GoodTrash GenreCast

Hello friends and familiars! We're back to some regularly scheduled movie watching. And we're kicking August off with a Patreon-sponsored pick from our friend Taylor (Thanks Taylor!): The Last Unicorn. This 1982 animated tale based on the story by Peter S. Beagle features an all-star voice cast. Coming out of the house of Rankin and Bass, we look to see how this holds up to the years, speak to a l...

Friends and familiars, Dalton and Arthur are sliding down the new release chute once again with the a summer horror offering: Talk to Me. This Australian possession story opened in the wake of Barbenheimer, and we discuss whether it's worth your time! So tune in to hear our quick takes on Talk to Me. 

Fiends, family, and familiars, welcome back! We're wrapping up our Summer of Lists this week with an arena we don't typically go to: Television. That's right, we're running down our Top 10 TV Shows of All Time, however that's determined. We've got prestige picks, international affairs, and lovable fluff. It's a good time to be had, and will probably fill your commute for at least a couple of days!...

Hello everyone, Arthur and Dalton are back this week with a Garbage Chute drop talking about the newest film from Christopher Nolan AND one half of the year's cinematic event: Barbenheimer. That's right, we're looking at Oppenheimer—the three hour, historical biopic turned blockbuster. But, how does it fare? Is it Nolan's best work yet? Are movies back? Tune in and find out our quick thoughts on O...

Friends and foes, you're in for another treat. We deliberated long and hard in preparation for our top 10 actors of all time. Are they the best? Are they our favorites? Is it somehow a combined assessment of these performers? You'll have to tune in to find out! So, join us for this discussion of on-screen idols and then let us know your top picks for actors. 

Hello fiends and familiars! The GoodTrash gang is back to continue our summer of lists! This week, we're taking a look at our favorite decade, the 1990s (mostly because it was the most formative decade). But, in true GenreCast fashion, we're taking an academic approach as we attempt to identify the top ten movies we would use to teach the 1990s (whatever that might mean). And trust us, the rules a...

Hello everyone! The Summer of Lists returns! Last year, we ran down our Top 100 movies of all time. This summer, we're presenting a series of lists, and we kick things off with Our Top 10 Directors of All Time. In an agonizing extra-long episode, we try to verbalize which directors speak to us and how their filmographies have impacted us. Tune in now to hear us talk about our favorite directors!

Hello friends and familiars, we're so happy to catch up with you in this life for another Garbage Chute special review. Dalton and Arthur made it out to the picture show to catch the anticipated new romance from Celine Song, Past Lives. This festival favorite from A24 has been building buzz since Sundance, but can it live up to the hype? Dalton and Arthur give you their thoughts and recommendation...

Hello friends and familiars! The GenreCast is back for another adventure. We dust off our fedoras and take on the fourth chapter in the Indiana Jones franchise: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull from 2008. The much maligned fourth film is being brought up in light of a brand new entry: Dial of Destiny. Has Crystal Skull aged like a fine wine? Or is it still a stinking relic? We're joined by writer,...

Friends and familiars, it's time to grab your petroleum jelly and practice your talents because the beauty pageant begins soon. This week, we're taking a look at the 1999 cult classic Drop Dead Gorgeous. This mockumentary features an incredible ensemble of up-and-comers and character actors. This week, we talk political pandering, beauty pageants and the American dream, presentations of intellectu...

This week, we've somehow stumbled into a sorta marathon thanks to Dustin who is reviving host picks. His choice is Catherine Breillat's updated take on Charle's Perrault's classic fairy tale, The Sleeping Beauty—hard article. This week, we're talking gender and femininity, auteurism, TV movies, French television distribution, and much, much more! Join us this week as we head to France for The Slee...

Friends and familiars, our sleepy boys put a bow on their deadCenter 2023 coverage. From long hot days to late night shorts, it was a great time, but now sleep awaits. We hope you've enjoyed our coverage of this year's event—and we hope to be back next year with even more coverage! Make sure to subscribe to catch our normal shows and any future special events that might await us. 

Sorry for a late update, but Day 3 of deadCenter Film Festival was a hoot. We're feeling the festival sleepies by now. On this recap, Dalton, Dustin, and Alex sit down for a conversation with Theo and the .22 director/writer Caleb Vesely and Fry Bread Jesus director/co-star/writer Erik Sanchez. Then, our very sleepy boys sit down to talk about the comedy shorts block as well as two narrative featu...

Welcome back friends and foes! The festival is well underway, and day two brought a lot with it. Dustin, Alex, and Dalton recap the second day of deadCenter Film Festival 2023. They discuss narrative features The Awkward Stage and Know Your Place as well as two blocks of short films; Okie Shorts 1 and Sinful Sinema Shorts.

Somewhere between a preview and a night cap, Dalton, Dustin, and Alex are here with a precap of Day 2 of the deadCenter Film Festival. In the midst of Day 2, Alex, Dalton and Dustin sit down with Caleb Masters from The Cinematic Schematic to talk festival life and preview the remainder of the day.

The deadCenter Film Festival 2023 kicked off in earnest yesterday, and Dustin, Dalton, and Alex Sanchez are continuing their coverage. Per Dalton, they consider the vibe of the opening night wrap party before Dustin recaps his watch of What Rhymes with Reason. Then, the boys discuss the Oklahoma premier of the screwball, neo-noir, comedy of manners that is Hell Hath No Fury from Okie director Zach...

Drop your Roy Orbison vinyl on the deck, and let down your hair, it's time to revisit THE rom-com of the 1990s: Pretty Woman. It's the movie that certified Julia Roberts as box office gold. We talk all about fairy tales, rom-coms, movie stars, the classic Hollywood style, and much, much more.  TIMESTAMPS 00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis 05:07 - Quick Pretty Woman Reviews 20:55 - Expanding the Sy...

Hello friends, deadCenter Film Festival 2023 is almost underway. Dalton, Dustin, and pals will be reporting from the event with interviews, responses, and reactions to this year's programming. Dalton is here on Day 0 with a preview of the festival and general festival thoughts with friend of the show and Praisedown co-host, actor, comedian, and all around good soul Alex Sanchez. Tune in to hear th...

Grab your schedules and your best costume party fit, it's time to go back to school with a Patreon-selected pick: Legally Blonde. The Reese Witherspoon comedy classic crosses our table, so we totally had to analyze it. We're talking sexual politics, empathy devices, representation, and much, much more as we dive into the comedy fave that is Legally Blonde. TIMESTAMPS 00:30 - Introductions and Syno...

As Part Threes: Part Tres comes to a close, happenstance has taken us to a galaxy far, far away as we look at Return of the Jedi on its 40th anniversary. Do the Ewoks hold this back? Is the Skywalker family drama too much for us? We talk trilogies and franchises, Freud, storytelling, post-modernism, and much, much more.  TIMESTAMPS 00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis 05:08 - Quick Return of the Jed...

Welcome back to Woodsboro fiends and familiars... Well, to be more exact, welcome to Hollywood by way of Woodsboro. That's right, Part Threes: Part Tres continues with Wes Craven's meta franchise Scream 3. The, at-the-time, final part of Sidney Prescott's story is bigger and badder, and this week we talk the rules of trilogies, postmodernism, cultural literacy, and much, much more as we take apart...

Hello and welcome, friends and familiars! Our Part 3s: Part Tres marathon continues this week with an animated adventure filled with laughs and kung fu. That's right, it's Kung Fu Panda 3. Jack Black is here to make us laugh with an ensemble of A-listers. This week, we talk Kung Fu, animation, voice acting contracts, parenting and children, and much, much more—also, Arthur spends a lot of time try...

Well, hello again. Franchises, am I right? This week, we dust off one of our silliest marathons as we take a look at Part Threes for a third time (meta!). We kick of Part Threes: Part Tres with James Mangold's finale of the Wolverine saga: Logan. Jackman is old and tired, just like the rest of us—but Logan has one more mission to go on (until the inevitable Disney intervention). We talk R-rated su...

Mount up fiends and familiars, we're taking it back to 2001 to talk about knights, jousts, and Geoffrey Chaucer—that's right, it's A Knight's Tale. Sometime after being told there were 10 things hated about him but before becoming the clown prince of crime, Heath Ledger took to horse back in an attempt to change his stars. This week, we talk about needledrops and soundtracks, changing destiny, lit...

All aboard fans and fiends! We're taking the first train out of the station to take a look back at Tony Scott's final film, Unstoppable. Last week, we talked Ridley, and this week is all about Tony. So, get ready. We got Denzel, Chris Pine, trains, the media, companies weighing human lives, and much, much more as we ride the rails with Unstoppable.  TIMESTAMPS 00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis 04...