Posts Tagged ‘The Lady Killers’
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #578
June 11, 2018 | 
Author A long-promised “Top Ten” show proved to be so fascinating to your friends in podcasting that they turned it into a 2-part epic! Boasting films from (almost?) every decade of feature filmmaking, this week’s installment will begin the countdown of Dean and Phil’s All-Time Top Ten Comedy Films! There are bound to be crowd-pleasing favorites, silent classics, independent gems and studio blockbusters. So, keep those Netflix queues handy!
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Tags: About a Boy, acting, Airplane, Bill Forsyth, Bill Murray, Blazing Saddles, Borat, Burt Lancaster, Buster Keaton, Caddyshack, Carole Lombard, Curtis Hanson, Dean Haglund, directing, Ernst Lubitsch, Fargo, filmmaking, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Garry Shandling, Gene Wilder, Ghostbusters, Hugh Grant, independent film, Ivan Reitman, Jack Benny, Judd Apatow, Local Hero, Love Actually, Meatballs, Mel Brooks, Michael Douglas, Monty Python, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, movies, Notting Hill, O Brother Where Art Thou, Peter Capaldi, Peter Riegert, Phil Leirness, Preston Sturges, producing, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sherlock Jr., Sullivan's Travels, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Coen Brothers, The General, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The Royal Tenenbaums, The X-Files, The Zucker Brothers, To Be or Not To Be, Top Secret, Wes Anderson, Wonder Boys, writing, Young Frankenstein | 
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #576
It’s Memorial Day here in the USA, so this episode is coming out about 12 hours later than we like. Nevertheless, Dean and Phil remember a wonderful actress, the artist who designed so many classic movie posters, a pop artist whose sculpted work is iconic, a movie actor and television star from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and a prolific and controversial award-winning novelist. Following “Celebrity Deaths”, your friends in podcasting will weigh in on the criminal charges filed against former mogul Harvey Weinstein and his lawyer’s rather shocking public defense of Weinstein’s actions. Then, it’s time to dig into the latest “Star Trek” news and a handful of recent cinematic releases a half-dozen or more current or recent cinematic releases, including a new “Star Wars Story”, two superhero movies, and an indie comedy. All that, plus a Memorial Day-inspired re-appraisal of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Alden Ehrenreich, Alfred Hitchcock, American Pastoral, Armando Ianucci, art, authors, Bill Gold, Burt Bulos, Casablanca, casting couch, Cheyenne, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, Claire Bloom, Clint Walker, comedy, Deadpool 2, Dean Haglund, directing, Donald Glove, editing, Elizabeth Sung, filmmaking, Han Solo, Harvey Weinstein, Humphrey Bogart, improv, independent film, Inglourious Basterds, Jason Isaacs, Love, Memoirs of a Geisha, Memorial Day, movie posters, movies, novels, painting, Phil Leirness, Philip Roth, pop art, Portnoy's Complaint, producing, Quentin Tarantino, rape, Robert Indiana, Ron Howard, Sculptures, sexual assault, Solo, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steve Buscemi, The Avengers: Infinity War, The Death of Stalin, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Joy Luck Club, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, the Los Angeles Breakfast Club, The Ten Commandments, The X-Files, The Young and the Restless, theme parks, Universal Studios, war movies, Woody Harrelson, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #572
A show eleven years in the making! As longtime listeners of the show know, Dean and Phil used to begin each calendar year with a “New Year’s Resolutions” show, where they set their intentions for the year ahead, while looking back and holding their feet to the fire about the resolutions they had made one year prior. For a variety of reasons they will discuss, your friends in podcasting discontinued that tradition this year … This week marks 11 years of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour and Dean and Phil will commemorate the special event by looking back at their resolutions to start 2017 and seeing how well they lived up to them! It will be a very thoughtful, heartfelt, and we bet, inspiring hour all about art, comedy, friendship, aging, and love. Plus you get to hear, at long last, Phil’s thoughts on Star Wars: The Last Jedi AND you will learn just when a certain graphic novel might be finished!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, aging, anniversaries, art, Australia, comedy, Dean Haglund, destiny, Detroit, directing, fate, filmmaking, free will, friendship, Fuzz Aldrin, graphic novel, illness, independent film, knee surgery, Lily Holleman, movies, moving, Oedipus Rex, painting, Phil Leirness, Pier Paolo Pasolini, podcasting, Remington Steele, resolutions, show business, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Steel, stress, television, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #570
Delayed by 36 hours so that Phil could work on materials pertaining to the forthcoming release of The Lady Killers and so Dean could get some chiropractic work done pertaining to his recovery from knee surgery, this week’s episode begins with updates on both these tales before your friends in podcasting launch into “Celebrity Deaths”, where they remember a former first lady of the USA, the star of a classic Kubrick film, a multiple-Oscar-winning filmmaker, a comedy impresario, a comedian and magician turned sitcom star and a talk radio pioneer. This week’s show features the return of “What We’re Reading” wherein Dean and Phil discuss how to maintain better focus at the contemporary art genre known as “minimal fantasy”. The movies Blade Runner 2049 and Faces Places get discussed in greater detail than ever before on the show and the “clearinghouse” approach to television embodied by the likes of Netflix and Hulu versus the “curated” approach taken by HBO and Showtime gets analyzed. A handful of shows get discussed in the process. All in all, this belated episode is choc-full-o-goodness and because it’s later than we like, it comes with a bonus 6 minutes!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Agnes Varda, Amadeus, Andy Kaufman, art, Art Bell, Barbara Bush, Blade Runner 2049, books, Charleston, Coast to Coast AM, David Lynch, Dean Haglund, Denis Villeneuve, Faces Places, feminism, filmmaking, Full Metal Jacket, Garry Shandling, George Noory, Harry Anderson, independent film, Jim Carrey, JR, Judd Apatow, Man on the Moon, Milos Forman, minimal fantasy, Mitzi Shore, movies, Mulholland Drive, New Orleans, Night Court, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, painting, Phil Leirness, R. Lee Ermey, show businss, stand-up comedy, Stanley Kubrick, Suli McCullough, The Comedy Store, The Fireman's Ball, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The People Vs. Larry Flynt, The X-Files, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #569
Your friends in podcasting have a lot of personal news to share: Dean’s continued recovery from knee surgery, details for the upcoming release of their movie The Lady Killers, the latest on Fuzz Aldrin’s miraculous return to health, and where in the world Dean will be living next! A couple of conversation threads from past weeks are picked up and amplified, as Dean and Phil discuss Dean’s feelings about film noir and why the box office success of the Star Wars franchise has always been unrelated to the films’ quality (or lack thereof). More than a half dozen current and recent movies get analyzed, including Atomic Blonde, A Quiet Passion, Blade Runner 2049, Red Sparrow, Ready Player One, A Quiet Place, Game Night and more.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: A Quiet Passion, A Quiet Place, acting, ageism, Atomic Blonde, attention spans, Blade Runner 2049, Buckaroo Banzai, Chad Stahelski, Charlotte Rampling, comedy, Cynthia Nixon, David Leitch, Dean Haglund, Detroit, directing, Emily Blunt, Emily Dickinson, film critics, film noir, filmmaking, For Your eyes Only, From Russia with Love, Game Night, German Expressionism, Get Out, Gillian Anderson, House of Mirth, independent film, Iron Giant, James Bond, Jennifer Ehle, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Irons, Joel Edgerton, John Krasinski, Keith Carradine, knee recovery, movies, mythology, Oldboy, Phil Leirness, producing, Ready Player One, Red Sparrow, rescue cat, show business, sick kitty, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Taxi Driver, Terence Davies, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, Toshiro Mifune, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #566
On this week’s episode, we’ve got movies, including a discussion of some classic mysteries, and a brand new sci-fi masterpiece that sadly shows the sorry state of movie distribution! We have lawsuits, including one nasty battle between the US Department of Justice and media conglomerate AT&T, and a very different case about set safety on independent films in Canada! We have fond farewells to two true icons, one a scientific giant, the other a fashion legend! We have a show biz scandal featuring the august Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences! All that plus we tease huge life-changing news for Dean Haglund!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: #metoo, #timesup, 2001, acting, ACTRA, Alex Garland, Alfred Hitchcock, Alien, ALS, AMPAS, Anatomy of a Murder, Annihilation, AT&T, Australia, Cary Grant, Crossfire, Dean Haglund, Department of Justice, directing, Ghostland, Givenchy, Hubert de Givenchy, independent film, James Stewart, JFK, Jim Marrs, John Bailey, Joseph Welch, knee surgery, lawsuits, movies, mysteries, mystery films, Natalie Portman, Netflix, North by Northwest, Oliver Stone, Otto Preminger, Paramount, Paramount Pictures, Phil Leirness, Psycho, Rear Window, sci-fi, set safety, sexual harassment, show business, Solaris, Stephen Hawking, stunts, Suspense, Taylor HIckson, Tessa Thompson, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, thrillers, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #565
In addition to the latest updates on Dean’s post-surgery recovery and the miracle of Fuzz Aldrin, as well as the de rigueur rounds of “Celebrity Deaths” (where Dean will get quizzed about a pioneering comedian, a legendary sci-fi writer, an award-winning horror writer, two singers and an iconic television actor), there is a lot of movie news for your friends in podcasting to discuss. Dean and Phil analyze the Oscars, including the winners, the host, the politics, the ratings and the ensuing and on-going conversation about diversity and inclusion in the motion picture workplace. They will also discuss a handful of films, including one of the Best Foreign Language Film nominees, the 1974 winner for “Best Actor”, an early Horror classic (also an Oscar winner for “Best Actor), and the supposed “greatest romantic comedy of all time”. Oh, and if you have yet to enjoy last week’s show, you are missing out on one of our funniest hours EVER!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Academy Awards, acting, Alabama rot, animals, Art Carney, Bob Smith, box office, Cary Grant, cats, Citizen Kane, Dean Haglund, directing, diversity, Dr, filmmaking, foreign language film, Frederic March, Harry and Tonto, Howard Hughes, inclusion riders, independent film, Jack Ketchum, James Stewart, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Kimmel, Katharine Hepburn, knee surgery, Lari White, Manchester, Mark E. Smith, music, mysteries, Oscars, Paul Mazursky, Phil Leirness, producing, road pictures, romantic comedies, sci-fi, show business, Simon Shelton Barnes, Spencer Tracy, stand-up comedy, Suli McCullough, surgery, Teletubbies, television, The Fall, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The Philadelphia Story, The Square, The X-Files, toxoplasmosis, Ursula K LeGuin, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #563
In an absolutely hilarious installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour, Dean shares his challenging recovery from knee surgery and addresses a rumor. Phil describes appearing on stage with his cat Fuzz Aldrin at a screening of The Lady Killers, shares the importance of the venue to his development as a filmmaker, reveals that the film has secured full North American distribution, and oh, yeah, how he got engaged to his long-time lady love, Lily Holleman, during the post-screening Q&A. Dean and Phil compare notes on “Star Trek: The Animated Series”, the future of “The X-Files” (including a potential spin-off series), and such movies as It, Winchester, Criminal and Black Panther. All that, plus a couple more “Celebrity Deaths” discussed in their brand new game show format where Phil gives the name, and Dean has to guess for what that individual was celebrated. Enjoy it now, wherever good podcasts can be found and share it with your friends!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 3 Below Theaters and Lounge, acting, animation, Ariel Vromen, Black Panther, box office, Burt Bulos, Camera 3, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Carter, Connie Sawyer, Criminal, dark comedy, David Gerrold, Dean Haglund, Denis Villeneuve, directing, Dorothy Malone, Dune, filmmaking, Fuzz Aldrin, Gal Gadot, Gary Oldman, Gene Roddenberry, Ghouli, Helen Mirren, Hollywood's Oldest Actress, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, independent film, It, JFK, Kevin Costner, knee surgery, Lily Holleman, marriage proposal, Marvel, Michael B. Jordan, Millennium, motion pictures, movies, Nu Image, Pennywise, Peyton Place, Phil Leirness, producing, Retro Dome, Ryan Coogler, Ryan Reynolds, Sarah Winchester, Scott Guggenheim, Shannon Guggenheim, show business, Star Trek, Star Trek the Animated Series, Taika Waititi, The Big Sleep, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The Trouble with Tribbles, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 11, Tim Curry, Tommy Lee Jones, Walter Koenig, Wim Wenders, Winchester, Winchester Mystery House, Wings of Desire, Wonder Woman, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #561
In a fascinating and very funny installment of your Chillpak Hollywood Hour, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness begin by catching up on some of the many “Celebrity Deaths” from early this year that you might not have heard about! Not only that, but for the first time ever, they turn these celebrations into a sort of game show. As they discuss doing just that there is a few second-long audio glitch, so bear with us. Also, Phil promises to go easy on snacking during future episodes!
A female TV cop, the Emmy award-winning brother of Dick Van Dyke, the Queen of the Blues, the detective who investigated the Zodiac killer case, a classic heavy metal guitarist, the last remaining original Mouseketeer, the voice of college football, and the first female US general are all remembered. Then Marc Hershon rejoins your friends in podcasting for the 2nd half of the show to discuss hilarious stories about his career in corporate branding, his career as a comedy impresario (replete with stories of big stars), depictions of improv and stand-up comics in film and TV, and robots!
You’ll be laughing so much, the insight of some of the discussion might just sneak up on you!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: A Love Reputation, acting, acting class, AI, Anna Mae Hays, Battle Beyond the Stars, Bob Denver, Cedric Yarbrough, celebrity deaths, Coach, comedy, corporate branding, Craig T. Nelson, Crime Story, Danny McBride, Dave Toschi, David Pasquesi, Dean Haglund, Denise LaSalle, Dick Enberg, documentary, Don't Think Twice, Doreen Tracey, Edward "Fast Eddie" Clarke, Eyes of Laura Mars, filmmaking, Gilligan's Island, health care, Hunter, I'm Dying Up Here, improv comedy, improv games, independent film, Jerry Van Dyke, Jody Hill, Keith Jackson, Marc Hershon, Mark Ruffalo, mental health care, Mike Birbiglia, Minnie Driver, Motorhead, Mouseketeers, movies, mri, music, My Mother the Car, NDA, Phil Leirness, producing, Robert De Niro, robots, Rupert Pupkin, San Francisco, San Jose, Saturn cars, Saturn Vue, SF Sketch Fest, show business, Sonic commercials, Speechless, stand-up comedy, Strangers with Candy, T.J. Pagodowski, teaching, television, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Foot Fist Way, The King of Comedy, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The Queen of the Blues, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, Trapped by a Thing Called Love, Trust Us This is All Made Up, Veep, whoa nellie, writing, Zodiac killer | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #558
This week’s show begins with an update on how the fierce, determined and ridiculously cute cat Fuzz Aldrin is recovering (you can help with that recovery by visiting http://gofundme.com/save-fuzz-aldrin”). She had to have another emergency procedure this week, which leads to a rather hilarious story about Lily Holleman, “Junior Pet Detective”. It also leads to a conversation about a surgical procedure Dean Haglund will be undergoing the first week of February. Then, Dean and Phil Leirness discuss movies – two “classics” (the comedy To Be or Not to Be and the musical Brigadoon), and five recent releases (Darren Aronosky’s Mother!, Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories, Dan Gilroy’s Roman J. Israel, Esq., Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water and the big winner at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MIssouri).
For the first time in weeks, your friends in podcasting tackle “Celebrity Deaths”, celebrating the life and careers of record producer Rick Hall, actress-singer Rose Marie and film noir icon Peggy Cummins. Then, they tackle the “small screen”, with Phil weighing in on the new Fox sitcom “LA to Vegas”, with Dean assessing the most recent “mirror universe” episode of “Star Trek: Discover” (“The Wolf Inside”), and the two of them discussing the thematic meanings of Season 11 of “The X-Files”, of the most recent episode (“Plus One”) and what the future might hold for the show with or without Gillian Anderson.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Adam Sandler, allegory, alphabet series, animal healthcare, Ben Stiller, Bonnie & Clyde, books, Brigadoon, Captain Lorca, Carole Lombard, cats, Cyd Charisse, Dan Gilroy, Darren Aronofsky, Dean Haglund, Denzel Washington, Dick Van Dyke Show, directing, Doug Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Dylan McDermott, Ernst Lubitsch, felines, filmmaking, Fox, Francois Truffaut, Fuzz Aldrin, Gillian Anderson, Guillermo Del Toro, Gun Crazy, improv comedy, independent film, Jack Benny, Jean-Luc Godard, Karin Konoval, Kevin Hooks, Klingons, knee surgery, LA to Vegas, Lily Holleman, Michael Shannon, Michelle Yeoh, Mother, movies, Muscle Shoals, music, mystery books, Night of the Demon, Noah Baumbach, Peggy Cummins, Phil Leirness, Plus One, Richard Jenkins, Rick Hall, Roman J. Israel Esq., Rose Marie, Sally Hawkins, Sally Rogers, Star Trek Discovery, Sue Grafton, television, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), The Old Testament, The Prisoner, The Shape of Water, The Wolf Inside, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 11, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, To Be or Not To Be, tv, tv shows, Van Johnson, Vincente Minnelli, writing | No Comments »
