There Will Be Duds

Odds and Ends: Move over, beloved classics, Angel Studios has another movie coming out; T.J. swims in his beloved garbage and we talk about the fall of AMC Feature Film: Sidney Lumet is back as we discuss another 70s classic of his, starring Eye Pacino and the late great John Cazale. It's a sweaty pressure cooker of a movie with lots to love. Next week's movie: Yi Yi (2000) You can join th...

Odds and Ends: We do some self-shilling, did you know we have a Youtube channel; T.J. finally gets to talk about The Creator and we make the bold proclamation that hey, maybe original movies are a good thing Feature Film: Stepping farther back into movie history than ever before, we almost hit silent film territory with Fritz Lang's classic, M, a talkie that still has some silent film trademar...

Odds and Ends: We don't get Swifties, and us being old white guys doesn't have anything to do with that; Nick rewatched a childhood favorite featuring Hunter Dunbar, as well as the classic Dawn of the Dead Feature Film: Another weird adaptation of a Stephen King novel, Dreamcatcher is a mashup of discarded ideas that the author didn't have room for in other books. On top of that, the m...

Odds and Ends: We tried to watch other horror movies for the Halloween season, but all we could muster was one episode of the new Castlevania show that is just okay; we talk about some horror shorts on YouTube, namely The Other Side of the Box and My House Walk-Through . Feature Film: Chris brings in another horror double feature with the recent indie horror hits The Outwaters and Skinamarink, and...

Odds and Ends: We try to be movie news guys and report on the results of WGA strike, but we don't want to subscribe to these websites to read the dang articles; Nick is watching the Saw series and talks about how easy the traps would be for him to escape because he's built different Feature Film: We talk about another horror classic, as well as it's direct sequel, and how different the...

Odds and Ends: Ain't no movies in theaters; good and bad (and stinkers) of the early 80s; why is Stop Making Sense the "best concert film ever"; Nick watches a cool and fun documentary Feature Film: Josh from Learning About Movies returns yet again, this time bringing in the first of our horror month picks for the year, the Italian giallo classic Suspiria. Featuring lots of pretty co...

Odds and Ends: Concert film terrorism; Onyx the Fortuitous has a movie coming out, and it may or may not be good (how's that for some movie news); T.J. watched some classic movies and had a good time; somehow we wind up discussing the Conjuring cinematic universe Feature Film: M. Night's infamous movie The Happening, where not much seems to be... occurring. One of many weird and bad movies...

Welcome back to the Vault! We’re back in time for the second part of our Gamecube specials, and in this one, we cover our own personal top 10 games for the console, and our top tens are… more similar than we expected, so it’s more like one top 15 list. At least our honorable mentions are different enough… except the ones that are in the other persons’ top 10… Hey, we normally review movies, so go...

Odds and Ends: T.J. finished a couple shows he thinks are pretty swell; Nick watched a new movie he worries only he saw; we both checked out the Telemarketers documentary and talk about our own harrowed pasts as telemarketers Feature Film: Remember those cool and well-made movies we reviewed in the last episode, more specifically the second one about an elder lad? Well, they did an American remake...

Odds and Ends: Behold, the plight of the physical media dweeb; Feature Film: Another trilogy episode, just cuz we felt like it! This time up is Park Chan-wook's Vengeance trilogy, three movies about people who want to... get back at people who wronged them. Wish there was a word for that. I'm funny. Please clap. Next week's movie: Oldboy (2013) You can join the conversation every Wedne...

Odds and Ends: Some undiscovered bands get second chances; Nick finished the most recent season of The Righteous Gemstones and moved on to Futurama, then we talk about Old again, for some reason Feature Film: You like a lil Biskit? Hopefully you do, because we're talking about Fred Durst's infamous The Fanatic, starring a very John Travolta at his most Nic Cagey this side of Face/Off. Is i...

Odds and Ends: T.J. finally debriefs on Sound of Freedom, and the new TMNT movie; Nick talks Talk to Me, and rewatched The Iron Giant; some celebrities died, and Nick rejoices Feature Film: We dip back into the Welles well once more as we cover yet another classic of his. Featuring a Welles who has to have some makeup work done on him because he looks fucked, and also a Charlton Heston who may kin...

Hello from the past! You’re looking at a brand spanking new old episode, and we decided to stick with the Vault moniker for them. We’re now using these to venture outside of our normal fare and discuss other things we like. First up is a dive into the Nintendo Gamecube. Moreso a personal experience exchange rather than an overall general history of the console, we talk about what makes it so dang...

Odds and Ends: Josh returns to the show as our special guest host; topical as ever, we talk about the origins of the cybertruck; Nick watched a bunch of Youtube videos that call themselves a movie; one of T.J.'s favorite shows is back for one final season; Josh talks about his favorite movies of 2023 (so far) Feature Film: We discuss the cult classic (and one of Josh's favorites) Dark City...

Odds and Ends: Dr. Josh Matthews from the Learning About Movies channel on Youtube joins us this week; Moose watches a Die Hard, and the rest of us did our due diligence as moviegoers and had a Barbieheimer weekend Feature Film: We're mad as hell for Sidney Lumet's "Network." Well, most of us are. The ones who are proper film critics and have the true, correct opinion on all movi...

Odds and Ends: More Sound of Freedom bullshit; we sort of cover the Emmy noms; T.J. talks Tom; Nick started reading a weird book, and T.J. watched a weird short film Feature Film: We discuss a record setting film in being bad, 2025 The World Enslaved by a Virus. Can you guess what it's about? Because it kind of isn't that, actually. But maybe it is. No one really knows. Not even the writer...

Odds and Ends: Nick watches an old favorite and a newer non-favorite (it's fine); T.J. saw the new Indiana Jones, but really just wants to see Sound of Freedom Feature Film: We talk about the Jackie Chan classic, Police Story. Full of crazy stunts, charming comedy, and many many many panes of broken glass. It's a pretty simple movie, so we go on a few tangents, but just go with it. Next we...

Odds and Ends: We talk about Tears of the Kingdom before basically every episode now, but this time we kept it in! T.J. talks about the newest season of Black Mirror, as well as the real world equivalent he's been noticing; Nick got swept up in a new creepypasta, another Cormac McCarthy book, and a 90s classic (well, depending on who you ask) Feature Film: The legendary Sunset Boulevard is our...

Odds and Ends: The new Spider-Verse movie gets even more meta, maybe; Moose's lesbian movie weekend; Nick started another show you've probably heard a lot of people say is pretty good; T.J. watched one of the most exciting movies he's ever seen Feature Film: We talk about The Favourite, a movie that's both cold and claustrophobic, as well as hot and... gay. Not in a bad way! In a.....

Odds and Ends: We're joined this week by Cloe Oliver, T.J.s sister-in-law, but more importantly, one of the stars of our featured movie! The Beatles are releasing a "new" song with a little help from our friend AI; T.J. thinks Netflix is at least pretty good at doing one genre right; Moose enjoys the sporadic fantasy of Howl's Moving Castle; Nick thinks Blood Meridian is a neat b...

Odds and Ends: T.J.’s not racist, BUT…; one of our recent conspiracy theories may become reality sooner than expected; we talk about music and how cool we are for having record players Feature Film: We all go cuckoo over the classic noir “The Third Man,” featuring babyfaced Orson Welles and a lot of Spongebob music. Next week’s movie: Dreamer: The Movie (2004) You can join the conversation every W...

Odds and Ends: Octogenarian Al Pacino is gonna be a dad; T.J. watched a movie on Moose’s recommendation and has a few words for Moose; Nick started watching another old HBO show, and Moose started a less old Duds favorite Feature Film: Don Coscarelli's cult classic Bubba Ho-Tep inspires much deeper discussion than we were expecting. Is any of that discussion actually about the movie? Kinda? We...

Odds and Ends: In this episode of "There Will Be Duds," the hosts hand the mic over to ChatGPT for reviews. Listen as the AI generates surprising insights, amusing perspectives, and a few comedic blunders while reviewing the show and various topics. Experience the fascinating interplay between human creativity and artificial intelligence in this entertaining and thought-provoking episode...

Odds and Ends: It's our 100th episode (just in case you couldn't tell from the episode title), and to celebrate, we get a little bit silly, and later on play some Duds-centric trivia. Thanks for watching/listening, and here's to... at least a few more. Feature Films: A trilogy by and about the granddaddy of dud cinema, Ed Wood! We talk about two very different movies of his (Glen or Gl...

Odds and Ends: We try to talk about the WGA strike, but you can probably find a more nuanced and informative discussion about it elsewhere, why are you here?; T.J. cried at the raccoon movie, again Feature Film: Christopher Nolan's breakout time and mind-bending thriller "Memento." It's about a guy who can't remember stuff, and the original title was "Remembo." I ca...