The Good, the Bad and the Weird

The Good, the Bad and the Weird is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by two friends, Nicho and Chris, who explore all aspects of film from forgotten classics, to gore-fests, to more contemporary films. Join us as we explore the good, the bad and the weird that cinema has to offer!

MicroView #053 Lady in the Water 07/30/2025

MicroView #053 Lady in the Water Beat the heat and dip your toes back into the murky and muddled fairy tale pool of M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water! Join Nicho and Chris as they discuss this odd entry in the Shyamalan library that is both compelling and confusing as a child-oriented semi-horror flick. It’s part fantasy, part horror, part meta-movie, and all Shyamalan. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/37595895

#168 The Shape of Water [Plenty of Fish in Your Local Government Secret Lab] 07/23/2025

#168 The Shape of Water [Plenty of Fish in Your Local Government Secret Lab] Listeners! Reach out and grab your fellow fish men or women! Embrace them as brothers or sisters or whatever they are and make love, not war with the godly wet amphibian race. As they are sure to make you wet as well in this latest deep dive of The Shape of Water! Join Nicho and Chris as they dip their toes into Guillermo del Toro's Oscar winning, twisted hybrid offspring of Creature from the Black Lagoon and Beauty and the Beast to see if it holds water or just skims the surface. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/37483870

MicroView #052 War of the Worlds 07/16/2025

MicroView #052 War of the Worlds Look not to the skies dear listeners! But to the ground and bow before the new eldritch gods with weak immune systems! OR join Nicho and Chris as they dig deep enough into the 2005 remake of War of the Worlds! A film that takes the classic H. G. Wells' novel and gives it a post 9/11 paranoia twist. All while telling you how not to be a father! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/37405865

#167 Aliens [Like Alien but, There's More of Them] 07/09/2025

#167 Aliens [Like Alien but, There's More of Them] It’s game over Listeners, game over as Nicho and Chris open up these slimy eggs and take a face hugger to the gullet as they return to LV-426 to explore what made Aliens one of the greatest sequels of all time! From its evolution of the xenomorph to Cameron's careful crafting of elements that transitioned the franchise from secluded horror to action, this episode is locked, loaded and ready to kill some bugs! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/37325815

MicroView #051 Dead Sushi 07/02/2025

MicroView #051 Dead Sushi Do you smell that smell? That smelly smell? It's Dead Sushi! Join Nicho and Chris as they wrap up their weird food journey with this freaky and fishy flick. A zombie flick so raw, and ridiculous that it makes you wonder if it even is a zombie movie. Tune in for flying nigiri, martial arts and somehow a reanimated egg omelet? /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/37210320

#166 Tampopo [Ramen, Cowboys and Serious Eats] 06/25/2025

#166 Tampopo [Ramen, Cowboys and Serious Eats] To appreciate a movie, one must first observe the whole podcast, the gestalt, bask in the vocal reverberations, the jewels of comedy glittering on the surface, concentrate on the facts and slurp up that rich broth that is 1985's Tampopo! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into this love story of ramen and food culture that is sure to make you hungry while watching it! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/37140090

MicroView #050 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 06/18/2025

MicroView #050 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Gritty, a bit off with its history and full of magically induced diabeetus, its everyone's favorite sibling witch hunters in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunter! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into the weird magical and not so magical world to see if this attempted start at a franchise still holds up or if it belongs lost in the woods of cinematic fairy tales! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/37017395

#165 Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper [Barbie Teaches the Consequences of Poor Money Management] 06/11/2025

#165 Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper [Barbie Teaches the Consequences of Poor Money Management] A tale as old as time, two almost identical CGI models, born on different ends of the social spectrum, destined to trade places solely because one ruler cannot manage their money! Join Nicho and Chris as the take a trip to a far away unnamed kingdom to see if the first musical Barbie movie, Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is worth its weight in gold or belongs in the discount bin. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36930630

MicroView #049 Uncle Buck 06/04/2025

MicroView #049 Uncle Buck Just in in your time of need, he's rough, crass and full of laughs, it's 1989's cult classic Uncle Buck! Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look at this much beloved and slightly inappropriate family comedy that is full of heart and some awkward times! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36840350

#164 12 Angry Men 05/28/2025

#164 12 Angry Men Two podcasters enter a closet in search of cinematic truth and will not leave until justice is served in this review of 12 Angry Men! Join Nicho and Chris as they tackle the case and the evidence as to why 12 Angry Men is considered not only one of the greatest films of all time but why it still endures to today! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36681765

MicroView #048 Maggie 05/21/2025

MicroView #048 Maggie What happens when action stars turn sentimental father? Find out as Nicho and Chris explore 2015's Maggie staring a much older Arnold Schwarzenegger that has a lot of heart at its core amidst the hoard of zombie flicks out there. But does it do enough to stand out or is it just another kind of movie hiding in zombie skin? /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36608060

#163 Conan the Barbarian [Muscles and the Lesson of Friendship] 05/14/2025

#163 Conan the Barbarian [Muscles and the Lesson of Friendship] Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the microphone, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, The Good, the Bad & the Weird Podcast was destined to wear the jeweled crown of best podcast ever upon a troubled brow. Join, Nicho and I Chris, as they tell thee of the saga of Conan, The Barbarian and explore the hidden history and influence of the iconic muscle-bound anti-hero. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36550345

MicroView #047 Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost 05/07/2025

MicroView #047 Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost We're podcasters! And we're going to put a spell on you!! In the first MicroView from the winner of Season 6 Bingo with Scooby-Doo in the Witch's Ghost, Nicho and Chris dive into the goth icons that are the hex girls. While exploring why some consider this to be their favorite Scooby-Doo movie! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36461575

#162 Death Race 2000 [Red, White and Blown to Smithereens] 04/30/2025

#162 Death Race 2000 [Red, White and Blown to Smithereens] Welcome listeners to the 20th annual Transcontinental Race! Full of violence and nudity that is sure to stir any red blooded American into a frenzy of excitement! Join Nicho and Chris as they provide colored commentary on the history and legacy Death Race 2000! A cult classic with satire that is still relevant 50 years later even under its over-the-top style and barely working cars! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36358375

MicroView #046 Duel 04/23/2025

MicroView #046 Duel Before Jaws, before Jurassic Park, Stephen Spielberg was pitting men against a different kind of monster, truck drivers.... Join Nicho and Chris as the hit the road once again with Spielberg's first major theatrical debut in with 1971's Duel! A film that sounds dumb at first but is expertly put together to create a white knuckle experience and showcase Spielberg's craft from before he was a household name. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36266685

#161 Death Proof [An Homage to Stunt Performers and Feet] 04/16/2025

#161 Death Proof [An Homage to Stunt Performers and Feet] Buckle up Listeners, get ready for a Podcast that is 100% death proof? Only to get the benefit of it, honey, you REALLY need to be sitting behind our mic! Hop into the latest episode as Nicho and Chris take an adrenaline fueled ride through the second half of Grindhouse in Death Proof! In this episode, they explore the love and homage to stunt performers and the carsploitation genre while complaining about the amount of feet on screen. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36162505

#160 Planet Terror [Love, Zombies & BBQ] 04/09/2025

#160 Planet Terror [Love, Zombies & BBQ] Strap on your machine-gun peg leg and get ready to kick off a double feature with Nicho and Chris as they explore Robert Rodriguez's less than family friendly is in 2007's Planet Terror! In this episode Nicho and Chris explore how Rodriguez milked the Grindhouse genre for all it was worth to create a weird but entertaining homage that will keep you at the edge of your seat! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/36055645

MicroView #045 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D 04/02/2025

MicroView #045 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D Close your eyes, shut your mouth, dream a dream and listen to the latest episode on The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D! Join Nicho and Chris as they take a trip through the 3-D nightmare that has some creative heart at its core and explore what was for a generation their Spy Kids. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35958750

#159 Spy Kids [Thumb but Fun] 03/26/2025

#159 Spy Kids [Thumb but Fun] Oh shiiiiitake mushrooms, hold onto your Machete BuddyPacks, we are back with another action packed flick with the family cult classic Spy Kids! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into childhood nostalgia and learn how what was an odd spy movie to them was more impactful on the Latin community than they first thought! As well as exploring the passion behind director Robert Rodriguez that is sure to make you want to relive your own childhood! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35827820

MicroView #044 Jigra 03/19/2025

MicroView #044 Jigra While bromances are cool and all but, sometimes siblings are all you got in the world! Join Nicho and Chris as they take a dive into lengthy but endearing journey of Jigra. A Film about a sister's unrelenting desire to save her doomed brother and his side journey of prison escape. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35767060

#158 RRR [Rowdy Righteous Rebels] 03/12/2025

#158 RRR [Rowdy Righteous Rebels] Rising from British occupied India, two Indian revolutionaries create one of the greatest bromances to grace streaming services everywhere! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into the real-life inspirations surrounding this wildly inaccurate film. Something that would usually annoy them in other films but just works so well for this mythical tale of friendship and freedom! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35645855

MicroView #043 Iron Mask 03/05/2025

MicroView #043 Iron Mask Two powerhouses of cinema come together for like five minutes in Iron Mask! Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look into adventures of rogue cartographer Jonathan Green and his propogandist journeys through Russia and China! As well as try to understand the loose history in this even looser historical fiction flick. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35518775

#157 Rush Hour [A Buddy Chop Bromance] 02/26/2025

#157 Rush Hour [A Buddy Chop Bromance] LISTENERS! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF OUR MOUTHS!? If so, join Nicho and Chris as they take a dive into the '90s classic buddy cop comedy, Rush Hour! A film that not only made a major impact on the action comedy genre but also skyrocketed Jackie Chan's American career! Sit down for some laughs and the solid attention to detail in this flick that has aged like a fine piece of 5,000 year old Chinese artifacts. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35421745

Spotlight #025 Seed of Chucky feat. Sugi Logic 02/19/2025

Spotlight #025 Seed of Chucky feat. Sugi Logic Back from the grave, like an animatronic puppet, it is Sugi Logic! Joining Nicho and Chris as they dissect one of the most hated Child's Play films, Seed of Chucky. A movie that pushes the series to new heights of absurdity and campiness while commentating of identity and the film industry as a hole. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35340965

#156 First Love [Love at First Knockout] 02/12/2025

#156 First Love [Love at First Knockout] It's love at first punch with Takashi Miike's First Love! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into this typhoon of movie that spins together a tale of Yakuza, drug deals gone wrong, healing and love and spits out a compelling, action packed flick that balances Miike's flair for ultraviolence, slight comedy and heart! /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35244375

MicroView #042 Love & Freindship 02/05/2025

MicroView #042 Love & Freindship Sense and sensibility are two things, among many, that are lacking in Love & Friendship. Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look into the bad side of Jane Austen adaptations in a the 2016 adaptation of Lady Susan. A film that is quite all over the place and lacks and sense of subtlety to its storytelling or commentary. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35109850

#155 Sense and Sensibility [Sensibly Romantic] 01/29/2025

#155 Sense and Sensibility [Sensibly Romantic] In light of the upcoming season of anti-romance, it is time for something quite sensible for a change! Join Nicho and Chris as they take a dive into 1995's Sense and Sensibility. A film that that masterfully adapts Jane Austen's slow and dry novel into a gripping and visually stunning tale of female struggles in 18th century England. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/35011865

Spotlight #024 Like a Dragon: Yakuza feat. Kalloth0467 01/22/2025

Spotlight #024 Like a Dragon: Yakuza feat. Kalloth0467 Kalloth0467 returns with Nicho and Chris as they return to the seedy streets of Kamurochō in the latest adaptation of Sega's beloved video game franchise, Like a Dragon: Yakuza. Join them as they explore the show's reimagining of the the world of Yakuza through rough symbolism and confusing time jumps between 1995 and 2005. As well as the void of anything unique to set it apart from any other crime drama. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/34911260

#154 A Scanner Darkly [Future Paranoia of Modern Times] 01/15/2025

#154 A Scanner Darkly [Future Paranoia of Modern Times] What does a podcast see? Does a movie review podcast see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? Nicho and Chris dare to ask these questions and more as they dive into 2006's A Scanner Darkly. A film with a hauntingly familiar look into the present and the not so distant future that explores the life of renowned author Philip K. Dick, his addictions, paranoia and those affected by the playtime of the 60s. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/34817690

MicroView #041 Fire and Ice 01/08/2025

MicroView #041 Fire and Ice What do you get whe you cross Ralph Bakshi with the fantasy legened Frank Frazetta? You get ice age Lord of the Rings full of scantily clad men and women, evil sorcerers, and prehistoric beasts! Join Nicho and Chris in the episode as they take a look into the bizarre and fascinating crossover that might have more to it than meets the eye. /episode/index/show/thegoodthebadandtheweird/id/34724970

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