Sneople At The Movies
Film, TV & Pop Culture
About
The Sneople are just three queer nerds who grew up at the beginning of the digital era of fandom and are here to offer a fresh take on what movies mean to them, what it means to be represented in cinema as a queer person and who should win Best Picture this year.
Episodes
- A Little Bit of the Marvel Disease
Quick everyone, imagine John Cena’s entrance theme in your mind. Got it playing? Great, because we’re pulling a Remake Rumble out of the Hiatus Vault - this week, it’s time for a three way match covering all things Magnificent Seven! This…
- Must Love Horses and Independent Film
This week we have an episode out of the Hiatus Vaults, beloved listeners - episodes recorded during our hiatus that were never published. This one is in homage to the late great Robert Redford, recorded shortly after he passed away last ye…
- The Helena Awards 2025
Welcome back, beloved listeners! It’s been an odd several months for the Sneople schedule, but we are back on track - you know there was no way we were gonna miss the Helena Awards! We skip What We Sneep this episode to get right into the…
- Warhammer DNA
It’s been a while since we’ve done an Unusual Double Feature, one of our favorite episode themes, so we are long overdue! This time though, it feels a little less unusual and a little more like a movie blind date - this week, we’re pairing…
- Tom Cruise Fursona
Welcome back, beloved listeners! After a long summer break, the Sneople are back, better than ever, and so extremely ready to tackle this week’s long awaited topic: Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning! There’s a lot of ground to cover…
- Hitting You Like a Sack of Wet Mice
This week on Sneople, the Sneople cover a genre proves a little tricky to define, spans movies, tv, books, and comics, and incites an argument (or two) amongst our hosts - Urban Fantasy! This episode starts, as many do, with definitions -…
- Forever Your Kale
Long delayed but also long in the making, this week the Sneople are finally doing a David Lynch memorial episode! Helena and Matty go a little off the deep end this episode (as they do every episode they’re left to their own devices), cove…
- The Kilmer Cut
This week is a (sort of?) somber episode, beloved listeners - we’ve recorded an homage to the life and career of Val Kilmer, an actor who had a big impact on all of the Sneople. From Top Gun to Batman Forever, Willow to Tombstone, and of c…
- The Helena Awards 2024
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, beloved listeners - after weeks of waiting with baited breath, it’s finally time for this year’s Helena Awards! For those who don’t know, this beautiful yearly tradition has the Sneople running thr…
- Let's Have a Conclave
Due to the Wicked Curse (the curse that breaks the podcast when we talk about Wicked the movie for too long). Thankfully, we were able to push through to present to you - our extremely belated Oscars episode! First and foremost, it’s time…
- Let's All Go to Dragon Land
Happy Snanniversary, beloved listeners!! We’re back after our long break and celebrating our FIVE YEAR (???) anniversary with another film commentary, so load up your DVDs or what have you - it’s time for a watch-along of National Treasure…
- Babyratu
The end of 2024 is fast approaching, beloved listeners, and with it comes both the return of Helena and a rush of new films just in time for the holiday season. This week, the Sneople are starting Awards Season Talk! Helena’s got a lot to…
- An Angel Made of Guns
Welcome back, beloved listeners! This week we’re back after a little break with a new guest - Johnny Rinaldo! You know, the person who makes our incredible intro and outro music? Yeah. AND he’s here to talk about one of his favorite shows…
- Giles-Coded Giles Girl
Happy Halloween, beloved listeners! This week, we’ve got a topic that is both very seasonal and has been a long time coming - vampires! After getting thoroughly distracted for like ten whole minutes by National Mole Day, the Sneople crack…
- Porco Rosso Purgatory
We have a new game for you this week, beloved listeners! Ben from Syndicated with Lesley and Ben returns to the show to play a Chaos in Stereo classic with us - Is It More Like? The rules of the game are simple: in each round, one of the h…
- Angels in Sawmerica
Welcome back, beloved listeners! This week we’re catching up (mostly on Helena’s backlog) with a flashback to high school English class: Roses and Thorns! We’re taking a twist on a long What We Sneep by going through each movie or show we…
- We All Podcast Down Here
Thrilling news, beloved listeners! We have a very special guest this episode - Lys (@daunt_lys on twitter) is on to discuss alien movies with us! After clarifying that this is, in fact, an episode about the genre of alien movies rather tha…
- Notorious Bat Simp
Welcome back, beloved listeners! This week, we’re tackling some movies with bizarre plot twists: The Da Vinci Code, Dracula 2000 and (vaguely), our old friend Van Helsing (2004)! This episode opens with a brief review of the (fascinating?…
- Extremely Hetero Cigarette Sharing
We’re back, beloved listeners, and we’re ringing the imaginary boxing match bell in celebration of this week’s Remake Rumble: 3:10 to Yuma (1957) versus it’s 2007 remake! Per any good Remake Rumble episode, the Sneople spend a little time…
- Hot Film Summer
The summer season is in full swing, beloved listeners, heat waves and all! In order to cope, the Sneople are discussing Summer Movies! Like any good Sneople episode, this one features categories galore, like the difference between a movie…
- Driving Cars and Kicking Ass (and I'm All Out of Ass)
IT’S THEIR BIRTHDAY and by they we mean Matty and by it’s their birthday we mean it was their birthday two weeks ago. The important part is it’s their Birthday Episode and they have a doozy of a triple feature this week - Mad Max 2, Max Ma…
- From the Kids Who Are Gay -
Happy Pride, beloved listeners! This episode, the Sneople are celebrating with an extremely appropriate topic - Camp Film! After a hearty What We Sneep, the Sneople get into describing what they think camp even means when it comes to film,…
- The Dark Souls of Disney
No Ezra this week, beloved listeners, so we’re having our dear friend Ben Hamlin of Syndicated with Leslie and Ben and Parascience back to talk with us about something we didn’t realize we were so passionate about: Movie Trailers! After ca…
- Getting Be-Thinged
Ring the bells and rush to your stadium seats, beloved listeners, because it’s time for another Remake Rumble! This time, it’s one that’s been a long time coming - a three-way fight between The Thing from Another World (1951) vs The Thing…
- The Bouillon of Hamlet
This episode has probably been a long time coming, beloved listeners, but to be fair…it look a long time for SOMEONE (Matty) to do their film homework. Now that they have, the Sneople finally able to discuss the topic of this week’s ep - R…
- Ghostbusters Nepotisim
Awards season is finally over, beloved listeners, but that does not mean we will ever be free of movie related drama - with the announcement of a Night of the Hunter remake, it’s time to tackle a topic long coming: Remakes and Reboots! Sta…
- The Helena Awards 2023
The awards season has finally come to a close, beloved listeners, which means we can address the best and most beloved awards of the season - The Helena Awards! Helena has some new categories this year, including Biggest Oh Shit Moment (Mo…
- Next Time, I Get to Seduce the Rich Guy
Bad news, beloved listeners - one of the Sneople has gotten sucked into a random movie franchise yet again. This time, however, the other two managed to get dragged down with them, so now all of you have to listen to them ramble about our…
- Darth Vader LAN Party
Happy 5th Anniversary, beloved listeners! In celebration, we’ve decided to do another commentary track episode, this time in celebration of a movie we’ve defended with our very lives more than once - Revenge of the Sith! Three…two…one…GO!…
- DILFS ONLY
Our Winter Break is over, beloved listeners, just in time for awards season. Which, obviously, means we’re spending the episode getting into the nitty gritty of the recently released Oscars Nominations! After a shorter than expected What W…
- Sex Symbol Obligations
In our last episode of 2023, the Sneople tackle a topic that has (probably) been a long time coming - the Kenneth Branagh Poirot adaptations! After a brief overview of the other Poirot content they’re familiar with (Hi, David Suchet), the…
- Grim Reaper Gatchapon
This isn’t seasonal, beloved listeners, but the Sneople don’t care - this week, they’re covering action adventure/summer blockbuster hit series, Indiana Jones! After the standard What We Sneep (which mostly is just Indiana Jones movies for…
- Gayly Punting Forward Into the Future
Hello, beloved listeners! It’s another long episode for us, but to be fair, we have a lot to discuss- this week, we’re covering a whole decade: The 80’s! From Kids on Bikes, to Slashers, and every possible genre in between, the Sneople tal…
- Load-Bearing Eyebrows
Happy Halloween, beloved listeners! We’re celebrating the holiday with a return to Remake Rumbles with a couple of pulpy vampire classics: Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night (2011)! After a What We Sneep jam-packed with a surprising amou…
- John Carpenter’s Silent Hill
‘Tis the beginning of the Halloween season, beloved listeners, and what better way to open it with one of our favorite directors and three of his great films - John Carpenter and his Apocalypse Trilogy! For those who haven’t heard of this…
- I Have No Wings and I Must Scream
Hello beloved listeners, and welcome to the 100th episode of Sneople at the Movies!! We’re so glad to be celebrating such an incredible milestone with y’all, and we’re doing so by taking a break from our normal format. For this episode, we…
- George Costanza Era
It’s a bit late in the year to realize we didn’t do an ep for this year’s Oscars, beloved listeners, but don’t worry! This week, to make up for it, we’re talking about the 75th Academy Awards instead, covering movies that came out in 2002!…
- Cabin Pressure Fan Podcast
Thrilling news, beloved listeners - Helena is back, and we’re spending her returning ep catching up on all the movies she’s watched in her absence! After a brief explanation of where exactly Helena has been for the past couple of eps (thea…
- But Pyramid Head is There, So,
Helena is still out of office, which means Matty and Ezra have once again been left to their very nerdy devices. Get ready for an episode a long time coming, beloved listeners: Video Game Movies! From horror to the horrible and everything…
- Just Like Point Break
Excellent news, beloved listeners! We have a new kind of episode to present to you this week: Remake Rumble, where we pit an original film against it's remake to see which is better. We’re going to open this new episode format with a fun p…
- Sixth Sense Kismet
The gang is all together again, and they’re stoked to talk a significant year in film this week - 1999! They cover the movies they love, they ones they forgot about, the movies that lasted, and the ones that were hits at the time and ended…
- Film Grain for Breakfast
Sorry for the delay, beloved listeners, and sorry again that we are missing another Sneople on this ep (Matty this time), but thrilled to announce the topic is a fun one worth waiting for - we’re talking color and Technicolor this week! St…
- The John Wick of Horror
No Ezra this week, beloved listeners, but in exchange we have a much anticipated (by us) episode to share - the return of Ben Hamlin to talk the Scream series! After a robust What We Sneep (per usual), we delve right into what we love abou…
- The Pod(cast) Races
As you are likely aware, the Sneople took quite a long break before their last episode - as such, they have seen quite a few things recently and it’s time for yet another What We Sneep ep to cover them all! Starting with Ezra’s smaller gro…
- Downton Abbey Halloween Special
Welcome home, beloved listeners! After a month and a half long unexpected hiatus (oops?), Sneople has returned with an episode about a banger of a film that they discussed briefly on the last ep - Lair of the White Worm! Skipping What We S…
- No Threshold for Weird
There’s no Ezra this week, beloved listeners, so left to their own devices Matty and Helena are choosing to dive into a topic relevant to the films they’ve been watching recently: goopy horror! Though they start with goopy horror of the Re…
- A Very Special Freak
It’s been a long winter, beloved listeners, and we’re all feeling pretty sleepy. For this week, we’re returning to an old favorite episode topic to give you some film recs for these chilly nights: a full episode of What We Sneep! Between t…
- Renai-Saw-sance
The Sneople are returning to an old favorite topic this week, beloved listeners - defending the bad films we love and the good movies that get too much flack! Between Brothers Grimm (2005), Doom (also from 2005), Across the Universe (2007)…
- Comrade, OUR Birthday
Welcome back, beloved listeners! We’ve returned from our end of year break with Helena’s much delayed birthday episode, and we’re doing Noir this week, specifically featuring Night of the Hunter (1955) and Out of the Past (1947)! After rev…
- The Architecture of the Crime
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 Mor…