Silver Screen Snobs

Tom and Jesse discuss Performance, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Spirits of the Dead, Farewell My Lovely, Looker, Capricorn One, Sisters, Jamaica Inn, House on Haunted Hill, I Don't Want to Be a Man, The Finances of the Grand Duke, Zero for Conduct, Foreign Correspondent, The Crimson Kimono, Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight), The Last Waltz, The Decline of Western Civilisation Part II: The Metal Years, The Decline of Western Civilisation Part III, Down with Love, Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust.

Back to the ring for a one-two punch of Creed II and its spiritual and literal predecessor Rocky IV. Can those wacky Russians finally catch a break this time? Plus Alfonso Cuaron takes us down memory lane with the autobiographical Roma.

Tom and Jesse discuss Outlaw King, Midnight Mary, The Last Seduction, Chariots of Fire, Ashes and Diamonds, Coma, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Decline of Western Civilization part II: The Metal Years, The Decline of Western Civilization III, Chevalier, Billy Liar, Swept Away, Crazy Rich Asians and Tom Jones.

Warners Media knows what it feels like to be god as they flip the switch and resurrect the bloated corpse of Filmstruck within the patchwork body that shall be known as Criterion Channel! We pay homage to two giants of cinema with a respectful salute to Nicholas Roeg and a look at our favourite William Goldman-scripted films. Then Jesse and Tom Netflix and Chill (I believe I'm using that correctly) and catch up on the sumptuous six course meal that is the Coen Brother's western anthology: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs -but not before getting lost on the Oregon Trail with Meek's Cutoff

Tom and Jesse discuss Daisies, The Shop Around the Corner, The Colour of Pomegranates, The Ascent, The Curse of Frankenstein, Arada, Private Life, He Who Gets Slapped, Dance Girl Dance, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Mummy (1959), Apostle, Marjorie Prime, Hereditary, Christopher Strong, Mockery, The Ocean Waif, The Merry Widow, Demon Seed, Indiscretion of an American Wife.

A whole mess of sequels and reboots no-one asked for are one the way including Night of the Living Dead 2, the Shrek reboot and a Walter White-less Breaking Bad movie. Plus professional cameo performer Stan Lee passes away and Orson Welles has a new film out, despite the notable handicap of being dead these past 33 years. Tom and Jesse revisit Dario Argento's seminal giallo Suspiria (1977) before enrolling in Luca Guadagnino's spooky dance academy for the 2018 update

Tom and Jesse discuss Gold Diggers of 1933, Number 17, A Star is Born, Smithereens, Raintree County, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Eighth Grade, The Kid From Spain, Hush, I Am Not a Witch, Let the Sun Shine In, The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy, The Purge: Election Year, Footlight Parade, Three Identical Strangers, Desert Hearts, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Good Time, Hold the Dark, Sorry to Bother You, Dames, Bad Times at the El Royale, George Washington, Leave No Trace, The Seduction of Mimi.

A million film nerd voices cry out in anguish and are suddenly silenced as the Warner Bros death star obliterates Filmstruck. One member of this podcast takes it a little harder than the other. Texan filmmaker Richard Linklater plans to make movie about Texan comedian Bill Hicks and Robb Stark is probably James Bond. Tom and Jesse count down their personal favourite 5 horror films to get into the Halloween spirit before back to back reviews of Halloween (1978) and its franchise continuity-destroying sequel: Halloween (2018)

Tom and Jesse discuss A Wrinkle In Time, Mandy, Beach Rats, 42nd Street, War Machine, The Farmer's Wife, The First Purge, Whitney, The Land of Steady Habits, Reel Injun, To All The Boys I've Loved Before, The Skin Game, Cash On Demand, Action Point, Guy and Madeline On A Park Bench, Rich and Strange, Wings.

James Gunn trolls Disney by accepting a job writing, producing, and possibly directing Suicide Squad 2, the WGA decides that all screenwriters are equal unless you write cartoons in which case - no soup for you, and John Rambo puts an end to the debate over who drew first blood with a shiny new title. Plus we pit all four versions of A Star Is Born against each other in an Extreme Death Match in which there can only be one glorious victor. Then it's off to space with Ryan Gosling on the good ship Apollo with a feature review of Damien Chazelle's First Man, accompanied by Ron Howard's Apollo 13 in which Houston gets some very bad news.