This week on Sneople, the Sneople cover a genre proves a little tricky to define, spans movies, tv, books, and comics, and incites an argument (or two) amongst our hosts - Urban Fantasy!

This episode starts, as many do, with definitions - what exactly makes an urban fantasy movie, and how is it different from straight up monster movies or something with fantasy elements that takes place in modern times? After a quick but decisive discussion, the Sneople move onto some of their favorites of the genre, dig through multiple lists of “urban fantasy” media to decide if they actually count as part of the genre, and get into why it’s so hard to make urban fantasy work on film. They also, as always, get severely off topic, look at a lot of weird wiki pages, and learn about new weird stuff that they now obviously have to read/watch. Not necessarily in that order.

If you disagree with their definition of urban fantasy and/or want to submit recs for good urban fantasy to read or watch, their email inbox is always open. Keep in mind that they are extremely right about what urban fantasy is, but arguing is still fun anyway!

Long delayed but also long in the making, this week the Sneople are finally doing a David Lynch memorial episode!

Helena and Matty go a little off the deep end this episode (as they do every episode they’re left to their own devices), covering Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Dune (obviously) and so so much more. Warning, this episode is full of spoilers/discussion of a variety of Lynch films (though we avoid Twin Peaks spoilers for the most part) - if you wanna avoid that, come back at a later date. It’s okay! We’ll wait.

Thanks David - we’ll be appreciating your work for years and years to come. XOXO to eraserhead baby, we love you little angel

This week is a (sort of?) somber episode, beloved listeners - we’ve recorded an homage to the life and career of Val Kilmer, an actor who had a big impact on all of the Sneople.

From Top Gun to Batman Forever, Willow to Tombstone, and of course Heat to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the Sneople go through several films featuring Val Kilmer and the many many highlights in his work. Like any of our in memoriam episodes, it’s tricky writing our normal jokey summaries without feeling odd about it, so it’s time to be genuine for three seconds - he was a great actor who did some incredible work, and none of us would be who we are today without Kiss Kiss Bang Bang specifically. Thanks, Val.

Unrelated, but still sincere - apologies for the delayed episode! We’ll have another one out next week per our usual schedule.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, beloved listeners - after weeks of waiting with baited breath, it’s finally time for this year’s Helena Awards!

For those who don’t know, this beautiful yearly tradition has the Sneople running through a full list of categories both familiar and unique, old and new: from Best Actress and Best Picture to Tex Avery Awooga Wolf Award l and Stupidest Film (Affectionate), the Helena Awards has it all. It is, per usual, the highest of high notes to close out awards season on, and we are thrilled as always to host it. It’s also shorter than watching the actual Oscars AND there’s no ads so really, what do you have to lose?

For those who wish to view the Helena Awards document, you can join the Infinity Break discord at bit.ly/InfinityTalks - it will be shared there in the Sneople channel! Just in case you wanted to revel in the glorious document formatting which, honestly, why wouldn’t you?

Due to the Wicked Curse (the curse that breaks the podcast when we talk about Wicked the movie for too long). Thankfully, we were able to push through to present to you - our extremely belated Oscars episode!

First and foremost, it’s time for a very long What We Sneep spanning back into (checks notes) late 2024. We got Christmas movies, we got movies that we just happened to see on Christmas, we have Helena frantically trying to catch up on Academy Award noms, we have Firefly for some reason, and basically any other type of movie you can possibly imagine. After that, we go through the Oscar noms from Best Picture down, and Helena puts in their guesses for what will win, fantasy football style. Yes, the Oscars have already happened. It’s fine. This just means you get to do the math on how good Helena’s guesses were!

The next episode should be on our regular schedule (barring something happening due to the Wicked Curse), and will be our favorite awards show, The Helena Awards! However, if you want to double check on timing or even just bug us about um. whatever? Then you can find us and any Sneople updates on the Infinity Break discord, bit.ly/InfinityTalks!

Happy Snanniversary, beloved listeners!! We’re back after our long break and celebrating our FIVE YEAR (???) anniversary with another film commentary, so load up your DVDs or what have you - it’s time for a watch-along of National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets!

Despite the massive What We Sneep backlog, we skip that segment to get right into the thrilling and extremely confusing action of National Treasure 2. During the process of the film, many questions come up: why is everyone and their mom in this film? What does the Lincoln Assassination have to do with any of this? Is Bruce Greenwood’s version of the president single? Only some of these questions are answered, and more continue to pile up even until the credits roll - you’ll have to listen to find out more. Or ask us, I guess, but then you would miss out on National Treasure 2 and no one wants that. Probably.

Also in the process of uploading this episode, it was discovered that Mount Vernon has a National Treasure themed tour, which was extremely exciting until we found out the cellar is closed for renovations right now. Can’t win ‘em all.

The end of 2024 is fast approaching, beloved listeners, and with it comes both the return of Helena and a rush of new films just in time for the holiday season. This week, the Sneople are starting Awards Season Talk!

Helena’s got a lot to catch up on RE What We Sneeped, but after that Ezra joins them to talk about all the latest and greatest (?) hits of the season - this was going to be an episode just about Conclave, but is it really a Sneople episode without getting distracted? In this case, the Sneople veer off into talk about the upcoming awards season, what’s likely up for awards this year, and how winning an Oscar can impact a career. Warning: this episode does have some spoilers for Conclave, so if you want to go in blind you may want to save this one for a later date!

This is also our last episode of the year! We’ll be back mid-January, for more inevitable Awards Season Talk. Thank you for another lovely year, and we’re excited to spend the next one with all y’all! I’d drop green heart and snake emojis here but I don’t want to break any formatting. Just imagine them in your mind’s eye.

Welcome back, beloved listeners! This week we’re back after a little break with a new guest - Johnny Rinaldo! You know, the person who makes our incredible intro and outro music? Yeah. AND he’s here to talk about one of his favorite shows of all time - Scavengers Reign!

After a LOT of off topic chatter about the new Dragon Age game and who we’re romancing, we finally get back on track with the plot of Scavengers Reign for those who have yet to see it or haven’t watched it in a bit. From there, there’s a dissertation on the characters we hated the most (and why we found them interesting anyway), the beauty of both the visuals and the storytelling, and why we are so incredibly desperate for a season two. Also, there’s some explanations as to why we can’t watch shows we care about while we’re eating. That’s our designated Youtube time.

Warning for this episode: we get in depth with spoilers for the entire series! If you haven’t watched it yet and want to go in spoiler free (which we do recommend), go ahead and watch it before listening to this episode! Don’t worry, we’ll be here when you’re done.

Happy Halloween, beloved listeners! This week, we’ve got a topic that is both very seasonal and has been a long time coming - vampires!

After getting thoroughly distracted for like ten whole minutes by National Mole Day, the Sneople crack open the massive topic of vampire media with a project that’s been haunting Matty for years - Dracula Watch! They don’t linger too long on that Sisyphean task, however, because there is simply too much to cover: Interview with a Vampire, Being Human, Twilight, and (obviously) Buffy the Vampire Slayer to name just a few. John Carpenter’s extremely famous and beloved film Vampires may or may not come up too. Unclear.

Also genuinely if you have a rec for a good Dracula adaptation that didn’t come up in this episode, please email us at [email protected]. At least one of us is dying out here.

We have a new game for you this week, beloved listeners! Ben from Syndicated with Lesley and Ben returns to the show to play a Chaos in Stereo classic with us - Is It More Like?

The rules of the game are simple: in each round, one of the hosts thinks of a movie, and the other hosts each take turns trying to guess said film by asking if it’s more like one movie or a different one - for example, The Wickerman (1973) or John Wick (2014). The host being asked will say which movie is more like the one they’re thinking of, and the guessing continues until the guessers figure out the movie! There are additional smaller rules mentioned in episode as well, but that’s the basic premise.

Note: This episode is missing some initial audio, so it opens with an explanation as well as the rules of the game instead of the normal Sneople opener. Who knows?? Someday,…..the full episode may be recovered………………….

Also in this episode Matty says that I Know What You Did Last Summer came out in 1977 instead of 1997 but they want everyone to know that was a verbal fumble and they promise they knew the correct year the whole time, they swear.