The Hold Up

Ready for a heaping spoonful of space madness?!?  This month for scary October and Halloween The Johns are joined by horror writer/director Alison Star Locke to watch Event Horizon.  Does this Paul W…

What happens when two grown men get into a car accident and spiral into an obsessive conflict filled with screaming, scheming and even violence?  Why, the go start a podcast of course and yell at eac…

Year six has begun.  That's right.  The Holdup Podcast celebrates six years of episodes by checking into the motel of 2003's psychological horror thriller: Identity.  Will this John Cusack, Ray Liott…

We've watch plenty of movies for the hold up.  But never a film that one of us was in!  That's right folks.  Our own John Nelson stars in Blades of Glory for a grand 20 seconds and we're here for eve…

This month the Johns (sort of) take on a listener request for a Disney film to watch Davey Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier.  Will they get past the Disney Plus content warning to have a hootin' h…

The tables have finally turned.  Join us for another episode of our spinoff/bonus podcast: The Catch Up.  This time around, Nelson watches the 1989 Kevin Costner classic, Field of Dreams, for the fir…

Oh my God.  It's full of stars.  Like Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban and John Lithgow!  That's right it's 2010!  No... not the year.  Well yes the year but, you know, the movie.  This month …

For a very belated Valentine's Day, the Johns doth present their 69th Hold Up episode: Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Will this 1996 acid trip of love bring us to tears, or wil…

Welcome to the conclusion of The Catch Up on the John Wick Franchise! It's a full house as The Johns and friends watch John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum. Enjoy this final bonus episode for the month…

The John Wick madness continues with Chapter 2 in our spinoff podcast, The Catch Up. This time Jeremy Bear of the Freshman 15 podcast joins in on the action. Come join the party!

The Catch Up, our spinoff series about great movies one of us has never seen but absolutely should, returns with the John Wick franchise. Join us each week of the month of February as we catch John …

Guess what? The John's are watching Crash... again! No not the 2004 one. This time we're watching David Cronenberg's 1996 psycho sexual thriller, Crash, or as we like to call it: the leg f***ing o…

Happy New Year! To celebrate the start of 2021, The Johns decided to get CRAZY!!!! Strap the F in because we're... flipping a coin. That's right, a coin toss will determine if we're watching Crash…

We did it. Another year in the books. Come celebrate with some light hearted fun as we watch the 1992 whodunnit comedy, Once Upon A Crime. Is this piece of Longino's childhood a hidden gem of the …

It's election time again so hold on to you butts. The Johns jump back into the political fire and watch Wag The Dog. Recorded before the November 3rd, 2020 US Presidential election, be fully warned…

What better way to celebrate the Halloween season than deep, scarring psychological trauma? Join the Johns and special guest Alison Star Locke as they watch The Last House On The Left. Trigger war…

What's better than two Johns? How about THREE?!? This month Jon Caligiuri joins The Hold Up Podcast to watch Rodney Dangerfield's Back To School. Exactly how will a wealthy, privileged white man b…

Welcome to a very special 5th anniversary episode of The Hold Up! To commemorate this glorious occasion, we decided to watch a film Nelson saw and spoke to Longino about at our first recording sessi…

Our friend, Tyler, requested we watch a silent film to distract us from the crushing depression of isolation. Hoping it was just what the doctor ordered, we chose the 1924 Buster Keaton comedy: Sher…