A film discussion podcast from Trevor T. Trujillo, critic and journalist) and Matt Foster (comedian and critic). Join Matt and Trevor at the conceptual Nighthawks cafe as they sit down and talk good movies, bad movies, classic films of yesteryear, modern masterpieces, and the weird indie films you may not have heard of (BUT SHOULD)!
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WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? Joining the regular co-hosts is special Nighthawks guest- Scott Schalchlin, host of the podcast Observations From Life . Scott and Matt tell Trevor about their respective experiences at the Telluride Horror Show last October, for a very special What Have You Been Watching episode. Discussed in this episode: Good Boy Man Finds Tape Shelby Oaks Flush Fuck My Son…
Once again it’s time for a glamorous strut on the red carpet, outside the Nighthawks conceptual diner, to talk about Hollywood’s most prestigious night. Oscar Czar and Nighthawks house band musician Cameron Maris, Nineteen Cent Feast , is back for a very informal discussion of the Oscar horserace in 2026. The precious metal humanoid is back at it again and there’s a whole new roster of movies to…
WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? Pull up a seat in the Nighthawks booth and grab a heaping helping of pod-fodder. Play Dirty– A new Shane Black movie...seemingly out of nowhere V The Mini Series- A rewatch of the 80s miniseries draws comparison to modern day. On Battle After Another- An accessible Paul Thomas Anderson movie, but is it a movie to love? Bugonia - Does Yorgos Lanthimos do justice…
A warning to the wary listener, there be spoilers here. From the Nerds at Night podcast- Terry Flemings joins the Nighthawks at the Diner for a stripped-down reaction episode discussing the finale season of Stranger Things. Ten years ago, the Nighthawks actually felt the need to advocate for Season 1 of Stranger Things, a little plucky show that they really wanted people to watch. Now, with a…
WHYBW – What Have You Been Watching? Pull up a seat in the Nighthawks booth and grab a heaping helping of pod-fodder. Black Phone 2– The Grabber is back, and this time he's killing you in your dreams. A little too Freddy? Maybe. Shelby Oaks- Part Found Footage, part finder of footage, all horror. Vodoo Macbeth- An academic experimental film, chronicling the groundbreaking production of Macbeth…
We sliced our way through THANKSGIVING (2023), we got absolutely SCROOGED (1988) for Christmas, and now we're going to let the ball drop in Manhattan for New Year's Eve as the Nighthawks pop the champagne and caviar for GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (1989). Rounding out our spooky holiday offerings we bring you a movie that absolutely isn't set during New Year's Eve, but has BIG New Year's Eve vibes-…
A classic Christmas time-travelling ghost story, told in five staves, becomes an 80s-drenched "modern" film told in three acts: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol from 1843 becomes Dick Donner's SCROOGED from 1988. Join Matt and Trevor in the Nighthawks diner, order up a cup of hot mulled wine, and chat with us about the classic tale of the redemption of Ebeneezer Scrooge and how it was reimagined…
Matt and Trevor are deep in the Holiday leftovers as they serve themselves a diner slice of pumpkin pie along with an appropriately themed holiday horror film in the Nighthawks’ MONSTEMBERFEST! The holidays are a time for family, togetherness, mercy, charity, blood and guts as we remind our listeners that spooky movies aren’t exclusive to Halloween! This time around, we have Horror director Eli…
Sit down to cannoli and espresso at The Nighthawks Diner, as the co-hosts parse one of the greatest films of the 70s. Written by the man who wrote Superman The Movie, directed by the man who directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula, starring the man who would star in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and co-starring at least one guy from The Irishman; this is the quintessential family mob drama that you can’t…
In 2018 the Nighthawks took a deep granular dive into the 1938 radio adaptation of War of the Worlds , that famously made Orson Welles a household name and (allegedly) scared some undetermined number of people into thinking that the United States was being invaded by an outside force. In 2020, a movie was made based on the same Public Domain story that sought to imagine the end of the world, not…
