HooperCast Movie Hour

1:00 - We begin to talk about Pixar, but we quickly diverge into a tangent surrounding the new Australian “The Office” series. And apparently, there are quite a lot of international adaptations of that show. Sorry.  18:00 - Ok, we’re finally ready to talk about the situation at Pixar.  https://www.ign.com/articles/inside-out-2-was-the-hit-pixar-needed-but-the-laid-off-employees-who-crunched-on-it-...

Welcome to a gap in the schedule, everybody! A discussion about physical home media in 2024. Are studios rooting for home media to fail? Is it too much to ask for them to mimic the book publishing model of multiple editions of their product? Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit ht...

0:30 - Explaining the HooperCast “Lecture Series” concept.  3:00 - James Earl Jones has passed away.  https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/entertainment/james-earl-jones-death/index.html   8:53 - Linkin Park debuts their new lead vocalist and the Internet reacts….poorly…  22:15 - Should the estate of a deceased performer be allowed to give consent to use the performer’s likeness in post-mortem work? Whe...

Re-broadcast of Episode #419, The Novelist Screenwriter (The Gillian Flynn Episode) ---- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner...

0:00 - “Anchorman” just stays in your brain, doesn’t it? “Anchorman 2” not so much…  3:55 - Repping Nintendo shirts tonight! You’re welcome, audio listeners!  5:30 - The awesome viral marketing for tonight’s film.  6:30 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “Alien: Romulus” (2024).  29:22 - SPOILER DISCUSSION - “Alien: Romulus” (2024). Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your f...

0:00 - Vaguebook statuses.  2:36 - The wrong transition ever…into our topic. Which is long movie run times. When are they warranted? When are they unwelcome? Are there basic criteria that can determine each? YES, good people, there are! Join us to learn about it. Or don’t. It’s your life. And time is running out.  ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends....

0:00 - False memories, getting old, and the Pee Pee Scale.  4:00 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” (2024).  22:10 - NOT RECOMMENDED - “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” (2024).  ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----...

0:00 - Conner made it through summer with kids.  1:20 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “Atlanta” - Spoiler-free recommendation of the entire series.  17:00 - OVERALL RECOMMENDATION - “Bosch: Legacy” Season 2.  23:00 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “Batman: Caped Crusader”.  36:15 - OVERALL RECOMMENDATION - “My Adventures with Superman”.  52:25 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “The Bear” Season 3”.  1:02:12 -...

1:00 - REVIEW - “Deadpool and Wolverine” (2024) - We’ll begin with no spoilers. We speak at length about the tone that a Deadpool story does or does not require.  36:00 - Quick Update on Conner’s dishwasher.  37:40 - SPOILERS BEGIN. We discuss plot details, surprise casting, the ending, and more!  1:07 - We discuss the big Marvel news at ComicCon and how it makes us feel about the future of the MC...

1:00 - RECOMMENDATION - “The Sandlot” (1993).  12:30 - RECOMMENDATION - “Rookie of the Year” (1993).  19:45 - RECOMMENDATION - “Angels in the Outfield” (1994).  – Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dusti...

0:00 - Conner’s dishwasher has died. 4:10 - REVIEW - “Twisters” (2024). We first discuss the original “Twister” film. ---- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Pr...

1:00 - RECOMMENDATION - “X-Men ‘97” (Season 1)(2024) 10:00 - RECOMMENDATION - “The Party’s Just Beginning” (2018) 22:12 - STILL GREAT - “The Revenant” (2015) 26:22 - STILL GREAT - “Her” (2013) 32:34 - “Knuckles” (Series)(2024) Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.s...

0:00 - Intro for context and then “The Beekeeper” . 22:30 - “Deadpool 2”. 27:51 - “Godzilla Minus One”. 29:54 - “Minari”. 33:00 - “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”. 36:40 - “Panic Room”. 39:34 - “Brats”. Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Execu...

0:00 - Intro for Context 1:25 - We begin this tangent with a discussion of what it’s like to introduce my kids to an uneven franchise like “Star Wars”. So this begins as a discussion about how we as movie lovers feel the need to preface films we show our kids with our strong opinions about quality.  8:00 - Gen Z doesn’t like any film that has any connection to anything retroactively considered pro...

0:00 - Food Talk. 3:00 - Conner is elderly in the brain. 5:15 - REVIEW - “A Quiet Place: Day One”(2024) 45:15 - Begin spoilers in earnest. Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by...

I recently rewatched 2021’s “The Tomorrow War” and I still loved it. Check out our original discussion and put it on your list! Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weld...

0:00 - Don’t you wish food didn’t cost money? 4:45 - RECOMMENDATION - “Inside Out 2” (2024) -- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by C...

0:00 - Short intro 1:48 - Laser pointers used to be so cool. 5:30 - Reflecting on “Family Guy”, a show that was the greatest thing ever when we were in high school. 14:28 - We discuss when we got our first iPods. 18:10 - We discuss growing up trying to assimilate into multiple friend groups because there wasn’t a friend group for what we are. We’re expert maskers. 23:00 - Why do most people just g...

2:25 - REVIEW - “The Iron Claw” (2023) - spoiler-free. At some point, and I won’t say when, we do just devolve into “taking the piss” out of England. Apologies to England. Also, Lily James, if you're listening to this, I am divorced and I'm ready for our dream romance to begin. Finally we can be together. Why won't you reply to my letters? I know it's crazy, I know I constantly mak...

2:00 - Burning your tongue and drooling are the quickest paths to feeling like a total fucking loser. 5:48 - RECOMMENDATION - “Succession” - Spoiler-free.   We then get into a discussion of the right and wrong way to end a TV show. I don’t think we spoil any, but we emphasize “The Sopranos”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “Seinfeld”, “Breaking Bad”, “Better Call Saul”, “LOST”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. 29...

0:00 - Does your child show any athletic promise? 9:00 - REVIEW - “Unfrosted” (2024)  ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conn...

0:00 - Intro for context. 1:30 - REVIEW - “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (2024), spoiler-free, though we spoil many of the previous films in the series.  ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dus...

0:00 - Intro for Context 1:25 - REVIEW - “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” (2024). It’s a longer discussion about the film, but largely without plot spoilers. I’ll mark the timecode when the bigger spoilers begin.  45:00 - We begin to spoil this film.  ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing,...

0:00 - Potty Training 2:40 - Dua Lipa was solid on “SNL”. She’s a keeper. 5:15 - We’re just circling back to some things we’ve watched recently. 5:30 - We chat about “Man on Fire” and Denzel Washington’s broken finger. 9:30 - I recommended both “Manchurian Candidate” iterations. 13:00 - I also saw “Navalny” 17:00 - Dustin finally saw “Oppenheimer”. What should Christopher Nolan do next? What shoul...

1:00 - REVIEW - “Late Night with the Devil” (2023) 12:20 - REVIEW - “Night Swim” (2024) 26:45 -  RECOMMENDATION - “Talk to Me” (2022) 32:50 - RECOMMENDATION - “The Lodge” (2019)  ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/   ----- Executive Producers:...