Sneople At The Movies

It’s time to cozy up with a book and dive into an good mystery, beloved listeners, because this week on Sneople we’re talking Whodunnits! Starting with the new (Glass Onion, See How They Run), The Sneople move onto the older (Inspector Morse, Miss FIsher’s Murder Mysteries) before somehow ending up on musical episodes of TV. They also spend a decent amount of time discussing the new Three Pines sh...

It’s our second birthday episode of the year, beloved listeners, and this week on Sneople at the Movies it’s Ezra’s turn to pick a topic: 70’s Movie Musicals! After a good long What We Sneep, the Sneople start off with discussing what two of Ezra’s picks (Cabaret and Fiddler on the Roof) have in common and why they’re both such good examples of the musical genre. From there, they dip their toes in...

To round out the Halloween season, Sneople has friend of the show Leah back on to discuss one of her favorite genres: Kids on Bikes! Starting (as per usual) with a definition of the genre, Matty, Helena, and Leah (No Ezra this week!) delve into some of the notable members of the genre and why they think they work or don’t work. Examples include Super 8, IT (both the mini series and the newer films...

This week on Sneople, we bring back Friend of the Show and beloved guest Madeline Shier (@madelinejustsay) to talk, unsurprisingly, about Star Wars (specifically Andor and the prequels)! Madeline, Matty, and Helena (No Ezra this week!) start off with a spoiler-filled discussion of Andor episodes 1-5, why they’ve liked it so far, and what makes it so different from the other Star Wars shows. From t...

It’s the greatest time of year, beloved listeners - Halloween! This year, the Sneople are kicking it off with a discussion on what makes a good Halloween movie, for horror fans and non-horror fans alike! Matty and Helena kick off the discussion as the horror fans of the show, talking about the slashers and thrillers they’re looking forward to this season (not including Matty’s yearly Dracula Watch...

No Matty this week, beloved listeners, but Ezra and Helena are forging ahead to have a winding discussion on the things they’ve seen recently this week on Sneople! In typical Sneople fashion, they cover everything from Star Wars to The Before Trilogy to the Recobbled version of The Thief and the Cobbler. They wrap up the ep with Ezra’s takes on the new Rings of Power show — and you KNOW that inclu...

It’s been a while, beloved listeners! Thank you so much for your patience while we worked on this one, but the time has finally come for Sneople episode 80! This week, we’re talking Film of the 70’s! After a What We Sneep covering what Ezra's seen this summer since they missed the last episode, our hosts dive right into some hits of the 70’s and what makes them stand out, including The Godfather,...

It’s a What We Sneep this week on Sneople at the Movies as we catch up on what we’ve watched this summer, but this time we’re joined by a returning guest - Ben Hamlin of Syndicated with Lesley and Ben! Starting with Ben, all three hosts go through what they’ve watched since late May - this runs the gamut from Mad God (2021) to Heat (1995) to Die Another Day (2002) to Paprika (2006) to Barton Fink...

After an accidental month and a half long hiatus, the Sneople are back and better than ever with Matty’s Birthday episode pick - an Unusual Double Feature of Jaws and Dog Day Afternoon! The Sneople forgo their usual What We Sneep this week to get right into the heart of the matter (don’t worry, they’ll do a full ep on that topic next time): What makes these two movies go so well together? In typic...

Happy Pride, beloved listeners! To kick the month off right, Matty and Helena are tackling a topic long overdue: Queer Cinema! Like many episodes, this one starts with your Sneople going down a list of films and discussing which ones they love and which they think can be passed. This covers everything from cult classics (But I’m a Cheerleader) to recent popular hits (Moonlight) to some of their pe...

The Kenobi show is releasing it’s first episode tomorrow (05/27), beloved listeners, and if it wasn’t obvious from this week’s title, your Sneople are sneaking in their own episode on the career of the show’s protagonist: Ewan McGregor! The discussion starts in the What We Sneep segment, as two of the Sneople talk about something they saw him in recently: Birds of Prey and Doctor Sleep (2019). Fro...

Halloween is quite a ways away, beloved listeners, but for the Sneople (and Jonathan Harker), vampire season has just begun! This week, Matty, Ezra, and Helena talk about the new craze sweeping (parts of) the Internet - Dracula Daily! For those who haven’t heard, Dracula Daily is a Substack where pieces of the original Dracula novel is emailed to you as days pass in the novel - since the novel is...

We’re down a Helena this week on Sneople at the Movies, but in exchange we have a very special guest - Ben Hamlin of Syndicated with Lesley and Ben and ParaScience (aka Producer Ben who is also our friend). He also suggested our topic this week: Horror movies focused on Haunted Locations! The assorted Sneople and guest break down different variations on this topic (such as places that are haunted...

Sneople is Matty-less this week, beloved listeners, but that isn’t stopping the remaining hosts from talking their current TV obsessions on this week’s episode! What We Sneep flows right into the topic of the episode, as Helena and Ezra discuss a few of their current watches, including Our Flag Means Death, Severance, and The Haunting of Bly Manor! They also talk Black Flag , Star Trek: Picard, a...

It’s the biggest night of the Film Year, beloved listeners, and what a night it was this year! It’s our Oscars 2022 recap episode! The Sneople dive right into the thick of things with their thoughts on the Oscars ceremony this year, from the cut awards to the Fan Awards and everything in between. From there, they move into Matty’s Fashion Report before tackling The Helena Awards for this year, whe...

It’s that time of year, beloved listeners, and the Sneople are ahead of the curve for once - we’re talking about the 2022 Oscar noms this week! If you haven’t yet heard, there’s already a lot of drama (haha) about the Oscars this year, which the Sneople gleefully get into. Afterwards, they begin their traditional run down of the nominations and what they think of them, though it’s too early to get...

We’re a little late to both Valentine’s Day and our Three Year Anniversary (snanniversary?) beloved listeners, but not too late to tackle this week’s topic - Romcoms! Starting with what makes a romcom work and how it’s different from just plain old romance films, the Sneople then turn their attention to a long and joyfully discussed list of their top romcom hits and misses. After Helena makes an l...

It’s the long awaited (by us) Episode 69 of Sneople at the Movies, beloved listeners, and your Sneople are reaching for the low hanging fruit for this one by talking about Sex in Film! They start off with an icebreaker about their most uncomfortable movie sex scene experiences, but things turn pretty serious when they start discussing the current Internet Hot Takes about sex scenes in film. From t...

Welcome to the new year, beloved listeners! The Sneople are (mostly) refreshed and ready to go after their winter break, but they’re easing into the year with something simple - a whole episode of What We Sneep! Between the three of them there’s a lot of cinema ground to cover from the end of the year. They start with the Fellowship of the Ring 20th anniversary (which of course they all celebrated...

In their longest episode yet, the Sneople wraps up 2021 with a tribute to one of their favorite artists, who has recently passed away - Stephen Sondheim! After a very quick What We Sneep, Helena and Ezra embark on a chronological discussion of almost every Sondheim musical, with Matty chiming in once they reach Into the Woods. After Helena dips out of the episode, Matty and Ezra wrap up the list w...

We’re returning to retrospectives this week on Sneople at the Movies with a look into a year that set the stage for what 80’s cinema would become - 1984! Matty and Helena start off with a typical distracted discussion of theater etiquette before getting back on track to go over notable films of the year (spoiler: there’s a lot!) and contrasting that list with what ended up being nominated for Osca...

The season for creeping scares is over, beloved listeners, but that doesn’t mean the love of all things strange has to end - this week, the Sneople take on Weird Sci-fi Movies! After some brief talk on what the best and worst months of the year are, it becomes clear that this episode was recorded on a very special day No, not Ezra’s birthday (though it was pretty close) - it was the one year anniv...

It’s the Season of the Witch, beloved listeners, and although they are down a Sneople, Matty and Ezra bravely press on to talk witches in media for their second Halloween episode of the season! Before they get too deep into their topic, Matty and Ezra take a quick side journey into something that’s been on Ezra’s mind - Fandom Anxiety and feeling like you have to be very serious about everything y...

It’s Halloween (or not far from it), beloved listeners! For the sake of both hosts and listeners less horror-inclined, the Sneople start off the season with something a little easier to handle: horror comedies! The Sneople start off with what makes a horror comedy, the many ways the two genres can mix, and what makes them such a good entry into the horror genre. From there, they talk about horror...

After a fairly heartfelt last episode, the Sneople are well overdue for a goofy ep - don’t worry, beloved listeners, they’ve got you covered. This week on Sneople, we’re pitting two Bad Good movies against each other to see which is the true Best Worst Movie of All Time! In Helena’s corner, we have Deep Blue Sea (1999), and the episode begins with them explaining the plot of the shark-themed horro...