Shows
Almost Good59 - The Monkey (+ Nosferatu)
We Actually Review a Movie that's Still in Theaters for Once. Be a Part of History! Digressions and Dead-Ends Include:
Dave Randomly Stalking a Dude
Buffalo Springfield = Snoopy & the Red Baron
The Exorcist Broke Up Genesis?
Wild Claims About Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel Record Sales
Surprising Band Dynamics
NOSFERATU Review
Jim Jarmusch = Master of Black and White
POSSESSION Review
Why Is There So Much Real Estate In Dracula?
It's "Epistolary" Not "A Suppository"
Renfield = Hype Man
Sleepy Hollow Reversal
THE MONKEY Review
Amy's...2025-03-031h 21
Almost Good58 - Alien: RomulusDave and Tony Try to Record a Podcast in the Morning. Chaos* Ensues:
The Last Gasp of Bachelor Art
Dandelion = The Perfect Organism?
ALIEN: ROMULUS Review
Perfect Organisms Are Bland Actors
Black Goo As Space Steroids
To Tube Or Not To Tube
HARBINGER DOWN Tubes Review
How Many Times Can Dave Say "Tubes"
The Jurassic Park Problem
Tony Unironically Describes The Lost World Plot
Two Mystery Mags
Ode To Editing
ALIENS Holds Up
Solving That Weird "Arcturian" Line
Bug Chasers In Space Amsterdam2024-10-041h 06
Almost Good57 - Every Phantasm Movie (+ Dune 2) w/Nathan LamoreauRun Without Rhythm Cuz Shit's About To Get Spicy:
Harkonnen DJ
DUNE 2 Review
Black Hole Son
Paul Was The Villain! (just kidding)
Killing Your Toadies
Is Spice Gas or Gold?
THE KILLING STAR Review
Warp Speed = End of Everything
The Furby Paradox
Hello, Dream Police?
Lasers (or the "Start With That!" Problem)
They Didn't Fight Twice
Stalling So We Don't Have To Do The...
ENTIRE PHANTASM PENTALOGY REVIEW
Better Dream Logic
Sure Plays A Mean Pinball
Why Is PHANTASM a Dune...2024-06-221h 32
Almost Good56 - Pom Poko (+ Oscar Picks!)The Oscars are Tomorrow and They're Watching Cartoons:
The Land of Milk and Honey
"Mid" Journeys
KING GIZZARD & the LIZARD WIZARD Review
In Praise of Gibberish Lyrics
Tony Released Three Novels At Once Once
Cosplayin' vs. Genre-Hoppin'
The Reinvention Trap
Riders On The Norm
POM POKO Review
That's Nuts
U.S. = Butts/Japan = Balls
They Live! from the Alien POV
Abandoning Expectations Loophole
Culture Clash = The Clash?
East Meets West = Feast Meets Guest
New Old Music Recs
OSCAR PICKS!
DiCaprio A...2024-03-091h 14
Almost Good55 - Leave the World Behind (+ True Detective: Night Country) w/Matthew M. BartlettTopical Solutions:
I'm Not Talking Over People, I Swear
Introducing Matthew M. Bartlett's Town of Leeds
Gateways to Abomination (and Self-Sufficiency)
The Pros And Cons (and Cons) Of Positivity
Review Down and Punch Up?
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND Review
More Netflix Totally Not Made Up Stats
Lack of Info = Suspense?
Monsters Are Due On Maple Street > Trigger Effect > This Shit
A.I. Screenplay?
The New Symmetry Red Flag
TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY (Episode 1) Review
Who Framed Roger Reindeer?
INSOMNIA Original/Remake Comparison
30 Days Of...2024-02-101h 16
Almost Good54 - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (+ Pentalogy) w/ Nathan LamoreauWe Belong In A Museum! Our Exhibits:
Nathan Lamoreau: Doomsday DJ
Expired Red Bull Memories
Roulette Reverse Nightingale
OWNING MAHONEY Review
Joyless Gambling
OLD DADS vs. NO HARD FEELINGS
Godzilla Moving Too Much
WHEN EVIL LURKS (What Are the Rules?)
Copycat Attack
James "Mid" Mangold Deep Dive:
HEAVY Review
IDENTITY Review
LOGAN vs. THE WOLVERINE Review
Tony's 5-Star Autopsy Pod Shout-Out
Nathan's Auteur Troupe Theory
The Guy With The Eye
COP LAND (COPE LAND?) Review
3:10 TO YUMA Review
Mistreating...2024-01-012h 03
Almost Good53 - Beau Is Afraid (+ The Fall of the House of Usher) w/ Erin KeatonIt's A Family Affaaaaaair:
Library Tables Inside Baseball
BUCKCHERRY Reviews
A Child Called "Shit"
THE MIDNIGHT CLUB Episode 1 Review
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Review
WEEDS Analogy
The Elephantiasis In The Room
"What's A Zoomer?"
(Doors, Floors, And Walls) It's All Knocking
The Devil Went Down To Blackmail
Poe Is In The MCU
BEAU IS AFRAID Review
The Lighthouse Meets The Waterboy
The Strange Thing About The Johnsons Meets Little Murders
P.T. Anderson Meets David O. Russell Meets Darren Aronofsky...2023-11-291h 20
Almost Good52 - Halloween Extravaganza (+ The Killer)Halloween means candy, projectile vomiting, and watching 31 movies you've never seen before. It also means reviewing every single one of them. Also, David Fincher has a new movie! And it's the sort of thing he can do in his sleep. Is this good or bad? Find out.
Highlights Include:
Bonehead Lyrics
Trick or Treat Shenanigans
Gold-Plated McDonald's Coffee Stir
Cliff Confessional Booth
"The Monsters of Heaven" Review
Tony's Big New Book Deal!
Dave's Big New Book Deal!
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Renamed Dave's Book (for real)
Baby Juggling Interlude2023-11-182h 02
Almost Good51 - ChristineA King-sized episode where, simply by never letting him get off the phone, Dave tries to convince Tony that Christine is the best Stephen King adaptation ever made. Just look at all this free stuff we have for you.
The Winter of Our Dis-Contents:
Attempts at Structure
Hashtag Girl Dads
E-Bike Perpetrator Round II
Horror Hypetober
WOUNDS Review
The Alien Unease Hat Trick (Fire in the Sky/Communion/The Fourth Kind)
Cronenburgers
POSSESSOR Review
Book Wrecks
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (book) Review
Termites...2023-09-301h 49
Almost Good50 - The Flash (+ Evil Dead Rise & Asteroid City) w/ Tony McMillenYou Can Expect:
T-Mac: Glass Half Italian
Shark Tooth Necklaces
F/X Review
Russell Mulcahy Lovefest
Breaking Down "Can't Talk About It Yet"
Tony McMillen Oeuvre
New Music Corner (Still Listening To Asia In 2023)
Berries & Brambles
THE FLASH Review
Do Kids Really Say "Beave"?
EVIL DEAD RISE Review
Curse Of The Double Reboot
Are We Not Men, Trees?
AlleHORRORical Horror © Me 2017
The Script Doctor Rises (Dead By... Dawn?)
ASTEROID CITY Review
Artifice Vs. ArtiFISH (What?)
Wes Hates Wes
To...2023-08-231h 24
Almost Good49 - Oppenheimer (+ Barbie) w/ Scott AdlerbergBack after, what, two years?! Dave will continue to talk about movies with people in lieu of an actual social life.
Tableau Of Contents:
Scott's new novel The Screaming Child
BARBIE Review
Biting The Hand That Needs You
First Zodiac Reference
The Dirtiest Harry
TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE Review
Norman Mailer Hat Trick
Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast/My Return Reviews
OPPENHEIMER Review
John Landis Casting
Oppenheimer = Amadeus
Creativity = Destruction
Oppenheimer = Marquis de Sade?
QUILLS Review
Characterization Climax2023-08-051h 21
Almost Good48 - Empty Men (+ Endless Oscar Reviews and Predictions)Musings Include:
Mic Drop
Name That Tune
Knife Corner (Knife Drop)
Physical Media Love
Online Power Fantasies
THE EMPTY MAN Review
Three Alien Swipes
Fuck ASMR
Urban Legends Experiences
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Review
Revenge > Shaming
THE SOUND OF METAL Review
Script Doctor!
Musician Doomsday Clock at One Minute Till Midnight
MANK Review
Ghost Clang
They Split the Oscar Vote!
NOMADLAND/LEAVE NO TRACE Reviews
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 Review
Tuesday's Frogs
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Review2021-04-242h 17
Almost Good47 - Never Back DownAaaaaaand we're back, talking about the 2008 (?) hit (?) slash lunkhead Mixed Martian Arts wish-fulfillment fest. We also missed each other.
Reunion Tour Set List:
New Mic Adventures
Tracksuit Corner (a.k.a. Slutty With Your Time)
Xbox Corner
Hot Wheels Voodoo
NEVER BACK DOWN Review
'80s Bullies vs. Millennial Bullies
Rise Of Teen Fight Clubs, MMA, and Viral Videos
Dipshit Rosetta Stone
"Fuck That Little Dude!"
Plague Corner
Mask/Prepper Paradox
Knife Corner
The Australian "No"
2021-03-191h 34
Almost Good46 - Tenet"Topics" is not a word that's the same forwards and backwards, but here they are anyway:
Viral Corner
Ratio'd "But I'm Okay with That!"
The Plume
Crosstalk
Exclusive TENET Review!
Nolan as Conductor
Three Hours Feels Like Six Minutes!
Visual Information
Catching Bullets vs. Dodging Bullets
Aurora Shooting Allegory?
Future Director's Cut?
Post-Credit Scenes Analysis
The Cheap Seats vs. Box Seats
Nolan Loves Masks
INCEPTION Re-Review
Rich People "Dreams" vs. Pillow Hands
Movies as Trailers?
DARK SOULS Review
Water Jug D...2020-08-2754 min
Almost Good45 - Hold the Dark (The Lost Episode) w/ Jordan HarperWe initially recorded this two years ago, though due to secret reasons we had to take the episode down. Now it's back for your listening enjoyment.
Topic List:
Devil's Triangle of Synopses
The Wolf Whisperer
HOLD THE DARK Review
True Detective Connection
The Alaskan Hello
Hollywood Ownage
Manly Shit Checklist
Grimdark and Grandpa's Deathbed
The Red Wolf (a.k.a. Green Is Not a Primary Color)
True Detective or Fortune Cookie?
The More Dangerous Friend, Guy
Doing Violence Right
Three Distinct Chokes
...2020-08-101h 34
Almost Good44 - Investigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionIt's our Big Bad Cop Bash!
Also:
The Return of Product Reviews
Headphone Corner
Ants in Our Pants
Bad Cop Movies/Bad Cop Movement
Old Enough to Remember Tasers
To Protect and Serve Man: It's a Cookbook!
Radio Raheem the Prophet
Osborne Dark Souls Training
Keaton's Cop Rant Again
More like the Policeman's Bawl, amirite?
Jackass Paddy Wagon
Italian Choices and Voices
INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION Review
Freudian Corner
Revolution Is in Our Blood
Blood Simple Dead-End
...2020-07-211h 46
Almost Good43 - Vast of NightLikely Topics List:
Positivity! It's Our New Thing
Product Reviews
Vitamin Corner
Swamp Thing Workout
VAST OF NIGHT Review
Breaking Kayfabe
CAPONE Review
Choices and Voices
Capone vs. Bronson
Tom Hardy's Dog Penis
Reverse Piracy
Dog Walk Test Fail
Like Removal Machine
Keaton's New Missing Girl Novel
Massive Stephen Graham Jones Lovefest
DR. SLEEP Review
Rios Drive-By
Why Is Horror Green?
More Like Dr. Swipe, amirite?
Sharing is Caring (a.k.a. Please Buy Our Shit)
2020-06-241h 19
Almost Good42 - ExtractionTopics:
Homeless Corner
Bermuda Rectangle
Construction Worker Hierarchy
Osborne Song #1
EXTRACTION Review
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT Review
John Wick vs. Extraction
Fun vs. Fraught
More Netflix Shenanigans
Movie Pool Mythbusting
Facebook Corner
Osborne Song #2
Joke Thieves
FORD Vs. FERRARI Review
We're Not Real
Meltdown Over a Meltdown!
The Purge Dance
FRACTURED Review
2020-05-061h 46
Almost Good41 - The Standoff at Sparrow CreekHot Topics Include:
Soft Apocalypse™ Update
Imperfect Produce
The Irish Sell Out
Failed Hunt
Invoking Nine Eleven
Osborne Gets Coronacancelled
Bats Are Delicious
STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK Review
Right-Wing Reservoir Dogs?
Cop Hate Is The Rosetta Stone, People
Big Spoiler Alert at 56:30
Is Depiction Endorsement?
UNDERWATER Review
More Like Underwear, amirite?
Return of the Male Gaze Loophole?
Kristen Stewart Is the Rosetta Stone
Cthulhu Bait And Switch
Thirsty Loophole
Stoker Awards Time Travel
Dave Doesn't Understand Poetry
Hot Mic Incident 2020-04-241h 25
Almost Good40 - The Platform / The HuntTopics Uncovered:
Apocalypse Workout Corner
Small Press Success Stories
Conspiracy Corner
Are Viruses Alive?
THE PLATFORM Review
Dumb Dubbers
Improving Movies with Fast Forward
"You Can't Shit Up"
THE HOLE Review
Osborne Interlude Song
THE HUNT Trailer Review
THE HUNT Review
The Movie-Before-The-Movie Mistake
Fake Controversy
Hunger Games with a Political Skin
It's Called a Hunting Blind, Dave
It's Called "Ode To Billy Joe," Dave
Bobbie Gentry Lovefest
Us vs. Them vs. Us vs. Us
Deplatformed by The Platform (aka The Scrunt)
Black Town Car Rolls Up the Driveway
Willing Pizzagate Into Existence
Slipknot Is...2020-04-031h 25
Almost Good39 - Uncut GemsGet Ready For:
Workout Corner!
Dead Pools
It's Not Cockfighting
Virus Corner
What Would Dunst Do?
Prepper Corner!
What's In Dave's Bag?
The Urban Prepper
On Brand Till the End
UNCUT GEMS Trailer Review
UNCUT GEMS Review
Circling-the-Drain Movies:
NIGHT AND THE CITY(s) Review
BAD LIEUTENANT(s) Review
THE GAMBLER(s) Review
The Psychology of Gamblers
Adam Sandler Review
Chekhov's Goon
A Tale of Two Buttholes
Eric Bogosian Lovefest
My Birds
2020-03-211h 28
Almost Good38 - Color Out of SpaceIn This Episode We Promise (at the very least) To Cover:
Rat Boys
Gym Enemy Update
COLOR OUT OF SPACE Review
Rubber Puppets Forever
COLOUR OUT OF SPACE Review
Lost Soul Shout-Out
Story Within Story Loophole
Occult Corner
Osborne Casts a Spell
DUNWICH HORROR Review
Holy Shit Osborne's Spell Brings a Skull to Keaton's Door in Real Time
HELLIER Review
The Egg or the Egg
Movies Catching Up with Cage
HARDWARE Review
Grading On a Curve
Ambrose Bierce's "The Damned Thing"
...2020-03-041h 23
Almost Good37 - The Best Movies Since 1999 w/ Rios de la LuzBack by popular demand... it's Rios! She helps us chop it up around this American Dirt thing.
And It's Finally Here:
Our Top Ten Of The Year!
And By That We Mean ALL YEARS
No, Seriously
It Got Out of Hand
So Fasten Your Meat Belts, Everybody
2020-01-292h 52
Almost Good36 - Dolemite Is My NameLet's Do This:
Workout Corner
The Importance of Leg Day
Social Media Corner
Writing Advice Advice
Small Press Corner
Hatchet Job
Speak to the Manager Meme Revisited
Cancelled Corner
Chicken Sandwich Challenge!
REDACTED Review
NEVER BACK DOWN Pre-Review Review
DOLEMITE IS MY NAME Review
Mack Avenue Skull Game
JOHN WICK 3 Revisited
THE FANATIC Review
WOUNDS Review
CRAWL Review
Never Trust Artists Regarding Art
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON Review
2020-01-271h 49
Almost Good35 - The IrishmanTopic List:
All In on Baby Yoda
THE MANDALORIAN Review
One-Off Frog
BLACK WIDOW Trailer Review
Post-Midsommar WICKER MAN Re-Re-Review
READY OR NOT Review
Facebook (Twitter) Corner
Osborne's Bouchercon Report
Hard Sentences Gets the High Hat
A Can Of Worms is Literally Opened
Nicolas Winding Refn Gives Osborne a Much-Needed Win
Unabomber Corner
Keaton's Imagined Grudge With *Bleep*
The Hollywood "No"
ChiZine Controversy
Perfect Politics/Shitty Person
THE IRISHMAN Review
BOARDING HOUSE REACH Review
Trading Up the Chain
Me...2019-12-262h 19
Almost Good34 - ChernobylOn This Episode:
Hot for Teacher
Thatched Roofs
Facebook Corner Debut
Facebook vs. Twitter
Writers vs. Musicians
Osborne vs. "Insufferability"
Keaton Solves Facebook with Strangers on a Train
Annoying British Children Impression
Being One Grade Older Loophole
Jiffy Lube Incident
EL CAMINO Review
DEADWOOD: THE MOVIE Review
CREEPSHOW Review
3 FROM HELL Review
CHERNOBYL Review
David Thewlis Love Corner!
Meltdown2019-11-111h 54
Almost Good33 - ClimaxThe two Daves come back to town just to talk about the incredibly uncomfortable new Gaspar Noe flick.
Also:
We Rant a Lot!
The Grumpiness Continues!
Is This Show a Cry for Help!
2019-10-101h 38
Almost Good32 - IT: Chapter TwoOn this episode, Dave and I get really grumpy about IT: Chapter Two.
Plus:
We Hate Movies in General
We Hate Everything?
We Get Pissed and Morose
Especially After Bad Movies
This Was One of *Those* Movies
2019-09-191h 33
Almost Good31 - Once Upon a Time... in HollywoodToday we are joined by author Rios de la Luz!
All Three Of Us Talk About:
Giving Up on Artists You Used to Like
How to Make Scenes Tense
Tarantino in General
JDO Finds Himself Surrounded on All Sides
Oh Shit Is Osborne the Only One Who Liked this Movie???
Trying to Convince People a Movie Is Good
It's Hard to Do
2019-08-151h 59
Almost Good30 - Midsommar
On This Episode We'll Touch On:
Putting Actors' Lives in Danger
JDO's Ongoing Obsession With Cults Is Very Cult-like
MIDSOMMAR Review
The Inherent Creepiness Of Folk Music
THE WICKER MAN Has to Come Up, Right?
The Consequences of Innocuous Decisions
2019-07-131h 28
Almost Good29 - John Wick 3: Parabellum / Godzilla: King of the MonstersIt's That Time Again:
Talking About Naps
Talking About Rain
BANDERSNATCH Review
The Limits of Meta
The Importance of the Matrix
JOHN WICK 3 Review
Dance Fighting
GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS Review
A Movie Filmed Inside of an Asshole
2019-06-1057 min
Almost Good28 - Under the Silver LakeThis time we review the new postmodern weirdo flick from the director of It Follows.
Discussions Include:
Where It Went Wrong
Where It Went Right
But Mostly...
How It Bears an Eerie Almost Uncanny Resemblance to Dave's Novel The Last Projector
Do We Have a Case of "Inspiration" on Our Hands?
Let the Evidence Speak for Itself...
Read The Book That (maybe? probably? sort of?) Inspired This Film By Clicking Here.
2019-05-121h 11
Almost Good27 - Avengers: EndgameWe Try To:
Give an Honest-to-God Review of a Superhero Movie
Have a Serious Conversation About a Stuffed Armadillo
Major Spoilers Ahead for Both!
2019-04-291h 09
Almost Good26 - The Silence / Between WorldsIn This Episode:
Vaguebooking
Print-on-Demand Movies
Negative Energy
THE SILENCE Review
The Banality of the Apocalypse
Scare Tactics
BETWEEN WORLDS Review
The Mystery of Nicolas Cage
The Mystery of Black Holes
The Mystery of Penis Compliments at the Urinal
2019-04-252h 08
Almost Good25 - UsOn Our Minds:
How to Ask Someone to Repeat Themselves Without Sounding Rude (You Can't)
Addicted to Being Mad on the Internet
Allegorical Storytelling
US Review
Jordan Peele Lovefest
The Newest Metal
Apologies for the Tech Gremlins in Full Effect
But It's Still a Really Good Episode Anyway
2019-03-251h 21
Almost Good24 - Captain Marvel / Lords of ChaosOur Discussion:
Boom! Bang! Pow! Superheroes
CAPTAIN MARVEL Review
Goth Murderer Cannibals
LORDS OF CHAOS Review
Tattling on Movie Talkers
Alamo Drafthouse Remains Unusual
Past Racism
Writer Hierarchies
Book Piracy
2019-03-201h 47
Almost Good23 - Suspiria / WidowsOn This Episode:
The Dangers of Podcasting Fully Caffeinated
Dave Invents Coffee Stirs
Are Witches Toxic?
SUSPIRIA(s) Review
A Glorious Satanic Mess
Movies Looking Like Commercials
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Review
Oscar-Caliber Fly
Subverting Heist Films
WIDOWS Review (Even Though JDO Says, "No Spoilers!")
Hot Take Positing Jar Jar Binks as a Movie-Destroying Demon
2019-02-181h 16
Almost Good22 - Best and Worst of 2018Spoiler Alert:
Movies on Our "Worst Of" List Have Been Nominated for Oscars.
2019-01-262h 02
Almost Good21 - The House That Jack BuiltThis is our final episode of 2018!
Conversations Include:
Is Lars von Trier a "Try-Hard" and Does That Matter?
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Review
A Serial Killer Movie to Kill All Serial Killers (Movies)?
Dead-On von Trier Impressions by JDO
Dave's Huge Checklist of All the Serial Killers This References
How Does Behavior Relate to Art?
Thanks for listening. It's been a great year.
2018-12-311h 07
Almost Good20 - Bird BoxWe Talk About:
J.G. Ballard's Crazy Car Books
Getting Into Fights While Taking Your Kid to See Santa
Book vs. Movie vs. Hype
Bullets vs. Arrows
BIRD BOX Review
The Perils of Disliking Things Your Friends Like
2018-12-271h 10
Almost Good19 - First ReformedOn This Episode:
Social Media Scolding
Milk Men
Pre-Internet Jackassery
Diluting The Joke
DOG EAT DOG Review
AFFLICTION Review
FIRST REFORMED Review
2018-12-171h 18
Almost Good18 - Cam / SearchingToday We Talk About:
Pulling Someone Out of the Driver's Seat of a Car
Internet Squealers
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 4 Review
CAM Review
The Fakeness of Online in Films
Harlan Ellison's Shatterday
SEARCHING Review
The Curious Case of a Certain Word
2018-12-0256 min
Almost Good17 - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
A Lot To Get To Today, Such As:
Straight-to-Netflix Content
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Review
Anthology Movies
Steve Alten's Meg
Bill Maher/Stan Lee Controversy
How White Is the Coen's Wild West?
Dave's Meta-Fictional Opus The Last Projector
2018-11-221h 16
Almost Good16 - You Were Never Really HereAre you ready for abortion, Nazis, and dad-rock revenge films? Also, why do we never see the rich get murdered on-screen? Makes ya think!
Stuff Mentioned In This Episode (Sometimes With Links):
T.C. Boyle's Short Story "Killing Babies"
Charlene's Insane Tune "I've Never Been to Me"
So Is This Bonkers Song the Polar Opposite?
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Review
And a Ton of Other Movies Also Come Up, Like...
Leon: The Professional
Road House
We Need to Talk About Kevin
American History X
American...2018-11-1153 min
Almost Good15 - MandyWe thought it might be easier to list all our nonsense. Let's try it...
Salty Rants In This Episode Include:
Dave's Shaky Basketball Analogy
How You're Not Allowed to Criticize Books
Should Tweets Be Movies?
(un)Surprising Criticisms of BLACKkKLANSMAN
MANDY Review
Cage Match
Nepo Babies
Dueling Chainsaws (Stories)
2018-10-011h 30
Almost Good14 - The FriendlessWe're all we've got in this world, but we can't hug it out over Skype. Instead, we talk about The Endless, which is 100% a really really really okay (some might say "almost good") kinda movie.
2018-09-071h 18
Almost Good13 - Beyond the Black RainbowOn this one, we dive deep into the plasma pool with Beyond the Black Rainbow, unpacking the plot, symbolism, use of tropes in non-aesthetic ways (tools as tools!), and then we talk about brain-melting psychedelics and, ultimately, how Kill Bill 2 might just hold the key to the type of storytelling we want in our movies.
2018-08-2055 min
Almost Good12 - Sorry to Bother YouJDO was really frustrated on this one. But despite it all, we talk rationally about Sorry to Bother You, one of the best movies JDO has ever seen. Dave's not so sure, but he's happy when JDO's happy.
2018-08-011h 08
Almost Good11 - Millennials Stabbin’ Horses (and Sharp Objects #1)On this episode, we talk Thoroughbreds (a.k.a. "American Psycho meets Heathers, according to the very smart packaging), Equus (lots of peners in that one), Heavenly Creatures, a good old-fashioned shredding of True Detective: Season Two, samurai swords, and a first look at Gillian Flynn's hot new HBO prestige series Sharp Objects.
2018-07-101h 18
Almost Good10 - Jurassic House / HereditaryWe have a question:
What if the Predators in the latest unessential Predator movie 69'd?
Don't worry, we also talk about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, how all opinions are invalid, and then stand back, because here comes a big-time lovefest for Hereditary.
2018-07-021h 16
Almost Good9 - Dipshit Heat!Tonight we go all-in on the worst movie of the summer, Den of Thieves, for our most "tacticool" episode yet. Which movies (besides Heat) does this thing rip off? Are movies getting darker or are they just getting darker? Does the profile fit the profile? What's the perfect Bad Cop Breakfast? And why why why does Stallone cut his pizza slice with scissors in Cobra? Answers inside.
2018-06-281h 40
Almost Good8 - The Outsider / Logan LuckyThis week, there's another SCRIPT DOCTOR in the house, as well as some discussions about overseas markets, heists, redneck portrayals and other assorted hilarity, and (most importantly) we come back together for forgiveness and put the surprise betrayal of the previous episode behind us as only we know how... by talking about Jared Leto's appropriation gangster. Noogies for everybody.
2018-05-2159 min
Almost Good7 - A Quiet PlaceTopics: Kanye West is never far from JDO's thoughts, dropping people from Facebook for not liking baby pictures, superhero movies vs. westerns, South Korean film, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, other word viruses, rule-based movies, the massive SCRIPT DOCTORING of A Quiet Place that nobody asked for, the intelligence of monsters, and a cliffhanger ending that could spell doom for the Almost Good podcast.
2018-05-0751 min
Almost Good6 - Ready Player OneAfter a much-needed week off, Almost Good returns in force to discuss directors saying really stupid shit, disavowing movies based on their creators, the #MeToo music loophole, our respective Netflix queues, Ready Player One... and oh no here comes a whole new breed of theater gremlin.
2018-04-091h 07
Almost Good5 - Wheelman / Small Crimes / The RitualTopics: Slipknot rules, Wheelman might not rule, bad dialogue, when process shots go wrong, grabbing sandwiches, conspicuous naming, toothpicks in Asian gangster flicks, no kids in movies, good tough guys, Fred Durst’s voice, meta tough guys, okay, fine, Dave kinda liked Wheelman, bad accents, Small Crimes, a good Leonardo DiCaprio joke, two Daves do some accents of their own, The Ritual, people losing their shit when they get lost in the woods, that time JDO got lost in the woods, the proper use of a Grillo revealed, cool-as-hell monsters, monsters that are simply too powerful, and what exactly is...2018-03-1951 min
Almost Good4 - Annihilation (on mushrooms)Get Ready For...
Mushrooms vs. movies, nice ice cubes, empathy builders, bad teaching scenes, sad music, pacing issues with the hazmat man, Dave’s bad jokes, "good" green, Toronto tax shelters, bears that scream like women, weird denial in movies, was there or wasn’t there weird chanting in the cutting-open-the-stomach scene, how you can lose it around others, does the rainbow work, how to totally ruin (and maybe solve) this movie, having something to lose, why JDO doesn’t do Valentine’s Day, being sad in the sad place, cool water shots, mirror processing shots, Finch, Event Ho...2018-03-141h 07
Almost Good3 - Black Panther / The Florida ProjectOn this episode of the Almost Good podcast, we talk about stuff like that one racist guy who likes Black Panther, CGI rhinos, fighting twice, Blade II as a harbinger for rubbery Gumby fights, "What are the fucking powers???", how Dave really liked the white dude with one arm, of course Killmonger was right, James Spader is ass-eating royalty, doubling down on late capitalism, Marvel already ruined movies, Dave’s stepbrother is The Movie Oracle, purple vs. orange, message from the king, is Black Panther almost good, Sean Baker rules, The Florida Project lovefest (but is it poverty porn?), proce...2018-03-051h 25
Almost Good2 - Brawl in Cell Block 99This time we talk about the unlikely awesomeness of Kanye West, Dave transcribes JDO’s drunk phone call regarding Black Panther, how the best movies never run down the middle, Dunkirk, Bane masks at the gym, nü-metal (of course), Oscar picks and snubs, A Ghost Story, fake vomit, Ladybird, annoying theater talkers, some unique Alamo Drafthouse challenges, seat kickers, art vs. pulp, the genius of S. Craig Zahler, an alternate list of Best Pictures, Gabino Iglesias' love of milk, Bad Day for the Cut, playing Rammstein at work, car fighting, and THE SCRIPT DOCTOR is on double duty, rol...2018-02-211h 15
Almost Good1 - The Shape of WaterFor our very first episode, Dave talks about almost getting into a fight on the way to a movie about fish fucking, what it was like to go to movie theaters in the '80s, The Shape of Water gets reviewed for real, then we ramble about the importance of character evolution. Also, we ask each other questions like, "What even is an Oscar movie?" talk a little about Instagram Cinema, the feel-bad/white-trash epic I, Tonya, and finally bust out THE SCRIPT DOCTOR, who totally fixes The Shape of Water for free.
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