The Good, The Pod and The Ugly
Long-running film podcast featuring hosts Ken, Ryan and Thomas and numerous guests talking filmographies, oddities, classics and side hustles. Through a thousand seasons they have talked about nearly every movie ever made (verified by PodStats Inc).
SEASON 15: SQUIB SEASON! Trace the history of the squib in film through 20 carefully chosen titles. It's kind of gross! Film the last 60 years would be far different without them so it is very important.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 86 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
EASTWOOD: A PERFECT, BULLET-RIDDEN GAUNTLET
S3 E3 A PERFECT, BULLET-RIDDEN GAUNTLET.
1977's The Gauntlet is the first vehicle specifically for Clint and then-muse, Sondra Locke. She was nominated for an Oscar years prior and East…
EASTWOOD: THE ENFORCER OF MADISON COUNTY
S3 E2 THE ENFORCER OF MADISON COUNTY.
DIRTY HARRY IS BACK! And he is shooting some... bad bridges in.... Iowa?
Sadly, no. In 1976's The Enforcer, Harry Callahan returns in his third out…
EASTWOOD: ABSOLUTE PRESIDENT OUTLAW **SEASON PREMIERE**
S3 E1 ABSOLUTE PRESIDENT OUTLAW.
Clint Eastwood's Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976, inspired The Eastwood Rule in the DGA. What is it? Why is it? Does it limit squints per film? Generally cons…
EASTWOOD: THE GOOD AND EVIL SANCTION *SEASON FINALE*
S2 E10 THE GOOD AND EVIL SANCTION.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is Eastwood's second movie in 1997 (preceded by next episode's Absolute Power). Based on the blockbuster true…
EASTWOOD: TRUEFOOT AND CRIMEBOLT
S2 E9 TRUEFOOT AND CRIMEBOLT.
Penultimate S2 episode! We are rejoined by super guest Thomas to discuss 1974's Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, written and directed by the late Michael Cimino, c…
EASTWOOD: XL MAGNUM COWBOYS FORCE
S2 E8 XL MAGNUM COWBOYS FORCE.
2000's Space Cowboys finally brings us to the end of Eastwood's films released this century (he has released 3847 movies since 2000 as well as one avant g…
EASTWOOD: MANIC PIXIE BLOOD BREEZE
S2 E7 MANIC PIXIE BLOOD BREEZE.
AN INSTANT AND INFAMOUS CLASSIC! One of our best epsiodes for two films no one has even seen. 1973's Breezy has gone virtually unseen by anyone for nearl…
EASTWOOD: MYSTIC DRIFTER
S2 E6 MYSTIC DRIFTER
TRIGGER WARNING: One of the films discussed in this episode, High Plains Drifter, includes scenes of sexual assault by the protagonist as a plot point.
2003's Mystic…
EASTWOOD: MILLION DOLLAR KIDD
S2 E5 MILLION DOLLAR KIDD
Eastwood directed two films that won Best Picture and Director Oscars. One was his masterwork, Unforgiven (1992) and the other was Million Dollar Baby (2004), w…
EASTWOOD: PLAY MISTY FOR OUR FATHERS
S2 E4 PLAY MISTY FOR OUR FATHERS
1971's PLAY MISTY FOR ME is the first of Clint's 8000 films he directed so dissecting it is a landmark for our podcast. In it, Clint plays DJ Lank'n $qu…
EASTWOOD: LETTERS FROM DIRTY HARRY
S2 E3 LETTERS FROM DIRTY HARRY
We have been waiting for this match-up for months and the result is our biggest episode yet.
1971's Dirty Harry, directed by Don Donald Siegel is the proble…
EASTWOOD: THE BEGUILED CHANGELING
S2 E2 THE BEGUILED CHANGELING
Eastwood and "Donald" "Don" Siegel team up for their third collaboration with their odd, Southern Gothic detour, 1971's The Beguiled. Then 2008's Changeling…
EASTWOOD: GRAN THEFT KELLY
S2 E1 GRAN THEFT KELLY
Season 2 premiere! Eastwood's 2008 Cranksterpiece Gran Torino paired with 1970's Kelly's Heroes, a WWII action-comedy which reunites Clint and director Brian Hutt…
EASTWOOD: TWO MULES FOR SISTER INVICTUS *SEASON FINALE*
S1 E10 TWO MULES FOR SISTER INVICTUS *SEASON FINALE*
For our tenth episode we finally get into the 1970s with Two Mules for Sister Sara, the second of Eastwood's five films with director…
EASTWOOD: PAINT YER HEREAFTER
S1 E9 PAINT YER HEREAFTER
Eastwood’s HEREAFTER, 2010, which IMDB halfway accurately labels Drama/Disaster, is chock full of actors you recognize from better movies saying words in story…
EASTWOOD: WHERE EDGARS DARE
S1 E8 WHERE EDGARS DARE.
Clint takes a supporting role to Richard Burton in the Men on a Mission WWII action classic Where Eagles Dare, directed by Brian Hutton, from 1969. And then... …
EASTWOOD: COOGAN'S CURVE
S1 E7 COOGAN'S CURVE
Trouble With the Curve, from 2012, is NOT directed by Eastwood and neither is Coogan's Bluff from 1968. Coogan is directed by Don Siegel in the first of five classic…
EASTWOOD: HANG 'EM BOYS
S1 E6 HANG 'EM BOYS
Eastwood's long-sought leading man debut in a Hollywood motion picture, Hang 'Em High, from 1968, along with his 2014 musical, Jersey Boys. Top 40 for both? Or are th…
EASTWOOD: THE GOOD, THE SNIPER AND THE UGLY
S1 E5 The Good, The Sniper and The Ugly
Eastwood completes the Dollars Trilogy (Dollar Bill, Dollar Sign) with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (WE NAMED OUR PODCAST AFTER IT!!!!). We als…
EASTWOOD: A FISTFUL TO PARIS
S1 E3 A FISTFUL TO PARIS
Eastwood's epic entry into superstardom in A Fistful of Dollars. Paired with it is the epic entry of three non-actors playing themselves in a 90 minute studio f…