Silver Screen Snobs

Tom delivers some sad news and reflects on the life of the podcast. tom@silverscreensnobs.com or podcast@silverscreensnobs.com for emails. Thank you for supporting our little show

Tom and Jesse go back to the care-free days of 1997 to talk about their favourite films released in that year. Also: Elmer Gantry, Holy Smoke, The Master, The Anderson Tapes, The Big Knife, The Addams Family and Auto Focus. Sorry about Jesse's mic in this episode, that'll be fixed next week

Tom and Jesse talk Sorry Wrong Number, Come Back Little Sheeba, Mary Poppins Returns, Emma, The Death of Stalin, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Life After Beth, Yesterday, Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken, Fail Safe, The Lorax, The Professionals, Atlantic City, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

So many Invisible Men...so little time. For our retrospective we dug up an underseen John Carpenter take from the 90's starring Chevy Chase to pair with Leigh Whannell's new version starring Elisabeth Moss. Is this gaslighting analogy 2020's scariest film? Let's find out! Also, some news. Just like a real episodes.

Tom and Jesse some recent movie news then get into talking Honeyland, Judy, Zombieland 2: Double Tap, A Beautiful Day in the Nieghborhood, Bombshell, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Jojo Rabbit, Brightburn, Pain and Glory, Rollerball, In Time, Harriet, A Simple Favor, Wild Rose, Front Page Woman, Ready or Not, Three on a Match, All Screwed Up, Thunder Road, Marked Woman, Le Doulos and Windy City Heat

Oscars recap! How accurate were our predictions? Not very! Kirk Douglas tribute! News! Three films! We delve into three new features this week, including Birds of Prey: and The Fantaboulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (AKA A crappy group focus tested title that puts the emphasis on the recognisible IP), True History of the Kelly Gang and the Safdie brothers latest anxiety attack: Uncut Gems

A bit of movie news to get the train moving then Tom and Jesse tear through every category at the Academy Awards and tell you, the good listener, exactly who is going to win. We are 100% correct as we are actually from the future so I'd advise all of you to indulge in some Biff Tanner-style shenanigans and place your bets with wild abandon. Good day!

The hilarity and wacky antics of World War I get filtered through two different director's lens: Aussie Peter Wier with his 80's epic, Gallipoli and Brit Sam Mendes with his one-take wonder, 1917. We compare and contrast the different takes as is our wont

Tom and Jesse talk the Oscar nominations and then get into Marriage Story, Don't Fuck with Cats, Dragged Across Concrete, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Gentlemen, The Farewell, Ready or Not, Jumunji: The Next Level, The Omega Man, Crawl, Holes, The Two Popes, Fighting with My Family, Apollo 11, Free Solo, The Art of Self-Defense, A Monster in Paris and Little Women

A big 'ol list episode! Honourable mentions, a few of the years worst films, the most underrated and overrated films of the year and of course our personal Top 10 lists for the year in film. Get into it!

Star Wars special! Tom and Jesse welcome esteemed special guest, Jesse's Dad, to help us parse out the cultural legacy of Star Wars before tackling the lightsaber-weilding elephant in the room: Rise of the Skywalker

Tom and Jesse catch up with some 2019 releases including Parasite, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, The Lighthouse, Yesterday, The Nightingale, The Angry Birds Movie 2, The Death of Dick Long, Smallfoot, The Irishman, Borg vs McEnroe, Low Tide, Being Evel, Ford v Ferrari, The Report, Hustlers, Frozen II

We're back! Our hiatis extended a little longer as Tom got lost in the wild backwoods of Vermont but eventually found his way back to the Melbourne Snobcast studio! This week Tom and jesse crack open a couple of reasonably priced domestic beers and catch up with Rian Johnson's loving tribute to the whodunnit, Knives Out plus a grab bag of 2019 releases we've not recorded ourselves talking about yet. For shame! Films discussed: Ad Astra, Dumbo, Joker, The Lion King, Dolemite Is My Name, Alladin, Terminator: Dark Fate

Epidode 300 Spectacular! O.G. Podcast host David Lees returns to the studio for an epic list epsisode as Tom, Jesse and Dave count down thier favourite films released during the life of this very podcast. That's 2012 to this week. There'll be honourable mentions. There'll be tangents. Jesse will forget films to inlcude, Tom will forget math and Dave will just forget. Our lists will follow for reference. If you don't want spoilers for the episode AVERT YE EYES!! Otherwise, he's the films we talked about: Dave's Honourables: The Spectacular Now 10. Still Alice 9. The Disaster Artist 8. Enemy 7. mother! 6. The Wolf of Wall Street 5. Interstellar 4. The Hateful Eight 3. Amour 2. Nocturnal Animals 1. Manchester by the Sea Jesse's Honourables: Hail Ceasar, The Hateful Eight, La La Land, High Rise, Baby Driver, Interstellar, Get Out, A Futile and Stupid Gesture 10.Boyhood 9. Mad Max: Fury Road 8. Mission: Impossible: Fallout 7. Good Time 6. Dunkirk 5. Everybody Wants Some!! 4. Blade Runner 2049 3. Arrival 2. First Man 1. Killing Them Softly Tom's Honourables: The Raid 2, Zero Dark Thirty, Baby Driver, Midnight Special, La La Land, Get Out, First Man, The Witch, Hereditary, Dunkirk 10. Only God Forgives 9. Jackie 8. Under the Skin 7. It Follows 6. The Act of Killing 5. Edge of Tomorrow 4. Dawson City: Frozen Time 3. Boyhood 2. Gravity 1. Mr. Turner

Tom and Jesse talk The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Great Hack, Matador, The Flower of my Secret, Bad Education, Always Be My Maybe, Chungking Express, Good Boys, Blinded by the Light, Early Man, The Emigrants

The alleged penultimate film from writer/director Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood is our feature this week. We pair the 1969-set Old-Hollywood euology with a 1969-released, Hollywood-set French New Wave flick: Model Shop.

Tom and Jesse count down the definitive list of the films they watched last week, in consecutive order including: Molly's Game, Lady Snowblood, Mid-90's, The Women, The Wolf of Wall Street, Our Man in Havana, Wonder Park, The Bed Sitting Room, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Watership Down, Inglorious Basterds, Missing Link, Escape Room, Lions Love (...And Lies)

Catching up with the Fast and the Furious family this week. Although it looks like this family ain't big enough for three Aplha-Papas. So So Alpha-Papa 2 and Alpha-Papa 3 have teamed up a very silly take on the buddy-cop film. We continue our accidental series with another double-team/double-feature looking back at a giant of the sub-genre with Tango and Cash.

This episode comes with bonus technical difficulties! I forgot to press a certain button on a thing so it sounds like I'm in a cave, so sorry about that, it will be all fixed next week! Tom and Jesse talk the MCU Comic-con news then go over some recently watched films including Her Smell, Big Night, Area 51 and Flying Saucers, Uptight, Glen or Glenda, That Sugar Film, The Low Down, Wheels on Meals, The Final Quarter, Two-Faced Woman, Sylvia Scarlett, A Woman's Face

Buddy-cop action comedy double feature this week! The Dave Bautista/ Kumail Nunjiani vehicle Stuber is pitted against a little seen Alan Arkin James Caan 70's cop comedy: Freebie and the Bean!