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Oct 31, 2017

Happy Halloween! Back in the year 1996, famed horror director Wes Craven and the dude who made "Dawson’s Creek," Kevin Williamson, got together to produce an ultra-self-referential stabfest called "Scream." It led to three sequels as well as a TV series, and it launched the careers of some of the most annoying people the '90s had to offer.

Neve Campbell plays Sidney Prescott, a virginal 23-year-old high school student who can inexplicably beat up accomplished murderers twice her size.

1-800-COLLECT spokesperson David Arquette plays the same weirdo character he played in every movie he has ever been cast in. Why was this guy a thing?

Courteney Cox plays Gale Weathers, a tabloid TV journalist who nowadays would be the most well-respected person on CNN.

Skeet Ulrich plays Billy Loomis, a poor man's Johnny Depp who loves comparing his relationship with Neve Campbell to the MPAA rating system.

Matthew Lillard is the biggest toolbag ever. And that's it.

Jamie Kennedy plays Randy Meeks, a movie-obsessed video store clerk who loves lecturing his peers on about the rules of slasher movies, like all those annoying pricks you went to high school with.

Drew Barrymore plays Casey Becker. She dies in the first scene and watching her get murdered is the best part of the movie.

Liev Schreiber weirdly is in this movie for 15 seconds on a TV screen.

Henry Winkler plays Principal Himbry. Too bad he didn’t jump any sharks in this one.

Join us as we learn of Jim's undying hatred of Matthew Lillard, Keating's hatred of Jamie Kennedy, and how the Blue Collar Comedy Tour is connected to Harvey Weinstein.

Tell us what you think by chatting with us (@filmsnuff) on TwitterFacebook and Instagram, or by shooting us an email over at mailbag@filmsnuff.com.

This episode is sponsored by Fatbit.

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Oct 24, 2017

If you build it (a baseball field for ghosts who were banned from the major leagues for cheating) and you kidnap a civil rights activist, he (the ghost of your estranged dad) will come. As a fringe benefit, a bunch of sightseers will also show up so you can turn your home into a profitable tourist trap.

The elaborate 1989 séance/time travel film, "Field of Dreams," was nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture, and is said to make grown men cry. It certainly made us cry, but for different reasons. 

Kevin Costner plays Ray Kinsella, a schizophrenic farmer with major daddy issues who bankrupts his family by following the instructions he receives from the voices in his head.

Ray Liotta plays the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson, a sympathetic specter of the disgraced baseball legend. The film's version of Shoeless Joe ignores the fact that he was a left-handed batter, and it also ignores his characteristic dull-wittedness in favor of some sort of sage-like omniscience mixed in with weird maniacal hatred of Ty Cobb.

James Earl Jones plays Terence Mann, a '60s civil rights activist and author who has given up on the world and become a curmudgeonly recluse. After being kidnapped, Jones gets Stockholm syndrome and also somehow catches Kevin Costner’s schizophrenia because he too starts hearing voices. He also ends up becoming a ghost or something.

Join us as we wonder why there would be ghost umpires at this baseball field, if the old doctor was cheating on his wife, and why this movie's hashtag should be "#MAGA."

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This episode is sponsored by Slutty Icons.

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Oct 17, 2017

Lasse Hallström's 1999 Oscar darling "The Cider House Rules" is crafted to seem like a heartwarming coming-of-age story about leaving childhood behind, falling in love for the first time and accepting adult responsibilities. However, under the schmaltzy score and eccentric characters, it's really just an incoherent pro-choice diatribe that ends up having nothing to say on the issue. 

Tobey Maguire plays Homer Wells, an orphan who was taught how to perform abortions against his will and then becomes an apple picker. 

Michael Caine plays Dr. Wilbur Larch, a ether-addicted obstetrician and gynecologist who forces Homer Wells to do his bidding. 

Charlize Theron plays Candy Kendall, a mercurial daughter of a lobsterman who has an abortion at an orphanage and then cheats on her boyfriend as he fights in WWII with Homer. 

Paul Rudd plays Wally Worthington, the aforementioned Charlize boyfriend who invites Homer into his life, only to have him bang his lady while he's away at war. 

Join us as we try to determine what accent Paul Rudd was doing here, create a disturbing new superhero, and wonder why this abortion of a movie won Oscars.

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This episode is sponsored by New-and-Improved Glory.

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Oct 10, 2017

We want to introduce you to a brand-new bonus segment we'll be doing sporadically on Film Snuff that we're calling "In Theaters." This is our immediate reaction after seeing a new movie we're interested in that was just widely released theatrically.

In this debut installment of In Theaters, we discuss "Blade Runner 2049," the sequel 35 years in the making to Ridley Scott's 1982 cult classic "Blade Runner."

Ryan Gosling plays Officer K, a blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department 30 years after the events of the first film. Officer K unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (with Harrison Ford reprising his role from the original film), a former Blade Runner who's been missing since 2019.

**NOTE: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS**

Quick Facts

Released widely: Oct. 6, 2017

Runtime: 2 hours 43 minutes

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Mackenzie Davis

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

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Oct 3, 2017

G'day, mates! The 1986 Aussie-American comedy "Crocodile Dundee" takes us deep into the Outback on a harrowin’ journey with poisonous snakes, gun-totin’ roos and giant rubber crocs. It also takes us to New York City where the hero of the story goes around Manhattan while casually assaulting newspaper editors, pimps, cross-dressers and small-knife-wielding, would-be muggers.

Paul Hogan plays Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee, a possibly magical, fun-lovin’ big-knife-wielding bloke who enjoys knocking unsuspecting people unconscious, shooting at drunken idiots and poaching protected wildlife. He's perfectly content walking about the world by himself until he meets a "sheila" with a nice arse and is quickly swept away.

Linda Kozlowski plays Sue Charlton, a plucky young reporter who enjoys cheating on her boyfriend and jet setting around the world to write trivial articles while exclusively staying in extravagant 5-star hotels because her daddy owns the newspaper she works for. 

Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow from "Family Matters") plays Gus, the newspaper's apparent full-time kindly limo driver who loves to drink on the job and throw makeshift boomerangs at pimps.

Join us as we recount a time we almost got charged by an angry bull, as we wonder why Americans were so obsessed with Australia in the 1980s, and as we try to come up with interesting slogans for cocaine.

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This episode is sponsored by No Regret It Credit.

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