Posts Tagged ‘news’
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #498
November 29, 2016 | 
Author Dean Haglund is flying back to Australia right now, but before he left Los Angeles, he dropped by a certain historic building to visit Phil Leirness and to discuss the lives (and deaths) of Sharon Jones, Gwen Ifill, Florence Henderson, Ron Glass and Fidel Castro. Dean and Phil also compare notes on a great stand-up comedy performance they witnessed at The Los Angeles Breakfast Club. Speaking of stand-up, Dean performed stand-up at Big & Tall presents BARK, while Phil was attending a media preview of The Queen Mary’s CHILL and all these events get described. A hilarious discussion of the new “4D” method of exhibiting films leads your friends in podcasting into a free-wheeling discussion of such movies as “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”, “Jackie”, “Hidden Figures”, “Nocturnal Animals”, “La La Land”, and “Rules Don’t Apply”. We’ve received a lot of great feedback and messages from listeners of late, and one such message involves the topic of diversity on television, a question Dean and Phil tackle briefly before setting it on the agenda for next week’s show …
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Tags: 4D, 4D movies, A Single Man, acting, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Alden Ehrenreich, Amy Adams, Barney Miller, Big and Tall presents BARK, box office, broadcast news, Broadway, Che Guevara, Clinton Pickens, communism, Cuba, Damien Chezelle, David Lynch, directing, diversity, Emma Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fidel Castro, filmmaking, Firefly, Florence Henderson, Gametraders, Gwen Ifill, Hidden Figures, Hollywood Bowl, Howard Hughes, independent film, J.K. Rowling, Jackie, Jackie Kennedy, Jackie O, Jake Gylenhaal, Janelle Monae, Johnny Carson, journalism, Kevin Costner, La La Land, Leonard DiCaprio, Los Angeles Breakfast Club, Mercury Space Program, Michael Shannon, movies, music, musicals, NASA, Natalie Portman, news, Nocturnal Animals, Octavia spencer, PBS, PBS News Hour, politics, producing, Queen Mary's Chill, Ron Glass, Rules Don't Apply, Ryan Gosling, Serenity, Sharon Jones, Sharon Jones and the Dag Kings, show business, sitcoms, soul, Soviet Union, stage shows, Stanley Kubrick, Taraji P. Henson, television, The Aviator, The Big and Tall Show, The Brady Bunch, the Queen Mary, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, theatre, Theodore Melfi, Tim Russert, Tom Ford, writing | 
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #433
As loyal listeners of this show know, probably the only truthful way to describe YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour would be that actor-artist-inventor-improv comic Dean Haglund and independent filmmaker, teacher and certified Violence Prevention Specialist Phil Leirness spend an hour each week discussing anything going on in the world that has grasped their attention, and usually, Dean and Phil discuss these “goings on” through the prism of how they are being depicted in, or ignored by, the media. A great variety of subjects have attracted their attention this week: From the responsibility of sports fans to make sure their favorite teams aren’t menaces to society to what we can learn about our culture from the on-air shooting of a news reporter and camera person in Virginia this past week, from an appalling programming choice on the part of IFC to a dating site for those with mental illness, from the lack of opportunity for female and minority directors in television to the lack of distribution for African-American owned networks and content on Comcast and Time Warner. All that, plus a silent horror classic, a documentary about Tim Burton’s version of “Superman” (which was to star Nicolas Cage as the Man of Steel), the new film from the director of “Amelie” that the Weinstein Company really doesn’t want you to see, the death of Oliver Sacks, the anniversary of Robin Williams’ suicide, the truth behind water and kale, and a letter from a listener like you about supporting character actors. Finally, this IS the week where your friends in podcasting start reviewing the films on the “Film Fatales” list of female-directed movies everyone should see.
Whew. How’s THAT for an action-packed show?!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 2nd amendment, acting, Advantageous, alienation of affection, Awakenings, Bill Hader, Blair Witch Project, Byron Allen, Comcast, conspiracy theories, dating sites, Dean Haglund, directing, Directors Guild of America, diversity, Downtown Independent, Dronez, drought, film, Film Fatales, filmmaking, Fred Armisen, Grey Gardens, guns, Half-Life, Harvey Weinstein, Jacqueline Kim, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jed York, Jennifer Phang, Jim Harbaugh, journalism, kale, mental illness, movies, NAACP, Netflix, neurology, news, Nicolas Cage, Oliver Sacks, Paul Leni, Phil Leirness, producing, psychiatry, Reverend Al Sharpton, Robin Williams, San Francisco 49ers, Sandy Passage, show business, Superman, teaching, television, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, Tim Burton, Time Warner Cable, Trent Baalke, Virginia shooting, water, Wax Works, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #369
It’s the return of Luke Y. Thompson! Whether as a film critic, the editor of Topless Robot, or as an actor who co-stars in an awesome sci-fi film released this week in the U.S.A., LYT Rules!
If you love movies, if you love popular culture, if you love journalism, if you love spirited, insightful and irreverent conversation, you’ll love episode 369 of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Batterton & James, Comic-Con, Creep Creepersin, David Lynch, Deadline Hollywood, Dean Haglund, Ding Dong Dead, directing, Dwayne Johnson, fan fiction, film critics, Fred Coury, Geek Chic, Gregory Hatanaka, horror, Jasper Boring, Julia Boyd, Lost Highway, Louis Savy, Mad Cowgirl, marriage, movie reviews, nerds, news, Paul Hough, Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Phil Leirness, sci-fi, Sci-Fi-London, show business, The Human Race, The Lone Gunmen, The Lone Ranger, The Rock, The X-Files, Topless Robot, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #266
Your friends in podcasting have been busy! From marathons to moviemaking, from fine art to live events, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness really mix it up …
They launched a brand new documentary project about an artist and philosopher and they hope you will check it out HERE.
Phil co-hosted an installment of the top notch “Combat Radio” show, and he brought along the amazing Tucker Smallwood as a guest. You can enjoy that show right HERE.
Dean and Phil’s friend, filmmaker Jonathan Browning, recently completed another of his award-winning shorts, this one starring the legendary Paul Dooley. Give it (and all of Jonathan’s shorts) a viewing right HERE.
Finally, loyal listener to this show, Mattie Giles, has a film review website you might enjoy. Check that out right HERE.
Of course, Dean and Phil really hope you will enjoy this week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour, which covers such diverse topics as the historic L.A. neighborhood of Los Feliz, the plays of Anton Checkhov, the films of the 1930′s, the critical debate over Prometheus, the under-appreciation of MIB3, some new shows on HBO, Dean’s shocking attitude towards prostitution, and why we really all should just get along.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Aaron Sorkin, acting, Alex Lewczuk, Alien, Anton Chekhov, Bart Di Lorenzo, Boris Karloff, Boris Karloff More Than a Monster, box office, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Laughton, Clarice Starling, Combat Radio, comedy, consciousness, conspiracy, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, D.W. Griffith, Dean Haglund, Denise Crosby, directing, distribution, Ethan Dettenmaier, Evidence Room, Fantasy Island, film critics, filmmaking, films, Flight of the Conchords, Girls, Glasgow to the Movies, Gloria Stuart, Hannibal, HBO, independent film, Intolerance, Ivanov, James Whale, Jemaine Clement, Jonathan Browning, Josh Brolin, Josh Glasgow, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kickstarter, Leigh J. McCloskey, Lena Dunah, Lifetime, Lily Holleman, Los Feliz, Luke Y. Thompson, Mad Men, Mads Mikkelson, marathons, Mark Ryan, Matt Giles, Matt Giles Film Files, Melvyn Douglas, Men In Black 3, MIB 3, Midweek Drive, movies, news, Nikki Finke, Odyssey Theatre, Olandar, Paul Dooley, Phil Leirness, political satire, Prometheus, prostitiution, Raymond Massey, Ridley Scott, Rodney King, Rodney King Riots, Screaming Frog Productions, show business, television, The Independent Critic, The Lone Gunmen, The Nerdist, The Newsroom, The Old Dark House, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, Tiny Furniture, Tommy Lee Jones, Tucker Smallwood, Twin Peaks, Veep, Washington State, Where the Great Ones Run, Will Smith, writing, Zhang Ziyi | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #226
On Sunday, your friends in podcasting, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness, were in Portland, Oregon for an event commemorating the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. While their film The Truth Is Out There played inside the Bing Lounge, Dean and Phil sat in the PacWest Center green room with the host of the evening, Clyde Lewis, to record this week’s show.
Clyde Lewis is the fantastic host of the extremely popular “Ground Zero” which airs on KXL News Radio in Portland and which streams on www.GroundZeroMedia.org (where you can also find podcasts of Clyde’s past shows INCLUDING this past Thursday’s show, on which Phil was the guest, and Sunday’s show in front of a live audience, on which Dean was the guest).
How will we view the events of 9/11 2001 as we move forward? Will there ever be a true criminal investigation of those events? Will Dean and Phil change the name of their weekly podcast to “Bag Full of Rainbows”?
Find out the answer to these burning questions and many many more on this week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 9/11, Chicago, Clyde Lewis, conspiracy, conspiracy theories, Dean Haglund, film, filmmaking, Ground Zero, Ground Zero Media, news, Phil Leirness, Portland, Salt Lake City, stand-up comedy, talk radio, television, The Lone Gunmen, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, Utah | 1 Comment »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #55
Dean and Phil sock it to you with (almost) an hour of showbiz news, insight, advice and hilariousness.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: advice, comedy, Dean Haglund, directing, filmmaking, independent film, movies, news, Phil Leirness, producing, show business, television, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, WGA, writing | No Comments »
