Scannain Podcast - #38 - 2018

This week, host Darren Mooney joins Jason Coyle, Grace Duffy and Luke Dunne from Film in Dublin to 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, Grace discusses her love of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and encourages a Bruce Springsteen singalong, Jason blazes through a twelve-film week and contemplates the seventies fetishism of A Star is Born, and Luke discusses Maniac and the strange intoxicating allure of Venom. Complete with mumbly Tom Hardy impressions.

The top ten:

1. Venom
2. A Star is Born
3. Johnny English Strikes Again
4. Night School
5. The House With A Clock In Its Walls
6. Black '47
7. Aida at Met Opera 2018
8. A Simple Favour
9. Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation
10. Crazy Rich Asians

New releases:

• 22 July
• Apostle
• Smallfoot
• Mandy
• Rosie
• Bad Times at the El Royale
• First Man