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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #568
April 2, 2018 | 
Author Your friends in podcasting have been teasing episode #568 for weeks! They had really been looking forward to counting down their all-time favorite Mystery films and the final results prove to be a lot of fun. So, get those Netflix queues handy, because Dean and Phil will hit you with more than two dozen movies they discuss at length with four films actually finding a place on both their Top Tens. There are comedy “whodunits” from the 1930′s, foreign language allegories from the 2000′s, independent films that launched careers, classics from international masters that launched entire sub-genres, mysteries based on books, mysteries based on plays, mysteries set in the farthest reaches of space, mysteries full of post-war romance and cold war anxiety. The biggest mystery of all is after almost eleven years, how do Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness keep managing to provide an hour (plus) of free audio entertainment each week?!
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #518
This is the 9th “Top Ten” show of this year 10 of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour … Your friends in podcasting count down their lists of the Top Ten All-Time Most Overlooked Science Fiction Films!
These might not be the best, nor the most underrated. They are, for reasons that Dean and Phil attempt to discern, overlooked by modern audiences …
Another extra-long episode, full of skype-based “hiss”, but we promise to do better in year 11!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, Aaron Lipstadt, Abre Los Ojos, acting, Alfonso Cuaron, Andrei Tarkovsky, Android, Another Earth, Arthur C. Clarke, Blade Runner, Bong Joon-Ho, Brit Marling, Brother From Another Planet, Capricorn One, Children of Men, Chris Evans, Chris Marker, Chris Markey, Christian Bale, Ciro Guerra, Claudia Christian, Clive Owen, Clu Gulager, Coherence, cyber punk, David Bowie, David Cronenberg, Dean Haglund, directing, Don Keith Opper, Ed Harris, Embrace of the Serpent, Equilibrium, Existenz, filmmaking, George Clooney, George Lucas, Gravity, Hugo Armstrong, independent film, Jack Sholder, Jake Gylenhaal, James Ward Byrkit, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Wright, Jim Kouf, Joe Morton, John Sayles, Johnny Mnemonic, K-Pax, Kevin Spacey, Klaus Kinski, Kyle MacLachlen, La Jetee, Lars Von Trier, Man Facing Southeast, Melancholia, Michael Nouri, Mike Cahill, movies, Mr. Nobody, Nicolas Roeg, O.J. Simpson, Open Your Eyes, overlooked sci-fi, Paul Newman, Peter Hyams, Phil Leirness, Primer, producing, Quintet, Robert Altman, sci-fi, sci-fi movies, science fiction, science fiction movies, Shane Carruth, Snowpiercer, Solaris, Source Code, Stalker, Starman, Steven Soderbergh, television, The 4400, The Hidden, The Lone Gunmen, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The X-Files, THX 1138, Tilda Swinton, Twin Peaks, Vanilla Sky, Vera Farmiga, Walter Hill, William Mapother, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #459
Riddles us this: What show discusses such a wide range of topics as “awards madness”, Steph Curry, ghost stories and rituals and traditions? The answer is YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour, of course! Awards season in Hollywood came to an end this weekend, but it ain’t really over, until your friends in podcasting have had the last word!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: #oscarsowhite, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 99 Homes, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Academy Awards, acting, Against All Odds, Al Pacino, Awards, Badlands, basketball, Bing Crosby, Carol, Cecil B. DeMille, Citizen Kane, Clark Gable, David Lynch, Dean Haglund, directing, Do the Right Thing, Donald Margulies, End of the Tour, Eyes Wide Shut, Film Independent, filmmaking, Footloose, Forrest Gump, George Cukor, ghost stories, Ghostbusters, Going My Way, Gone With the Wind, Heart of a Dog, How Green Was My Valley, I Just Called to Say I Love You, Idris Elba, Jason Segal, John Ford, Knight of Cups, Los Angeles Breakfast Club, Michael Shannon, movies, musicals, NBA, Oscars, Out of Africa, Phil Collins, Phil Leirness, Prince, producing, psychics, Pulp Fiction, Purple Rain, Robert Zemeckis, Sam Warner, Sam Wood, Scent of a Woman, show business, Singin' in the Rain, Son of Saul, Spectres, Spike Lee, Spirit Awards, Spotlight, Stagecoach, Stanley Kubrick, Steph Curry, Stevie Wonder, Terence Malick, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Lone Gunmen, The Look of Silence, The Searchers, The Shawshank Redemption, The Third Man, The Tree of Life, The X-Files, Tim Kawakami, Todd Haynes, Tom McCarthy, Vertigo, Victor Fleming, Warner Brothers, westerns, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #442
Welcome to our most Fellini-esque episode ever! After all YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour turns 8 1/2 years old with this week’s show and trust us when we say it’s outstanding.
Dean and Phil follow up on last week’s hilarious episode by discussing Halloween, Nazis and Celebrity Deaths. Dean continues his advice for women who want to pursue their dreams in the male-dominated field of stand-up comedy. Phil reviews a new film about legendary, Oscar-winning blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and weighs in on the new seasons of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”, “The Blacklist” and “Fargo”. Then one of the most amazing letters we’ve ever received inspires one of the most spectacular closing discussions your friends in podcasting have ever offered up.
Enjoy!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, acting, binge watching, Bryan Cranston, comedy, Dalton Trumbo, Dean Haglund, directing, Fargo, filmmaking, Halloween, Hedda Hopper, Helen Mirren, Hitler, Jay Roach, Leni Riefenstahl, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Metropolis, Michael Stuhlbarg, movies, Nietszche, Paul Reuben, Phil Leirness, philosophy, show business, stand-up comedy, symbolism, taxes, television, The Blacklist, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, writing | 1 Comment »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #342
Thanksgiving, Birthdays, live events and what they’re reading are first on the docket for your friends in podcasting to discuss.
Then it’s onto a free-for all analysis of sequels, remakes, Hunger Games, Leonardo DiCaprio, a Broadway adaptation and a few Oscar hopefuls.
Finally, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness remember an improv comedy great, a young leading man, an animation heiress, a screenwriting guru and a publishing titan.
Happy December! It’s YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour …
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, acting, August: Osage County, Babe, Babe Pig in the City, Baz Luhrman, Blade Runner, books, Brittany Murphy, Butch and Sundance the Early Years, Chris Cooper, Cider House Rules, Dean Haglund, Diane Disney Miller, directing, filmmaking, Forbidden Planet, Force Ten from Navarone, Fred Astaire, FX Feeney, GDR, Gene Kelly, George Clooney, Harry Bosch, improv comedy, independence day, independent film, It's a Wonderful Life, Jay Leggat, John Wells, Jonah Hill, Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, Lasse Hallstrom, Laurie R. King, Leonard DiCaprio, Margo Martindale, Martin Scorsese, Martix Sixsmith, Mary Phillips, Meryl Streep, Michael Connely, motion pictures, My Name is Nobody, Napoleon, New York Oberserver, Nikki Finke, painting, Paramount, Paul Thomas Anderson, Paul Walker, Peter W. Kaplan, Phil Leirness, Philomena, Philomena Lee, publishing, remakes, Robert Altman, sequels, Sherlock Holmes, show business, Silverado Vineyards, Simon Monjack, Stanley Kubrick, Stasi, Stephen Frears, Steve Coogan, Steven Spielberg, Syd Field, television, Thanksgiving, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, The Color of Money, the Fast and the Furious, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Great Ziegfeld, The Hustler, The Lebensborn, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Lives of Others, The Lone Gunmen, The Matrix, The Reversal, The Sting 2, The Thin Man, The X-Files, The Ziegfeld Follies, There Will be Blood, Tina Fey, Tom Cruise, Tony Scott, Top Gun, Tracy Letts, Two Lives, Van Gogh, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, William Powell, Wolf of Wall Street, writing | 1 Comment »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #333
From an historic gold rush town in rural British Columbia to the origins of our (3 dimensional) Universe, your friends in podcasting go way back into the past and look forward into the speculative future on this week’s show.
Like television? Then, you might enjoy hearing Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness discuss the ending of “Breaking Bad” and the debuts of “The Blacklist” and “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Like movies? Then, you might enjoy hearing Dean and Phil discuss Jude Law’s work in Steven Soderbergh’s Hitchcockian Side Effects, Ron Howard’s effort to bring Formula One to the big screen with Rush, the influence Sergio Leone is having on Phil’s own filmmaking efforts these days and what Phil has learned about the interesting journey Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy took to U.S. theatre screens. Oh, and also, Dean tears into the abysmal Man of Steel.
Like science fiction? Then, you might enjoy hearing Dean and Phil discuss Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in print, on screen and even on stage! And they effusively reminisce a great deal about Alfonso Cuaron’s Chrildren of Men (and a little bit about his Prisoner of Azkaban) in anticipation of the release this week of Gravity.
Of course, if you just like good, insightful, irreverent and inspiring conversation, then you’ll definitely enjoy this brand new episode of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 4 dimiensional stars, A Fistful of Dollars, acting, Akira Kurosawa, Alfonso Cuaron, Alfred Hitchcock, Barkerville, black holes, Bob Robertson, books, Breaking Bad, British Columbia, Children of Men, Chris Hemsworth, Claudia Christian, Clint Eastwood, cosmology, Daniel Bruhl, Dean Haglund, Denise Crosby, directing, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Edward Einhorn, filmmaking, For a Few Dollars More, Formula One, Frost/Nixon, Geekend, Giancarlo Esposito, gold rush, Gravity, Henry Fonda, improv comedy, independent film, Jaime Robledo, Jonathan Banks, Jude Law, LA Podfest, Lee Van Cleef, Los Angeles podcast festival, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., movies, novels, Once Upon a Time in the West, Peter Morgan, pharmaceuticals, Philip K. Dick, Ron Howard, Ruch, Sacred Fools, science fiction, Sergio Leone, show business, Side Effects, Spaghetti Westerns, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Soderbergh, television, The Blacklist, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, The Lady Killers, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Queen, Vince Gilligan, writing, Yojimbo | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #320
Happy Canada Day!
Phil Leirness is back with health advice for the young people and with corrections for Dean Haglund after listening to last week’s show …
Nothing less than an action-packed thrill ride, this week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour features your friends in podcasting discussing more than a dozen movies, the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on DOMA and Proposition 8, the Jim Carrey Kick-Ass 2 controversy, Paula Deen’s racism vs. Alec Baldwin’s homophobia, and fairy tales!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Woman Under the Influence, acting, AI, Alec Baldwin, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Barbara Harris, Billy Wilder, Bruno Bettelheim, Canada Day, Captivity, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Reeve, David McCullough, Dean Haglund, directing, DOMA, Ellen Burstyn, Empire State Gas, Fairy Tales, film, Fruitvale Station, Gena Rowlands, Geraldine Chaplin, Gwen Welles, Henry Cavill, Jack Lemmon, Jim Carrey, JJ Abrams, Joe E. Brown, John Cassavetes, Karen Black, Kick Ass, Kick-Ass 2, Lily Tomlin, Man of Steel, Marilyn Monroe, Melissa McCarthy, Michael B. Jordan, movies, Napoleon, Nashville, Octavia spencer, Paula Deen, Phil Leirness, Poseiden Adventure, Proposition 8, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Altman, Rolan Joffe, Ronee Blakely, Sam Peckinpah, Sandra Bullock, Sandy Hook, Shelly Duvall, Shelly Winters, show business, Some Like it Hot, Stanley Kubrick, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Steven Spielberg, Superman, television, the Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, The Heat, The Lone Gunmen, The Shining, The X-Files, Tokyo Story, Tony Curtis, violence, writing, Yasujiro Ozu, Zack Snyder | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #314
The show begins with selections from a rather hilarious Skype conversation between Phil Leirness and March Hershon of Succotash.
Following the theme song, Dean Haglund is back, and tells of his whirlwind, speeding-ticket-filled road trip to Winnipeg and back.
Violence prevention is very much on the mind of Phil, as he participated in a gang violence “interruption” on Saturday night. He talks about that and the short film Flawless.
Mostly, though, movies are what your friends in podcasting really want to talk about, from the role of critics, to the resurrection of Harrison Ford, to the post-apocalypse bandwagon, to the lack of roles for women, to the work of Stanley Kubrick, to the latest installment of Star Trek.
All this week, on YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour …
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 42, After Earch, Alex Baldwin, Annenberg School of Journalism, Barry Lyndon, Ben Brantley, Benedict Cumberbatch, box office, Brad Pitt, Bridesmaids, Canada, chess, Chris Patmore, Comedy Film Nerd, Corbin Bernsen, Dean Haglund, District 9, Elysium, Empire State Gas, Ender's Game, film, filmmaking, Flawless, George C. Scott, Harrison Ford, idnependent film, J.J. Abrams, jason and the Argonauts, Jeanne Cooper, LACMA, Lolita, Marc Hershon, Matt Damon, Matt Giles, movies, Oblivon, Orphans, Paths of Glory, Phil Leirness, Ray Harryhausen, Stanley Kubrick, Star Trek Into Darkness, Steve Carell, Succotash, The Hunger Games, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, Tom Cruise, Twilight, usc, violence, violence prevention, Vladimir Nabokov, Will Smith, World War Z, Zoe Saldana | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #293
Happy Christmas, everybody!
This week’s show gets off to a flying start with a recap of the “Live Event of the Week” – the 28 hour marathon co-hosted by your friends in podcasting to ring in the end of the Mayan Calendar.
Dean discusses his road trip from hell.
Phil discusses catching up on some 2012 movies.
Dean and Phil revisit last’s week’s show all about the Top Films of All Time by looking at what directors had films mentioned most often on the lists submitted by guests of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour.
The show wraps up with a personal “Celebrity Death”, a wonderful character actor who was helping Dean and Phil in the development of their new film, The Lady Killers.
Speaking of The Lady Killers, please take the time to learn more about the film and how you can help (and PLEASE, spread the word!), by visiting here.
And if you’ve never seen Dean and Phil’s film The Truth is Out There . . . Why haven’t you? It’s available here.
Finally, we hope you will enjoy this holiday greeting from your friends in podcasting …
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Chillpak Hollywood #292
This week’s show is over five and a half years in the making.
It starts with your friends in podcasting revealing their all-time Top Ten Films.
Then, they reveal the all-time Top Ten according to all the guests who have appeared on YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!
This consensus will be updated each year in late December as we add the lists submitted to us by that year’s guests …
What films will make the inaugural cut?
We wouldn’t dream of spoiling it. HOWEVER, we CAN let you know that these films did NOT make the top ten, though they came very close, finishing in positions twenty-four through eleven:
24. Vertigo (Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Year: 1958)
23. Apocalypse Now (Francis Coppola, 1979)
22. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
21. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
19. TIE – Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
18. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
17. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
16. the Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999)
15. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
14. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
13. Fellini’s 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
12. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
11. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
Got your popcorn? Then, let’s go to the movies!
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