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
SPIELBERG: LINCOLN LOGS *SEASON FINALE* COUNTDOWN!
A BIGGER BOAT: LINCOLN *SPIELBERG FINALE*
For the last two years co-host Jack has insisted that LINCOLN is the worst movie ever made and Spielberg is the worst director of all time. What…
SPIELBERG: FLYING OBJECTS/FAR FROM HOME
A BIGGER BOAT: CLOSE EMPIRES OF THE THIRD SUN
Theme song maestro and cinema expert Ryan joins us to talk two of his favorite Spielbergs. One is about a man willingly leaving his family a…
SPIELBERG & SPECIAL EFFECTS: AN OVERVIEW
A BIGGER BOAT: SPIELBERG AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
Digital artist John Blalock joins Jack to discuss Spileberg's evolving use of state-of-the-art special effects; from Bruce-the-robot in JAWS …
SPIELBERG: GOING FOR GLUE
A BIGGER BOAT: MUNICH, MUNICH & WAR HORSE
MUNICH was to be Spielberg's winter Oscar film to 2005's WAR OF THE WORLD's Jurassic Park-level summer event film. It didn't really work out tha…
SPIELBERG: THE WHOOPI GRAIL
A BIGGER BOAT: THE COLOR PURPLE AND INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
THE COLOR PURPLE (1985) was Spielberg's first big swing at the legitimacy he so desperately craved after a series o…
SPIELBERG: BROKEN ROBOTS
A BIGGER BOAT: BROKEN ROBOTS
Co-host Ken is joined this episode by saucy songstress Andi to talk her favorite and least favorite Spielberg.
JAWS (1974) is about a broken robot shark hun…
SPIELBERG: XTRA EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
A BIGGER BOAT: E.T.
E.T. was made for children so why would you want to hear adults discussing it? You don't and we agree!
Jack is joined by this week's special guest, his 8-year-old c…
CAGE UNCAGED SPECIAL: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUNS
*SPECIAL CAGE UNCAGED* THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT
The CAGE UNCAGED FINALE we deserve. We return to the subject of our fourth season, with THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE T…
SPIELBERG: HOOKIN' *75TH EPISODE!*
A BIGGER BOAT: HOOK
Q: IF STAR TREK FANS ARE TREKKERS, WHAT ARE HOOK FANS?
Hook! Spielberg's 1991 fantasy/antiworkaganda-fest is one, in Spielberg's own estimation, that does not work. F…
SPIELBERG: RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM
A BIGGER BOAT: DUEL & CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
We are joined once again by podcast fave Rick Patt to discuss Spielberg's two chase movies made at two very different points in his career.
1971…
MANN AGED SPECIAL: LOAN WOLVES & CUB (REPORTER)
*MANN AGED SPECIAL* TOKYO VICE PILOT
We return to Michael Mann and our completist review of his directorial works with a discussion of his brand-new HBO Max program, TOKYO VICE, which p…
SPIELBERG MYSTERY HOUR
A BIGGER BOAT #6: THE SPIELBERG MYSTERY HOUR
With his contract at Universal yielding uneven results (Spielberg was not asked back to the series' he directed episodes for because he did n…
SPIELBERG: THE DEAD DO NOT IMPROVE
A BIGGER BOAT: POLTERGEIST & ALWAYS
Jack and Thomas are joined by Ryan to discuss Spielberg and two seemingly opposing views on the afterlife.
In 1982s POLTERGEIST (credited director: T…
I FEEL PETTY *SPECIAL OSCARS EPISODE WITH WEST SIDE STORY!!*
A BIGGER BOAT E4: WEST SIDE STORY AND OSCAR PICKS
Jack and Ken watched West Side Story, Spielberg's 2021 passion project and ode to the "conservative" musicals of his youth (not in the …
SPIELBERG IN THE 1980's: AMAZING STEVIES
A BIGGER BOAT: DO NOT TRUST YOUR AUDIENCE
For this week's episode we talk to film expert, screenwriter and 80s connoisseur Erik Van Der Wolf about Spielberg's growing cultural impact as…
SPIELBERG: ERAS AND ERRORS
A BIGGER BOAT: THE ERAS OF BEARDO
We are joined once again by cinema expert Rick Patt to discuss Spielberg's three eras, along with the successes and errors within each.
1. ASCENDENT: 19…
SPIELBERG: THE LOST ART *SEASON PREMIERE*
S6 PREMIERE OF "A BIGGER BOAT"
Season six will focus on the SSCU, the Steven Spielberg Cinematic Universe. Spielberg, a director who once reigned over Hollywood but has since directed …
DENNIS HOPPER: *SPECIAL EPISODE* HOPPED UP
ONE IN THE HOPPER - DENNIS HOPPER'S MADMAN ERA
Between 1969 and 1980 Dennis Hopper directed three movies he also starred in. The first, EASY RIDER (1969), is one of the great Hollywoo…
MANN AGED: TAKEDOWN COUNTDOWN W/SPECIAL GUESTS *SEASON FINALE*
NEON & SHADOWS
We have reached the endpoint in Season Five! We have watched every Michael Mann project he directed. We even watched his episodes of Police Woman and Crime Story so you k…
MANN AGED #8 THIRTY SECONDS FLAT
BROTHER, YOU ARE GOING DOWN
The one where they talk about Heat.
HEAT (1995) is about two middle-aged men looking for something to give their lives meaning. They have their conflicts, o…