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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 still many years off.
Matt and Trevor go to the Nighthawks annual picnic and serve up a potluck of grist for this movie that was unsung in its era and is recognized as one of the best movies of all time by critics today.
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 […]
And now, what the entire world has been waiting for…two men give you their hot takes on Greta Gerwig’s 2023 film BARBIE.
The Nighthawks Podcast enthusiastically recommends: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.
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