One Good Thing

There are a lot of parallels between One Good Thing and 1978 horror film The Swarm. Both are unintentionally funny, there’s a lot of shouting and Paul drives as though he’s been stung by an eternity of bees. That’s where the differences end: we have two Pauls, none of which are Michael Caine, and we’re a podcast. So what right does that give us to talk about a film that patently isn’t two Pauls? W...

Three in a bag, three in the bush… the Baby Bearders are gluttons for uniquely repetitive styles of punishment as they the prodigal sons return for more shit film talk! Turns out that if you say ‘one good thing’ three times in an Australian accent 2017’s bad film ‘The Mummy’ will appear in DVD form, and everyone involved must watch it or be laughed at as bad film boys for all time. If you can find...

The Pauls have been sucking the life out of the podcast game for so long that the podcast world struck back: Oliver Urwin from the wicked sweet Video Negative podcast punished us from the skies. The gauntlet? We must not only watch James Nguyen's Birdemic: Shock and Terror but we must also find some good things about it. As in the classic OGT style. Then he LAUGHED, listeners. Long and hard. At ou...

This week a royal coupling has the Pauls in a tizzy; the republic dream is fading, they’re focusing on the negative, they’re certainly not mindful of our thoughts and, to be perfectly honest, if anyone is pleased to see them at this stage then something has gone horribly wrong. What’s more, because I can’t be bothered to finish this analogy I’m going to go ahead and make it clear that we’re talkin...

Thanks to Paul's girlfriend Nell (who seceretly wanted to watch this however much she tells you different) the Pauls found themselves actively watching Sharknado: the 4th Awakens. So bad it's good? Or so good at bad that it's good? Or just plain three bags of crap because it did good bad? Before the similarities to the Pauls themselves get too loud and aggressive (much like said Pauls), it's proba...

Basically, after seventy-plus hours of OGT, the Pauls have gone the way of Bonnie and Clyde, Sonny and Cher and Bono/Bono and bloody had it with each other. One Paul had a feeling this would happen, so about ten weeks ago asked the other Paul to watch five Adam Sandler films in one go. "For the podcast," he said, grubbing his hands like a fly perched on a peach, and left it at that. Turns out, unb...

For such a sexy episode number the Pauls get down and dirty – that is to say, on their knees, in the mud, rooting around for meaning – and not just because they're failures in the eyes of their parents, friends and future employers. No, there's something more sinister than that. One of the Pauls has trapped the other in a supposedly metatextual podcast about podcasting, only when trapped Paul trie...

  Ohnoes! This week both Pauls shat up their magic boxes and decided that if they wanted any women to ever touch it again then they needed to do a right-old magic box makeover! They got Ty whatshisface from that American show where they build mansions for orphans and single dads, Taye Diggs, Mike Tyson (from Ip Man) and Tyson Fury* to pitch in with their various views and approaches to life –becau...

The Pauls are trying something new! At the incest and folk-dancing party they were asked to attend by a member of Oasis they sat down and discussed ALL of videogames! On a film podcast! Imagine. Anyway, they’re pretty knowledgeable about all this Cuthbert and Maribo stuff and they’ve left absolutely nothing out at all, so strap in, grab your game-stick and try not to get a game over, you bloody ga...

Tally-ho fellow 2017ers! The Pauls cruise in with the timing of a dead dog falling out of a plane into an explosion to talk their top films of 2017! That is to say at precisely the correct time. Everyone else bollocksed it up. ogtpod@gmail.com https://ogtpod.podbean.com https://facebook.com/ogtpod https://twitter.com/ogtpod   Jingles from episodes 1-50 now available on Bandcamp – just £2.50 for mo...

Holy duck! This week the Pauls take their first step into farty cinema of the past because, believe it or not, people did crap things back then too. It’s not all Morrissey and Thatcherism you know. That’s right, ladies and gentlemallards, this week the Pauls find the one good thing about Howard the Duck, because they sure did made movies like that anymore. Featuring: some lovely duckplay, stickin’...

This week the Pauls were waylaid by fan of the show Jennifer Sohns showing up in the middle of a plumbing job and waving a shiny rock in our faces. “Take this to another dimension,” she cooed, then when I reached out for it she beat us over the head with a hammer and dragged our bodies hundreds of miles into a moody dystopia populated by folk-singing mushrooms, men evolved from dragons and goo han...

Well, we only went and asked the very good Movie Maintenance podcast for a recommendation. Originally that recommendation was to stop calling them and standing outside their window with boomboxes (Wagner, obviously) – but eventually they relented and poured the boiling vat of A Sound of Thunder all over our faces. And you know what? We lapped it up. Turns out people who are very good at fixing fil...

Howdy y'all/y'all'all, what up and shut up: the Paulboyz are once again overrun by Australians (though they still refuse to show us their birth certificates) – what better way to celebrate this latest subjugation by looking at an infamous part of history that has nothing to do with Australia nor any real grounding in reality? That's right, this week the Pauls and Sean and Phil and Chris looked at...

And so into the grey those sweet Paulboyz ride – MATTHEW GREY (GRAY) that is. He (@clockworkwriter) suggested we do some of the movie movies, we put it to a poll, nobody could make up their bloody minds and now the Paulboyz are stuck with three hours of something approximating satire. It was witnessed, recorded and swiftly dumped into a well. Was it a wishing well? H.G. Wells? Welwyn Garden City?...

We’ve hit another tenner and you know what that means: one of the disgusting Paulboyz pulls a film favourite from the pile of stink that amasses around the truly deranged and defends it for the whole world to see! This week, one of the Pauls somehow thinks Lars Von Trier's 2009 film Antichrist isn’t a loathsome piece of garbage and that maybe we need to have a chat about it. So there you go. Other...

This week the Paulz confuse their timelines and whisk themselves back to a crazy era where only men played videogames, music was repetitive and only men played videogames, did I mention that? That’s right, they went to a 2015 Adam Sandler film. Arf. Pixels. That’s about all this fucking thing is getting. One good thing. Featuring: memory lane, …FUN???!!!!, a winning formula, good lessons for your...

Happy Valentine’s one and all! Obviously the Pauls have booked out every restaurant in the city on the off-chance that in gallivanting they pass by even one of them. If not, though, they’ll probably do what they always do: drink organic vinegar from the bottle and watch one Garry Marshall film at random until that thing happens where the liquid starts pouring out of a steaming hole in the back of...

This week the Pauls struggle to be heard over the sound of an obnoxious four-four beat backing over them like a lorry packed to the rafters with bullshit; fortunately for them, Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever was on the TV, so they were able to hear it over everything else perfectly. And what do you know, they even found a few good things about it… ONE good thing, that is. But also a few. Featuring: the...

This week the Paulboyz ask 'Why doesn't everyone love the films we love?' and get stuck into those 'Great' movies that people love to hate. Featuring: Christopher Nolan, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Denis Villeneuve, Damien Chazelle, John Madden, Rian Johnson and anyone who's ever liked or disliked a film and just fancied a good old chat.

We tried so hard for the original Mark and Sophie from You Know What I Like Podcast – we wanted them so bad and we thought our moxie and street cred was enough. Alas. Luckily for us, some old man from Braveheart (I think Brendan Gleeson?) shipped us over a couple of podcast people from his own private stash. They were sexier and cooler and happy to work for nothing, just like us, so we hit it off...

This week the Paulboyz get their laughing gear around the end of a series they’ve had very little to do with to date, but promise you this: if but one iota makes no sense they’ll hound it to the ends of the Earth. That’s right: this week is the one good thing about immortal abomination The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2::::! May our lives be forever about to change. Featuring: we found Jim B...

Does not compute! Aha... ah. Launching the Pilot podcast not only has a frankly fantastic Australian mullet, but they came to us with a violent, sexy idea for our ears only: find the one good thing about CHAPPiE, they said. And let us pilot an incredible death machine. Hmm, we said. Seems a bit much. No it isn't, they said. Just look at Sigourney Weaver over there. She seemed pretty cool with it....

Well, it's the end of a long and sticky year. We've seen our fair share of highs and some undeserved lows, but those of us who remain have not only ourselves but each other to thank. These emotions and more come to a head on the last day of 2017: there'll be laughter, mostly because of alcohol; regret, mostly also because of alcohol but also because of genitals and the sex we've done to one anothe...

Merry Christmas one and all: a wildly unseasonal Easter Egg and proof that all it takes is a little jet lag to break one Paul's mind.