Nighthawks' Podcast

Once again it’s time for a glamorous strut on the red carpet, outside 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 back for a very informal discussion of the Oscar horserace in 2026.  The precious metal humanoid is back at it again and there’s a whole new roster of movies to...

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? Pull up a seat in the Nighthawks booth and grab a heaping helping of pod-fodder. Play Dirty– A new Shane Black movie...seemingly out of nowhere V The Mini Series- A rewatch of the 80s miniseries draws comparison to modern day. On Battle After Another- An accessible Paul Thomas Anderson movie, but is it a movie to love? Bugonia - Does Yorgos Lanthimos do justice...

A warning to the wary listener, there be spoilers here. From the Nerds at Night podcast- Terry Flemings joins the Nighthawks at the Diner for a stripped-down reaction episode discussing the finale season of Stranger Things. Ten years ago, the Nighthawks actually felt the need to advocate for Season 1 of Stranger Things, a little plucky show that they really wanted people to watch. Now, with a deca...

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? Pull up a seat in the Nighthawks booth and grab a heaping helping of pod-fodder. Black Phone 2– The Grabber is back, and this time he's killing you in your dreams. A little too Freddy? Maybe. Shelby Oaks- Part Found Footage, part finder of footage, all horror.  Vodoo Macbeth- An academic experimental film, chronicling the groundbreaking production of Macbeth mo...

We sliced our way through THANKSGIVING (2023), we got absolutely SCROOGED (1988) for Christmas, and now we're going to let the ball drop in Manhattan for New Year's Eve as the Nighthawks pop the champagne and caviar for GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (1989). Rounding out our spooky holiday offerings we bring you a movie that absolutely isn't set during New Year's Eve, but has BIG New Year's Eve vibes-...

A classic Christmas time-travelling ghost story, told in five staves, becomes an 80s-drenched "modern" film told in three acts: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol from 1843 becomes Dick Donner's SCROOGED from 1988. Join Matt and Trevor in the Nighthawks diner, order up a cup of hot mulled wine, and chat with us about the classic tale of the redemption of Ebeneezer Scrooge and how it was reimagined...

Matt and Trevor are deep in the Holiday leftovers as they serve themselves a diner slice of pumpkin pie along with an appropriately themed holiday horror film in the Nighthawks’ MONSTEMBERFEST! The holidays are a time for family, togetherness, mercy, charity, blood and guts as we remind our listeners that spooky movies aren’t exclusive to Halloween! This time around, we have Horror director Eli Ro...

Sit down to cannoli and espresso at The Nighthawks Diner, as the co-hosts parse one of the greatest films of the 70s. Written by the man who wrote Superman The Movie, directed by the man who directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula, starring the man who would star in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and co-starring at least one guy from The Irishman; this is the quintessential family mob drama that you can’t re...

In 2018 the Nighthawks took a deep granular dive into the 1938 radio adaptation of War of the Worlds , that famously made Orson Welles a household name and (allegedly) scared some undetermined number of people into thinking that the United States was being invaded by an outside force. In 2020, a movie was made based on the same Public Domain story that sought to imagine the end of the world, not t...

The co-hosts at the Nighthawks Diner triple down on a glass of Beetlejuice and contend with the self-proclaimed "Ghost With The Most." Hot off of his success with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, former Disney animator turned director, Tim Burton, chooses life, death, and the afterlife for the subject of this early effort in his career. The resulting horror comedy would cement Burton as someone who could...

Wow... ten years. TEN YEARS! (Cue clip from Gross Pointe Blank) Folks, it has been an honor and a privilege to have been sitting in our imaginary diner having real conversations with you (okay, at you) about movies. It's been ten years of some truly remarkable films...and Shark Week. For this edition of the Nighthawks Podcast, the guys in the corner booth decide to take it back to the franchise th...

When The East meets The West- La Cosa Nostra will be turned on its ear by the man who does all his own stunts: Jackie Chan! The Nighthawks take a peek at Jackie Chan's first attempt to break out for western audiences, in this Hong Kong/U.S.A. co-production that pits Chan against The Mafia, roller skating, American women, Luca Brazi, and the dad of that guy that was in Twin Peaks and Robo-Cop. Stru...

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 Industrial Complex w...

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 book fad was s...

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 Laughton. Despite tak...

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 that actor" roles...

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 nominee. The film...

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 Nighthawks an...

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 Poltergeist during...

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, but seems to st...

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 and Tom Sizemor...

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 snubs. Matt, chills...

Once again it's time for a glamorous night 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 snubs. Matt, chills...

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? Mysteries, murder, and rebellion on the menu at the Nighthawks Diner for a discussion of what Matt and Trevor have been watching. Pull up a seat in the Nighthawks booth and grab a heaping helping of pod-fodder. Confess, Fletch– Is it a book adaptation, a Chevy Chase sequel, neither, or both? John Hamm dons the Los Angeles Lakers hat of the mononymed Fletch, a f...

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? An all-franchise edition of WHYBW has us looking at three sequels and one prequel from the recently-released and recently-streaming bin. A mixed bag of continuing stories for both the large and small screens. Join the Nighthawks as we serve up another hot and fresh plate of takes. Jurassic World Dominion– A disappointing end to a disappointing franchise that be...