Scannain Podcast - #43 - 2018

It's time for the latest Scannain podcast! A somewhat abridged edition this week, due to time constraints.

This week, Darren Mooney, Jay Coyle and Grace Duffy 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, Jay discusses continues his disaster movie marathon with Volcano and the questionable inclusion of Cliffhanger. Varda Season continues apace. Meanwhile, Grace gets into the Christmas spirit and walks us through some highlights of her binge of research into Netflix's Christmas films.

The news this week is abridged, but there's a brief discussion of the passing of Stan Lee and the awards given out by Irish Film London before the Irish Film Festival London.

The top ten:

1. The Grinch
2. Bohemian Rhapsody
3. A Star is Born
4. Widows
5. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
6. Smallfoot
7. Johnny English Strikes Again
8. Overlord
9. Goosebumps II: Haunted Halloween
10. Hurricane (Squadron 303)

New releases:

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Cam
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• The Price of Everything
• Siberia
• Suspiria