There Will Be Duds

Odds and Ends: Travis brainstorms some alternate podcast ideas, which are pretty much the exact same as this one; the unending gold of repetitive song lyrics; T.J. talks Lucky, a Harry Dean Stanton vehicle that's not the other Harry Dean Stanton vehicle we talked about this week Feature Film: We're settling in to the painted skies and (very long) shots of Paris, Texas, the 1984 road movie directed...

Odds and Ends: Rango Unchained; Cynthia Nixon gets nasty; call us Francois Bourgeois, cuz we're riding all the trains, from Anal to Zoophilia; Last Claus Standing; we really struggled to come up with an opening this week... and a closing... and a... show   Feature Film: Talking the Gore Verbinski movie starring Johnny Depp that's NOT Pirates of the Caribbean (or The Lone Ranger), 2011's Rango...

Odds and Ends: Dance interpretation of the late Brockhampton's music; Nuclear Disaster Person; Encanto is a movie that you can watch if you want, or not; X-Files/Sopranos/Peacemaker star Doggett; T.J. beats Travis to the It's Always Sunny reference, but where?   Feature Film: We're talking friendship, loyalty, and honesty this week, which can only mean Y.K. Kim's magnum opus, Miami Connection...

Odds and Ends: Due to some technical difficulties, we're bringing an older episode back to life! We cover a lot of ground in our early days, as we ping pong around from the upcoming (and now released) Spider-Man film, Godzilla, and we finally get the introduction to Nick's love of the X-Files. Also we talk about our own short films (what a surprise) and write a few early aughts parody films along...

Odds and Ends: What makes a cold open? Is it getting clapped by the Matrix for learning the function keys? Recycling your Crown Royal broth bags? How about both?   Feature Film(s): Our follow-up to the Matrix trilogy is here! We're capping our coverage of the saga (so far) with a double feature on The Animatrix and The Matrix Resurrections. One, in one humble co-host's opinion, is essential M...

Odds and Ends: You hear that? Is that the sound of... a classic episode? Oh, wait, it's just T.J.'s dogs? This week, we're pulling one from the Duds vault, before we were a podcast, merely a lowly Twitch stream. But now it IS a podcast, in all it's awkward, early Duds days glory. Cheer at the story of T.J. talking about the Eric Andre vehicle "Bad Trip"! Gasp at the origins of Nick's X-Files obses...

Odds and Ends: Congratulations are in order for another great season of the Masked singer; NFTs are making their way into the movie biz and they're still as dumb as always; there's a Queen's Gambit board game that's... not... chess?   Feature Film: We talk the other Jack Frost movie that shares quite a few more similarities with the Michael Keaton version than you'd expect. A guy turns into a...

Odds and Ends: We're feeling the holiday spirit this week, because T.J. forced everyone to do a secret Santa gift exchange, and an item is added to the display; Daegan rewatched a childhood favorite and didn't like the experience; we dive in to the lost art of tv to tape recording, and various other VHS tales from our youths Feature Film: We talk the very logical Jack Frost from 1998, NOT the equa...

Odds and Ends: the Home Alone house is on Airbnb and is killing people; Will Smith has a show, just like every celebrity nowadays who has their own podcast, like losers; The 13th Warrior shares some similarities with our feature film; T.J. loves Arcane, but wants to make it clear he thinks League of Legends is just okay; in the break, we talk about our coincidental connection to special guest Jake...

Odds and Ends: Nick's first-time dive into The Sopranos outs T.J.'s anti-Italian racism; Moose went to a thing but all I can remember is that it was at a place called Todd Mission; Kodamas got cake Feature Film: We talk our first animated feature with the much beloved "Princess Mononoke," from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. A historic fantasy epic of man vs. nature with the valiant Ash...

Odds and Ends: We were on break, but now, we're thinking we're back!   Feature Film(s): In our time off, we watched the original Matrix trilogy (before it becomes more of a "saga" with the release of Resurrections shortly), which is quite the mixed bag as far as movie trilogies goes. Lots of love, lots of hate, lots of quoting going on in this one. It's a beefy one with a lot of ground t...

Odds and Ends: T.J. continues his horror homework and just finished the rest of the Nightmare on Elm Street series (as well as the documentaries "Never Sleep Again" and "Scream, Queen!"), then runs down some bullet points on the movies and just what makes them so special Feature Film: To cap off our month of terror, we talk the most horrific movie we've covered so far - "Bedeviled," a not-played o...

Odds and Ends: A serious topic as we discuss the recent tragedy on the set of "Rust;" I'm glad that's our only intro topic on this one, because I feel weird trying to add in jokes here in the description next to that story Feature Film: "Dream Warriors" writer/director team Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont return with their remake of "The Blob," the 80's creature feature remake that's NOT "The Thi...

Odds and Ends: Short a person or two, but not short of intro topics, we cover a lot of ground this week, including creating a Twitter account for Minecraft vs. John Mayer; finally delving into the Great British Bake Off and the Mighty Boosh; more Wes Craven talk via the Scream series; T.J. finishes up Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass; Moose is watching You, not you, but You. Feature Film: This week,...

Odds and Ends: More Netflix shilling as we talk about another Netflix original, Maid; Moose talks about Jovy Hanson (or Joel Haver, whatever), an animator/Youtuber who reminds him of the Grandpa Crane videos; T.J. did his homework this week and talks about other Mike Falananagan projects, Midnight Mass and Oculus Chapter 3, the short film that inspired the feature. Feature Film: We talk about Ocul...

Odds and Ends: Covering something actually topical and relevant to the present time, we talk about the new Netflix hit, Squid Game; Brendan Dassey v. Tiger King; I guess we're sponsored by Netflix this episode, because we also cover another Netflix title, Sex Education, which naturally devolves into a topic I don't feel comfortable typing out here. Feature Film: In the first of our horror-athon fo...

Odds and Ends: Back in movie news mode, the gang talks about the casting for the new Super Mario movie, and if there's ever been any good video game movie adaptations; also, a lot of old shows and movies seem to be coming back in some shape or form, huh? Feature Film: Special guest Keley brought in Catwoman, a movie based on the DC comics character of the same name, if you can even call that "base...

Odds and Ends: Nick's X-Files journey has taken him to the first film based on the series, so, naturally, we end up talking about the Pokemon movies instead; Daegan talks about a show called StartUp, which I guess exists and isn't the Korean Netflix show that comes up whenever I try Googling it; he also watched Birds of Prey even though T.J. told him not to, but we like talking about Ewan McGregor...

Odds and Ends: Nick continues his tour through turn-of-the-century cinema with Legally Blonde, T.J. thinks maybe not all of American Horror Story is terrible, Tommy loves Rick and Morty enough to actually do the show for once. Feature film: We take a look at the quasi-documentary "Close-Up" by Abbas Kiarostami, a super-meta look at a case where a man conned a family into thinking he was a famous f...

Odds and Ends: Paramount pushes back a lot of movies and gives all their money to the South Park guys, more studios are pulling out of same day releasing on streaming platforms, what are we, some kind of movie news squad? Feature Film: As a sort-of part 2 to last week's episode, we cover the sort-of part 2 to last week's movie, The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn, which is totally different...

Odds and Ends: T.J. talks Death Note in the first ever "T.J.'s Otaku Corner," Community is still good after the gas leak year you should keep watching it, Nick dips back in to the X-Files Feature Film: In the first part of our sort-of two-parter on the two movies centered around DCs "Task Force X," as our dud, we cover the 2016 "Suicide Squad," directed by David Ayer. Even in the pantheon of garba...

Odds and Ends: One Star National Park Reviews, Microphone Etiquette, Frankfort 48 Hour Contest, Stinky Drinky, and BLOOM , our entry to the film contest. We also watched a short film Travis made inspired by Amadeus, which you can watch here !  Feature film: We're joined by returning special guest Deegs, and it's a jam packed episode as the five of us discuss Milos Forman's 1984 epic, Amadeus!...

Odds and Ends: Fireball Whiskey, Zoomer Cryptids, Charlie's Angels (the good one), Pokemon vs Digimon, Hercules Crotch Plates Feature film: the gang discusses the 2017 Netflix original movie The Discovery, a science fiction film with Robert Redford, Jason Segel, Rooney Mara, and Jesse Plemons. A scientist discovers definitive proof of the afterlife and grapples with the amount of suicides across t...

Odds and Ends: Gilmore Girls vs West Wing, Travis and Isaiah are in Kentucky Feature film: a bonafide capital-D Dud, we're discussing the gross and exploitative Megan Is Missing, directed by Michael Goi, who is almost definitely a pedophile (in Minecraft, PARODY SATIRE ALLEGEDLY). We tried to squeeze some content outta this fuckin' lemon, but we couldn't get any lemonade. So I just rubbed the lemo...

Odds and Ends: we return to The Boys and the X-Files, TJ incites Nick's jealousy with a signed headshot. Feature film: The gang discusses the 1999 documentary American Movie, about a man from Wisconsin named Mark who has a camera and a dream. We reflect upon our own experiences living in a small town and making a movie. We're also joined by special guest Isaiah Taylor! Next week's film: Megan Is M...