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 58 – The HOssession

It’s our Summer Wrap-Up episode where we declare our favorite and least favorite things about this summers theatrical releases.  We’ve also got spoiler-Free reviews of The Possession and 2016 Obama’s America; discussing upcoming releases including Finding Nemo 3D and Resident Evil: Retribution. As always, we also bring you the latest in movie & TV news (What are the Planet Thieves?; …

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Weekend Box Office Aug 31 – Sep 2

Labor Day Weekend is typically one of the slowest at the Box Office, but one film managed to buck the trend as The Possession took the #1 spot with $17.7 million according to studio estimates.  The low-budget horror flick starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick as divorced parents of 2 young girls and 1 happens to get possessed by, …

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New Releases: Labor Day Weekend

New Releases, as discussed in Ep 56: Lawless – Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy star as bootleggers in Prohibition-era Virginia, trying to get rich and stay alive.  Currently at 65% positive ratings.  Scott’s choice for Pick of the Weekend The Possession – ‘BASED on a true story’ Jefferey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick are parents who’s little daughter becomes obsessed with …

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Episode 57 – Premium HO

An early review of V/H/S and also Premium Rush; look at upcoming releases The Words and The Cold Light of Day; trailers for HOw To Make Money Selling Drugs and Butter; and on our From the Outside In topic this week: we are talking about what makes a great surprise ending. As always, we also bring you the latest in …

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Trailers for Ep 57…

Here are the trailers we’re going to talk about for Episode 57, out soon, as well as a trailer recommendation, The Passion, from one of our listeners. Anything YOU want to see? How To Make Money Selling Drugs Butter The Passion

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DVD Releases Aug 28

New Releases on Blu Ray / DVD Tuesday Aug 28th: Movies: Think Like A Man; Battleship; The Lucky One; Pirates; Headhunters; Life Happens; The Moth Diaries; Starship Troopers: Invasion TV: Boardwalk Empire S2; Homeland S1;  In Plain Sight S5; Jersey Shore S5 (REALLY?); Once Upon A Time S1; Sons of Anarchy S4; Walking Dead S2   Here are 2 reviews from …

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Weekend Box Office Aug 24-26

Stallone’s old-men-0n-a-mission opus ‘The Expendables 2’ repeated #1 at the North American Box Office this weekend with $13.4 million, according to final numbers.  That puts the film at $52.2m to date…about $12m behind the total of the 1st Expendables, but the 2nd weekend hold was roughly the same.  Look for Expendables 2 to end up about $80m, or about 20% …

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New Releases – Weekend Aug 24-26

Want to know what the new releases are this weekend?  Well here you go: Premium Rush: Joseph Gordon-Levitt darts around town as a bike messenger trying to get a package delivered and also the hell away from villain Michael Shannon.  Currently at 70% positive reviews.  Very impressive for this kind of thriller. The Apparition: Ashley Green & Sebastian Stan star …

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Episode 56 – Expendable HO’s

On The HO this week: We review The Expendables 2; look at upcoming releases including Lawless and The Possession; review a couple of listener requested items (yep, including Honey Boo Boo); and on our extended From the Outside In topic this week: we talk about some of our most anticipated shows of the new Fall TV season. As always, we …

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