The Good, the Bad and the Weird

One Two, We're Coming for you Three, Four, Better lock your door Five, Six, better listen to the newest episode on A Nightmare on Elm Street!  Join Nicho and Chris as they tuck in and enter the dream world of Freddy Krueger to explore the lasting impact this terrifying and goofy movie has had on horror cinema!   

Sometimes revenge is a dish best served while still in the womb! Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look at Prevenge as they explore darkly comedic flick that tries to get a lot into a small package! 

"This won't bring the children back. We... we must keep a closer watch on our children! All of us." Haunting words that linger as Chris and Nicho continue their dive into childeren murder true crime flicks with Fritz Lang's M ! In this episode they look at how an almost 100-years-old movie still holds up even against advancements in technology and ideals!    "

Would you be willing to kill for a nameless cosmic god to save one life? Find out as Nicho and Chris take a dive into A Record of Sweet Murder to find out how far one man will go to save a childhood friend! 

Memories and partial truths come together in Bong Joon Ho's remembrance of the Hwaesong Murderer. Join Nicho and Chris as they explore how these memories resonate across time, cultures and their goals of reaching the supposed killer at large! 

Ever wonder what happened if a movie shoved true crime into the middle of its making because the studio executives told them to? Find out as Nicho and Chris take a look into the forced sequel to American Psycho that has more in common with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho that the people involved should own up to being in. 

Ever wonder what happened to that weird woman you saw buy and sell a car in front of a cop who totally got her license plate anyways? Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into the groundbreaking and cinema changing Psycho and look into what makes it so unsettling but also a bit off when viewed from a lens 66 years later. 

Ever wonder what would happen if someone took the classics The Birds and tired to make the twist being partially explained but also trying to make it so muddled it becomes done? All while people make stupid decisions because they think plants can count or that they can outrun the wind. Join Nicho and Chris as they explore this nightmare of a movie that somehow got a mainstream release. 

Ever wonder how many birds you could take out in a fight for you life? Well Nicho and Chris did as they talk about the classic, iconic and at times silly Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds! Join them as they dive into how a slapstick style comedy masterfully transitions into a horror icon! 

Sometimes disabilities are not some physical dismemberment but something in the mind. Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look at the Thai flick, Chocolate to end the disabled martial arts series with every gangs secret weapon, the mentally disabled. 

Coming in the avenge the end of Season 7 is an movie so good, it will make you want to avenger your clan with one arm behind your back! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into The One-Armed Swordsman and explore what set it apart from its disabled influences, how the world around it shaped its violence and how it changed the future of martial arts flicks. 

DISCLAIMER: We are sorry for the audio quality on the first part of this MicroView. We did not notice until we got to editing. Sorry in advance.  Two icons of cinema clash in the newest MicroView from Nicho and Chris! One bline and one missing an arm!   

Close your eyes and return to the early days of The Good, the Bad & the Weird Podcast as Nicho and Cris return to bring honor to The Tale of Zatoichi! A movie that still deserves the praise for creating a compelling and iconic disable martial artist upon which all others stand on his shoulders. 

The arc of revenge comes to a close in this final instalment as Nicho and Chris return to Meiko Kaji for one last revenge flick! This time around, she is the target!  DISCLAIMER: We are sorry for the audio quality on the first part of this MicroView. We did not notice until we got to editing. Sorry in advance. 

Revenge is never a straight line but in the second installment of Kill Bill, it kinda is. Join Nicho and Chris as they bring to a close Tarantino's epic Frankenstein of a revenge flick! 

How to you take revenge for the dead when you have no proof and no one will believe your story? Find out in the latest MicroView as Nicho and Chris explore Promising Young Woman. A wannabe edgy movie that is too well written and good to be considered edgy. 

Revenge is never a straight line and neither is storytelling or inspirations as Nicho and Chris discover in Kill Bill: Vol 1. In this episode they explore some of the inspirations that Tarantino pulled from but also brought new light to forgotten or ignored films by mainstream American audiences!

What happens when revenge has run its course and a studio is looking to set the groundwork for a new serial franchise? Find out in the latest episode as Nicho and Chris take a look at how the sequel to the iconic Lady Snowblood franchise, Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance veered so off course.

The time for knights in shining armor is over! It is time for women to take revenge! It is time for Asura snow! Stained fiery red in this deep dive into Lady Snowblood! Join Nicho and Chris as they explore the historical context and the ideas of traditionalism vs Western influence in this film that would go on to inspire an even larger icon, Kill Bill! 

Good girls go bad in the last MicroView of the Golden Age and Silver Age Disney related movies with 2014's Maleficent! Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look at Disney's revisionist history of one of, if not THE greatest villain to grace their movies!

You don't have to go to sleep for 100 years for the conclusion of the Golden and Silver Ages of Disney from The Good, the Bad and the Weird Podcast! It's here now! Join Nicho and Chris as they put to rest this arc of Disney and explore why this movie ended the decadent age of Disney and why it is the worst "princess" of them all!

What happens when your happily ever after is taken from you? Find out how Disney tackled this very question in what some consider the best direct-to-video Disney sequel in Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into where Disney created something more than a money grabbing sequel and how the reused the classic fairy tale elements to crafts something rather unique. 

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo into the Silver Age of Disney with 1950's Cinderella! Return to the world of Disney Princesses with Nicho and Chris as they dive into yet another princess movie that saved Disney from ruin but with a little different quality. 

With the success of Disney's adaptation of Snow White cemented in cinematic history, return to the Vaterland to explore the 1955 adaptation, Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge! Join Nicho and Chris as they explore where this German adaptation pulled from Disney while also making it their own. 

Once upon a time, on a podcast far away, lived a pair of Disney haters. Only the sweet and pure heart of Snow White could melt the hearts of Nicho and Chris! Join them as they take a look at the early days of animated feature films and the one and only Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that set the standard for decades to come!