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Blue Moon (2025)

The most crucial moment in Blue Moon arrives in the very first scene, when the protagonist, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), dies.

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Goals for 2026

I write this in the middle of a motivational and creative drought.

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Site Update

Looking Back: Goals for 2025

We’ve entered the navel-gazing portion of the calendar.

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Podcast Episode

Podcast Episode: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) (ft. Andrew) – Facilitate the Nooch

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.

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Podcast Episode: Top 10 Movie Endings

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.

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Podcast Episode: The Usual Suspects (1995) – Brains on the wall

Dan and Brian discuss The Usual Suspects, that famous purveyor of narrative misdirection.

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Podcast Episode: The Princess Bride (1987) (ft. Stephanie Bendoraitis) – Nostalgia on fire

Dan and Brian are joined by Stephanie Bendoraitis to discuss the delightful fantasy comedy The Princess Bride.

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Review

Hamnet (2025)

The world needs weepies.

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Review

The Perfect Neighbor (2025)

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.

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Sentimental Value (2025)

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.