Get Out, A Futile and Stupid Gesture 10.Boyhood 9. Mad Max: Fury Road 8. Mission: Impossible: Fallout 7. Good Time 6. Dunkirk 5. Everybody Wants Some!! 4. Blade Runner 2049 3. Arrival 2. First Man 1. Killing Them Softly Tom's Honourables: The Raid 2, Zero Dark Thirty, Baby Driver, Midnight Special, La La Land, Get Out, First Man, The Witch, Hereditary, Dunkirk 10. Only God Forgives 9. Jackie 8. Under the Skin 7. It Follows 6. The Act of Killing 5. Edge of Tomorrow 4. Dawson City: Frozen Time 3. Boyhood 2. Gravity 1. Mr. Turner

Tom and Jesse talk The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Great Hack, Matador, The Flower of my Secret, Bad Education, Always Be My Maybe, Chungking Express, Good Boys, Blinded by the Light, Early Man, The Emigrants

The alleged penultimate film from writer/director Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood is our feature this week. We pair the 1969-set Old-Hollywood euology with a 1969-released, Hollywood-set French New Wave flick: Model Shop.

Tom and Jesse count down the definitive list of the films they watched last week, in consecutive order including: Molly's Game, Lady Snowblood, Mid-90's, The Women, The Wolf of Wall Street, Our Man in Havana, Wonder Park, The Bed Sitting Room, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Watership Down, Inglorious Basterds, Missing Link, Escape Room, Lions Love (...And Lies)

Catching up with the Fast and the Furious family this week. Although it looks like this family ain't big enough for three Aplha-Papas. So So Alpha-Papa 2 and Alpha-Papa 3 have teamed up a very silly take on the buddy-cop film. We continue our accidental series with another double-team/double-feature looking back at a giant of the sub-genre with Tango and Cash.

This episode comes with bonus technical difficulties! I forgot to press a certain button on a thing so it sounds like I'm in a cave, so sorry about that, it will be all fixed next week! Tom and Jesse talk the MCU Comic-con news then go over some recently watched films including Her Smell, Big Night, Area 51 and Flying Saucers, Uptight, Glen or Glenda, That Sugar Film, The Low Down, Wheels on Meals, The Final Quarter, Two-Faced Woman, Sylvia Scarlett, A Woman's Face

Buddy-cop action comedy double feature this week! The Dave Bautista/ Kumail Nunjiani vehicle Stuber is pitted against a little seen Alan Arkin James Caan 70's cop comedy: Freebie and the Bean!

Tom and Jesse talk Mother, Cameraperson, King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword, High Life, River of Grass, Brawl in Cell Block 99, What Price Hollywood?, The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film, How to Train your Dragon: The Hidden World, Midsommer, Tickled, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie AKA The Living Dead in the Manchester Morgue, Five Fingers of Death AKA King Boxer, The Act

Just when I thought I was out...they PULL me back in! The MCU stubbornly refuses to die or even have a five minute break as a new Spider-Man film swings onto our screens. Tom and Jesse pair Spidey's EuroTrip with National Lampoon's European Vacation because, you know, the Europe thing. Also news!

Tom and Jesse talk Mastermind, Bugsy Malone, Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Baby Face, Sorry To Bother You, The Cold Blue, Murder Mystery, The Unauthorised Bash Brothers Experience, Always Be My Maybe, The Late Shift

Human skid-mark Max Landis joins the #MeToo'd club and we debate the racist legacy of Lillian Gish. In lighter fare, the Toy Story series is re-evaluated with the arrival of the fourth installment.

Tom and Jesse talk Rampage, Au Hasard Balthazar, Hurricane Hiest, Stop Making Sense, Venom, Jules and Jim, Girlfriends, Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2 U, So Dark the Night, Rock Dog, The League of Gentlemen, American Animals, Deadwood: The Movie, The Mummy, Booksmart, Bumblebee, Pushover

Rocketman re-invents the music biopic as a jukebox musical fantasy and we look back the life and times of the greatest of them all: Dewey Cox

Tom and Jesse talk Shazam! with a retrospective of Penny Marshall's Big plus a whole bunch of other films including Hell Drivers, Victim, Dead and Buried, Frozen, A Taste of Honey, Beetlejuice, High Hopes, Park Row, Throw Momma From the Train and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

It's John Wick time again! Tom and Jesse go over the previous chapters of the The Book of John before seeing how many people Keanu can shoot in the face in Chapter 3!

Tom and Jesse discuss Los Olvidados, Champaign Ill, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Downsizing, Vivre Sa Vie, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Winter Kills, Surf's Up, Simon of the Desert, Three Identical Strangers, Le Bonheur, American Made, The Guns of Navarone, Ralph Breaks the Internet and Electra Glide in Blue

Tom and Jesse talk the lost Salvador Dali/Marx Bros film, the whole Sonic the Hedgehog debacle and the passing of the most handsome walking carpet we'll ever know - Peter Mayhew. We look back to the innovative brilliance of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and try and understand the labyrinthine plotting of Detective Pikachu

Tom and Jesse discuss Human Desire, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Highwaymen, Story of a Prostitute, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Annihilation, The Line-Up, Little Big Man, Alita: Battle Angel, Drive a Crooked Road, Henri-Georges Clozout's Inferno, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Operation Pacific, The Legend of Cocaine Island, The Swimmer, The Curse of La Llorona, Hellboy (2019)

Tom and Jesse take in the end of the MCU as we know it with Avengers: Endgame. Also there's some film news

Tom all on his lonesome shares his thoughts on Long Weekend, The Highwaymen, The Front Page, Death Force, Happy as Lazzaro, Murder by Contract, The Kentucky Fried Movie, The Wind, Amazing Grace, A Band Called Death, Southern Comfort and the Stepford Wives ('75)

Tom and Jesse discuss Under the Silver Lake, Wuthering Hieghts, Spy Kids, The Loved Ones, The Dirt, The Sisters Brothers, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), The Spy Who Dumped Me, Capernaum, If Beale Street Could Talk, Our Daily Bread, Dirty Dancing, Blind Women's Curse, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache

Tom made it safely to the United States but he went and completely forgot to pack Jesse so he's still in Melbourne. Through some voodoo Tom still doesn't completely understand they still made an (albiet late) episode this week. It's all about new horror film Us from writer/director Jordan Peele paired with a complex glass of David Lynch's Lost Highway. It turns out the dopplegangers were the friends we made along the way

Tom and Jesse discuss Orlando, They Live, The Tooth Fairy, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Leaving Neverland, Shorts, The Bigamist, Don's Party, After Life, Journey Among Women, Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk, The Umbrella Academy, Black Robe, End of Watch, The Last Battle, Behind the Curve, The Club, The Big Sick, The Hitch-Hiker

Tom and Jesse discuss Shoplifters, Mary Queen of Scots, The Wife, Border, Free Solo, Spider-Man: Into the Spikder-Verse, Marguerite, Madre, Fauve, Animal Behaviour, Detainment, One Small Step, Weekends, Skin, Fathers and Sons, Period. End of Sentence, Ralph Breaks the Internet, A Bucket of Blood, Diary of a Country Priest, The Watermelon Woman, On the Beach at Night Alone, Busy Bodies, Kicking and Screaming, Buffalo '66, Spies, Goodnight Mommy, They Made Me a Fugitive, Miss Bala, Dreams of a Life

Tom and Jesse catch up on the latest installment of the James Gunn/Disney saga : Gunn Returns. 90's adventure classic The Rocketeer gets a reappraisal before we look at the 90's-infused Captain Marvel

Tom, Jesse and Dave take in some news and recap the Academy Awards before Jesse and Tom delve into a double feature of comedy legend biopics. First up, Richard Attenbourgh's Chaplin (1992) starring Robert Downey Jr and then a look at the new Laurel and Hardy flick with Steve Coogan and John C Riely as the eponymous stars in Stan and Ollie

Tom and Jesse discuss Enter the Void, I Am Cuba, Black Panther, Without a Paddle, Cold War, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Riki Oh: Story of Ricky, Fyre, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Outlaw King, Happy Death Day 2U, Wayne

Tom and Jesse take on the 2019 Oscar nominations with our Should Wins/Will Wins for every category

Tom and Jesse take a break from the awards season circus to see what Steven Soderberg has been up to. Making films on his iphone it seems as we look at High Flying Bird and go back to Semi-Pro to complete our NBA double feature. We also take a look at the films of Albert Finney

Tom and Dave discuss The Oath, Skate Kitchen, Velvet Buzzsaw, Widows, True Story, The Man Between, Fyre, Solo con Tu Pareja, Bohemian Rhapsody, Winter Sleep, Blue Steel, BlackKklansman, The Big Clock

Tom and Dave take in the Academy Award nominations for 2019 and discuss their snubs and surprises before heading back to the 1960's deep south for a retrospective look at In the Heat of the Night. We then consult our motorists guide and take in the Oscar-nominated Green Book

Tom, Jesse and Dave discuss The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Wonder Woman, The Old Man and the Gun, Bird box, Assassination Nation, Fahrenheit 11/9, Thor: The Dark World, Charley Varrick, Leave No Trace, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Walkabout, Sorry To Bother You, Bomb City, They Shall Not Grow Old, Venom, Wanted, Loro, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Three super-powered (yet grounded) individuals, a trilogy of films and an epic trifecta of podcasters to talk about them! This week it's a M. Night Shyamarathon! On this episode we cover Unbreakable (2000), Split (2016) and the brand new trilogy-capper: Glass. Dave Lees is back in the Snobquarters to help make sense of the Eastrail 177 trilogy. Yep, that's what he wants people to call it. Real catchy. Also some news featuring culture wars, political divides and the Golden Globes results.

Tom and Jesse discuss The Doll, The Innocent Man, The Night Comes for Us, The Belko Experiment, The Devil's Backbone, Logan Lucky, Sunshine on Leith, Icarus, Lisa and the Devil, The Christmas Chronicles, Vice, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, Carnival of Souls, The Last Stand, The Favourite, Brothers Justice, Into the Fade, Bad Times at the El Royale

An Entourage joke becomes reality as Aquaman washes over our cinema screens. Everybody's favourite Dothraki trades in his arakh for a totally bitchin' trident and brings his chill dude bro vibes to the Kingdom of Atlantis. Will this be the film that brings Jesse around to the DCEU? Only time, and listening to this podcast, will tell. We compare Aquaman with another mythology-inspired superhero, Thor. Going back to 2011 for Kenneth Branagh's unloved take on the character. Plus there's a bit of what we charitably refer to as news.

We discuss our favourite scenes of the year in this very special "...And the Rest!" We go full spoiler with some scenes, but fear not! Spoiler timecodes are listed below, so you can skip ahead without missing anything or accidentally spoiling yourself. We also cover some out-of-date news coz' that's how we roll. Plus we talk these films: The Great Train Robbery, Puzzle, Roma, Going In Style, A Simple Favour, Love and Anarchy, Bushwick, Dumplin', Blood and Black Lace, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Juliet Naked, Flower, Overlord, Searching, Cam, and Give 'Em Hell Malone. Spoiler timecodes! Black Panther spoilers end at 1:22:17 First Man spoilers end at 1:27:53 Overlord spoilers end at 1:31:00 Upgrade spoilers end at 1:40:12 Incredibles 2 spoilers end at 1:46:00 3 Billboards spoilers at 1:50:52 Hereditary spoilers end at 1:54:31 Roma spoilers end at 2:03:57 First Man spoilers end at 2:06:55 Mission Impossible: Fallout spoilers end at 2:14:49

It's end of year list time again! Tom and Jesse count down their personal favourite 10 films of the year. There's also a look at some honourable mentions sitting just outside the Top 10's plus we wallow in the dreck with our Bottom 5 films of the year.

Tom and Jesse discuss Performance, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Spirits of the Dead, Farewell My Lovely, Looker, Capricorn One, Sisters, Jamaica Inn, House on Haunted Hill, I Don't Want to Be a Man, The Finances of the Grand Duke, Zero for Conduct, Foreign Correspondent, The Crimson Kimono, Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight), The Last Waltz, The Decline of Western Civilisation Part II: The Metal Years, The Decline of Western Civilisation Part III, Down with Love, Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust.