Good Film Hunting

What happens when you take the cheerful, educational world of Barney & Friends, replace the purple dinosaur with an orange unicorn, and give him some serious anger management issues? You get Buddy (2026), a bizarre horror-comedy from director Casper Kelly, starring Cristin Milioti, Topher Grace, and Keegan-Michael Key. Inside a colorful children's television show, a group of kids sing, dance,...

This week on Good Film Hunting, we're serving up a double feature of demonic deals and wicked family secrets! First, Portal to Hell (2025), directed by Woody Bess, starring Trey Holland, Keith David, and Richard Kind, where a debt collector discovers that his local laundromat offers more than just a permanent press. Then, The Salem Chronicles (2025), directed by Thomas J. Churchill, starring Natha...

This week, we're screaming for ice cream, but you might want to check the ingredients before taking a lick! Eli Roth is serving up a double scoop of depravity with Ice Cream Man, his 2026 horror-comedy starring Ari Millen, Benjamin Byron Davis, and Karen Cliche. In the film, a mysterious ice cream vendor rolls into a peaceful suburban town & his irresistible frozen treats begin turning the nei...

BLIND RANKING — How Bad Could This Possibly Go? Five choices. Five ranking spots. And absolutely no idea what’s coming next. In Blind Ranking, Gary and Andy take turns putting each other to the test with categories from across the movie world. It could be movies, actors, characters, franchises, soundtracks, performances, quotes, directors, or just about anything else we can find an excuse to rank....

This week we answer the call once again with The Black Phone 2, directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, and Ethan Hawke. The chilling sequel picks up after the events of the first film, as Finney and Gwen try to move on from their terrifying encounter with the Grabber—only to discover that some horrors refuse to stay buried. With supernatural echoes and unresolved...

BLIND RANKING — How Bad Could This Possibly Go? Five choices. Five ranking spots. And absolutely no idea what’s coming next. In Blind Ranking, Gary and Andy take turns putting each other to the test with categories from across the movie world. It could be movies, actors, characters, franchises, soundtracks, performances, quotes, directors, or just about anything else we can find an excuse to rank....

This week, we’re heading to a suspiciously isolated mansion where the dinner is cold, the guests are lying, the butler is manic, and no one thought to leave after the first dead body. Clue, Jonathan Lynn’s 1985 murder-mystery farce gathers six blackmailed strangers for an evening that rapidly turns into murder, mayhem, secret passages, and increasingly frantic attempts to determine who killed whom...

BLIND RANKING — How Bad Could This Possibly Go? Five choices. Five ranking spots. And absolutely no idea what’s coming next. In Blind Ranking, Gary and Andy take turns putting each other to the test with categories from across the movie world. It could be movies, actors, characters, franchises, soundtracks, performances, quotes, directors, or just about anything else we can find an excuse to rank....

This week we dust off the rhinestones, tune up the cab meter, and discover what happens when Rocky Balboa trades the boxing gloves for a cowboy hat. Rhinestone, directed by Bob Clark and starring Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, and Richard Farnsworth, follows country singer Jake Farris as she wagers she can turn absolutely anyone into a credible country performer — only for “anyone” to turn out...

BLIND RANKING — How Bad Could This Possibly Go? Five choices. Five ranking spots. And absolutely no idea what’s coming next. In Blind Ranking, Gary and Andy take turns putting each other to the test with categories from across the movie world. It could be movies, actors, characters, franchises, soundtracks, performances, quotes, directors, or just about anything else we can find an excuse to rank....

This week, we’re lowering our voices and checking the locks for The Whisper Man, director James Ashcroft’s crime thriller starring Adam Scott, Robert De Niro, and Michelle Monaghan. Scott plays a widowed crime novelist whose eight-year-old son is abducted, forcing him to reconnect with his estranged father, a retired detective whose most notorious case may hold the key to finding the boy. With old...

This week we sharpen our knives for How to Make a Killing, John Patton Ford’s 2026 black comedy thriller starring Glen Powell, Margaret Qualley, Jessica Henwick, Bill Camp, Zach Woods, Topher Grace, and Ed Harris. Powell plays Becket Redfellow, a blue-collar outsider disowned by his grotesquely wealthy family, who realizes the only thing standing between him and billions is a very inconvenient lin...

Hungry has a wonderfully simple sales pitch—a vacation, a swamp, and several thousand pounds of territorial meat that absolutely did not consent to being part of the tour. This week, we wade into Hungry, the creature feature written and directed by James Nunn. When a boatload of tourists becomes stranded deep in the Louisiana bayou, their sightseeing excursion turns into a survival mission against...

BLIND RANKING — How Bad Could This Possibly Go? Five movies. Five ranking spots. And absolutely no idea what movie is coming next. In Blind Ranking , Gary and Andy take turns choosing five movies they know the other person likes. The catch? Each movie is revealed one at a time , and it has to be permanently placed somewhere from #1 to #5 before the next movie is revealed . Put a favorite at #2 too...

This week, we ditch the stunt doubles, reinforce the drywall, and make sure nobody left a hammer within reach as we dive into The Furious, director Kenji Tanigaki’s gloriously excessive martial-arts bruiser starring Xie Miao, Joe Taslim, and Yang Enyou. When mute handyman’s daughter is abducted by a trafficking ring, he crosses paths with journalist Navin, whose own wife has disappeared while inve...

BLIND RANKING — How Bad Could This Possibly Go? Five movies. Five ranking spots. And absolutely no idea what movie is coming next. In Blind Ranking , Gary and Andy take turns choosing five movies they know the other person likes. The catch? Each movie is revealed one at a time , and it has to be permanently placed somewhere from #1 to #5 before the next movie is revealed . Put a favorite at #2 too...

This week we’re traveling back to 2007, tuning up a battered guitar, wheeling a broken vacuum through Dublin, and discovering how much can change when two strangers find the right chord. Written and directed by John Carney, Once stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as an Irish busker and a Czech immigrant whose chance meeting becomes an intensely personal songwriting partnership. Did this modest...

This week we are rolling in like a stolen Chevy with a country song on the radio and bad decisions riding shotgun as we discuss Carolina Caroline, directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier and starring Samara Weaving, Kyle Gallner, and Kyra Sedgwick. The film follows a small-town woman who falls in with a charismatic con man, turning a restless escape fantasy into a romantic crime spree across the American...

This week, we open the files on Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s return to extraterrestrial territory, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, and Colin Firth. When a Kansas City meteorologist and a cybersecurity whistleblower become central to exposing proof of non-human life, they are forced into a frantic race against a private organization determined to keep humanity in the dark. Is Disclosure...

This week, we RSVP to the world’s least relaxing destination wedding as we dive into The Bay, the new survival thriller written and directed by Phil Volken and starring Francesca Eastwood. When two longtime friends take a shark-feeding excursion during a wedding trip to Thailand, their tour boat is crippled inside a remote tiger shark sanctuary leaving them trapped between sinking wreckage, increa...

What do you get when you combine human infatuation with Shark Week with a classic gothic novel from Robert Louis Stevenson? Well, you could get an overly confusing excuse to record people who were likely cast from pulling randos from the street, handing them a script clearly penned in a fever dream, shoving them in front of the camera and then adding a grain filter to pretend it’s film. Turns out...

It’s SHARK WEEK, and we’re fastening our seatbelts, ignoring the flotation-device demonstration, and discovering that the in-flight meal is apparently us. Deep Water, directed by Renny Harlin and starring Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, and Angus Sampson, follows the survivors of an LA-to-Shanghai flight forced down in the Pacific where escaping the wreckage only lands them on the menu for a school o...

Tuning a piano is already a delicate art, but tuning your ear to a life of crime? That’s where things get a little sharp. This week we unlock Tuner, directed by Daniel Roher and starring Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, and Havana Rose Liu. Woodall plays Niki White, a gifted piano tuner whose heightened hearing makes him unusually good at his job — until criminals realize the same skill might also mak...

This week we sine our pitty and belt-whip our way into Pootie Tang, the 2001 comedy written and directed by Louis C.K., starring Lance Crouther, Chris Rock, and Wanda Sykes. Born from a sketch on The Chris Rock Show, the film follows Pootie Tang, a smooth-walking, nonsense-speaking folk hero who takes on an evil corporation trying to push cigarettes, booze, fast food, and general dirty-dog behavio...

Some songs come from the heart. Some come from the pain. And some, apparently, come from standing a little too close to Paul Rudd when he’s working through his feelings. This week, we tune up for Power Ballad, the new John Carney film starring Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas, and Havana Rose Liu, about a washed-out musician whose original song becomes the comeback anthem for a fading pop star who may have s...