Sneople At The Movies

This episode has probably been a long time coming, beloved listeners, but to be fair…it look a long time for SOMEONE (Matty) to do their film homework. Now that they have, the Sneople finally able to discuss the topic of this week’s ep - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead! Starting off with the 1990 film, the Sneople gush about why it’s an incredible stage to screen adaptation, what makes it a...

Awards season is finally over, beloved listeners, but that does not mean we will ever be free of movie related drama - with the announcement of a Night of the Hunter remake, it’s time to tackle a topic long coming: Remakes and Reboots! Starting off with a very angry rant about The Crow (1994) remake and overall thoughts about what makes a good/thoughtful remake, the Sneople shift to talking reboot...

The awards season has finally come to a close, beloved listeners, which means we can address the best and most beloved awards of the season - The Helena Awards! Helena has some new categories this year, including Biggest Oh Shit Moment (Most Hooting and Hollering) and Best On-Screen Chemistry. Beyond that, the Sneople go through Helena’s full list of awards from the bottom all the way up to Best F...

Bad news, beloved listeners - one of the Sneople has gotten sucked into a random movie franchise yet again. This time, however, the other two managed to get dragged down with them, so now all of you have to listen to them ramble about our collective new obsession - Mission Impossible! The Sneople have a couple episodes of What We Sneep to catch up on, but they sprint through it to get to the good...

Happy 5th Anniversary, beloved listeners! In celebration, we’ve decided to do another commentary track episode, this time in celebration of a movie we’ve defended with our very lives more than once - Revenge of the Sith! Three…two…one…GO! From agony over our beloved faves to WAY more Star Wars lore than we (Helena) were prepared for to pointing out various costuming details, the Sneople will be he...

Our Winter Break is over, beloved listeners, just in time for awards season. Which, obviously, means we’re spending the episode getting into the nitty gritty of the recently released Oscars Nominations! After a shorter than expected What We Sneep catch up for the month (we speedrun our way through it - lots of nominations to get through, after all), the Sneople dive into the nominations and their...

In our last episode of 2023, the Sneople tackle a topic that has (probably) been a long time coming - the Kenneth Branagh Poirot adaptations! After a brief overview of the other Poirot content they’re familiar with (Hi, David Suchet), the Sneople discuss all three movies at length. In true Sneople fashion, this covers the things they loved, the choices they respect, and the parts of the movies the...

This isn’t seasonal, beloved listeners, but the Sneople don’t care - this week, they’re covering action adventure/summer blockbuster hit series, Indiana Jones! After the standard What We Sneep (which mostly is just Indiana Jones movies for one of us), the Sneople dive into what has made the original films such classics, what they love about them, and what they REALLY REALLY DON’T LOVE - we’re look...

Hello, beloved listeners! It’s another long episode for us, but to be fair, we have a lot to discuss- this week, we’re covering a whole decade: The 80’s! From Kids on Bikes, to Slashers, and every possible genre in between, the Sneople talk about how the decade was defined, possible reasons certain genres came into their own, and some of their favorites of the era. They also talk about the transit...

Happy Halloween, beloved listeners! We’re celebrating the holiday with a return to Remake Rumbles with a couple of pulpy vampire classics: Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night (2011)! After a What We Sneep jam-packed with a surprising amount of video games and movies watched while sick, the Sneople get into what makes these two movies similar and why they still feel so different from each other. U...

‘Tis the beginning of the Halloween season, beloved listeners, and what better way to open it with one of our favorite directors and three of his great films - John Carpenter and his Apocalypse Trilogy! For those who haven’t heard of this yet, John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy just happens to cover the three movies all three of the Sneople have seen: The Thing (1982), Prince of Darkness (1987),...

Hello beloved listeners, and welcome to the 100th episode of Sneople at the Movies!! We’re so glad to be celebrating such an incredible milestone with y’all, and we’re doing so by taking a break from our normal format. For this episode, we’re trying something new while going back to our very earliest days. Instead of our normal talk show, we spend this episode doing a commentary track for the movi...

It’s a bit late in the year to realize we didn’t do an ep for this year’s Oscars, beloved listeners, but don’t worry! This week, to make up for it, we’re talking about the 75th Academy Awards instead, covering movies that came out in 2002! As per most Oscars related episodes, there is a little bit of complaining about what the Academy Awards are like these days, but the Sneople quickly move on to...

Thrilling news, beloved listeners - Helena is back, and we’re spending her returning ep catching up on all the movies she’s watched in her absence! After a brief explanation of where exactly Helena has been for the past couple of eps (theater!), we delve into Helena’s extensive “What We Sneep” list. This covers everything from a wide variety of horror films, rewatches of the hits of the 80’s, 90’s...

Helena is still out of office, which means Matty and Ezra have once again been left to their very nerdy devices. Get ready for an episode a long time coming, beloved listeners: Video Game Movies! From horror to the horrible and everything in between, Matty and Ezra talk about what makes video games difficult to translate to film, why video game movies are becoming more popular as time goes on, and...

Excellent news, beloved listeners! We have a new kind of episode to present to you this week: Remake Rumble, where we pit an original film against it's remake to see which is better. We’re going to open this new episode format with a fun pair of films - John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and it’s 2005 remake! Matty and Ezra start by describing the plots of the films, so if you haven’t...

The gang is all together again, and they’re stoked to talk a significant year in film this week - 1999! They cover the movies they love, they ones they forgot about, the movies that lasted, and the ones that were hits at the time and ended up being forgotten. They also talk about the actors that had their careers start in ‘99, several of which were surprising to them! This episode also features a...

Sorry for the delay, beloved listeners, and sorry again that we are missing another Sneople on this ep (Matty this time), but thrilled to announce the topic is a fun one worth waiting for - we’re talking color and Technicolor this week! Starting off with the movie that inspired the topic (Ladyhawke (1985)), the Sneople move onto Technicolor film and why they enjoy it/what makes it so impressive. F...

No Ezra this week, beloved listeners, but in exchange we have a much anticipated (by us) episode to share - the return of Ben Hamlin to talk the Scream series! After a robust What We Sneep (per usual), we delve right into what we love about the series and what drew us into the Scream movies in the first place. From there, we sidetrack into Scream 5+6 and what we….don’t like about the new entries i...

As you are likely aware, the Sneople took quite a long break before their last episode - as such, they have seen quite a few things recently and it’s time for yet another What We Sneep ep to cover them all! Starting with Ezra’s smaller group of films (and also a lot of Elder Scrolls talk), they then movie into Matty and Helena’s lists, which were, in turn, 30 and 33 movies long. The three of them...

Welcome home, beloved listeners! After a month and a half long unexpected hiatus (oops?), Sneople has returned with an episode about a banger of a film that they discussed briefly on the last ep - Lair of the White Worm! Skipping What We Sneep this week (they’re going to do a whole what we sneep episode next time), they get right into trying desperately to explain the plot of the film, but get eas...

There’s no Ezra this week, beloved listeners, so left to their own devices Matty and Helena are choosing to dive into a topic relevant to the films they’ve been watching recently: goopy horror! Though they start with goopy horror of the Return of the Living Dead and (extremely hilarious) Doom (2005) kind, topics end up going all over the place from interesting years in film, to the shifts in M. Ni...

It’s been a long winter, beloved listeners, and we’re all feeling pretty sleepy. For this week, we’re returning to an old favorite episode topic to give you some film recs for these chilly nights: a full episode of What We Sneep! Between the three of them, they cover Black Sails, Triplets of Belleville, Yona of the Dawn, Crimes of the Future, Saved!, and Return of the Jedi as seen in theaters, as...

The Sneople are returning to an old favorite topic this week, beloved listeners - defending the bad films we love and the good movies that get too much flack! Between Brothers Grimm (2005), Doom (also from 2005), Across the Universe (2007), National Treasure (2004 - a trend here, maybe?), they have plenty of films to discuss and lovingly rag on. There’s also a fistful of good movies that get a bad...

Welcome back, beloved listeners! We’ve returned from our end of year break with Helena’s much delayed birthday episode, and we’re doing Noir this week, specifically featuring Night of the Hunter (1955) and Out of the Past (1947)! After reviewing the fistfuls of movies and media we got into over the break, the Sneople set forth a definition for noir (though they know it’s not the only one) as well...