Silver Screen Snobs

We've got a zombie double this week as we go back to where it all began with Night of the Living Dead before diving head first into an in-depth discussion about Brad Pitt's World War Z. Also reviewed: A Night at the Opera, Hot Rod.

It's a Will Smith post-apocalyptic spectacular this week with a feature review of M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth and a look back on I Am Legend. Also reviewed: Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Fear and Desire, Sleepwalk With Me.

Can Furious 6 top Fast 5? We'll find out in this fuel-injected episode matching up the latest epic installment in the Fast and Furious franchise with 1969's The Italian Job. Also reviewed: High Noon, Mr. Nanny, Fast and Furious series recap.

We discuss two modern F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptations this week: Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Also reviewed: I Give It A Year, The Battle of Britain.

The Wolfpack's back for the last time with yet another Hangover. We discuss if their third outing was worth the return and take a look at another third entry in a comedy franchise, Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. Also reviewed: A Royal Affair, Star Wars Blurays, The Hangover Part II.

Love him or hate him, Harmony Korine's films are at least conversation starters. This week we review his latest, Spring Breakers, alongside his 2007 Michael Jackson look-a-like movie, Mister Lonely and 2009 VHS nightmare Trash Humpers. Also reviewed: Spellbound, Evil Dead, Side By Side.

We embrace our new-found inner nerd this week with a Star Trek double review as J.J. Abram's delivers his last film before tackling Star Wars. Also reviewed: Evil Dead, Barb Wire, The Phantom Carriage.

Director Derek Cianfrance's second collaboration with Ryan Gosling after Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond The Pines, is out next week and we review both this episode. Also reviewed: Gigi, Movie 43, The Hunt, Promised Land, Antiviral, Holy Motors.

Post-Avengers, Marvel has handed the Iron Man 3 reins to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang writer/director Shane Black. We review both films this week as Marvel phase 2 begins. Also reviewed: The Gold Rush, The Guilt Trip, Sightseers, Showgirls, Pumping Iron.

It's a Presidents-In-Peril special this week with Olympus Has Fallen (the best Die Hard movie out this year) and retrospective review Escape From New York. Also reviewed: Escape From LA, Battleship Potemkin, Jason X, Parental Guidance.