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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guests Luke Dunne and Ciara Moloney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This week, Mark Webb’s Snow White.

In a magical kingdom, an evil queen plots the murder of a beautiful young princess, who is forced to flee into the woods and find shelter with the most unlikely of allies.

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 21st May 2025.
• Snow White at The Internet Movie Database.
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• Rebecca Dolan at GQ reports on Tom Cruise’s claim to have seen every movie released theatrically during the pandemic, May 2022.
• Joseph Lamour writes at Today about Tom Cruise’s popcorn habit, May 2025.
• Greg Evans at The Independent writes about Tom Cruise’s unique sort of popcorn consumption, May 2025.
• Jamie Burton writes at Newsweek about “Oppenheimer” Nolan, July 2023.
• Adam Starkey at NME writes about Christopher Nolan’s brother who operated under the name “Oppenheimer”, July 2023.
• Rosa Sanchez at Harper’s Bazaar writes about Timothée Chalamet’s support of the New York Knicks, May 2025.
• Philipp Kachalin at Know Your Meme discusses the rumour about Timothée Chalamet giving chlamydia to the student body at New York University, February 2024.
• Zack Sharf at Variety reports on Harrison Ford’s instruction to “shoot this piece of sh!t” on Captain America: Brave New World, July 2023.
• Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog considers the vote-brigading of Black Panther on the Internet Movie Database, February 2018.
• Yohana Desta at Vanity Fair reports on Rotten Tomatoes pushing back against racists targetting user metrics for Black Panther, February 2018.
• Matt Miller at Esquire reports on the sexist vote brigading of Captain Marvel, February 2019.
• Kayla Epstein at The Washington Post considers Rotten Tomatoes‘ reaction to the vote brigading of Captain Marvel, February 2019.
• Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers how user metrics gradually became useless on the internet, September 2022.
• Brooks Barnes writes at The New York Times about the controversies around Snow White, March 2025.
• Paul Tassi at Forbes reports on the review bombing of Snow White on IMDb, April 2025.
• Jacob Stolworthy at The Independent reports on the review bombing of Snow White on IMDb, March 2025.
• Gael Cooper at C|Net reports on the introduction of verification to user metrics on Rotten Tomatoes, May 2019.
• Matt Kamen at Wired reports on the “men’s rights activists” protesting Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
• The National Post reports on the reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road among the “manosphere”, May 2015.
• David Rutrelle at We Hunted the Mammoth looks at the absurd reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road among misogynist sections of the internet, May 2015.
• Erik Kain at Forbes discusses the strange fixation on labelling Rey as a “Mary Sue” among certain corners of the internet, December 2017.
• Adam Howard at NBC News reports on the misogynistic backlash to Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters, May 2016.
• Nina Badahur at Self reports on the misogynistic backlash to the women-only screenings of Wonder Woman, June 2017.
• Constance Grady at Vox reports on the racist and sexist harassment of Kelly Marie Tran following the release of The Last Jedi, June 2018.
• Kelly Marie Tran writes at The New York Times about the harassment that she received following The Last Jedi, August 2018.
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• Emma Ockerman at Time reports on Daisy Ridley’s decision to leave social media after harassment, August 2016.
• Rian Johnson talks to /film about his experience of the vocal online backlash to The Last Jedi, January 2018.
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• Elizabeth Blair at NPR looks at Disney’s positioning of itself in the debate over Florida’s “don’t say gay” legislation, March 2022.
• Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld writes at Yale Insights about how Bob Iger outmaneuvered Ron DeSantis, April 2023.
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• Matt Beloni and Lucas Shaw on The Town discuss how media companies are folding before Donald Trump, April 2025.
• Dominic Patten at Deadline reports on Paramount’s plan to pay out to Trump over 60 Minutes, May 2025.
• Michael McWhertor at Polygon reports on Disney’s decision to pull an episode of Devil Dinosaur that featured trans representation, November 2024.
• Pamela McClintock at The Hollywood Reporter accounts for Disney’s decision to cut a transgender subplot from Win or Lose, December 2024.
• Alex Stedman at IGN reports on the decision by Disney to insist that Pixar remove any reference to Riley’s queerness from Inside Out 2, October 2024.
• Edward Helmore at The Guardian reports on how the re-election of Donald Trump has shifted the media landscape, November 2024.
• Tatiana Siegel at Variety reports on the studio’s attempts to manage Rachel Zegler during Snow White, March 2025.
• Marianka Swain at The Telegraph looks at the controversies around Gal Gadot, May 2025.
• The BBC reports on the controversy over Gal Gadot’s use of the word “neighbours” to describe Palestinians, May 2021.
• David Mouriquand at Euronews reports on Moana as the most streamed movie of the past five years, December 2024.
• Rebecca Rubin at Variety reports on Disney’s decision to turn the Moana streaming show into Moana 2, February 2024.
• Noah Dominguez at Comic Book Resources reports on how Encanto was the most streamed movie of the previous year, January 2023.
• Ben Travers at IndieWire reports on how Disney told Tony Gilroy that “streaming is dead”, May 2025.
• Petrana Radulovic at Polygon looks back on the twinned releases of Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman, March 2025.
• Niche Gamer reports on the cancellation of the Daily Wire’s attempted Snow White adaptation, January 2025.
• Rebecca Ford at The Hollywood Reporter announces on Disney’s plans to make a live action Snow White adaptation, October 2016.
• Justin Kroll at Variety reports on Marc Webb joining Snow White, May 2019.
• Michael Cuby at Nylon reports on Greta Gerwig joining Snow White as writer, November 2021.
• Greta Gerwig talks to Screen Daily about her involvement in scripting the live action Snow White, December 2023.
• Anthony D’Alessandro at Deadline reports on the firing of Melissa Barrera from Scream 7, November 2023.
• Melissa Barrera talks to Rolling Stone about her departure from Scream 7, January 2024.
• Jenna Ortega talks to Rolling Stone about her decision to leave Scream 7 after the firing of Melissa Barrera, April 2025.
• Christopher Landon talks to Vanity Fair about leaving Scream 7, April 2025.
• Winona Ryder talks to The Los Angeles Times about Jenna Ortega’s love of cinema, August 2024.
• Winona Ryder talks to Esquire about the challengers of working with younger actors, August 2024.
• The Sun reports on Millie Bobby Brown’s inability to watch movies, March 2024.
• Frank Scheck reviews Hurry Up Tomorrow for The Hollywood Reporter, May 2025.
• Ellie Grant at The Jewish Chronicle reports on Jonah Platt’s posts about about Rachel Zegler, March 2025.
• Noor Nanji at The BBC reports on the debate around Rachel Zegler’s casting in Snow White, March 2025.
• Lydia Spencer-Elliot at The Independent reports on the backlash to Rachel Zegler’s social media presence, March 2025.
• Melinda Parks at Highbrow Magazine discusses how fourth-wave feminism is reconfiguring Disney’s princesses, October 2014.
• Matthew Rudoy at ScreenRant considers what Rachel Zegler said about the original Snow White story, March 2025.
• Molly Driscoll at The Christian Science Monitor reports on how Disney mastered adapting beloved fairy tales, December 2012.
• Little Snow-White by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, 1812.
• Darren Mooney at Second Wind considers the problem with the “live action” Disney remakes, March 2025.
• Martin Scorsese considers how art became “content” at Harpers, March 2021.
• Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers “the new cinema of reconciliation”, March 2021.
• Pamela McClintock at The Hollywood Reporter shares Disney’s delay of Snow White in wake of the actors’ strike, October 2023.
• Catherine Shoard at The Guardian considers Peter Dinklage’s criticisms of the Snow White remake, January 2022.
• Ellie Harrison at The Independent reports on Dylan Postl’s response to Peter Dinklage’s criticisms of the Snow White remake, January 2022.
• Cecilia D’Anastasio at Wired looks at the baggage that comes from fantasy races, January 2021.
• Andrew Limbong at NPR considers Dungeons and Dragons‘ efforts to move past racist stereotypes, June 2020.
• Rachel Zegler pays homage to the hairstyle of the original Snow White on Instagram, March 2025.
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