Nighthawks' Podcast

The year was 1984, and a fledgling filmmaker has made a film about post-millennium killer robots coming back to the 80s to kill a young unwed mother.If you were to travel in time to 1991, you'd see that same filmmaker release a film about post-millennium killer robots coming back to the 90s to kill a child.Some would call that a disturbing trend among killer robots, we call it one of the best one-two roundhouse combos in action/sci-fi film history. Tune in for this episode about a movie that the Nighthawks describe as "one of the Great Films," Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Joe Morton, and introducing Robert Patrick as The T-1000; this rock 'em-sock 'em battlebots rumble royale took audiences by storm and permnently altered the course of special effects in films. On the point of the CGI machete, is the liquid metal T-1000 morphing through a broken helicopter windshield, and both the film industry and the Nighthawks were changed forever.

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 The Vile Hellcat Honeybunch It Ends

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 discuss including One Battle After Another, Sinners, Bugonia, F1, and many others.Slide up with a slice of pie and a cup of coffee and talk about this year’s best.

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 nowhereV 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 in his remake of a South Korean film?The Long Walk- Mark Hamill joins the pantheon of Stephen King cinematic villains that you just want to strangle.The Haar- a novel by Steven Sodergren about a lady holding out against a wealthy land developer, when a shape-shifting creature washes up on the beach.

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 decade behind it, Stranger Things is a certified cultural phenomenon. But does the wrap-up match the overwhelming love they felt for the first season?Nighthawks on Stranger Things Season 1Terry Flemings With the Nighthawks:Nighthawks covers Boyz n the HoodNighthawks covers The Matrix Resurrections

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 mounted by Orson Welles during the Works Projects Administration's Negro Theatre Project. The Powers of Darkness Podcast- After it is discovered that the Icelandic and Swedish translations of Bram Stoker's DRACULA are wildly different from the author's English language original, an investigation is mounted to discover where this "new" version of Dracula came from.The Witcher (SSN 4)- Dick York is replaced by Dick Sergeant and the budget is cut, can the Witcher withstand his greatest enemy: Market Forces?

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- including wall-to-wall partying, a musical number of a crooner standard, a New York City setting, and a focus on getting things done before midnight. Gremlins 2 has all of these things, and as a follow-up to the undeniable Christmas-time-set original, it's hard to turn down singing monsters to ring in 2026.The Nighthawks covered the original GREMLINS (1984) as part of their 2020 holiday special. During that conversation a return to the world of the mogwai was teased, but the time as come six years later.Join Matt and Trevor in an after-midnight toast to the outgoing year and looking forward to a bright future... but not too bright. Especially not sunlight, it will kill them.

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 to fit Frank Cross (Bill Murray) the Youngest Network Television President in (fictional) history. Frank is trying to mount a daring live presentation of Dickens' classic story, but life begins to imitate art as Frank is haunted by spirits that will take him on a whirlwind tour of past, present, and future trying to figure out where exactly Frank went wrong.Murray brings his trademark energy, volume, and talent to a stacked cast of actors, extras, and walk-on cameos, meanwhile the semi-dark story has gone from Christmastime oddity to 21st Century holiday classic.What's the big deal about a rich jerk who changes his ways? Parse it with us as we beat the Dickens out of SCROOGED.

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 Roth delivering on a movie idea he introduced us to in 2007. Part of the slate of phony trailers in the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez “Grindhouse” presentation, THANKSGIVING is a slasher movie that is looking to carve its way into your annual traditions.However the movie that we were advertised in 2007, and the movie that was released in 2023 are two completely different animals, and it seems like Roth may have done it that way on purpose.It’s a Thanksgiving holiday hangover that can only be cured with a little booth time at the Nighthawks diner.

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 refuse.Also featuring Adrian from Rocky, that palooka guy from Big City Brawl, John Travolta’s dad from Look Who’s Talking, the guy from the oft-forgotten and underrated NBC drama Las Vegas, the old man from Get Low, and that gal from Annie Hall.