The Film Snobs

WELCOME BACK Snobbies. Today we wrap up the visual prompt with Jared’s pick. Today he chose a film from director Claude Berri, “Jean de Florette.” This French film was chosen to represent the film but also to mirror the heat we’re all feeling this week. We really enjoyed talking through this film and its many themes. This was a beautiful film and was a sad film. Also, we learned that this was PART...

Sorry for the WAIT!! We are back with VISUAL PROMPT #3! We’re here with Cody’s pick and his guest, his wife LYDIA! Cody went with a very literal expression of the prompt. He went with a film from directors DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman comes “Loving Vincent.” This film was ENTIRELY made with real life paintings for every frame. It’s a mind blowing undertaking and we really enjoyed talking about...

Snobbies, Welcome back to THE VISUAL PROMPT! Today we have Eric’s pick and he chose a nostalgic pick from his childhood. From director Agnieszka Holland comes “The Secret Garden” from 1993! There have been 5 versions of this adaptation from the novel of the same name. We enjoyed talking about Gardens, secrets, cultivating, moving away, grief, and more. This is a magical film with whimsy and wonder...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to THE VISUAL PROMPT! In this series, Jared has given us a painting that he saw in a museum recently. He gave us the task to pick a film based on the emotions the painting elicited us, a film that reminded us of something we’ve seen in cinema, or however we wanted to interpret this. We have never done this before and we will include the image of the painting in our in...

Hey there Snobbies, we are at the end of all things….VAL. This is the final Val film and Jared’s pick. He brings us a CLASSIC choice from director Stephen Hopkins, “The Ghost and the Darkness.” LION, LION, LION, LION! This film was a major film from Eric and Jared’s childhood. We really enjoyed talking through this film and all of the Lion and African glory. It can’t really be seen, but Caleb dres...

Yall, this one was a lot of fun. Its been a while since we have had an episode that was so unhinged. This was Eric's pick and he chose a film that he's been wanting to watch with Jared for a long time now. Ron Howard directs this fun flick, "Willow." We get into....a myriad of topics haha. We hope you enjoy listening to this truly crazy pod. Film Discussed: Willow (1988) Letterbo...

Snobbies… we are BACK!! VAL-entines…very much into March now hahaha. Oh well! We are here with Cody’s pick and it is a good one. This film was the directing debut of director of Shane Black, we watched, “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” This film features a freshly back on the scene Robert Downing Jr and of course Val Kilmer. We had fun talking through this one. Enjoy! Film Discussed: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (20...

THE 2025 SNOBBIE AWARDS! Pt. 2 These are OUR goofy awards that we attribute to the films of this year and others. We discuss Favorite shot, Favorite scene, Favorite performance, Favorite score, Best 1st watch of a non-2024 film, Most emotional moment, Funniest moment, Biggest disappointment, Pleasant surprise, Snobbie Specials Award (whatever we want to individually award) ANNNNND Raddest dad!! Th...

THE SNOBBIES are back! Our yearly tradition of taking our favorite movies of the year, which include some of the Oscar picks, but also include films that the Oscars did not give a second glance to! We love this episode and as always, we split this into two parts. This is Part. 1 and RICKY and ETHAN, OG SNOBs, are back on the pod in person and we get into it. Eric had to leave early so he's mos...

Oh my. Snobbies. We have started a truly epic topic for you all. WE are deep into VAL-entines, where we watch movies that star Val Kilmer. This week was Caleb’s pick and he decided to chose quite a doozy for you all. Directed by multiple people, but notably John Frankenheimer…this film is called, “The Island of Dr. Moreau.” This film has MANY things wrong with it and Cody decides to tap out early...

Snobbies, this was a difficult watch. We are ending our journey through the senses with Hearing. This pick was agreed on by all the snobs and Directed by Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest.” This film follows a German officer who is in charge of the largest death camp in charge of exterminating the Jewish people, Auschwitz-Birkenau. We talk through the effective soundtrack and horrific sound d...

Snobbies. We have arrived at the fourth sense, TOUCH. This was Jared's pick and a Film Snobs first! We have never done a documentary film before. This film comes from legendary Director Werner Herzog, Land of Silence and Darkness. Filmed early on in his career, Werner gets up close and personal with the deaf-blind community. This unique group of people have their own way of communicating and e...

We. Are. Back. At. It! We are here with the sense of SMELL and Eric’s pick. This film was a complete blast to watch and we laughed quite a bit. Directed by Martin Brest, “Scent of a Woman.” This film stars Al Pacino, Chris O’Donnell, and Philip Seymour Hoffman and this film was interesting. With some crazy editing, wild dialogue, and intense acting, this film was fun to talk through. Issues of bei...

Snobbies, BUCKLE. UP!!! This week we have Cody’s pick for SENSES and his pick is SIGHT. This film is something that NONE of the snobs have seen. This film RULES! A film that took 7 YEARS to make! An all out war on the senses, this animated film, directed by: Takeshi Koike, is about a deadly race called “REDLINE” which takes place on a Nationalist Robot world hellbent on killing every racer before...

Jared, Ricky, and Cody watched this film in Denver and NEEDED to talk it through. Enjoy their conversation about a transformative film that everyone gave a 5 star to and described it as the best film they'd seen in years. Enjoy! Film Discussed: Resurrection (2025) Letterboxd: Eric Peterson: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠letterboxd.com/EricLPeterson/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Snobies…This is gonna be a heck of a listen. Today we are starting films that tackle SENSES. Caleb has the first pick and has decided to go down the difficult path. Caleb has chosen TASTE for his sense and the film comes from director Luca Guadagnino, we watched, “Bones and All.” This film tackles deep and important issues and we GOT INTO IT! Topics include, love, relationships, addiction, sin, lo...

Ladies and Gentlemen, here we are at the end of all things. Just kidding, but it is the end of SPOOKTOBER. Sadness. For this episode, we have two special guests. Matt and DREW! It was Drew’s pick today and he decided to go with a film that was UNSETTLING. From the legendary director Alex Garland, comes a very creepy, unsettling film called, “Annihilation.” Characters in this film enter The Shimmer...

SPOOKTOBER NUMBER 6!! We are back! This year is going to look a little different. This year we are picking two films picked by some stellar guests. Today’s guest is TRISTAN!!! He chose our very first HITCHCOCK film! This film is an all-time classic film and we were very excited to watch, “Psycho.” We really enjoyed talking about a film that is well paced, shot, blocked, and acted. This is a good m...

We are VERY MUCH back for Tokyo Films with Jared’s pick for this week. This pick came with a few guests! Josh and John stop by to give their insight into this film. Josh had just come back from Tokyo and we enjoyed hearing about his journey through the countryside and the city itself. The pick came from the director of Jared’s favorite Studio Ghibli film, director Isao Takahata’s “Pom Poko” Ladies...

LADIES and GENTLEMEN! We are back in Tokyo for another week and another beautiful pick. This week we have Eric’s pick and his sister is our star guest, Ro Birkey. We really enjoyed talking about this film and discussing Sofia Coppola, low budget filming, age differences, single location filming, unhappy marriages, seeing a city through a car, bored in Tokyo, etc. This film was beautifully shot and...

We are BACK in TOKYO babyyyyy!!! We love this series and spending time in this magnificent city. This week was Cody’s pick and he chose to go to to OLD Tokyo and brought us along on the GODZILLA journey with Ishirô Honda’s 1954 ORIGINAL, “Godzilla.” WE LOVED this film and we loved talking about it. If you are a Godzilla fan, never seen one, or love Tokyo, enjoy our discussion on amazing miniatures...

TOKYO! TOKYO! TOKYO! Welcome back Snobbies. We are here for it! Our new film topic is Tokyo films. Caleb is up first and he picked a terrifying film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and it’s called, “Pulse.” This film is about how the internet becomes a gateway for the dead to crossover. This film had ghosts, loneness, isolation, suicide, etc. We get into the bad graphics, scary premise, and deeper questions t...

Welcome back Snobbies. It’s……been a while. We’re here to bring you a little treat. Welcome back to the Fireside Chats 2. Here we talked about Sinners, Mountainhead, Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning, Fountain of Youth, Friendship, Moana 2, and Adolescence. These were films both Jared and Eric watched and they discuss them here. Jared also talks through a few things he wanted to feature, Eddingnt...

SNOBBIES! It has been a LONG while!! We have taken our SWEET time finishing up Summer Camp Movies. Jared’s pick for this ep comes from director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, who also directed “Drive My Car,” comes “Evil Does Not Exist.” This film was a beautiful, contemplative, peaceful, unhinged journey. We enjoyed talking about this film…clearly….it was our longest ep in a LONG time. Cody was not with us,...

Welcome back Snobbies! Today we have pick number 3 and it’s Eric’s pick. This week Eric chose a film that gets us back to form a little bit. From her directing debut Molly Gordon and Nick Leiberman’s, “Theater Camp!” This film goes deep into the theater culture and the lives of theater kids. We discuss our theater experiences, more camp stories, and shows we’ve been to. We enjoyed this film and it...