Oldie But A Goodie

Arrr, matey, it's time to go a-treasure huntin'. Grab your Jolly Roger, polish your parrot, and hop aboard as we set sail to Treasure Island. Yep, it's the 1934 adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, starring great lead performances from Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper. While this film isn't as popular as the Disney movie from 1950, or as nostalgic as the animated Treasure Plan...

Did you know that 9 months after the incredibly successful 'King Kong' got released in 1933, they rushed out a sequel called Son of Kong? Well, they did. And we watched both of them for this week's episode! And one of them was really bad! We also forced comedian Jack McGorlick to watch them with us. 0:06:35 - Spoiler-Free First Impressions 0:22:58 - Rotten Reviews But I'm In Charge But Letterboxd...

Do you want some more classic monsters? We've got loads of classic monsters! After dipping our toes into the Universal Classic Monsters franchise last week, we've decided to go back in for more and see Boris Karloff as The Mummy. Before it was an action-adventure film with Brendan Fraser, it was a horror film from 1932. Does it hold up? Is the actor who played Van Helsing in Dracula back for this...

It's a big one this week! We're doing the first two movies in the Universal Classic Monsters franchise, both of which came out in 1931. First up, it's the incredibly iconic Dracula. Yep, THE Dracula film, the one with Bela Lugosi. Wow! And then we check out Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff in the role of The Monster. And because we love to gamify our movie reviews, we mash them together and ma...

As we enter a brand new decade of cinema, it's time to check out some of the funniest, talkiest and most influential comedians of the time: The Marx Brothers! Based on their stageplay from the late '20s, we're giving Animal Crackers a watch to see how it holds up. In it, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx joke their way around a loose plot about a missing painting and deliver many hilarious lin...

Join us as we head under the water with Count Dakkar (not Captain Nemo) and go on an adventure filled with sea-people, giant monsters, and... revolutions? Wait, this isn't based off the Jules Verne novel The Mysterious Island? It's more of a prequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas? And the first half is incredibly boring? Oh well, at least this silent movie has 5 minutes of actual record...

We've covered a lot of "cinema firsts" on the podcast this year, and this week is no different. For our 1928 movie pick, we've gone for a film that won the first-ever Best Actor award and the first-ever Academy Awards show. It's the political war drama The Last Command, and, boy, do we have a lot of questions about the message here. Join the Bad Porridge Club on Patreon for TWO bonus episodes each...

This is the big one. Some might say the biggest film of the '20s. Not only is it the silent movie that's known for revolutionising science-fiction cinema... Not only is it a very important German expressionist film from Fritz Lang... Not only is it really good... But it's also the longest film we've done on the show so far this year! We're joined by Chloe Towan (Innes Lloyd's Time Lord / You, Fred...

Because we loved 'Sherlock Jr' so much, we checking out another classic Buster Keaton comedy! This one is 'The General', the very famous historical film about the American Civil War. There are loads of stunts, loads of laughs, and loads of questionable historical changes. We dive right in and discuss the good and the bad with actor and improviser Zac Rose (Shakespeare Aliens). See 'Shakespeare Ali...

We've done a bunch of silent horror films and a bunch of silent comedy films, but this week we're checking out a silent action-adventure film. Based on the classic novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World is about a bunch of explorers travelling into the Amazon to find dinosaurs. There are stop-motion action sequences, lots of epic setpieces, and an apeman who's just kinda mean. See 'Shakespear...

We've covered films by Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin so far this year, but on this episode, we finally check out another comedy icon from the silent era... It's Buster Keaton! As big Sherlock Holmes fans, as soon as we saw that Sherlock Jr. came out in 1924, we knew we had to give it a watch. We're joined by frequent guest Rob Lloyd to talk about all the stunts, all the gags, and all the incred...

1923. A man named Harold Lloyd decides to make a romantic comedy called Safety Last! where he climbs up a building. The image of him hanging from the clock becomes one of the most iconic images of the silent film era. But is the film itself good? We give it a watch to find out! See 'Shakespeare Aliens' in Adelaide Fringe! Feb 28th - March 5th. Tickets: https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/shake...

As we journey into the year 1922, we check out another big horror classic. It's the unofficial German Expressionist adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the one and only Nosferatu. We're joined by horror expert NateXBS to give it a watch and see how it holds up. Join the Bad Porridge Club on Patreon for TWO bonus episodes each month! https://www.patreon.com/oldiebutagoodiepod Watch Nate on Twitch...

For the second episode of our new series, we're heading to 1921 to review Charlie Chaplin's big feature debut... The Kid. He plays his classic character The Tramp and adopts a child to help with his various antics. It's a film with a lot of heart, a lot of laughs, and that whole problematic can of worms that tends to come with discussing Chaplin movies. Join the Bad Porridge Club on Patreon for TW...

It's time to start our new series reviewing movies from 1920 to 1969, and we're kicking it off with a bang! The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a classic silent film from the German Expressionist movement and is considered to be one of the most influential horror movies of all time. It's about two friends, a mysterious man at a fair, a somnambulist, and a bunch of murders. We're joined by frequent gues...

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Happy New Year! Wow, it's a brand new year full of brand-new episodes with a brand-new gimmick. But before we kick off our year-long journey through classic cinema, we're going to take a little look back at the year that's been! We go back through 2001, discuss the best and worst films of the year, hand out a bunch of awards, and chat to a bunch of guests. Plus, at the very end of the episode, we...

No new episode this week, so instead we're releasing something from our Patreon archives! It's the first episode of our epic The Cage-A-Rama series, which was six episodes covering wild Nic Cage performances! To kick it off, we warmed up with a pre-MCU Marvel movie by Sony. It's about Ghost Rider, that guy who has a flaming skull and a cool bike. He has to work for the devil and battle vampire rej...

It's our final episode of the year! And to celebrate, we're reviewing something super nostalgic... The animated feature film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius! Jimmy is a smart kid with a big head. He's got a bunch of friends with weird cartoon voices. When all their parents are kidnapped by Patrick Stewart voicing an alien, they all have to team up to save them! Does this childhood favourite hold up? We...

For the second last episode of the year, and the second last movie we'll review for 2001, we've gone for yet another comedy. It's the high-school rom-com parody Not Another Teen Movie, a film so unfunny that our guest Jack McGorlick (Paul Noodle) may never come back on the show again. But Chris Evans is in it, so that's a plus I guess. Join the Bad Porridge Club on Patreon for TWO bonus episodes e...

It's time for another Christmas movie! And this one actually came out in December! It's the "classic" Disney Channel Original Movie starring Brian Cranston... 'Twas the Night. Cranston plays Nick, a scam artist who's on the run. He and his nephew steal Santa's sleigh and go do some crimes while learning lessons along the way. Listen in as we go way too in-depth about all the various Santa tech the...

Here on the show, we've never seemed to have good luck with westerns. We always happen to review the ones people don't like, the ones with nothing new to do or say, and the ones the studio and creatives had no faith in. We aren't changing that this week! Texas Rangers is a movie that took forever to make, was heavily edited for it's theatrical release, and is so far removed from the original visio...

Ho ho ho! Merry November! Do you remember a Christmas movie from 1989 called Prancer? Sam Elliot is in it, and it's written by the guy who wrote Jumanji? Well, on this jolly episode of the podcast, we're checking out the direct-to-video sequel that came out in 2001! It's full of questionable plot points, cow-based action sequences, horrifying forests, and too many uses of the Dance of the Sugar Pl...

Did you know there is a movie where Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg worked at a car wash? Did you know that there is also a movie where Eminem keeps threatening the boss of that car wash? Did you know that Shaq and Ludacris and Xzibit and even Pauly Shore are in this movie? Did you know that it's written and directed by DJ Pooh, who also wrote GTA: San Andreas? Well, we knew that, because we've just reviewe...

Before the games and before the Netflix show, there were books. And then, after the books, there was a movie! A movie that was a condensed version of a show. But not the Netflix show called The Witcher. We're talking about the 2001 Polish movie called The Hexer. We're joined by Sandy Whittem (Illiterature) to see if this early adaptation of Geralt's story is any good. Join the Bad Porridge Club on...