GoodTrash GenreCast

Friends and Family, we're out of the Book of Shocks, but we've got another tale of a lonely young boy and a bizarre being who enters his home (at least the backyard area). That's right, we're going back to 1999 with Brad Bird's cult classic The Iron Giant. This release from WB at the end of the last century flopped, but gained a cult following on home video and cable. We take a look at Brad Bird's...

Hello and Happy Halloween! We're bringing Shocktober to a close with LGBTQ icon, The Babadook. This top-hatted specter and his pop up book became all the rage in the years following the film's release, but memes aside, how does Jennifer Kent's tale of grief and parenting hold up? We discuss that, parenting, abuse, grief, and much, much more as we dive into this ghostly tale. As we wrap Shocktober,...

Hello friends! Sorry for the delay, but things have been a bit hectic over here. However, we did not wake up in post-apocalyptic London like this week's protagonist. That's right, Shocktober 11 continues with Danny Boyle's influential 28 Days Later. One of the two zombie movies that reinvigorated the genre at the turn of the century, 28 Days Later brought us the fast zombie debate. As well as the...

Shocktober 11: Shock from the Book of Shocks continues this week fiends and familiars as we move into another classic horror franchise. This week we say his name and talk about Nia DaCosta's 2021 take on Candyman. This legacy-sequel picks up in a renovated Cabrini-Green giving us ample material to parse through. We're talking gentrification, art and messages, on the nose criticism, and much, much...

Happy Shocktober FIENDS! We're kickstarting Shocktober 11: Shock from the Book of Shocks with one of the biggest horror movies we've yet to discuss, A Nightmare on Elm Street. That's right, we're placing the Wes Craven classic on the analysis table to talk about suburbs, missing parents, high school horror, evil janitors and much, much more.  TIMESTAMPS 00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis 08:04 - Q...

Welcome back friends! This week, we're wrapping our ten year anniversary run with the cult comedy that might have come up most often over the years, But I'm a Cheerleader. This classic of queer cinema is a blast of color and comedy. But, does it hold up after all this time? We discuss camp, queer comedy, issues movies, and much, much more. But, the fun doesn't stop here as next week, we kick off S...

As our ten year celebration keeps rolling, we head back to 1997 when Will Smith was at the height of his powers to talk Men in Black. Unfortunately, there's no music video at the end of this episode, but we still have a lot of fun talking about this sci-fi action comedy classic from Barry Sonnenfeld and crew. We're talking government organizations, paranoia, conspiracies, movie stars and actors as...

Ten years of trash continues this week; and, we're eastbound and down as we talk the Burt Reynolds classic, Smokey and the Bandit. We're talking cartoons, cops, the south, truckers and much, much more as we dive into this cross-country adventure.  TIMESTAMPS 00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis 04:28 - Quick Smokey and the Bandit Reviews 22:40 - Expanding the Syllabus 37:56 - Analysis 1:07:19 - Shel...

Our 10 Year Celebration continues with one of the movies Dustin has mentioned the most through the years, Au Hasard Balthazar. This black and white classic from Robert Bresson follows the life of a donkey as he moves from owner to owner. This week, we talk faith, film, transcendentalism, humanity, and much, much more.  TIMESTAMPS 00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis 04:42 - Quick Au Hasard Balthazar...

Hello pals, and welcome back to the GenreCast! It's been 10 years of serving up trash, and we're (mostly) celebrating all month long with the movies we've talked about the most without ever having done on the show. But first, we're going full circle back to John Carpenter, who we discussed way back on episode one, as we discuss Escape from New York. The dystopian action adventure starring Kurt Rus...

Welcome to the end of the world friends! This week, we're back to talk about Lorene Scafaria's feature debut as director Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. This end time romcom features Steve Carrell and Keira Knightley as they search for fulfillment in the last three weeks before the apocalypse. We talk chemistry, road movies, bucket lists, and much, much more on this week's show. Join us...

Welcome to the Grid dear listeners! This week, we've tapped into one of the original Legacy-sequels (we know that because Legacy is in the name), Tron: Legacy. The odd sci-fi project from Disney's 80s run makes a comeback in the era of the MCU and throws down the Daft Punk funk to make things interesting. But how has it aged? We talk about that, plus the users vs the programs, de-aging technology,...

Ahoy listeners! We're kicked back on the beach this week with the Daniels feature debut Swiss Army Man. This quirky indie dramedy stars Paul Dano as Hank and Daniel Radcliffe as a corpse named Manny. The Daniels have had a stellar 2022 thanks to their massive hit Everything Everywhere All at Once. This week, we dissect the smaller, yet just as intimate and referential, Swiss Army Man. We talk body...

Hi all! We've got another one coming hot and fresh down the chute. This week, all three of the GoodTrash Bois are gathered around the table to talk about the newest entry in the Predator franchise, Prey. This action, sci-fi horror entry dropped on Hulu to massive success. But a hot take in our group chat brought us all together to break down what we liked and disliked about it. Check it out!  We d...

Hello dear friends! Summer is in full effect and one of our Patreon partners has taken hostage at the lake. The Crystal Lake that is. That's right, as a Patreon Reward, our dear friend Kirsten has chosen a movie for us to watch. So this week, we grab our hockey masks and head to camp one last time (lol) as we watch The Final Friday: Jason Goes to Hell. This 1993 entry in the franchise was supposed...

Hello friends! We made it! We're in our top 20 movies of all time! This month, we're going to be counting down our individual Top 100 Movies of All Time! Over the next five weeks, we're going to be looking at and reflecting on the movies that shapes, inspired, entertained, and impacted us so much so that we've deemed them our Top 100 Movies!  We've been working on this over the past few months, na...

Hello friends! That's right, you read the episode title correctly. This month, we're going to be counting down our individual Top 100 Movies of All Time! Over the next five weeks, we're going to be looking at and reflecting on the movies that shapes, inspired, entertained, and impacted us so much so that we've deemed them our Top 100 Movies!  We've been working on this over the past few months, na...

Welcome back to another drop down the garbage chute. This week, Arthur is taking a look at the recent adaptation of one of the best selling novels of all time, Where the Crawdads Sing. Does this coming of age romance translate well from the page to the screen? Arthur takes a look in this episode of the Garbage Chute. 

Hello friends! That's right, you read the episode title correctly. This month, we're going to be counting down our individual Top 100 Movies of All Time! Over the next five weeks, we're going to be looking at and reflecting on the movies that shapes, inspired, entertained, and impacted us so much so that we've deemed them our Top 100 Movies!  We've been working on this over the past few months, na...

SPOILER WARNING @ 20:00 Open your chutes, its time for some garbage to drop! That's right, it's another edition of the GoodTrash Garbage Chute—quick reviews on new releases. Arthur is here this time to talk to you about the newest entry in the MCU, Thor: Love and Thunder. Taika Waititi returns to the helm to further the Thor story along with his motley crew as they face a new threat, Gorr the God...

Hello friends! That's right, you read the episode title correctly. This month, we're going to be counting down our individual Top 100 Movies of All Time! Over the next five weeks, we're going to be looking at and reflecting on the movies that shapes, inspired, entertained, and impacted us so much so that we've deemed them our Top 100 Movies!  We've been working on this over the past few months, na...

Hello friends! That's right, you read the episode title correctly. This month, we're going to be counting down our individual Top 100 Movies of All Time! Over the next five weeks, we're going to be looking at and reflecting on the movies that shapes, inspired, entertained, and impacted us so much so that we've deemed them our Top 100 Movies!  We've been working on this over the past few months, na...

Producer's Note: There is some sort of audio issue with this episode, hopefully it's not intolerable to listen to.  We finally wrap up our 1997 retrospective, dear listeners. This week, we travel down the Amazon in search of bad accents as we discuss Anaconda. The late 90s creature feature is stocked with a top notch ensemble of newcomers and a high profile veteran. But, does it keep us in its gri...

Welcome back friends, we're still existing in 1997. This week, we take a look at the globetrotting Mimi Leder joint The Peacemaker. Unfortunately, John Cena is nowhere to be found—or maybe we just can't see him. This week, Dalton gives us a very brief rundown on the Yugoslav wars, we examine the narrative idea of creating sympathetic villains, the professional dynamics based around gender that ari...

We're getting prehistoric this week dear listeners as we revisit the dino-tacular dinosaur franchise, Jurassic Park. Having covered Parts One and Three, it is finally time to cover the second entry in that original trilogy: The Lost World. Goldblum is back, and so are the dinos. This week, we talk about meta commentaries, sequels, the dangers of corporate greed, adaptation, and Spielberg's run in...