High School Slumber Party

Co-Professors Aislinn Addington and Brian Rodriguez drop this special surprise episode of High School Slumber Party AP as they chat about 2019's The Last Summer. Starring KJ Apa and Maia Mitchell among other contemporary teen stars the film tells the story of a bunch of intertwined teens living their last summer before college. SPOILER ALERT: Brian and Aislinn are not big fans of this movie but th...

An important chapter in the history of this podcast comes to a close today as Shawnee Mead is back to slam the door on The Kissing Booth 3. For the conclusion of the widely successful yet critically panned Netflix Kissing Booth franchise Shawnee and Brian discuss the fates of Elle (Joey King aka the future Julia Roberts), Noah (Jacob Elordi), Lee (Joel Courtney) and the rest of the cast and charac...

We're hopping from the beach to the pool as Kyle Reinfried of Foodie Films guests once again to chat about a film almost nobody saw; Staten Island Summer. Written by Colin Jost and staring Graham Phillips,Bobby Moynihan, Will Forte, Fred Armisen, Cecily Strong, and Ashley Greene; this Lorne Michaels produced coming-of-age comedy about a public pool on (you guessed it) Staten Island is largely unkn...

Our beach movie series moves south of the border for the latest slumber party as the Foodie Films Man Kyle Reinfried and Brian chat up the sexually charged coming-of-age road movie Y Tu Mamá También. This masterpiece of Mexican cinema is directed by Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón and stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Maribel Verdu. Kyle and Brian discuss the works of Cuarón as well as...

The summer of beach films continues as Kyle Reinfried of Foodie Films joins Brian once again to chat a Beach Party Movie. This time they're chatting 1964's Bikini Beach! Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are back as Frankie and Dee Dee they are joined by drag racers, a surfing ape, a Beatle knockoff (also played by Frankie Avalon) and Boris Karloff among other surprises. Don Rickles returns...k...

Surfs up from San Emilio Island, USA as the conversation moves to Beach Party's direct sequel; 1964's Muscle Beach Party. Frankie and Dee Dee are back! Kyle and Brian are still here! Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello return as the franchise continues to impress us with a cast including comedy legends Don Rickles and Buddy Hackett, Bond Girl Luciana Paluzzi, and introducing for the first time on...

High School Slumber Party AP Co-Professors Aislinn Addington and Brian Rodriguez dive into Soleil Moon Frye's Hulu Documentary: Kid 90. Assembled from her personal video recordings, answering machine messages and journal entries, Soleil Moon Frye takes us on a very intimate journey through her own eyes growing up as a famous teenager in the 1990s. Featuring interviews from David Arquette, Balthaza...

Cousin Pumkin gets his reward as we're watching American Pie together! After receiving his slumberer approved tattoo, Cousin Pumkin's one request was to talk American Pie on the podcast. Since we already covered the #iconic teen sex comedy of the late 90's earlier in our run, we're doing a commentary and rewatch so queue up the movie, fill your plastic cup with beer and rewatch the movie as Pumkin...

If Beach Party started an entire genre of teen film in 1963, it has one film to thank! 1959's Gidget was not only super influential in the history of high school movies but according to many experts; it's the single biggest reason for the popularity surge of surf culture around the world. Starring Sandra Dee, James Darren and Cliff Robertson; Gidget is the tale of a teenager's discovery and initia...

Live from their summer beach bungalow on San Emilio Island, USA the Food Films Man Kyle Reinfried and Brian talk about one of the most important movies in the teen film genre; Beach Party! Join Kyle and Brian as they chat Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Vincent Price and the film that started a teen beach sub-genre sensation. 

We conclude the Netflix Fear Street Trilogy by chatting up Fear Street part 3 1666! Kate Hudson is back of course. Could the final film of the R.L. Stein adaptation win Kate over or will she swear off the series forever?  

The conversation continues on the Black Teen Experience as Brian, Cousin Pumkin and Kirkland Shephard talk about life, race, basketball, college recruitment and of course everything else they didn't get to tackle from Spike Lee's He Got Game. Find how just how real that one on one hoops scene between Denzel Washington and Ray Allen was, how real colleges went after Kirk in a similar way to the fil...

SURPRISE! In honor of the entire Twilight Saga coming to Netflix in the United States here are some clips from the award winning* #TwilightForever series hosting by Brian Rodriguez, Kate Hudson and Joe 2. On the fence about watching Twilight? Have a listen and see how much fun talking about Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Tayler Lautner, vampire baseball, werewolves, hybrid babies, the volturi...

Welcome Campers! We're back talking Fear Street. This time we're talking Fear Street Part 2: 1978. Will the sequel to last week's modern adaptation of R.L. Stein's famous book series provide enough fan service to make Kate Hudson happy or will Gen-Z take the win? Also, will Brian pick up another win in Fear Street bingo?

This one goes out to all NY ballers out there. Kirkland Shephard and Brian Rodriguez return with the Black Teen Experience and they're talking a Spike Lee Joint; He Got Game. This time they aren't alone as Cousin Pumkin is tagging along to talk Ray Allen as Jesus Shuttlesworth, Denzel Washington, Rosario Dawson, Coney Island, college basketball recruitment and Brian discusses his quick interaction...

Fear Street Expert Kate Hudson joins the first slumber party of the summer to talk the brand new Fear Street Part One: 1994 which debuted on Netflix just this Friday. Kate and Brian break down their first reactions and everything they love about this R.L. Stein adaptation.  

It's that time of year again! CageClub Podcast Network co-founder Joey Lewandowski joins Brian to announce the Junior Yearbook Superlative winners! Also, find out what you slumberers will be doing this summer.

Hope you're wearing your dance belt (if applicable) for today's episode of High School Slumber Party AP as Aislinn Addington and Brian Rodriguez are talking Netflix's Work it! Will this dance movie staring Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy and Jordan Fisher (who Aislinn knows a surprising amount of facts about...) make Brian and Aislinn jump out of their seats and onto the dance stage? Also, find out...

We cross the pond for this slumber party as Mike Rivera and the Foodie Films Man Kyle Reinfried stop by for a bit of a high school reunion as they chat about their European misadventures as well as 2004's EuroTrip! Directed by a talented team of TV writers and stocked piled with cameos EuroTrip is more than a raunchy Road Trip pseudo-sequel...at least to fans of a very specific demographic. Who co...

Ryan Stick is back and he's better than ever because today we're talking My Boyfriend's Back! If you're a fan of A-list actors with humble beginnings look no further as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Matthew Fox, Matthew McConaughey and (almost) Renee Zellweger feature as supporting characters in this wacky tale of a teen zombie and the prom he's just dying to get to. Created by the father of Friday the...

We're going back to prom and this time we're taking Cara Gael O'Regan as we discuss the horror classic; Carrie! Carrie stars Sissy Spacek as an introverted and sheltered teen with telekinetic powers who let's just say has a very interesting prom night. Also starring John Travolta and Piper Laurie; this Brian DePalma adaptation is actually the first Stephen King novel to get a film treatment. Cara...

Kate Hudson and Joe Two of our #TwilightForever series are here to discuss the first ever "vision" (Twilight adjacent) film we will be covering; Abduction. This 2011 movie was supposed to be the bridge between Twilight and Taylor Lautner's second act as an action film star. While the film did not hit home with critics, the true intended audience might have been Joe Two himself. Directed by John Si...

For the fifth time in three years we are back on the dance floor for Prom Night. We asked Mike Manzi once again to escort us through another installment of the horror series and he said yes! Tonight we chat 2008's Prom Night reboot to be exact. Mike and Brian can't decide if this is just a prom video staring Brittany Snow or a police crime thriller starring Idris Elba but both agree the tone is de...

Get ready to head back to East Falls High slumberers as co-hosts Aislinn Addington and Brian Rodriguez talk the 5th film in the American Pie spin off series (and 9th overall in the franchise) American Pie Presents: Girls Rules. The film has a Stiffler and plenty of pie jokes but what sets this film apart from the franchise is that this time the ladies are in charge! Will the gender swapping premis...

We're celebrating the end of our first Two Coreys series (or COREYthians:1 as we've coined it) by talking about a film that stars neither Corey Feldman nor Corey Haim. We're chatting up Lifetime's A Tale of Two Coreys! Even though he's not in the movie, Corey Feldman helps produce this made for TV biopic on the teenage lives of the Haimster and Feldog. Lifetime expert Joe Two joins us as well as o...