Halloween week gets off to a spooky good start with this scary fun episode! Dean and Phil reveal “What We’re Reading” and both books involve France! In the return of “Live Event of the Week”, Dean talks farmers markets, and Phil talks an historic theater and a world premiere about inkblots and perception. Dan Lin is out as the film boss at Netflix and what this means for the future of the streamer and its possible future in theatrical exhibition gets discussed. Loyal listener Maurice Terenzio spills the tea on two actors discussed at length on last week’s show: Hans Conried and Errol Flynn. Loyal listener Amber has some final (?) thoughts about the Hans Conried vehicle The Twonky, reveals her favorite Hitchcock film and mentions the two films that provided her truly visceral experiences. Loyal listener G.V. wants Dean and Phil to see the current theatrical release of the restored director’s cut of Ken Russell’s The Devils, and many listeners want them to see the current box office smash documentary (docudrama? meta-doc?) You Can See Everything. Then, because spooky season is in full swing, Phil quizzes Dean about the 20 biggest horror hits of all time at the worldwide box office. After that, Phil rolls up his sleeves to discuss another horror film double-feature of titles included on the 2022 Sight and Sound poll of the greatest films of all time. Finally, Dean and Phil re-appraise Sofia Coppola and her Marie Antoinette in the wake of that film’s 20th anniversary.

Now that Dean once again lives in the USA, he and Phil will be recording YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour on Monday mornings! This week, they compare notes on the Steve Martin-Martin Short touring stage show, and share thoughts about the recent spate of re-booted television series of yesteryear and those reboots recently announced. The lives of a “swamp rock” legend, a WW II “Monuments Man”, the inventor of green bean casserole, the greatest trumpeter of his generation, and Phil’s all-time favorite baseball player will be remembered in “Celebrity Deaths”. Then, grab the popcorn because your friends in podcasting have a bunch of disparate cinematic offerings to discuss, from horror classics like Nosferatu and The Wolf Man to such contemporary releases as Bohemian Rhapsody, Boy Erased, A Private War, and Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind.