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
SIDE HUSTLE: KEVIN COSTNER: THEY PUT ONE OF YOURS IN THE HOSPITAL, YOU DELIVER THEIR MAIL!
SIDE HUSTLE III: C IS FOR COSTNER, GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME: UNTOUCHABLES AND THE POSTMAN
Kevin Costner had a special run of films in the 80s and 90s. If you weren't there, trust us! He did.…
SIDE HUSTLE: ELIZABETH BANKS: WET HOT COCAINE BEAR
SIDE HUSTLE II: BANKS SHOT
Celebrities! They are just like us! Except when they get the urge to try something new, they get studios or shady global investors to give them millions to mak…
SIDE HUSTLE: BEN AFFLECK: GONE, DAREDEVIL, GONE *SEASON X PREMIERE*
*SEASON X PREMIERE* SIDE HUSTLES AND HYPHENAUTS #1: BEN AFFLECK
Celebrities! They are just like us! Except when they get the urge to try something new, it isn't the new taco truck up th…
4X4 II: SERGIO MARTINO II: TORSO & SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A MINOR *SEASON FINALE*
4X4: SERGIO MARTINO II: TORSO AND THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A MINOR W/ERIK VANDERWOLF
In part two of two on Italian filmmaker Sergio Martino, we are joined once again by Screenwriter Erik …
4X4 II: SERGIO MARTINO: TWO VICES W/ EDWIGE FENECH
4X4 II: SERGIO MARTINO 2: THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH & YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY W/ERIK VANDERWOLF!
In part one of two on Italian filmmaker Sergio Martino, w…
4X4: PAUL WS ANDERSON: RESIDENT EVIL 5 & THREE MUSKETEERS
PAUL WS PART DEUX: THE THREE EVILS/FAREWELL TO JACK
In part one of our Paul WS Anderson two parter, we discussed two early classics that offered two very different paths young WS could t…
4X4: PAUL WS ANDERSON PT 1: EVENT KOMBAT
4X4 2: PAUL WS ANDERSON PT. 1: MORTAL KOMBAT & EVENT HORIZON
It's the OTHER Paul Anderson in the spotlight for our third 4X4 this season. This is the guy that's married to, and works wit…
4X4: JOHN FORD: SEARCHING FOR LIBERTY VALANCE
4x4 JOHN FORD PART TWO: THE SEARCHERS & THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE W/RICK PATT
Last week we talked about a few seminal Ford films that weren’t westerns (The Informer and Grapes of…
4X4: JOHN FORD: THE INFORMER'S WRATH
Our two-part John Ford series begins with Ford fan and podcast pal Rick Patt joining us and curating the films!
For part one we watc…
4X4 II: KATHRYN BIGELOW 2: STRANGE DAYS and ZERO DARK THIRTY
We conclude our four film sweep through the filmography of Kathryn Bigelow with one of her not…
4X4 II: KATHRYN BIGELOW *SEASON PREMIERE* THE LOVELESS & POINT BREAK
LEATHER & WAX: BIGELOW'S THE LOVELESS and POINT BREAK with Kathryn Bigelow Scholar Ryan.
FOUR FILMS BY FOUR DIRECTORS PICKED BY FOUR GUESTS 4X4 II
IT'S THE EPISODE THAT ALMOST DIDN'T HAP…
*OSCAR SPECIAL* THE FABELMANS PLUS OSCAR PICKS
BACK TO SPIELBERG, BACK TO THE RED CARPET
THE FABELMANS (2022) is Steven Spielbergs cinematic memoir but with different names and the person playing him does not wear glasses. A story …
VHS SPECIAL: PRETTY WOMAN
VHS SPECIAL: PRETTY WOMAN & THE SCREENPLAY "THREE THOUSAND"
Ken and Jack dust off the VHS player for another trip back in time where you have to rewind.
PRETTY WOMAN. 1990 was a perf…
STREEPS OF FIRE FINALE: MAMMA MERYL
SEASON FINALE! MAMMA MIA & MAMMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN!
We have watched Meryl Streep movies for nearly six months. Did we learn anything? Great question! Listen and find out with our se…
STREEPS OF FIRE: THE STREEP LIEUTENANT'S AFRICA
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN and OUT OF AFRICA
This week: Two films released four years apart do as much to delineate Streep's meteoric rise to being one of the all-time great film a…
STREEPS OF FIRE: DEATH BECOMES HER W/SPECIAL GUESTS
FOREVER YOUNG! WITH GUESTS: MEG, LEIGH and JOHN!
The fourth film in a row in Streep's remarkable late 80's, early 90's turn to comedy, DEATH BECOMES HER (1992) is the most successful o…
STREEPS OF FIRE: MERYL INDECISIVE
STREEPS OF FIRE: SOPHIE'S CHOICE & DOUBT
TRIGGER WARNING: Doubt's central plot is whether or not a priest had inappropriate relations with a child and that is discussed.
Two of the be…
STREEPS OF FIRE: THE MERYL WILD W/SPECIAL GUEST ERIK
STREEPS OF FIRE: THE RIVER WILD (1994) WITH BLOOD AND POPCORN'S ERIK!
Following Streep's break from heavy roles after 1988's A CRY IN THE DARK, 4 out of 5 of Streep's next movies were …
SPECIAL XMAS EPISODE: CHRISTMAS ADJACENT #3
CHRISTMAS ADJACENT #3!
ROCKY (1976)
DIAL CODE OF SANTA/GAME OVER/PIERE NOEL/DEADLY GAMES/3615 DIAL CODE FATHER CHRISTMAS (1989)
THE WORLD OF KANAKO (2014)
TRIGGER WARNING: The World of Ka…
STREEPS OF FIRE: DID SHE OR DIDN'T STREEP?
STREEPS OF FIRE: STILL OF THE NIGHT and A CRY IN THE DARK/EVIL ANGELS
Join Ken, Jack, Thomas and Andi for two very important pieces in the Streep mosaic.
Streep in the 1980s was a marvel…