The Cinema Snob

The series follows the Cinema Snob, a caricature of pretentious film critics, as he reviews obscure exploitation films, religious films, and pornography from the late '60s through the early '90s. Since 2013, however, the Snob has started to review more recent and widely released films alongside older entries, such as the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series, The Babe Ruth Story, God's Not Dead, and Sex and the City. Some of the films he reviewed are generally considered as the worst films ever made.

Brad Jones was inspired to create The Cinema Snob after watching Roger Ebert's review of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. He said that the review "made me think of how odd it is in general to see film snobs try to review horror or exploitation films...I'm reviewing these movies the same way a pretentious cinema snob would and I'm trying to give some laughs at the expense of the movies to people like me who really do love exploitation films."[5] Jones based the Snob's appearance and voice on an audience member he saw at a Q&A panel for George A. Romero, who told Romero how he had interpreted Monkey Shines as a metaphor for evolution and the bond between animal and man.[6] The first episode, a review of Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror, aired on YouTube on June 16, 2007. He ran the show on his channel until he was confronted by a copyright claim from the distributors of Nail Gun Massacre. Then, Jones moved his videos to its own website, TheCinemaSnob.com, in 2009. For this new site, Jones also created several more series, such as Kung Tai Ted, The Big Box, The Bruno Mattei Show, and Brad & Jerrid, and uploaded two of his feature films (Freak Out and Cheap) to the site that same year. "So I built up a back log," Jones says, "so there would be a lot of content, to where I could apply to That Guy With the Glasses when my site had been up for a few months." Jones managed to rise in popularity when Noah Antwiler promoted his website.[7]

Rob Walker accepted Brad's request to join That Guy with the Glasses in January 2010, and premiered Season 2 on Channel Awesome with his review of E.T.: The Porno. Since joining the site, Jones has done many collaborations with fellow members of the site as The Cinema Snob.

The series focuses on a pretentious highbrow art critic, the Cinema Snob. He wears an all-black suit, large vintage glasses and no shoes, and sits in a "comfortable" chair, positioned in the middle of the screen so Snob can talk directly to the audience. In the early days, the setting was in Jones' basement, a couch surrounded by movie posters. Starting with Season 2, Snob moved to a living room with a standard blue chair. When Jones moved to a new home in 2013, the location changed again to the same chair in front of a tan wall, complete with a poster for Caligula (one of Jones's favorite films)[8] and a poster that changes depending on the reviewed film's subject matter or characters.

The Cinema Snob often reviews a film by stating how inferior or offensive the film is, and proceeds to complain about the film's production quality, content, and/or plot. He frequently makes pop culture references throughout the review, usually to horror films, TV series, his own films, and films he has already reviewed. Sometimes he will review a film considered as being among the worst ever made while satirizing the critical response the film had upon release, such as the case with Maniac, Mommie Dearest, At Long Last Love or Heaven's Gate and frequently imply that the film did not, in his opinion, deserve the amount of criticism it received. On occasion, he will point out there was something good in a terrible film,[9] such as Michael Chiklis's performance as John Belushi in Wired.

Sometimes, the Cinema Snob will say a variation of his catchphrase, "I'll stick with real ______ films, like _______, thank you very much."

Over time, the series has received a cult following. Many people have praised the series for its humor and characters. Melissa Garza of Scared Stiff Reviews said, "Jones delivers with quick wit, charm, and humorous, cutting observations.[10]

A few months after Cinema Snob's review of Grizzly II: The Predator, Jones received an angry letter from Suzanne E. Nagy, one of the film's producers.[14] Jones, reasoning that the film was unfinished and therefore illegal to distribute without permission, took down his review. However, the "lost episode" has since been leaked onto YouTube.

• Brad & Jerrid (2009–2011): a sketch series featuring Brad Jones and his friend Jerrid Foiles.
• The Big Box (2009–2011): starring Jones as the voice of Vic Dealio, and his then-wife Jillian Zurawski as the silent Big Box Model. In this show, Vic reviews old "big box" VHS horror films.
• Kung Tai Ted (2009–2011): Jones stars as a failed, poorly-dubbed martial artist who reviews classic martial arts films while training outdoors.
• Softly From Cable (2010–2011): a review show hosted by the seductive Shannon Shears (played by Zurawski) which focuses on Cinemax-style softcore adult films from the 1990s.
• The Bruno Mattei Show (2010–2012): Jones and his friends discuss the movies of Italian exploitation filmmaker, Bruno Mattei.
• Brad Tries... (2010–present): Jones samples strange, rare or discontinued foods and drinks from around the world.
• Friday Night Movies (formerly known as Brad's Current Movie Reviews, Midnight Screenings, and Movie Reviews, 2010–present): Jones and his friends review a movie immediately after attending their screening.
• 80's Dan (2011–2013): a parody to fish out of water sitcoms from the 1980s, starring Jones as Dan, an eccentric man who accidentally gets zapped from December 31, 1989 to the present. 80's Dan was first introduced (originally as a one-off throw-away character) in "Caligula (Part II)," the Cinema Snob's 100th review.
• DVD-R Hell (or DVD-R Heaven, 2011–present): Jones reviews some DVDs from his bootleg collection, which includes weird PSAs, Christian propaganda, failed TV pilots, and obscure shows such as Tequila and Bonetti.
• Ninja the Mission Force (2012–2013): An homage to the Godfrey Ho ninja movies, co-produced by Dark Maze Studios.
• Game Boys (2013): a View Askewniverse-esque adult animated series based on Jones' 2008 film of the same name.
• The Reviewers (2013–2014): a sitcom about two roommates (played by Brian Lewis and Jake Norvell) who decide to become internet reviewers despite their lack of skills. The Rickhead, a character played by Dave Gobble, would later star in Jesus, Bro! (2017), a spoof of faith-based movies, written by Jones.
• Snobcast (formerly known as The Random Button, 2013–2015): a podcast hosted by Jones and Brian Lewis.
• Lloyd (2015–2017; currently on hiatus): a Duckman-esque adult animated series which features Jones' pet cat Lloyd as a hard-boiled, yet clueless, private detective who solves cases based on movies reviewed by the Cinema Snob.
• Binge Watch (2016–present): Jones reviews the full season of a TV show, episode by episode.
• Midnight Gaming (2016–present): a gaming spin-off of Midnight Screenings in which Jones reviews old video games and current nostalgia-based video games.

In 2011, Jones announced that he was writing a movie adaptation of the series to be directed by Ryan Mitchelle.

The Cinema Snob Movie is about Craig Golightly, a struggling exploitation writer who, along with director Neil Hall, are trying to get their movie Black Angus made, but they need the correct permits from pretentious film snob Dan Phillips. In order to get the permits, he takes on the guise of Vincent Dawn and infiltrates Phillips' film snob group. While there, he gets involved in a murder mystery and attracts the interest of Phillips' wife Nancy.[15]

• Ninja the Mission Force, another webseries starring Brad Jones
• Nostalgia Critic
• Angry Video Game Nerd
  • List of Angry Video Game Nerd episodes
• Chris Stuckmann
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• CinemaSins
• How It Should Have Ended
• Screen Junkies

• Official website
• The Cinema Snob at IMDb
• The Cinema Snob Movie at IMDb
• Another Cinema Snob Movie at IMDb
• Official YouTube playlist