The Hip Pocket

C. ROBERT CARGILL was, of course, Massawyrm in his Ain’t It Cool days. He was also Carlyle over at Spill. Those are ancient credits, though. These days, he’s hard at work with his new film The Black …

NICK “TIGER” WIGER is celebrating the tenth year of co-hosting Doughboys, where he and Mike review chain restaurants. He also co-hosts Get Played, a video-game podcast that has special bonus episodes…

Criterion reached out to me recently to talk about their new release of 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould. I was delighted to see them announce a 4K remaster of the film. My own copy is from so long a…

I’ve never met PETER FILARDI or had, to the best of my knowledge, any contact with him. I certainly know his work. Both Flatliners and The Craft were big movies when they came out, and Filardi was at…

BRIAN DUFFIELD is a writer/director who has been one of the most acclaimed (and busiest) screenwriters of the last decade. He has shown up on The Black List, the annual selection of the best-loved un…

BEN HOSLEY is more than just a podcast producer. He runs his own fashion line, and he produces an annual Christmas album that has become a cult sensation. He met the Blank Check boys at UCB, where th…

JOE LYNCH has directed movies, TV, and music videos for almost 20 years now. With his long-time buddy Adam Green, he was the co-creator and co-star of Holliston, a truly bizarre sitcom, and they have…

KEVIN BIEGEL is one of the eight hundred writers who worked on A Minecraft Movie, and that’s just the latest highlight in a career that has been dedicated to making people laugh. He broke into the in…

MIKE MITCHELL is best known these days as one of the hosts of the wildly-popular Doughboys podcast, where he reviews fast-food chain restaurants with his co-host, Nick “Tiger” Wiger. He is a prominen…

ERIC VESPE cut his teeth as Quint at Ain’t It Cool, starting with the site when he was still in high school, and he grew up embedded on film sets all over the world. He has written hundreds if not th…

BEAR MCCREARY is our guest today, and he couldn’t have been more of a delight. From the moment I contacted him about being on the show, he was engaged and excited. He sent me a number of possible com…

CLAY KELLER is a writer, actor, and podcaster, and one of the hosts of Screen Drafts, a collaborative competitive movie discussion game where groups of people battle it out to create the definitive l…

BRYAN COGMAN is today’s guest, and he’s showing his sensitive side with his choices. This might be a surprise if you primarily know him from his WGAw-nominatd work on Game Of Thrones as a writer/prod…

JASON PARGIN is today’s guest, and he came ready to dig deep! No surprise if you’ve read his acclaimed novels like John Dies at the End, Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick, or This Book is Full of S…

ALLIE GOERTZ is today’s guest, and if don’t already know Allie, you’re welcome for the introduction. A former editor of Mad magazine, a writer for @Midnight, a songwriter and performer, and an old-sc…

It’s finally time for the second season of The Hip Pocket, and to get things rolling, we’ve got a very special guest.

BILL OAKLEY was a writer/producer for The Simpsons, eventually showrunning the ser…

The first season of The Hip Pocket comes to a close with an episode focused on the films of the 2020s. Aundria, Drew and Craig discuss the haunting Aftersun, the gleefully silly Love & Monsters, and …

The first season's almost over and Aundria, Drew and Craig look at the 2010s this time, discussing the Argentine black comedy Wild Tales, the geek documentary Wolfman's Got Nards, and John Carney's s…

Drew, Aundria and Craig picks three Hip Pocket titles from the first decade of the 2000s, discussing 800 Bullets, George Washington, and the somehow still underrated Michael Clayton.

The big Hip Pocket season one warm-up continues as we reach the 1990s. We talk about The Man in the Moon, Dogfight, and Grace of My Heart, and things get emotional!