Pop Culture Graveyard
Pop Culture Graveyard is a podcast hosted by Hollis James and Dave Horowitz, two friends who excitedly discuss their favorite movies, TV and other entertainment delights. Hollis watches everything a million times. Dave usually watches things only once. New episodes drop every Friday! Join our Patreon for early access to commercial-free video episodes! https://patreon.com/popculturegraveyard
Fri, October 25, 2024
"Please don't be the Butcher" (Freaky, 2020)
Hollis and Dave try to run from the Blissfield Butcher while wearing awkward high-school mascot costumes in the 2020 slasher-switcheroo Freaky !
Fri, October 18, 2024
Ep 59: "I don't like when he walks around at night." (Insidious, 2010)
Hollis and Dave go ghost hunting and come face to face with lipstick-faced demons, astral-projected children and gas-mask-clad mediums in the 2010 supernatural horror film Insidious.
Fri, October 11, 2024
"Locked in a box for 200 years!" (Dark Shadows, 2012)
Hollis and Dave open a fish cannery in Collinsport, Maine, and get sucked into a centuries-old feud between a witch and a vampire in Tim Burton's 2012 horror-comedy Dark Shadows!
Fri, October 04, 2024
Ep 57: "A momentary loss of muscular coordination." (The Shining, 1980)
Hollis and Dave take charge of the Overlook Hotel during the offseason, and stave off cabin fever by watching the Stanley Kubrick masterpiece The Shining!
Fri, September 27, 2024
"You need carbs! Your brain runs on glucose!" (The Fall Guy, 2024)
Hollis and Dave perform their own stunts, with dire consequences, while singing the praises of the 2024 thrill-ride The Fall Guy!
Fri, September 20, 2024
"I like her more than you already." (About Time, 2013)
Hollis and Dave hop in the cupboard, ball up their fists, and travel back in time to watch the 2013 romcom About Time ... again... for the first time!
Fri, September 13, 2024
"The Boom Boom Room."
Hollis and Dave get handed a life sentence for a crime they didn't commit, and do hard time with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence in the 1999 tragicomedy Life!
Fri, September 06, 2024
"Do you people still execute in this state?"
Hollis and Dave hijack a train, while trying to keep New York City subway passengers from killing them, in the 1974 crime-thriller, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three!
Fri, August 30, 2024
"I got it. I got it. I got it. I ain't got it." (High Anxiety, 1977)
Hollis and Dave take over as chief administrators of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, and try desperately to complete their rounds in time for fruit cup, in Mel Brooks's 1977 Alfred Hitchcock parody High Anxiety!
Fri, August 23, 2024
"You don't know how to run your plate." (Fatso, 1980)
Hollis and Dave wind up at Chubby Checkers after gorging themselves on jelly donuts stuffed with chocolate-swirl ice cream, as they pay tribute to Dom DeLuise in Fatso (1980).
Fri, August 16, 2024
"Surprise Me!" (Ratatouille, 2007)
Hollis and Dave head to the City of Light to sing the praises of the Pixar masterpiece Ratatouille--with special guest star, Art Department veteran Michael Cachuela!
Fri, August 09, 2024
"I'm sorry, Maude. I'm sorry."
Hollis and Dave face an alien invasion together, while Kaitlyn Dever faces one alone--and racks up an impressive body count--in No One Will Save You (2023).
Fri, August 02, 2024
"And whatever you do, do not cross Market Street."
Hollis and Dave travel cross country to turn in their Star Trek screenplay; and along the way meet Dakota Fanning, Marla Gibbs, Patton Oswalt and an incontinent chihuahua, in Please Stand By (2017).
Fri, July 26, 2024
"Report to sickbay." (Star Trek, Part Two)
Hollis and Dave complete their mission to bring you the second installment of their Star Trek (The Original Series) Spectacular!
Fri, July 19, 2024
"Report to sickbay." (Star Trek, Part One)
Hollis and Dave beam down on an alien planet where Desilu Productions still exists--and Captain Kirk's toupee never ages--in Part One of our Star Trek ( The Original Series ) Spectacular!
Fri, July 12, 2024
"I'll order you a red cap and a Speedo."
Hollis and Dave hunt the elusive jaguar shark while rethinking their decision to become unpaid interns on the Belafonte in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
Fri, July 05, 2024
"Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies." (Jaws, 1975)
Hollis and Dave are pleased and happy to repeat the news that they have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers in Jaws (1975). Happy July Fourth weekend!
Fri, June 28, 2024
"We're not gonna get to have this, are we?"
Hollis and Dave visit Red Hook, Brooklyn, to visit their favorite band that is not a band in the indie-film masterpiece Hearts Beat Loud ( 2018 ).
Fri, June 21, 2024
"We're just real Topeka people, man."
Hollis and Dave straighten their hair with shaving cream, go on tour with Stillwater, and pass out high on quaaludes while paying tribute to the Cameron Crowe rock-epic Almost Famous ( 2000 ).
Fri, June 14, 2024
"I wish I could go back to not selling books."
Hollis and Dave pay tribute to one of the most brilliant films of the past five years, American Fiction (2023).
Fri, June 07, 2024
"I'm just here for the gasoline."
Hollis and Dave visit a much simpler world... the vast wasteland of a post-apocalyptic landscape populated by gangs of cutthroat marauders hellbent on destruction, in George Miller's The Road Warrior ( 1981 ).
Fri, May 31, 2024
"Serrano's Got The Disks!"
Hollis and Dave run afoul of bounty hunters, crime bosses, mafia accountants, and special agent Alonzo Mosely of the FBI, in the 1988 action-frenemy-comedy Midnight Run!
Fri, May 24, 2024
"Be a lot cooler if you did..."
Hollis and Dave attend a beer bust out at the moontower with the coolest senior class ever in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993).
Fri, May 17, 2024
Ep 37: "Why can't we all not fit in together?"
Hollis and Dave take on SkullFlower and Mollycoddle at the greatest high school Battle of the Bands ever in Metal Lords (2022). GLHS is lit!
Fri, May 10, 2024
"We know why she hates me!" (Mother, 1996)
Hollis and Dave celebrate Mother's Day with Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds in the 1996 Albert Brooks comedy, Mother!
Fri, May 03, 2024
"I'm gonna keep my head up... high." (Moxie!)
Hollis and Dave are back in high school yet again, drawing stars and hearts on their hands as a show of solidarity with the coolest clique of rebel girls in school, in Moxie! (2021) .
Fri, April 26, 2024
"Time is a construct." (Tag, 2018)
Hollis and Dave run themselves ragged trying to catch a Marvel superhero who just so happens to be the greatest Tag player ever in... Tag (2018) .
Fri, April 19, 2024
"By Grabthar's Hammer... What a Savings." (Galaxy Quest)
Hollis and Dave explore strange new worlds with Galaxy Quest (1999), the greatest sci-fi comedy of all time!
Fri, April 12, 2024
"You have my sympathies." (Alien)
Hollis and Dave wake up on the space tug Nostromo to find themselves battling a xenomorph, workplace politics and uncut misogyny in Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece Alien (1979).
Fri, April 05, 2024
"Movin' Right Along..."
Hollis and Dave bring you a warmer, kinder, gentler... fuzzier movie: The Muppet Movie (1979) .
Fri, March 29, 2024
"I'm livin' on the air in Cincinnati."
Hollis and Dave go town to town, up and down the dial, packing and unpacking their favorite characters and moments from one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982) .
Fri, March 22, 2024
"Dirt In The Skirt!"
Hollis and Dave scarf down Harvey bars while watching the Rockford Peaches battle rivals, both on-field and off, in A League Of Their Own (1992) .
Fri, March 15, 2024
"Put Your Weight On It!"
Hollis and Dave track down all the rat-soup-eating, no-business, born-insecure motherf*ckers they can find, while signifying the praises of Dolemite Is My Name (2019) .
Fri, March 08, 2024
"Malala"
Hollis and Dave enroll in the greatest high school ever, enjoying karaoke, murder-mystery parties and drug-laced strawberries, while singing the praises of Booksmart (2019) .
Fri, March 01, 2024
"Easy, Dirty Harry."
Hollis and Dave crack ciphers and cut through bureaucratic red tape, as they doggedly pursue the serial killer known as Zodiac (2007) .
Fri, February 23, 2024
"Rollo Tomasi"
Hollis and Dave try to find Mickey Cohen's missing H, while ducking dirty cops, underhanded sleaze merchants and hired muscle, in L.A. Confidential (1997) .
Thu, February 15, 2024
"Entre Nous."
Hollis and Dave spend their Christmas holiday under the watchful gaze of a grizzled, walleyed professor who smells like fish, as they bring you The Holdovers (2023) .
Fri, February 09, 2024
"Bring Me The Big Knife!"
Hollis and Dave put you in the proper mood for Valentine's Day with the Italian-American rom-com, Moonstruck (1987) !
Fri, February 02, 2024
Ep 22: "It's coooold out there every day..."
Hollis and Dave come down with a major case of Deja Vu as they revisit Groundhog Day (1993) , the film where Bill Murray's character transforms from a hack weatherman into a Renaissance man in just one day... sort of!
Fri, January 26, 2024
Ep 21: "Bianca Doesn't Care About Superficial Things."
Hollis and Dave visit the sweetest town in the world for 2007's Lars and the Real Girl , in which Ryan Gosling spends time with a doll not named Barbie.
Fri, January 19, 2024
Ep 20: "The Cutters Started It!"
In this episode, Hollis and Dave bask in the feel-good summer sunshine of "Daniel Stern's Breaking Away " (as we will continue to call this movie for the rest of our days), a brilliant 1979 film that somehow hasn't aged a day--and will make you feel eternally 19-years-old.
Fri, January 12, 2024
Ep 19: "Revenge Is In God's Hands."
Hollis and Dave brave the harsh, unforgiving world of The Revenant (2015) , a film that features cracked skin, broken bones, hypothermia and bear attacks... and that's before things really go wrong!
Fri, January 05, 2024
Ep 18: "Abbott Is Death Process."
Hollis and Dave blast off into the new year with the sci-fi "mini-masterpiece," Arrival (2016) , a film where the aliens aren't the ones humankind need to worry about.
Fri, December 29, 2023
Ep 17: "Those Were The Days"
Hollis and Dave turn the page on 2023 by paying tribute to the father of modern television, Norman Lear. Tune in for a classic-TV discussion of Norman's greatest hits: Good Times, All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Sanford and Son, and more!
Fri, December 22, 2023
Ep 16: "We Slept In!"
Join Hollis and Dave and Harry and Marv, as they all try to survive the McCallisters (the worst family on the planet) during a deep dive into Home Alone (1990) --a cinematic love letter to individualism disguised as a celebration of the family unit. Get ready to listen for fifty-two minutes and change, ya filthy animals!
Fri, December 15, 2023
Ep 15: "I Never Forget an Oola."
Hollis and Dave visit WordFest at an unnamed Pittsburgh liberal-arts university, and sing the praises of the film Wonder Boys (2000) , based on the novel by Michael Chabon. Let PCG take you from the water's edge of inspiration to the far shore of accomplishment!
Fri, December 08, 2023
Ep 14: "You Know. Jose Feliciano, You Got No Complaints."
Hollis and Dave take a deep dive into the "arctic noir" classic, Fargo (1996) , a film with kidnapping, murder, pregnancy and a heck of a sealant! This Trucoat stuff. It'll keep the salt off.
Fri, December 01, 2023
Ep 13: "You're the World's Worst Detective."
Hollis and Dave take a trip back in time with The Nice Guys (2016) , a flick set in the '70s, a time of muscle cars, leisure suits, and hired muscle wearing leisure suits.
Fri, November 24, 2023
Ep 12: "You Are Probably Going To Be A Very Successful Computer Person."
This week Hollis and Dave bring you the gritty, white-knuckled, adrenaline-pumping, cinematic thrill ride, The Social Network (2010) , a film that might make you feel grateful you never were accepted to an ivy-league school!
Fri, November 17, 2023
Ep 11: "Meatball Surgery. Nothing Pretty." (Part 2)
In this episode, Hollis and Dave bring you Part 2 of their epic M*A*S*H tribute episode. The boys talk guest stars (including their beloved Colonel Flagg), how the show dealt with infidelity, the curious case of Maxwell Q. Klinger, and the most legendary series finale in TV history. And yes, they do discuss AfterMASH!
Fri, November 10, 2023
Ep 10: "Meatball Surgery. Nothing Pretty." (Part 1)
Hollis and Dave go to Korea, as they dissect their beloved TV series M*A*S*H (1972-1983) . This is just part one, but don't worry, the full episode will NOT be as long as the Korean War itself!
Fri, November 03, 2023
Ep 9: "Rick, It's a Flamethrower."
In this episode, Hollis and Dave bring you their favorite Quentin Tarantino film, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2017) , a movie that intertwines fact and fiction so effortlessly the boys tried to track down Bounty Law on DVD!
Fri, October 27, 2023
Ep 8: "Hey, Lonnie... Get Your Ass Away From There!"
SHOCKtober culminates in the John Carpenter/Debra Hill masterpiece Halloween (1978) . Join Hollis and Dave as they try to figure out who's scarier... Michael Myers or Donald Pleasence?
Fri, October 20, 2023
Ep 7: "You've Just Got To Be Firm With These Kids."
SHOCKtober continues! In this episode, Hollis and Dave chug coffee and pound NoDoz as they discuss A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) , the film that did for bedtime what Jaws did for the beach.
Fri, October 13, 2023
Ep 6: "Can It, Cochise."
SHOCKtober continues with Friday the 13th (1980) , as Hollis and Dave visit Camp Crystal Lake, a gorgeous place to visit, fornicate and possibly drown.
Fri, October 06, 2023
Ep 5: "Kidnap Mr. Sandy Claws...?"
Hollis and Dave ease you into SHOCKtober with The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) , a "Disney for goth kids" classic about a Santa wannabe who becomes an inadvertent Grinch!
Fri, September 29, 2023
Ep 4: "Be a Goldfish"
In this episode, Hollis and Dave discuss the football-dramedy Ted Lasso (2020-2023) , one of the best sports shows that is only partly about sports.
Fri, September 22, 2023
Ep 3: "Any Coffee, Nick...?"
Hollis and Dave speak glowingly of the cop-comedy, Barney Miller (1975-1982) , one of their favorite sitcoms of all time.
Fri, September 15, 2023
Ep 2: "You Must Be The Short Depressed Kid We Ordered."
Hollis and Dave discuss Meatballs (1979) , the movie that made Bill Murray a leading man, and made camp seem way more fun than it ever was.
Fri, September 08, 2023
Ep 1: "Good News, Boppers..."
In their debut episode, Hollis and Dave discuss The Warriors (1979) , their favorite gang movie and one of the grittiest NYC flicks ever.
Trailer · Tue, September 05, 2023
Teaser, Episode 1: "Good News, Boppers..."
Coming soon, the debut episode of the Pop Culture Graveyard Podcast, in which Hollis James and Dave Horowitz celebrate their favorite gang movie of all time!
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