For their 80th episode, our two con artist film critics, alien-glowing dads, and punk-infused school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan welcome a special guest and movie to the podcast. Boston-based Ken Reid, host of the popular TV Guidance Counselor Podcast joins the Cinephile Hissy Fit. He presents the 1984’s “Repo Man” starring Emilio Estevez which checks many oddball genre definition boxes. The three come it from many different angles and histories for a rich conversation
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The 2011 movie Moneyball follows Brad Pitt as Billy Beane in the true story of how the former baseball player turned general manager of the Oakland A's attempted to build a good team in 2002 with a lower budget than most baseball teams are afforded by using statistics to recruit people that the rest of the industry considered either underdogs or altogether throwaways. Jonah Hill plays Peter Brand, Beane's right-hand man and the one who specialized in the statistics that they ended up using in their new strategy.
Read MoreFor their 79th episode, our two divided film critics, force-sensitive dads, and working school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan present the second of two special in-person collaboration episodes coming from Will's recent visit to Chicago. He and Don assembled a group of Chicago film critic friends to put some content together. Mike Crowley of 25YL and "You'll Probably Agree" again set up recordings at The Laugh Factory with us, himself, Cati Glidewell of "The Blonde in Front" and Collider freelancer Hayden Mears. For this show, the dais goes to battle on the much-debated merit of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
Read MoreFor their 78th episode, our two softy film critics, emotional dads, and sobbing school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan welcome a special in-person collaboration episode coming from Will's recent visit to Chicago. He and Don assembled a group of Chicago film critic friends to put some content together. Mike Crowley of 25YL and "You'll Probably Agree" set up recordings at The Laugh Factory with us, himself, Cati Glidewell of "The Blonde in Front" and Collider freelancer Hayden Mears. This group talk covers movies that make us cry, Pass the tissues and let's get emotional!
Read MoreFor their 77th episode, our two lofty film critics, awestruck dads, and researching school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan offer a new show from their "Deep Cut" series where they examine some of the lesser known and underseen movies of an actor or filmmaker's resume. Everyone has certainly heard of Steven Spielberg, but Will and Don look past the obvious hits to present some of their favorites of his that maybe you have forgotten.
Read MoreFor their 76th episode, our two web-slinging film critics, emo dads, and eye-rolling school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan welcome a collaboration episode with Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast. Bost of our hosts have been frequent guests on Ian's YouTube livestreams. Recently, he welcomed Will and Don for a retrospective talk on Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3. Ian asked us to watch the movie with new eyes. Listen to hear if any of the three needed to change the prescription of their rose-colored glasses or have their eyeballs washed out with inky black symbiote goo.
Read MoreFor their 75th episode, our two hip-swinging film critics, sequined dads, and non-singing school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan welcome back guest Cati Glidewell of The Blonde in Front for another guest spot. On this episode, the trio show their dazzled adoration for summer hit Elvis. We compare our tolerances and delights for The King, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, the discovery of Austin Butler, and whatever character Tom Hanks was trying on.
Read MoreFor their 74th episode, our two conspiracy theory film critics, alien dads, and perfect school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan are united together in person for the second time! Will was visiting family in Chicago and met up with Don to shoot the breeze and create some stellar content. A piece of that is a special shared microphone Cinephile Hissy Fit on Jordan Peele's Nope. It's one guy's middle film and another's new #1 of the year. Be listening here and be ready to watch a video version on YouTube!
Read MoreFor their 73rd episode, two elevated film critics, worried dads, and non-kidnapping school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan welcome back special guest Cati Glidewell of “The Blonde in Front” to the shows. She's back to talk about Scott Derrickson's successful horror comeback The Black Phone. Don didn't see this one, so he plays moderator while Will and Cati dial all the possible numbers for this Ethan Hawke vehicle. Come for the shared challenge and tirade and stay for the mutual love and respect for the fun movies encapsulate. Enjoy our podcast!
Read MoreFor their 72nd episode, two fed-up film critics, explosive dads, and stuntman school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan got to have a full circle moment with the Russo brothers. Their follow-up to Cherry, on the first Cinephile Hissy Fit shows, is the new Netflix assassin action movie The Gray Man. Because both of our hosts like this movie against the norm, this episode spurred a detour into the current state of film criticism and whether or not critics can recognize or have fun anymore.
Read MoreFor their 71st episode, two Nordic film critics, hammered dads, and Guns 'N Roses-jamming school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan go toe-to-toe with the gods and monsters of Thor: Love and Thunder. For the second Marvel Cinematic Universe movie in a row, our two hosts find themselves far apart. Expect different shouts of love and different shots of thunder in this rollicking episode.
Read MoreFor their 70th episode, two comprehensive film critics, activist dads, and summer-working school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan put away the usual delegated and timed movie brawl for a special episode marking the halfway point of 2022. Our guys go down their Letterboxd lists to share their Top 5 best films so far this year. Knowing their tastes, you can imagine their commonalities and differences.
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