Good Movie, Bad Movie

Two cinephiles discuss the good, the bad, and the so-bad-it's-good. We watch one movie at a time, some of the best and worst ever made, find a link between two of them, and determine if we agree with the general consensus and each other.

The Holdovers (2023) 11/25/2024

The Holdovers (2023) From The Good List! The grumpiest old man, the crankiest kid, and a woman experiencing the worst pain in her life, bond as they find comfort and a sense of family in one another. Of course they drink a lot and lie through their teeth every chance they get, but it’s the holidays in the 70s so who cares! Listen as we the discuss the details that will curl your toes! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/33994482

Swimfan (2002) 11/11/2024

Swimfan (2002) From The Bad List! Ben has worked hard to turn his life around thanks to his newfound love of swimming. On the verge of graduation, here comes Madison Bell: hot, blonde, and one sandwich short of a picnic. Her relentless pursuit of love that doesn’t exist will ruin countless lives unless the hot guy from Bring It On can stop her. Let’s get wet in more ways than one! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/33861837

Play Misty for Me (1971) 10/28/2024

Play Misty for Me (1971) From The Good List! Long before Glenn Close boiled a bunny, the OG cinema stalker girl was infatuated with a late-night DJ. What starts as a seemingly innocuous encounter, soon proves that thinking with your dick is a bad idea. She’ll stop at nothing to infiltrate his job, home, and love life. Time to wreck living rooms and hearts! A content warning for this episode. This movie has a scene depicting self harm and we will be discussing it when it comes up. If you are uncomfortable with that in any way, we understand if you would prefer not to listen. Thanks! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/33542157

Vampires (1998) 10/14/2024

Vampires (1998) From The Bad List! Today we take a look at what happens when a bunch of guys who hunt vampires and hate women go hunting vampires, but a really big bad one! Dustin Meadows is back with his pick for the bad movie despite being a huge fan of John Carpenter! Check out His And his AND Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/33399732

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) 09/30/2024

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) From The Good List! Two brothers just need to get away so they link up with a father and his kids and all take a road trip to Mexico. The brothers are also fugitives, the father and kids are their hostages, and the road trip takes them to the sketchiest bar in history. That isn’t even the messed up part yet because vampires show up! We’re joined by a review contest winner Dustin Meadows to discuss his pick for a good movie! Check out His And his Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/33196157

Young Einstein (1988) 09/16/2024

Young Einstein (1988) From The Bad List! A young man sets out to make his mark in the world of theoretical physics by figuring out how to split the atom, inventing rock and roll, developing the world’s first surfboard, and wooing Marie Curie. Who is this man? It’s Albert Einstein of course! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/33056472

Young Frankenstein (1974) 09/02/2024

Young Frankenstein (1974) From The Good List! A neurosurgeon has two problems: first, the terrible reputation of his family follows him everywhere he goes, and second, his fiancée won’t have sex with him. So he does what anyone would do and moves to Transylvania to reanimate a dead body and put on a musical number! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/32748602

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) 08/19/2024

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) From The Bad List! A group of fedoras in trench coats recruit a definitely still college-aged Steve McQueen to be their getaway driver during a bank heist in St. Louis. That is until a tried and true problem occurs: a dame! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/32624282

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 08/05/2024

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) From The Good List! In the months between summer 1903 and spring 1904, the Smith family sing songs, dance, cook soup, and prove that the best way to fall in love is to tell someone that you need them to help you turn off the lights because you’re afraid of mice. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/32426597

In Time (2011) 07/22/2024

In Time (2011) From The Bad List! Time is money. Literally! Oh it’s also your life and the moment your clock hits zero, you’re dead! That’s the world these characters live in as most struggle to see tomorrow while others have centuries to waste. But as this world and its message unfolds, the most difficult thing to believe is thinking Cillian Murphy looks 25. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/32237747

Metropolis (1927) 07/08/2024

Metropolis (1927) From The Good List! A world where the ultra rich look down on the working class, see no value in their lives, and plan to replace them with machines. No, I’m not talking about our world with AI, but rather this blatantly obvious neon sign of a warning given to us nearly a century ago. One where robots are used for two things: replacing the poor and being sexy for the rich. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/32019172

White Chicks (2004) 06/24/2024

White Chicks (2004) From The Bad List! Straight off the success of the Scary Movie franchise, The Wayans brothers star as FBI agents Kevin and Marcus. They try to prove to their boss that they are capable employees by going undercover as two White heiresses to prevent a kidnapping only that prove my instincts were correct to avoid this movie were, in fact, correct. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/31859622

Some Like It Hot (1959) 06/10/2024

Some Like It Hot (1959) From The Good List! Two down-on-their-luck musicians witness a mob hit and have to go into hiding with an all-female band. When their interpersonal relationships get messy, how long can they keep up the act before they’re caught? Join us for a movie about the first two contests eliminated from Drag Race. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/31662897

The Room (2003) 05/27/2024

The Room (2003) From The Bad List! An absolute ghoul of a man is set to marry the woman of his dreams until she inexplicably decides to blow up their relationship by sleeping with his best friend. Try as he may to understand why she did this to him, no one will ever have the answer because the script lacks any sense of plot, character arcs, and even the slightest bit of cohesion. We are joined by Sarah, Matt’s wife and the person who first took him to see this movie! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/31377207

Clerks (1994) 05/13/2024

Clerks (1994) From The Good List! Two friends hang out, discuss life, love, the moral implications tied to fantasy stories and question if they are on the right path. They are also both completely neglecting their jobs while they do this, and only ask one thing: if you plan to shoplift, let them know. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/31137098

The Happytime Murders (2018) 04/29/2024

The Happytime Murders (2018) From The Bad List! A human cop and a puppet detective try to find out who's picking off cast members of a TV show to inherit their collective wealth. Two-time Academy Award Nominee, Melissa McCarthy, bites a puppet’s crotch in this film that is the result of giving a 12-year-old on a sugar bender a copy of Final Draft after watching too much HBO. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/30840148

The Muppet Movie (1979) 04/15/2024

The Muppet Movie (1979) From The Good List! Scouted while playing banjo in a swamp, Kermit the Frog decides to give Hollywood a shot. On his way he’ll outrun a sleazy entrepreneur, sing songs, fall in love, and most impressively, ride a bike! We cried a tiny bit. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/30722828

Godzilla (1998) 04/01/2024

Godzilla (1998) From The Bad List! A ragtag team consisting of Ferris Bueller, Leon the Professional, a guy who does half the voices of Springfield, and a woman whose film career did not recover from this film are assembled to save New York from a giant rampaging lizard and its babies. We are rejoined by Christopher Page from The Time Shifters Podcast and Orphaned Entertainment. Find all this work here: The Time Shifters Podcast: Orphaned Entertainment: Instagram: Discord: Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/30607333

Shin Godzilla (2016) 03/18/2024

Shin Godzilla (2016) From The Good List! A bunch of politicians and cabinet members hold meetings, ask questions, get wrong answers, and don’t know what to do when a bunch of scientists are analyzing data on a rather large, googly-eyed creature they have never seen before as it stomps across their country and destroys everything it touches. We are joined by Christopher Page from The Time Shifters Podcast and Orphaned Entertainment. Find all this work here: The Time Shifters Podcast: Orphaned Entertainment: Instagram: Discord: Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/30327803

Gigli (2003) 03/04/2024

Gigli (2003) From The Bad List! Would you like to see a dark comedy about a bumbling low-rent mobster type who falls for a tough, smart woman while helping inspire the confidence of the target he kidnapped to save his slimy boss from prosecution? Yeah, I’d like to see that too, ‘cause this ain’t it! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/30120348

Harold and Maude (1971) 02/19/2024

Harold and Maude (1971) From The Good List! In this feature-length Cat Stevens music video, a 70’s emo kid with a flair for the dramatic meets a feisty geriatric car thief at the funerals they both crash. Filled with hippy-dippy spirit and elaborate displays of dark humor! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/29919708

Mine Games (2012) 02/05/2024

Mine Games (2012) From The Bad List! Seven of the tropiest friends celebrate graduating college by doing what any group of early 20-somethings do: drink booze, have sex, and party away in a cabin in the woods where no one can hear them scream! That is until they realize they may have lived this nightmare already! Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/29657553

Groundhog Day (1993) 01/22/2024

Groundhog Day (1993) From The Good List! A TV weatherman is trapped reliving the same day over and over and is the only person able to remember each of the previous days. For whatever reason, whether it be God, the devil, time, random magic, a curse, or just the infinite powers of the cosmos, this one dude was singled out as special enough for all this power to be used. For him. Seriously. This guy? Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/29582143

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) 01/08/2024

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) From The Bad List! In a nuanced portrayal of how violence begets violence and how adults need to take children’s concerns seriously, an unintentionally hilarious movie about trauma is born. Join us for this holiday classic that doesn’t make sex sexy, violence scary, or Christmas the most wonderful time of the year. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/29302323

Black Christmas (1974) 12/25/2023

Black Christmas (1974) From The Good List! In what is arguably the worst hazing process of all time, a sorority finds themselves dealing with death and disappearances over the course of two nights, smack dab in the middle of the holiday season. Interpersonal drama and lots of booze fuel the ignorance of a group of 20-somethings as they are picked off one by one. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/29112928

The Pagemaster (1994) 12/11/2023

The Pagemaster (1994) From The Bad List! Rather than get their 10-year-old son therapy, a couple sends the kid on his bicycle to a hardware store to pick up a box of nails just before a terrible storm hits. Luckily this kid finds shelter in a library before being transported to an animated world of nightmares where he needs to learn to stop being such a little bitch and get over his many, many fears. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/28998478

The NeverEnding Story (1984) 11/27/2023

The NeverEnding Story (1984) From The Good List! A boy copes with the death of his mother by ditching class so that he can do the truly irresponsible thing of reading a book. A book that takes him to a world full of unique and interesting characters as it is explored by the one young warrior who can save it from destruction brought upon by a global existential crisis. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/28647748

Catwoman (2004) 11/13/2023

Catwoman (2004) From The Bad List! If you ever wanted to see a leather-clad woman doing parkour in open-toed pumps, have we got a film for you! After making history as the first Black woman to win a lead actress Oscar, Halle Berry’s next big film tells the story of…uhhh..something! I’m sure of it! I think… Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/28563365

Cat People (1942) 10/30/2023

Cat People (1942) From The Good List! Warning to men everywhere! If you see a beautiful woman in a public setting, not picking up her own trash, do not approach! She might maul you! Also please ignore the sign that says, “Do not feed the podcasters,” we are always hungry. Is she female or feline or is she simply, *gasp* foreign? Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/28265129

Collision Course (1989) 10/16/2023

Collision Course (1989) From The Bad List! When a retired police officer is in the wrong place at the wrong time, his former partner vows revenge. Little does that guy know that an entirely different crime was being committed and an investigator from Japan arrives to illegally recover a stolen prototype without the knowledge of the US government. Despite their initial conflicting personalities, the two will eventually become friends in order to defeat a villain who has maybe 5 minutes of screen time. Find us on: Email us /episode/index/show/feec6046-4e44-4f6f-b385-faa1fed88451/id/28138970

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