Silver Screen Snobs

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!