One Good Thing

It's LFF season! Paul Salt is away and the Goodman shall play... the edit of this episode over and over again as he brings to you an episode of One Quick Thing: this time the Pauls get stuck into gritty nasty revenge flick Trip With the Teacher. Oh boy! Featuring: gasso fillo, funky escape, Joan Crawford, Dennis Hopper and the best Australian crows. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE...

Hello Brothers and Sisters! Today Paul “Legs Eleven” Salt rushes to the defence of an oft-maligned movie in the hopes that Goodman will stop spitting on him for just one second. This time around it’s to talk William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist III! Will the saliva resume forthwith or be withheld out of pure damn respect? Find out in here! No, here… here. Look where I’m pointing. Yeah. There we go....

The Pauls round off revisiting their teenage years with damp camporama (and camper van) Van Helsing! Who is more and who less jaded than their teen self, and who? Some other questions pertaining to this episode instilling a sense of mystery in the audience? The answers to all await within... the One Good Thing about Van Helsing!   Featuring: Mistake Time, Clarifying Roger Ebert Jokes, a Silvestri...

Holy contrived opening, Bat-team! The Dynamic Duo of guys named Paul are going back to their childhoods to find out what Jim Carrey is doing inside of them. But oh no! His best mate Sheriff Tommy Lee Jones is also there, and he's got three arms or something. Splat! Will the Pauls live to podcast another day? In! Featuring: Electric Cancer, Anthony Hopkin's Riddler, the inability to speak, Wild Thi...

Tally-Ho and other classic Leslie Nielsen phrases! This week the Pauls begin their trip down 90s Lane, avoiding as they shamble the glassy stares of the remaining members of Take That, murky old coins with Craig Charles' face on them and the battle for Cool Britannia, which was literally a war waged literally on our literal childhoods via Hot Teen Music. We saw a bunch of movies back then, just li...

Friends! OGTeam! This week the Pauls discuss perfect movies - does such a film exist? What would its criteria be if so, and to what extent must we all maintain decorum and treat each other like human beings as we continue this discussion into the future of cinema? Join us on this path of understanding and reason within! Featuring: some awesome films that only idiots hate unreasonably and I hate th...

Greetings, chums! It's down t'history hole once again as the Pauls find the good things in 1948's The Babe Ruth Story. Knowing the bare minimum about baseball, or America, frankly, what will they learn about these people's national and spiritual hero, and indeed, what prejudices will they develop as a result? Watch out, America, and welcome to One Good Thing. Featuring: baseball, soda pop, BASEBAL...

John from the smashing Guardian-featured podcast Beyond the Box Set makes his triumphant return to our smashing Guardian-featured podcast with another of Faye Dunaway’s Mad Crazy Films, this one mostly starring Gina Gershon and Nic Cage, making it a trinity of sorts, but most definitely a trinity headed by a fourth even better thing in the form of director Jonathan Baker, a man who’s just there wh...

Thanks to legendary Loki figure @HarrisonVevo for recommending this week's thing: Soul Man. Nice sounding title. A what you'd call 'off-the-mark' romp featuring blackface and lots of very memorable impressions? No doubt. Come find out! In here. We've saved you a space next to Harrison Vevo.  Featuring: Captain Punch, really positive racism, the Memorable Thingo, talking about Stewart Lee for a bit...

Phil from Baby Beard joins us this week to discuss the good things in insane and great film Anaconda. If that isn’t enough to lure you in then we’re getting Jon Voight involved. And he’s going to find you.   Featuring: our llosta, my important project, Roger Ebert’s Mass Audience Entertainment Machine, a pretty good Ice Cube joke and Enter the Voight. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujE...

Oopsy Poopsy, it's time to return to the Happy Maddison Trough to see what they've slopped out for us today. It's the exact same stuff we processed for them two years ago! Yay, let's run it through out systems again! Can the Pauls find new good things to say about one of the most challenging wanks they've ever been offered? Find out here, now, inside.    Featuring: Accents that only last for the f...

Time for a defence-of episode! This is an opportunity for those ever-positive Pauls to actually be positive for once. This time, it’s Goodman’s turn to be super cheerful about sad slow film Only God Forgives - hooray!   I tell you what- I’m wanna fight. Are you?   Featuring: a Gosly grope, a godly trap, a euphemism for the worst weekend, an awkward situation with Ryan Gosling, Mind Your Scott Thom...

    Hey everyone, Josh Gad here. We’ve all had a lot of fun today. I just want to take the time to reassure you that the Paulboys are “comedians”, which means that sometimes they will say a thing tinged, nay, sprinkled, with irony. They don’t mean any of the words that come out of their mouths in these moments of inspiration. WARNING! Please don’t worry - these are “jokes”, and usually mean the op...

You want empowerment? Check out these two white dudes talking about a movie written by two other white dudes about two women trying to make it in the infamously viscous make up business where their greatest enemy is a powerful woman! Open wide, OGTeam, and prepare to receive what's left of the Rubicon right in your face.  Featuring: two great lead performances that deserve a better movie, some con...

Oh, to talk with the animals, to laugh and cry and move to Mexico with the animals - we all love animals in the multiple definitions of all of those words, but what happens when someone does away with the meaning of words altogether, pushing Robert Downey Jr. aside in the face to rely only on Kumail Nanjiani delivering one liners via the medium of annoying CGI character? It worked for MIB Internat...

Are trailers art? What is the purpose of art, and should it have one at all? None of these questions and more are discussed in today's episode, where the Pauls talk about their top ten trailers of all time!* *That they** can remember ** Goodman*** *** Paul Featuring: dooowwwf, key change, comedy scratch, beeeoooww and dff-dff-dff-dffvvuvvufuffffskklllcchhhhh.   https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7c...

It's back up their history hole for Paul and Paul as they enter the Roaring 40s to review what is commonly perceived to be the weakest Marx Brothers film. Is it the Jack and Jill of its generation? Or is it obviously not that? Find out only by listening to the episode we've recorded about that.  Featuring: Goodman's powerful brothers, the tragic story of Todd Theoscars, Chica Marx, the best song a...

*** Goodman's mic is knackered in this one. Sorry about that. This'll be sorted by next episode!*** Not content to ruin our lives with the adorable nostalgic Casper (the friendly ghost), Ellen returns to fill said ruins with Disney Dreamz (TM). This week it's the one good thing about The Black Cauldron! Featuring: the slipperiest soap, executive pig assistant, the hidden hero, the obvious Gollum a...

Episode 173. Mean Guns Ever thought: “sure, it’s hilarious when the Pauls are miserable, but I love their rank depression and hope they never take a holiday”? Well you can sod off now, scum, because Matthew Whittaker of the extremely chocolatey Cinema Bushido has recommended we find all the good things in Albert Pyun’s Mean Guns for us to rub over our aching hearts like a salve made of salve conce...

Calling all Jellicle whatevers! Daniel from Cinematic Adventure hates us so much that he wanted to make us watch Cats and talk about it for a bit. This is that.  You see? I can do it without a pun. Movie critics are hacks.  ... I'm not even going to do one as a gag here. Not anywhere.  Featuring: Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats, Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats, Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats, ...

  In Salt's quest to discover the true bottom ten of OGT history, but also to keep things interesting, The Pauls are spicing up their rewatch frenzy by recording a commentary for the British sex comedy Run For Your Wife. Now YOU, cursed listener, can watch along with us as we: forget what's happening, perform role play after role play about minor characters and ask each other about early noughties...

Too bad, OGTeam, you got SNAKE EYES! (beaten up Nic Cage voice) Or at the very least you've got a case of the Kevin Dunnes because you're about to be embroiled in the slipperiest conspiraciest secret operation out there: one Paul likes a Nic Cage film, he's decided to defend it, and we barely discuss Nic Cage at all! At least compared to normal. Probably because it's Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes. S...

Way-ay pets and bairns, time to dust off our not-at-all practiced Geordie accents as we look for the good things in Paul Salt's least favourite film of all time, Zombie Women of Satan! Featuring: Butts, Boobs and Proust.  https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.podbean.com https://facebook.com/ogtpod https://twitter.com/ogtpod   We now have a Patreon!  https://www.patre...

Merry Christmas, book fans! The Pauls went to their local Blockbuster with a hollowed-out copy of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch under each arm, the plan being to smuggle out every single copy of Double Impact to watch it on Salt's many screens – unfortunately for them the Blockbuster store manager Keith spotted them coming a mile off and ran over to those succulent boys, madly waving his hands above...

IT HASN'T BEEN RECOVERED YET?! WHILE YOU WERE STILL LEARNING HOW TO SPELL YOUR NAME! and other non-applicable quotes: it's time to make the great man a twoman and delve into Passion Project #2, Gotti. The Fanatic is on the horizon. And we're not talking about John Travolta. Featuring: 'Goaty', medicine for wiseguys, the joke that finally destroys us, photo etiquette and the weighty responsibility...