Dan and Brian are joined by Stephanie Bendoraitis to discuss the delightful fantasy comedy The Princess Bride.
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Hamnet (2025)
The world needs weepies.
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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.
Dan and Brian kick off 2026 discussing a little-seen, time-hopping, breakup musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick.
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Wicked: For Good (2025)
In 2006, Pitchfork published a review of the album Shine On by Jet with a 0.0 score.
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Wicked (2024)
Imagine me trying, through sheer force of will like Tim Robinson in I Think You Should Leave, to push this into “Good” territory.
Here is my OFCS Awards nominations ballot for 2025.
The Goods send off 2025 with an epic and somewhat discursive look at the history of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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Too Old to Die Young (2019)
“The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
–W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” 1919