Nighthawks' Podcast

Hooray for Hollywood...again! It's (still) Tinseltown's most glamorous night out and you continue to be invited to the red carpet...

...which is still the red carpet in front of the door in the conceptual Nighthawks Diner.

Oscar Czar and house band musician Cameron Maris, of Nineteen Cent Feast, continues the conversation with Matt and Trevor discussing the 2022 94th Annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Awards, aka The Oscars. In this episode the Nighthawks parse the musical and performance categories, as well as the shorts and features categories.

The Little Gold Film Man remains at it and there's a whole new roster of nominees to discuss including Steven Spielberg, Jane Campion, Lin Manuel Miranda, Jesse Plemmons, Kirsten Dunst, Olivia Colman, Will Smith, Denzel Washington and more! Keep your podcatchers subscribed to the channel and be sure to catch part 1, released earlier this week.

Order a second slice of pie. top-off your cup of coffee and talk about this year's best.

For the Official Nighthawks Unofficial Oscar Ballot visit our webpage at NighthawksPodcast.com

Hooray for Hollywood! It's Tinseltown's most glamorous night out and you are invited to the red carpet...

...that is the red carpet in front of the door in the conceptual Nighthawks Diner.

Oscar Czar and house band musician Cameron Maris, of Nineteen Cent Feast, joins Matt and Trevor to talk about the Technical and Artistic categories for the 2022 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Awards, aka The Oscars. Big changes are in store for the ceremony and the awards, we'll parse those, too.

The Little Gold Film Man is back at it again and there's a whole new roster of movies to discuss including Dune, The Power of The Dog, West Side Story, Nightmare Alley, tick tick...BOOM!, and many others. Keep your podcatchers Subscribed to the channel and catch part 2 later this week where we will discuss the remaining categories including Best Director and Best Picture.

Slide up with a slice of pie and a cup of coffee and talk about this year's best.

For the Official Nighthawks Unofficial Oscar Ballot visit our webpage at NighthawksPodcast.com

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The people of the Reno Sheriff's Department, after launching their successful hit television series 19 years ago, return for a brand new feature-length adventure.

Long time fans of the Reno 911! television series (Comedy Central, Quibi, Roku Channel, syndication) Matt and Trevor do a body cavity search on the 2020 feature film offering from the nearly two-decade old franchise. Directed and starring Robert Ben Garrant, Reno 911! The Hunt for Q Anon also features Thomas Lennon, Kerry Kinney-Silver, Neicy Nash, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Cedric Yarbrough, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong, Ian Roberts, Patton Oswalt, Rob Hubbel, and Rikki Lindholm.

Does the Reno Sheriff's Department still have what it takes to make us laugh at inept police work? Matt and Trevor sit down in the diner to talk about that very thing and to talk about a television show that just can't be kept down.

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• Trevor joins the panel at OneOfUs.net's Screener Squad podcast to talk about Reno 911! The Hunt for Q Anon

Nighthawks guest host Terry Flemings is back in the Nighthawks diner, a place that is virtual and conceptual.

Speaking of jokes used on the podcast, this episode covers the latest entry in The Matrix franchise: The Matrix Resurrections from director Lana Wachowski. The franchise began with Lana and her sister, Lilly Wachowski, behind the camera for The Matrix, a watershed film in blockbusters, action films, and pop culture.

After two theatrically released sequels, two video games, and "The Animatrix" (a direct-to-video animation shorts collection) carried the canon of The Matrix into the 21st Century, the franchise seemed destined to get rebooted or remade in the 2020s. Instead Lana Wachowski elects to make a direct sequel.

Featuring Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their original roles and Jonathan Groff swinging in from his Mindhunting Hamilton career to take on the role of the iconic Agent Smith. 

Some things change, some things stay the same, and many things are not what they seem.

Pop a red pill and step into the diner...

The boys from the Nighthawks diner take a special look at George Roy Hill's classic 1969 film Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
This episode was originally conceived of as a pilot episode for another podcast. Unfortunately the plans for production never came to fruition, but that pilot episode is now available to our Nighthawks Podcast listeners.
The Jackalope Drive-In Podcast was intended to be a region specific travel podcast that examined films relating to Wyoming through the lens of tourist destinations and attractions. In the pilot we discuss the historicity of George Roy Hill's film with the real life Butch and Sundance. Helping Matt and Trevor to parse fact from fiction is Debra Cease, Site Superintendent for the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie, Wyoming- the only prison in history to have held Butch Cassidy.

This time around the conceptual Nighthawks Diner is represented by a middle American roadside burger joint in a small town depressed by the energy downturn. This time the Ghostbusting will take place in Oklahoma and not New York City. 
It's been nearly 30 years since Ghostbusters 2 graced theaters and it's been nearly 30 years in canon that the Ghostbusters have been out of the public eye. The heirs to a dilapidated farmhouse in a rural Great Plains community begin to pick across the leftovers of the Ghostbusters legacy, and in doing so uncover their own connection to the men who made it happen.
The movie is plagued by a new bout of Gozerism and the boys in the Nighthawks diner are going to parse the demon dogs from the full torso apparitions and discuss if this particular special offering was worth the wait.

It was the best of Monstoberfests and it was the worst of Monstoberfests. The Nighthawks have been on an unanticipated hiatus and are back with a full episode update for you! Not only do we answer the burning question of “WTF?” we also let you in on our thoughts on some of the stuff we’ve been watching.

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The Nighthawks' time is nighttime, and nighttime is NOW!
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MONSTOBERFEST 2021 aka MonstoberGUEST

For this episode, writer and renaissance man podcaster, T.C. De Witt stops by the conceptual diner to discuss his contribution to the lovingly created and crowdfunded Friday the 13th Vengeance. A not-for-profit fan film that dares to build on one of the best love slasher sagas of the 20th century, and does so very well.
T.C. also talks about his process and the art of writing, as Trevor and Matt slurp down pie-shakes and hurl questions.
Happy Halloween Season to y'all, hope you enjoy the podcast and the film, available on Youtube.

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Every sunset must have its twilight, and as Indiana Jones left into the sunset in 1989 and in the 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull we pick him up in his twilight.

As easy a target as Harrison Ford's age is, 19 years after the previous entry in the franchise, the actor shows that he still has what it takes to punch fascists, quest for relics, and get into some dangerous daring do.

Indy is joined by Ray Winstone as Mac, Shia Le Beouf as Mutt, Karen Allen as Marion Williams née Ravenwood, John Hurt as Harold Oxley, and Cate Blanchett as Irina Spakov. The communists are trying to round up the mortal remains of travelers extraterrestrial to Earth, which have been venerated by human cultures as gods. Indy deals with being an abandoning father, trusting the wrong people, getting blacklisted during the Red Scare, and rescuing old friends from new enemies.

The fourth and final (for now) episode in our Indiana Jones special promises chills, spills, groans, eyerolls, and sighs.

The third time is the charm and we're getting the family involved.

From the legendary minds of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas comes the third chapter of the Indiana Jones saga, and subsequently the third episode in the Nighthawks Indiana Jones Special!

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; our titular relic hunting archeologist is on the trail of the Christian Holy Grail with a soupçon of Arthurian Legend for flavor. The lesser-than-human Nazis are the bad guys once again and the race for one of Christianity's most sought after relics is on. Complicating things is the fact that Indy's Grail scholar father has fallen into enemy hands and it's up to him to rescue his patriarch and foil the Nazi's plan for global domination.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade stars Harrison Ford as the heroic Indiana Jones and also features Allison Doody, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, and Sir Sean Connery.

The Nighthawks go back for another helping of Jones and find that the third course may be the best? Join us at the conceptual table and decide for yourself.