The Dive-In Moviecast

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of Sexual Assault and Violence.

 This week on The Dive-In, co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are joined by friends of the pod Cole Ross & Kellsie Bambury to enter the 1950's & The idyllic town of 'Victory'! They're talking Olivia Wilde's "Don't Worry Darling', and getting into all of the behind the scenes controversy surrounding the film, why this movie feels like it was marketed as a different film than what is actually delivered, Florence Pugh and why she's Hollywood's next great Movie Star, the decision to cast Harry Styles in the co-lead role and if it works, the incredibly jumbled & messy plot and why it feel's like Olivia Wilde got lost in her own ideas, the big twist of the film and why it lands with a thud, and the numerous ways it feels like this script completely fails where it could have soared.

This week on The Dive-In, co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are embracing Spooky Season and drafting again, this time joined by returning guests and friends of the podcast Nick Long and Morgan Cutler! They compete to select their picks in 6 different categories: 'Slasher', 'Supernatural’, Monster Movie', 'Horror Classic', 'Sequel', & 'Wildcard'.

We are back! Co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen reunite after 2 months away from the show to chat everything they've missed, from everything that's happened in life since the last episode to the movies and shows we've missed being able to chat about, we're kicking off this season with some catch-up!

After 2 and a half years of podcasting throughout a Pandemic, co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are celebrating the Season 3 Finale, and THEIR 100TH EPISODE!! Rather than discuss a particular film this time around, they open up the Mail-Bag to answer a bunch of questions asked by Family, Friends, and fellow movie critics (7:59), and then Wesley challenges Hayden's film knowledge by playing 'The Movie/Movie Game" (65:25), a game where the plot description and titles of two different movies are fused and the goal is to narrow it down and name the two movies as fast as possible.

Oi! This week on The Dive-In Moviecast, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are talking about The Boys! They kick the episode off with a mini-review of the recently released ‘Thor: Love & Thunder’, the mass amounts of criticism it’s getting and if it’s warranted, the return of Natalie Portman and the introduction of Christian Bale, & why we feel it’s not nearly as good as Ragnarok but still a fun time at the theatre. Then, we get into the newest season of Amazon Prime’s TV Series ‘The Boys’. We discuss the idea of superhero fatigue and why The Boys feels like a direct response to that in trying to make superheroes feel fresh, why it’s a clever satire of the Superhero genre while still thriving as a Superhero show, the way it constantly ups the ante from previous seasons with shock value and gore, Antony Starr as Homelander and why he’s one of the best villains we’ve had in over a decade, the often hilariously dark ways it makes fun of/ touches on real world issues, ‘Herogasm’ in all of it’s nasty glory, and where the show might be headed in the future, plus much more!

This week on The Dive-In Moviecast.. looking for trouble? Came to the right place! Co-host's Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen discuss all the insanity of Baz Luhrmann's recent 'Elvis' film, starring Austin Butler & Tom Hanks. They discuss why this movie is a exhilarating yet flawed experience, Austin Butler's absolutely remarkable performance as Elvis & Tom Hank's not so remarkable performance as Tom Parker, Why this movie works regardless of any connection to Elvis Presley, some of the more problematic aspects of Elvis and the ways the film touches on them/if it touches on it enough, and the truly stunning musical numbers throughout the film, plus much more! Then, they end the episode off briefly discussing Music Biopics in general and making a list of their favorite Music Biopics!

This week on The Dive-In, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are joined by Joe of the Kyber Culture to head into the Upside Down and discuss Stranger Things!

We kick off the episode talking the show in general, discussing our favourite characters, why it has such a intense level of staying power in Pop Culture, and the way it popularized the Binge model for TV.

We then get into the latest season, discussing the increased attention to returning the show to Horror, the introduction of Vecna as the villain, the way it raises the stakes from previous seasons and puts our characters in real situations of peril, the 4 different storylines at once and if that’s a effective way to tell the story, where we think the final season is headed from that cliffhanger ending, what songs would save us from Vecna’s curse.. plus much more!!

We’re back!! After a couple weeks of craziness in life and the podcast taking a bit of a back burner, we’re back to our usual schedule of weekly episodes!

This week, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are headed to the Danger Zone to talk the movie of the summer, ‘Top Gun Maverick’. We chat our thoughts on the original Top Gun, why we feel this movie surpasses the original in every way, Tom Cruise as a leading man and why there’s nobody on screen quite like him, the new cast of characters including Miles Teller, Glen Powell and how they elevate the film, the truly remarkable commitment to practically filming all the action scenes, the fact that this movie is proof that movie theatres are alive and well, plus much more!

This time around on The Dive-In Moviecast, co-host’s Hayden Koutras & Wesley Giffen are talking Nostalgia, Animation, & Chip ‘N Dale! They catch up and discuss Wesley having graduated since the last episode and the craziness of life, talk about what they’ve been watching the past few weeks, and then get into the surprisingly good ‘Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers’ movie that just recently released on Disney+. They chat about The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg and if their sense of humour rubs off on this movie, how this movie effectively brings two characters that most had entirely forgotten about back onto the screen, why this movie goes about having meta references in a much more natural/entertaining way than many other recent movies do, the way this movie feels like a attempt at a modern version of ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’, why it’s nice to see Disney poke fun at themselves and be in on the joke for once, our thoughts on the mystery/ the big bad of the movie, and much more!