Sneople At The Movies

There’s no Ezra this week, beloved listeners, so Helena and Matty decided to use this time to catch up on what we’ve seen in a very long overdue What We Sneep episode! Matty goes first (as they have less to cover, per usual), which includes covering their month of renting multiple dvds before watching two movies back to back that were so bad they just stopped watching movies full stop. They also p...

Quick everyone, imagine John Cena’s entrance theme in your mind. Got it playing? Great, because we’re pulling a Remake Rumble out of the Hiatus Vault - this week, it’s time for a three way match covering all things Magnificent Seven! This episode covers the Akira Kurosawa’s original Seven Samurai (1954), The Magnificent Seven (1960), and The Magnificent Seven (2016), as well as a brief detour into...

This week we have an episode out of the Hiatus Vaults, beloved listeners - episodes recorded during our hiatus that were never published. This one is in homage to the late great Robert Redford, recorded shortly after he passed away last year. After a very old What We Sneep, the Sneople go over his career in depth, including their personal favorites and their dads’ personal favorites (thanks, dads...

Welcome back, beloved listeners! It’s been an odd several months for the Sneople schedule, but we are back on track - you know there was no way we were gonna miss the Helena Awards! We skip What We Sneep this episode to get right into the action - there is a 44 slide presentation to get through, and a lot of new fun categories to unpack. There’s some old classics (looking at you, Tex Avery Awooga...

It’s been a while since we’ve done an Unusual Double Feature, one of our favorite episode themes, so we are long overdue! This time though, it feels a little less unusual and a little more like a movie blind date - this week, we’re pairing up Sunshine (2007) and Event Horizon (1997)! This is more of a blind date because, like many couples who get set up by other people, these movies seem very simi...

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...

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/discuss...

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 memoria...

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 (Aff...

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 h...

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 T...

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...

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 plo...

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, h...

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...

Welcome back, beloved listeners! This week we’re catching up (mostly on Helena’s backlog) with a flashback to high school English class: Roses and Thorns! We’re taking a twist on a long What We Sneep by going through each movie or show we watched and giving it Roses (things about the movie/show we liked) and Thorns (things we didn’t). From Four Weddings and a Funeral to Deadpool and Wolverine to s...

Thrilling news, beloved listeners! We have a very special guest this episode - Lys (@daunt_lys on twitter) is on to discuss alien movies with us! After clarifying that this is, in fact, an episode about the genre of alien movies rather than the Alien franchise and also discussing the horrors of the Borderlands movie, the crew gets into the meat of alien movies. By that, we of course mean that all...

Welcome back, beloved listeners! This week, we’re tackling some movies with bizarre plot twists: The Da Vinci Code, Dracula 2000 and (vaguely), our old friend Van Helsing (2004)! This episode opens with a brief review of the (fascinating? unhinged?) plot of The Da Vinci Code for those who haven’t seen the film or read the book - Matty fell into that category before seeing this movie for the show a...

We’re back, beloved listeners, and we’re ringing the imaginary boxing match bell in celebration of this week’s Remake Rumble: 3:10 to Yuma (1957) versus it’s 2007 remake! Per any good Remake Rumble episode, the Sneople spend a little time explaining the basic premise of the films before diving headfirst into the differences, what they like or dislike about each, and what makes each of these movies...

The summer season is in full swing, beloved listeners, heat waves and all! In order to cope, the Sneople are discussing Summer Movies! Like any good Sneople episode, this one features categories galore, like the difference between a movie that makes you think of summer, a summer blockbuster, and a Summer Movie (with many overlaps in-between). With categories comes lists featuring many of the Sneop...

IT’S THEIR BIRTHDAY and by they we mean Matty and by it’s their birthday we mean it was their birthday two weeks ago. The important part is it’s their Birthday Episode and they have a doozy of a triple feature this week - Mad Max 2, Max Mad: Fury Road, and Escape from New York! After their new accidental segment, Concert Talk, Matty gives a brief summary of all three films (more or less), as well...

Happy Pride, beloved listeners! This episode, the Sneople are celebrating with an extremely appropriate topic - Camp Film! After a hearty What We Sneep, the Sneople get into describing what they think camp even means when it comes to film, a topic that’s more difficult to tackle than they expected. From there, it’s the camp films and directors they love, why they’ve stood the test of time, and why...

No Ezra this week, beloved listeners, so we’re having our dear friend Ben Hamlin of Syndicated with Leslie and Ben and Parascience back to talk with us about something we didn’t realize we were so passionate about: Movie Trailers! After catching up with Ben on what he’s Sneeped recently, our trio dive in to trailers they’ve recently seen, ones they remember from their childhood, and trends they bo...

Ring the bells and rush to your stadium seats, beloved listeners, because it’s time for another Remake Rumble! This time, it’s one that’s been a long time coming - a three-way fight between The Thing from Another World (1951) vs The Thing (1982) vs The Thing (2011)! After a speedrun of What We Sneep, the Sneople dive into the rumble by discussing The Thing from Another World and its spot as the fi...