Latest Firstreformed Podcast Episodes
Episode 87 - Moon Knight - 'The Goldfish Problem' (2022) with Michael Roberson and Todd Stark
Hawke Cast - April 01, 2022 11:15 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsMOON KNIGHT has begun! We bring in local MK experts Michael Roberson and Todd Stark to help us make sense of this wacky Marvel character and Ethan's villianous cult leader. He better die in this! Until the miniseries finale, keep Hawke-ing the skies!
Moon Knight is Coming!!!
Hawke Cast - March 25, 2022 18:10 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOh shit! He's almost here! Moon Knight, featuring Ethan Hawke as the villianous "Arthur Harrow"! He's got a magic cane and an undying devotion to an Egyptian god! What's he planning? Tune in soon to find out!
Ethan's Big Year (2022)
Hawke Cast - January 19, 2022 15:27 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHappy 2022 everyone! This is a quick check-in to acknowledge that the man has a ridiculous number of projects this year! We can't wait to cover them all soon :-) Moon Knight starts March 30th, hope it isn't stupid! I guess that will count as our fifth anniversary episode? Good lord.
Episode 86 - Zeros and Ones (2021) with Jack Draper
Hawke Cast - November 22, 2021 12:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsEthan's pandemic output continues with this Abel Ferrara drama about... well... many things, including being on the phone and the Vatican exploding. Zeros and Ones starts with Ethan addressing the audience from his living room and ends the same way. Not what I expected that's for sure! Jack Drap...
Episode 85 - The Guilty (2021)
Hawke Cast - October 25, 2021 11:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsA voice only performance in a film that's just Jake Gyllenhaal on the phone? Yes please! Our fourth Fuqua film, and certainly not the last. The Guilty is on Netflix now and it's 90 minutes and pretty good! Worth a watch. Keep Hawke-ing the skies!
Episode 84 - Meadowlark (Ethan's Book Club) (2021)
Hawke Cast - October 11, 2021 11:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHe never stops! We discuss Ethan's latest graphic novel collaboration with artist Greg Ruth, MEADOWLARK! The dad looks exactly like Ethan, it ain't subtle! After some project updates since our last episode, we chat about the book and get some special insight into Greg and Ethan's lives from thei...
Episode 83 - Waiting for Godot (2021) with Tom Phelan
Hawke Cast - June 28, 2021 11:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsNo more WAITING... we're back! Beloved friend of the arts Tom Phelan returns to chat about Ethan's latest project - a pandemic-inspired virtual performance of WAITING FOR GODOT. Yeah.... mhm..... Anyway, we discuss this version of Godot's failings, check in on recent Ethan updates, debate th...
Episode 82 - A Bright Ray of Darkness (Ethan's Book Club) (2021)
Hawke Cast - March 08, 2021 12:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsEthan wrote another book! It's about going crazy while doing Shakespeare! Let's dig in! This is our last regular episode for a while, as we've caught up with the man's work. As we discuss here, he's got plenty cooking! We'll be back sooner than you can say "Keep Hawke-ing the skies!"
Episode 81 - Featured Speaker at The American Library Association Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits (2021)
Hawke Cast - February 22, 2021 12:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsEthan loves libraries! Returning guest Michael Roberson (Nameless Cults) joins us in the backyard to discuss Ethan's high-energy talk at the virtual library conference. We chat about the ALA's faults, vocational awe, actors who are also writers, the recent Moon Knight news, and more! Keep Hawk...
Episode 81 - Featured Speaker at The American Library Association Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits (2021) with Michael Roberson
Hawke Cast - February 22, 2021 12:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsEthan loves libraries! Returning guest Michael Roberson (Nameless Cults) joins us in the backyard to discuss Ethan's high-energy talk at the virtual library conference. We chat about the ALA's faults, vocational awe, actors who are also writers, the recent Moon Knight news, and more! Keep Hawk...
Episode 80 - Cut Throat City (2020)
Hawke Cast - February 08, 2021 12:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWelcome to 2021! Bright things are on the horizon, I think? This could be a curse. Anyway, here's our episode on RZA's new film CUT THROAT CITY, in which Ethan plays a corrupt city councilman who loves getting drunk and giving soliloquies to his wife's grave. It's a film that falls apart pretty ...
Episode 79 - The Good Lord Bird - 'Last Words' (2020)
Hawke Cast - December 11, 2020 12:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsLike all prestige miniseries, The Good Lord Bird has come to a close. We're back in the yard discussing our favorite characters, the series' best moments, and what the future holds for Ethan (it's a lot of things!) Keep Hawke-ing the skies and we'll be back soon with Cut Throat City!
Episode 78 - The Good Lord Bird - 'Meet The Lord' (2020)
Hawke Cast - October 09, 2020 11:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIt's time to sing about the goodness of the Lord! Ethan's television miniseries THE GOOD LORD BIRD is finally here! Ethan gets to freak it handily as famed abolitionist maniac John Brown in the miniseries he co-created and wrote for! This in many ways is Ethan Hawke's blank check, and the prem...
Episode 77 - Tesla (2020)
Hawke Cast - August 24, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsZap! We're back! Did you miss us and Ethan? He's been keeping busy during the pandemic and so have we. But not with this podcast, clearly. Anyway, we're here to discuss Ethan's latest film TESLA, in which he plays virgin king Nikola Tesla. Death rays! Electricity! Desi from Girls! TESLA has it...
Episode 76 - Before Sunrise (1995) with Ali Russo
Hawke Cast - March 20, 2020 11:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsAll of Hawke Cast has led to this! My original plan was to do one at the end of each season, but that was a long time ago. We have yet to record Sunset and Midnight as of this release, but I wanted to have something special for our THIRD ANNIVERSARY, so here is BEFORE SUNRISE with returning gu...
Episode 75 - Moby Dick (2011) with D Arboleda and Zack Bond
Hawke Cast - February 24, 2020 12:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThar she blows! D and Zack return to discuss literary sensation and "fine" German-Canadian miniseries MOBY DICK starring William Hurt as Ahab and Ethan Hawke as Starbuck, not Ishmael. Uh, not sure what else to say. It's Moby Dick! Read the book! The miniseries is on DVD at the library? Keep Ha...
Episode 74 - The Purge - "7:01 am" (2019) with Nameless Cults
Hawke Cast - February 10, 2020 12:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHappy 2020! Hawke Cast returns with a brief discussion of a rare Ethan Hawke tv appearance - He makes a cameo reprising his role from THE PURGE (2013) in the tv show, THE PURGE! It is truly a minute long, but it's always fun to talk Purge! Returning guests Michael and Dan of NAMELESS CULTS are r...
Hawke-troduction 2020 with Todd Stark
Hawke Cast - January 30, 2020 23:23 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHappy 2020! Hawke Cast returns 2/10 with a new episode! Then probably soon after that with the Before Trilogy episodes! For real! Keep Hawke-ing the skies!
Episode 73 - Adopt a Highway (2019) with Shannon Keane
Hawke Cast - December 02, 2019 12:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWelcome to one of our last regular episodes! Shannon returns to discuss an extremely sad film called ADOPT A HIGHWAY, which is now available on digital! It's 78 minutes long and Ethan is great in it - what else is new? It's about how America fails us - what else is new?? We will be tackling th...
Episode 72 - The Truth (2019) with D Arboleda
Hawke Cast - November 18, 2019 12:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday's episode is about a Hawke movie that, as of the time we are releasing this episode, still does not have an official US release date! We saw this early at the Boston Independent Film Festival's Fall Focus, like how last year we saw First Reformed early. Ain't that neat? Anyway, the film ...
Episode 71 - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) with Michael Roberson and Todd Stark
Hawke Cast - November 12, 2019 12:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIt’s a family affair! Our two record-breaking Hawke Cast guests Michael Roberson and Todd Stark join us to discuss BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD! Rent it from the library because you can’t get it digitally for some reason! We discuss a wide range of topics on this episode, including Tron: L...
Episode 70 - dead poets in nyc (1988) with D Arboleda and Harrison Young
Hawke Cast - November 06, 2019 12:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHappy birthday Mr. Hawke! To celebrate, we have recorded a truly deranged episode about a YouTube video you might not even know exists! PLEASE watch the video before listening or we are just gonna sound like lunatics. We will still sound like lunatics but still! It's not a long video! And as...
Episode 69 - Staten Island (2009) with Dan R
Hawke Cast - October 28, 2019 11:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHappy 69th episode! And what better way to celebrate than with a movie where Ethan literally gets covered in poop! Dan joins us for his very first Hawke to discuss STATEN ISLAND, a film where Vinny D'onofrio plays a silly mobster who essentially becomes the Lorax. The guy who made The Purge di...
Episode 68 - Joe the King (1999) with D Arboleda
Hawke Cast - October 21, 2019 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsJOE THE KING is about a boy whose life is so terrible not even Ethan can help him! But can Hawke Cast? Nope! D Arboleda joins for their first episode to discuss the film, Ethan's little outfits, Kyle's play about the Mara sisters, John Leguizamo's shocking past, Shakira in Zootopia, Kate Berla...
Episode 67 - The Magnificent Seven (2016) with Fran Hoepfner
Hawke Cast - October 07, 2019 11:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsGiddy up! It's time for a rootin' tootin' Western with ol' Ethan Hawke! That's right, we're taking on THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (2016), Antoine Fuqua's remake that you definitely saw posters for, but didn't see. It's our last western film with Hawke for now, until he inevitability hops on the saddle...
Episode 66 - The Phenom (2016) with Layla Muchnik
Hawke Cast - September 30, 2019 11:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsBatter up! Just in time for the World Series (I think? Isn't it usually around now?) we have a baseball movie with Ethan in a terrifying paternal role! Our first guest from our second episode about DEAD POETS SOCIETY, LAYLA MUCHNIK finally returns to Hawke Cast to talk about THE PHENOM, a movie ...
Episode 65 - Fast Food Nation (2006) with Todd Stark and Roland Watt
Hawke Cast - September 16, 2019 11:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHope you're not eating while you listen to this one! First-time guest Roland Watt and returning guest Todd Stark join us to discuss this curious Linklater film from 2006, FAST FOOD NATION! Based on the non-fiction book about the dark side of the fast food industry, this film has a confused ton...
Episode 64 - Boyhood (2014) with Arman Avasia
Hawke Cast - September 03, 2019 11:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe time has finally come. We are here to discuss the multiple Academy Award-nominee BOYHOOD. Our guest is the illustrious Arman Avasia, who grew up in Texas with divorced parents, so this film IS his story. Like the film itself, the episode is difficult to summarize. We cover the whole dang f...
Episode 63 - Waterland (1992) with Tom Phelan
Hawke Cast - August 19, 2019 11:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsCome round children, and let me tell you a tale. A PODCAST TALE. Returning friend of the podcast TOM PHELAN joins us to discuss a very-underseen movie directed by Jake Gyllenhaal's dad! Jeremy Irons stars as a haunted high school teacher who details his tragic past to his uninterested students...
Episode 62 - Rich in Love (1993) with Harrison Young
Hawke Cast - August 05, 2019 11:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHave you ever heard of this movie? Of course not! It barely exists! You can't even rent it online! We ordered a made-to-order dvd from Amazon! RICH IN LOVE is the story of a southern family going through changes. Ethan is the love interest named WAYNE FROBINESS, in case you couldn't tell this ...
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