Films & Filth

#38 on the bad list is what you might call a Smolensk situation, except the propaganda film is Hungarian this time and it wasn't designed to cast blame on another country for a plane crash, it was designed to influence an election. Listen as we get into Hungarian politics (a little) and schlocky film (a lot) and don't bother trying to find or watch this movie, you'd just hate yourself anyway. Read...

For #39 on the good list....well this one is kind of awkward. Not just because we told Luke the wrong number and he introduced it as #40. Luc Besson has a whole weird thing which is explored here but maybe he's just Fr*nch. Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello, and a bunch of dubbed French guys are here too, and a lot of guns. We talk about a lot of things that are uncomfortable, like Gary Oldman walking on...

#39 on the bad list ain't your daddy's Rollerball, it's less violent, oh and also it doesn't take place as far into the future, and it doesn't have someone asking a giant computer for information and it doesn't have guns that make trees explode. Anyway we're talking about the remake that got John McTiernan sent to prison for perjury about wiretapping hollywood producers along with our friend Mike...

Alien - they say it's structural perfection's matched only by its hostility. Even artificial persons are impressed. It preys on men. Don't need no special suit don't need no nukes And don't need no artillery to rip right through your chest. Aliens gestate inside a living human host and have some concentrated acid for blood They mostly come at night. Mostly. Their fate depends on whether there's an...

For #40 on the bad list we have a 2018 autobiographical film about a Turkish Youtuber whose career started a few years earlier, so he struck while the iron was hot, to the point where he had to put the making of the movie in the movie itself because otherwise he would've run out of material. But that's only part of the story, Mark did way too much digging on the guy and it was pretty easy to find...

It's Luke's birthday movie, and it's not just about this 1986 OVA about the first Super Mario Bros game, we talk about ALL the other Super Mario Bros movies as well, from 1993, 2023, and 2026, and we give our personal rankings. Will we like them more than most reviewers/podcasters? You may be able to guess the answer. Join us as we figure out what the hell to do with all these mushrooms. Support u...

We're up to #41 on the good list, where the real monsters are behind the camera. Oh and also in front of it. That's not all we talk about here, there's a lot good things about this film and we talk a lot about deception and plot twists although we're pretty mixed on the twist in this film itself. Is Keyser Soze even a person at all? Also yes we talk about X-Men. Support us at our podcasting networ...

#41 on the bad list is the oldest film on the bad list (1964), and it's a Christmas movie! About aliens! Yeah it's a weird one that you've probably already heard of from MST3K or on the cover of a DVD, we talk about how it's surprisingly fun and has surprisingly decent elements, and of course, we talk about Christmas movies in general. In August! Well you can always come back and listen to it agai...

Over on Matt's other podcast, Time Enough, he's been going over every Jordan Peele produced film after doing the entire Jordan Peele Twilight Zone series. Matt is joined by Capt. Mike Richards of the Mission Log: The Orville and Talkin’ Ted podcasts to talk about Peele’s most recent directorial effort and all the chimp crazy, cowboys vs aliens, and everything else within it. If you like this, then...

Over on Matt's other podcast, Time Enough, he's been going over every Jordan Peele produced film after doing the entire Jordan Peele Twilight Zone series. Here Mark and friend of the pod Andrew Shearer (Gonzoriffic) join him to talk about Nia DaCosta's 2021 legacy sequel to a 90's Clive Barker adaptation, and what all of that means to the history of movies, horror, society, and everything. If you...

Cat Month comes to a close with #42 on the good list, it's the highest rated animated Disney film, but is it the best? Most of us have some sort of nostalgia, but Mark is having trouble with the trappings of lion monarchy and lion society, Luke is having trouble with Disney, and Matt has condemned himself to watch every Disney movie on another podcast on this network including the very bad "live a...

Cat Month begins here! Ok it's more like Cat Two Weeks but still, we are here with Gonzoriffic's Andrew Shearer to discuss another movie with a Batman villain but no Batman. We've got a French director, we've got too much CGI, we've got Academy Award winner Halle Berry, we've got whips, we've got evil cosmetics, we've got an evil Sharon Stone, we've got... a lot of things. #42 on the bad list was...

It's Mark's birthday pick again! We all litigate this proto-Matrix goth weirdo epic and talk about the Matrix-sized elephant in the room as well as how evil the main character might be, and how weird his CGI powers are. Jennifer Connelly is back on the end of a pier again and Richard O'Brien is doing the time warp but to you instead of with you, sort of like Mark Zuckerberg but more attractive. Su...

Well we're back on Nazis again for #43 on the "good list", but it isn't occupied Poland this time, now it's occupied Los Angeles. We go over this critical darling that none of us really want to watch again and discuss whether it's aged well, whether Tony Kaye or Edward Norton should've had final cut, and lots of other uncomfortable things. Support us at our podcasting network, Podcastio Podcastius...

Shaq is back for #43 on the bad list for Kazaam! No, Shazaam featuring Sinbad isn't real, but Shaq's rap career is, and it takes up a lot of this film when you aren't watching a snarky kid try and reconcile with his sleazy dad and something something wishes magic comedy candy bars. We didn't exactly hate this one and one of us liked it better than Steel, and it may only be on the bad list because...

Coming in at #44 on the good list is The Pianist, we have Brian Lonano back on and we're back in World War II for a true story about a Polish pianist who survived....WWII Poland. It's a bleak one and none of us are all that great at stumbling through our feelings, but we all really liked the film and it's an interesting comparison with Come and See and Schindler's List (although most of us haven't...

#44 on the bad list is a creepy internet cash-in, no not Backrooms, that film is actually good. We discuss Slender Man (2018, we have to specify because there are several)  and how bad it is, and if it had any chance of being good, and also what a creepypasta is and how it doesn't make a good film and how maybe you shouldn't make a movie about a real killing and then cut a bunch out of it Support...

For #45, The Intouchables (NOT The Untouchables), we head to France for the only time on the good list. Mark thinks this is kind of weird so he looks into it and finds out things about the good list that send him down a rabbit hole to madness and vintage prison break films. We have mixed feelings about France and about this movie and about the good list on the whole so listen to us work through ou...

#45 on the bad list is pretty bad. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, none of us liked it, it made us feel pretty bad, we were all pretty angry, we were all cranky poop emojis about it and not in a Patrick Stewart way. At least one of us thought it was the worst movie they ever saw. But did this result in a good podcast? Yes. Support us at our podcasting network, Podcastio Podcastius at https://www.patre...

We've been so hard on the first Sergio Leone entry on the list that at one point we banned ourselves from talking about it. Do we feel the same about this one? Spoiler alert: no. We talk about westerns, progress, trains, revenge, Bronson, and ponder what the hell Sergio Leone's deal was. Support us at our podcasting network, Podcastio Podcastius at https://www.patreon.com/podcastiopodcastius .  Yo...

Mercy joins us to discuss this Twilight parody but also Twilight itself, because at this point all of us have watched Twilight and some of us have very strong opinions about it, you might be surprised (and you might not). This is number two of six of the dreaded Friedberg/Seltzer parodies and we are just very fortunate to have a different movie to talk about this time. Make sure to go back and lis...

John Champion of Mission Log joins us once again for this film about WWII that you've definitely heard of and have definitely heard quotes from and heard the song from, but there are a lot of things you probably didn't know about it. There's a lot to get into about this film that represents peak studio system that we all enjoyed, as well as a little Star Trek DS9 chat, so make sure not to miss you...

Andrew Shearer from Gonzoriffic swings by to help us drop the hammer on some weapons manufacturers, most of us liked this extremely tall superhero movie and we talked about a lot of other superhero stuff, Marvel and non-Marvel, and Mark will not stop speculating about what Shaq allegedly did in the locker room. Support us at our podcasting network, Podcastio Podcastius at https://www.patreon.com/p...

We usually complain that we have nothing to talk about for good list movies but this is one of the longest episodes of our pod ever, we talk about Psychos 2-4, the remake, Diabolique, The Shining, lots of other slasher and horror movies, and of course Godzilla movies. What are our big takeaways? There are a lot so carve out 75 minutes of your schedule and put your stabbing dress on. Support us at...

We dive into the "best" of the Friedberg/Seltzer parody films, six of which are on the bottom half of the "bad list" and the "worst" of which sits at Number 1. Did we hate this one? Well at least one of us did, but we're just getting started. Support us at our podcasting network, Podcastio Podcastius at https://www.patreon.com/podcastiopodcastius .  You'll get early episodes of this and out other...