Peanuts & Popcorn Podcast
1) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 02-01-26 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring Sinners (2025) and Hamnet (2025)
This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we talk MLB HOF and we review two more Oscar nominees for Best Picture of 2025, Sinners and Hamnet. Next Show's Films:Leo's Pick:Â The Secret Agent (2025)Tom's Pick:Â ...Show More
2) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 01-18-26 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring Frankenstein (2025) and One Battle After Another (2025)
This week, in the first episode of the 10th season of P&P, we dive head first into the Best Picture Nominees for 2025. The first film up for discussion is Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025); and...Show More
3) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 11-02-25 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring The 3rd Annual Poppy Awards
This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, after brief recap of the2025 World Series between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays, we will hand out our 3rd Annual “Poppy" awards for the best movies and performances w...Show More
4) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 10-26-25 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Black Orpheus (1959)
This week on the final P&P film reviews of the 2025 season, we begin with the Peanuts as we lament the losses of the Tigers and Cubs in the post-season. In Popcorn, we have two excellent movies to rev...Show More
5) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 10-5-25 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring Bride & Prejudice (2004) and Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
This week on the penultimate episode of this season’sPeanuts and Popcorn, both the Cubs and Tigers win their respective wild card series, as both Tom and I squeal with delight. In Popcorn, we have two...Show More
6) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 9-21-25 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and Nashville (1975)
This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we start with Peanuts, the last week has been an eventful one for the Chicago Cubs, starting with Anthony Rizzo Day at Wrigley followed by a playoff clinching win. De...Show More
7) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 9-7-25 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring Hard Times (1972) and Barry Lyndon (1975)
This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we are one week into the last month of the MLB season, AJ Hinch and Craig Counsell are getting the Tigers and Cubs ready for the playoffs. In Popcorn, we start with a...Show More
8) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 8-24-25 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring Pina (2011) and The Exterminating Angel (1962)
This week on P&P we open the bag of Peanuts, as MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, suggests a new alignment that would add 2 new teams, and create 4- four-team divisions in each league. In Popcorn, we revi...Show More
9) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 8-3-25 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring Pascali's Island (1988) and Spirited Away (2001)
This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabbathia, Billy Wagner, Dick Allen and Dave Parker are all inducted into the Hall of Fame, while we bow our heads with respect to the passing of Ry...Show More
10) Peanuts & Popcorn (P&P) 7-20-25 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney Featuring After Dark, My Sweet (1990) and Fitzcarraldo (1982)
This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, the All-Star break has come and gone, while the White Sox celebrated the 20th anniversary of their World Series win over the Houston Astros, while mourning the passin...Show More