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
2ND ANNUAL CHRISTMAS ADJACENT EPISODE!
NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN HO-HO-HO
We take a break from Michael Mann to present our 2nd Annual Christmas-Adjacent Episode with Jack and Ken.
THE RULES:
A film that has Christmas in it b…
MANN AGED #7 DANNY DAY-LEWIS AND THE NEWS PT. 2 (THE NEWS)
DANNY DAY-LEWIS AND THE NEWS
Pt. Two: Russell Crowe was still a year from being a worldwide superstar starring as Maximus in Gladiator when he puffed up and got gray hair for The In…
MANN AGED #7 DANNY DAY-LEWIS AND THE NEWS PT. 1
DANNY DAY-LEWIS AND THE NEWS
Pt. One: After Manunter and a number of false-start projects, Michael Mann swerved hard from modern crime and neon into the historical epic LAST OF THE…
MANN AGED: RUMBLE IN THE MCU
MANN AGED E6: RUMBLE IN THE MCU
Michael Mann is from Chicago and it has featured prominently in a number of projects. CRIME STORY (1986-1988) was a series that began IN Chicago, 1963,…
MANN AGED: YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TOOTH
MANN AGED E5: INNA GADDA DA XENU
1986'S MANHUNTER, made after two years serving as the showrunner for Miami Vice, was little-seen upon its release but, arguably is Mann's most last…
MANN AGED: KEEPIT & TUBBS
MANN AGED E4: DAS GO-FAST BOOT
This week we discuss two divisive Michael Mann epics. 1983's THE KEEP saw Mann take a der leften turn from his focus on the gritty crime and law enfo…
MANN AGED: CAAN'T GET AWAY WITH IT
MANN AGED E3: HEAD & SHOULDERS
In our earnest and sincere desire to give lessons the Jack about being a man by watching Michael Mann movies we've reached dodgy ground as both our our Man…
MANN AGED: HORSE RACE
MANN AGED E2: TEN TO LIFE ODDS
In 1979 Michael Mann made what amounts to a statement of purpose in THE JERICHO MILE, a TV movie about a Folsom prison inmate who finds succor in running a…
MANN AGED: THOR-MAN BATES
MANN AGED E1: THORMAN BATES
What does it take to be a man? We have no clue. One of our hosts, Jack, is young enough he can still figure it out so we ware watching all of Michael Man…
*SPECIAL OCTOBER EPISODE* CRAVEN WEALTH
*BONUS EPISODE*
October, 2021 is special for the GPU hosts! Later this month standout joke-maker, divisive lightning rod Jack is turning 18! Also later in the month sad sack Ken is gett…
CAGE UNCAGED: *BONUS EPISODE* NUTTIN BUT TROUBLE
PRISONER OF SATURN FILMS!
We return briefly to our Cage project to talk about his latest bid for midnight movie supremacy, PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND (2021). Directed by Sion Sono, Priso…
EASTWOOD: CRY, MACHO, CRY! *SPECIAL EPISODE*
S3 E16 - ROOSTER ROAD TRIP
A VERY special return to our Eastwood project! After watching every Eastwood for season's 1-3, Ken and Jack are back to talk about what may be Eastwood's swani…
*SPECIAL EPISODE* THE TWILIGHT OF CINEMA
Fork Fangs
Superstar guest Annabel has moved to the other side of this crumbling planet and, as a final binge before she left, she requested we all watch the Twilight movies and then do…
CAGE UNCAGED: MOPPING UP **50TH EPISODE** *W/SPECIAL GUESTS
THE END OF CAGE UNCAGED!
In our landmark 50th episode we bid a fond farewell to the films of Nicolas Cage. It has been fun, frustrating, illuminating and occasionally educational, but i…
CAGE UNCAGED: BIG TRUFFLE IN LITTLE PORTLAND
CAGE UNCAGED PENULTIMATE EPISODE: PIG
PIG (2021) was filmed in Portland, Oregon! Our podcast is based in Portland! Will we see anything we recognize resulting in that Leonardo DiCaprio m…
CAGE UNCAGED: MANDY'S RAINBOW
THROUGH A RED FILTER
Super-guest and theme song wizard Ryan of HOWLING FANTODS rejoins the GBU team to discuss Cage's unlikely late-career masterpiece MANDY (2018). As bracing and indeli…
CAGE UNCAGED: BLOODY ARIZONA
"WHAT YODEL KNOW (CAN KILL YOU)"
In order to properly assess one of Cage's earliest and most indelible roles in Joel and Ethan Coens second film, RAISING ARIZONA (1987), we are pairing i…
CAGE UNCAGED: ASSMAN AND ROBBIN’ **BONUS EPISODE**
CAGE UNCAGED: FILM FLAM FATALE
**BONUS EPISODE**
Another bonus episode covering a corner of Cage's career that has been under-represented thus far in Cage Uncaged!
This week we tackle the …
CAGE UNCAGED: *BONUS EPISODE* FLAMING LOVE CRAFT
CAGE UNCAGED BONUS EPISODE: RAD COSMIC DADS
On our last episode it was decided late-era Cage, despite being filled with missteps and perplexing DTV fare, was under represented. In order …
CAGE UNCAGED: MASK ACTION HERO
WOOING THE BUNNY
It's the Con/Off of Cage Uncaged!
TRIGGER WARNING: Con Air does include potential sexual assault as a story element that we discuss.
1997 featured Cage's most impressive b…