One Good Thing

Another week, another head in a jar! In this mini episode the Paul's tackle another Gore House Great, this time a sci-fi head upsetter, Brain Twisters. Featuring: The Pauls not noticing the phrase "bell end", degree shaming, confusingly similar high school girls, German shaming, some great police work, William Fichtner shaming, and some Paul on Paul combat over acting prowess. Not Featuring: Bob H...

Whilst one Paul is away, the other will play! ...with show formats. It's a mini episode! The Pauls take a quick look at Madmen of Mandoras! A crazy movie from the swinging sixties with all those sixties hallmarks: big suits, awkwardly hidden bodies and Nazis! Also featuring: Hitler's head in a jar (let's face it, that's why you clicked on this), a huge number of protagonists, a diminutive number o...

Oh no! The Pauls have run out of bad movies! Not to worry, Hollywood will have a fresh batch ready in a few weeks, like a nice warm tray of cookies filled with live bees. Meanwhile, the Pauls decide to devote some time to movies they actually like! Specifically the ones they feel have flown under the radar and could do with the popularity boost that a mention on our podcast will inevitably bring t...

Thanks to the truly outrageous You Know What I Like? podcast (@YKWILpodcast) for recommending this one and truly outrageousing our perceptions with this confusing and unsettlingly capable movie that everyone hated. Yes, it's the last week of recommendations month and two very sleepy Pauls are looking for the one good thing about Jem and the Holograms! Featuring: joy, pleasure, sophistication, deli...

This week's recommendation comes from @VideoNegative podcast – who eschewed the mean-spirited and plain nasty rubbish film for the kind that tries hard but is nevertheless the equivalent of the dog with one leg shorter than the rest, hobbling urgently away from its own mess. Well played, we say, Video Negative. Well played. Featuring: a story maze, the wrong workmate, an original idea, signer's re...

Well, thanks to the boys @BrodysKitchen podcast, recommendations month can continue! I knelt down in front of Chief Brody and Paul lay prostrate before Bad Hat Harry, and each of us held out our hands while they shovelled rich, steaming piles of Bucky Larson into our palms. Please sirs can we have some more! "Yes," they said. "Always." Featuring: sex labels, all kinds of shaming, grape of destiny,...

Well! This week the @blokebusters podcast recommend us a doozy and the Pauls get OUTRAGEOUS with Adam Sandler's Netflix release The Ridiculous Six: CRINGE as they get offended as hell at all the crass, gross Sandler jokes; WINCE as they etc. etc. Turns out that it's exactly what they expected, with absolutely no surprises. Paul and I hate surprises, except at Christmas, and this ain't Christmas. T...

So it's like this: Paul drew a picture of me on the back of his hand and just WOULDN'T show me, even though I gave him cake after cake (having just finished my weekly cake shop), even pushing several of the cakes into his various holes. Well, listeners, it was more than I could take! One thing lead to another, I cursed his hand and ever since then he's – well, if I have to be blunt – begun to age...

Well, we're patting ourselves on the back – but not too hard – for reaching the milestone that is twenty episodes and another in which one of us (this time it's Paul) defends a movie that everyone else thinks is the worst! Hooray! Featuring: bad rainbow, Thailand with the boys, politics section, the ballad of Jean-Claude, the importance of being faithful and not one goddamn street, Steven. Not one...

This week the Pauls complete the Face/Off double-whammy and pay a visit to the world of John Travolta's heart - it's a scary place, full of well-realised passion projects and characters we can all root for. The twist: John Travolta's heart isn't the entire world, so unfortunately after that we had to watch Battlefield Earth and talk about what that one good thing might be. Piece of cake...? Featur...

This week the Pauls are immediately given their shot at the big time without any prior legwork because their podcast souls are more beautiful than thirty-six Mariah Carey faces. Unfortunately, their art is centred around irony and impressions, and anyway people are only interested because of their sweet sweet podcasting asses. Oh well: what’s the one good thing about Glitter? Featuring: Boston Sar...

This week the Pauls realise they're the last in a long line of vampire slayers but are ultimately disappointed when this amounts to nothing more than being disgusted by penises and living in a state of constant gay panic. Also, women are super evil and we had no idea. Don't believe us? You obviously haven't seen Lesbian Vampire Killers. So what's the one good thing? Featuring: misogyny! how to be...

Paul is sick and other Paul is exhausted: what better time to kick off a mega-review of the last unforgettable year? Thousands. Literally thousands of better times. But never mind about any of that because it’s time to get positive. They just do make movies like this anymore! Featuring: top tens, the highest-grossers, the two Pauls’ personal highlights delivered via tried-and-tested quickfire, and...

This week the Pauls sell their soul for the chance to return to 2007 so they can see Ghost Rider for the first time – then spend the next ten years not thinking about it until they have a stupid idea to start a podcast where they look for the good things in three hundred separate Nicolas Cage movies. Wizard! Featuring: Nicolas Cage, talking about Nicolas Cage, trying very hard not to talk about Ni...

This week Liz and Toni over at @avoidbeinghated invited us into their minds for a comedy chat, and when we got there not only were the ladies nowhere to be found but the entire place had been rigged – with hijinks! That’s right: it’s still recommendations month and this week we were dared to find the one good thing about Home Alone 3 before an entire world of pain crashed unconvincingly down about...

The Pauls take a break from recommendations month to be brought kicking and screaming into this seasonal film with more characters than War and Peace and none of the content. This one's for the mums! Featuring: Friends Mom, Blonde Mom, Gay Mom, Bar Mom, New Mom, Indian Mom, the Three Million Dollar Mom, Mom Mom, Dad Mom, John Lovmom and a salt and pepper Dad from that good Mom show, Deadmom.

Apologies for the first five minutes of audio – a craaazy kangaroo showed up and did a rap and then our airwaves got all tangled, so we almost didn’t spot that quasi-stoner comedy lurking in the background. Never fear: it’s still recommendations month and this week we were challenged by Varmints! podcast (@varmintspodcast, blazingcariboustudios.com/varmints) to find the one good thing about Kangar...

It's recommendations month here at OGT towers and the lovely David Keep of webcomic whatkindofday.com (and our super-rad artwork) threw Spanglish in our big stupid faces! Starring Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni, it promises to be a thrillride of neurotic whingeing and murky morals - basically Woody Allen without the jokes. Thanks Dave! Featuring: Harry Dean Stanton gettin' some, Momma knows nothing, g...

Paul really licks at the bone on this one: he thinks Freddy Got Fingered is pretty great and wonders why it was hated by basically everyone else. That's right, every tenth episode at One Good Thing a Paul defends a film that most would think of as pretty flipping rubbish – but they happen to love more than their own children. Featuring: Gaspar Noe, Thomas Vinterberg, Park Chan-Wook, Roger Ebert, A...

This week the Pauls take a trip on my neighbour Turturro's catbus of acting gravitas as it plunges them headfirst into Bayhem, a storm of sleaze, sweat and bewbs jiggling over soft fade ins of men in army fatigues having good old arm wrestles and being MEN, who are great. That's right, kids: we're trying to find the one good thing about a Michael Bay film! Hooray! Featuring: What Drug Is My Mom On...

This week the Pauls move house so haven’t quite set up their ultimate recording situation – sorry – but make up for it by getting real angry trying to find the one good thing about Paul Blart Mall Blart 2 Blart, so there is a bit more swearing than normal. Kind of like listening to a podcast by two deaf old men arguing about a place they’ve never been but have just seen a scary-looking youth readi...

This week the Pauls tackle THE WORST FILM OF ALL TIME – Josh Trank's Fant4stic – and are let down by its inability to be completely irredeemable. They recorded an incredible show based on this premise but it was changed at the last minute by podcasting execs because it was too funny – but that's life for you. Here are some good things about it instead. Featuring: the importance of family, some ver...

One Paul has a head cold, the other struggles to perfect one four-syllable name: what better time for such a combination than a bumper episode about intergalactic clusterflip Jupiter Ascending? The two Pauls ask WHY, WHY GOD, WHY, and what's the one good thing about this film you crazy kids? Featuring: Channing Tatum, Spiro Chanyu, Channing Flatum, Channing Statham, Christopher Nalken, and of cour...

This week the Pauls learn the TRUTH about Christianity thanks to 100% accurate documentary The Devil Inside, realising in the process that everything they ever knew was wrong, the church is a bureaucratic nightmare, mental illness and demonic possession are interchangeable and yet there may be more than one good thing about this film that everybody hates. Featuring: jump scares, Krishnan-Guru Murt...

This week the Pauls talk about Equilibrium, The Matrix, Inception, Rogue One, Goldeneye and also Assassin's Creed in an attempt to do the thing of the show they do. Can they do it? Featuring: the return of Jeremy Irons, videogame nostalgia, Marion Cotillard's secret shame and not anger – just disappointment.