Nighthawks' Podcast

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? Pull up a seat in the Nighthawks booth and grab a heaping helping of pod-fodder. Black Phone 2– The Grabber is back, and this time he's killing you in your dreams. A little too...

We sliced our way through THANKSGIVING (2023), we got absolutely SCROOGED (1988) for Christmas, and now we're going to let the ball drop in Manhattan for New Year's Eve as the Nighthawks pop the champagne and caviar for...

A classic Christmas time-travelling ghost story, told in five staves, becomes an 80s-drenched "modern" film told in three acts: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol from 1843 becomes Dick Donner's SCROOGED from 1988. Join...

Matt and Trevor are deep in the Holiday leftovers as they serve themselves a diner slice of pumpkin pie along with an appropriately themed holiday horror film in the Nighthawks’ MONSTEMBERFEST! The holidays are a time...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? Pull up a seat in the Nighthawks booth and grab a heaping helping of pod-fodder. Alien Romulus– The guy who remade Evil Dead remakes the first four ALIEN films and crams them into...

A tragic comic book, with a tragic real-life backstory, is translated into a tragic film, with a real-life tragic production, which was dropped onto an unsuspecting 1990s audience who were still reeling from the death...

It's the story of love and hate, the story of tradition and modernity, the story of good and evil, the story of old right hand left hand. It's 1955's The Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish...

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...

And now, what the entire world has been waiting for...two men give you their hot takes on Greta Gerwig's 2023 film BARBIE. This is, of course, an exaggeration. This movie could use fewer male hot takes. That said, we...

The Nighthawks Podcast enthusiastically recommends: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. This delightful, tight, Japanese film from a Kyoto-based theatre troupe is the debut film of director Junta Yamaguchi, and we think...