Scannain Podcast - #41 - 2018

This week, Darren Mooney, Jay Coyle and Ronan Doyle discuss the week in film. As usual, we talk about the top ten and the new releases, as well as what we've watched this week. In this episode, Jay finally has his say on Mandy and ruminates upon disaster films old and new, while Ronan raves about Dogman and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

The week in film news covers a bumper year for Irish nominees at the British Independent Film Awards, gives a quick shout to the Dublin Feminist Film Festival and discusses the shuttering of Filmstruck and the future of film archiving.

The top ten:

1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. A Star is Born
3. Halloween
4. Smallfoot
5. Goosebumps II: Haunted Halloween
6. Johnny English Strikes Again
7. First Man
8. Venom
9. The Hate You Give
10. La Fanciulla Del West – Met Opera 2018 (Opera)

New releases:

• The Other Side of the Wind
• They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
• Black Mother
• Juliet, Naked
• Peterloo
• The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
• Slaughterhouse Rulez