Toni's Film Club — Season 5
Overthinking cinema and the world around it.
About this season
Web series about film history, movies and filmmaking.
Episodes (10)
1. Why This Movie Feels... a bit too real
Aired 17 January 2026 • 15 min
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.
2. The 1960s "Documentary" We Still Can’t Explain
Aired 31 January 2026 • 11 min
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.
3. What does a Film Producer... actually do?
Aired 14 February 2026 • 16 min
"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.
4. The Most Dangerous Production in Film History
Aired 28 February 2026 • 15 min
"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.
5. The Book vs. The Movie
Aired 17 March 2026 • 10 min
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.
6. This $27,000 Horror Film Is a Creative Masterpiece
Aired 29 March 2026 • 10 min
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.
7. The Dark Psychology in A24’s “The Drama”
Aired 4 April 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.
8. The Film So Bad... the director apologized
Aired 20 April 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?
9. Why Physical Media is Making a Comeback
Aired 16 May 2026 • 9 min
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.
10. Honest Thoughts - Backrooms
Aired 29 May 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.