Peanuts & Popcorn

Peanuts & Popcorn

By Tom Hockney and Leo FontanaTV & FilmFilm Reviews
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Peanuts & Popcorn episodes

  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 5-19-24 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring the Last of Sheila (1973) and The Whistlers (2019)

    This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we begin

    with the Popcorn and Tom’s selection from 1973, The Last of Sheila. Leo’s selection comes to us from Romania, the crime thriller, The Whistlers (2019).

    In Peanuts, there are some very interesting

    rookies in MLB this season. Who has the inside track on winning ROY? The politics of a number change and the AL Central is no longer the worst division in baseball.

    Next Show:

    Leo's Pick:  Get Shorty (1995)
    Tom's Pick: Missing (1982)



    1 hr
  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 4-28-24 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) and Swingers (1996)

    This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we open the popcorn bag to break down the Pedro Almodovar sex comedy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988). We then discuss a request from a listener, Swingers (1996) with John Favreau and Vince Vaughn.

    In Peanuts, we mourn the passing of Whitey Herzog.

    We analyze some recent MLB umpire miscues. Max Fried, of the Atlanta Braves, pitches a Maddux. The Chicago Cubs have a successful homestand despite a rash of injuries, while the Detroit Tigers fight for respectability in the American League.

    Next Show:

    Leo's Pick:  The Whistlers (2019)
    Tom's Pick: The Last of Sheila (1973)


    1 hr
  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 4-14-24 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring High and Low (1963) and Out of Sight (1998)

    This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we open the bag of popcorn with an underappreciated gem by Akira Kurosawa, Tom’s choice, High and Low (1963). Steve Soderbergh directed the star-studded project Leo suggested. Based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight (1998).

    In Peanuts, we react to the recent developments regarding Shohei Otani. One of them has nothing to do with gambling. The Cubs can hit, but their pitching is thin. The Tigers are the opposite, great pitching, they can’t hit.

    Next Show:
    Leo's Pick:  Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
    Tom's Pick: Swingers (1996)


    1 hr 4 min
  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 3-31-24 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring Rushmore and The Lords of Flatbush

    This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we open the Popcorn with Tom’s selection for today’s episode, the Wes Anderson film, Rushmore (1998). For Leo, we go back to 1974 for the Lords of Flatbush.

    In Peanuts, the 2024 season is underway. We’ll predict the teams who will qualify for the playoffs as well as the fortunes for the Cubs and Tigers. We’ll react to a guest column in the New York Times by Rafi Kohan. Shohei Otani is in the news, but for all the wrong reasons, and it looks like the Cubs and Dodgers will open the 2025 season in Japan.

    Next Show:
    Leo's Pick:  Out of Sight (1998)
    Tom's Pick: High and Low (1963)

    58 min
  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 3-17-24 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and The Zone of Interest

    This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, the 2024 Oscars have come and gone, we will examine Tommy’s uncanny ability to select the winners in nearly every category. We then review our respective selections. Leo's choice, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and Tom’s, The Zone of Interest.  In Peanuts, as we near Opening Day, we make our predictions as to how the Cubs and Tigers will fare. Mazel Tov to Shohei Otani and his new bride and Yoshi Yamamoto and his black bag are changing the ways the Dodgers train their players.

    Next Show:

    Leo's Pick: The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
    Tom's Pick: Rushmore (1998)




    57 min
  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 3-3-24 with Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring Anatomy of a Fall, and American Fiction.

    This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we start with an extra-long Popcorn. First up, two more reviews of the nominees for Best Picture of 2023: Anatomy of a Fall, and American Fiction. We will also reveal our favorites for the major Oscar categories---as well as predict the winners.

    In an abbreviated version of peanuts, we’ll talk about another Black Ace, former Twin and Guardian, Mudcat Grant. Cody Bellinger returns to the North Side, we pose the question: are the Cubs at least as good as they were last season? Finally, the Philadelphia Phillies have done away with their $1 hot-dog promotion. We are left to wonder why.

    Next Show:
    Leo's Pick:  The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
    Tom's Pick: The Zone of Interest (2023)


    1 hr
  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 2-18-24 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring Maestro and Poor Things

    This week on Peanuts and Popcorn,

    we start with the popcorn with our reviews of two more Best Picture nominees, Leo's pick, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, and Tom’s pick, Poor Things with Emma Stone.

    In Peanuts, we open the bag with great hope and anticipation as Spring Training has begun in Arizona and

    Florida. Players in both sites are having difficulties with the Nike’s special Spring Training uniforms. An arrest is made in the vandalization of a Jackie Robinson statue, and we will talk about “The Black Aces”, a handful of
    African-American pitchers who have each won 20 games in the Majors.

    Next Show:

    Leo's Pick:  American Fiction (2023)

    Tom's Pick: Anatomy of a Fall

    (2023)

    1 hr 1 min
  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 2-4-24 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring The Holdovers and Killers of the Flower Moon

    This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we kick off our 8th season with our Popcorn discussion on the 2023 nominees for Best Picture. We’ll start with Tom’s choice, The Holdovers, then move to Leo’s pick, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

    In Peanuts, we react to the 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame

    inductees, the Dodgers signing of Shohei Otani and the Cubs firing of David Ross and subsequent hiring of Craig Counsell.

    Next Show:

    Leo's Pick:  Maestro (2023)

    Tom's Pick: Poor Things (2023)



    1 hr
  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 11-5-23 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring Rocky and Zodiac

    This week on the final episode of the

    2023 season, we open the bag of Popcorn by going back to 1975 for my movie, Rocky, before we break down Tommy’s final pick of the season, Zodiac. Then we will announce the winners our annual Poppy Awards for this year’s best P&P Movies.

    In Peanuts, the World Series has come and gone, the Texas

    Rangers won in 5 games over the Arizona Diamondbacks and despite some dramatic storylines, hardly anyone watched. We’ll talk about why.

    Leo’s 2023 Poppy Award winner: Argentina- 1985

    Tom’s 2023 Poppy Award winner: Prince of the City


    1 hr 6 min
  • Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 10-29-23 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney featuring The Long Goodbye and Other People's Money

    This week on Peanuts and Popcorn… we begin with Robert

    Altman’s, The Long Goodbye (1973) and end with Norman Jewison’s, Other People’s Money (1991).

    In Peanuts, we react to recent events in playoff baseball as

    the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks face off in the World Series. Dusty Baker announces his retirement after 28 years as a big-league manager. The playoff format has been a source of controversy, we’ll add our two cents to the discussion. Kim Ng and the Miami Marlins part company while the Cubs are
    rumored to be interested in acquiring Juan Soto.

    Next Show:

    Leo's Pick: Rocky (1976)

    Tom's Pick: Zodiac (2007)

    1 hr 6 min

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Peanuts & Popcorn. (P&P) is a biweekly movie podcast interrupted by a baseball discussion between two old friends.