Pop Culture Graveyard

Hollis and Dave grab their guitars and head to 1960s Greenwich Village hoping to catch a spark from the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown!

Hollis, Dave and a charismatic ape hit the road with a (not too) scary biker gang in hot pursuit! Please join us for the Citizen Kane of orangutan movies, 1978's Every Which Way But Loose...

Hollis and Dave have all night every night to hunt down a 1964 Chevy Malibu that may or may not have alien life forms in the trunk.

Hollis and Dave spend a lazy, smoky day on the front porch with a big radio and an even bigger bully, as they bring you the 1995 California-casual comedy Friday!

Hollis and Dave are knee-deep in murder, while paying tribute to the greatest fictional TV detective of all time, Lieutenant Columbo!

Hollis and Dave pop a few pills, down some Royal Crown cola--and make a discreet purchase from Easy Andy--to prepare themselves for the bicentennial feel-bad hellscape that is Taxi Driver! 

In this episode, Hollis and Dave get back to recording in 2025 while Rodney Dangerfield goes Back to School in 1986!

Hollis and Dave try to run from the Blissfield Butcher while wearing awkward high-school mascot costumes in the 2020 slasher-switcheroo Freaky!

Hollis and Dave go ghost hunting and come face to face with lipstick-faced demons, astral-projected children and gas-mask-clad mediums in the 2010 supernatural horror film Insidious.

Hollis and Dave open a fish cannery in Collinsport, Maine, and get sucked into a centuries-old feud between a witch and a vampire in Tim Burton's 2012 horror-comedy Dark Shadows!

Hollis and Dave take charge of the Overlook Hotel during the offseason, and stave off cabin fever by watching the Stanley Kubrick masterpiece The Shining!

Hollis and Dave perform their own stunts, with dire consequences, while singing the praises of the 2024 thrill-ride The Fall Guy!

Hollis and Dave hop in the cupboard, ball up their fists, and travel back in time to watch the 2013 romcom About Time... again... for the first time!

Hollis and Dave get handed a life sentence for a crime they didn't commit, and do hard time with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence in the 1999 tragicomedy Life!

Hollis and Dave hijack a train, while trying to keep New York City subway passengers from killing them, in the 1974 crime-thriller, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three!

Hollis and Dave take over as chief administrators of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, and try desperately to complete their rounds in time for fruit cup, in Mel Brooks's 1977 Alfred Hitchcock parody High Anxiety!

Hollis and Dave wind up at Chubby Checkers after gorging themselves on jelly donuts stuffed with chocolate-swirl ice cream, as they pay tribute to Dom DeLuise in Fatso (1980).

Hollis and Dave head to the City of Light to sing the praises of the Pixar masterpiece Ratatouille--with special guest star, Art Department veteran Michael Cachuela!

Hollis and Dave face an alien invasion together, while Kaitlyn Dever faces one alone--and racks up an impressive body count--in No One Will Save You (2023).

Hollis and Dave travel cross country to turn in their Star Trek screenplay; and along the way meet Dakota Fanning, Marla Gibbs, Patton Oswalt and an incontinent chihuahua, in Please Stand By (2017).

Hollis and Dave complete their mission to bring you the second installment of their Star Trek (The Original Series) Spectacular!

Hollis and Dave beam down on an alien planet where Desilu Productions still exists--and Captain Kirk's toupee never ages--in Part One of our Star Trek (The Original Series) Spectacular!

Hollis and Dave hunt the elusive jaguar shark while rethinking their decision to become unpaid interns on the Belafonte in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).

Hollis and Dave are pleased and happy to repeat the news that they have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers in Jaws (1975). Happy July Fourth weekend!

Hollis and Dave visit Red Hook, Brooklyn, to visit their favorite band that is not a band in the indie-film masterpiece Hearts Beat Loud (2018).

Hollis and Dave straighten their hair with shaving cream, go on tour with Stillwater, and pass out high on quaaludes while paying tribute to the Cameron Crowe rock-epic Almost Famous (2000).

Hollis and Dave pay tribute to one of the most brilliant films of the past five years, American Fiction (2023). 

Hollis and Dave visit a much simpler world... the vast wasteland of a post-apocalyptic landscape populated by gangs of cutthroat marauders hellbent on destruction, in George Miller's The Road Warrior (1981).

Hollis and Dave run afoul of bounty hunters, crime bosses, mafia accountants, and special agent Alonzo Mosely of the FBI, in the 1988 action-frenemy-comedy Midnight Run!

Hollis and Dave attend a beer bust out at the moontower with the coolest senior class ever in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993).

Hollis and Dave take on SkullFlower and Mollycoddle at the greatest high school Battle of the Bands ever in Metal Lords (2022). GLHS is lit!

Hollis and Dave celebrate Mother's Day with Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds in the 1996 Albert Brooks comedy, Mother!

Hollis and Dave are back in high school yet again, drawing stars and hearts on their hands as a show of solidarity with the coolest clique of rebel girls in school, in Moxie! (2021).

Hollis and Dave run themselves ragged trying to catch a Marvel superhero who just so happens to be the greatest Tag player ever in... Tag (2018).

Hollis and Dave explore strange new worlds with Galaxy Quest (1999), the greatest sci-fi comedy of all time!

Hollis and Dave wake up on the space tug Nostromo to find themselves battling a xenomorph, workplace politics and uncut misogyny in Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece Alien (1979).

Hollis and Dave bring you a warmer, kinder, gentler... fuzzier movie: The Muppet Movie (1979).

Hollis and Dave go town to town, up and down the dial, packing and unpacking their favorite characters and moments from one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982).

Hollis and Dave scarf down Harvey bars while watching the Rockford Peaches battle rivals, both on-field and off, in A League Of Their Own (1992).

Hollis and Dave track down all the rat-soup-eating, no-business, born-insecure motherf*ckers they can find, while signifying the praises of Dolemite Is My Name (2019).

Hollis and Dave enroll in the greatest high school ever, enjoying karaoke, murder-mystery parties and drug-laced strawberries, while singing the praises of Booksmart (2019).

Hollis and Dave crack ciphers and cut through bureaucratic red tape, as they doggedly pursue the serial killer known as Zodiac (2007).

Hollis and Dave try to find Mickey Cohen's missing H, while ducking dirty cops, underhanded sleaze merchants and hired muscle, in L.A. Confidential (1997).

Hollis and Dave spend their Christmas holiday under the watchful gaze of a grizzled, walleyed professor who smells like fish, as they bring you The Holdovers (2023).

Hollis and Dave put you in the proper mood for Valentine's Day with the Italian-American rom-com, Moonstruck (1987)!

Hollis and Dave come down with a major case of Deja Vu as they revisit Groundhog Day (1993), the film where Bill Murray's character transforms from a hack weatherman into a Renaissance man in just one day... sort of!  

Hollis and Dave visit the sweetest town in the world for 2007's Lars and the Real Girl, in which Ryan Gosling spends time with a doll not named Barbie.

In this episode, Hollis and Dave bask in the feel-good summer sunshine of "Daniel Stern's Breaking Away" (as we will continue to call this movie for the rest of our days), a brilliant 1979 film that somehow hasn't aged a day--and will make you feel eternally 19-years-old.

Hollis and Dave brave the harsh, unforgiving world of The Revenant (2015), a film that features cracked skin, broken bones, hypothermia and bear attacks... and that's before things really go wrong!

Hollis and Dave blast off into the new year with the sci-fi "mini-masterpiece," Arrival (2016), a film where the aliens aren't the ones humankind need to worry about.