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
REDUX: WHITE SNIPER, BLACK HEART PT.1
WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART
Episode 7, and you can feel the excitement of the hunt this episode, the first of TGTPTU’s final paired rewatches of the Redux Season (Season 14) and another d…
REDUX: BAD TRIPS PT. 2: 15:17 TO PARIS
The 15:17 to Paris
Episode 6, all aboard! TGTPTU rides the Season 14 train to the end of the line of this third pairing of the season. Another rewatch of an Eastwood-directed film, this …
REDUX: BAD TRIPS PT. 1: HONKYTONK MAN
HONKYTONK MAN
TGTPTU continues to play its old hits with Episode 5 of Season 14, its redux series season celebrating five years and <cough, cough> don’t you worry about us, hoss, we’ll …
REDUX: ANIMAL FARM PT. 2: THE WHALE
THE WHALE
It’s the fourth episode of Season 14, and our hungry boys are still going for seconds with their rewatch of the recently covered THE WHALE (2022), original episode from TGTPTU’…
REDUX: ANIMAL FARM PT. 1 PIG
PIG
Season 14 continues serving up second helpings of movies previously covered on TGTPTU with PIG (2021). Jack’s flick picked this week pulls from his, Ken’s, and then recently added ho…
REDUX SZN: DEATH BECOMES HIM PT. 2: HOLY ZEMECKIS
DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)
For the second episode in TGTPTU’s Season 14 redux series, the film choice was Thomas’s. As he explains at the top of the ep, he wanted to do a Streep rewatch wi…
“REDUX” SEASON PREMIERE! DEATH BECOMES HIM WITH “HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER”
High Plains Drifter (1973)
TRIGGER WARNING: HPD features sexual assault as a plot point.
Season 14, a new season with a hefty helping of old, comes to town as the TGTPTU hosts return to …
LARS VON TRIER #4: THE GANG SELLS THE COMPANY, "THE BOSS OF IT ALL"
BOSS OF IT ALL (2006)
Well, as the famous playwright Antonio Gambini once wrote: All good things (and Season 13 of TGTPTU) must come to a close. And what better stage for which our four …
LARS VON TRIER #3: NATURE SPURTS WITH "ANTICHRIST"
4X4: Lars von Trier #3
Breaking our own arbitrary rules just like Lars von Trier, the enfant terrible final director of Season 13’s 4x4, the TGTPTU crew for our final pairing breaks with…
LARS VON TRIER #2: GETTING FUZZY WITH DANCER IN THE DARK
DANCER IN THE DARK (2000)
Broadcasting live from 1964, and entirely in song, this week’s very special episode of TGTPTU covers Lars von Trier’s sixth film (but only our second of his cov…
4X4: LARS VON TRIER #1: GET WET
ELEMENT
Welcome to a new year and a new director as TGTPTU’s latest 4x4 reaches its fourth of four directors: Lars Von Trier. We start with his first wide-release feature THE ELEMENT OF …
MERRY CLINTMAS! JUROR #2 AND 2024 WRAP-UP
JUROR #2
It’s late-December and, foregoing our usual Christmas-adjacent movie watch, this year TGTPTU has a very special treat for the holidays. That’s right, listener, we bring to you …
BIG WILLIE #4: THE COLLECTOR (OR HOW ELON AND GRIMES MET)
4X4X3: WILLIAM WYLER CONCLUSION: THE COLLECTOR
TGTPTU wraps its third director of Season 13’s 4x4 with a discussion of a fourth and final William Wyler film THE COLLECTOR (1965).
Like Th…
BIG WILLIE #3: THE BIG COUNTRY
4X4: WILLIAM WYLER. #3: THE BIG COUNTRY
(Note: Don't skip the theme song this week)
TGTPTU Host Ryan’s Willie gets a glow-up with THE BIG COUNTRY (1958), the third in our cultivated Willi…
WILLIAM WYLER #2: LIKE SAND THROUGH AN HOUR GLASS... SO ARE OUR DESPERATE HOURS
WILLIAM WYLER: PART 2 OF 4: THE DESPERATE HOURS
Paired with last week’s Detective Story, TGTPTU’s Big Willie Winter continues with THE DESPERATE HOURS (1955), another black-and-white fil…
WILLIAM WYLER #1: DON'T SAY THE A WORD, DETECTIVE STORY
DETECTIVE STORY
Season 13’s 4x4 has reached its 1/2way point with our 9th of 16 movies and a new director, provisional co-host Ryan’s pick of the 15-time Academy Award-nominated, 3-time …
TSAI MING-LIANG: MAMA SAID THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS
4X4 III: TSAI MING-LIANG 4: DAYS
TGTPTU’s back to finish (cough) the job handily (cough) with a happy ending (oh boy) for our coverage of director Tsai Ming-liang, coming together (reall…
HaLLoWeEn SPECIAL: JEREMY SAULNIER'S GREEN ROOM
2024 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!
NOTE: Approximately 35 punk rock band names are concealed in these show notes. Play along!
It’s the end of October, which means the four misfits of TGTPTU are back…
TSAI MING-LIANG III: GOODBYE MOVIES
This week’s Season 13 4x4 entry is GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003), the third of four films curated by guest host Jack to represent the filmography of director Tsai Ming-liang. The original …
TSAI MING-LIANG'S EMPATHY MACHINE: "STRAY DOGS"
4X4 2: TSAI MING-LIANG and "STRAY DOGS"
Our four film investigation into slow cinema master Tsai Miang-liang tackles his 2013 masterpiece STRAY DOGS.
If you can vibe to a five minute ope…