- on Podcast Episode: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and Christmas Carol roulette – I’m thinking of beginning things:
An even more belated happy holidays to you, ED! I hope you are well! Ha, I haven’t even heard of…
Jan 1, 21:53
- on Podcast Episode: Dear Christmas (2020) ft. Brennan Klein – A cookie-cutter Christmas:
A very happy new year to you – may AD 2026 deliver THE GOODS just as well as your own…
Jan 1, 08:13
- on Podcast Episode: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and Christmas Carol roulette – I’m thinking of beginning things:
A belated Merry Christmas to you and all the Joy of the Season – especially the Joy of no longer…
Dec 26, 12:32
- on The Train (1964):
The usage of b&w sets this offering above many others. Having spent five plus year in France military and transportation…
Dec 20, 13:08
- on After the Hunt (2025):
First of all, this is a fantastic piece of film criticism. I admire how much you grapple with the movie.…
Dec 12, 10:02
- on Rushmore (1998):
Sorry this one didn’t jibe with you (the movie or the review), but thanks for stopping by!
Dec 10, 20:51
- on Good Boy (2025):
I’d argue, but I’m pretty sure the cat in Caught Stealing and the Pet Sematary remake must be on barbituates.…
Dec 9, 19:20
- on Good Boy (2025):
Well you’d have small children about the house, so you have all the fun and many of the frustrations involved…
Dec 8, 08:02
- on Good Boy (2025):
Sir, I am not what you call a Dog Person (I remained mortally afraid for them for many years and…
Dec 8, 07:59
- on Good Boy (2025):
Getting an obedient dog to act is one thing, but I can’t even imagine it for a cat. We’ll have…
Dec 7, 17:46
- on Good Boy (2025):
Dogs probably dream; there’s been a study on pigeon sleep that’s suggestive that they dream, which given mammals’ evolutionary distance…
Dec 7, 13:46
- on Eddington (2025):
In a vacuum, I intellectually appreciate your position. And yet everything about Eddington just puts me off it. Maybe if…
Dec 2, 15:44
- on Eddington (2025):
Not to make you think about this more since you’ve already hit publish, but I think I started basically where…
Nov 29, 16:58
- on Frankenstein (2025):
Ahem. “… just listen to Mr Patrick Doyle’s score for FRANKENSTEIN (Kenneth Branagh) and you’ll hear exactly the towering passions…
Nov 24, 15:53
- on Frankenstein (2025):
If this film did nothing else, it gave me a mental image of Ms Mia Goth delivering the immortal line…
Nov 24, 15:51
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
I’ve never seen Frasier 😅. Always assumed I’d like it. Good to read another endorsement.
Nov 23, 16:30
- on Frankenstein (2025):
Meanwhile The Phoenician Scheme, which I loved, is probably on track to get none. I’ve only seen 2 of the…
Nov 23, 16:29
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
I’m not totally sure how I missed this one, given that I like a lot of the other shows from…
Nov 22, 01:52
- on Frankenstein (2025):
Yep. Thinking on it, the music might be the most perplexingly bad part; maybe Desplat didn’t want to be inconsistent.…
Nov 21, 12:08
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
Always glad to encounter a fellow Human Being, though as you note there are many of us. I have a…
Nov 18, 11:57
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
Probably my favorite sitcom, which I feel ill at-ease with because it’s everybody’s favorite sitcom (that’s obviously not really true,…
Nov 18, 02:15
- on Him (2025):
“Maybe movies that make my heart glow even when I feel intellectually dishonest recommending them are actually good movies.” Unironically…
Nov 17, 01:01
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
I get that. It’s interesting to get the perspective of someone who was immersed in the context of U.S. sitcoms…
Nov 16, 13:29
- on Once (2007):
Great recommendation by you. I’ll def be checking out at least Sing Street. Yeah Katy’s feedback as we watched was…
Nov 16, 08:52
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
Maybe! I’m glad to know I’d have someone following along. I’ve always wanted to write more about the show, and…
Nov 16, 08:36
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
Ooh, are you doing a series on Community, Dan? That’s a big undertaking, and I’m here for it! (Love this…
Nov 16, 04:06
- on Once (2007):
Would’ve been surprised if you didn’t like this at all, but I’m still pleased to see such a high rating.…
Nov 16, 00:29
- on Gaslight (1944):
It’s definitely a special one — glad to hear it’s a favorite masterpiece of yours. Ingrid is really something. I’m…
Nov 14, 15:41
- on Gaslight (1944):
“Hayyyss Code…someone still loves youuuu” that’s my Queen redux. This was a massive hit in my house growing up and…
Nov 12, 21:01
- on The Muppet Movie (1979):
I suspect that good musicals tend to, because they’re inherently detached from reality in a way that allows one to…
Nov 11, 10:22
- on Disturbing Behavior (1998):
It’s a pure ham sandwich of the sort one seldom sees – good ham, good bread, some extra sauce and…
Nov 11, 10:20
- on Varsity Blues (1999):
One must admit that all I have of TWO BLONDES AND A KNOCKOUT is the title, as well as a…
Nov 11, 10:18
- on The Muppet Movie (1979):
I somehow never saw it all the way through until I showed it to my kids this week! Really holds…
Nov 11, 08:47
- on Varsity Blues (1999):
The makeup team dyed Smart’s hear brown to make her more distinct from Larter and make her more of a…
Nov 11, 08:46
- on Disturbing Behavior (1998):
The screenplay is definitely solid, though slightly butchered by edits. I’m a big fan of the clique-introduction monologue by Stahl…
Nov 11, 08:44
- on Disturbing Behavior (1998):
Haven’t seen this, but Scott Rosenberg is my guy. He also wrote both Con Air and Beautiful Girls, which by…
Nov 11, 02:56
- on Varsity Blues (1999):
You had me at ‘Amy Smart’, but then you followed with ‘Ali Larter’ and her bold statement in post-match couture…
Nov 10, 14:25
- on The Muppet Movie (1979):
This is what happens when you won’t let a man blow up some Illinois Nazis (Literally or metaphorically): why should…
Nov 10, 14:17
- on Disturbing Behavior (1998):
Also, amusingly enough there’s another Batman connection due to the presence of Ms Katie Holmes, but possibly not even the…
Nov 10, 14:13
- on Disturbing Behavior (1998):
Is there ever such a thing as too much Jason Marsden? I’m reasonably sure the man could just about hold…
Nov 10, 14:11
- on The Muppet Movie (1979):
Lovely film, ain’t it? I will cosign on Brooks. His bit is kind of actually bad.
Nov 10, 02:12
- on Disturbing Behavior (1998):
I can never predict which actor you’re going to praise in the comments, ED! But I didn’t actually know Greenwood…
Nov 8, 09:23
- on Disturbing Behavior (1998):
Not going to lie, my initial response to this review was “They look so YOUNG” (Except possibly the albino). On…
Nov 7, 07:37
- on Over the Garden Wall – My Journey:
Thanks for putting this together! Awesome to witness the evolution
Nov 4, 09:54
- on Over the Garden Wall (2014):
Thanks Mitch. Based on our conversations on The Goods Discord as well as your own podcast, I decided to gather…
Nov 4, 09:18
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Happy New Year, ED! 2026 gotta be a good one. We’re overdue as a human race, right? (Honestly, both 2024…
Jan 1, 21:56