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 - what exactly makes an urban fantasy movie, and how is it different from straight up monster movies or something with fantasy elements that takes place in modern times? After a quick but decisive discussion, the Sneople move onto some of their favorites of the genre, dig through multiple lists of “urban fantasy” media to decide if they actually count as part of the genre, and get into why it’s so hard to make urban fantasy work on film. They also, as always, get severely off topic, look at a lot of weird wiki pages, and learn about new weird stuff that they now obviously have to read/watch. Not necessarily in that order.
If you disagree with their definition of urban fantasy and/or want to submit recs for good urban fantasy to read or watch, their email inbox is always open. Keep in mind that they are extremely right about what urban fantasy is, but arguing is still fun anyway!
--------
1:44:05
--------
1:44:05
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), covering Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Dune (obviously) and so so much more. Warning, this episode is full of spoilers/discussion of a variety of Lynch films (though we avoid Twin Peaks spoilers for the most part) - if you wanna avoid that, come back at a later date. It’s okay! We’ll wait.
Thanks David - we’ll be appreciating your work for years and years to come. XOXO to eraserhead baby, we love you little angel
--------
2:06:49
--------
2:06:49
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 course Heat to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the Sneople go through several films featuring Val Kilmer and the many many highlights in his work. Like any of our in memoriam episodes, it’s tricky writing our normal jokey summaries without feeling odd about it, so it’s time to be genuine for three seconds - he was a great actor who did some incredible work, and none of us would be who we are today without Kiss Kiss Bang Bang specifically. Thanks, Val.
Unrelated, but still sincere - apologies for the delayed episode! We’ll have another one out next week per our usual schedule.
--------
1:55:47
--------
1:55:47
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 through a full list of categories both familiar and unique, old and new: from Best Actress and Best Picture to Tex Avery Awooga Wolf Award l and Stupidest Film (Affectionate), the Helena Awards has it all. It is, per usual, the highest of high notes to close out awards season on, and we are thrilled as always to host it. It’s also shorter than watching the actual Oscars AND there’s no ads so really, what do you have to lose?
For those who wish to view the Helena Awards document, you can join the Infinity Break discord at bit.ly/InfinityTalks - it will be shared there in the Sneople channel! Just in case you wanted to revel in the glorious document formatting which, honestly, why wouldn’t you?
--------
2:28:36
--------
2:28:36
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 for a very long What We Sneep spanning back into (checks notes) late 2024. We got Christmas movies, we got movies that we just happened to see on Christmas, we have Helena frantically trying to catch up on Academy Award noms, we have Firefly for some reason, and basically any other type of movie you can possibly imagine. After that, we go through the Oscar noms from Best Picture down, and Helena puts in their guesses for what will win, fantasy football style. Yes, the Oscars have already happened. It’s fine. This just means you get to do the math on how good Helena’s guesses were!
The next episode should be on our regular schedule (barring something happening due to the Wicked Curse), and will be our favorite awards show, The Helena Awards! However, if you want to double check on timing or even just bug us about um. whatever? Then you can find us and any Sneople updates on the Infinity Break discord, bit.ly/InfinityTalks!
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.
Listen to Sneople At The Movies, Kabza de Small & DJ Maphorisa - eMcimbini feat. Samthing Soweto, Aymos, Mas Musiq & Myztro x Suzy Eises Saxophone Cover - Shera The DJ mix. and many other podcasts from around the world with the radio.net app
South Africa