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The Goods: A Film Podcast
Brian and Dan revisit films both famous and forgotten, then ask the all-important question: Is It Good?
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Debut shorts (1908-2010) - Five great American minds
Dan and Brian continue "debut month" with a survey of debut shorts from five important film minds: DW Griffith's "The Adventures of Dollie," Steven Spielberg's…
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Swiss Army Man (2016) - Farts with heart
Debut Month continues on The Goods with a discussion of Daniels' first film, the flatulent Swiss Army Man starring Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano. Join as they…
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Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) - Floppy fish hacks
It's Debut Month on The Goods! We're looking at the first films of various cinema figures. Join as Dan and Brian discuss James Cameron's first film, the wacky…
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Yojimbo (1962) / Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) ft. Will - Support yo local Jimbo
Dan's brother Will joins the podcast again to host an outing of "Violent Ends," an exploration of films with similar set ups but very different finales. Here…
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UHF (1989) - Cake and candles, my brother
You're the birthday, you're the birthday, you're the birthday boy or girl! Join as Dan and Brian celebrate Brian's 34th with a special episode talking through…
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The 150th Episode Spectacular! - Sequicentennisode
Join as Dan and Brian revisit the past 50 episodes of podcasting: looking back and forward, slicing and dicing some measurements, and handing out some awards…
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Journey to Bethlehem (2023) - Sacrilicious
Dan and Brian continue their Wise Men binge with the misguided Nativity-by-way-of-DCOM co-starring Milo Manheim of Zombies fame. Join as they parse through the…
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3 Animated Three Wise Men Stories ft. Gavin - Three wise guys
Biblical scholar and friend of the pod Gavin returns to The Goods to discuss three animated films telling stories about the Three Wise Men. A crazy, racist…
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Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) - Christmas slay
Brian uses the holiday season as an excuse to get Dan to finally dip his toe into Jim Varney and John Cherry's Ernest universe. Join as they discuss the…
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) - The boys are Black in town
Dan and Brian continue their holiday coverage with a discussion of Shane Black's directorial debut. Join as they reflect on the once-wunderkind's rise and…
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Conversation with Ben Stanley, the man who has seen 130+ Christmas Carols
In honor of their 150th episode and 4th Christmas Carol binge, Dan and Brian bring in Ben Stanley to discuss his epic marathon of Christmas Carol adaptations…
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Modern-Day Scrooges - 4 Christm4s C4rol, Part 4
Dan and Brian celebrate their 150th episode with their annual tradition of discussing four different Christmas Carol adaptations. This year the theme is…
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Parenthood (1989) - Thanks, Dad
Dan opens the episode recounting his most difficult memory of 2023 and the long shadow it's cast over his life since. Then, Brian and Dan talk through the Ron…
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) ft. Gargus - The play’s the thing
Old pal Gargus returns to the pod to discuss Shakespeare's great drama Hamlet and its metatextual spinoff, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Join as they…
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - Bone daddy
Dan and Brian discuss late-autumn, inter-holiday melancholy and the cinematic encapsulation of that feeling, The Nightmare Before Christmas, which turns 30…
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Trick ’r Treat (2007) - Halloween OSHA
Dan and Brian recount their Halloweens and discuss a horror film new to both of them but perfect for the transition between October and November: the 2007…
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Nightmare (1991) / Pops Ghostly (1987) - VHS game night with The Goods
Happy Halloween and Nasty November to you all from Dan and Brian on The Goods! As a special episode, hang out with us for a game night! First, we discuss the…
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The Haunting (1963) - Floorboards and walls and things of that ilk
SpooOooOoky season continues on The Goods with a look at a classic haunted house story. Join as Brian and Dan try to make sense of the "not to be confused…
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The Halloween Tree (1993) - Did Pip write this?
Join as Dan and Brian look back on the roots of Halloween courtesy of the Ray Bradbury-penned animated special from 1993. Join as they discuss the early…
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The Craft (1996) - She’s the Manon
It's spooky season on The Goods (and everywhere else, we suppose). Dan and Brian kick off the podcast's fourth October with the 1990's teen witch horror film…
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The Disaster Artist (2017) - One or two more stupid comments
At long last, the grand finale for Movies About Making Movie Month: Part 2 of a Room-stravaganza, a review of James and Dave Franco's comic biopic of Tommy…
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The Room (2003) - Oh hai listeners
Dan and Brian gather for Part 1 of 2 of the epic finale to Movies About Making Movies Month. They talk about some other movies on the topic they'd like to…
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Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Gotta have a goblin
This is the movie. In the penultimate episode of Movies About Making Movies Month, Dan and Brian discuss David Lynch and his mind-bending opus from 2001. Join…
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Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) / Ed Wood (1994) - Plan 139 from The Goods
Dan and Brian continue the seemingly-eternal Movies About Making Movies Month by looking at one of the most famously-bad movies of all time and the biopic of…
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) / Asteroid City (2023) - Schrödinger’s Glock
Dan and Brian continue Movies About Making Movies Month to look at two Wes Anderson films. (One of them is, admittedly, about making a play.) They talk through…
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8 1/2 (1963) & Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) - The beautiful confusion
Movies About Making Movies Month marches onward with a look at two films that might (or might not) be parallel portraits of weirdos undergoing episodic crises…
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A Star is Born (1937/1954/1976/2018) - Gonna shout it from the mountaintops
Dan and Brian are back with Movies About Making Movies Month(s). This time, they discuss four movies: all the iterations of the showbiz melodrama A Star is…
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Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (1989) - Digging deep
Dan and Brian continue Movies About Making Movies Month with a discussion of the fan-made, shot-for-shot recreation of Raiders of the Lost Ark as well as the…
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Sullivan’s Travels (1941) / Party Down (2010) - Preston Sturges’ birthday party
Dan and Brian resume Movies About Making Movies Month after a brief hiatus by discussing the classic comedy Sullivan's Travels. Then, Dan takes another look at…
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Super 8 (2011) - Train-ger things
Dan and Brian kick off Movies About Making Movie Month (MAMMM... or something) by discussing the JJ Abrams-Steven Spielberg collaboration that bears strong…
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Deep Dive Extravaganza: That Thing You Do! (1996)
Dan and Brian are back for a rare Part 2 discussing a single movie. In this case, it's Dan's favorite movie, That Thing You Do!, the Tom Hanks-written and…
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That Thing You Do! (1996) - Guys, Chad fell down
At long last, Dan and Brian discuss Dan's favorite film of all time: the Tom Hanks-written, -directed, and -starring That Thing You Do!, a tale of a one-hit…
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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) - The greatest show, man
It's not Circus Month or Train Month but that doesn't stop Dan and Brian from revisiting the 1952 Cecil B. DeMille Best Picture Winner about the traveling…
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Trainspotting (1996) - The worst toilet in Scotland
To celebrate his birthday ("choose life"), Dan brings his strong feelings for Trainspotting to the pod and talks through it with Brian. What exactly makes the…
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The Court Jester (1955) - Yea, verily, yea
Join as Dan and Brian gather to discuss one of Brian's all-time favorite films, The Court Jester, a witty medieval comedy musical. Join as they parse out the…
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Top 5 TV Theme Songs (And a Surprise)
Dan and Brian cap off their discussion of Recess by breaking down their Top 5 favorite TV theme songs. Join as they break down theme song "genres," the…
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Recess: School’s Out (2001) - What the JP Morgan is going on around here?
Summer's here and the time is right for celebrating Dan's birthday. Dan and Brian kick off the summer with part 1 of Dan's extended birthday celebration and a…
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The Odyssey (1997) - A lot of ”euses”
Brian might be isolated for a case of COVID following his own epic quest, but that didn't stop him from discussing the two-part TV mini-series adapting Homer's…
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Trojan War (1997) - Brad Kimble’s big move
Dan and Brian finally sit down to catch up with a film Dan has been itching to talk about since the pod started almost three years ago -- the raunchy '90s teen…
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Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000 (1999) ft. Andrew - Huffing the zoom gas
Brian's brother Andrew joins The Goods to discuss the unhinged, weirdly horny Chuck E. Cheese VHS space-racing film from 1999. Join as they celebrate the the…
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Redline (2009), The House of Small Cubes (2008) - Anime sampler (ft. Will) part 2 - Keep that crap off my machine
Brian, Dan, and Dan's brother Will continue their discussion of four anime films from the 2000s and 2010s, this time taking a look at the Oscar-winning short…
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A Silent Voice (2016), Kick-heart (2013) - Anime sampler (ft. Will) part 1 - Most popular voice
Dan's brother Will returns to The Goods, this time to bring a collection of anime films for discussion. In part one of this conversation, they discuss the…
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Singin’ in the Rain (1952) / Babylon (2022) - You ain’t heard nothin’ yet
Violent Ends returns to The Goods -- two movies with similar premises but very different tones and outcomes. This time, Dan and Brian watch the MGM Technicolor…
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Lincoln (2012) - I got you Abe
Spring is a busy time for traumatic American events, so Dan and Brian parse through a few memorable ones, including the death of Abraham Lincoln. Then they…
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Hamburger Game (2013) / Vine (2013-16) - The season for tomfoolery
The Goods' annual April Fools episode, in which we review "not-quite-a-film"s, is running slightly late this year, but here we are. Brian brings a silly…
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Undisputed Series (2002-17) ft. Andrew Milne - The most complete fighter in the world
Andrew Milne from the excellent Two Friends Watch podcast joins The Goods to try and clear up one of Dan and Brian's blind spots: martial arts films. They talk…
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The Luck of the Irish (2001) - I need that green
Join Dan and Brian as they celebrate St. Patrick's Day by reviewing the Disney Channel Original Movie "Luck of the Irish." Join as they discuss their St…
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The Train (1964) - John Jacob Frankenheimer Schmidt
It's the caboose episode of Train Month on The Goods. Dan decides to conclude the month with Trains Magazine's #1 train movie simply titled The Train. Join as…
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Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) - OK PT Boomer
Train Month rolls on, with a stop at our strangest station of the month: the theatrical Thomas the Tank Engine movie starring Alec Baldwin, Mara Wilson, and…
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The General (1926) - Tricks on tracks
Train Month continues on The Goods with a look at early train-related cinema. They first discuss The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) and The Great Train…
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Titanic (1997) 3D - Near, far, now with HFR
Dan and Brian take a brief pause from Train Month to discuss the 3D re-release of one of their favorite movies, Titanic, previously discussed in depth in the…
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Train to Busan (2016) - Zombies on a train
Train month rattles on! This week, Brian brings to the pod the Korean zombie film Train to Busan. Join as Dan and Brian ponder slow vs. fast zombies…
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Footnote (2011) ft. Gavin McDowell - Talmud tales
Gavin joins The Goods to discuss an Israeli film that depicts his academic area of focus, Hebrew studies. Join as Dan, Gavin, and Brian convene to discuss…
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Brief Encounter (1945) - In the choo-choo for love
Chugga-chugga choo-choo! It's train month! Dan and Brian kick the month off discussing Dan's pick for the ultimate train movie, the classic romantic drama by…
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Conversation with Jason Kulas, star of After Last Season
Jason Kulas, the star of After Last Season, gives his first ever interview about his experience making the film and its subsequent reputation as one of the…
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Feeders (1996) / Henry’s Kitchen (2011-12) - Nobody’s birthday (but mine)
We're having a birthday party, today is a special one, and having a birthday party is a lot of fun. Join The Goods as it celebrates Brian's birthday by…
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After Last Season (2009) / Final Flesh (2009) ft. Gargus - Get that in you
Gargus has vowed to break the pod with their latest appearance, and has accomplished their mission with two pieces of low-budget barely-cinema from 2009: After…
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Top 5 Robert Zemeckis Movies - Zemecktrospective
Dan and Brian follow up their conversation about Used Cars with a breakdown of their top 5 Robert Zemeckis films, including some honorable mentions. Join as…
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Used Cars (1980) - Flotilla of lemons
Dan and Brian consider the filmography of Robert Zemeckis by first taking a close look at his second film, the cult hit comedy Used Cars from 1980. Join as Dan…
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Dinner for One (1963) and 3 others - The same procedure as every year
Ring in the new year with The Goods! Join Dan and Brian as they take a look at four different New Year's media: a Sesame Street special, a comedy sketch…