Cinema Bushido (@Cinemabushido) hurl this frozen disc of cow poo Paul-ward and the Pauls leapt like dogs to catch it in their teeth. Having dodged the remakes and the Giglis and and the Shyamalans of this recommendations month, have they finally met their match in the universally-hated 0% sensation that is Highlander II: The Quickening? Well, don't just stand there: grab hold of the poo-disc and climb in! side a Paul. Featuring: fun the way Michael Ironside likes it, a cult in the making, consta...
Sep 04, 2017•56 min
Thanks goes to Beyond The Box Set (@Beyondtheboxset) podcast this week for recommending the critic-proof Lady In The Water. Luckily at least one of us is totally underqualified for the job. We might have been asked to find one good thing about this piece of work but we'll go one better. We'll probably have two. Unless a dreaded case of the scrunts sets in. Featuring: NARF, the wims, the wams, the bums, the oobly-boos, a hack, an arse, a Jesus and a very real threat to both chastity and national ...
Aug 28, 2017•50 min
We hark the return of Avoid Being Hated (@avoidbeinghated) who grace us with something really special. That's right: they done recommended us another movie! Looks like they lost their copy of Home Alone 3 though. So... let's get into Gigli before it starts sucking in planets. Good things! Featuring: man's desperate quest for nuggets, lickin' midriffs, penis vs vagina: ultimate showdown, Detective Christopher Walken, one flexed waddle and the very model of a many many monologue. Int'rested?
Aug 21, 2017•50 min
It's surf season here at OGT apparently - only instead of a poor approximation of a sad Keanu Reeves we have three hot young Australian boys muscling their way onto our podcast to talk the one good thing about Surf Ninjas in a discussion that was originally forty minutes longer than the film's runtime. Classic Straya. Welcome Sean, Phil and James of Baby Beard! Featuring: Schindler’s Ninjas, the hottest boys, a classic switcheroo, Rob Schneider joke, the stair master, the Nielsen secret and one ...
Aug 14, 2017•1 hr
Cowabunga all you radical dudes: this week the Pauls get academic in their quest for enlightenment! At the recommendation of Paul's girlfriend Nell they give the Point Break reimagining a go and invite you along for the riiiiiide. But stop smiling and saying surf words – it's not about having fun. It's more serious than ever. And the Pauls couldn't be more thrilled. Let's find a good thing! Featuring: holidays by Ray, the Delroy window to my soul, some good odds, some rad waves, some bitchin' th...
Aug 07, 2017•49 min
This week the Pauls dust off their defending cowls and leap fist-first down the throat of Zak Snyder's rather memorable Watchmen! They've read the book and they remember there was a lot of it – lots of blood, lots of superpower and even more lots of incongruously apt tunes that made this comic a real made-for-cinema thriller/comedy/romance. Probably. It was probably that. Anyway, the Pauls liked the movie adaptation of it once upon a time – how do they feel eight years on? Featuring: Dadbody, Su...
Jul 31, 2017•1 hr
This week the Pauls hold hands in a well-lit room and face the horror of another in a long line of worst films of all time and – well, you know the rest. Prepare for disappointment. Featuring: a pair of regular Rory Bremners, some right t’orphans, handsome Jeremy Corbyn, the hierarchy of Rob and seven seconds of whatever you want, baby.
Jul 24, 2017•49 min
JAACAAAAAAAAB! Get those earphones in and get yourselves medieval – except for the earphones – because this week the Pauls lurch out of their opium hazes just long enough to lead an unlikely burden across an unbearable distance. That's right, we're in all kinds of east with Nick Powell's Chinese movie Outcast! Featuring: shifting the Damon, the various ages of Boyden Manstensen, Benedict Wong?, a show of real British unity and meeting your boss's eye after your sexy video.
Jul 17, 2017•50 min
The Pauls aren't gonna kill you – they're just gonna bash your brains in. They're gonna bash them right the f– oh, hang on... *checks* SHIT! Turns out by all of that they mean they're going to put their own souls through the mangle of misery, going above and beyond the call of duty once again as they witness not only Suicide Squad, but the extended cut of the aforementioned trash fire. Maybe it'll be like Bats v Supes all over again and we'll get something like cohesion with an inexplicably long...
Jul 10, 2017•50 min
Another week, another head in a jar! In this mini episode the Paul's tackle another Gore House Great, this time a sci-fi head upsetter, Brain Twisters. Featuring: The Pauls not noticing the phrase "bell end", degree shaming, confusingly similar high school girls, German shaming, some great police work, William Fichtner shaming, and some Paul on Paul combat over acting prowess. Not Featuring: Bob Hoskins, Chloe Sevigny, Molly Ringwold, Rosario Dawson, Ben Barnes, Sherman from American Pie, Detect...
Jul 03, 2017•33 min
Whilst one Paul is away, the other will play! ...with show formats. It's a mini episode! The Pauls take a quick look at Madmen of Mandoras! A crazy movie from the swinging sixties with all those sixties hallmarks: big suits, awkwardly hidden bodies and Nazis! Also featuring: Hitler's head in a jar (let's face it, that's why you clicked on this), a huge number of protagonists, a diminutive number of Nazis, some literally shady Hispanic types, clever tricks you can do with a match box (including a...
Jun 26, 2017•28 min
Oh no! The Pauls have run out of bad movies! Not to worry, Hollywood will have a fresh batch ready in a few weeks, like a nice warm tray of cookies filled with live bees. Meanwhile, the Pauls decide to devote some time to movies they actually like! Specifically the ones they feel have flown under the radar and could do with the popularity boost that a mention on our podcast will inevitably bring them. So come listen! You might find some new treats! Featuring more movies than you could reasonably...
Jun 19, 2017•59 min
Thanks to the truly outrageous You Know What I Like? podcast (@YKWILpodcast) for recommending this one and truly outrageousing our perceptions with this confusing and unsettlingly capable movie that everyone hated. Yes, it's the last week of recommendations month and two very sleepy Pauls are looking for the one good thing about Jem and the Holograms! Featuring: joy, pleasure, sophistication, delight, heartbreak, relish and glee – and that's just from the election. Ba-zing.
Jun 12, 2017•50 min
This week's recommendation comes from @VideoNegative podcast – who eschewed the mean-spirited and plain nasty rubbish film for the kind that tries hard but is nevertheless the equivalent of the dog with one leg shorter than the rest, hobbling urgently away from its own mess. Well played, we say, Video Negative. Well played. Featuring: a story maze, the wrong workmate, an original idea, signer's regret, a grabby Bond and an evil Emma Peel we may or may not have explained.
Jun 05, 2017•49 min
Well, thanks to the boys @BrodysKitchen podcast, recommendations month can continue! I knelt down in front of Chief Brody and Paul lay prostrate before Bad Hat Harry, and each of us held out our hands while they shovelled rich, steaming piles of Bucky Larson into our palms. Please sirs can we have some more! "Yes," they said. "Always." Featuring: sex labels, all kinds of shaming, grape of destiny, an ASMR breakthrough, how to make friends and influence critics and other unpopular theories accord...
May 29, 2017•50 min
Well! This week the @blokebusters podcast recommend us a doozy and the Pauls get OUTRAGEOUS with Adam Sandler's Netflix release The Ridiculous Six: CRINGE as they get offended as hell at all the crass, gross Sandler jokes; WINCE as they etc. etc. Turns out that it's exactly what they expected, with absolutely no surprises. Paul and I hate surprises, except at Christmas, and this ain't Christmas. The one good thing about The Ridiculous Six! Featuring: Batman? Sensuality? Comedy? Actors? and... Va...
May 22, 2017•46 min
So it's like this: Paul drew a picture of me on the back of his hand and just WOULDN'T show me, even though I gave him cake after cake (having just finished my weekly cake shop), even pushing several of the cakes into his various holes. Well, listeners, it was more than I could take! One thing lead to another, I cursed his hand and ever since then he's – well, if I have to be blunt – begun to age horribly. His teeth are poking through his lips and he's bleeding everywhere and really smells of we...
May 15, 2017•49 min
Well, we're patting ourselves on the back – but not too hard – for reaching the milestone that is twenty episodes and another in which one of us (this time it's Paul) defends a movie that everyone else thinks is the worst! Hooray! Featuring: bad rainbow, Thailand with the boys, politics section, the ballad of Jean-Claude, the importance of being faithful and not one goddamn street, Steven. Not one goddamn street.
May 08, 2017•50 min
This week the Pauls complete the Face/Off double-whammy and pay a visit to the world of John Travolta's heart - it's a scary place, full of well-realised passion projects and characters we can all root for. The twist: John Travolta's heart isn't the entire world, so unfortunately after that we had to watch Battlefield Earth and talk about what that one good thing might be. Piece of cake...? Featuring: your friendly bartender, a no-secrets scheme, J.D. Shapiro writer of Men in Tights, some tight ...
May 01, 2017•46 min
This week the Pauls are immediately given their shot at the big time without any prior legwork because their podcast souls are more beautiful than thirty-six Mariah Carey faces. Unfortunately, their art is centred around irony and impressions, and anyway people are only interested because of their sweet sweet podcasting asses. Oh well: what’s the one good thing about Glitter? Featuring: Boston Sarsgaard, feminism!, a rising star, the malest gaze and one bleak corporate future.
Apr 24, 2017•46 min
This week the Pauls realise they're the last in a long line of vampire slayers but are ultimately disappointed when this amounts to nothing more than being disgusted by penises and living in a state of constant gay panic. Also, women are super evil and we had no idea. Don't believe us? You obviously haven't seen Lesbian Vampire Killers. So what's the one good thing? Featuring: misogyny! how to be a man, a concept album we can all enjoy, the importance of delivery and god really just a lot of gay...
Apr 17, 2017•48 min
Paul is sick and other Paul is exhausted: what better time to kick off a mega-review of the last unforgettable year? Thousands. Literally thousands of better times. But never mind about any of that because it’s time to get positive. They just do make movies like this anymore! Featuring: top tens, the highest-grossers, the two Pauls’ personal highlights delivered via tried-and-tested quickfire, and a lot lot more.
Apr 10, 2017•1 hr 21 min
This week the Pauls sell their soul for the chance to return to 2007 so they can see Ghost Rider for the first time – then spend the next ten years not thinking about it until they have a stupid idea to start a podcast where they look for the good things in three hundred separate Nicolas Cage movies. Wizard! Featuring: Nicolas Cage, talking about Nicolas Cage, trying very hard not to talk about Nicolas Cage, some unrelated impressions and a decade-long cocaine dependency.
Apr 03, 2017•47 min
This week Liz and Toni over at @avoidbeinghated invited us into their minds for a comedy chat, and when we got there not only were the ladies nowhere to be found but the entire place had been rigged – with hijinks! That’s right: it’s still recommendations month and this week we were dared to find the one good thing about Home Alone 3 before an entire world of pain crashed unconvincingly down about our heads. Featuring: dry bandits, wrong Roger Ebert, getting good and owled, boink! Paul remembers...
Mar 27, 2017•44 min
The Pauls take a break from recommendations month to be brought kicking and screaming into this seasonal film with more characters than War and Peace and none of the content. This one's for the mums! Featuring: Friends Mom, Blonde Mom, Gay Mom, Bar Mom, New Mom, Indian Mom, the Three Million Dollar Mom, Mom Mom, Dad Mom, John Lovmom and a salt and pepper Dad from that good Mom show, Deadmom.
Mar 20, 2017•44 min
Apologies for the first five minutes of audio – a craaazy kangaroo showed up and did a rap and then our airwaves got all tangled, so we almost didn’t spot that quasi-stoner comedy lurking in the background. Never fear: it’s still recommendations month and this week we were challenged by Varmints! podcast (@varmintspodcast, blazingcariboustudios.com/varmints) to find the one good thing about Kangaroo Jack, which is a film about a kangaroo apparently. Featuring: Kangaroo Facts®, Manthony Anderson,...
Mar 13, 2017•47 min
It's recommendations month here at OGT towers and the lovely David Keep of webcomic whatkindofday.com (and our super-rad artwork) threw Spanglish in our big stupid faces! Starring Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni, it promises to be a thrillride of neurotic whingeing and murky morals - basically Woody Allen without the jokes. Thanks Dave! Featuring: Harry Dean Stanton gettin' some, Momma knows nothing, ghost son, Mexicans! typical marital sex scenes and one utterly unholy coupling.
Mar 06, 2017•46 min
Paul really licks at the bone on this one: he thinks Freddy Got Fingered is pretty great and wonders why it was hated by basically everyone else. That's right, every tenth episode at One Good Thing a Paul defends a film that most would think of as pretty flipping rubbish – but they happen to love more than their own children. Featuring: Gaspar Noe, Thomas Vinterberg, Park Chan-Wook, Roger Ebert, Alan Moore and just a couple of sexy boys jerking it with animals - for fun!
Feb 27, 2017•47 min
This week the Pauls take a trip on my neighbour Turturro's catbus of acting gravitas as it plunges them headfirst into Bayhem, a storm of sleaze, sweat and bewbs jiggling over soft fade ins of men in army fatigues having good old arm wrestles and being MEN, who are great. That's right, kids: we're trying to find the one good thing about a Michael Bay film! Hooray! Featuring: What Drug Is My Mom On? an unlikely sequel, a moment of real cinema, a brief moral and the greatest joke of all time.
Feb 20, 2017•47 min
This week the Pauls move house so haven’t quite set up their ultimate recording situation – sorry – but make up for it by getting real angry trying to find the one good thing about Paul Blart Mall Blart 2 Blart, so there is a bit more swearing than normal. Kind of like listening to a podcast by two deaf old men arguing about a place they’ve never been but have just seen a scary-looking youth reading about it in a magazine, through a window, from a moving train. It's a Valentine's Day treat! Feat...
Feb 13, 2017•49 min
