The Hip Pocket

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The Hip Pocket is a relaxed and inviting conversation about movies that we carry with us for whatever reasons, hosted by Drew McWeeny & Aundria Parker. Our bandleader, Craig Ceravolo, joins us each week as we have guests on who each bring a triple-feature of titles they love for us to discuss.

  1. 3d ago

    The Hip Pocket #402 - The Soft Episode

    Drew, Aundria, and Craig decided to each pick a comforting, relaxing favorite in a special SOFT EPISODE. Craig picked the Kenny Rogers comedy SIX PACK, Aundria picked the beloved John Hughes holiday favorite, PLANE TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES, and Drew picked the gentle French fable PETITIE MAMAN.

  2. Sep 4

    The Hip Pocket #401 - John Gholson

    JOHN GHOLSON is an actor and an artist and an all around good egg. He was one of the stars of the recent indie horror hit MAN FINDS TAPE, and you've seen his face in things like the recent Netflix series BAD THOUGHTS as well. He's joining the Hip Pocket crew to kick off season four with some esoteric picks. Peter Jackson's BRAINDEAD, Eric Schaeffer's IF LUCY FELL, and the indie documentary masterpiece AMERICAN MOVIE are his picks, and our response title is the Canadian cult gem HARD-CORE LOGO. In addition, we discuss Roman Coppola's CQ for the Hip Pocket Hall of Fame.

  3. Jun 27

    The Hip Pocket #313 - Mike Dougherty @ Chattanooga Film Festival

    For the second year, we were lucky enough to be asked to do a live Hip Pocket for The Chattanooga Film Festival! Our guest for this hybrid video audio podcast was hybrid animator, producer, writer and director Michael Dougherty. He wrangled GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS and made KRAMPUS annual viewing for horror geeks, not to mention birthed Halloween icon Sam, the burlap-headed bastard from SEASONS GREETINGS and TRICK ‘R TREAT. We went all in on Mike’s career and his picks, plus AI, media literacy…and screw worms. Mike brought us NETWORK, THEY LIVE, and IDIOCRACY, and we replied with MINORITY REPORT. Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts, but also! you can watch the conversation on YouTube.

  4. Jun 1

    The Hip Pocket #311 - Jonathan Penner

    Writer/actor/producer Jonathan Penner joins us to talk about his picks RRR, The Fly, and The American Friend, and we pick Repo Man and Into the Night in response.

  5. Jan 10

    The Hip Pocket #310 - Jeff Roland

    Shout Factory producer Jeff Roland joins us to discuss Hip Pocket titles including LIFEFORCE, BETTER OFF DEAD, and FURIOSA, and we also discuss JOE VS THE VOLCANO and TO LIVE & DIE IN LA.

  6. 12/12/2025

    The Hip Pocket #309 - Kristen Lopez

    Film critic Kristen Lopez joins us to talk about disability representation in film, and we discuss Freaks, Coming Home, and Me Before You, as well as Ukranian film The Tribe and Born on the Fourth of July.

  7. 11/21/2025

    The Hip Pocket #308 - Dan Fienberg

    DAN FIENBERG has been the Chief Television Critic at The Hollywood Reporter for a decade now and hosts TV’s Top 5, a weekly television podcast for the trade. He also writes the Now See This newsletter and was the president of the Television Critics Association. He was a co-founder of HitFix, one of the original writers for the site, and I have spent an enormous amount of time at film festivals and industry events with him. He was part of the Firewall & Iceberg podcast with Alan Sepinwall, and I felt genuinely lucky to work at a publication with the two of them. They are consummate professionals and good all-around dudes, and there was no way I was going to do this podcast without having them as guests eventually. Anyone who follows Dan on any social media platform is familiar with his long-standing use of Gizmo as his icon, so it should not be a shock that he picked Joe Dante’s Gremlins as his first film. His second pick is another film he has always given a lot of public love, Chris Noonan’s magical Babe. Finally, he threw a real curveball at us with an intense ‘70s film that people don’t discuss nearly as often as they should, Sidney Pollack’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Craig picked our response film this week, and when you hear his reasoning behind the choice to program Hot to Trot, a talking horse comedy from the ‘80s, I think you’ll be as entertained as we were. Finally, my choice for the Hip Pocket Hall of Fame this week is a nod both to Craig’s unorthodox choice and my history with Dan, since he was at Sundance with me the year I saw Bobcat Goldthwait’s caustic World’s Greatest Dad. Support The Hip Pocket over at Patreon, where we’re neck-deep in recording a full season of bonus episodes! Support The Hip Pocket on BlueSky! The Hip Pocket is hosted by Drew McWeeny and Aundria Parker. Craig Ceravolo is the show’s bandleader and producer. It is a Formerly Dangerous Production.

  8. 10/31/2025

    The Hip Pocket #307 - Akela Cooper

    AKELA COOPER is a writer/producer who basically kicks a ton of ass. She is, after all, the writer of Malignant and M3GAN, and she has brought her exuberant nerd energy to a variety of projects over the years. She wrote Hell Fest and The Nun II, and she’s worked on TV shows like American Horror Story, Luke Cage, The 100, Grimm, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. She has been a horror fan since childhood, and that deeply-seated love of the genre shines through in all of her work. She picked three delightful films for us, and they were all a delight to discuss with her. Her first choice this week is Stephen Norrington’s Blade, and we dig into the pulp delights of the picture as well as its influence on pop culture. Our second film is Adam Wingard’s The Guest, and we spend a good deal of time talking about Dan Stevens, Professional Freak, and the feelings he stirs up in audiences. Her final pick is the film that Ernest Dickerson made when he got bumped off of Blade, and there is much discussion of just how big a weirdo Billy Zane is in Tales From The Crypt Presents: Demon Knight. Aundria’s the one who picked our response film, the haunting Luca Guadagnino film Bones and All, a dark, strange film that made a perfect dessert after the very full and fun meal that Akela laid out for us. Finally, this week’s Hip Pocket Hall of Fame entry is the deranged genre hybrid Brotherhood of the Wolf, a movie that is about class warfare as much as it is about kung-fu and monsters. Support The Hip Pocket over at Patreon, where we’re neck-deep in recording a full season of bonus episodes! Support The Hip Pocket on BlueSky! The Hip Pocket is hosted by Drew McWeeny and Aundria Parker. Craig Ceravolo is the show’s bandleader and producer. It is a Formerly Dangerous Production.

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The Hip Pocket is a relaxed and inviting conversation about movies that we carry with us for whatever reasons, hosted by Drew McWeeny & Aundria Parker. Our bandleader, Craig Ceravolo, joins us each week as we have guests on who each bring a triple-feature of titles they love for us to discuss.

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  • Creator
    drewmcweeny
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    38
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2025 All rights reserved.
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