GoodTrash GenreCast

We finish our 2019 retrospective with a look at the highest grossing film of the year. To absolutely nobody's surprise, Avengers Endgame took the number one spot. The cultural event became the highest grossing film of all time, edging out Avatar. This week, we explore the final chapter in the Infinity Saga and discuss spoiler culture, cinema, the Disney machine, Lacan, failure narratives, and much...

As our 2019 retrospective begins winding down, Arthur kills the mood by choosing Jennifer Kent's follow up to The Babadook, The Nightingale. This Tasmanian period piece is a brutal, realistic take on the revenge thriller. Kent crafts a beautiful film that is increasingly harder and harder to watch. This week, we take a look at the three big Es on the eye chart: racism, colonialism, and assault. Be...

Hello! Happy December! We're back after eating all the turkey to continue our 2019 retrospective. This week, we're looking at Dalton's pick, The Kid Who Would Be King. Joe Cornish made a little splash with what has become a cult hit in Attack the Block. But, its been EIGHT years since that little cult hit came out. And he's back with an adolescent take on King Arthur lore. This week, we talk all a...

Episode 2 of TwiLit is finally here! Don't try to hold them to a schedule, they're busy. On this week's show, Kirsten and Erin are breaking down all things vampire lore. From history to iconography to biology, it's all on the table. But, they're not alone. This week, GoodTrash's resident vampire expert, Dustin Sells, stops by to help explore the history of the vampire as we've come to understand i...

The GenreCast 2019 Retrospective continues this week with Dustin's blind bag special: Kill Chain. This Nicolas Cage-starring noir-inspired thriller attempts to pull off a gimmicky narrative wherein a number of hit men, spies, and assassins try to make it through a night in an unknown town in Colombia. The little known straight-to-streaming film is Cage's seventh collaboration with Millennium films...

Ep. 344 continues a look back at 2019 with the Robert Rodriguez manga adaptation, Alita: Battle Angel. This futuristic action story focuses on an amnesiac cyborg and the engineer that rebuilds her. As she tries to find her purpose, she learns she was built for something dangerous. This week, we're talking cleanly shot action, uncanny valleys, possible political and theological readings, and more.

As the year begins winding down, its time for us to start playing catch up with the movies we missed. Episode 343 kicks off our look at 2019 as we take on the critically-acclaimed Parasite from Bong Joon-ho. What makes this episode even more special? We got to go to the picture show together to watch the movie! This story of class struggle takes many twists and turns, and we do SPOIL the movie aft...

In episode 342 of the GenreCast, we travel back to 1999 to take a look at Kevin Smith's fourth feature film, Dogma. This month marks its 20th anniversary since opening wide. An all-star ensemble leads a religious satire of biblical proportions! We take a look back on Kevin Smith's career and his attempts at earnest stories through his shortcomings. We also talk about how hard this film is to find....

Episode 314 sees the GenreCast boys get together to cover another total blindspot in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence. A project initially undertaken by Stanley Kubrick, A.I. Artificial Intelligence passed to Spielberg following Kubrick's death in 1999. The film's thirty-year journey finally was completed in 2001 when it opened to middling box office and mixed-to-positive reviews. A...

The GenreCast wraps up Shocktober 8: The Ocho (AKA Dead Spots) with Dalton's blind spot, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. In a fun twist, this was a blind spot for all three hosts. After a few film festival showings, Henry fought the odds and finally received a release and helped anchor the NC-17 rating. The film is an intimate character study about a serial killer, his sidekick, the girl that...

Welcome to the world's weirdest venn diagram where vampires, YA fiction, and movies meet. It's TwiLIT a brand new podcast coming at you. Kirsten "The Frightful Femme" Therkelson and Erin "Bad Girls Die First" DeMoss are throwing it back to 2009 and the height of Edward-mania. Each month, your fearless hosts are going to dive deep into the Twilight universe and adjacent topics to highlight what mak...

Hello Dear Listener! Shocktober: The Ocho rolls on with a very special guest. Alexandra Bohannon is here and she brought with her the best blind spot of all: Psycho. That's right, we're moving things along with one of the heaviest of hitters as we talk all things Hitchcock, including voyeurism, auteurism, production, feminism, spoilers and much, much more. So, whether you've seen Psycho or not, go...

Arthur is up with his horror blindspot as Shocktober 8 continues. He dives deep into the annals of Hollywood and comes back with the 1935 classic and OG sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein from James Whale and starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester. Picking up immediately after the events of the first film, The Bride of Frankenstein sees Victor tempted back into his dark practices and coerced in...

Shocktober 8 is here! That's right, we've done this so many times, there's now an eighth iteration. This year, we're doing something special as each host picks a movie for everyone, bu there's a catch. Each host is picking a major horror blindspot. These are iconic horror movies that we've missed somehow. Dustin leads the way with his blind spot, George A. Romero's 1978 sequel to Night of the Livi...

As we near the final days of September, we look to the stars and think of the greater mysteries of the galaxy. We return to The Wachowskis for the fourth time to discuss the critically maligned space opera Jupiter Ascending. This fairy tale in space stars Mila Kunis as Jupiter Jones and Channing Tatum as a dog soldier, a lot of stuff happens and Eddie Redmayne is on another planet. We break this o...

Nothing is over for the GenreCast as we're still talking movies and analysis. This week, in honor of the newly released Last Blood, we go back to 1982 and discuss Sly's initial run as John J. Rambo, First Blood. Cementing himself as an action icon, Stallone tied a homemade bandana around his head and went to war with a small town sheriff in an adaptation of the novel of the same name. John Rambo i...

This week on the GenreCast we're talking all things legal as we discuss the thriller Law Abiding Citizen, directed by F. Gary Gray and featuring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. This thriller features a vigilante at war with a justice system he feels is broken. Your hosts feel like they're at war with a mess of a movie. We discuss script shortcomings, plea deals, the broken justice system and much mo...

It's down periscope this week as we inspect the 2002 historical thriller K-19: The Widowmaker, from Kathryn Bigelow. Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson star opposite one another as Russian captains trying to implement command aboard Russia's first ballistic nuclear submarine. We discuss western portrayals of Russia, the ideology of the film, Bigelow's political interests and much more as we talk K-19:...

On the newest episode of the GenreCast, we're discussing Matthew Vaughn's take on Neil Gaiman's Stardust. When a star-crossed lover promises to seek a fallen star for the girl of his dreams, he encounters a land of magic and mayhem. This once upon a time tale echoes The Princess Bride with jokes and wackiness to spare. The gang discuss ideas of fantasy, dives into the Captain Shakespeare character...

Howdy listeners! Welcome back to your favorite movie podcast, the GenreCast. This week, we're headin' down river for episode #331 to talk Deliverance. The Burt Reynolds and Jon Voigt thriller has earned a reputation over the past 40+ years. As four men head down river in the south, they encounter a group of mountain men and must try to survive more than a few rapids. You know the lines, you know t...

Welcome back, dear listener, and join us on an adventure through the galaxy. We're geared up to go into orbit with Claire Denis' High Life. This 2019 film is not the typical genre fare we tackle on the show, but Dustin argues it probably won't make it into a film studies course anyway. As Robert Pattinson attempts to rear a child in outer space, we attempt to break open everything happening in thi...

Ep. 329 is brought to you by our Patreon-sponsor Brigham C. Brigham is one of our oldest fans and we're always happy when he brings something out for us. This week, we tackle the 90s' comedy classic Tommy Boy. That's right! It's Chris Farley and David Spade selling car parts in the mid-west—with hilarious results. Or, at least Arthur thinks so, as he comes down on the right side of history. The ga...

This week, Arthur is vindicated as the gang finally gets to talk Small Soldiers. Joe Dante's 1998 action-comedy about toys come to life is equal parts Toy Story and Gremlins. Featuring an all-star 90s cast, Small Soldiers sees two teens take on a fleet of G.I. Joe-adjacent toys known as the Commando Elite. We talk all about pastiche and post-modernism, military complex, masculinity and ideology an...

This week, we must wake from our I Dream of Geena marathon. We bring things to an end with the Renny Harlin-directed, Shane-Black-scripted The Long Kiss Goodnight, co-starring Samuel L. Jackson. When an amnesiac mother's memories start to come back, she realizes she's a CIA-trained assassin who's long been thought dead. When her past comes back to haunt her, she teams up with a private eye to take...

Week 3 of I Dream of Geena arrives in a hurry as we tear through the midwest to discuss Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise. It's Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon on the run in a high octane buddy crime drama. After things escalate in a country bar parking lot, Thelma and Louise decide to go on the lam and leave their old lives behind. We talk about the prescience of Thelma & Louise in a post-Me Too soci...