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Now displaying: January, 2017
Jan 31, 2017

The 2015 Academy darling "The Big Short" focuses on a band of sanctimonious Wall Street traders. The director of "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" and "The Other Guys," Adam McKay, has now decided that he’s a serious auteur filmmaker all the sudden. He took the very complicated subject of the 2007 market collapse and dumbed it down as much as possible to the point where the movie ends up being exceptionally boring and convoluted.

Throughout this film, numerous celebrity cameos tell us how high finance works. We suggest a few celebrities who they should they should have added into the mix.

The author of the story, Michael Lewis, habitually needs to turn every person he writes about into an eccentric underdog caricature when they are anything but. We're sorry, but the people who work at the top banks in world are not the little guy. These people aren't Robin Hoods. Yes, they stole from the rich, but instead of giving to the poor they lined their own pockets.

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This episode is sponsored by Long Con Silver's.

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Jan 26, 2017

On this special episode of Film Snuff, we are guiding you through the recently announced Oscar nominations for movies released in 2016 while also giving you our take on them.

We discuss the record-tying 14 nominations by "La La Land," Meryl Streep's 20th nomination, and, of course, Mel Gibson's surprise nod for Best Director.

Follow along by visiting filmsnuff.com/2017OscarNoms, where we have provided a list of the nominations in the order we read them.

Also, we are announcing our Film Snuff Oscar Pool that is open to any listeners who want to play. Just email us at mailbag@filmsnuff.com to sign up. The Top 5 winners will have their names read on our episode following the Academy Awards ceremony.

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Jan 24, 2017

We tried to tap-dance around the subject, but we couldn't manage to keep our big yaps shut about the 2011 Best Picture winner, "The Artist." Despite the silent nature of this film, the movie's transparent pandering to the Academy came in loud and clear. Hollywood loves to wash its own balls any chance they get, but they really outdid themselves with this gimmicky dog[BLEEP].

Jean Dujardin plays George Valentin, a pathetic narcissistic mime who falls into despair because he doesn't have the cojones to make an attempt to transition his career from silent pictures to "talkies."

Bérénice Bejo plays Peppy Miller, Hollywood's newest "It Girl," Valentin's creepy stalker and the world's worst driver. Oh yeah, she also has a fake mole.

Uggie the dog plays a poor man's Eddie from "Frasier."

So sit back, relax and enjoy this extremely talkative podcast about a silent movie.

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This episode is sponsored by Poached Jerky.

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Jan 17, 2017

A great thinker and out-of-work electrician once said, "With great power comes great responsibility." 2002's MTV Movie Award-winner for Best Kiss, "Spider-Man," failed to live up to the great responsibility of its $140M budget and spun a web of awful performances, lame special effects, and jokes that fell flat.

58-year-old Tobey Maguire plays a teenage Peter Parker, a puny orphaned nerd who dreams in vain of getting the girl next door until a magical mutant spider bites him while he is on a class field trip and changes him into a muscular half-man, half-spider full of baby batter.

Kirsten Dunst plays Mary Jane, a vapid aspiring actress who changes boyfriends every five seconds until she sees how far Spider-Man can shoot his trouser gravy and falls in love.

James Franco plays Harry Osborn, a whiny rich brat who pretends to be Peter Parker's best friend while he secretly goes behind his back and steals the love of Peter's life.

Willem Dafoe plays Dr. Osborn, the father of Harry and a scientist who turns himself into a psychopathic supervillain, the Green Goblin. And Dafoe is such a method actor, that he still looks like a goblin to this day.

So, put on your pearl necklace, pour yourself a protein shake, and join us for this in-your-face load of laughs.

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This episode is sponsored by President Goggles.

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Jan 10, 2017

On May 16, 1986 the United States Navy released a propaganda film featuring some of the worst music ever created. Its purpose was to brainwash young men into signing up for the military by offering them false hope of becoming the best fighter pilots in the world.

Sadly, they succeeded.

We've got our Ray-Bans on and our bodies all oiled up for our trip to the danger zone. We feel the need... the need for showers to wash off the douchiness of 1986's highest grossing film, "Top Gun."

Tom Cruise plays "Maverick," a mentally-damaged man-child with a tendency to put his fellow aviators at risk, which he attributes to his daddy being shot down in Vietnam. Anthony Edwards plays "Goose," Maverick's conflicted sidekick who is clearly romantically in love with Maverick despite being married. Val Kilmer plays "Iceman," an ultra-80s cliché opponent for the protagonist to best. Kelly McGillis plays "Charlie," an unethical flight instructor who engages in a super cheesy slowmo sex romp with her student while unforgivably bad music plays.

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This episode is sponsored by ShameHoleBusters.

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Jan 3, 2017

Woody Allen won an Oscar for writing the 2011 film “Midnight in Paris” that pretends to assail pretension and nostalgic yearning for different artistic eras when, at the same time, all the movie does is romanticize different artistic eras in the most pretentious way possible.

Aside from its bizarre 3 1⁄2-minute pre-credits opening montage showing second-unit shots of iconic touristy spots in Paris to its unnecessary sitcom B-story, this movie is essentially just a time travel gimmick that plays more like an insufferable grad student listing famous old writers and artists than interesting historical fiction.

Owen Wilson plays a Hollywood screenwriter who wishes he were a novelist, so he wanders the streets of Paris every night—and at the stroke of 12 a.m.—travels back in time, where he encounters the likes of Cole Porter, Alice B. Toklas, Josephine Baker, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, T. S. Eliot, Henri Matisse, and Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. And most of these are played by famous actors doing horrible impressions rather than trying to embody characters.

Hey, Woody Allen, we, too, long for a different artistic era; one where this movie doesn't exist yet.

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This episode is sponsored by Incestry.com.

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