High School Slumber Party

If you want a ride on this weeks High School Slumber Party you're going to have to hop in the back seat (or maybe even the trunk!?!) as Mike Manzi is in shotgun and we're saving room for both Corey Feldman and Corey Haim. That's right, we're talking License to Drive! Despite some negative critical feedback, both Brian and Mike think this movie would pass its driving test with flying colors. James Avery, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Heather Graham also star! 

The Two Coreys are back on High School Slumber Party...well at least one of them is. Is there anything really like young love? Corey Haim stars as Lucas; a bright 14 year old bug collector with a crush on the new girl in town played by Kerri Green. Though his young love is unrequited; the film Lucas ushered in America's love with Corey Haim. Mike Manzi steps into the sleeping bag once again to talk Charlie Sheen, Ash Catchem, slow claps, high school football, Jeremey Piven and everything else that makes Lucas the heartwarming hit that it is!

Happy Birthday High School Slumber Party! In honor of the 3rd anniversary of the podcast, Brian Rodriguez provides audio commentary on Sixteen Candles. Listen for facts about John Hughes, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald (of course) or listen because you enjoy someone talking over your movie. Queue up the 80s teen classic and watch along with Brian! 

The Black Teen Experience goes back in the day to talk all about The Wood. Co-host Kirkland Shephard shares with Brian one of his favorite coming of age films staring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa (who would later go on to direct Dope), The Wood tells the story of three young men growing up in Inglewood, California through a set of ill timed wedding day flashbacks. Kirk educates Brian on all things LisaRaye, what Young Slim is up to these days and everything that makes The Wood such a formative teen film. 

What's better than one Corey? Two Coreys of course! Our Two Coreys (Corey Feldman and Corey Haim) series starts with Dream a Little Dream and it's not overstatement to say that our co-host of the Corey lap Mike Manzi has been dreaming of this moment for a long time. Also staring Meredith Salenger, Jason Robards, Piper Laurie and Harry Dean Stanton; Dream a Little Dream is peak Corey and the perfect place to start when deep diving into the careers of these two ICONIC teen idols. 

Co-Professors Aislinn Addington and Brian Rodriguez are back to chat about one of the most visceral (and best) films of 2020; Never Rarely Sometimes Always. High School Slumber Party AP was started to shine a light on great but overlooked contemporary projects just like this one. Director Eliza Hittman and lead actors Sidney Flanigan and Talia Ryder are among the mostly woman production who put together this realistic yet heartbreaking tale of friendship and the hardships of a teenage abortion. Also, Aislinn let's us know what she thought of 2020's "The Prom."

We finally did it slumberers! Restless marks the end of our Gus Van Sant journey and the wonderful Shawnee Mead has joined us to chat all about it. This one surprised the both of us! Young love? Sure. Death? Why not? The ghost of a kamikaze pilot? Count us in...

Brian and Kate Hudson welcome Joe Two back to the #TwlightForever slumber party to chat all about Twlight: New Moon in an episode that's sure cause a frenzy for both Twihards and Twihaters. Find out what Joe made Kate buy on e-bay, what everyone thinks of the Parks and Recreation Twilight Episode, if anyone is really #teamJacob and which characters have counterparts in the Fast and Furious universe among the usual chaos and insanity that ensues when we talk these Stephanie Meyer adaptations. 

When Brian and Cousin Pumkin got together for this episode, they quickly realized that there was only one week out of the year it should be released; the week of 4/20. On the surface, Mac and Devin go to High School is a stoner comedy functioning as an extended music video for Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg's hip hop album of the same name and don't worry, that's pretty much what it is. So what? That's what it's supposed to be; living young, and wild and free. 

For the 200th episode of High School Slumber Party; Brian Rodriguez keeps it simple and invites the Foodie Films man himself Kyle Reinfried to turn the microphone around and interview him for a look behind the curtain at the person who host the slumber party every week.