The Film Snobs

Heyoooo Snobbies! It is a new week and a new pick in the RAD DAD’s Saga. This week we have ETHAN’s pick and let me tell you…Life is Beautiful…but so if this film. No…like, that is the name of the film. Roberto Benigni directs and stars in this classic piece of cinema where a young man falls in love, loves his family, then keeps life alive in his son amidst impossible odds. A stunning film on the p...

Come one, come all. Today we have ETHAN JASSO back in the house!!! As well as guest star DALTON PHILLIPS! But today is Caleb Zehr’s pick for this week’s RAD DAD movie and it is Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade.” Yes, that’s right. The YouTube Phenom has made a movie and this film is a true beauty of classic youth Americana. As promised, we also delve right back into the trial of the century. Is Caleb Ze...

HOOK, HOOK, HOOK, Gimme the HOOK! Snobbies. This episode is magical. This episode can cure the common cold ANNNNND make you a better person. In this episode we tackle Steven Spielberg’s, “Hook.” Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Smith?! POWERHOUSE line-up for this ultimate classic on the joy of retaining your childhood innocence. In this pod, Eric gushes over this being his fav...

SNOBBIES. RAD DADS ARE IN!!! This month we try to find the most Rad of Dads. It's a competition. We've seen too many Bad Dads and we need to break this curse. What we have here is a first. Lets just say it. We watched a Twilight movie. Most of us have not watched ANY Twilight movies and Ricky's pick for today was the very last one, haha. Director Bill Condon, known for films like The Twilight Saga...

Snobbies…we have ARRIVED. This marks the end of the Yummy Movies journey and it has been truly delightful. Heavyweights, Chef, The Lunchbox, Holy Motors, and Phantom Thread. And that’s what we watched today! Phantom Thread, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is a true thinker and feeler. On initial watch we Snobs were perplexed. On further watches, some Snobs talked about its complexities. We reall...

SNOBBIES! This is a chat for the ages. We have the whole gang back together and a special guest NICK KOZLAREK! Today we discuss the classic, the everlasting, the eternally joyful movie...CHEF! Directed and starred by Jon Favreau, we take a journey following a man who has blown up his food career and is looking for rebirth in a busted up food truck. Chef is a delightful movie that deals with heartb...

WHAT. A. TREAT!! The other Snobs couldn't be bothered showing up today...so Jared and Eric have decided to grace us with the first of many fireside chats talking about rare gems. This week, they talked about ANIMA. A short film/music video directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Radiohead's Thom Yorke. This is too beautiful to really put down into words and IF YOU'RE READING THIS RIGHT NOW,...

Ricky's pick this week as we dive head first into yummy movies...in a pick that baffles the mind, ponders the meaning, and excites the senses. We watched, in what Jared calls, "One of the greatest of all time..." and "The role of a lifetime for Denis Lavant," We watched...HOLY MOTORS! A film directed by: Leos Carax. This was a crazy one folks. There was a LOT to discuss here and we dive into ALL o...

Buckle up Snobbies for quite possibly the most yummy movies that we've talked about to date. This week, we watched Ritesh Batra's "The Lunchbox." A film where a woman tries to gain back the love and affection of her man through food, but accidentally sends the lunch to another man. This episode has love, intrigue, suspense, and just warm warm feelings throughout. This was a real shocker for the sn...

I drink Success for Breakfast....with Skim Milk! That's right people, We watched HEAVYWEIGHTS!! The classic, the immortal, the evergreen movie of the 90's, arguably Ben Stillers greatest role of all time. Steven Brill, who directs this film and co-wrote it with Judd Apatow, has perfectly encapsulated the teenage summer camp experience...for fat kids. In this episode, we talk about our camp history...

Welcome Snobbies to Wild Goose Lake, a film directed by Yi'nan Diao. Today was Caleb’s pick for movies that are hot and it was a great film. In today’s episode we have guest Hamilton Patrick! We discuss the movies subtle takes on surveillance culture, Police culture, and it takes place in Wuhan, so COVID culture? This one is a wild ride with incredibly beautiful shots and compelling characters. En...

"Drive it like ya stole it..." Yeah BABAY! We watched John Carney's beautiful film and according to Ricky..."much better than Once,"...we saw SING STREET this week. From acclaimed movies like, "Once," & "Begin Again," comes a lovely film about young love, making a band, Irish life in the 80's, and opportunity through song. We loved this film and it shows. Joining us was our guest, Ethan's room...

Hello and welcome to 108 L-O-V-E radio. Your hosts for this week are THE FILM SNOBS, and that’s the double truth, Ruth. We watched Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” and yes, we are four white guys and one hispanic guy talking about one of the most important Black films to come out in decades. Join us on our journey through talking about this film. We talk about it all! Film Discussed: Do The Right...

DA NA......DA NA.....DA NA.....that's right. WE WATCHED JAWS! The Iconic Steven Spielberg summer blockbuster that actually kicked off the idea of having summer blockbusters! This film has buckets of blood, good shots, zooms, and dialogue...not to mention one of the greatest speeches in a film I've ever seen. We crack this one open and talk through the trivia and behind the scenes info that you mig...

Hi. This week we start watching movies that deal with the theme of being HOT, warm, scorching, sweltering, blisteringly HOT! Ricky’s pick is an incredible film by Director László Nemes, which follows a series of events leading up to WWI. Sunset, or "Napszállta" (in the true Hungarian) has a synopsis goes like this: A young girl grows up to become a strong and fearless woman in Budapest before Worl...

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! It's finally here folks. We are talking about THE great Terrence Malick...and we are talking about quite possibly THE most beautiful film he's ever created, "The New World." Buckle up everyone, because this is one of our favorite directors of all time. In this film, we get a first hand account of America's Princess Pocahontas. In this episode we talk about how terrible Chri...

Ethan's pick for this week's episode of Princess Month comes from a renowned director Guillermo del Toro, "Pan's Labyrinth." The Snobs continue on the journey to discover...Who is Pan? Spoilers...we have no idea...ALSO, we discuss piles of shoes, eye hands man, shaving, Princess Moanna, and Ethan brings this episode in with a Spanish intro. What more could you possibly want? Like really though. We...

Yoyoyo Snobbies! We are very excited about this episode of The Film Snobs. Today, we have Ricky's pick for Princess Month, and are diving head first into the beautiful, serene, and peaceful land of Studio Ghibli. Director Isao Takahata brings us a stunning and perfectly simple tale in "The Tale of The Princess Kaguya." Somehow, we manage to make our way through this movie without crying and talk a...

Welcome back Snobbies! Whoa, you are in for a trippy treat with this one. This week we watched Caleb's pick involving a princess that is going to be betrothed to her father...yeah. After his wife dies and says he can't re-marry unless it's with someone as beautiful as her...YEP! Okay! We are getting into it with, well...incest issues, the skin of a Donkey, Musical pig bands, helicopters, slow-moti...

Hello and WELCOME to Princess Month. GUEST STAR Jeremiah Harris! Today we have a special treat from director Hsiao-Hsien Hou in a movie that was very under noticed in 2015. The film is "The Assassin." This month we wanted to feature princess in a different light. Not your run of the mill Disney Princess Month, nooooo. This is gonna be an education! We had both a lot to say and we were still left s...

Hey SNOBBIES. We are excited to release our yearly talk about the films that gave us goosebumps, tears, snooze, boos, and everything else. We share our top 10 of the 2020's and what films in 2021 blew us away. Ricky decided to show up 40 minutes late, but he manages to give his picks as well. Top shot, best scene, best performance (male or female), overrated, underrated, and hidden gem. This episo...

WELCOME Snobbies….to the end of a JOURNEY! It has been quite the trek that you’ve taken with us for our fifth and final film of the “Going on a Journey) podcast selection! This week we have Jared’s pick as he chooses Bi Gan's unbelievable masterpiece, "Long Day's Journey into Night." In this film we discuss a variety of topic that include this filmmaker's style, his vision, and his unprecedented t...

Caleb's pick for this lane of the "Going on a Journey" highway is Kevin Lima's, "A Goofy Movie." (1995). A Disney classic of the 90's kid in all of us. For those who grew up on this movie, it is a stroll down memory lane. For those who didn't, it's probably not that great. We have enough of a mix in this episode as guest star Sammie Wickham join's us on the pod to discuss murder, Powerline, Father...

Eric's pic for the week takes us on.....yep....A JOURNEY! Three brothers take a train to find their mother in the vast and beautiful landscape of india in Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited." In this episode we discuss the pretty as a picture film style of Wes and how he weaves a touching narrative about brothers finding their relationship with each other and reconnecting in brotherly love. Th...

Welcome back Snobbies! Sorry for the brief hiatus. This movie was LOOOOONG. Today we have Ethan's pick for a journey film and he went with Wim Wender's four hour director's cut epic "Until the End of the World." The original cut is 2h 38m, but we watched the LOOOOONG version. It is the superior cut for sure, as we found out. In this episode, we follow our characters on an EPIC globe trotting journ...