There Will Be Duds

Odds and Ends: A documentary about Prince gets shut down for trying to be interesting; Nick watched the new movie Companion, and T.J. watched the slightly-less new show Scavengers Reign Feature Film: We check out another movie by Marty and local guy Paul, about the guy from Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. There's a lot of dumb controversies around this movie, just ignore them and enjoy the movie. Nex...

Odds and Ends: There's a LOT of Oscar drama happening, and probably even more since we recorded this; T.J. saw the epicly badass and so cool Flight Risk, while Nick finally checked out Hundreds of Beavers Feature Film: We watch another movie from the time where they thought it was a good idea to make children's movies as ugly as possible. The Cat isn't even the worst part, have you seen the Things...

Odds and Ends: We are super jazzed about the present day, yessiree; We recap some of our 2024 first watches highs and lows Feature Film: Tarsem Singh's epic The Fall, shot over 4 years in 28 different countries, is one of those "you gotta see it to believe it" type movies. So hopefully you watched it, because this is a podcast! Wocka wocka! Unless you're watching the video versio...

Odds and Ends: We share our thoughts on the Golden Globes and what they mean for the rest of awards season, as well as touch on a particular fun... thing about the director of one of the big winners. We also both saw the new Nosferatu, so we talk about that. That's kind of the thing with this show, if you didn't know by now. Feature Film: The UK cult classic Withnail and I, an earlier slac...

Odds and Ends: T.J. presents a pretty grim conspiracy theory; we finally watch some Christmas (adjacent) movies, just in time for, well, January Feature Film: We check in with Paul Schrader again to see how he's doing. He's doing fine, thanks. He just always makes movies about these lonely and despondent guys, so I'm a little concerned. He says he's okay, but I don't know him that well so he could...

Odds and Ends: Why not honor the end of the year by having another discussion about AI and physical media preservation? We also talk about Hot Frosty, and other not-actually-that-bad Hallmark-esque Christmas movies. There's not a lot. Feature Film: We try to discern the baffling Christmas TV special that is clearly vying for holiday classic status, but uhh... isn't that. Headed by an all-star voic...

Odds and Ends: January might not be a dump month next year? Nick read a new book by one of his favorite authors and has something to say about it; We watched a bunch of new movies! Look at us! Feature Film: We return to India (or more specifically, Japan) yet again to watch another Takashi Miike movie. This time, the very unique Happiness of the Katakuris, a musical of the strangest sort, with zom...

Odds and Ends: We try to prepare for a very special music festival coming to our hometown; Nick finally played Metroid Dread, which means T.J. can blather on about inane bullshit for 30 minutes. So what's new? Feature Film: The rom-com classic (and potential Fall vibes classic?) When Harry Met Sally (with three dots at the end), a charming lil thing about some charming lil people. Next week's movi...

Odds and Ends: While this episode is after Halloween, us recording it weren't, so we're still talking about horror movies. Namely the very recent Trap, the opposite of very recent Nostferatu, and T.J. talks about some of the VHS movies. Feature Film: We talk about a forgotten Fincher, The Game. Well, I wouldn't say it's "forgotten," really, but compared to the rest of his movies, it's the forgotte...

Odds and Ends: The Uzumaki show is all wrapped up, as is another spooky season. Also, T.J.'s computer took a dump so there's no video for almost all of this (except movie clips). Feature Film: Nick recommended a double dud to close out our horror month, the first and last movies in the Sleepaway Camp series! Both classics in... a certain way, one of which we deliberate over its dud status. If you...

Odds and Ends: We talk about the big sack boys, I mean the Detroit Lions, and how they've got such great sacks; Nick watched and older spooky flick, and T.J. watched a bunch of new ones Feature Film: Once again we chat about a Japanese horror, though the horror in this one is almost just in name only. From a trio of anime legends, we get... a live-action movie! That is impossible to find a decent...

Odds and Ends: It's been a couple weeks, so it's time for another conversation about AI, but we also talk about the dead internet theory (and dead Steak and Shakes); Nick revisits a favorite from his youth; T.J. is otaku'd-up and talks about two more Japanese movies Feature Film: Nick's horror recommendation is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure,a sort of horror, sort of detective movie about, well, killings...

Odds and Ends: Nick unknowingly invokes a curse that we try to use for good, but might backfire accidentally; Even though we're still putting off our Uzumaki talk, we still do a little Junji Ito dive; Nick watched a Tim Burton movie that's not Beetlejuice, and T.J. thinks you should give the alternate version of Alien 3 a try (no, really) Feature Film: A Japanese horror classic about weird people...

Odds and Ends: Spooky season is upon us , which means that Brat summer is over, but not for T.J.; Our cats have some valuable input Feature Film: Our horrorspondent Chris returns for yet another double feature with two more movies in the found footage and analog horror realms, the cult classic Lake Mungo and the recent hit Late Night with the Devil! Both provide very different experiences, yet hav...

Odds and Ends: T.J. needs to eat sometimes, so he mukbangs (does a mukbang? is mukbanging?) during this episode, sorry about that; the Beetlejuice sequel is pretty good, and gave T.J. an idea for a better usage of deepfake AI tech in movies Feature Film: We discuss the oddity of Leonard Part 6, a Bill Cosby movie that has been reviled long before, well, recentish events. But we maybe don't think i...

Odds and Ends: Luke from the Least Important Things podcast returns; We discuss the recent few entries in the Alien franchise Feature Film: Luke recommended another Crichton Classic/Crap (take your pick) with the Antonio Banderas-led The 13th Warrior. It is definitely one of those things that is a movie, that is for sure. At least if the movie isn't great, you can look at Antonio in his peak B...

Odds and Ends: T.J.'s back from another Gen Con with another screening of one of our short films; David Lynch is sick, and also sick; We like HBO shows so much that we'll start calling it Max if they ask really nicely Feature Film: We discuss a Kiwi comedy classic, What We Do in the Shadows, by a couple of the guys who worked on Flight of the Conchords. It's a mockumentary comedy-horro...

Odds and Ends: We answer a viewer question (that viewer is me) about what movie titles bother us; also, our beloved sidepod The Boys Will Be The Boys is back in town... which really just means we talked about the newest season of The Boys Feature Film: We talk about a couple classics of the silent era from one of the giants, Sherlock Jr. and The General. T.J. used the excuse of it being the 100-ye...

Odds and Ends: Twisters saves movies, and T.J. thinks it's just a nice movie; Nick saw Longlegs, which is less nice; T.J. also gives a shoutout to The Watchers, which has all the Shyamalan trademarks, for better and for worse Feature Film: We're talking about the IFD oddity Space Thunder Kids, a hodgepodge anime thing that's actually eight other anime movies that are in themselves kind...

Odds and Ends: Robert Towne's Oscar-nominated dog; we're old and it's been a few minutes, so we talk about how cool things were before current year; we also finished some cool games and Josh asks for some of our best video game recommendations Feature Film: We discuss the original adaptation of the literary classic, Lord of the Flies. It's our favorite subject to talk about - kids...

Odds and Ends: We have another good ol fashioned chat about AI, and we're still just as dumb about it as ever; there was a Nintendo Direct, and it was pretty dang nice Feature Film: In this Verhoeven double feature, we tackle some of his most well-known classics (though maybe not for the same reasons). We defend Elizabeth Berkley and ponder about Penny's From Heaven, and enjoy the wild cam...

Odds and Ends: Are theaters actually dying? We provide thorough and very well-thought out opinions on it, and provide recent experiences on opposite ends of the spectrum. Nick's being a bad crowd during I Saw the TV Glow, and T.J.'s being a great crowd (meaning just him) for The Fall Guy. Feature Film: Josh returns yet again to talk about his first official normal guest rec, a lesser known...

Odds and Ends: Josh Matthews from the Learning About Movies Youtube channel returns yet again and talks about a project he's working on about A24 movies and asks us if there's any good ones out there; Nick watched the original Godzilla on the big screen, and T.J. watched the equally important Kraa the Sea Monster Feature Film: We discuss the oddball (in many ways) romantic comedy Little It...

Odds and Ends: Happy birthday (again) to us! Only 3 years old, but that's pretty old in podcast years. We're probably old enough to vote by now, or at least watch PG-13 movies. Feature Films: Continuing our trilogy tradition for our anniversary episodes, we decided to revisit a trilogy from our childhoods, the original Spider-Man trilogy, directed by Sam Raimi. We somehow find a way to pus...

Odds and Ends: T.J. did a road trip for a movie called The People's Joker, and it was pretty cool; Nick checked out the proto-Nice Guys Shane Black movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and it was pretty cool; we go back to some classic Google movie news, and it was pretty cool; I don't really know where I'm going with that repetition, but it's too much work to delete it now Feature Film: Dav...