Big changes are on the horizon for YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour! This week’s show begins with Dean and Phil discussing them. Then, they shift gears into a wide array of topics including: Unexpected events at local screenings of One Battle After Another, the variable frame rates of the silent era, a movie that had wildly different endings depending on in what country you saw it, a documentary about the making of The Night of the Hunter, the fragility of darkness in the Atacama Desert, the lack of planning or funding for the forthcoming Cultural Olympiad (the arts programming that is supposed to be part of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles), the death of R&B great D’Angelo, and the story of the fictional band Eddie and the Cruisers.

This was not the show we expected to be bringing you this week, but all of a sudden, during their “side project” (“The Art Life” with friend of show Jon Lawlor), Dean started holding court about the current box office smash Superman. Suffice it to say, Dean had THOUGHTS! So, we bring you what ensued, a free-wheeling discussion not only of the James Gunn-directed blockbuster, but a discussion of DC comics’ history, of the character’s history, and of the lost art of behind-the-scenes documentary looks at the making of movies as promotional materials. Somehow, the conversation turns to Rob Zombie and his House of 1000 Corpses, to a “holy grail” of cinema for Phil that proved to be a guilty non-pleasure, Ashanti, and to Noah Hawley’s new Alien: Earth television series. All that, plus the Stallone film Dean walked out of, the horrible movie Nic Cage’s son starred in, why Iron Man turned out to be so good, the problem with reboots, and more!