The Goods: A Film Podcast

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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Dan and Brian bring to life the corpse of the much-mocked Weekend at Bernie's and find it more palatable than they expected. Join as they discuss "they don't make 'em like they used to" writing and practical effects, the sneaky (and possibly unintentional) satire of '80s excess and hedonism, unspeakable acts to unalive bodies, the deliriously wacky sequel, and Dan's proposed metaphor for the corpse.
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Dan and Brian welcome Brian's college friend and Emmy-winning filmmaker Zan Gillies to discuss the extended Rankin/Bass holiday universe, culminating in the Avengers: Endgame-like Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July. Join as they discuss collecting the Ultron of media awards, the deathly fascinations of the Frosty franchise, the spiritual landscape of the Rankin/Bass universe, an abundance of redheads, the insanity of Rudolph's second movie, and the grand unhinged culminating carnival adventure pulling them together.
Check out Zan's Kickstarter for his SmarterChild documentary: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smarterchild/searching-for-smarterchild-a-feature-documentary
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