This week’s show was recorded during the midst of Phil’s emceeing duties for the third annual Porchfest L.A. He offers a full report on this community event while also regaling with tale of the logistic showdown between Porchfest and No Kings! One of the things Dean and Phil mean when they say it is “your” Chillpak Hollywood Hour is that if you write them, and they find what you wrote interesting, they will read what you wrote on the show and respond to it! Three listeners did just that and so your friends in podcasting roll up their sleeves to discuss more about The Twonky and Suspiria, while offering appreciation for the star of The Twonky (Hans Conried) and the author behind the source material for Don’t Look Now. Dean watched the 1945 Errol Flynn war picture Objective, Burma! (from director Raoul Walsh) and not only has thoughts about it, but about the life and death of the great and troubled star. Phil caught up with a movie he has been dying to see since it debuted at Cannes in 2025, and found himself … unmoved. The show concludes with a Hitchcock double feature (The 39 Steps and North by Northwest), followed by a horror double feature (Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

Is this brand new show “an action-packed crowd-pleaser”? Give it a listen and find out! It sure is long, we’ll guarantee you that! The cold open deals with the year 1939. Then the show officially starts with all the news you can use coming out of Canada – the good, the bad and the so-called ugly! Your friends in podcasting then go deep into fine art and discuss the works of many great artists, before returning to the business of show and analyzing the current Disney lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission and the record-setting 2026 box office performance by a beloved leading lady. Dean saw the 1953 sci-fi comedy The Twonky (if you have been listening regularly, you understand), and Phil follows up the brilliant horror double-bill he described last week with another logical pairing: Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 Don’t Look Now and Dario Argento’s 1977 Suspiria (with a little bit of Hitchock’s North by Northwest thrown in for good measure).

Dean and Phil got together high atop a certain “historic building” in downtown Los Angeles to watch the sunset on the winter solstice, to enjoy a lovely bottle of Malbec, and to record this week’s show! They discuss Dean’s holiday travels, the big forthcoming change to the annual Oscars telecast, and the changes in the beaks on songbirds at UCLA! After that, they discuss the unique legacy of actor-turned-filmmaker Rob Reiner, and take the time to analyze several of his films. Then, two film noirs (Tension and Where Danger Lives), a fairly bizarre war film (36 Hours) and the biggest box office hit of Brad Pitt’s career all get reviewed!

This week’s episode picks up where last week’s show left off with a deep dive into Charles Laughton’s 1955 masterpiece The Night of the Hunter the ending to which Dean greatly misunderstood. In fact, a special guest stops by to help explain the ending and to discuss the film through the prisms of expressionism, surrealism and absurdism. Then, Dean, Phil, and (frequent collaborator) Jon Lawlor discuss several filmmaking and film distribution and film marketing topics pertaining to Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. In 1964, the United Nations produced four movies for television. One of them featured an all-star cast and a script by Rod Serling. Carol for Another Christmas gets discussed. Finally, the recent conversation the gents had about Carl Theodore Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc inspired a thoughtful email from a loyal listener.