Since I responded very powerfully to Emma (2020) a few years ago, I’ve gradually become a Jane Austen appreciator.
Categories
Persuasion (2007)
Categories
Blue Moon (2025)
The most crucial moment in Blue Moon arrives in the very first scene, when the protagonist, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), dies.
Categories
Goals for 2026
I write this in the middle of a motivational and creative drought.
Categories
Looking Back: Goals for 2025
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.
Categories
Hamnet (2025)
The world needs weepies.
Categories
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.