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40 Days and 40 Nights (We Heart Hartnett)

Listen to We Heart Hartnett on 2018-05-22 13:15:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Black Hawk Down (We Heart Hartnett)

Listen to We Heart Hartnett on 2018-05-15 12:46:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Arthur K. Billingsworth and the Curse of the Forbidden Books Part 2: Bornhold's Revenge

Remember this?

Maybe not, considering more than 2/3rds of our current subscribers weren't around back in January 2017. When we hit 50k subscribers we held a contest, in which we gave viewers a title...

O (We Heart Hartnett)

Listen to We Heart Hartnett on 2018-05-08 14:20:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Pearl Harbor (We Heart Hartnett)

Listen to We Heart Hartnett on 2018-05-08 14:11:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Upgrading the Videos

Hello all current patrons! This doesn't really effect you!

This is all covered in the video, but essentially we're revamping the Patreon in an effort to upgrade the videos as well as our whole opera...

We Made a New Channel Trailer

You may have noticed some rebranding happening this week on the channel and the Patreon and my social media accounts. All of this is long overdue. The old branding was from 2015, and it was time for a...

Patrick Explains PADDINGTON (And Why It's Great)

THEY'RE BACK

We've had this one planned since my mum and I went to see Paddington 2 together back in January (still my favorite movie of 2018, btw). At this point this seri...

Town & Country (We Heart Hartnett)

Listen to We Heart Hartnett on 2018-04-24 14:05:23 +0000 UTC View Post

The Art of the PG-13 F-Bomb

I should have expected this, but YouTube rejected this video for monetization due to profanity, which is kind of unavoidable since it's an ANALYSIS of the use of profanity.

The reason I mention that...

Blow Dry (We Heart Hartnett Episode 5)

Listen to We Heart Hartnett on 2018-04-17 16:06:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Here On Earth (We Heart Hartnett Ep 4)

Listen to We Heart Hartnett on 2018-04-10 14:16:23 +0000 UTC View Post

The Virgin Suicides (We Heart Hartnett Ep 3)

Listen to We Heart Hartnett on 2018-04-03 13:45:45 +0000 UTC View Post

The Weird Problem With the DC Universe

This is the nerdiest thing I'll probably make all year.

For the past decade or so I've been obsessed with how pop culture and politics work within the DC Universe, and the strange inconsistencies th...

The Faculty (We Heart Hartnett Episode 2)

Listen to We Heart Hartnett on Apple Podcasts, 2018-03-27 13:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream Q&A

Apologies for the short notice.

At 7pm EST I'll be going live and answering questions about the podcast or film criticism stuff (so, the two latest videos).

Plus some general questions, too. B...

ANNOUNCING OUR PODCAST

It's here! We've been teasing this for months (and working on it since late last year) and it's finally no longer our secret.

Welcome to WE HEART HARTNETT

(here's the official...

We Need to Talk About Film Criticism

Look! A new video less than a week since the last one! And ALMOST on a Wednesday!

This is one I've been wanting to make for a while. Basically I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS ABOUT FILM CRITICISM AND I THI...

Solving the Mystery of J.J. Abrams

AND WE'RE BACK

Around Christmas I was talking to a friend about JJ Abrams returning to direct Star Wars Episode IX, and how weird it was that he'd never really ended a stor...

What Do We Want From a Star Wars Movie?

Remember the last video, how I talked about how I was revamping the way I make video essays?

Well, here's the result. It's 20 minutes long, it took a full extra week to make, but it's a better idea ...

On Making Video Essays

This was supposed to be last week's video. And it was supposed to be very different.

It was originally a fairly standard video about my process for making the nonfiction videos (like video essays). ...

Patrick Explains ALIEN: COVENANT (And Why It's Great)

We made another one. My parents are back. It's my favorite one in the series. And based on the subject, I imagine this one will be controversial.

HBO is Ruining Movies

This is the ACTUAL official video for this week.

This is about something that's been bugging me for a while, and finally I decided the best thing to do was make a video about it.

I also reshot...

FIRST DAY OF PRODUCTION (Apartment Hunting BTS Ep 2)

I meant to edit this a month ago but hey guys it's been a busy time.

Remember a while back how I said I'd be documenting the production of our short film "Apartment Hunting" in behind the scenes vlo...

MY TOP 50 OF 2017

This is the 2017 recap/2018 kickoff video. A lot of stuff covered here. I've been spending the past week or so planning/outlining/writing videos for the next few months and there's some very cool stuf...

The 2017 Christmas Q&A

So this is an annual thing now. My sister and I sit down by the Christmas tree and answer your questions. 126 of your questions, to be exact. This thing is an hour long so BUCKLE UP.

Down With the Christmas

This is only going to be up for the next 24 hours.

As you may have heard in the end credits of the Christmas video, we recorded a Christmas-themed cover of "Down With the Sickness" by Disturbed.

Becoming Christmas #ChristmasVid2017

HERE IT IS! THE ANNUAL ULTRA-WEIRD CHRISTMAS VIDEO! WE EVEN BROUGHT MIKE BACK FOR THIS ONE!

Merry Christmas, everyone. 2017 has been a bad year for the world, but a good year for this cha...

Avoiding THE LAST JEDI Spoilers

(NO ACTUAL SPOILERS IN THE VIDEO)

Look at that, an actual Wednesday video release.

The past 5 days have been madness. Since Friday night we've been filming every day, and both Saturday and Sun...

How Comic Book Storytelling is Changing Movies

Can't write much because I've gotta get back to shooting this year's Christmas video (it's gonna be great) but here's this week's video, a few days late due to me getting kinda sick and just having no...