Nighthawks' Podcast

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? An examination of some of the best movies of the year, and one book that gave Trevor comfort in a time of need. Join Matt and Trevor in the conceptual Nighthawks Diner to go over a menu of some of 2022's best Everything Everywhere All At Once– The bonkers kung-fu tale of multiverses, taxes, laundry and family. RRR- "The Indian Bromance Action-Adventure Musical...

When you sit in a booth at the Nighthawks Diner you break bread at the crossroads of human experience, and tonight a very special guest is bringing their experience with them. At topic is the 2021 holiday drama A Christmas Sunset, which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Matt and Trevor invite writer, director, and actor T.C. De Witt to discuss the film and the craft he deploys in his w...

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? A rewatch of an undeniable piece of filth, a classic film watch blossoms from a Looney Tunes short, a festival favorite African film, an update on Trevor’s journey through the Spenser novels, and Matt recommends a Hindi horror fable. All of this and more as we check in with what the Nighthawks have been up to lately. Pink Flamingos– Matt revisits the type of mo...

On this, the Blackest of Fridays, Matt is joined by guest co-host Greg Orme. Greg is a stand up comedian emeritus, a comedy promoter, and punk rocker and he tests his constitution by joining Matt on a ten-film journey through the original Hellraiser franchise. Featuring the high points of the original trilogy, the low points of the franchise's diminishing returns, and a surprising thumbs-up for a...

Like Laurie Strode we emerge from our nightmare (Monstoberfest be thy name) into the dawn of a new day...BUT the Halloween season has one more surprise for Matt and Trevor. Wrapping up Monstoberfest 2022, Matt and Trevor find out exactly how HALLOWEEN ENDS via the movie of that name from David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. It's closing out a reboot sequel trilogy in a franchise whose continuity...

Take a seat in the booth at the Nighthawks Diner where they're about to party like it's 1999! As we discuss horror sequels, remakes, and retreads for this year's Monstoberfest, one franchise dares to look back...back to a simpler time of Y2k panic, The Matrix fandom, and ball busting elder millennials. You need not be familiar with any other V/H/S films to enjoy V/H/S 99, but you'll want to have w...

Matt and Trevor off of the current release menu for Monstoberfest this year, first up is an examination of the rebooted/retooled/relaunced HELLRAISER film released in 2022. Fans seem bitterly divided about changes made to the franchise, other seem okay with the direction the new film is going in. The Nighthawks weigh in over coffee and pie to talk about this seasonal horror offering from Hulu.

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? The latest fairy tale from a beloved film auteur as well as several tips into horror for the upcoming Halloween season. Pull up a seat in the booth and join the boys for a discussion of what they've been watching lately. 3,000 Years of Longing – A modern fable from a modern master. Matt checked out this new genie-in-a-bottle movie from Mad Max creator George Mi...

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? Matt and Trevor wade out of the shadow of their own absence, and into the bright light of controversy. It's an al Big-time franchise streaming TV discussion in the booth at the Nighthawks conceptual diner. Quit bitching about the color of fictional characters in fictional stories- Just quit it. LOTR The Rings of Power – Aside from the controversial addition of...

If it bleeds, we can kill it... And this particular entry in the PREDATOR franchise seeks to kill a different kind of "it" as they attempt to give new life to a C- franchise. "Kill it" they do, and Trevor and Matt are in the Nighthawks Conceptual Diner to parse out what might be the best Predator sequel since the original film was released in 1987. The iconic monster has done battle over multiple...

Whose house?!  ARThouse! I said whose house?! ARThouse! After a long stint of Hollywood blockbusters and major franchises, the Nighthawks order something off the International Menu at the conceptual diner. Director Andrei Tarkovsky's, STALKER is a Soviet era Russian film about three characters wandering into a heavily guarded exclusion zone where some untold calamity has rendered the area allegedl...

Matt and Trevor check into their regular booth at the Nighthawks conceptual diner to just chin wag a little bit about some of the movies and projects they've been watching lately. Morbius - Dr. Michael Morbius is a sickly but brilliant doctor who uses his big brain and his equally sick friend's big wallet to fund radical bat research. Radical in that it is out of the ordinary, not in the Tony Hawk...

There it is folks! CODA wins best picture, Troy Kotsur wins Best Supporting Actor, Dune took home the most Oscars of the evening, and Encanto lost out on best song. Nothing else happened. Except the thing that most folks, Oscar fans or not, seem to be talking about. Yes, we will talk about Will Smith and Chris Rock. We will talk about "The Slap" (the news event not the limited television series. B...

Hooray for Hollywood...again! It's (still) Tinseltown's most glamorous night out and you continue to be invited to the red carpet... ...which is still the red carpet in front of the door in the conceptual Nighthawks Diner. Oscar Czar and house band musician Cameron Maris, of Nineteen Cent Feast , continues the conversation with Matt and Trevor discussing the 2022 94th Annual Academy of Motion Pict...

Hooray for Hollywood! It's Tinseltown's most glamorous night out and you are invited to the red carpet... ...that is the red carpet in front of the door in the conceptual Nighthawks Diner. Oscar Czar and house band musician Cameron Maris, of Nineteen Cent Feast , joins Matt and Trevor to talk about the Technical and Artistic categories for the 2022 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Acad...

For the latest information on current events in Ukraine, please check these trusted global news outlets: Associated Press Reuters BBC The people of the Reno Sheriff's Department, after launching their successful hit television series 19 years ago, return for a brand new feature-length adventure. Long time fans of the Reno 911! television series (Comedy Central, Quibi, Roku Channel, syndication) Ma...

Nighthawks guest host Terry Flemings is back in the Nighthawks diner, a place that is virtual and conceptual. Speaking of jokes used on the podcast, this episode covers the latest entry in The Matrix franchise: The Matrix Resurrections from director Lana Wachowski. The franchise began with Lana and her sister, Lilly Wachowski, behind the camera for The Matrix, a watershed film in blockbusters, act...

The boys from the Nighthawks diner take a special look at George Roy Hill's classic 1969 film Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman. This episode was originally conceived of as a pilot episode for another podcast. Unfortunately the plans for production never came to fruition, but that pilot episode is now available to our Nighthawks Podcast listeners. The Jack...

This time around the conceptual Nighthawks Diner is represented by a middle American roadside burger joint in a small town depressed by the energy downturn. This time the Ghostbusting will take place in Oklahoma and not New York City.  It's been nearly 30 years since Ghostbusters 2 graced theaters and it's been nearly 30 years in canon that the Ghostbusters have been out of the public eye. The hei...

It was the best of Monstoberfests and it was the worst of Monstoberfests. The Nighthawks have been on an unanticipated hiatus and are back with a full episode update for you! Not only do we answer the burning question of “WTF?” we also let you in on our thoughts on some of the stuff we’ve been watching. Table of Contents below. Promoted in this episode: Children’s Hospital Colorado (click here to...

The Nighthawks' time is nighttime, and nighttime is NOW! Welcome to: MONSTOBERFEST 2021 aka MonstoberGUEST For this episode, writer and renaissance man podcaster, T.C. De Witt stops by the conceptual diner to discuss his contribution to the lovingly created and crowdfunded Friday the 13th Vengeance. A not-for-profit fan film that dares to build on one of the best love slasher sagas of the 20th cen...

Every sunset must have its twilight, and as Indiana Jones left into the sunset in 1989 and in the 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull we pick him up in his twilight. As easy a target as Harrison Ford's age is, 19 years after the previous entry in the franchise, the actor shows that he still has what it takes to punch fascists, quest for relics, and get into some dangerous darin...

The third time is the charm and we're getting the family involved. From the legendary minds of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas comes the third chapter of the Indiana Jones saga, and subsequently the third episode in the Nighthawks Indiana Jones Special! In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; our titular relic hunting archeologist is on the trail of the Christian Holy Grail with a soupçon of Arth...

The boys are back in town. The boys being The Nighthawks and that unflappable archeologist and relic hunter Indiana Jones. Tonight the boys discuss Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom! In this prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, the titular Indiana Jones finds himself with Girl Friday Willie Scott and a plucky Chinese orphan as he embarks into the jungles of India in search of the lost Sankara St...

For this episode, and the next several episodes, the Nighthawks Podcast embarks on a great quest that started in 1981. At the end of the 20th century, the world was introduced to a swashbuckling mid-century hero. Archeologist by day, relic-hunter and Nazi puncher by night. Harrison Ford stars as Indiana Jones whose first adventure started for the Lost Ark of the Covenant in the Steven Spielberg an...