A Night with the Stars

Jenn & Jason got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn, so they return from hiatus to get those stakes up higher with Baz Luhrmann's Elvis!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Back just in time for Oscar weekend, starries! Jenn & Jason, joined by co-host of Straight People Movies Dylan Garsee, break down their Oscar picks, give signs to every best picture nominee, and go over their favorite movies of last year. Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason return to discuss yet another pair of Scorpios whose lives are warped by the pursuit of fame, Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone in La La Land. It's another day of stars, sunnies! Wait, hang on -- It's another day of sun, starries! Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason are back with friend of the show Dylan Garsee (Straight People Movies) to talk puppet babies, Jared Leto Joker, and Sparks' greatest hits. Yup, it's Scorpio season!Happen to be a resident of Austin, Texas reading this on the day the episode comes out? You still have time to get tickets to The Final Girl: An Improvised Horror Movie at Fallout Theater, directed by the show's very own Jenn Rosario & friend of the show Ashlee Pryor-Pitluk! Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason return from a break to disagree about Titane and kick off Libra season by talking Guillermo del Toro's tribute to gothic horror, the horror films of his youth, and ooze: Crimson Peak!In Austin and seeing this in October 2021? Check out The Final Girl: An Improvised Horror Movie, co-directed by our very own Jenn Rosario, running at Fallout Theater every Saturday in October! Tickets here. Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason get asymmetrical haircuts and try to get to the bottom of why they put all these scissors on this damn man, with Edward Scissorhands, written & directed by Virgo Tim Burton!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn makes her triumphant return from vacation right in time to start Virgo season with the star-studded puzzler Obsessed, starring dual Virgos Idris Elba and Beyoncé!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn's on vacation, so Jason is joined by guest host and friend of the show Dylan Garsee to welcome voice actor/comedian/real-life Leo Marc Sherman to discuss Christopher Nolan's Inception, written/directed by a Leo and starring The Leo! Naturally, Dylan also gives light spoilers for the 2005 Wes Craven film, Red Eye.Check out Dylan's piece IN & OF ITSELF, Post Malone, and the Magic of Magic here and subscribe to Straight People Movies wherever you get your podcasts! Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason blush even thinking about Criminal by Fiona Apple, so of course they had to cover Hustlers, starring Leo multi-hyphenate actor/musician/former-fly-girl/half-of-Bennifer, Jennifer Lopez!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason roar into Leo season by covering What We Do in the Shadows and writer/director/star Taika Waititi! If writing and directing for yourself isn't what Leo season's all about, we don't know what is!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason finish off Cancer season the right way: by talking about stunted man-children, never learning how to ride a bike, and covering Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Cancer season continues its sideways crab shuffle along the shore, and what's that -- there's two sets of crab footprints in the sand? Why, that's writer/director & actor duo Cameron Crowe and Tom Cruise! Jenn & Jason dig further into cancer season with Cameron Crowe's 2001 fever dream: Vanilla Sky!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: Punch-Drunk Love!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

♋ Happy Cancer season, starries! ♋To mark this special occasion, Jenn & Jason join together for their very first in-person record! The duo start a nice toasty fire, start playing the violin, and wait for an undead man-beast to show up to discus James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: Vanilla Sky!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason take to the skies with friend of the show Dylan Garsee to close out Gemini season with a bang (or, more accurately, a bomb!) The trio talk about Lorde's new single, Dylan's grand unifying theory of reality TV, and eventually drag their feet around to talking about the CG-laden misfire that ended multiple careers: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: TBA!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason continue Gemini season in full swing, covering a movie with not one, but TWO Gemini stars, Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer! In a very special birthday record, the pair fight to the front of a train in perpetual motion in order to ask the dominating question of the era: remember Chappie?Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: TBA!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Happy Gemini Season!! ♊

Jenn & Jason close out Taurus season with everyone's favorite White Stripes music video director and ANWTS's, Michel Gondry, and his US studio debut, Be Kind Rewind!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace! (sorry Jenn)Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

"And so the lion* falls in love with the lamb**..." - Edward Cullen, Twilight* - Jenn, Jason, and guest Rebecca Dunagan** - Robert Pattinson (Taurus) as Edward Cullen in TwilightFind streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: Face/Off!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason break into Paris Hilton's house to kick their feet up, talk trash about Mank, and try to not be distracted by Emma Watson's American accent while deciphering the zodiac signs of Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason are joined by guest Will Cleveland (Stool Pigeon Podcast) to talk about Texan-Taurus-made-good, Wes Anderson!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: The Bling Ring!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jason & Jenn sneak away from a wedding reception to take several depression naps, ponder the complete obliteration of all life on the planet, and, in between the spiraling, manage to celebrate the start to Taurus season by discussing Lars Von Trier's Melancholia!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: Rushmore! Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason celebrate the end of Aries season by welcoming Tauri Laws-Phillips (Coldtowne Theater) into a snowy cabin to avoid poisoned coffee and talk Quentin Tarantino's polarizing chamber western, The Hateful Eight!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: Melancholia! (Keep an eye on our IG)Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Lady Gaga is the Aries star this week, as friend of the show Dylan Garsee (Straight People Movies) returns to celebrate Gaga with Jenn and help show Jason the bright, shining light of Bradley Cooper's A Star is Born!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: TBD! (Keep an eye on our IG)Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Edgar Wright is the Aries of the Week as Jenn & Jason welcome Kyle Irion (Stool Pigeon, Candle Monroe's Hour of Truth) & Kyle Romero (Stool Pigeon, Austin Sketch Fest) for an episode recorded the day of a FULL MOON! They harness the moon's energy to talk about horrific chain eatery the Heart Attack Grill, King Kong (multiple times, somehow), as well as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: A Star is Born (2018), starring Aries icon, Lady "Of Course Lady Gaga is the First Actor Getting Her Own Episode" Gaga!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Aries season continues onward as Jenn & Jason welcome their first guest of the season Ashlee Pryor-Pitluk (Fuck Your Degrassi Podcast) to talk about Zach Braff's polarizing Sundance darling, Garden State!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by Edgar "Anyone Who Has Directed a Zombie Movie is Technically an Aries, but Also He's Literally an Aries" Wright!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter & Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason awaken from their vampiric hiatus slumber to sink their teeth into... Gary Oldman's bloody prosthetic nipple? Well, it's season 2 alright.The duo breaks down the new zodiac-inspired structure as they to kick off the beginning of Aries season! To celebrate, they talk about the Aries placements in their charts before breaking down Aries/nepotism king Francis Ford Coppola and his 1992 adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Next week's movie: Garden State, directed by Zach "Of Course Zach Braff is an Aries" Braff!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Get the André, it's the season finale, and Dylan Garsee returns to the show to bring in the new year with Jenn, Jason, and Chris Columbus' Rent! This week: the trio weighs joining Elon Musk & Grimes' robot cult, go over their Whataburger breakfast orders, and, of course, Robert DeNiro's producer credits on IMDB (sorry Jenn).Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show during our break by letting a friend know about the show, and check out our sibling shows on the Coldtowne Radio Network!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jason & Jenn celebrate the holiday season by welcoming friend of the show, co-host of Yes, And Divorce, Erin Dunlavy! The trio devise a plan for podcast success, debate the sexiness of plastic surgeons, and have a complete and utter meltdown thinking about having sex with Santa Claus! All while managing to find time to dissect the 2015 horror comedy Krampus -- a Christmas miracle!Subscribe to Erin & Jenn's show Yes, And Divorce, wherever you get your podcasts!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jason & Jason celebrate Sagittarius season by wiping their memories and talking about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind! This week, they talk about Kate Winslet's ability to subvert the manic pixie dream girl archetype before it had even been coined as a term, the perfect astrologic pairing of writer/director team Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry, and Jenn's affinity for Frodo Baggins' big, hairy feet and wet, blue eyes!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

On a very special Hanksgiving Day episode, Jenn & Jason serve up a heaping helping of Tom Hanks with special guest Stephanie Thoreson, as they discuss the birth charts of Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle! The trio talks holiday traditions, filming yourself doing pushups, and a spooky common thread that connects all former guests of the show before diving into the magic of Nora Ephron. Jason also manages to use the phrase "Borat as a cultural object" more than once, which is its own kind of (ominous) magic.Check out Stephanie's upcoming projects at her website StephanieThoreson.com, and watch Scare Package on Shudder today!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Hanksgiving 2020 - Week 1 of 2Jenn & Jason weather some technical issues in order to dive into Tom Hanks' directorial debut That Thing You Do! They talk about Tom Hanks' weird obsession with Spartacus manifesting in his characters, the unwieldy 150 minute long director's cut, and some things Tom Hanks could improve on a little bit (it rhymes with schmriting schwomen).Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Tune in next week for the thrilling conclusion of Hanksgiving 2020, Sleepless in Seattle! Find streaming options for that here.Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jason & Jenn are joined by Dylan Garsee this week to put a keg of Bud on ice and head on down to Ma's basement! While diving into Tate Taylor's unhinged 2019 psycho-biddy homage Ma, the trio discuss Scorpio season, what makes campiness work, and spend several full minutes talking about Oneohtrix Point Never, an artist who has absolutely zero connections to Tate Taylor's unhinged 2019 psycho-biddy homage, Ma!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jason & Jenn talk about hidden bats, the impossibly wide torso of Adam Driver, white people problems, which four-time-Oscar-winner hooked up with Wallace Shawn, and more as they chart the cast of Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason are joined by comedian Robyn Reynolds for some tricks, some treats, and to talk about the Sultan of Slash himself, Wes Craven, and his genre-defining horror classic Scream. They cover comedians directing horror, horror directors making jokes, and which zodiac sign is most likely to keep loose eggs in a garage fridge. In the immortal words of Matthew Lillard, "It's a Scream, baby!!"Check out Robyn's podcast Pod Save Disneyland here!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason are joined by writer and comedian Devon Coleman to talk conspiracies before they start asking the big questions about Joe Dante's Gremlins 2: The New Batch. (Coincidentally, some gremlins got in the wires during the record, so we had to resort to Zoom audio for this one, folks! Cleaned it up the best we could and were able to save this delight of an episode from becoming yet another casualty of the mogwai menace!)Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Check out Devon's show Timbs Burton, where a cast of Black comedians perform live table reads of Tim Burton screenplays to help him finally cast Black actors, every other Thursday at 8pm CST on twitch.tv/falloutcomedy or facebook.com/falloutcomedyatx.Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jenn & Jason grab themselves a couple of brooms, a black cat*, and a pocketful of charm to discuss Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service! They talk about their moon signs (emotions, fears, longings, other general breezy topics) before doling out zodiac signs to Kiki and her new neighbors in the port city of Koriko.(*does anyone want to adopt a black cat?)References for this episode were sourced from Susan Napier's Miyazaki World: A Life in Art.Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarspod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

What do you do when you just made Can't Hardly Wait, it tripled its budget at the box office, and you have carte blanche to do whatever you want? If you answered: adapt a 40 year old comic series and turn it into a satire of the recording industry, you may have directed this week's movie!Jason & Jenn break down the 2001 rock 'n' roll teen comedy Josie & the Pussycats with the help of their friend, rapper/director Adam Protextor! The gang walks Adam through his first Co-Star experience, try to figure out why this was so misunderstood upon its release, and why the bright-eyed optimism of Josie & the Pussycats hits harder than many things made today.Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Follow Adam on Twitter @protextorparty, on Instagram @protextor, and check out his music on Bandcamp here! Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarpod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jason & Jenn get lost in a game of whist and are shipped off to Queen Anne's court to talk about their Mercury placements, before breaking down the cast charts for the fish-eyed 18th century period piece, Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarpod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jason & Jenn, along with Austin comedian and human embodiment of shining light Alexis Ramphul, pack their bags and head to Greece, baby!! The gang discusses the classics of Greek cinema (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants & The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2), Venus placements, Jenn's visitations from "The Traveling Man", and, eventually, Phyllida Lloyd's 2008 blockbuster musical: Mamma Mia!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarpod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail

Jason & Jenn kick things off with a discussion of Virgo season before diving into David Fincher's modern masterpiece: Zodiac! Jason also, unsurprisingly, finds time to complain about Tinder in the very first episode of the entire series. Bodes well!Find streaming options for this week's movie here!Please support the show by subscribing, leaving a review, or astral projecting into the consciousness of a friend to let them know about it!Art by Minda Wei (@mindawei on Instagram)Produced & Edited by Jason Pollard@nightstarspod on Twitter | @nightwithstarspod on Instagram | nightstarpod@gmail.com on Electronic Mail