Scannain Podcast - #37 - 2018

This week, Darren Mooney joins Jason Coyle, Ronan Doyle and Graham Day 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, Graham gives us a peak at upcoming cinematic delights including First Man and Mandy, Ronan discusses the underrated emotional appeal of Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again, and Jay expounds upon his controversial "automatic four star film theory"as it relates to directors like Jeremy Saulnier and S. Craig Zahler.

We also talk about the best ways to celebrate a cinematic Halloween in Dublin, looking at both the Season of the Witch at the Lighthouse and the Horrorthon at the IFI, discuss the recently scheduled release date of The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, and the revelation that Russian bots have been stirring dissent around Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi.

The top ten:

1. Night School
2. The House With A Clock In Its Walls
3. Black '47
4. A Simple Favour
5. Crazy Rich Asians
6. The Nun
7. Christopher Robin
8. Mile 22
9. Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation
10. The Little Stranger

New releases:

• Johnny English Strikes Again
  
• Blindspotting
• Venom
• A Star is Born