The most crucial moment in Blue Moon arrives in the very first scene, when the protagonist, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), dies.
Blue Moon (2025)
The most crucial moment in Blue Moon arrives in the very first scene, when the protagonist, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), dies.
I write this in the middle of a motivational and creative drought.
We’ve entered the navel-gazing portion of the calendar.
To celebrate Brian’s birthday, he and Dan invite Brian’s brother Andrew to join the podcast and discuss the 2001 animated film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Dan and Brian count down their top 10 movie endings, with the proviso that 5 of them must be movies they’ve discussed on The Goods and 5 of them must be movies they have not discussed previously.
Dan and Brian discuss The Usual Suspects, that famous purveyor of narrative misdirection.
Dan and Brian are joined by Stephanie Bendoraitis to discuss the delightful fantasy comedy The Princess Bride.
The world needs weepies.
It’s not often you can honestly describe a film as both “exploitative” and “restrained,” but The Perfect Neighbor lives in an unsettling overlap — and gets a lot of its magnetic power from the fact that it pushes past tasteful boundaries in some areas pulls back in others.
Every time a Scandinavian director gets praised for making a film “reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman,” I brace myself for two hours of immaculate misery and a big, chilly lesson about how people are flawed and feelings are difficult.