Nighthawks' Podcast

What have you been watching lately? With the Nighthawks gearing up for some special episodes over the summer, they decided to lead off with a whole episode devoted to the latest movies in Matt and Trevor's queue and some of the latest movies to hit theaters! Discussed in this episode: The Mitchells vs. The Machines,  Raya and the Last Dragon,  Those Who Wish Me Dead,  F9 (aka The Fast and the Furi...

A 1950s Drive-In Classic starring Steve McQueen becomes a sloppy and violent 1980s practical effects slime-fest when it comes to the amorphous THE BLOB. Originally pitched as an episode covering the 1988 The Blob only, the Nighthawks both watched the 1958 The Blob for the first time, doing homework for this episode, and they can’t help but talk about it. In both movies an object crash lands from s...

A jolly old eccentric billionaire has created the world's most astounding theme park, filled with living, breathing, roaring, snorting dinosaurs. It's the movie that brought Dinosaurs into the modern age, and brought mainstream Hollywood films into the CGI age. Now nearly 30 years old, Jurassic Park is a film that captured the attention and the imagination of a generation, and spawned a franchise...

The announcement of the Nighthawks 2nd annual Oscar pool is now... and none of our hosts won. Meanwhile it's the button-down discussion of the 2021 Oscar results. Some surprises, some upsets, some bad calls, some good plays. Discussed are the films Nomadland, My Octopus Teacher, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Minari, Promising Young Woman, and many others. Was this a year that "Oscar got it right?" Or...

It's that time of year again, for the glitz, the glamor, the pomp, the circumstance, the ceremony, the reaction shots from Meryl Streep... It's time for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards, otherwise known as The Oscars, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In the Nighthawks Cafe is Oscar Czar Cameron Maris, breaking the nominees down for Trevor and Matt, and one thing is undeniab...

It's the title bout that you've been waiting for (since 1963). One is a giant killer man-eating gorilla with a heart of gold. One is a radioactive gila monster that is driven by unstoppable instinct. This is Godzilla vs. Kong. This is Lizard vs. Monke. Kong has been living larger, older, and grayer in captivity since 'Nam, and is held by the Kaiju study team Monarch. Kong wants out. Meanwhile Godz...

The big news around the movie sphere is probably the release of the sought after, one time fabled, now real, Snyder Cut of WB's JUSTICE LEAGUE film, on HBOMax. Matt and Trevor are still digesting "The Snyder Cut," but they recorded this episode for you to release in the meantime. While y'all are talking about Justice League, we're spotlighting a movie that people SHOULD be talking about more. Hail...

On the back of our discussion of Citizen Kane comes the discussion of a movie made nearly 80 years after Citizen Kane, about the making of Citizen Kane. Mank is the 2020 offering from director David Fincher, exploring the troubled and complex person that was Herman J. Mankiewicz. A man who would be the writer of a movie that man consider the best American film ever made. Mankiewicz must contend wi...

God and devil Sinner and Saint Communist and fascist Charles Foster Kane is many things to many people. And the world got to know him in 1941 when the Freshman film of Orson Welles hit a limited number of screens, but still managed to snag multiple Oscar nominations and one win. Citizen Kane is the portrait of a man, as painted by the people who knew him. Shown out of order and through hazy recoll...

Yeah, what can we say about 2020 that isn't echoing off the walls of every living room in the United States right now? The best we can offer is some recommendations of new and upcoming films that we caught during our year in quarantine. Featured in this episode: Bill and Ted Face the Music The Invisible Man The Stylist The Vice Guide to Bigfoot The Mandalorian: Season 2 After Midnight Birds of Pre...

There are ways in which mogwai and gremlins are like The Nighthawks, and ways in which they are unalike. For example: “Keep them out of bright light, especially sunlight. It will kill them.” This applies to both Nighthawks and the mogwai/gremlin population. “Don’t feed them after midnight.” This applies to mogwai, but not to Nighthawks. The Nighthawks actually prefer you DO feed them, regardless o...

Feeling that itch for more in the vein of Star Wars: The Mandalorian? Look no further, allow us to present: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance. A Japanese film from 1972 that kicked off a six movie franchise, and was the first screen adaptation of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. Matt and Trevor watched Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance as a way to...

The Nighthawks have brought you space vampires and space demons in 2020, but what is space the most famous for? It is the dwelling of the ALIEN. The seminal outer space horror movie from 1979 is the movie that launched, not only its own franchises, but launched several imitators and franchises throughout the last 40 years. Sigourney Weaver is Lt. Ellen Ripley, a smart and tough space trucker runni...

Off we go, in the the black empty void of space. Trevor and Matt's second foray into 2020's MONSTOBERFEST IN SPACE takes them to the outer rim of the Solar System, and in orbit around Neptune. Elite space explorers and a radical scientist team up to investigate the derelict spaceship, Event Horizon, which has been missing for seven years. The faster-than-light vehicle has successfully managed to f...

Content advisory: This film discusses the 1985 film named Lifeforce, not the 1986 video game Life Force (aka Salamander). Given the nature of the internet we felt it best to disclaim in advance. The horror comes from beyond the stars for MONSTOBERFEST IN SPACE, the celebration of horror movies that have a basis in the cosmos. During an Earth passby of Halley's Comet, daring British space explorati...

Gather ye 'round, children, and we'll weave ye' a tale. From the Highlands of Scotland where the breeze kisses the heather, and Liam Neeson kisses Jessica Lange under an upright boulder. Matt and Trevor order off menu for a steaming plate of haggis to discuss Rob Roy, the other Scottish period film from 1995, and one that contains 100% less Mel Gibson than the alternative. Rob Roy McGregor, a Scot...

"An unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates "The best place to be is here. The best time to be is now." -Wyld Stallyns "Bake 40 to 45 minutes or just until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely in pan on cooling rack." -Betty Crocker Wisdom comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes it's from history's greatest philosophers pondering life and death. Sometimes it's a...

Ol' Matt and Trevor Did Dare to Endeavor To watch a film by Frank Marshall Along Came Some Spiders And they were venomous biters To this Amblin Thrillomedy we're partial It's the late Frank Marshall's directorial debut: Arachnophobia. Produced by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, the movie was branded as (god only knows why) a "Thrillomedy," seeking to give wide audiences a movie that would s...

This Episode of the Nighthawks Podcast is not censored for profanity or content. Listener discretion is advised. Nighthawks Diner special Guest Host Terry Fleming drops in to talk to Matt about a movie they've been familiar with since they were young. Trevor, on the other hand, is watching this John Singleton 1991 classic for the first time. Today the Nighthawks Diner is abuzz with discussion of B...

It's one of those magical times when the late Tony Scott crossed paths with the legendary Denzel Washington. Believe it or not, Trevor watched this movie for the FIRST time, specifically for this episode. Would the kidnapping revenge thriller hold up to nearly 25 years of build up? Matt saw this in a timely manner and has been a fan. No question about it, Matt thinks the movie works. Links from th...

Good evening to the denizens of the Nighthawks diner. We are pleased to report that as the world finds itself in a nightmare absurdist dystopia of COVID-19, the streets around the conceptual Nighthawks diner are a little safer from crime. Actress, producer, comedian, stunt performer, and all-around-entertainment-engine Katie Mae Peters pulls up a seat in the diner booth with Matt and Trevor to tal...

It's that time of year, and with the calendar coincidence, we couldn't turn down another pass at a 4/20 marijuana-themed episode. This year is 2020 so 4/20 gets two extra 20s, and we're assured that means we get to consume more marijuana than normal 4/20, and we get to celebrate longer because all month is 4/20. The mysteries of this holiday are many, and we're getting to the age where we don't un...

Credits: Mark Ball (Podcaster- Doing the Nasty, Action Figure Photographer Chris Bucheit (Chef, Musician- Middle Class Joe) Susan Burke (Comedian, actor, director, writer- Southbound, Stan Against Evil) C. Robert Cargill (Novelist, podcaster, writer- Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Sinister) Rebecca Frost (Podcaster, critic) Steven DeGennaro (Podcaster, writer, director- Found Footage 3D, Stop) Lucas Lee...

It was bound to happen sooner or later and a collision of streaming coincidence allowed us to get this done in our first hundred episodes. Matt is an old aficionado of the Robert B. Parker Spenser novels, a fan of the television series Spenser: For Hire, and he has strong opinions about the made-for-TV Spenser movies from the 90s and early aughts. He’s going into the 2020 Netflix offering, Spenser...

Welcome to the 80s! Tortoiseshell glasses, with smoky lenses, Texas tech impresarios and Silicon Valley Dudes programing the latest hit video games. As technology began to explode into the American home, the world struggled with how to interpret this new way of life. Inevitably the artistic medium of our times saw a pretty incredible attempt to imagine the world from within technology itself. This...