Almost Good

On This Episode:

The Dangers of Podcasting Fully Caffeinated
Dave Invents Coffee Stirs
Are Witches Toxic?
SUSPIRIA(s) Review
A Glorious Satanic Mess
Movies Looking Like Commercials
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Review
Oscar-Caliber Fly
Subverting Heist Films
WIDOWS Review (Even Though JDO Says, "No Spoilers!")
Hot Take Positing Jar Jar Binks as a Movie-Destroying Demon

Spoiler Alert:

Movies on Our "Worst Of" List Have Been Nominated for Oscars.

This is our final episode of 2018!

Conversations Include:

Is Lars von Trier a "Try-Hard" and Does That Matter?
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Review
A Serial Killer Movie to Kill All Serial Killers (Movies)?
Dead-On von Trier Impressions by JDO
Dave's Huge Checklist of All the Serial Killers This References
How Does Behavior Relate to Art?

Thanks for listening. It's been a great year.  

We Talk About:

J.G. Ballard's Crazy Car Books
Getting Into Fights While Taking Your Kid to See Santa
Book vs. Movie vs. Hype
Bullets vs. Arrows
BIRD BOX Review
The Perils of Disliking Things Your Friends Like

On This Episode:

Social Media Scolding
Milk Men
Pre-Internet Jackassery
Diluting The Joke
DOG EAT DOG Review
AFFLICTION Review
FIRST REFORMED Review

Today We Talk About:

Pulling Someone Out of the Driver's Seat of a Car
Internet Squealers
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 4 Review
CAM Review
The Fakeness of Online in Films
Harlan Ellison's Shatterday
SEARCHING Review
The Curious Case of a Certain Word

A Lot To Get To Today, Such As:

 

Straight-to-Netflix Content
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Review
Anthology Movies
Steve Alten's Meg
Bill Maher/Stan Lee Controversy
How White Is the Coen's Wild West?
Dave's Meta-Fictional Opus The Last Projector

Are you ready for abortion, Nazis, and dad-rock revenge films? Also, why do we never see the rich get murdered on-screen? Makes ya think!

Stuff Mentioned In This Episode (Sometimes With Links):

T.C. Boyle's Short Story "Killing Babies"
Charlene's Insane Tune "I've Never Been to Me"
So Is This Bonkers Song the Polar Opposite?
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Review
And a Ton of Other Movies Also Come Up, Like...
Leon: The Professional
Road House
We Need to Talk About Kevin
American History X
American Pimp
Oldboy
I Saw The Devil
John Wick

We thought it might be easier to list all our nonsense. Let's try it...

Salty Rants In This Episode Include:

Dave's Shaky Basketball Analogy
How You're Not Allowed to Criticize Books
Should Tweets Be Movies?
(un)Surprising Criticisms of BLACKkKLANSMAN
MANDY Review
Cage Match
Nepo Babies
Dueling Chainsaws (Stories)

We're all we've got in this world, but we can't hug it out over Skype. Instead, we talk about The Endless, which is 100% a really really really okay (some might say "almost good") kinda movie.