Silver Screen Snobs

Super-sized episode this week: reviews of Luc Besson's new sci-fi Lucy, Philip Seymour Hoffman's last leading role in spy film A Most Wanted Man and Arnie's latest dud, Sabotage. Also: a huge news segment covering Comic-Con and Non-Comic-Con happenings.

Can you smell what the Demi-god is cooking? Sorry, that's awful, let me start again. Dwayne Johnson steps up to the role he was possibly sculpted from stone to play in Brett Ratner's Hercules. Bizarrely, not even the first Hercules movie we've reviewed on the show. We check out Jason Bateman comedy Bad Words and see what's happening with comic book movies (for a change).

Sci-fi action film Snowpiercer has arrived to deliver enough high-concept theatrics to last us at least until the next post-apocalyptic class-war-on-a-train-around-the-world movie hits our shores. Could be a while. We also discuss Coppola's 70's masterpieces and have that age-old debate: is The Godfather Part II better than Part I? And is The Godfather Part III the abomination everyone says it is?

Damn dirty apes are back! Special guest Craig Johnson joins us to cover Chimpan-A to chimpanzee and discuss how The Planet of the Apes franchised has been granted a second life with the sadly Dr. Zaius-less Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Tom also sizes up How To Train Your Dragon 2 and Dave reflects on classic Brando in On The Waterfront and Errol Morris' new doco on Rumsfeld, The Unknown Known. Plus the usual box office and movie news.

Director John Michael McDonagh is back in full form with another jet-black comedy/drama, Calvary, his second collaboration with Brendan Gleeson after The Guard. We review it in both spoilery and non-spoilery segments but not before discussing Tim's Vermeer in which a guy who can't paint tries to paint. And does it really damn well. Two new releases not enough? Well, we also chuck in a debate about The Brothers Bloom and another hefty news segment.

Mark Wahlberg plays a Texan inventor (yep) that stumbles across an alien shape-shifting robot that then joins forces with him to defeat the evil robots and avoid the bounty hunter robot and also there's dinosaurs that are robots. Anyway, aside from 'reviewing' Transformers: Age of Extinction we also delve into some classic films from Bergman (Ingmar) to Bogart (you know the one). Lots of film news and we barely mention Star Wars.

Jump Street's back for another undercover operation with chiseled teen heartthrob Jonah Hill and Oscar-nominated comedy relief Channing Tatum. Yeah, that sounds right. We also take a vicarious holiday to Italy with Michael Winterbottom's appropriately titled The Trip To Italy and Dave goes very metal on Metallica Through The Never in his Crap Corner. Plus a veritable shed load of nerd news featuring Star Wars, DC movies and much much, more.

Teen heart-throb Robert Pattinson continues his mission to bury his Twilight past by getting down in dirty in the Australian outback with our own Guy Pearce in David Michod's follow up to Animal Kingdom: The Rover. We also cut through the thorny issues of Maleficent's sexual politics and find out exactly what is The Fault In Our Stars. (Spoiler: it's cancer.) Special guest James Bird joins the discussion of these films and some movie news.

Another year, another Tom Cruise sci-fi action film. Will this one cut the mustard? Or will it throw the mustard against the wall and machine gun some alien in the face instead? Listen and find out in our feature review of Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow. We also assess the mustard slicing prowess of Creature from the Black Lagoon in a long overdue Classic Corner. The obligatory Star Wars/Marvel/Nerd news is also discussed. In short, a packed episode. Dig it.

Sexy alien temptress preys on young men. No, we're not reviewing Species (again) it's the brand spanking new feature from the man that brought you Sexy Beast: Under The Skin. Starring this year's lady, Scarlett Johansson. She could have had Jessica Alba's career, but instead she made everyone sit up and pay attention, coz she's a god damn serious actor and you better not forget it. As well as Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin we've got reviews of A Million Ways To Die in the West and Jon Favreau's Chef. Plus a whole host of nerdy news.