Oldie But A Goodie

Following on from the last movie of 2025, 'Kiwi Christmas', we're continuing our reviews of New Zealand cinema with a look at 1985's 'The Quiet Earth'. After all life on Earth suddenly disappears, a man named Zac (Bruno Lawerence) must learn to adapt to his new, lonely existence. Join our Patreon for our bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/oldiebutagoodiepod Follow the show! Instagram: https:/...

We're back! Before we start a brand-new season of movie reviews, where each movie has to be connected to the previous one we've discussed, let's take a look back at the previous season of movie reviews, where each movie had to connect to the previous one we discussed. Listen in as we hand out awards, disagree on which movies are the best of the year, and laugh at all of the bad films we made each...

While we're on break, we're diving deep into our Patreon vaults for some highlight film reviews. Following on from last week, the vampire hunting continues with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. This historically accurate drama tells a story of revenge, politics, and vampire slaying. Join our Patreon for our bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/oldiebutagoodiepod Follow the show! Instagram: http...

While we're on break, we're diving deep into our Patreon vaults for some highlight film reviews. This week's one is a bit weird. We're reviewing a low-budget comedy-action-musical-horror film about Jesus Christ fighting vampires. It's full of fighting, blood, religious jokes, and Canadian accents. We loved it! Join our Patreon for our bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/oldiebutagoodiepod Foll...

While we're on break, we're diving deep into our Patreon vaults for some highlight film reviews. If you love 80s B-movies that are entirely about explosions, one-liners, and nudity, then you'll love what we're reviewing in this episode! Hard Ticket to Hawaii is a cult classic from 1987 that features a bunch of Playboy models teaming up with some wannabe action stars to take down a drug lord (and a...

While we're on break, we're diving deep into our Patreon vaults for some highlight movie reviews. Filmed in 1984, then abandoned, then recovered, then re-edited and dubbed in 2021... The story behind New York Ninja is a wild one. We check out the new release from Vinegar Syndrome and see if this resurrected cult classic holds up to the hype. Join our Patreon for our bonus episodes! https://www.pat...

While we're on break, we're releasing some highlights from our Patreon vaults! To kick it off, let's chat about American Ninja 2: The Confrontation. We've never seen the first movie, but the concept intrigued us. A villain kidnapping marines and turning them into ninjas? Sounds like fun! And it was fun! Sure, one of us had a lot more fun than the other, but fun was had! Join our Patreon for our bo...

Sandro and Zach have both seen Avatar: Fire and Ash! Recorded in a Hawthorn parking lot, here are their spoiler-free first impressions. Has James Cameron delivered another visual masterpiece? How many times do they say Jake Sully in this one? Are the fire aliens fiery enough? There's so much to discuss! Join our Patreon for our bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/oldiebutagoodiepod Follow the...

For our final episode of the year, we're turning the holiday vibes up to 11 and heading to Zach's home country for Kiwi Christmas! In this movie, Santa is over the commercialisation of Christmas, so much so that he runs away to New Zealand and crashes a family's summer camping holiday. Does this movie contain the classic New Zealand comedy we both love? Have we finally found a relatable Christmas...

We're kicking off the holiday season with one of the biggest budget movies we've ever covered! It's the Amazon Prime Original Christmas comedy action film Red One. J. K. Simmons is a buff Santa who gets kidnapped. Dwayne Johnson is a magical security guard who has to save him, with help from Lucy Liu. Chris Evans is a hacker who is also there. Join our Patreon for our bonus episodes! https://www.p...

Our journey through the Riddick trilogy has been a fun one! We both enjoyed the first two movies, so hopefully Vin Diesel's 2013 sci-fi film can bring the entire adventure home. In this film, the series returns to its action-horror roots as we find Richard B. Riddick stuck on another dangerous planet with a new bunch of mercenaries. There are gory kills, there are cheesy one-liners, and there's ev...

We honestly think that 'The Chronicles of Riddick' might take the prize for the Sequel With The Most Worldbuilding Of All Time award. We've reached the second stop in our journey through Vin Diesel's sci-fi franchise, and this one has so much new lore to discuss. Some might say too much. Written and directed once again by David Twohy, this new Riddick tale shifts the genre from horror to action an...

Over the next three weeks, the boys are going to be checking out the entire Riddick trilogy. The first stop on this adventure is the 2000 film Pitch Black. Directed by David Twohy and introducing Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick, this sci-fi horror throws a bunch of characters on a dangerous planet to see who survives. It's also filmed in South Australia and features heaps of Aussie actors, includ...

Danger! Zach and Sandro are reviewing the failed 1998 film adaptation of 'Lost in Space'! Surely a movie that stars William Hurt, Gary Oldman, Heather Graham, and Matt LeBlanc can't be that bad? Surely it's got the heart and fun of the original TV show from the 60s? Surely it can't all come apart because it's written by the guy who created Star Trek: Picard? Join our Patreon for our bonus episodes...

Alex Proyas's Dark City is a movie about a guy who wakes up in a hotel with no memory of who he is. That's all we'll say, as it's best to go into this movie blind. We really enjoyed it though, and spent most of this episode ranting about how great the movie is! Join our Patreon for our bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/oldiebutagoodiepod Follow the show! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...

Sandro has seen Predator: Badlands and is pretty excited to share his thoughts in the first episode of a brand new series of new movie reviews! Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, this new Predator movie follows Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a young warrior who sets off on a hunt on an alien planet. There, he finds an ally in a synth (Elle Fanning), as the two fight to survive this dangerous wo...

This is a very special episode because we are joined by good friend of the show Rob Lloyd for the first time this year to discuss a Shakespearean-ish comedy by playwright Tom Stoppard. It's called Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and presents an alternative version of Hamlet from the perspective of two minor characters, played by Gary Oldman and Tim Roth. Join our Patreon for our bonus epi...

It's our super scary Halloween special! We're joined by horror streamer hauntedbyhan to review a spookacular movie chosen by our patrons: Exorcist II: The Heretic. Directed by John Boorman and starring Richard Burton and Linda Blair, the latter returning to play the possessed child Regan, this sequel has been referred to as one of the worst movies of all time since its release in 1977. But is it a...

This week, we're reviewing another rendition of the King Arthur legend, but told from Merlin's perspective instead. Sam Neill plays the infamous wizard, alongside a stacked cast that features Helena Bonham Carter, Rutger Hauer, Martin Short, Isabella Rossellini, and Miranda Richardson. This is also a two-part TV movie, so we're really breaking all the rules with this episode. Join our Patreon for...

After covering the two 'Cat People' films from the 40s, we went over to Patreon to review Paul Schrader's 1982 remake. And now you can listen to it here, for free! Armed with a title song from David Bowie and a ridiculous amount of gory practical effects, this is pretty much everything we wanted after reviewing the original. Join our Patreon for our bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/oldiebut...

You've probably heard a version of the story of King Arthur, his Knights of the Round Table, and his special sword Excalibur... But you've never seen it portrayed like this before! Unless you're like us and have watched John Boorman's 1981 film, of course. In our review of this movie, hear how shocked we are at how much of the Arthurian legend they fit in, all the strange twists they've added in,...

In this very special episode, we are joined by our editor Starkie to review the forgotten animated adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Zach is a massive Middle-Earth fan, Sandro is fairly familiar with the lore, and Starkie watched Peter Jackson's trilogy once ten years ago. What do they think of this early version of the story? Listen in and find out! Join our Patreon for our...

The boys must be out of their minds because this week they're returning to the world of Czech animation and watching 2012's Goat Story 2: With Cheese. The first movie may have been one of the weirdest movies they've ever watched... Can the sequel top it? This one is set in a magical land of cheese, demons, and folk-story superheroes. We follow Goat and some kids as they head off on a quest to go t...

In what may be one of the strangest choices we've ever made on the show, this week we're checking out a VeggieTales movie(ish) about superhero vegetables! In 2012, Marvel made history with 'The Avengers'. The same year, VeggieTales tried to do the same thing with 'The League of Incredible Vegetables'. It shares similar themes with a team needing to work together to stop a villain, except it also a...

The image we've chosen for this episode may make this week's movie look like a normal animated kids film... But Goat Story is anything but. This Czech film may be one of the most cursed things we've ever had to watch for this podcast. It's about the incredibly strange relationship between a guy called Jemmy and his goat. They travel to Prague, where things start to get a little weird... There are...