The Dive-In Moviecast

This week, co-hosts Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are joined by returning guests and close friends of the podcast Cole Ross & Brayden McConnell for the ultimate Marvel podcast! They kick off the episode with a discussion on Phase 4 of the MCU so far and if the switch to TV has paid off long-term and give their thoughts on Hawkeye before getting into the draft. The goal is to randomize the order o...

This week on The Dive-In Moviecast, Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are talking about the big film festival of the year so far, Sundance! Due to Sundance doing their screenings virtually this year, Hayden and Wesley had the pleasure of spending their weekend catching a multitude of movies that are generating lots of buzz and anticipation from the festival. They get into all the movies they’ve seen...

On this episode of The Dive-In Moviecast, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are headed to Woodsboro to discuss the much beloved horror franchise ‘Scream’ in a mega-pod to celebrate the 5th film’s release. Hayden, a mega-fan of the franchise, and Wesley, a Scream Newbie, get into all of the film’s from throughout the decades, talking about why it’s so important to the horror genre, why the S...

This week on the Dive-In Moviecast, we’re taking it back to the 1970’s in the San Fernando Valley to talk Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest feature ‘Licorice Pizza’, and we’re joined by fellow podcaster and LA resident himself, Joe Depakakibo, host of the Kyber Culture! We kick off the episode talking some movie news, getting into Morbius delay, Chris Evans playing Gene Kelly, & The Northman Trailer....

This week on The Dive-In Moviecast, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are back after Holiday Break for the first episode of 2022, and they’re joined by friend of the pod/returning guest Nick Long for a reflection on the state of watching movies and cinema-going in 2021! They each form a top 10 list of movies from throughout the year, getting into the films they loved and what stood out to t...

The moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived! Co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are talking the incredibly hyped Spider-Man: No Way Home. They discuss everything about the film, starting off spoiler free (and talking if it delivers on all the insane hype surrounding it, Tom Holland stepping up to deliver his best performance as the character, the way this movie raises the stakes from t...

Actions speak louder than words for Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen, and this week they’re talking Lin Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’, starring Andrew Garfield. They kick off the episode chatting Wesley’s impending trip to New York City, his anticipation for his first trip to Broadway, and his most recent play that just wrapped up earlier this week, while Hayden listens with...

Fear is the mind-killer for the Dive-In Moviecast, & this week co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are talking Denis Villenueve’s 2021 sci-fi epic, ‘Dune’, based on the beloved book series by Frank Herbert. They kick off the episode discussing some recent news, such as the death of beloved playwright and composer Stephen Sondheim, the trailer for Hulu’s ‘Pam & Tommy’ starring Lily James & Seb...

Who ya gonna call? This week on The Dive-In, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen take the Ecto-1 for a drive through small town Summerville and talk the new Ghostbusters movie, ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’. To kick off the episode, they briefly talk the Spider-Man No Way Home trailer, the star-studded cast & new trailer for ‘Don’t Look Up’, Wesley gives his opinion on the live-action ‘Cowboy Beb...

This week on The Dive-In, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are having their drinks shaken, not stirred to talk ‘No Time To Die’, Daniel Craig’s swan song to the James Bond character. But first, they chat the largely disappointing news from Disney Plus Day, and what announcements got them hyped up and what announcements did nothing for them. (2:00) They then briefly chat ‘The French Dispatc...

Listeners note: Hayden’s audio had some complications and the audio didn’t record through his regular microphone. Due to this, his audio is a lower quality than usual. This week on The Dive-In Moviecast, Hayden Koutras is joined by guest and friend of the pod Joe Depakakibo from The Aged Narrative, A boozy podcast that discusses film/TV, pop culture, video games, and fiction. They're talking some...

Happy Halloween! Co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen have one last Halloween trick up their sleeves. Rather than talk anything film related, they’re instead talking everything Halloween, from best and worst candies, their best and worst costumes from their past, favourite memories of the holiday throughout their lives and much more. Have a safe and happy holiday everyone!

It’s been a busy month for Horror fans, and Hayden Koutras is joined by roommate and best friend Morgan Cutler (filling in for Wesley) to talk all the latest in Horror on the small screen this month! They kick off the episode discussing the phenomenon of ‘Squid Game’, if it’s worthy of the hype and the creator’s decade long struggle to get it made. (2:50) The boys then talk their favourite show of...

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! Co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen summon the ghost with the most and discuss Tim Burton’s Halloween classic ‘Beetlejuice’, why it’s the perfect gateway horror for kids to experience Horror, why Michael Keaton’s performance cemented itself in pop culture history with minimal screen time, the dark version of the film that the script was originally writte...

This week on The Dive-In Moviecast, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are headed to San Francisco to catch up with Eddie Brock and his symbiote pal Venom! First off, they discuss Star Wars Visions, why it’s refreshing as a Star Wars fan & why seeing Star Wars pay homage to the Japanese story-telling it was inspired by is a nice full circle moment. They then get into all of Venom 2 and discu...

This week on The Dive-In Moviecast, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen had to go see about a girl and talk about a classic, ‘Good Will Hunting’. They talk the inspirational rise of Ben Affleck & Matt Damon, some of their favourite Robin Williams movies, the character of Will Hunting and why he’s so endlessly relatable, why the situations in Ben & Matt’s life while writing the script made the...

This week on The Dive-In Moviecast, co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are talking the newest film in the MCU, 'Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings'! They catch up on life as the summer comes to a close before kicking the episode off with a discussion on 'What If..?' and it's first four episodes, whether the animation works or not, and which episodes are their favorites so far. They th...

This week on The Dive-In, co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are getting into some of the best movies and television shows they've seen from this year at a little over the halfway point of 2021, but first, they kick off the episode talking that insane new 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' trailer (2:16), what it may mean, and all their expectations for the film as well as the early positive receptio...

Co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are headed to Free City for a discussion on the Ryan Reynolds-starring Action Comedy, 'Free Guy', but first they get into some recent movie news including Venom 2 and Hotel Transylvania 3's recent delays and what it could mean for the movie industry as we head into a potential 4th Wave with the Delta Variant, Anthony Mackie confirmed to be starring in Capta...

The Dive-In Moviecast are headed to the remote island of Corto Maltese to talk James Gunn’s ‘The Suicide Squad’ and get into how to save a franchise after a disaster like the first, why James Gunn is the perfect director for a film like this, DC’s repeated failures and why they need to give creative freedom like they did here, our thoughts on all the film’s loveable characters, the use of Starro a...

It's the Season Two Finale! co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are wrapping up Season Two of The Dive-In Moviecast by talking Luca, the newest Pixar release available at no extra cost on Disney+. They talk the representation of Italian Culture, Why it's nice to have a Pixar movie that's only focused on having fun rather than something deep like usual, whether or not the campy nature of the v...

Lights up on Washington Heights! Co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are talking 'In The Heights', the big musical event of the summer from director Jon M. Chu & Lin Manuel Miranda.  They discuss the film’s history as a play on Broadway, the fantastic representation of a Latino community, why this movie sets Anthony Ramos up to be a huge star going forward, the way Lin Manuel Miranda writes m...

This week on The Dive-In, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are joined yet again by the boys from ‘The Cast of Color’, Joe, Jon, & Gerardo to talk about Zack Snyder’s latest Netflix feature ‘Army of the Dead’. They kick off the conversation by discussing the news of Amazon acquiring MGM for 8.4 Billion dollars and what this means for the franchises they’ve now acquired, & the Eternals trail...

On this week’s episode of the Dive-In, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are talking a couple of new releases as they head into the Summer movie season, but first, they get into some news, including the growing cast of A-List talent joining the upcoming Knives Out sequel, the trailer for Snake Eyes, a G.I. Joe spin-off that looks surprisingly entertaining, & in a moment of pure nostalgia, t...

On this week's episode of The Dive-In, co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen kick off the episode talking about the newly released trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage and their thoughts and expectations for that film, then get into the entirety of Invincible's first season (7:58) and how Robert Kirkman subverts tropes established in the superhero genre to build his characters, The all-star...