The Hollywood Outsider

Universal's "The Mummy" is a property that has been around for decades. Long before Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz awoke him, Boris Karloff played the slow walking stalker with a love grudge. Now th…

Our topic for this week: Fall Television – What are we most looking forward to? With summer films firmly in the rear view mirror, it is time to look at the upcoming TV series season where most networ…

The time has come! Our 4th Annual Summer Movie HO Awards have arrived! Where did the summer end up for us overall, as well as versus last year? What was lacking? What did we learn? After we ponder th…

Our topic for this week: Zorro is getting a reboot, but instead of the old west, it will be set in post-apocalyptic times. Taking that concept and expanding it, which characters would we like to see …

This is it! An episode four years in the making - Episode 200 of The Hollywood Outsider Movie & TV Podcast! Aaron, Brian, Justin and Scott all gather for a fun trip down memory lane as we discuss lis…

Aaron interviews Sinister 2 director Ciaran Foy on shooting those kill films, the test screening process, why they chose this story direction for the sequel, and what does horror mean to him. 

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Our topic for this week: Villains with sympathetic motives. When is a villain, not really a villain? Perhaps he was forced into this life of crime against his will, or in the course of pursuing a nob…

Listen to our engaging interview with Saw director Darren Lynn Bousman on getting his start in filmmaking, his work on the Saw franchise, turning failures around in Hollywood, and his latest attempt …

Our topic for this week: Television shows that were canceled too soon. Which of the numerous TV shows that left us are the ones that still haunting us long after we should have moved on? We discuss t…

Our topic for this week: What are the best British movies? That’s right – we’re discussing the Brits and their contributions to film this week, as one of our listeners requested we nail down what, ex…

Our topic for this week: What film or television technology, that you never believed a possibility, has become a reality? Also, what technologies did you believe would become a reality only to still …

Our topic for this week: Good movies with bad casts, and bad movies with good casts. Does the cast make the movie? Does the movie make the cast? An interesting discussion on a listener suggested topi…

Our topic for this week: Is Political Correctness ruining entertainment?

We tackle a topic on many minds these days: Is PC-minded thinking affecting entertainment? Are we as a society getting too off…

"Remake This Movie RIGHT!" is a bi-weekly podcast where we take a classic film that is actively being remade by Hollywood studio execs, and craft our own version of how a modern retelling should go. …

Our topic for this week is Directors. Specifically, who are the most overrated and underrated directors working today? Those that are appreciated, why do we appreciate them? Is it framing? Style? Tho…

What makes a great movie dad?

Movie Dads is our topic this week, as we dive into what makes a great movie dad? Is a great dad a protector, a nurturer, or all of the above? We discuss this, as well as…

 Why do movie trailers lie to us?

We recently discussed marketing in today’s films. As that was a very wide-ranging conversation, one of our listeners – John - asked us to elaborate on movie trailers…

What is better storytelling in telvision: Procedurals or Serialized?

Television has continued to evolve, as we as a culture have. Where we once sat together every night as a complete family unit, onl…

“Tomorrowland” follows Casey (Britt Robertson), a teen prodigy with a NASA engineer dad and an abundance of curiosity. After a random encounter with a mysterious pin that seems to transport her to a …

What movie fantasy world do you want to live in?

Tomorrowland revolves a young girl who stumbles into a futuristic world. From Oz until now, we’ve always dreamed of living in a different world. A bet…