Almost Good
Talking about movies that almost make the cut.
Episodes
Dave continues on his lonely interstellar mission to prove movies aren't good. But this time he brings in a ringer, Renaissance man Benoît Lelièvre, and the two of them learn to communicate over the vast emptiness of space. It's a dirty job but no one has to do it: Dave Forgets to Introduce Ben "Nobody Remembers the Oscars" Revisited Another BRUTALIST Review Adrian Brody Suffers for our Collective Memory Get Yourself a Marbl...
Tonight Robb of The Arc Party fame stops by to talk all things Frankenstein. Then Dave tricks him into staying a lot longer. But who's the real monster here:
ROCKY Review and Another Literal Cold Open Meet Robb Olson, Last of the Readers FRANKENSTEIN (2025) Review Was Frankenstein a Pandemic Book? Definitive Guillermo Del Toro Movie Ranking Boss Baby (Blade II) Vibes Del Toro = Bodies Exhibit Victor? More like Pricktor, Amirite? Re...Dave knows that Nathan enjoyed binge-watching these movies because he called it "torture." This is defined as "to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure," so he's fine! Let's run and pretend we're little airplanes:
Cold Open: Colder Royalties MARIO BAVA MOVIE MARATHON! A BAY OF BLOOD Review Hack? Auteur? Both? Neither? BLACK SUNDAY Review LET THE CORPSES TAN Review DANGER: DIABOLIK Review Can Guns Fire Emeralds? (No) I...
We waited half a year to review the 2025 Academy Award nominees and winners just to prove that no one remembers them. But will anyone remember this conversation: Weapon X Fade In Reviewing Oscar Movies After The Oscars ANORA Review Inevitable A.I. Digression "Organic" Movies Writers and Professors Expediting Their Own Demise A.I. Traffics Only In The Past Cat Clocks Are Shrinking Ode To Big Bites In Movies BRUTALIST Rev...
We Actually Reviewed a Movie that's Still in Theaters! Be a Part of History. Digressions and Dead-Ends Include:
Dave Randomly Stalks a Dude Buffalo Springfield = Snoopy & the Red Baron The Exorcist Broke Up Genesis? Wild Claims About Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel Record Sales It's "The Living Years" Not "The Living Thing" Surprising Band Dynamics NOSFERATU Review Jim Jarmusch = Master of Black and White POSSESSION Rev...Dave and Tony Try to Record a Podcast in the Morning. Chaos* Ensues: The Last Gasp of Bachelor Art Dandelion = The Perfect Organism? ALIEN: ROMULUS Review Perfect Organisms Are Bland Actors Black Goo As Space Steroids To Tube Or Not To Tube HARBINGER DOWN Tubes Review How Many Times Can Dave Say "Tubes" The Jurassic Park Problem Tony Unironically Describes The Lost World Plot Two Mystery Mags Ode To Editing ALIENS Ho...
Run Without Rhythm Cuz Shit's About To Get Spicy:
Harkonnen DJ DUNE 2 Review Black Hole Son Paul Was The Villain! (just kidding) Killing Your Toadies Is Spice Gas or Gold? THE KILLING STAR Review Warp Speed = End of Everything The Furby Paradox Hello, Dream Police? Lasers (or the "Start With That!" Problem) They Didn't Fight Twice Stalling So We Don't Have To Do The... ENTIRE PHANTASM PENTALOGY REVIEW Better Dream Log...
The Oscars are Tomorrow and They're Watching Cartoons:
The Land of Milk and Honey "Mid" Journeys KING GIZZARD & the LIZARD WIZARD Review In Praise of Gibberish Lyrics Tony Released Three Novels At Once Once Cosplayin' vs. Genre-Hoppin' The Reinvention Trap Riders On The Norm POM POKO Review That's Nuts U.S. = Butts/Japan = Balls They Live! from the Alien POV Abandoning Expectations Loophole Culture Clash = The Cla...
Topical Solutions:
I'm Not Talking Over People, I Swear Introducing Matthew M. Bartlett's Town of Leeds Gateways to Abomination (and Self-Sufficiency) The Pros And Cons (and Cons) Of Positivity Review Down and Punch Up? LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND Review More Netflix Totally Not Made Up Stats Lack of Info = Suspense? Monsters Are Due On Maple Street > Trigger Effect > This Shit A.I. Screenplay? The New Symmetry Red Flag ...We Belong In A Museum! Our Exhibits:
Nathan Lamoreau: Doomsday DJ Expired Red Bull Memories Roulette Reverse Nightingale OWNING MAHONEY Review Joyless Gambling OLD DADS vs. NO HARD FEELINGS Godzilla Moving Too Much WHEN EVIL LURKS (What Are the Rules?) Copycat Attack James "Mid" Mangold Deep Dive: HEAVY Review IDENTITY Review LOGAN vs. THE WOLVERINE Review Tony's 5-Star Autopsy Pod Shout-Out Nathan's Auteur Troupe The...
It's A Family Affaaaaaair: Library Tables Inside Baseball BUCKCHERRY Reviews A Child Called "Shit" THE MIDNIGHT CLUB Episode 1 Review THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Review WEEDS Analogy The Elephantiasis In The Room "What's A Zoomer?" (Doors, Floors, And Walls) It's All Knocking The Devil Went Down To Blackmail Poe Is In The MCU BEAU IS AFRAID Review The Lighthouse Meets The Waterboy The Strange Thing About The John...
Halloween means candy, projectile vomiting, and watching 31 movies you've never seen before. It also means reviewing every single one of them. Also, David Fincher has a new movie! And it's the sort of thing he can do in his sleep. Is this good or bad? Find out.
Highlights Include:
Bonehead Lyrics Trick or Treat Shenanigans Gold-Plated McDonald's Coffee Stir Cliff Confessional Booth "The Monsters of Heaven" Review Tony's Big N...
A King-sized episode where, simply by never letting him get off the phone, Dave tries to convince Tony that Christine is the best Stephen King adaptation ever made. Just look at all this free stuff we have for you.
The Winter of Our Dis-Contents:
Attempts at Structure Hashtag Girl Dads E-Bike Perpetrator Round II Horror Hypetober WOUNDS Review The Alien Unease Hat Trick (Fire in the Sky/Communion/The Fourth Kind) Cronenburger...
You Can Expect:
T-Mac: Glass Half Italian Shark Tooth Necklaces F/X Review Russell Mulcahy Lovefest Breaking Down "Can't Talk About It Yet" Tony McMillen Oeuvre New Music Corner (Still Listening To Asia In 2023) Berries & Brambles THE FLASH Review Do Kids Really Say "Beave"? EVIL DEAD RISE Review Curse Of The Double Reboot Are We Not Men, Trees? AlleHORRORical Horror © Me 2017 The Script Doctor Rises (Dead By... D...
Back after, what, two years?! Dave will continue to talk about movies with people in lieu of an actual social life.
Tableau Of Contents:
Scott's new novel The Screaming Child BARBIE Review Biting The Hand That Needs You First Zodiac Reference The Dirtiest Harry TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE Review Norman Mailer Hat Trick Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast/My Return Reviews OPPENHEIMER Review John Landis Casting Oppen...Musings Include:
Mic Drop Name That Tune Knife Corner (Knife Drop) Physical Media Love Online Power Fantasies THE EMPTY MAN Review Three Alien Swipes Fuck ASMR Urban Legends Experiences PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Review Revenge > Shaming THE SOUND OF METAL Review Script Doctor! Musician Doomsday Clock at One Minute Till Midnight MANK Review Ghost Clang They Split the Oscar Vote! NOMADLAND/LEAVE NO TRACE Reviews THE ...
Aaaaaaand we're back, talking about the 2008 (?) hit (?) slash lunkhead Mixed Martian Arts wish-fulfillment fest. We also missed each other.
Reunion Tour Set List:
New Mic Adventures Tracksuit Corner (a.k.a. Slutty With Your Time) Xbox Corner Hot Wheels Voodoo NEVER BACK DOWN Review '80s Bullies vs. Millennial Bullies Rise Of Teen Fight Clubs, MMA, and Viral Videos Dipshit Rosetta Stone "Fuck That Little Dude!" Plague Corn...
"Topics" is not a word that's the same forwards and backwards, but here they are anyway:
Viral Corner Ratio'd "But I'm Okay with That!" The Plume Crosstalk Exclusive TENET Review! Nolan as Conductor Three Hours Feels Like Six Minutes! Visual Information Catching Bullets vs. Dodging Bullets Aurora Shooting Allegory? Future Director's Cut? Post-Credit Scenes Analysis The Cheap Seats vs. Box Seats Nolan Loves Masks ...
We initially recorded this two years ago, though due to secret reasons we had to take the episode down. Now it's back for your listening enjoyment.
Topic List:
Devil's Triangle of Synopses The Wolf Whisperer HOLD THE DARK Review True Detective Connection The Alaskan Hello Hollywood Ownage Manly Shit Checklist Grimdark and Grandpa's Deathbed The Red Wolf (a.k.a. Green Is Not a Primary Color) True Detective or Fortune Cookie...
It's our Big Bad Cop Bash!
Also:
The Return of Product Reviews Headphone Corner Ants in Our Pants Bad Cop Movies/Bad Cop Movement Old Enough to Remember Tasers To Protect and Serve Man: It's a Cookbook! Radio Raheem the Prophet Osborne Dark Souls Training Keaton's Cop Rant Again More like the Policeman's Bawl, amirite? Jackass Paddy Wagon Italian Choices and Voices INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION Review Freu...
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