There Will Be Duds

Odds and Ends: We talk about the big sack boys, I mean the Detroit Lions, and how they've got such great sacks; Nick watched and older spooky flick, and T.J. watched a bunch of new ones Feature Film: Once again we chat about a Japanese horror, though the horror in this one is almost just in name only. From a trio of anime legends, we get... a live-action movie! That is impossible to find a decent...

Odds and Ends: It's been a couple weeks, so it's time for another conversation about AI, but we also talk about the dead internet theory (and dead Steak and Shakes); Nick revisits a favorite from his youth; T.J. is otaku'd-up and talks about two more Japanese movies Feature Film: Nick's horror recommendation is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure,a sort of horror, sort of detective movie about, well, killings...

Odds and Ends: Nick unknowingly invokes a curse that we try to use for good, but might backfire accidentally; Even though we're still putting off our Uzumaki talk, we still do a little Junji Ito dive; Nick watched a Tim Burton movie that's not Beetlejuice, and T.J. thinks you should give the alternate version of Alien 3 a try (no, really) Feature Film: A Japanese horror classic about weird people...

Odds and Ends: Spooky season is upon us , which means that Brat summer is over, but not for T.J.; Our cats have some valuable input Feature Film: Our horrorspondent Chris returns for yet another double feature with two more movies in the found footage and analog horror realms, the cult classic Lake Mungo and the recent hit Late Night with the Devil! Both provide very different experiences, yet hav...

Odds and Ends: T.J. needs to eat sometimes, so he mukbangs (does a mukbang? is mukbanging?) during this episode, sorry about that; the Beetlejuice sequel is pretty good, and gave T.J. an idea for a better usage of deepfake AI tech in movies Feature Film: We discuss the oddity of Leonard Part 6, a Bill Cosby movie that has been reviled long before, well, recentish events. But we maybe don't think i...

Odds and Ends: Luke from the Least Important Things podcast returns; We discuss the recent few entries in the Alien franchise Feature Film: Luke recommended another Crichton Classic/Crap (take your pick) with the Antonio Banderas-led The 13th Warrior. It is definitely one of those things that is a movie, that is for sure. At least if the movie isn't great, you can look at Antonio in his peak B...

Odds and Ends: T.J.'s back from another Gen Con with another screening of one of our short films; David Lynch is sick, and also sick; We like HBO shows so much that we'll start calling it Max if they ask really nicely Feature Film: We discuss a Kiwi comedy classic, What We Do in the Shadows, by a couple of the guys who worked on Flight of the Conchords. It's a mockumentary comedy-horro...

Odds and Ends: We answer a viewer question (that viewer is me) about what movie titles bother us; also, our beloved sidepod The Boys Will Be The Boys is back in town... which really just means we talked about the newest season of The Boys Feature Film: We talk about a couple classics of the silent era from one of the giants, Sherlock Jr. and The General. T.J. used the excuse of it being the 100-ye...

Odds and Ends: Twisters saves movies, and T.J. thinks it's just a nice movie; Nick saw Longlegs, which is less nice; T.J. also gives a shoutout to The Watchers, which has all the Shyamalan trademarks, for better and for worse Feature Film: We're talking about the IFD oddity Space Thunder Kids, a hodgepodge anime thing that's actually eight other anime movies that are in themselves kind...

Odds and Ends: Robert Towne's Oscar-nominated dog; we're old and it's been a few minutes, so we talk about how cool things were before current year; we also finished some cool games and Josh asks for some of our best video game recommendations Feature Film: We discuss the original adaptation of the literary classic, Lord of the Flies. It's our favorite subject to talk about - kids...

Odds and Ends: We have another good ol fashioned chat about AI, and we're still just as dumb about it as ever; there was a Nintendo Direct, and it was pretty dang nice Feature Film: In this Verhoeven double feature, we tackle some of his most well-known classics (though maybe not for the same reasons). We defend Elizabeth Berkley and ponder about Penny's From Heaven, and enjoy the wild cam...

Odds and Ends: Are theaters actually dying? We provide thorough and very well-thought out opinions on it, and provide recent experiences on opposite ends of the spectrum. Nick's being a bad crowd during I Saw the TV Glow, and T.J.'s being a great crowd (meaning just him) for The Fall Guy. Feature Film: Josh returns yet again to talk about his first official normal guest rec, a lesser known...

Odds and Ends: Josh Matthews from the Learning About Movies Youtube channel returns yet again and talks about a project he's working on about A24 movies and asks us if there's any good ones out there; Nick watched the original Godzilla on the big screen, and T.J. watched the equally important Kraa the Sea Monster Feature Film: We discuss the oddball (in many ways) romantic comedy Little It...

Odds and Ends: Happy birthday (again) to us! Only 3 years old, but that's pretty old in podcast years. We're probably old enough to vote by now, or at least watch PG-13 movies. Feature Films: Continuing our trilogy tradition for our anniversary episodes, we decided to revisit a trilogy from our childhoods, the original Spider-Man trilogy, directed by Sam Raimi. We somehow find a way to pus...

Odds and Ends: T.J. did a road trip for a movie called The People's Joker, and it was pretty cool; Nick checked out the proto-Nice Guys Shane Black movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and it was pretty cool; we go back to some classic Google movie news, and it was pretty cool; I don't really know where I'm going with that repetition, but it's too much work to delete it now Feature Film: Dav...

Odds and Ends: Feature Film: Next week's movie: A History of Violence (2005) You can join the conversation every Wednesday at 7pm EST on Twitch and Youtube! Available in podcast form on all your favorite podcatchers! Twitch // twitch.tv/ThereWillBeDuds Socials: linktr.ee/ThereWillBeDuds YouTube // There Will Be Duds Twitter // @ThereWillBeDuds Facebook // There Will Be Duds Instagram // ThereW...

Odds and Ends: Reflecting on the inaugural Dud Month; T.J. is pleasantly surprised by The First Omen; Nick also feels positively and maybe of a surprised nature about the Fallout show, while T.J. hopes it has the Blast from the Past vibes he was getting from the trailers Feature Film: To cap off our month of duds, we talk about the iconic Mac & Me, featuring everyone's favorite 80's ex...

Odds and Ends: Nick gets triggered; T.J. raves about The Talented Mr. Ripley and, well, doesn't necessarily rave about the new Netflix adaptation; Nick catches up on some recent hits with Anatomy of a Fall and Dune Part 1 Feature Film: We cover the questionably duddly Would You Rather, a horror movie of the "game of death" subgenre which T.J. is a particular fan of. A mixed bag of so...

Odds and Ends: We did a Fortnight; T.J. watched the big lizard and large monkey fight movie; Nick started watched the proto-ITYSL Detroiters; we're both too afraid to finish The Curse Feature Film: We discuss the literal career-ending (justice for Martin Brest) train wreck that is Gigli, a movie that spent all it's money getting the expensive it-couple of the time Bennifer as their leads w...

Odds and Ends: The woke Youtube mob is cancelling us; Nick watched the The Boys spinoff show Gen V, and that's about it, we're in the middle of a movie contest, we didn't have time to watch stuff this week Feature Film: We watch the secret bonus Suicide Squad movie, made by mockbuster studio The Asylum. Though we have a lot (a LOT) of questions about a... lot of aspects of the movie, i...

Odds and Ends: Nick and guest Ethan discuss conspiracies about the royal family while T.J. just wants everyone to know that the food he cooked is fine, also Tom Pearl, naturally. Feature Film: We try to parse the enigmatic After Last Season, a very dry movie that may or may not have intent behind it. Either way, it's not good. Ethan wanted to come on the show for this movie in particular and,...

Odds and Ends: T.J. did an oopsie and his audio is kinda crummy for most of this episode, please shame him in the comments; a eulogy for an old video of T.J.'s that was removed from Youtube; we recap the Oscars ceremony, which was actually, hey, not too bad Feature Film: Speaking of the Oscars, we talk about beloved best picture winner... oh, wait. Was it a great big fat mistake that year? Wel...

Odds and Ends: T.J. overanalyzes why he didn't fall in love with Dune Part 2, when maybe it's just because he didn't; Nick watched the "surprisingly vanilla" 50 Shades of Grey trilogy Feature Film: We cover a curious movie and all the insanity of the production behind it. From some bigheaded celebrities, to a studio with no faith in the director, to some crazy connections to...

Odds and Ends: Our friend Andy returns (kind of) and we talk about that lost episode we did with him a while ago; Nick talks about the worst theater viewing he's ever had; we bond over the shared experience of hiding podcasts and youtube videos we watch from our SOs Feature Film: Andy brings in another movie (or, for the first time... it's weird acting like he hasn't done this before)-...

Odds and Ends: Nick Villaire from the local B-Movie Euphoria stops by for a very unorthodox episode, so unorthodox that I don't have anything else for this part of the description, because this episode is all Bad Pack, all the time. Feature Film: Speaking of The Bad Pack, we watched The Bad Pack! Or rather, we are watching it, because we watch it during the episode. T.J. tries assigning all th...