Almost Good

DJK & TMC
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Talking about movies that almost make the cut.

  1. Sep 23

    65 - The Odyssey (+ Backrooms & Obsession) w/Erin Keaton

    They were supposed to talk about The Odyssey, but Dave snuck in discussions of Backrooms and Obsession, and his sister Erin snuck in like twelve more movies. Classic Trojan Horse situation. Don't open these gates:   Erin Keaton Is Back And Later She'll Defend Mike Tyson Brits Love Freedom ('90) Criterion Bashing BAND OF BROTHERS Review Kurt Vonnegut War Recs THE HERROD EXPERIMENT Review A Top Tier Good Will Hunting Joke THE ODYSSEY Review More Tiny Babies In Spacesuits Stunt Casting Paid Off? The Odyssey Vs. Troy Flip Athena And Calypso Anti-Influencer Influence  Suffering for Art Thrills Not Shills More Neck Wringing Less Hand Wringing  Don't Trust Reddit's Pee Breaks Another Top Tier Good Will Hunting Joke The Parallax Ruse OBSESSION Review Key Quote From Sarah Harris Wallman's Senseless Women Just Make House of Leaves Already (The Good Half) BACKROOMS (a.k.a. Jordan Peele's Channel Zero) Review The O.G. Photo Needed One More Layer MINOTAUR (Fanfic) Review Erin's Backrooms Pizza Delivery Story Good Luck Have Fun F**k Off Movies For Goldfish EVERYTHING MUST GO EDITION Review More Like The WHACKrooms Amirite THE PAPERBOY Review NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Review? CAPE FEAR(S) Review Don't Hide Under a Truck (Or Do) STRANGER THAN PARADISE Vs. DOWN BY LAW Cheaper Feels Bigger Best Movie Jailbreak Is In... ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA Review THE LONG WALK Review WISE BLOOD Review HOLE IN THE HEAD Review Trepanning Movies Montage COLUMBO Review THE COLOR OF MONEY Review Billiards And Barn Burners Tom Cruise = Yoko Ono's Cut Piece It's In The Way That You Use It, Bro   P.S. Buy my sister's cool Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman t-shirts. I did.

  2. Jul 30

    64 - Disclosure Day (+ The Furious) w/Jedidiah Ayres

    Noir at the Bar Oddfather Jedidiah Ayres joins Dave for Spielberg's intergalactic comeback, Disclosure Day. They also watched The Furious, where they were, indeed, fast (as lightning). This phone call saved lives:   Weatherman Forecasts a Cold Open PATRIOT Versus DTF ST. LOUIS The Straight Male Loneliness Epidemic? Jed Ayres Intro Noir at the Bar Memories One Heat Minute Val Kilmer Fest AMERICAN BUFFALO Review Frogs For What? Amos Poe Recs DISCLOSURE DAY Review Aliens = Everything War of the Worlds = 9/11 Close Encounters = Divorce? Spielberg's Hardware Wars Whole Thing Is A Third Act The Rehearsal Redux ADR ASMR Jed's Theory of All Movies Dud Leads Nobody Would Believe It! Bible Loophole Tube Ex Machina Buy A Fox, Bro Maximalist Spielbergius Meridius   They Should Have Seen Her As A Tiny Baby Alien Abduction Reversals THE FURIOUS Review False Starts Everybody And We Mean Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting John Wick Shit Part 1 Keeping It At A Distance Movies Beget Games Beget Movies John Wick Shit Part 2: Jed Objects U.R.M.s Script Doctor John Wick Shit Part 3: "Clarification" ROCKY II Novelization Review Dave Holds Up A Priceless Object Good Advice

  3. Apr 15

    63 - Project Hail Mary (+ The Last Oscars) w/Benoît Lelièvre

    Dave continues on his lonely interstellar mission to prove movies aren't good. But this time he brings in a ringer, Renaissance man Benoît Lelièvre, and the two of them learn to communicate over the vast emptiness of space. It's a dirty job but no one has to do it: Dave Forgets to Introduce Ben "Nobody Remembers the Oscars" Revisited Another BRUTALIST Review Adrian Brody Suffers for our Collective Memory Get Yourself a Marble Guy Like Today's Guest Host Benoît Lelièvre An Enigma Wrapped in Some Knuckles Inside Some Klosterman ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Review Right Wing Fantasy Or Left Wing Fantasy (Why Not Both? GIF) Sean Penn's Oscar Winning Rage Boner Insider Dirt From An Academy Member EDDINGTON Review Ari Aster and PT Anderson Shared Universe? The SCRIPT DOCTOR Tackles P.T.A. Bring Back Ugly Actors THE SMASHING MACHINE Review MARTY SUPREME Review The Year of Letting Artists Off the Hook Part 1 Ben Puts the Safdie Brothers Up Against the Ropes! Timothée Chalamet As Shia LaBeouf As Marty Supreme Another SINNERS Review Michael B. Jordan Vs. Michael A. Jordan Talking About *That* Scene Again (Dave Hates Fun) TRAIN DREAMS Review Ben's Dog Flips Out When We Mention the Wolf Girl The Oscars' Most Grievous Robberies  Bonus Wolves (Dancing With Saint Costner) David Simmons' Eradicator Recommendation Mel and Kevin Go Full Dadcore HAMNET Review Remember Hamlet? That Play About Loving Your Mother? The Year of Letting Artists Off the Hook Part 2 BUGONIA Review Having Your Bees and Eating Them Too An Underpopulated Pandemic Movie That's Good? F1 Review Get It? Formula Won? Brad Pitt = Gary Sue We Learned a Lot About Tires Experience ASMR in IMAX Insider Dirt From an Academy Member Part 2 THE SECRET AGENT Review Hairy Leg Highlights SENTIMENTAL VALUE Review The Year of Letting Artists Off the Hook Part 3 Would It Make a Better Novel? The Skarsgårds Are Terrifying Pillion and Hold the Dark Recommendations IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU Review A24 Is Now B24 Frunkensteens Are Blowing Up THE BRIDE! (Film Score) Review Guillermo del Toro = Too Many Notes SONG SUNG BLUE Review Yeah, That Didn't Happen Why Do Coke Head Directors Have Pacing Issues? PROJECT HAIL MARY Review The Dumbass Martian Meets The Dipshit Arrival Ryan Gosling Solves the Male Loneliness Epidemic Dave's Finds a Way to Plug Another One of His Books Hail, Grace, Full of Slapstick Close Encounters of the Doggo Kind Happy Classroom Ending Redux Too Much Optimism for Deep Space! Project Hail Mary Contains An Actual Hail Mary Theater Gremlins Did They Just Massacre the Apostrophes?

    63 - Project Hail Mary (+ The Last Oscars) w/Benoît Lelièvre

  4. 12/22/2025

    62 - Frankensteins (+ Everything Else) w/Robb Olson

    Tonight Robb of The Arc Party fame stops by to talk all things Frankenstein. Then Dave tricks him into staying a lot longer. But who's the real monster here: ROCKY Review and Another Literal Cold Open Meet Robb Olson, Last of the Readers FRANKENSTEIN (2025) Review Was Frankenstein a Pandemic Book? Definitive Guillermo Del Toro Movie Ranking Boss Baby (Blade II) Vibes Del Toro = Bodies Exhibit Victor? More like Pricktor, Amirite? Resurrection Versus Assembly ALIEN: ROMULUS Is a Better Frankenstein Movie Mad Science Is Inherently Funny Has Del Toro Stopped Trusting Us? Poisoned by the Visual Vocabulary of Superheroes HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN Review Large Dudes Lost In Digital Translation Robb's Favorite Penny Dreadful Episode Is Also His Favorite Frankenstein Google "Meat Loaf Skins" for the Latest Recipes  Mourning the Electronic Cricket 31 "SPONTANEOUS" MOVIE REVIEWS If the Elevated Horror Tries to Break You Down... Go Crazy! Therapy Fade-Out   Books Mentioned: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Lord Byron (just kidding) The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein by Dark Horse Comics Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Stealing Propeller Hats from the Dead (a.k.a. Zee Bee & Bee) by David James Keaton (a.k.a. Me) Movies Mentioned: All of them.

  5. 09/10/2025

    61 - Happy Bavaween! (+ Weapons) w/Nathan Lamoreau

    Dave knows that Nathan enjoyed binge-watching these movies because he called it "torture." This is defined as "to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure," so he's fine! Let's run and pretend we're little airplanes: Cold Open: Colder Royalties MARIO BAVA MOVIE MARATHON! A BAY OF BLOOD Review Hack? Auteur? Both? Neither? BLACK SUNDAY Review LET THE CORPSES TAN Review DANGER: DIABOLIK Review Can Guns Fire Emeralds? (No) Influence on Batman Influence on Austin Powers Influence on The Beastie Boys "Deep Deep Down" X 100 BLACK SABBATH Review Bava Ranking Influence on Tim Burton Influence on ASMR Influence on Scream? BLOOD AND BLACK LACE Review Cameron Mitchell's Kitten Mitten Konfusion About Kriminalfilms Stealing the Right Stuff Dave's First DVD The Big Squeeze Bava's Real Legacy  Introducing BAVAWEEN! PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES = ALIEN and/or Everything ALIEN: EARTH Review Beating a Dead Morph The Marvelification of Alien Giggling Billionaire Trope WEAPONS Review The Title Doctor BARBARIAN Review HERETIC Review DEATH OF A UNICORN Review Chug Is the New Screech Have Your Witch and Eat It Too Cregger's Tragic Comedy Background The Weird Gun Thing Explained Happy Ending? Aunt Gladys = Uncle Sam Theory Chicken Soup for the Trolls Every Witch Way but Loose Free-Range Gelflings Summer Penile Syndrome Have you pre-ordered Head Cleaner yet?

  6. 08/07/2025

    60 - Superman (+ Post Oscars Speed Run)

    We waited half a year to review the 2025 Academy Award nominees and winners just to prove that no one remembers them. But will anyone remember this conversation: Weapon X Fade In Reviewing Oscar Movies After The Oscars ANORA Review Inevitable A.I. Digression "Organic" Movies Writers and Professors Expediting Their Own Demise A.I. Traffics Only In The Past Cat Clocks Are Shrinking Ode To Big Bites In Movies BRUTALIST Review Forgot To Complain About Brody's Oscar Speech CONCLAVE Review Al Pacino Has Some Weird Lettuce Did the Coens Peak With Raising Arizona? Slow Roasting The Rick Rubin Effect HERETIC Review Rejecting The "You Get To Know" DUNE 2 Redux A COMPLETE UNKNOWN Review Chalamania WICKED Review Everything Is WALK HARD GODZILLA MINUS ONE Versus SHIN GODZILLA SINNERS Review Binary Brains No Battle Of The Bands? Arbitrary Twinning SUPERMAN Review Bad Projection = Kryptonite Would Clark Kent Get The Senior Discount? Ration Your Nuts, Kids The Fortress of Solitude Isn't Very Solitary A Weary Tony Educates Dave Is Superman Even A Person? The Best Superman Flicked Peanuts Days of the Week Underpants = Profit Minecraft Shit! Lois Smoking Versus Smoking Lois Spit Roasting The Tim Burton Effect Tony Flies Back To His Home Planet Dave's exciting Head Cleaner reissue pre-order is up. Random Penguins??? Get a subscription to Tony's new comic Destroying Lumen right here.

  7. 03/03/2025

    59 - The Monkey (+ Nosferatu)

    We Actually Reviewed a Movie that's Still in Theaters! Be a Part of History. Digressions and Dead-Ends Include: Dave Randomly Stalks a Dude Buffalo Springfield = Snoopy & the Red Baron The Exorcist Broke Up Genesis? Wild Claims About Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel Record Sales It's "The Living Years" Not "The Living Thing" Surprising Band Dynamics NOSFERATU Review Jim Jarmusch = Master of Black and White POSSESSION Review Why Is There So Much Real Estate In Dracula? It's "Epistolary" Not "A Suppository" Renfield = Hype Man Sleepy Hollow Reversal A Lotta Tom "Renfield" Waits in Down By Law THE MONKEY Review Amy's Sister Hates Movies   Why Is Everyone Exploding? More Rube Than Goldberg The Monkey Pulls a Martha O Brother, Where Art Thou Motivation? Tony Script Doctors The Monkey Osgood Perkins Is Working Through Some Shit Alison Bechdel Shout-Outs THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER Review LONGLEGS Review Dino DNA THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT Review A Dingo Ate My Baby, Baby, Yeah! But Jeff Bridges Can't Eat Ice Cream The Omen = Final Destination Zero Harlan Ellison Woulda Hated The Monkey Monkey Bangs "Symbols," Not Drums Scratching the Stephen King Itch A Lost Cusack THE GORGE Review RED ROOMS Review Why Is Dave Whispering?

  8. 10/04/2024

    58 - Alien: Romulus

    Dave and Tony Try to Record a Podcast in the Morning. Chaos* Ensues: The Last Gasp of Bachelor Art Dandelion = The Perfect Organism? ALIEN: ROMULUS Review Perfect Organisms Are Bland Actors Black Goo As Space Steroids To Tube Or Not To Tube HARBINGER DOWN Tubes Review How Many Times Can Dave Say "Tubes" The Jurassic Park Problem Tony Unironically Describes The Lost World Plot Two Mystery Mags Ode To Editing ALIENS Holds Up Solving That Weird "Arcturian" Line Bug Chasers In Space Amsterdam RESURRECTION Looks Like Shit Ranking All The Robots David Touching Everything Justice For Andy Robots Looking California But Feeling Minnesota The "Used Future" Revolution H.R. Giger + Ridley Scott + Walter Hill = Perfect Organism Weaponize The Dad Jokes! Tony's Bootleg Comic Idea "Don't Make My Ghost Work" Conspiracy Against The Human Egg Fairyland "Dead Inside" One-Armed Monkey *sleepy voices

    58 - Alien: Romulus
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Talking about movies that almost make the cut.

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    DJK & TMC
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    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    65
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