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Almost GoodAlmost 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 21Almost GoodAlmost 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 06Almost GoodAlmost 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 32Almost GoodAlmost 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 14Almost GoodAlmost 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 16Almost GoodAlmost 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 03Almost GoodAlmost 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 20Almost GoodAlmost 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 02Almost GoodAlmost 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 49Almost GoodAlmost 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 24Almost GoodAlmost 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 21Almost GoodAlmost 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 17Almost GoodAlmost 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 34Almost GoodAlmost 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 minAlmost GoodAlmost 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 34Almost GoodAlmost 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 46Almost GoodAlmost 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 19Almost GoodAlmost 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 46Almost GoodAlmost 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 25Almost GoodAlmost 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 25Almost GoodAlmost 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 28Almost GoodAlmost 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 23Almost GoodAlmost 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 52Almost GoodAlmost 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 49Almost GoodAlmost 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 19Almost GoodAlmost 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 54Almost GoodAlmost 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 38Almost GoodAlmost 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 33Almost GoodAlmost 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 59Almost GoodAlmost 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 28Almost GoodAlmost 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 minAlmost GoodAlmost 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 11Almost GoodAlmost 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 09Almost GoodAlmost 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 08Almost GoodAlmost 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 21Almost GoodAlmost 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 47Almost GoodAlmost 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 16Almost GoodAlmost Good22 - Best and Worst of 2018Spoiler Alert: Movies on Our "Worst Of" List Have Been Nominated for Oscars. 2019-01-262h 02Almost GoodAlmost 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 07Almost GoodAlmost 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 10Almost GoodAlmost 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 18Almost GoodAlmost 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 minAlmost GoodAlmost 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 16Almost GoodAlmost 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 minAlmost GoodAlmost 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 30Almost GoodAlmost 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 18Almost GoodAlmost 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 minAlmost GoodAlmost 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 08Almost GoodAlmost 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 18Almost GoodAlmost 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 16Almost GoodAlmost 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 40Almost GoodAlmost 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 minAlmost GoodAlmost 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 minAlmost GoodAlmost 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 07Almost GoodAlmost 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 minAlmost GoodAlmost 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 07Almost GoodAlmost 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 25Almost GoodAlmost 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 15Almost GoodAlmost 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. 2018-02-211h 05