Chillpak Hollywood Hour

Original Release Date: Monday 27 January 2025     Description:   For what it's worth, awards season in Hollywood is firmly upon us and on this week's show, your friends in podcasting examine the top ten 2024 releases at the U.S. box office, the top ten films according to critics, and the ten films selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the Best Picture Oscar nominations. T...

Original Release Date: Monday 20 January 2025     Description:   Your friends in podcasting have a great deal on their minds ... Cold weather in the nation's capital, the hell of home renovations, fire and long-term unhealthful air and the Olympics in Los Angeles ... And they discuss it all on this week's show. They also remember the late David Lynch, suggesting that no artist has ever loved Los A...

Original Release Date: Monday 13 January 2025     Description:   If any week warranted an episode of epic length, it was the week that was. With Phil Leirness coming at us from the beaten and battered City of Angels and Dean Haglund coming at us from an air mattress on a hardwood floor not far from the Motor City, this week's show covers a lot of terrain in a little more than 68 minutes. Your frie...

Original Release Date: Monday 6 January 2025     Description:   The first show of 2025 find Dean and Phil in good form and discussing a wide array of topics including the landscape and geography of NY's Central Park, nature photography, the It Ends With Us controversy and lawsuit, and the near future of motion picture distribution both theatrically and via streaming. The truncated nature of this y...

Original Release Date: Monday 30 December 2024     Description:   Your friends in podcasting, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness, participate in a “side project” called The Art Life with good pal (and creator of many Chillpak Hollywood Hour theme songs) Jon Lawlor. Each week they hold each other’s feet to the fire as they try to free up their creativity, make it manifest in the world AND encourage eac...

Original Release Date: Monday 23 December 2024     Description:   Because of Dean's peculiar living conditions at present, because of Phil's adventures this week in the nation's capital, and because of a message from a loyal listener (about plein air painting, about microphones, about Bing Crosby, about the body horror comedy/thriller The Substance ), this week's show will be full of fascinating,...

Original Release Date: Monday 16 December 2024     Description:   Are Dean and Phil filled with the spirit of the holiday season? This week, we will all find out! They certainly are immersed in the spirit of the Hollywood Awards Season and they discuss the top ten films according to critics, and delve into the top films and performances according to the Golden Globes. They do deep dive analyses of...

Original Release Date: Monday 9 December 2024     Description:   Your friends in podcasting have returned from travel adventures and have tales about art galleries in the nation's capital and jazz clubs in the Big Easy. You will learn more about they year 1874, and more about the Marigny District of New Orleans, than you have ever heard before on this show! Much of this week's episode involves mov...

Original Release Date: Monday 2 December 2024     Description:   Dean traveled to D.C. and Virginia. Phil traveled to New Orleans, Mississippi and Memphis. Therefore, this seemed like the perfect week for a pre-recorded Top Ten show! As this is the 10th year of Netflix original movies, your friends in podcasting spend the entire hour discussing their all-time favorite Netflix films. Ordinarily, De...

Original Release Date: Monday 25 November 2024     Description:   Happy Birthday to our friend in podcasting, Phil Leirness, who is celebrating many returns of the day in New Orleans today! Before departing Los Angeles, and before Dean Haglund departed the environs of Detroit to head to the nation’s capital for Thanksgiving, they convened via zoom to record this week’s show. In it, they discuss th...

Original Release Date: Monday 18 November 2024     Description:   Dean flies into Los Angeles. Phil picks him up at LAX. You get into the back seat. Highway adventured and high fidelity hijinks ensue! The first two-thirds of this week’s show are recorded during Dean & Phil’s drive to downtown L.A. as they discuss Dean’s upcoming two-man improv show, his future performing plans, his prolific pr...

Original Release Date: Monday 11 November 2024     Description:   Dean is back from Japan. He will speak about his trip on this week's show. Phil is grieving the death of his sister. He has some thoughts about her and about grief and about two wishes he has that he will share. If you would like to read about Phil's sister, he included a tribute to her influence on him in “Haunted”, the most recent...

Original Release Date: Monday 4 November 2024     Description:   On Halloween in the USA (November 1 in Japan), Phil and Dean recorded this week's show via zoom for a far out and far east installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. In it, you will hear accounts of Dean's adventures in the Land of the Rising Sun. You will also hear the sad tale of Phil's sister, and Phil’s full report on the big l...

Original Release Date: Monday 28 October 2024     Description: Dean is in Tokyo, but before departing the U.S., he recorded a grand conversation with Phil for this week’s show! Jeremy Saulnier's Netflix original Rebel Ridge , the comedy Thelma starring June Squibb, the sports-based love triangle Challengers , and the Netflix documentary Will & Harper are just some of the new and recent films t...

Original Release Date: Monday 21 October 2024     Description:   Phil is back from New York City. Dean is preparing to travel to Tokyo. They have a lot to discuss on this week's installment. Phil talks about a live show he saw in New York, about the work of an all-time great stone-cutter, about Columbus Day, and about Indigenous Peoples Day. Dean talks about the fish market he can't wait visit, an...

Original Release Date: Monday 14 October 2024     Description:   No matter which of our theme songs through the years you have enjoyed the most, odds are Jon Lawlor is responsible for it. Jon joins Dean and Phil this week for a conversation all about the "Art Life". In it, you will learn about what they are all working on, what they are struggling with, where their focus lies, who they talk to whe...

Original Release Date: Monday 7 October 2024     Description:   Dean is in the process of re-examining the cinematic legacy of Roman Polanski, separate from his personal legacy. The timing is fortuitous as Phil re-watched Polanski’s 1976 cult favorite The Tenant , which also inspired thoughts about The Shining . Phil also re-watched two masterpieces by John Cassavetes in the wake of the great Gena...

Original Release Date: Monday 30 September 2024     Description:   Because of some crazy travel plans (London! New York! Tokyo!), the next three episodes of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour promise to be unusual even by our standards! This week’s topics include a forthcoming Broadway revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross", the crazy, big screen experience Megalopolis , the lineage of Longlegs director Oz Pe...

Original Release Date: Monday 23 September 2024     Description:   On this week's episode, Dean and Phil answer the following questions: 1) Was Vincent Van Gogh a mathematics genius? 2) What does a Frisbee have to do with airline aviation? 3) Does Phil's hatred of The Fall Guy know no bounds? Then, a review of the neo-noir pastiche Love Lies Bleeding leads into a brief discussion about distributor...

Original Release Date: Monday 16 September 2024     Description:   Welcome to one of our most cinematic episodes of the year! Dean and Phil talk nothing but movies, doing deep dive analyses of the new Dave Bautista action-comedy vehicle (and tax dodge?) The Killer’s Game , the current Tim Burton-directed smash hit Beetlejuice Beetlejuice , the Michael Keaton-starring vehicle and directorial effort...

Original Release Date: Monday 9 September 2024     Description:   This week's show boasts several great stories, both about your friends in podcasting and about show business notables. Phil shares a touching tale of being reunited with a very famous old friend. He also shares personal memories about the late acting and singing star James Darren, and the NBA great Alvin Attles. And although he died...

Original Release Date: Monday 2 September 2024     Description:     It’s a Labor Day edition of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour and Dean and Phil regale with tales of the labor they had to put into Labor Day Weekend, and discuss the history of the day itself. Phil rants about the truncating of summer before he and Dean revisit the following topics from last week: Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s 11th hour bid to...

Original Release Date: Monday 26 August 2024     Description:     When does an hour turn into 80 minutes? When it’s this week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour! Dean is back in Michigan and has travel horror stories. Dean and Phil tackle the latest bizarre turn in the ongoing saga of Paramount changing ownership. An "all icons" edition of "Celebrity Deaths" involves the fascinating sto...

Original Release Date: Monday 19 August 2024     Description:     This weekend, your friends in podcasting got together on the pool deck of a certain “historic building in downtown Los Angeles” and boy did they have a lot to discuss! The status of downtown, Dean’s travels AND his official “wedding engagement” get covered. The Olympics closing ceremony and Tom Cruise’s role in it get revisited. The...

Original Release Date: Monday 12 August 2024     Description:     After a brief cold open where Phil and Dean discuss Dean’s trip to Los Angeles this week, your friends in podcasting get into a spirited and frequently hilarious discussion about the Olympics. Then Phil has notes for the brilliant Jon Batiste about his hot mess of a live show. A legendary agent and a trailblazing actress get remembe...