The Hollywood Outsider

The Hollywood Outsider is the award-winning film and television podcast with news, reviews, interviews, and relevant weekly topics. In a world stuffed to the brim with narrow-sighted critics and judgmental film enthusiasts, we offer content for film lovers of ALL genres. From Steven Spielberg to Michael Bay to Wes Anderson to the independent filmmaker you have yet to know by name, The Hollywood Outsider is determined to give them all their fair shake. We hope you enjoy our podcasts and reviews as much as we enjoy creating them.

Blu Ray / DVD New Releases

Newly out on Blu Ray / DVD: The Cabin in the Woods: 5 friends go to a remote cabin for a little getaway, when everything goes awful.  If you think you’ve seen this story a thousand times before, this time you’d be way off.  Avengers’ Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard come together to give you something new. All 4 of …

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Weekend Box Office Sep 14-16

Milla Jovovich has saved the world AND the box office, all in one fail swoop.  Thanks to her flagship franchise, Resident Evil: Retribution opened to an estimated $21 million and a CinemaScore rating of C+, which is about average for the series.  That’s a little lower than the last couple films in the franchise, but it’s still a solid start and apparently …

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Episode 59 – Feminist HO’s

Your browser does not support the audio element. This week on the HO, we’re looking at upcoming releases Dredd, Trouble With the Curve, End of Watch and House At the End of the Street; new trailers The Bay and Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2; and on an extended From the Outside In topic this week: Feminism in Films Today. As …

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Box Office Weekend Sep 7-9

The worst weekend at the box office since 2008.  WOW.  That just sucks.  Honestly, where we normally go into this film and that film, not this weekend.  Obviously you didn’t care, so why should we, ha.  Suffice it to say, The Words opened awfully with only $5m and The Cold Light of Day opened in 12th with $1.8m.  The best …

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Episode 58 – The HOssession

It’s our Summer Wrap-Up episode where we declare our favorite and least favorite things about this summers theatrical releases.  We’ve also got spoiler-Free reviews of The Possession and 2016 Obama’s America; discussing upcoming releases including Finding Nemo 3D and Resident Evil: Retribution. As always, we also bring you the latest in movie & TV news (What are the Planet Thieves?; …

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Weekend Box Office Aug 31 – Sep 2

Labor Day Weekend is typically one of the slowest at the Box Office, but one film managed to buck the trend as The Possession took the #1 spot with $17.7 million according to studio estimates.  The low-budget horror flick starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick as divorced parents of 2 young girls and 1 happens to get possessed by, …

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New Releases: Labor Day Weekend

New Releases, as discussed in Ep 56: Lawless – Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy star as bootleggers in Prohibition-era Virginia, trying to get rich and stay alive.  Currently at 65% positive ratings.  Scott’s choice for Pick of the Weekend The Possession – ‘BASED on a true story’ Jefferey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick are parents who’s little daughter becomes obsessed with …

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Episode 57 – Premium HO

An early review of V/H/S and also Premium Rush; look at upcoming releases The Words and The Cold Light of Day; trailers for HOw To Make Money Selling Drugs and Butter; and on our From the Outside In topic this week: we are talking about what makes a great surprise ending. As always, we also bring you the latest in …

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