Silver Screen Snobs

Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings is our feature review this week plus a whole lot of news and a little bit of Lynn Shelton's debut film, We Go Way Back.

Nightcrawler, starring an uber-creepy Jake Gyllenhaal, is our feature review this week and Tom also reviews Mike Leigh's latest, Mr. Turner. Also: Life After Beth, Escape From Tomorrow, Willow Creek, Frank, What If, Coherence, Begin Again, Obvious Child, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Cheap Thrills, The One I Love.

This week we review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 plus David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars and new Australian film The Mule.

It's another horror-themed episode this week as we discuss Australian film The Babadook and four set to screen at this year's Monster Fest: Dead Snow 2, The ABCs of Death 2, Honeymoon and Starry Eyes.

Jesse Boyle joins us to discuss Christopher Nolan's latest epic, Interstellar. We also take a quick look back through Nolan's filmography and discuss the week's film news.

John Wick is looking for payback. Which is totally different from that movie Payback. This episode we look at the new Keanu Reeves actioner where he plays the perpetually pissed off titular character. Tom also sees what all the fuss is about with Sundance darling Whiplash. A big news section covers Orson Welles' lost film, the state of Australian cinema and Marvel's upcoming slate for the next 45 years.

Writer/director David Ayer gives us the tender love story of a man and his Sherman Tank in World War II movie Fury. Hilarity ensues. Between method actor shenanigans from Shia LeBeouf and Nazi stabbing action from Brad Pitt, Fury sets out to tell us that War is Hell. And then tells us again. And then a few more times. We also de-classify the S.T.A.R. labs-sized pile of DC/WB comic book film news and give you the low down on Paul 'Travis Bickle' Schrader and his new film.

We celebrate our 100th episode by going through our favourite scenes of the year so far. Later on, Tim Durkin returns to the show to lead us through a film quiz that pits Snob against Snob in the ULTIMATE battle for both honour AND glory.

This episode we answer the age-old question that has plagued scholars for centuries: is man really a walrus at heart? Hmmm.....(nods sagely) in this Halloween-y episode we dissect Kevin Smith's new horror flick Tusk and Dave takes us back to a simpler decade, the 80's, for his thoughts on Halloween III: Season of the Witch, with a cursory glance at other, much more Michael Myers-heavy Halloween films. Boo!

Ben Affleck segues from the Batfleck backlash into Dickfleck. The controversy over how much of Affleck's penis can be seen in Gone Girl proves to be such a non-issue we completely forget to bring it up in the review. Instead, we discuss the wonderful Rosamund Pike and how Gillian Flynn's text clashes with David Fincher's style. Plus, the usual stuff including one of our trademark Ill-titled 'lightning' rounds covering Begin Again, Blue Ruin, The Congress, Field of Dreams and Touchy Feely.