Nighthawks' Podcast

Oct 10 2024 162 ep. 68 mins 24

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A film discussion podcast from Trevor T. Trujillo, critic and journalist) and Matt Foster (comedian and critic). Join Matt and Trevor at the conceptual Nighthawks cafe as they sit down and talk good movies, bad movies, classic films of yesteryear, modern masterpieces, and the weird indie films you may not have heard of (BUT SHOULD)!

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WHYBW - Alien Romulus, Batman Caped Crusader, Chop and Steele, Chimp Crazy, Born Evil - The Serial Killer and the Savior

Oct 10 2024 59 mins

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching?Pull up a seat in the Nighthawks booth and grab a heaping helping of pod-fodder.Alien Romulus– The guy who remade Evil Dead remakes the first four ALIEN films and crams them into one movie. Does it work? I mean...Star Wars did it, right?Chop and Steele- It's two comedians, who show old VHS tapes around the country, versus the Morning News Ind

Episode 152: The Crow (1994)

Sep 06 2024 94 mins

A tragic comic book, with a tragic real-life backstory, is translated into a tragic film, with a real-life tragic production, which was dropped onto an unsuspecting 1990s audience who were still reeling from the death of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.The Crow (1994) was a strangely perfect movie for a very imperfect time and place. A comic book adaptation in a world where the comic

Episode 151: The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Jul 14 2024 90 mins

It's the story of love and hate, the story of tradition and modernity, the story of good and evil, the story of old right hand left hand.It's 1955's The Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish, Shelley Winters, and Peter Graves is that story. Adapted from a novel of the same name the film is a bold experimental feature film for actor turned director Charles Laught

Episode 150: Little Monsters (1989)

Jun 18 2024 75 mins

This ain't your kids' monsters scaring people in their bedrooms movie! This is the one for the elder millennials who were traumatized or seduced by the dark horrors of a movie that is, for all intents and purposes, Night Breed Babies.Fred Savage, Howie Mandel, Daniel Stern, Rick Ducommun, Frank Whaley, and Devin Ratray put together a pretty impressive cast of "hey I think I know th

Episode 149: Barbie (2023)

Feb 17 2024 106 mins

And now, what the entire world has been waiting for...two men give you their hot takes on Greta Gerwig's 2023 film BARBIE.This is, of course, an exaggeration. This movie could use fewer male hot takes. That said, we felt it was unfair to disqualify the movie from our RSS feed just because other people had been loud and cranky, so we felt the need to get in and defend this Oscar nom

Episode 148: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

Dec 20 2023 72 mins

The Nighthawks Podcast enthusiastically recommends: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.This delightful, tight, Japanese film from a Kyoto-based theatre troupe is the debut film of director Junta Yamaguchi, and we think you should see it. This movie is low budget, non-American, subtitled, and high concept which seems to have doomed this movie to be underseen and underdiscussed.Join the

Episode 147: Poltergeist (1982) - Curse of Monstoberfest

Oct 30 2023 67 mins

Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast, find us on Facebook, and rate and review us where applicable. Also, if you really dig the show please consider contributing to our Ko-Fi campaign to help make the show extra special.Support us via Ko-Fi!It has long been told, in select circles, that The Nighthawks recorded an episode covering Tobe Hooper's 1982 family horror classic Polte

Episode 146: M3GAN - Curse of Monstoberfest

Oct 25 2023 65 mins

Just when you thought it was safe to undress in front of your tech devices, one Hollywood movie decides to blend post-Y2k tech panic with the classic formula of the killer doll, and manages to keep things fresh enough to keep The Nighthawks nodding along throughout the movie.This 2022 movie seems to share a lot of grace notes with a 2019 remake of the iconic Child's Play property,

Episode 145: The Relic (1997) - Curse of Monstoberfest

Oct 07 2023 70 mins

Support us via Ko-Fi!From the world of superstition, from the bowels of the Earth, long forgotten: IT'S THE NIGHTHAWKS PODCAST!!!We're here to get you as much Monstoberfest as our lives will allow with a comeback holiday special to chill the very bones. 2023's Halloween season kicks off with an action monster extravaganza known as THE RELIC from 1997, starring Penelope Ann Miller a

Episode 144: Every Oscar, Every Nominee, All in Two Parts- Academy Awards 2023 pt. 2

Mar 09 2023 89 mins

Once again it’s time for a glamorous strut on the red carpet, out front of the Nighthawks conceptual diner, to talk about Hollywood’s most prestigious night.Oscar Czar and Nighthawks house band musician Cameron Maris, Nineteen Cent Feast, is coming out of cold storage and Matt is going in. Cameron and Trevor to talk about the EGOTS, the controversies, the nominations, and the s