The Cinema Goodness Podcast

We asked our AI co-host for something creepy. Psychological. Blake took the assignment personally. What starts as another night recording The Cinema Goodness Podcast becomes a nightmare Kahim and JP can’t explain—and might not escape. A CINEMA GOODNESS HALLOWEENAn original animated horror-comedy short featuring Kahim, JP, and Blake. A Lightrich Studios production. Some conversations should stay in...

What do we inherit, and what do we choose to become? Day 3 of the Doomsday March: Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, and VisionQuest Episodes 5 & 6.⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: This episode discusses VisionQuest Episodes 5 and 6 (“Firewall” and “Deadlock”) in detail. Catching up on the series? Day 1: [LINK TO DAY 1] · Day 2: [LINK TO DAY 2]Doomsday March is our ongoing journey through Marvel fi...

Doomsday March: Day 2 revisits Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers, then breaks down VisionQuest Episodes 3 & 4 to explore power, identity, and the legacies shaping the MCU's future.⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: This episode discusses VisionQuest Episodes 3 and 4 in detail. THE DOOMSDAY MARCH CONTINUESWe're revisiting Marvel's films and stories ahead of Avengers: Doomsday. Th...

Marvel is bringing its past back. Does it still matter? Day 1 of the Doomsday March: we react to [TRAILER NAME], revisit X-Men (2000) and X2: X-Men United, and break down VisionQuest Episodes 1 & 2. ⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: This episode discusses VisionQuest Episodes 1 and 2 in detail. Doomsday March is our ongoing journey through Marvel films and stories ahead of Avengers: Doomsday. It isn't j...

Lanterns gave us a John Stewart worth believing in. Did it give us a finale worth the wait? ⚠️ Full spoilers for Episode 8, "Dirt and Stars." Kahim and JP break down the Lanterns Season 1 finale: John's choice to spare Noah, the decision to let Carrie walk, the truth behind Hal Jordan's death, the Halogram's farewell, and that final flight into the wider DC Universe. The big...

A guy trapped in a hallway that keeps rewriting itself. A family trapped in a legacy that's been rewriting itself for three generations. Same loop, two very different buildings. Tonight Kahim gives his honest, conflicted take on Backrooms — a movie that had him completely locked in for the first half and completely lost him by the third act — breaking down exactly where the psychological horro...

A family that built walls to keep the ocean out. An institution that builds walls to keep accountability out. Tonight Kahim and JP ask what happens when the wall was never actually the plan — it was just the delay. Netflix's The Last House follows the Delgado family, five years sealed behind an invisible barrier while something moves through the rain outside — until a supply run gone wrong for...

A cosmic cop who can't let go of his ring. A father who has to let go of everything he built. Tonight Kahim and JP put them side by side — and the answer isn't as similar as it looks. Lanterns Episode 5, "Lights Out" is the episode where the show stops asking "who is the Manhunter" and starts asking who you can actually trust with power. Hal Jordan crashes his own car t...

Two completely different stories. One brutal lesson: whatever you refuse to deal with eventually deals with you. Tonight Kahim and JP break down The Whisper Man — where Pete Willis (Robert De Niro) shows up 25 years too late to finally get fatherhood right, and the damage he never dealt with almost costs him his own grandson — and Lanterns Episode 4, "The Weenie," where Hal Jordan finds...

What happens when the people who love you stop accepting who you are — and start loving who they think you're supposed to become? That's the question at the heart of this episode of The Cinema Goodness Podcast. This week, we're putting Obsession and Lanterns: “OutKast” together for one uncomfortable conversation: What happens when love, protection, and belief become control? In Obsessi...

Fifty boys walking until one of them dies. A rookie Lantern who can't tell if the person across the table is human. This episode, we're putting The Long Walk (2025) and Lanterns Episode 2, "Trust Fall," side by side to ask one question: when it's life or death, is trust a strength or a liability? We break down: 🚶 The Long Walk's three-act descent and the ending swap that...

Miranda can't control the algorithm, and Hal Jordan might be dead in episode one — tonight we break down The Devil Wears Prada 2 AND HBO's Lanterns back to back, and somehow they're asking the exact same question: what happens when your legacy gets tested?

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 3 is over... but did we actually get a finale? The Cinema Goodness crew breaks down the Season 3 finale, the biggest character moments, the wildest surprises, and why an episode can be GREAT while still leaving you completely unsatisfied. Full Description HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 3 has officially come to an end... but we're not convinced we actually got a finale. T...

When does protecting everything start costing you yourself? Tonight on The Cinema Goodness Podcast Kahim and JP ask the question connecting three completely different stories. When does carrying the weight alone stop being strength — and start becoming the very thing that breaks you? SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY Four years. No Stark tech. No team. No one who even knows his name. Peter Parker built an...

Criston Cole is dead. No final duel. No last words. Just a muddy field and the internet losing its mind over how it happened. Meanwhile a queen is discovering that the throne she bled for isn't the home she thought she was fighting for. And three thousand years ago, a man crossed the wine-dark sea for ten years only to find out the hardest part wasn't the journey home. It was figuring out who was...

Marvel just showed its hand. An author watched her life's work travel through three studios across a decade and come out the other side as something she doesn't fully recognize. And an entire kingdom is tearing itself apart — not because of dragons — but because every person on every side is being run by resentment they refuse to let go of. Tonight on The Cinema Goodness Podcast Kahim and...

Can AI replace working actors? 🎬 Tonight, Houston-based actor, stunt performer, and creator Rafael Lozano joins the show for an honest conversation about building a performance career in the age of AI. We dive deep into the reality of modern auditions, actor training, voice/likeness rights, and independent filmmaking in a rapidly shifting industry. Then, we shift gears to House of the Dragon Seas...

Power doesn't create monsters. It reveals them. This week on Cinema Goodness, we're diving into two stories that couldn't look more different on the surface, yet ask the exact same question. 🐉 House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 3 gives Rhaenyra the throne she's fought for... but the choices she makes after gaining power may be the most revealing part of her journey yet. 🩸 They...

Most House of the Dragon fans have never heard this. The three dragon eggs Rhaena Targaryen carries away to safety at the end of Season 2 — those are the exact same three eggs given to Daenerys Targaryen in the Game of Thrones pilot. Drogon. Rhaegal. Viserion. Were laid by Rhaenyra's dragon Syrax. Which means when Daenerys walked into that fire in Season 1 of Game of Thrones — she was hatching...

Tonight's conversation with Bron reminded us why we started Cinema Goodness. If you're a filmmaker, a creator, or someone building something from scratch — we want to hear from you. Want to be a guest on the show? Email us: cinemagoodnesspodcast@gmail.com Tell us who you are, what you're building, and why Cinema Goodness needs to know about it.

Two completely different stories. One identical truth. Tonight on The Cinema Goodness Podcast Kahim and JP break down two stories about stepping into who you were always meant to be. KevOnStage just signed the most expansive creator deal in Tubi history. Two feature films. Multiple series through 2028. Safe Space Season 2 just dropped. Season 3 already greenlit. This isn't a content creator ge...

Two films. Two completely different kinds of love. One night that changed how we see both. Tonight on The Cinema Goodness Podcast Kahim and JP sit down with two of 2026's most talked about films — and one of them completely stole the show. Is God Is arrives with a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and zero apologies. A Southern Gothic revenge thriller about twin sisters commanded by their dying mother to...

Two of 2026's biggest films. Two completely different kinds of legacy. This week on The Cinema Goodness Podcast, Kahim and JP break down the Michael Jackson biopic and Mortal Kombat II — and what both films reveal about what it really costs to become legendary. We're getting into Jaafar Jackson's haunting performance, the shocking legal drama that forced a complete third act rewrite, a...

Space is back in a big way — and we're breaking it all down. This week on Cinema Goodness, we react to the Masters of the Universe trailer, go deep on Project Hail Mary (one of the most anticipated sci-fi adaptations in years), and stack it all up against the real thing — because with Artemis II bringing humans back to deep space, we have to ask:Do movies actually get space right… or are they...

This week on the Cinema Goodness Podcast, we’re diving into three massive moments shaping film and pop culture right now: 🕷️ Spider-Man: Brand New Day Trailer Breakdown Tom Holland’s Peter Parker is completely alone. No friends. No identity. No safety net. We break down the emotional gut-punch of a forgotten hero, the shocking mutation teases, and what the Punisher and Scorpion mean for this darke...