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
CAGE UNCAGED: CAGELORD
DEUS EX MACHINE-GUNNA
LORD OF WAR (2004) has Cage give his all in a movie that looks great on paper: The Kiwi Idea Man of Truman Show and Gattaca, Andrew Niccol, writing and directing an…
CAGE UNCAGED: DARK CIRCLES UNDER THOSE SNAKE EYES
IN DE PALMA DA HAND, A TRACH
Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma were best buddies in the free wheelin' 1970s who, by the late 1990s, were Hollywood legends with instantly recognizable …
CAGE UNCAGED: CAGE OUT OF TIME
CAGE OF CONSENT AND THE TEMPLE OF DUMB
Sometimes to past is refuge, as with PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, 1986, one of Cage's earliest mainstream breakout films, directed by his Uncle Frankie,…
CAGE UNCAGED: MOONSHINE STRUCK
ROMANCING THE CAGE.
Cage gets romantic! And... suicidal?
MOONSTRUCK was one of Cage's early mainstream breakthroughs. Directed by Hollywood journeyman Norman Jewison and heralding the…
CAGE UNCAGED: CAGE DOWN TO EARTH
CAGE UNCAGED: THAT DOG IS A ANGEL
City of Angels (1998) is Brad Siberling's decidedly American take on Wim Wenders masterpiece Wings of Desire (1987). Where Wenders went philosophical a…
CAGE UNCAGED: THIS HERE ZIPPER MASK IS A SYMBOL OF MY INDIVIDUALITY
CAGE UNCAGED CAGE MATCH: WILD AT HEART & 8MM
"The Difficult Follow-Up".
Andrew Kevin Walker wrote the textbook for cool, edgy nihilists (teenaged and otherwise) with 1995's SE7EN, dir…
CAGE UNCAGED: ACAB (ALL CAGE AND BEES)
CAGE UNCAGED: ACAB (ALL CAGE AND BEES)
CAGE COP!
This week Ken, Thomas and Jack talk the pairing of WICKER MAN (2006) and BAD LIEUTENTANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (2009). Neil Labute an…
CAGE UNCAGED: F*CK FANGS
CAGE MATCH: F*CK FANGS
The Good, The Pod and The Ugly will trace the historic and maximalist acting career of Nicolas Cage through 20 of his films over the course of 10 episodes. How the…
EASTWOOD: TIGHTROPE ***FINAL EASTWOOD EPISODE SEASON FINALE***
S3 E15 THE END OF EASTWOOD
TRIGGER WARNING: Tightrope's central plot is about a serial rapist.
Hell of a thing, startin' a pod covering every Eastwood movie. You talk about every mov…
EASTWOOD: PALE HEAT **PENULTIMATE EPISODE**
S3 E 14 PALE HEAT
1985's PALE RIDER is Eastwood's first western in nine years and the third of four he would direct (High Plains Drifter, Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven). A play off…
EASTWOOD: SUDDEN HEARTBREAK
S3 E13 SUDDEN HEARTBREAK
TRIGGER WARNING: One of the films covered in this episode, Sudden Impact, has a major plot point concerning sexual assault.
1983's Dirty Harry epic SUDDEN IMP…
EASTWOOD: HONKYTONK DEADPOOL
S3 E12 HONKYTONK DEADPOOL
DEADPOOL, the wise-cracking meta-superhero is not the same as THE DEAD POOL, from 1988, the final Dirty Harry film; running on thin enough fumes that podcast f…
EASTWOOD: FIREBIRD!
S3 E11 FIREBIRD!
1982's FIREFOX was not about a future web browser but about a Soviet plane during the Cold War that you can fly with your brain or eyes or showtunes. Just go with it -…
EASTWOOD: HORNY PINK APE
S3 E10 HORNY PINK APE.
Buddy Van Horn was a legendary stuntman (doubled for Eastwood numerous times) and stunt coordinator (Million Dollar Baby, baby!) but he also directed what may be …
EASTWOOD: WHITE BRONCO, BILLY'S HEART
S3 E9 WHITE BRONCO, BILLY'S HEART
One of Clint's most ambitious films prior to Unforgiven, 1990's WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART is covered here in detail. A roman a clef about John Huston …
EASTWOOD: THE ROOKIE OF ALCATRAZ
S3 E8 ESCAPE FROM CHARLIE SHEEN'S POOL HOUSE
1979's ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, directed by podcast fave Don Donald Siegel (Coogan's Bluff, The Beguiled, Dirty Harry, Two Mules For Sister Sa…
EASTWOOD: UNFORGIVEN PART TWO: LEGACY W/SPECIAL GUESTS
S3 E7 THEY GOT A SIGN ON THE POD? OUTSIDE OF GREELY'S?
We conclude our lovingly epic discussion of 1992's Unforgiven by talking with a number of our friends. We speak with Erik, Larry, A…
EASTWOOD: UNFORGIVEN PART ONE: THE FILM
S3 E6 NO FORGIVENESS!
UNFORGIVEN, 1992.
The only reason there is a Clint Eastwood podcast (incidentally called The Good, The Pod and The Ugly) and that is because we love this movie and…
YOU GONNA UNWRAP THAT PRESENT OR WHISTLE DIXIE? XMAS 2020!
S3 E5 We take a much-earned break from the epic (and endless) filmography of the World's Greatest Movie Star/Director, Clinton Eastwood Jr., for the Holidays!
Ken and Jack have each ch…
EASTWOOD: JOHN MALKOVICH VERSUS THE APE
S3 E4 JOHN MALKOVICH VERSUS THE APE.
In the Line of Fire (1993) was Clint's victory lap film following Unforgiven. Directed by Wolfgang Peterson, this is one of two films Clint has been…