Shows
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 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 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 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 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 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 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