Boyz n the Hood also offers us babyfaced performances from Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Regina King, Angela Bassett, Lawrence Fishburne and a cavalcade of others.

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 […]

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 […]

Hey all you stoners and stoners-at-heart out there! For 4/20/2020 we’ve curated a list of episodes on our favorite movies about sex, drugs, and rock and roll and collected them right here for you. After 101 episodes we’ve covered a lot of movies, and a lot of them deal in marijuana to some degree or […]

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 celebrators get to consume more marijuana than a normal 4/20, and they get to celebrate longer because “all month […]

It’s a simple question. What do movies mean to you? It’s the answers that aren’t always so simple. For this episode we asked this question of fourteen guests, and their answers are as varied as they are. Big thanks to these folks for making this special episode extra special. Mark Ball (Podcaster- Doing the Nasty, […]

‘Damn right we went there.’ Maybe we’re crazy. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Here we are as a collision of coincidence across streaming platforms allowed us to cover Robert B. Parker’s Spenser within our first hundred episodes. Matt is an old aficionado of the Parker Spenser novels, a fan of the television […]

We are very saddened to hear of the passing of veteran auteur actor Max Von Sydow at the age of 90. All manner of God, The Devil, and Max Von Sydow were on our discussion menu in 2015 for the Nighthawk’s Cafe’s very first MONSTOBERFEST. Join us as we remember Max Von Sydow, and revisit […]

Welcome to the 80s! Tortoiseshell glasses with smoky lenses, Texas tech impresarios, brown suits, 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 […]