Silver Screen Snobs

Another Star Wars movie loses its director, Suicide Squad finds a director and Dave and Tom review the 2017 version of It. Also: Berlin Syndrome, Tickling Giants, Persepolis.

True Detective is getting a third season, a million rumours about the DC universe and Tom and Dave review Steven Soderbergh's return to filmmaking with heist comedy Logan Lucky. Also: Colossal, Rough Night, Their Finest, The Lost City of Z, Split, The Beguiled, Beatrice At Dinner, Table 19, Memories of Murder, The Love Witch.

Joss Whedon isn't the modern day feminist he wants you to think he is, The Island of Dr Moreau is getting another remake and Dave and Tom talk Wind River starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. Also: Assassin's Creed, The Salesman, The Circle, The Wall, Raw, The Lure, Neruda, Risk, Hounds of Love, Dark of the Sun (The Mercenaries), Blue Collar, 48 Hrs.

Tom and Dave definitely do not agree on Charlize Theron's comic-book adaptation, Atomic Blonde. Melbourne (temporarily) has the world's biggest IMAX screen and the Transformers writing room may or may not be coming up with ideas. Also: The World According To Garp, Local Hero, Catfish The TV Show.

Superman has a moustache, Steven Soderbergh doesn't want anyone to know he might have written his next film and James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger aren't done with Terminator movies. Dave and Tom review the prequel-closing War For The Planet Of The Apes. Also: The Big Sick, Red Rock West, The Lodger, The Spirit of the Beehive, Deep Cover.

George A. Romero's career is celebrated, Tim Burton's Dumbo firms up its cast and Christopher Nolan's IMAX epic, Dunkirk, gets reviewed. Also: REC, Being There, Waiting For Guffman, The Duke of Burgundy, The Arbor, The Hit, House of Games.

Tarantino's making a Manson family movie, Joe Pesci will come out of retirement and Daniel Craig won't slit his wrists as he returns for one last Bond outing. Dave and Tom review Edgar Wright's latest film, Baby Driver. Also: Denial, The Keepers, Tootsie, Fatal Attraction, Wedding Crashers, Gambit, The Boston Strangler, Train To Busan.

Sylvester Stallone wants Creed to fight Drago, the Crap Corner returns after years away and over a dozen movies get reviewed. Tom and Dave discuss the re-re-boot of Spidey with Spider-Man: Homecoming. Also: Prevenge, Catfight, War On Everyone, Aftermath, CHiPs, Pixels, Hopscotch, Irreversible, Belle de Jour, Night of the Demon, Prophet's Prey, Valentine Road, Man On A Ledge, Two Hands.

Bond producers want an expanded 007 universe, Clueless is still damn good and a journalist is suing the makers of All Eyez On Me. Dave and Tom review the Joel Edgerton horror/thriller It Comes At Night. Also: The Edge of Seventeen, Moonlight, The Descent, Tarzan The Ape Man, Personal Shopper, Extreme Prejudice, Shin Godzilla, The Train.

Please note: this podcast is more enjoyable than the fifth (and Michael Bay's final) Transformers movie, The Last Knight. Plus, Tom and Dave pack in a bunch of film news including Daniel Day Lewis retiring from acting and the firing of the Han Solo directors.