Fresh Hop Cinema

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema we review of "A Star Is Born;" the fourth remake of a Hollywood tradition dating back to 1937. In this iteration, Bradley Cooper directs while costarring next to silver screen first-timer Lady Gaga. This film is a cautionary tale of fame and alcoholism, a telling of a star's rise in the modern music industry and ultimately a pendulum of romance and heartbreak.

We drink a craft beer industry staple in "Jai Alai." This IPA from Cigar City Brewing is a 7.5% mouthful of citrusy goodness. To end the show, we discuss a beer from Birmingham brewery Trim Tab called "Breakfast Hero." It's an 8.5% imperial stout with ACTUAL doughnuts added to the mash! Too crazy OR just crazy enough to be delicious?!

Episode Timeline:

0:00 - 26:14 "Jai Alai" & "Hot & Bothered"

27:14 - 43:23 "A Star Is Born" (Spoiler Free)

44:00 - END "Breakfast Hero" & "A Star Is Born" (SPOILERS)

What a week! We talk zombie virus outbreaks as we cover 2017's "Cargo." Starring Martin Freeman, the film explores what a father must endure when a massive virus has "wiped out" much of the human population. We drink a tasty IPA from Bearded Iris (TN) called "Homestyle" and a rich and robust stout called "Naval Gazer" from New Heights (TN).

Episode Timeline:

0:00 - 14:47- Intro, "Homestyle," and "Hot & Bothered"

15:35 - 30:52 - "Cargo" (Spoiler Free)

31:30 - 45:20 - "Naval Gazer"

45:21 - END - Tangents and "Cargo" (DANGER ZONE)

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This was a crazy fun episode! Tune in for all the info you'll ever need on "White Boy Rick" and "Holy Hermit from Moonraker and "Err to Excess" from Breakside Brewing.

0:00 - 29:05: Intro, "Holy Hermit," and "Hot & Bothered"

29:53 -41:45: "White Boy Rick (Spoiler-Free)

42:29 - 50:12 - "Err to Excess"

50:13 - END - "White Boy Rick" (DANGER ZONE)

One of our most anticipated movies of the year this week; "Blindspotting." We drink a NE IPA from Lead Dog called "For Redding with Love" and a fruited porter from Latitude 33 called "Native Trails Black and Blue."

Episode Timeline:

0:00 - 14:02- "For Redding with Love"

14:03 - 38:25- "Blindspotting" (Spoiler Free)

38:26 - 50:15- "Black and Blue"

50:16 - END - "Blindspotting" (DANGER ZONE)

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We're a little late to the game but we're here to discuss Chloé Zhao's April 2018 film "The Rider." The film flirts a delicate line between documentary and drama as it tells the true story of Brady Jandreau, a rodeo cowboy who suffers a traumatic brain injury and may never ride again. For the most part, the cast of this film is made up of the actual people who lived the events.

We sip a pale ale that drinks like a West Coast IPA called "Pseudo Sue" from Toppling Goliath out of Deborah, Iowa and a dry-hopped farmhouse ale from Prairie Artisan Ales call'ed "Twist."

Episode Timeline:

0:00 - 21:50- Intro, "Pseudo Sue," and "Hot & Bothered."

22:36 - 46:04- "The Rider" (No Spoilers)

46:42 - 58:35- "Twist"

58:36 - END- "The Rider" (Danger Zone)

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This week we FINALLY get a chance to cover Bo Burnham's first feature-length film "Eighth Grade." It tells the story of Kayla; an 8th grader navigating her final week's of middle school and juggling the pressure's of identity, adolescence and puberty amidst a world entwined with social media.

To help us along our conversation are two very different beers. The first, a NE-inspired IPA called "1-2 Punch" by Crooked Lane Brewing out of Auburn, CA. It's 6.5% of pure delish. The second is as long-standing staple of Lagunitas Brewing Co with "The 12th of Never." It's an American Pale Ale coming in at 5.5% ABV.

Episode Timeline:

0:00 - 21:37- "1-2 Punch" and "Hot & Bothered"

22:23 - 39:38- "Eighth Grade" (Spoiler Free)

40:17 - 48:28 - "12th of Never"

49:29- END - "Eighth Grade" (DANGER ZONE)

This week on the podcast, A THROWBACK to 2017. Join us for a discussion of "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected); A 2017 film by Noah Baumbach starring Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman, and Elizabeth Marvel. We drink a West Coast IPA called "Strata" from Worthy Brewing out of Bend, OR and an East Coast IPA called "All Clouds Everything" from New Glory out of Sacramento, CA.

Episode Timeline:

1:00 - 22:50- Strata and "Hot & Bothered"

23:36 - 47:39 "The Meyerowitz Stories (Spoiler Free)

48:17 - END "All Clouds Everything" + Spoilers for Meyerowitz Stories

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Join Jonny and Max as they dive into one of their favorite movies from the 90's; David Fincher's "Fight Club." We'd talk about it more here, but that'd be against the rules. To lube up their vocal cords along the way are a 4.5% sour saison born of a collaboration between Two Roads & Stillwater called "Ground Loop" and a hazy New-England IPA from Revision called "Playafication."

Episode Timeline:

0:00 - 20:36 "Ground Loop" + "Hot & Bothered"

21:22 - 37:59 "Fight Club" (Spoiler Free)

38:34 - 51:51 "Playafication"

51:52 - END "Fight Club" (DANGER ZONE)

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Join us for a discussion of the first Hollywood film in 25 years to feature an all Asian/Asian American cast AND one of the best rom-coms in recent memory; "Crazy Rich Asians." Our conversation is fueled by a pFriem's "Oud Bruin," an 8.7% aged brown ale and Track 7's "Under Construction," a 14.2% Imperial Stout. Plus, since Jonny wasn't able to see the film this week, HIS conversation is also filed by a Four Loko. You've been warned.

Episode Timeline:

1:00 - 16:36: Intro + "Oud Bruin"

16:37 - 23:48: "Oud Bruin"

24:34 - 44:04: "Crazy Rich Asians" (Spoiler Free)

44:37 - 52:22: "Under Construction"

52:23 - 59:10: "Crazy Rich Asians" (Danger Zone)

59:11 - END: "BlackkKlansman" Revisit

Jonny and Max discuss one of their favorite films of the year so far. Spike Lee's biting, witty retelling of Ron Stallworth's 2014 memoir details Stallworth's experience as the first African-American on the Colorado Springs police force and his time infiltrating a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. We drink beers from El Segundo Brewing Co and Dogfish Head Brewery.

Episode Timeline:

00:00 - 28:10 "Cerveza Fresca!" by El Segundo. Hot & Bothered.

28:52 -47:13 "BlacKkKlansman" (Spoiler Free)

47:45 - 58:32 "Palo Santo Marron" by Dogfish Head

58:33 - END "BlacKkKlansman" (DANGER ZONE)

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