Tearing apart your favorite movies
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. More...
How on earth (or any other planet) was James Cameron's 2009 film "Avatar" nominated for 9 Oscars and how is it currently the highest-grossing movie of all time? This movie doesn't brand itself as an animated film, even though it is, and somehow it won the Oscar for Best Cinematography. More...
Two violent criminals invade a house in which an 8-year-old child has been abandoned while his family goes on vacation to Paris. The 1990 classic film, "Home Alone," shows us that child endangerment is more fun than a barrel of monkeys. More...
A mentally ill author, a spunky waitress, and a gay painter show us that all you need to do in life to find true happiness is settle for less in the 1997 Best Picture nominee "As Good as It Gets." More...
Real-life professional American football player (and actual human being, mind you) Michael Oher, who is the subject of the 2009 Oscar-nominated sappy box office smash hit “The Blind Side,” isn’t the biggest fan of how he was depicted in this movie — and we can’t blame him. More...
Dear Mr. Vernon,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice 97 minutes to watch this movie. But we think you're crazy to consider this an acceptable piece of art. More...
We all know the awful sound of connecting to dial-up. But can you imagine a whole movie as painful as that? Yeah? Then join us as we tear apart the sickly-sweet 1998 romantic comedy about two people conducting emotional affairs: "You've Got Mail." More...
This week we have a Bogie in our sights as we tear apart one of the most acclaimed movies in Hollywood history, "Casablanca." This 1942 film noir "masterpiece" tends to stirrup the emotions in critics, but we feel that it's time to put it out to pasture. More...
With today being Election Day, we considered covering a movie about the Apocalypse, but instead decided to tear apart a movie about a U.S. president. So we went with the 1995 so-called romantic comedy "The American President." More...
Happy Halloween!
This week on Film Snuff, we release our own philosophical tome and craft an episode devoted to pretension, emotional depth, and the poignancy of mental illness. More...
The first rule of this podcast is: you do not pretend that this movie is good. The second rule of this podcast is: YOU DO NOT PRETEND THAT THIS MOVIE IS GOOD! More...
How this paper-thin road trip movie was nominated for Best Picture is beyond us. And how on earth did it *win* Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (for Alan Arkin)? We don’t know, but we’re quite mad about it. More...
This beloved zany flick starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro milks running bad jokes more than that male nurse Gaylord Focker milks cats. More...
Take a deep breath. Remember, don't forget to breathe. Always breathe! Yes, this week we are snuffing out the 1984 film, "The Karate Kid." Not any of the sequels, but the first one. The original. And when we’re done with it, it’ll be extra crispy. More...
This week we tear apart David O. Russell’s 2012 film that was nominated for eight Oscars, “Silver Linings Playbook.” Bradley Cooper plays a guy who gets out of a mental institution and tries to get his wife back, until he meets Jennifer Lawrence’s character and they start dancing or something. More...
This week we’re tearing apart the beloved romantic comedy from 2003 “Love Actually.” This star-studded cast of British regulars (and Laura Linney) intersect in a tangled web of love (I guess) in London that would make Robert Altman spin in his grave. More...
In the inaugural episode of Film Snuff, we tear apart a beloved classic from our childhoods, the 1992 film “The Mighty Ducks,” a movie so popular that it spawned two sequels, an animated TV series, and a professional hockey team. More...
A sneak peak at FILM SNUFF, a new comedy podcast where hosts Keating Thomas & Jim offer a different bent on all those “bad movie podcasts” out there that usually take the worst movies ever made that everyone agrees are terrible—and most of us haven’t either seen or even heard of—and rip them apart. More...