Almost Good

On this one, we dive deep into the plasma pool with Beyond the Black Rainbow, unpacking the plot, symbolism, use of tropes in non-aesthetic ways (tools as tools!), and then we talk about brain-melting psychedelics and, ultimately, how Kill Bill 2 might just hold the key to the type of storytelling we want in our movies.

JDO was really frustrated on this one. But despite it all, we talk rationally about Sorry to Bother You, one of the best movies JDO has ever seen. Dave's not so sure, but he's happy when JDO's happy.

On this episode, we talk Thoroughbreds (a.k.a. "American Psycho meets Heathers, according to the very smart packaging), Equus (lots of peners in that one), Heavenly Creatures, a good old-fashioned shredding of True Detective: Season Two, samurai swords, and a first look at Gillian Flynn's hot new HBO prestige series Sharp Objects.

We have a question: What if the Predators in the latest unessential Predator movie 69'd? Don't worry, we also talk about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, how all opinions are invalid, and then stand back, because here comes a big-time lovefest for Hereditary.

Tonight we go all-in on the worst movie of the summer, Den of Thieves, for our most "tacticool" episode yet. Which movies (besides Heat) does this thing rip off? Are movies getting darker or are they just getting darker? Does the profile fit the profile? What's the perfect Bad Cop Breakfast? And why why why does Stallone cut his pizza slice with scissors in Cobra? Answers inside.

This week, there's another SCRIPT DOCTOR in the house, as well as some discussions about overseas markets, heists, redneck portrayals and other assorted hilarity, and (most importantly) we come back together for forgiveness and put the surprise betrayal of the previous episode behind us as only we know how... by talking about Jared Leto's appropriation gangster. Noogies for everybody.

Topics: Kanye West is never far from JDO's thoughts, dropping people from Facebook for not liking baby pictures, superhero movies vs. westerns, South Korean film, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, other word viruses, rule-based movies, the massive SCRIPT DOCTORING of A Quiet Place that nobody asked for, the intelligence of monsters, and a cliffhanger ending that could spell doom for the Almost Goo...

After a much-needed week off, Almost Good returns in force to discuss directors saying really stupid shit, disavowing movies based on their creators, the #MeToo music loophole, our respective Netflix queues, Ready Player One... and oh no here comes a whole new breed of theater gremlin.

Topics: Slipknot rules, Wheelman might not rule, bad dialogue, when process shots go wrong, grabbing sandwiches, conspicuous naming, toothpicks in Asian gangster flicks, no kids in movies, good tough guys, Fred Durst’s voice, meta tough guys, okay, fine, Dave kinda liked Wheelman, bad accents, Small Crimes, a good Leonardo DiCaprio joke, two Daves do some accents of their own, The Ritual, people l...

Get Ready For... Mushrooms vs. movies, nice ice cubes, empathy builders, bad teaching scenes, sad music, pacing issues with the hazmat man, Dave’s bad jokes, "good" green, Toronto tax shelters, bears that scream like women, weird denial in movies, was there or wasn’t there weird chanting in the cutting-open-the-stomach scene, how you can lose it around others, does the rainbow work, how to totally...

On this episode of the Almost Good podcast, we talk about stuff like that one racist guy who likes Black Panther, CGI rhinos, fighting twice, Blade II as a harbinger for rubbery Gumby fights, "What are the fucking powers???", how Dave really liked the white dude with one arm, of course Killmonger was right, James Spader is ass-eating royalty, doubling down on late capitalism, Marvel already ruined...

This time we talk about the unlikely awesomeness of Kanye West, Dave transcribes JDO’s drunk phone call regarding Black Panther, how the best movies never run down the middle, Dunkirk, Bane masks at the gym, nü-metal (of course), Oscar picks and snubs, A Ghost Story, fake vomit, Ladybird, annoying theater talkers, some unique Alamo Drafthouse challenges, seat kickers, art vs. pulp, the genius of S...

For our very first episode, Dave talks about almost getting into a fight on the way to a movie about fish fucking, what it was like to go to movie theaters in the '80s, The Shape of Water gets reviewed for real, then we ramble about the importance of character evolution. Also, we ask each other questions like, "What even is an Oscar movie?" talk a little about Instagram Cinema, the feel-bad/white-...