Toni's Film Club

Season 5

15 episodes · Jan 17, 2026

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  • S5E1

    Why This Movie Feels... a bit too real

    Jan 17, 202615m

    Das Boot (1981) is one of the most obsessively realistic war films ever made. It doesn’t chase spectacle or heroism - it traps you inside a German U-boat and forces you to live there. The film feels less like a blockbuster and more like an anxiety-inducing documentary.

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  • S5E2

    The 1960s "Documentary" We Still Can’t Explain

    Jan 31, 202611m

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968) is one of the strangest, smartest, and most quietly groundbreaking films ever made. It doesn’t behave like a documentary or a narrative film - it turns the filmmaking process itself into the story.

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  • S5E3

    What does a Film Producer... actually do?

    Feb 14, 202616m

    "Sinners" is one of those rare films that somehow gets everything right - iIt’s completely original, audiences showed up for it, and critics embraced it in a big way, making it the most nominated film in Oscar history with 16 nominations.

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  • S5E4

    The Most Dangerous Production in Film History

    Feb 28, 202615m

    "Roar" (1981) is one of the most dangerous, chaotic, and astonishingly ambitious films ever made. It is anything but a typical Hollywood production and turns living with a bunch of untrained lions, tigers, and other big cats into the story itself.

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  • S5E5

    The Book vs. The Movie

    Mar 17, 202610m

    Project Hail Mary is one of the only books I’ve ever finished. And now, with Ryan Gosling in it, has become one of the most anticipated sci-fi films in recent years.

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  • S5E6

    This $27,000 Horror Film Is a Creative Masterpiece

    Mar 29, 202610m

    One Cut of the Dead (2017) is one of the most deceptively brilliant horror comedies I've ever seen. It looks like a clunky, low-budget zombie movie with awkward acting, weird pacing, and countless amateur-ish mistakes - until you realize that every single one of them is the point.

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  • S5E7

    The Dark Psychology in A24’s “The Drama”

    Apr 4, 2026

    "The Drama" is one of those movies that forces you to reflect and confront yourself. The new A24 film starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson is exactly the kind of tense, stylish moral mind-game I’ve been missing lately.

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  • S5E8

    The Film So Bad... the director apologized

    Apr 20, 2026

    Exploring one of the most famously disliked movies ever made, to the point of the director publicly apologizing. But is there more to the story?

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  • S5E9

    Why Physical Media is Making a Comeback

    May 16, 20269m

    Is physical media actually better than subscribing to a bunch of streaming platforms? Let's compare the pros and cons for each and find out.

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  • S5E10

    Honest Thoughts - Backrooms

    May 29, 2026

    My honest thoughts on "Backrooms" - the A24 feature film directed by Kane Parsons who went viral for his found footage series on YouTube and landed a major studio deal at just 20 years old.

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  • S5E11

    This Film Terrified Me... so I called the director

    Jun 13, 2026

    The McPherson Tape (1989) is one of the most groundbreaking low-budget films ever made. It also happens to be the one that haunted me for my entire childhood.

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  • S5E12

    Inside Eastern Europe's BIGGEST Film Studio

    Jun 28, 2026

    I flew to Bulgaria, where I somehow managed to get a special, unlimited access to the largest film studio in Eastern Europe, where some of the biggest Hollywood movies get made without anyone even realizing it.

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  • S5E13

    This Film Destroys Itself After You Watch It

    Jul 11, 2026

    In the early 2000s, a company called Flexplay created a DVD designed to self-destruct 48 hours after opening, using a chemical reaction with oxygen that turned the disc unreadable. I got my hands on an actual unopened copy and tested it myself to see how it worked. It was one of several attempts, alongside DIVX and early Netflix, to solve the home video late fee problem, but streaming made it obsolete within a few years.

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  • S5E14

    My Collection of Weird Film Stuff

    Jul 25, 202611m

    Over the years I've picked up all kinds of bizarre, rare, and downright cool film memorabilia, so it's about time to go through my collection and the stories behind them.

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  • S5E15

    Spider-Man Just Broke The Formula

    Aug 2, 2026

    "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" might be one of the best superhero movies yet. It isn't your typical spectacle blockbuster chasing world-ending stakes but instead a rather grounded story exploring Peter Parker's very real loneliness after losing nearly everyone close to him.

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