The Film Snobs

Ho ho ho Snobbies! SURPRISE! We’re coming at you NOT on a Monday. This week we decided to do something a little different. The Snobs are in the studio with old time guest Andy and Eric’s wife Jordan. We discuss holiday favorites, least favorites Christmas movie, best Santa, best animated Christmas movie, etc. We had such a great time with this episode and really enjoyed just having a fireside chat...

Hey there Snobbies! This week we continue on our journey with the late Terence Davies and his filmography. This week was Cody’s pick and he chose to go with the director’s last film that he ever made…Benediction. A film that truly has some of the most incredible acting we have ever seen. The film features a war time military man who is put into a mental hospital to quiet his dissenting voice. The...

Welcome back Snobbies! This month we are continuing to feature the late Terence Davies and his filmography. This week was Eric’s pick and he chose to go with 1988’s Distant Voices, Still Lives. A film that has been described as the most important British film ever made, this film was powerful. This film opened up a bit of discussion in all of us about family, fathers, abuse, history, love, pain, a...

Snobbies, we have a new topic! This month we are featuring the late Terence Davies and his filmography. This week was Caleb’s pick and he chose to go with 2016’s A Quiet Place. Wait…no…A Quiet PASSION. That’s it. Okay. This film was very good. A film about Emily Dickinson and what a beautiful and brutal film. With incredible shots, beautiful dialogue, and death…we had plenty to talk about. Every o...

Welcome back Snobbies. We are EXCITED to have you back and enjoying another spooky film with us. This week, we have the incomparable, Josh George with us! He joins for the first time ever and we have an interesting one for you. Jared’s pick this week and he chose a legend of a film from 1932, director Tod Browning brings us, “Freaks.” This film deals in the controversial as it features differently...

Here. We. GOOOOO!! Welcome back to SPOOKTOBER 4, pick #3 by Cody Martin himself. We are excited to talk about this film. This animated EPIC is packed with delicious animation, beautiful shots, and a tragic story. This film is directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and is called, “Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.” This film, in the words of Cody is the perfect middle ground as it doesn’t feel like a halloween m...

SNOBBIES! Bringing to you SPOOKTOBER #2!! This week we have Eric’s pick and he decided to go the wacky route. If you remember our very first episode SPOOKTOBER #1, where we featured “House,” this film made us feel right at home. GUEST Alec Brunk joined us today as Eric’s first guest on the pod! This film’s director Ricky Lau brings us “Mr. Vampire.” This film from 1985 brought possibly the most la...

CUE spooky witch laughter and zealous lightening storms!! That’s right! It’s SPOOKTOBER #4!!!! We are PSYCHED! to be back in the SPOOKTOBER atmosphere. Caleb, Cody, and Eric take on Caleb’s pick for tonight (Jared is in Europe…having a terrible time) a film that is melancholic in nature and definitely sets up some sad snobs action. A film directed by LENGENDARY director Lars von Trier, “Melancholi...

Hey Snobbies! Welcome to the Second ever Snobbie’s Choice week. Last time, Tom picked The Truman Show. This week we have Nick Maddie who is here to give us the ethical discussion film of a lifetime, from director Ben Affleck’s debut…”Gone Baby Gone.” This film GETS. US. HEATED! WE really enjoyed talking about Right and Wrong, bad girlfriends, Bad mom’s, love for a child, and we talk about what eac...

Welcome Snobbies! to the last episode in the ChatGPT series where Artificial Intelligence picks our movies for us. The topic has been a lot of fun and we have seen some really cool films. Tonight we have Jared picking the film from the list ChatGPT gave him. The film that was chosen was from legendary director Éric Rohmer, “A Summer’s Tale.” This film deal with ultra-realism, where the other film...

BARBENHEIMER!!!!! It’s here. Very late to the overall cultural party, but we recorded this a while ago. The snobs minus Caleb are here to talk about Barbie and Oppenheimer. You know the drill. Hopefully you’ve seen one or both of these films. If not, what have you been doing with your life?? We enjoyed talking through both films and probably spent too much time on Oppenheimer…kinda like Nolan did!...

Welcome back Snobbies! It’s another exciting installment of ChatGPT picking our movies for us! This week we have Eric’s pick and he decided to change up the prompt and just ask the AI to give him “10 random movies” and that’s exactly what it gave him! His pick today was from none other than legendary director Martin Scorsese, “The Departed.” This film was a bunch of fun to talk about and heads up…...

DISCLAIMER: This episode contains sexual content, though not explicit or gratuitous, it is still discussed. ChatGPT is back and it is ready to pick another film for us. CODY IS BACK! and we are happy about it. This week Cody chooses the film that chatGPT gaffes us from another legendary Italian director Federico Fellini, “8 1/2” This film is a film about film and a story about the director himself...

DISCLAIMER: This film talks about sensitive topics such as rape, though not explicit or gratuitous, it is still discussed. WE’RE BACK! That’s right babyyyy, we’re back and we are doing a new topic today. This one we have been waiting to do for a long time now and the time has finally arrived. Caleb brought up the idea that we should let chatGPT pick a film for us to watch. We asked AI “Give us a m...

Snobbies! Welcome…to the end of Movies Of the Middle East, or MOME as we’ve been calling it. Tonight we have a special guest COLIN! who hasn’t been on the pod since Do The Right Thing two years ago! Tonight’s pick comes from Jared and is by director Nadav Lapid, “Ahed’s Knee.” This film, coming out of Israel, tackles a possibly autobiographical story about something the director went through while...

BABABABABABONUS EPISOOOOODE! With guest to the pod and first timer, TOM! We let Tom pick the film with no topic guidelines at all. We had NO idea what he would chose, other than it being his favorite film of all time. Tom ended up choosing the Peter Weir directed film “The Truman Show.” The snobs are Jared-less as he is dealing with possible Malaria. We discuss ALL the finer details of ethics, phi...

Yoyoyo! Welcome back to MOME! This week we have Eric’s pick for Movies Of the Middle East and it comes from director Hany Abu-Assad, “Paradise Now.” This film is a sobering view on what happens leading up to a suicide bomb attack. We follow two best friends in Palestine as they are chosen to carry out a retaliatory attack against Israel. This film is intensely complex and captures the feelings beh...

Snobbies. We are BACK! And this time we are bringing you Caleb’s pick for MOME, Movies Of the Middle East. ANDY HARDING joins us for today’s episode. Today’s pick comes from Iranian LEGEND director Abbas Kiarostami, “Where is the Friend’s House?” This film was so sweet and delightful. We had fun talking about this film and how different and interesting it was. This film was a bit slow, but most of...

Snobbies. Welcome back. Today we have a very special treat….IT’S A NEW TOPIC!! Today we are looking at our newest snob’s chosen topic which we are REALLY excited about, it’s Middle Eastern Films! Today’s pick comes from director Babak Anvari and is called, “Under the Shadow.” This film takes place in Iran during the early 90’s and the main characters find themselves in a creepy situation where the...

Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to PART 2 of the 2nd annual Snobbie Awards! This is being released after The Oscars so that you can have a little fun and compare our wins with what happened in the Academy Awards. But as you probably remember, The Snobbie Awards are much different than The Oscars. In Part 1 we talked about our Top 10 of the year and in this episode we pick the categories we want to t...

Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to the second annual Snobbie Awards! This is being released after The Oscars so that you can have a little fun and compare our wins with what happened in the Academy Awards. But as you probably remember, The Snobbie Awards are much different than The Oscars. Here we pick the categories we want to talk about and feature films that may not have gotten much Oscar buzz du...

Snobbies, this is the end! The last film to be picked for the sight and sound list of top films for the decade! Today we have Jared's pick and he ended with a 5 star masterpiece. From Directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, comes the dancing classic watched by dancers everywhere, "The Red Shoes." This film was a treat to watch and we were happy to talk about it. The film has an incredible...

Ladies and Gentlemen! We have for you a true treat! The NUMBER 1 film on the Sight and Sound Top films for Directors, Stanley Kubrick’s Opus and true space odyssey…2001: a space odyssey. This film had a very different response from the snobs tonight. Eric loved it, Jared knows and appreciates the genius but it doesn’t wow him, Caleb liked it, and Cody thought it was mid. We had fun talking about t...

Welcome back Snobbies! to our Sight and Sound Top 100 films of all time picked by directors all over the world. Today we have Caleb’s pick and it is a truly beautiful masterpiece. Director F.W. Murnau brings a story that is timeless and stunning, even though it is a silent film! We were blown away at how heartfelt, emotional, and affecting this film was. We talked about drowning wives, feeling bad...

BLUE PEOPLE!!1 Yes that's right, if it's blue, it's gotta be Avatar...or a terrible Smurf reboot. This little bonus content comes to you after we decided to talk in length about seeing Avatar together. That is, Ricky, Jared, and Eric. Cody and Caleb saw it separately and only KIND OF liked it. Join us as we gush on the effects, the plot, the realistic turnout of the water stuff, and so much more....