The Goods: A Film Podcast

Spooky season is upon us! Dan and Brian continue their annual tradition of looking at a teen horror movie with I Know What You Did Last Summer, the 1997 heir to Scream, written by the same screenwriter. Join as they discuss the lineage of Scream-likes, 1970s dread vibes translated to a 1990s teen slasher, confusing plot points, the proper name of the French cousin-love story, and the simple pleasure of beautiful actors.
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As the grand finale for "Train" Month's coverage of teacher and training-themed films, Brian drags his brother Andrew onto the pod to discuss Chuck E. Cheese's University Training series of videos on operating one of the pizza and game restaurants. Join as they discuss their long history with Chuck E. Cheese and ShowBiz Pizza, the charm of '90s video editing effects, a legendary man named Todd, some jackets we want, the dreaded GreensKeeper, Wendy's rap, and many other things in this silly episode of The Goods.
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Dan and Brian continue their month-long look at teachers and training with an investigation of the seminal 1939 teacher flick, Goodbye Mr. Chips. Dan pauses to share some thoughts and reading on teacher movies as a whole, then they review the life-spanning tale of an English boarding school teacher. Join as they discuss the movie-as-mirror theory of teacher films, the impenetrable English boarding school jargon, the unexpected darkness of the film, pointless April Fools pranks, and the 1969 musical adaptation of the story.
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Dan and Brian continue their "train" month of movies about teachers, training, and self-improvement with a look at the entire Rocky and Creed series. Come celebrate 50 years of Sylverster Stallone's epic saga as Dan and Brian go all nine rounds and discuss Rocky as an unlikely success story that claimed Best Picture among an unusually stacked class of candidates. Then they look at each of the Rocky movies one by one, lingering for a bit on Rocky IV and its generational montage sequence. Join as they discuss the terrific screenwriting of the original, the many flavors of Rocky follow-up, the surprising wholesomeness of Rocky and Adrian, the insufferable Paulie getting a cool robot, the mirror images of Rocky V and Rocky Balboa, Ryan Coogler's fresh reframing of the Rocky saga, and the duelling approaches to sequels between Creed II and III. Then, Dan and Brian rate and rank all nine films.
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Dan and Brian continue "Train" month, their look at teacher and training films, with a look at a slightly less wholesome teacher-student relationship, the one depicted in Whiplash. Join as they discuss Damien Chazelle, their formative teachers (and some less formative ones), our "first ticket" directors, real drumming, the strange energy between Neiman and Fletcher, category fraud, and what makes greatness.
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Brian and Dan kick off a new theme month: "Train Month," but the verb this time. Each week, we'll look at movies about teachers and other improvement figures and regimens.
To kick the month off, Dan and Brian discuss two films that were formative examples of movie teachers for Brian: Fred MacMurray as a Scoutmaster in Follow Me, Boys! and Richard Dreyfuss as a band teacher in Mr. Holland's Opus.
Join as they discuss their own connections with the education career, the flashpoint status of Boy Scouts, the breakdown of midcentury economics, shifting mores towards masculinity over time, the "opus" of a life of service, and "sects" in the pool.
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Dan and Brian welcome back Gavin McDowell to pick up their discussion of one of Gavin and Brian's childhood obsessions: the many Sinbad adventures following up on their breakdown of 7th Voyage a year ago. Today, they discuss a wacky knockoff Sinbad, Captain Sindbad (1963) and two authentic Ray Harryhausen adventure pictures, Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977).
Join as they re-examine the roots of the Sinbad myth and why it took such hold of adventure filmmaking, the nostalgia of practical effects films, the kooky Orientalism in the production, and sword and sandals in the age of Star Wars.
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Dan and Brian continue their exploration of misuse of corpses by watching and discussing the proto-Substance satire by Robert Zemeckis, a "swee generis" screwball horror comedy. Join as they discuss Zemeckis's knack for integrating and normalizing groundbreaking tech, ingenious preoduction design and cinematography, unexpected genre mashups, David Koepp, the fine line between arch satire and misogyny, and Meryl Streep ridiculous run of awards nominations.
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