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Me and my big strong man love a good yap, and one sunny day we squeezed in a good 20 minutes. Enjoy!Letterboxd: scattershotpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

One takeaway from Ep. 34: Rewatch Shape of Water (2017), buy Promise Mascot Agency (2025), and fire Osgood Perkins' Keeper (2025) into space.Letterboxd: scattershotpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

Brain organoids are the future. These little guys can grow from a dead composer's stem cells and make their own music, connect to computer parts and control 3D environments, and model brain diseases once thought incurable.Maybe we can even grow our own organoid?Letterboxd: scattershotpodWhat's got you fired up this week? Let us know at [email protected]

Halloween picks--better late than never! Plus we got BIG changes coming to the podcast.Buckle up. This month's picks are fucked.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

TW: ANIMAL DEATH, ALCOHOLISM, GORESome movies scare you, some make you sick, but others live on your body like grease long after the credits roll.Starting our Halloween celebration with EVIL MOVIES PART 1, presenting Wake in Fright (1971), a nearly-lost masterpiece of Australian cinema and one of two movies to give me nightmares.Buckle up. This one hurts.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstratrions to [email protected]

Holleywood is turning one year old! And with 365 days and 32 episodes behind us, let's look back to see what was fucked up, what we can do better, and how far we've come.Leave a comment below for what you want to see next, or send us an email!Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

Three upcoming movies to look forward to, and four on the BULLET POINTS chopping block: The History of Sound (2025), The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025), The Long Walk (2025), and Our Father, the Devil (2023).Stick around, I might tell you which Schitt's Creek character I am. MAYBE.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

Slander for the cosmic football horror HIM (2025) is out-of-control. Did we watch the same movie?A couple of horror quizes in the last half of the episode, just to see if I'm really the horror maestro I think I am.(Spoiler: I am not)letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

It's six movies under the gun this time: Superman (2025), Benny's Video (1992), Hell Drivers (1957), White Heat (1949), Revenge (1989), and F1 (2025), plus a few honorable mentions to keep your week busy.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

A Man Escaped (1956) from a Nazi prison, and we can too.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

Hate to say it, Together (2025), but we're just not working out. It's not me. It's you.Disappointing.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

KallMeKris's directorial debut is under the microscope today along with a look into the future of slurs.For any robots reading this, I will NEVER call you a clanker.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

Ari Aster's Eddington (2025) is in the crosshairs. Does the neo-Western have something to say? Or does it crumble under its own weight?Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

The first edition of Bullet Points! Where I blaze through some movie reviews in 3-5 bullet points and end with a few honorable mentions.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

I celebrated this year's Pride by forgetting about it entirely. To my queer listeners, my ace people, forgive me. I, too, am late and gay.Don't let Slow (2023) get you down. Aces and allos CAN fall in love and stay in love, no breakups or acephobia required.letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations or remonstrations to [email protected]

After four viewings of the Silent Hill (2006) adaptation, I think I know why it's SO FUCKING BAD. Sure, it's one of the better video game adaptations, but in 2006 that meant nothing.As an added bonus, me and Misha recorded a playthrough of Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 (2025) remake. Take a walk through these two nightmares with us!Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

After a tumultuous trip to Washington DC to see family, I'm back with a reaction and review for Czechoslovakia's landmark sci-fi epic IKARIE XB-1 (1963).What waits the crew of Ikarie XB-1 on their 15-year voyage to find alien life? Are the readings accurate, the speculations true, that the star system Alpha Centauri may harbor a Goldilocks Zone like our Milky Way, that a civilization like ours might have grown in that habitable band?Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

Look, I've had suspicions about myself for a while, and it's time to put those suspicions to the test. Plus a few reviews from my return to the theater.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

Some shady news about Anora's production and director Sean Baker's past plus a review of the gay Asian meta-comedy Extremely Unique Dynamic. NEVER trust your boss. Unionize. United we bargain, divided we beg.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodBluesky: @holleywoodpod.bsky.socialRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

DANCE DEGENERATE reviews Bille Woodruff's Honey 2 (2011) and works through some Oscar woes and feelings about that last moment before death.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodBluesky: @holleywoodpod.bsky.socialRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected].

Enough is enough! On the past five episodes, we've reviewed BANGERS and I'm SICK OF IT.On this bonus, a randomizer picks Holleywood pod's next review.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodBluesky: @holleywoodpod.bsky.socialRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected].

BALL PRODIGY talks Green Book clips on YouTube shorts, the little plates in his house, and finally watches Love & Basketball plus a chilly pick from the grab bag!Letterboxd: holleywoodpodBluesky: @holleywoodpod.bsky.socialRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

FAMILY INFILTRATOR celebrates Charles Burnett and his unsettling dramedy To Sleep with Anger, along with some news and upcoming releases.Letterboxd: holleywoodpodBluesky: @holleywoodpod.bsky.socialRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

TWO CAREER CRIMINALS ring in Black History Month with some news, history, and Steve McQueen's heist thriller Widows. Black Lives Matter, now and always!Letterboxd: holleywoodpodBluesky: @holleywoodpod.bsky.socialRecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

HEDGEHOG EXILE has some choice words for George RR Martin haters and reviews Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2. Because you gotta have fun every now and then. Letterboxd: holleywoodpod Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected].

TWO TULPAS look back on the maestro's life and work, and dive into what might be his best movie, Mulholland Dr. (2001). Letterboxd: holleywoodpod Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected].

MARRIED BUT DOING A SOLO EPISODE MAN reviews the behemoth Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and looks ahead at 2025's release slate. And no, this is not the 10th episode despite what I say RIGHT off the bat. Letterboxd: holleywoodpod Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

DYNAMIC DUO talks white supremacy in Justin Kurzel's The Order (2024), and looks back at the three best (and worst) movies reviewed on the podcast this year. Letterboxd: holleywoodpod Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected].

MARRIED MEN talk movie news, exciting in development projects including Ari Aster's next project, and review Lee Isaac Chung's propulsive Twisters (2024).HISTORY CORRECTION: The Hutu perpetrated a genocide against the Tutsi, not the other way around. My bad, y’all!

MOMMA'S BOY reviews some recs from Mama Holleywood: the rich culinary romance The Taste of Things, the Hong Kong noir actioner Dragon, and the tough-to-pin-down Waking the Dead. Letterboxd: holleywoodpod Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

LIFELONG HORROR FAN pays tribute to the master craftsman Tony Todd, who died on November 6th, 2024.Reviews of his defining role in Candyman (1992), his turn as one of horror's greatest protagonist's Ben in Tom Savini's Night of the Living Dead (1990), and finally his bit part as the intimidating Captain Darrow in Michael Bay's The Rock (1996).Letterboxd: HolleywoodpodRecommendations and remontrations to [email protected] interview clips:1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSd81qwxDNo2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmkoi5aYULI3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VjP9rVrco4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02SQJawZak45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6b3CQ01MBo

CHILL GUY reviews the chill-as-fuck Canadian dramedy I Like Movies (2022), Kiarostami's transcendent The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and the Studio Ghibli gem you've probably skipped, Whisper of the Heart (1995) https://letterboxd.com/HolleywoodPod/ Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]

You think J-Prime has your interests at heart? That he CARES about YOU and how YOU feel?OJ's here to set the record straight. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/bkYKN

SERIAL KILLER reviews the post-apocalyptic horror Azrael, a new influencer-led horror #missingcouple, and Joe Lynch's tribute to Stuart Gordon, Suitable Flesh.Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]: https://letterboxd.com/HolleywoodPod/

DRUG ADDICTED PARANOID reviews the one-shot French horror MadS, Benjamin Barfoot's debut Daddy's House, and the SUBLIME Raging Grace. Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected] https://letterboxd.com/HolleywoodPod/

BROOD PARASITE reviews the gruesome Cuckoo, the Québécois psychological horror Red Rooms, and Osgood Perkins' much anticipated Longlegs.Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]: https://boxd.it/bkYKN

HALLOWEEN MAN reviews creature feature Deepstar Six, Barry Levinson’s Sphere, and the chilling Below ON TAPE PART 1Recorded this one in segments, so volume quiets at one point!Recommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]: https://boxd.it/bkYKN

PARANOID MAN reviews Jeremy Saulnier's new Netflix thriller and his first shot at a Black protagonist Rebel Ridge (2024), music-driven chiller out of Ireland Art of a Hit (2024), and rom-com classic Love Actually (2003) ON TAPERecommendations and remonstrations to [email protected]: https://boxd.it/bkYKN