We Heart Hartnett

We’ve finally arrived at our most anticipated episode! And maybe…the most controversial? Film critic Siddhant Adlakha joins Patrick and the Brothers Torpey to explore Josh Hartnett’s second collaboration with director Paul McGuigan: Lucky Number Slevin. Listen in as they discuss Kansas City Shuffles, what X-Man Josh would play, movies with twists, a potential Timothée Chalamet spinoff podcast, and whether this is the Juicero of movies. #UniteTheSlevin

Patrick’s sister Mary joins the podcast this week for the ultimate sibling episode, as four friends who all went to high school together discuss one of the most obscure movies of Josh’s career. It’s Mozart and the Whale, a romantic comedy about autism with a bizarre production history that everyone finds difficult to properly evaluate. Plus: Mary reveals her Hartnett History, Patrick talks way too much about the Ben Affleck film The Accountant, and Nega Matt makes his first appearance on the show.

“Really?” you ask, “You’re covering a movie in which Josh only appears for four minutes?” You’re damn right. This week we’re discussing Sin City, the 2005 Frank Miller/Robert Rodriguez joint that altered the history of comic book adaptations, and which might not exist were it not for our boy Josh. We go deep on the careers of Rodriguez and Miller, and Patrick explains his theory of how Josh may be responsible for the toxic DC movie fandom.

Warning: this week our Josh Hartnett podcast transforms into a Coldplay podcast, which is unavoidable when discussing Paul McGuigan’s seminal 2004 romantic thriller, Wicker Park. We’re joined by longtime friend and the world’s #1 Wicker Park fan, Chris Decerbo for an episode that includes threats of violence against the Brothers Torpey, Shaggy impressions (both cartoon character and rapper), terrible French accents, a lot of talk about Serendipity and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and, yes, Coldplay.

This week, Josh Hartnett teams up with Hollywood legend Harrison Ford for a buddy action comedy that it turns out…is mostly about real estate. Patrick, Matt, and Jake attempt to solve the movie’s many script problems while also reading some iTunes reviews, discussing more of the Town & Country cinematic universe, Superman’s nudity, and whether or not Patrick almost killed Harrison Ford in 2015.

As we reach the era of Josh Hartnett: Movie Star, we travel back to the weird world of early-2000s sex comedies. This week we’re talking about 40 Days and 40 Nights, the sex comedy about Josh Hartnett not having sex, which is a much weirder movie than we expected. Listen in for exciting talk about incels, Shasta McNasty, the career of Shannyn Sossamon, and our grand theory about the Town & Country cinematic universe.

This week we’re talking about a movie that’s actually good! Our boy Josh Hartnett joins an all-star ensemble cast for the Oscar-winning war film Black Hawk Down. We’re joined by our good friend, actor Scott Thomas to explore important topics like the soundtrack for The Faculty, the greatness of Tom Sizemore, who Ridley Scott actually is, and once again, Josh’s eyes.

This week we travel back to that era when Hollywood couldn't stop turning the works of Shakespeare into hip movies for teens. And our main man Josh Hartnett got caught up in the action! We're chatting all about the 2001 film O, an adaptation of Othello so edgy that it dropped all but one letter from the title. It's kind of sort of vaguely Shakespeare's story, but with way more basketball and teens taking drugs.

We Heart Hartnett: DELUXE EDITION. We needed two hours to cover this three-hour movie. We've finally reached one of the biggest movies of Josh Hartnett's career, the moment he officially became a movie star. It's the much-maligned Michael Bay romantic period epic that's kind of like Titanic if it were less good and contained way more explosions. So buckle up, because it's finally time for Patrick to deliver his grand theory of Michael Bay's career.

Josh’s string of stinkers continues with 2001’s Town & Country, a “comedy” about wealthy old people having affairs that somehow cost $100 million, took 2 years to make, and ended up being one of the biggest flops in box office history. Listen in as we discuss the film that caused Warren Beatty to quit making movies for fifteen years.

We’ve got a guest! Cartoonist, writer, actor, and longtime friend Mike Curran joins us to discuss this quirky British comedy in which Josh Hartnett was inexplicably cast as Alan Rickman’s son. Join us as we discuss a screenplay mangled by the studio, Josh’s struggles with a British accent, and the infamous “geisha cancer scene.”

This week Josh gets caught up in a love triangle for the ages in the 2000 romantic drama HERE ON EARTH, co-starring with Chris Klein and Leelee Sobieski. Did we like this movie(spoilers: no)? Was Josh good (spoilers: yes)? Did it contain the most loathsome, sociopathic protagonist we've seen in years (spoilers: also yes). You should never watch this movie but you SHOULD listen to us talk about it.

Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Trip Fontaine! This week we cover Sofia Coppola's debut film, about a bunch of sisters in the 1970s, the boys who love them, and also a lot of death. But most importantly, Josh Hartnett very nearly steals the entire movie in his role as the dreamiest guy in school. There's a lot to talk about here, so put your Hart Hats on (also your headphones) and join us!

This week we're talking about the first movie Josh Hartnett was ever cast in and his second movie released in 1998. That's right, it's The Faculty. Can writer Kevin Williamson do for sci-fi what he did for horror with Scream? How does Robert Rodriguez fare in the only work-for-hire movie he ever directed? And...is that Jon Stewart as the alien-possessed science teacher? There's a lot fo discuss here, so buckle up and get ready to heart Hartnett.

We're kicking off our podcast with a landmark film in cinema history: the return of Jamie Lee Curtis to the Halloween franchise, but more importantly, the first film role of the man himself, Josh Hartnett. Listen as Patrick, Matt, and Jake discuss their first impressions of Hartnett, LL Cool J's erotic fiction, and the convoluted history of the Halloween franchise.

We assume most people are wondering why, of all the potential topics for a podcast, we're making one about Josh Hartnett. So we made a special, short intro episode to explain that! Here, Patrick, Matt, and Jake sit down for a quick chat about how this podcast came to be, why it exists, and what to expect.