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.

Episode 69 – Breaking PsycHO’s

Reviews of Hitchcock, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 and Lincoln; discussing upcoming films The Collection and Killing Me Softly; trailer talk on The Heat, Now You See Me and the listener suggested Warm Bodies; and our From the Outside In topic this week: What are some of the most ridiculous plot twists in action movies? – All this and more …

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Weekend Box Office Nov 16-18

As it should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, Twilight Breaking Down: Part 2 sucked the life out of the box office with $141 million for the weekend, and $340m worldwide.  As the concluding chapter in the Twilight ‘Saga’, the film is seen as the end to this franchise, but they are already working on some new version …

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Episode 68 – The Name’s HO, Ima HO

Your browser does not support the audio element. Our spoiler-free review of Skyfall; discussing upcoming films Life of PI, Rise of the Guardians and Red Dawn; trailer talk on The Host and World War Z; and our From the Outside In topic this week: What Hollywood Has-Been Deserves Another Shot? – All this and more on this week’s HO! As …

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Weekend Box Office – Nov 9-11

Well, James Bond is alive and well and still kicking the crap out of pretty much everyone.  Skyfall opened to the biggest Bond debut EVER!  Somewhere Pierce Brosnan just kicked a white cat down some steps.  Daniel Craig’s 3rd foray into the world of MI6 opened to $87.8 million, according to studio estimates.  That brings the latest Bond to over …

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Episode 67 – Wreck It, HO

Your browser does not support the audio element. This week, upcoming films Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 and Silver Linings Playbook are on the table; we review Wreck-It Ralph and Man with the Iron Fists; new trailers for Side Effects and Despicable Me 2; and our From the Outside In topic this week: What franchises we would like to see …

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Weekend Box Office Nov 2-4

Well, Wreck-It Ralph destroyed the competition with a $49 million opening and a CinemaScore rating of A.  Seeing that it’s a family film, and one of the biggest of the holiday season, expect Ralph to be knocking it down for some time. A HUGE surprise was Flight.  Opening in less than 1900 theaters, Flight actually had a higher per screen …

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