Is This Still Good?

Some brits drop by Gavin's apartment to ask the question on everyone's mind: is Gavin a f*ckin Journo?

Sage and Gavin decide to enlist the help of gentleman thief Seamus Calder for one of this summer's greatest capers, stealing the declaration of independence. Wait that's the wrong movie... This time we're talking Miyazaki's feature debut The Castle of Cagliostro. Before Ghibli, after Nemo, there was Monkey Punch's Lupin III! If you want to see this movie catch it on the internet archives at: https...

Lord of the Rings. Chronicles of Narnia. Gladiator. Princess Mononoke. What do all these movies have in common? They're all shamelessly ripped off in 2012's extremely cynical Snow White & The Huntsman. How important is a script, anyway. Is there a haircut that says "I might f*ck my sister?" Plus: what's the Huntsman's name, anyway?

Sage makes Gavin watch a perfect movie.

Journey back with us to a cleaner time in the MCU where Kevin Feige pretended they were doing unique takes on genres. How many days does it take to track down a Condor? Is Frank Grillo underappreciated? Are we excited for Cap 4? All this, plus: War Horse! Keep an eye out for Adam's directorial debut Uphill, crawling across festivals.

What happens when you take dinosaurs, feed 'em brain boosting cereal, and drop 'em into 90's NYC? Well we're pretty sure you get a special musical crossover episode of Is this Still Good? featuring none other than the hosts of Make that Song Now! This is the also the official start of season 3 (ignore what itunes says), a series where we force each other to watch things we consider gaps in their k...

Boy, they sure did remake a lot of our movies this year huh? Still Good Pod All stars Benji Carver and Adam Boyer join us to talk about the year that was. Movies covered and spoiled include Twisters, Saturday night, The Crow, Alien: Romulus, The Substance, Wicked, and Gladiator 2! Plus: Adam reports on "Here"! Check out Another Hole in the Head festival and go support Benji over at the Warped Zone...

It's nearly Christmas, the most vampiric holiday of the year. So before you go watch Nosferatu, check out the last big Dracula epic. Alternately, before you watch Megalopolis, check out the last time Coppola funneled way too much money into a bunch of questionable choices. In this Dracula retrospective, The extended Still Good family looks at the legacy of Dracula (the historical figure, novel, an...

Trevor finally drops by the pod to talk about Gladiators, Director's Cuts, and all things Ridley Scott.

Bay area director AJ Juncker stops by to discuss a bizarre 1985 Wizard of Oz spinoff that could be more worth watching than Wicked. How can someone both picture and sound edit a movie? Is Sage secretly an Oz-head? Does Gavin hate fantasy children? Find out on a egg-dropping new Is This Still Good? Check out AJ's latest short "Gorilla Wants Banana" at https://vimeo.com/690352278/ef6b0d85aa

Robert Zemeckis' Here is, uh, here- a movie told from Told via a single static camera angle. In celebration, Sage grabs his old film history professor Dr. Porter to discuss a similar Swedish film he shows in film school. Join us on our film school bullshit for a look at the philosophy behind Deep focus, why on earth anyone would devote their life to telling stories this way, and how sometimes your...

Chilean-American Filmmaker Yvan Iturriaga stops by to talk about the difficulty and logistics of filming in South America, why international stories matter, and the literal chemical magic of film. Sage takes you on a tour of a favela and mispronounces a lot of Portuguese names along the way. Gavin is just stoked to be here. Check out the podcast Yvan produces "Friday Night Semites" on youtube and...

Live, from Los Angeles, it's Saturday Night! Jason Reitman's Saturday Night is out in theaters (depending on your location), which chronicles the tumultuous night leading up to the premiere of Saturday night Live in 1975. Steve Morrow (the sound mixer of the film) sits down with to give us a peak ahead at the film and to look back at the first film to spin out of SNL, 1980's Blues Brothers! Join u...

The Crow Reboot is finally coming out! Our heroes revisit the Original and try not to get too sad at the legacy of Brandon Lee. Plus, Sage takes us down the Crow Hole! By which we mean he gives a history lesson on the many terrible sequels and aborted reboot attempts between 1994 and 2024. It's a completely unrelated Brandon Lee by the way. Check out his trippy music video for Jenni Rudolph's "Wat...

Our heroes look at the weirdest Alien movie to date, and pitch a few of our own. Did we have Clone Fever in 1997? Is Alien: Romulus going to be any good? How exactly does one fuck a robot? There's literally only way to find out you coward.

The Boys are cashing in on that Tornado movie right around the corner by revisiting the Jan de Bont movie that isn't Speed. What is the Suck Zone? What would Arnold Schwarzenegger sound like as an Australian? Should we have gotten a guest? There's literally only one way to find out!

Our Kurosawa mini series concludes with Star Wars vs. The Hidden Fortress! Seamus returns to talk about Samurais and Space wizards, things that he takes much more seriously than Sage

It's another round of Is This Still Dad! In the second episode of our Kurosawa miniseries we examine two adaptations of Shakespeare's foggiest play, Macbeth. Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, and Billy Morrissette's Scotland, PA.

It's a Kurasawa miniseries! Seamus joins us to poke at the differences between Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and and Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, a remake he absolutely did not pay the rights for.

On this episode we talk Godzillas! We got OG Godzilla, Shin Godzilla, and Minus One godzilla. Back from the Vague Zone, Thomas Churchill joins us as we talk some of Godzilla's solo outings, his origins, and just how googly we want the eyes on our ideal Godzilla. What do you want from a Godzilla movie? What makes the big green guy's appeal so everlasting? Is 'Zilla misunderstood?

Part two: The Return of Chen Zhen! Pete Lee returns to talk more about this fictional hero, and those who've stepped into his shoes.

This time we're talking Chen Zhen movies, with a focus on Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury and Jet Li's Fist of Legend. Along for the ride is the better spoken *and* informed Pete Lee! . Who is Chen Zhen? What was myspace like for Donnie Yen? Who's fist had the most fury?

On a very special holiday episode of Is this Still Good? Two men enter. Both men leave. As friends. It's the greatest Thanksgiving franchise ever! This week we discuss underdog epic, Rocky! What's a steadicam? Is jazz dancing martial arts? Why doesn't anyone get thanks-killed in these movies? Find out on this super sized, All-American punchtacular episode.

Sage takes Gavin on a journey through the world of It. Topics include: Living Inside, Following, Coming at night, How to properly Jump Scare, and...Shakespeare? We'll see you in a few weeks.

Alrik claims to have invented teleportation, or "Disintegration - Reintegration" as he calls it. He also claims it's going to be the biggest thing in health since Tae Bo! What's the deal with practical effects? Was Mel Brooks into horror? Can Jeff Goldblum make mutating sexy? Alrik Bursell from "Making Movies Is Hard" joins us to discuss David Cronenberg's "The Fly (1958)" and measure it against t...