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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Episodes
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Wake up! In their first episode of Time Loop Month, Dan and Brian honor the origin of the film trope by considering Groundhog Day before visiting the early pandemic hit Palm Springs. Join as they dissect the ups-and-downs of reliving the same day, try to make sense of Palm Springs' ending, and question the moral implications of romance in a time loop. Brian ties it all to a Japanese dating sim, while Dan wonders what would happen if everyone in the world joined the loop.
Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Brian shares with Dan a poorly-titled, personally-resonant Roger Corman deep cut telling a story of death turned to art. Join as Brian shares his connections to the story and Dan recites some updated Beatnik literature. Dan and Brian ponder the film's dark meditations on art and creativity, Leonard's amusing complicity, and parallels of 2010's hipsters in this forgotten classic.
Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
In our first ever birthday episode, Brian's brother Andrew joins to discuss the documentary of the proto-Chuck E. Cheese animatronic band The Rock-afire Explosion, the band's creator, and its hardcore devotees. Join as they probe Andrew's intense dedication to the band, ponder the pathetic-sweet dichotomy of pursuing childhood fancies, and consider the ramifications of a Mountain Dew-only liquid diet for no pacific reason. And have a happy birthday, birthday, birthday, Brian and Andrew, yeah yeah yeah.
RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Nate, a friend of the pod, brings satirical romcom and Best Picture winner The Apartment to The Goods for consideration. Dan, Brian, and Nate cringe at Jack Lemmon's snotty cold in the age of COVID, admire Shirley MacLaine's modern sensibility, and debate the storytelling merits of the film's dark turning point. Dan gushes over "Auld Lang Syne," Nate wishes for more black-and-white movies, and Brian praises Fred MacMurray's mensch-slimeball duality.
Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Dan and Brian explore the seedy side of cinema with a look at the styles of film noir and hardboiled detective stories. Join as they attempt to parse the twisty plot of noir gem D.O.A., in which a man tries to solve his own murder. Dan dissects some of the weird gender roles depicted and pitches a new ending for the film, while Brian ponders how magical pirates could have fit in.
Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Dan and Brian watched four different musical adaptations of Dickens' A Christmas Carol and are ready to dive in deep. In addition to the Albert Finney-starring Scrooge, they break down Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and the one with Frasier from 2004. Join for their fantasy draft of the best songs, reviews of the highs and lows of each iteration, Dan's dream casting of an imaginary 2021 musical adaptation, and tributes to Scrooge's humanist, anti-capitalist spirit.
Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
718 minutes. That's the length of the High School Musical saga to date: three movies, a spinoff movie, and the first season of a Disney+ series.
Together, Dan and Brian climb Mount Efronest as they break down the strengths and weaknesses of each of the movies before digging into the soapy, uplifting, and "woke AF" (to quote Brian) High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
What's Ryan's deal? What is Dan's single favorite fact about High School Musical, "one of the funniest pop culture things of the 21st century"? Why is this series so obsessed with blurring the line of theater and reality? All these questions, and more, discussed in our biggest episode yet.
Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Join Dan and Brian as they revisit a forgotten time-travel romcom from a simpler time. Brian, an avowed Hugh Jackman fanboy, praises his charm and silky accent, while Dan ponders if Meg Ryan was the right casting for his counterpoint. They pick apart the film's time loops and elevator paradoxes as Dan pitches a Kate & Leopold cinematic universe and Brian shares his movie rating framework.
Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/