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17 MAR 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 17 March 2025
Description: Today is not only St. Patrick’s Day, it’s also Dean Haglund’s wedding day! Therefore, this week's installment of YOUR https://www.facebook.com/chillpakhollywood?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXPLR0XYpAyqV14Sz5-nqe4g__gH8l9gT-Vxist5AQ5ksQ6llnDos69dEutlnvTiVRgIcefvdpZRkTrkM_b-Zkc5ESoQxzdfZvhFHBDKbyRur5x5meG5CGTJCIEcdzSdrtgub67qN4tyG18XvI4lBaxRHMsfabFDqpX5Fr2LwZ4Qwh4c6m9OPEK6reEepvGoye-SoAq1EJYQZI67zqq66ap9AOa-lHqVXBa33BEy1w_Nw&__tn__=-%5DK-y-R is an absolute travel adventure. First, Lily Holleman joins Phil at the https://www.facebook.com/HotelKongArthur?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXPLR0XYpAyqV14Sz5-nqe4g__gH8l9gT-Vxist5AQ5ksQ6llnDos69dEutlnvTiVRgIcefvdpZRkTrkM_b-Zkc5ESoQxzdfZvhFHBDKbyRur5x5meG5CGTJCIEcdzSdrtgub67qN4tyG18XvI4lBaxRHMsfabFDqpX5Fr2LwZ4Qwh4c6m9OPEK6reEepvGoye-SoAq1EJYQZI67zqq66ap9AOa-lHqVXBa33BEy1w_Nw&__tn__=-%5DK-y-R in Copenhagen to share her thoughts about their trip to Venice. Then, we switch locations to a pub in Helsingør near the Kronborg Slot aka Hamlet's Castle and the spot where Dean will be entering into the bonds of matrimony. At the pub, while Dean’s bachelor party is getting started, Dean reveals his most recent travel nightmares regales with tales of Turkish Airlines, in-flight movies from Turkey, and robots at the Istanbul Airport. There is a special cameo appearance from a surprise guest, and quite a bit of drinking, plus a lot of fascinating talk about the Copenhagen City Hall, ancient Constantinople and mermaids.
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10 MAR 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 10 March 2025
Description: Coming at you from Venice, Italy, Los Angeles of the 1980s and everywhere in between, this week’s show is a wild pastiche. First, Phil gets the ball rolling from Venice, as he welcomes frequent contributor over the years, Lily Holleman (Leirness), who shares some thoughts about the ancient world capital. Phil issues a warning to anyone who is listening to the show from Los Angeles of the 1980s. Then, after Christopher Walken leads us into the show’s traditional opening, Marc Hershon drops by to discuss both recent television awards, the SNL50 special, and current shows of which you might be well advised to avail yourselves. Then, in the back half, Dean shows up to find out what Phil’s reading, and to share with Phil his advice of the must-see sights and much-do events Venice has to offer.
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3 MAR 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 3 March 2025
Description: Later this week, your friends in podcasting depart for Europe. Last night, the Oscars were held. Last week, one of their dear friends celebrated his 81st birthday, another friend had a brain tumor removed, and another friend died. So, you will forgive Dean and Phil if this isn’t the most polished installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. It IS epic in length, and it is full of the heartfelt, the insightful, the irreverent and even the inspiring. Dean reveals that planning a home renovation a few months before getting married might have been a mistake. The winners of last night’s awards get analyzed both for their historical context and for what they say about the art and commerce of motion pictures right now. Actors Gene Hackman and Michelle Trachtenberg, screenwriter and producer Roberto Orci, singers Robert John and David Johansen, and chess champion Boris Spassky get remembered in “Celebrity Deaths”.
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24 FEB 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 24 February 2025
Description: Your friends in podcasting have two more shows before they make their way (separately) to Europe and reconvene in Denmark! So, understandably, they have a full discussion agenda for this week's show. They discuss the theft of thousands of art works from Venice and how a 1954 cinematic masterpiece helped in the reconstruction of one of the landmark buildings of that city. They discuss TWO "Live Events of the Week" and in so doing, discuss Shakespeare, Armin Shimmerman, and two of the most legendary Los Angeles stage actors. In "Celebrity Deaths" a chart-topping singer-turned-elected official gets remembered, as does a prolific character actor, a groundbreaking African filmmaker, and an influential poet and multimedia artist of the Beat era. The "SNL50" special gets discussed, as does an excellent new sports documentary series on Netflix. Finally, this weekend's Spirit Awards (honoring the best in independent cinema) gets analyzed, and one of the most acclaimed animated films of 2024, one of the most acclaimed international films of 2024, and one of the most acclaimed documentaries of 2024 all get reviewed.
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17 FEB 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 17 February 2025
Description: Phil is celebrating his 6th wedding anniversary, the USA is celebrating President’s Day, and the rest of the world, we hope, is going to have a lovely Monday! Certainly Dean and Phil are doing their level best to get your week off to a great start as they discuss anniversaries, bar mitzvahs and bus rides! In the return of “What We’re Reading”, Dean discusses an influential book by Edward Bellamy published in 1888, and Phil discusses a fascinating non-fiction book about Venice written by the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In “Celebrity Deaths”, a chart-topping soul singer, an acclaimed novelist, and a beloved character actor of stage and screen all get remembered. Then, your friends in podcasting take aim at some of the 2024 movies that did NOT make their lists of the best films of the year. Finally, Phil turns Dean onto a 1989 experimental Japanese film that is the epitome of “Cyberpunk” and which influenced the likes of David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and the ending of this year’s The Substance.
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10 FEB 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 10 February 2025
Description: What do the movies The Brutalist, The Substance, Red Rooms and Anora have in common? They all made BOTH Dean AND Phil's lists of the Top Ten Films of 2024! The Critics have all had their say, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have announced their nominations for the Best in Cinema 2024, and on this week’s show, your friends in podcasting finally have their say. Learn what other films made their lists as they count down their Top Ten from the cinematic year just past!
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3 FEB 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 3 February 2025
Description: Following what many people seem to feel was the longest January on record, your friends in podcasting return to get February off to a good start, freewheeling their way through a variety of topics, including the closing of the most odd airport in the world, the reasoning behind Quentin Tarantino’s move into live stage work, a listener’s response to Dean and Phil’s dismissal of Oscar Best Picture nominee A Complete Unknown, and the influence David Lynch had on great Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. Dean and Phil take a deep dive into two films that figure prominently on many year-end Top Ten lists (Hundreds of Beavers and The People’s Joker) and they discuss two films that are NOT eligible for inclusion on their own lists (La Chimera and Midway). Finally, good friend of show Marc Hershon drops by to share a disturbing story about a screenwriting AI and to suggest two recent television shows.
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27 JAN 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 27 January 2025
Description: For what it's worth, awards season in Hollywood is firmly upon us and on this week's show, your friends in podcasting examine the top ten 2024 releases at the U.S. box office, the top ten films according to critics, and the ten films selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the Best Picture Oscar nominations. They analyze the surprises, the snubs and the meaning behind the Oscar nominations, before taking a deep dive into "Gladiator II", "Wicked: Part One" and "A Complete Unknown". And speaking of the Academy, Phil had a terrible experience at an Academy Museum screening - so terrible, he might never return. He fills Dean in on the details and they share memories of a colleague about whose death in 2020 they just learned.
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20 JAN 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 20 January 2025
Description: Your friends in podcasting have a great deal on their minds ... Cold weather in the nation's capital, the hell of home renovations, fire and long-term unhealthful air and the Olympics in Los Angeles ... And they discuss it all on this week's show. They also remember the late David Lynch, suggesting that no artist has ever loved Los Angeles more than he did. They discuss the latest in the Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively (and now Ryan Reynolds!) lawsuits, and this leads to a discussion of the "abuser's playbook". The programming glories of the Detroit Film Theater (at the Detroit Institute of Arts) and the Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum (at the L.A. County Museum of Art) get celebrated and lead to a discussion about "old school" wide-screen filmmaking, and big screen "pacing", as well as cyber punk and yacht rock! Finally, analysis will be directed onto the Directors Guild and Producers Guild awards nominations and what they portend for this week's Oscar nominations. Oh, yeah, and the show opens with an epic Dean Haglund meltdown!
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13 JAN 2025 · Original Release Date: Monday 13 January 2025
Description: If any week warranted an episode of epic length, it was the week that was. With Phil Leirness coming at us from the beaten and battered City of Angels and Dean Haglund coming at us from an air mattress on a hardwood floor not far from the Motor City, this week's show covers a lot of terrain in a little more than 68 minutes. Your friends in podcasting discuss Copenhagen wedding plans and the role that city played in our understanding of quantum physics. They talk about the cold of New York City, the importance of heeding one's intuition and the horrifying, almost unbearably sad events still ongoing in Los Angeles. Fires, bad behavior and the need for us to stop breaking things all get discussed before Dean and Phil finally put the "Hollywood" into Chillpak Hollywood Hour, briefly revisiting last week's "Lawsuit of the Week" (involving It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni and star Blake Lively). They re-visit (and double down on) their praise for Netflix's "A Man on the Inside", Dean sings the praises of both "So Help Me Todd" and "Elsbeth" before the discussion turns to recent big-screen efforts by Guy Ritchie and Clint Eastwood. Finally, in the return of "Celebrity Deaths", Phil quizzes Dean about a former U.S. President, a billionaire businessman, a Shakespearean movie star, the Gold Leader from Star Wars, a Broadway legend turned sitcom star, and a folk music icon, before setting his sights on and saying good riddance to a notorious bigot. Trust us, if you have ever enjoyed our free weekly show that has been "changing the way people listen to the internet" since May of 2007, you won't want to miss this one!
Each week, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness take you on a journey.
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