HeyJaredNick Digilio's Pop Culture Village
A lifelong Chicagoan, Nick is an award-winning broadcaster, film critic, writer, performer, podcast host, and professional speaker/interviewer who has entertained and informed the public for 4 decades.
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🐸 SNL Is Back! Dan Fienberg, Primetime & The Horror Countdown 🐸 (opens the original)
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HEYYYYYYY!!SNL returns this weekend, spooky season is right around the corner, and the Pop Culture Village is buzzing! This week, Dan Fienberg breaks down the Emmys and Big Brother, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy report back from TIFF and Fantastic Fest, and I preview Saturday Night Live Season 52 on That Show... ahead of Saturday’s premiere.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i10-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsub
CAPSULE MOVIE REVIEWS: 9-25-26 (opens the original)
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1) HEART OF THE BEASTHeart of the Beast is what you might call an absolute crowd pleaser. This is one of those movies that has been constructed almost scientifically to make a theater full of people gasp, tense up, laugh, sit on the edge of their seats and, eventually, cry their damn eyes out. And you know what? It works.It’s also a surprisingly emotional movie to come from David Ayer. Ayer made his name writing and directing tough, gritty movies about cops, criminals and morally compromised
🐸 It's Horror Season! New Book, Svengoolie & Nell Minow 🐸 (opens the original)
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HEYYYYYYY!!Big week here in the Pop Culture Village! New podcast episodes are up, Nell Minow stopped by, Tom Hush and I dug up another cinematic disaster for Theater of Trash, and — most excitingly — I’ve got two brand-new October events to celebrate the release of my new book, 40 Years, 40 Horror Films, including an on-stage sit-down with the one and only Svengoolie<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tVmr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2
CAPSULE MOVIE REVIEWS: 9-18-26 (opens the original)
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1) RESIDENT EVILI dreaded going into the press screening of the new Resident Evil, and there were several reasons for that. First of all, I have never played a Resident Evil video game. I have never played ANY Resident Evil video game. I am not a gamer, I have never been a gamer, and the last actual video game system I owned was Pong when I was a kid in the ’70s. So whenever I walk into a movie based on a video game, I
🐸 My Horror Book Is HERE (Plus Fienberg & Fineman) 🐸 (opens the original)
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HEYYYYYYY!!Big week around here, and I mean BIG — my new book is officially released, Dan Fienberg stopped by to talk Emmys, and we said a bittersweet goodbye to a Saturday Night Live favorite. Let’s get into it!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss1C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb233076e-21ba-42b7-97f4-5289a718284f_
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