Silver Screen Snobs

Park Chan-wook's latest film, Stoker, is our feature review this week as we go back to the main inspiration behind the film, Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. Also reviewed: Highlander, 3:10 To Yuma.

Ryan Gosling's and director Nicolas Winding Refn's first collaboration, Drive, is discussed before reviewing their second team-up, Only God Forgives. Also reviewed: Identity Thief, Umberto D.

Eight years after his indie time-travel debut, Primer, impressed audiences world-wide, director/actor/writer Shane Carruth has finally followed it up with Upstream Color. Also reviewed: Stand Up Guys, MASH.

Since we've passed the halfway mark of the year, we take this week to discuss the best and worst/most disappointing films of 2013 so far.

Pianist double! Steven Soderbergh's take on Liberace, Behind the Candelabra, is our feature review this week along with a retrospective look at the Ray Charles biopic, Ray. Also reviewed: The Shining Extended Cut, The Invisible Man.

We take a look at both takes on Wolverine this week: new release The Wolverine and the largely derided X-Men Origins: Wolverine from 2009. Also reviewed: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Cool As Ice.

It's that end-of-the-world time of year again! Seth Rogen and co's This is the End is the feature, low budget alien invasion movie Skyline the retrospective. Also: The Thief of Bagdad, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

Guillermo del Toro's monsters vs robots sci-fi Pacific Rim is our feature review this week while we also take a look at more humans in giant machines with Real Steel. Also reviewed: Troll 2, Stage Fright, Crawlspace.

Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski kicked off a massive action/adventure franchise with Pirates of the Caribbean. Can they do it again with The Lone Ranger? Also reviewed: Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, Les Enfants Terribles.

We ditch the normal format of the show this week to do a Zack Snyder superhero special: Watchmen is reviewed in detail before moving into an unexpectedly epic argument about Man of Steel, the latest Superman film.