Odds and Ends: We have another good ol fashioned chat about AI, and we're still just as dumb about it as ever; there was a Nintendo Direct, and it was pretty dang nice Feature Film: In this Verhoeven double feature, we tackle some of his most well-known classics (though maybe not for the same reasons). We defend Elizabeth Berkley and ponder about Penny's From Heaven, and enjoy the wild camp and varying levels of satire in both flicks. T.J. also eventually reminisces about the Total Recall commen...
Jul 03, 2024•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 153
Odds and Ends: Are theaters actually dying? We provide thorough and very well-thought out opinions on it, and provide recent experiences on opposite ends of the spectrum. Nick's being a bad crowd during I Saw the TV Glow, and T.J.'s being a great crowd (meaning just him) for The Fall Guy. Feature Film: Josh returns yet again to talk about his first official normal guest rec, a lesser known Francis Coppola movie, One from the Heart. A sort-of musical that seems influential despite it's relative o...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 152
Odds and Ends: Josh Matthews from the Learning About Movies Youtube channel returns yet again and talks about a project he's working on about A24 movies and asks us if there's any good ones out there; Nick watched the original Godzilla on the big screen, and T.J. watched the equally important Kraa the Sea Monster Feature Film: We discuss the oddball (in many ways) romantic comedy Little Italy, which is purported to be one of the worst movies ever, or at least of its year, which we refute... to s...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 151
Odds and Ends: Happy birthday (again) to us! Only 3 years old, but that's pretty old in podcast years. We're probably old enough to vote by now, or at least watch PG-13 movies. Feature Films: Continuing our trilogy tradition for our anniversary episodes, we decided to revisit a trilogy from our childhoods, the original Spider-Man trilogy, directed by Sam Raimi. We somehow find a way to push past the memes (trust me, there's a lot) and talk about what these movies meant to us as kids, and what it...
May 22, 2024•3 hr 11 min•Ep. 150
Odds and Ends: T.J. did a road trip for a movie called The People's Joker, and it was pretty cool; Nick checked out the proto-Nice Guys Shane Black movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and it was pretty cool; we go back to some classic Google movie news, and it was pretty cool; I don't really know where I'm going with that repetition, but it's too much work to delete it now Feature Film: David Cronenberg visits again with his movie A History of Violence, and while it is lacking the body horror he's known ...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 149
Odds and Ends: Feature Film: Next week's movie: A History of Violence (2005) You can join the conversation every Wednesday at 7pm EST on Twitch and Youtube! Available in podcast form on all your favorite podcatchers! Twitch // twitch.tv/ThereWillBeDuds Socials: linktr.ee/ThereWillBeDuds YouTube // There Will Be Duds Twitter // @ThereWillBeDuds Facebook // There Will Be Duds Instagram // ThereWillBeDuds TikTok // @ThereWillBeDuds...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 148
Odds and Ends: Reflecting on the inaugural Dud Month; T.J. is pleasantly surprised by The First Omen; Nick also feels positively and maybe of a surprised nature about the Fallout show, while T.J. hopes it has the Blast from the Past vibes he was getting from the trailers Feature Film: To cap off our month of duds, we talk about the iconic Mac & Me, featuring everyone's favorite 80's extra-terrestrial, Mac! With Coke, Skittles, and McDonald's on your side, who needs to be afraid of the CIA? N...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 147
Odds and Ends: Nick gets triggered; T.J. raves about The Talented Mr. Ripley and, well, doesn't necessarily rave about the new Netflix adaptation; Nick catches up on some recent hits with Anatomy of a Fall and Dune Part 1 Feature Film: We cover the questionably duddly Would You Rather, a horror movie of the "game of death" subgenre which T.J. is a particular fan of. A mixed bag of sorts, a real iffer, one that makes you ponder which you would prefer. Stuff like that, I guess. Next week's movie: ...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 146
Odds and Ends: We did a Fortnight; T.J. watched the big lizard and large monkey fight movie; Nick started watched the proto-ITYSL Detroiters; we're both too afraid to finish The Curse Feature Film: We discuss the literal career-ending (justice for Martin Brest) train wreck that is Gigli, a movie that spent all it's money getting the expensive it-couple of the time Bennifer as their leads without bothering to check if they were, you know, good fits for the movie. Also features early-00s favorite ...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 145
Odds and Ends: The woke Youtube mob is cancelling us; Nick watched the The Boys spinoff show Gen V, and that's about it, we're in the middle of a movie contest, we didn't have time to watch stuff this week Feature Film: We watch the secret bonus Suicide Squad movie, made by mockbuster studio The Asylum. Though we have a lot (a LOT) of questions about a... lot of aspects of the movie, it still might not be as bad as the movie it's riffing on. Next week's movie: Gigli (2003) You can join the conve...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 144
Odds and Ends: Nick and guest Ethan discuss conspiracies about the royal family while T.J. just wants everyone to know that the food he cooked is fine, also Tom Pearl, naturally. Feature Film: We try to parse the enigmatic After Last Season, a very dry movie that may or may not have intent behind it. Either way, it's not good. Ethan wanted to come on the show for this movie in particular and, well, I wonder if he regrets it now. I think he does. You would too if you watched the movie. Next week'...
Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 143
Odds and Ends: T.J. did an oopsie and his audio is kinda crummy for most of this episode, please shame him in the comments; a eulogy for an old video of T.J.'s that was removed from Youtube; we recap the Oscars ceremony, which was actually, hey, not too bad Feature Film: Speaking of the Oscars, we talk about beloved best picture winner... oh, wait. Was it a great big fat mistake that year? Well, we talk about what probably most assuredly should've won that year, the devastating Brokeback Mountai...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 142
Odds and Ends: T.J. overanalyzes why he didn't fall in love with Dune Part 2, when maybe it's just because he didn't; Nick watched the "surprisingly vanilla" 50 Shades of Grey trilogy Feature Film: We cover a curious movie and all the insanity of the production behind it. From some bigheaded celebrities, to a studio with no faith in the director, to some crazy connections to it's source material. We also discuss the companion documentary "Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 141
Odds and Ends: Our friend Andy returns (kind of) and we talk about that lost episode we did with him a while ago; Nick talks about the worst theater viewing he's ever had; we bond over the shared experience of hiding podcasts and youtube videos we watch from our SOs Feature Film: Andy brings in another movie (or, for the first time... it's weird acting like he hasn't done this before)--- Andy brings in a movie for the very first time ever, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek. Despite it being a pretty...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 140
Odds and Ends: Nick Villaire from the local B-Movie Euphoria stops by for a very unorthodox episode, so unorthodox that I don't have anything else for this part of the description, because this episode is all Bad Pack, all the time. Feature Film: Speaking of The Bad Pack, we watched The Bad Pack! Or rather, we are watching it, because we watch it during the episode. T.J. tries assigning all the characters their Seven Samurai counterpart, and we all talk about the understated influence of Roberta...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 139
Odds and Ends: The pandemic was kinda tight, a little bit?; Saxon Sharbinathon; Nick watched the bizarre Lair of the White Worm, which spurs on T.J.'s nostalgia for the BBC Narnia movies; T.J. did a double feature of Alive and Society of the Snow, and thinks it'd be really cool to go hiking in the Andes Feature Film: Ben Wheatley's Kill List, a one part drama, one part thriller, one part horror flick. T.J. pitches a theory about how this connects to the TV show Utopia while Nick pretends to be i...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 138
Odds and Ends: Gooning with the Apple Goggles; Nick follows theme by talking about the recent romcom Anyone But You, while T.J.... doesn't by bringing in an old survival docudrama series called I Shouldn't Be Alive Feature Film: Literally just because this episode comes out on Valentine's Day, we talk about Garry Marshall's movie called Valentine's Day. A movie we surely would have despised more when it came out, but as we've gone soft in our old age, we think it's actually... fine. We have Love...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 137
Odds and Ends: Actor awareness with Lewis Saunderson; Going out on a limb here, but Terminator 2 is a pretty good action movie; T.J. begins working his way through the Oscar nominated movies, starting with Poor Things and The Zone of Interest Feature Film: Checking back in with Park Chan-wook, and he's up to his usual... stuff. The only English language movie as of yet from the director, Stoker is a mostly standard thriller type thing elevated by some good filmmaking. And some other stuff, I sup...
Feb 08, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 136
Odds and Ends: We talk Oscar nom predictions; Nick shines, while T.J. jacks in Feature Film: We cover the most hateful piece of poopoo we've probably ever seen, Vince Offer's Inappropriate Comedy. Or rather, hmh (I am smirking and laughing to myself), InAPPropriate Comedy! Because it's on a tablet, which has apps! Yeah, that's the kind of goofs you're getting when you step into the Slapchop realm, baby. Next week's movie: Stoker (2013) You can join the conversation every Wednesday at 7pm EST on ...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 138
Odds and Ends: T.J. is an adult and a man who knows what he likes, and what he likes is a watching a quiet Japanese man play Minecraft; Nick likes reality questioning sci-fi movies specifically from 1999; Feature Film: We check out another oldie, and our first John Huston and Humphrey Bogart flick, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Bogart plays an against type (as far as we know) villainous heel type, and John Huston's dad plays just a really cool dude. It's kind of a western, kind of an adventu...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 134
Odds and Ends: Nick watched two new fun sexy time movies, Saltburn and Poor Things, while T.J. watched a classic picture in a new manner. Feature Film: We revisit Thomas Vinterberg with his fun sexy time The Celebration, the first "Dogma 95" movie. It's about... well, you know, like, a celebration. And nothing else. It's just cool and fun and everyone has a great time. Next week's movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) You can join the conversation every Wednesday at 7pm EST on Twitch an...
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 133
Odds and Ends: Steamboat Willie is public domain and that's cool; we revisit Love Actually and Beau is Afraid; T.J.'s Otaku Corner makes a return because he watched some anime, and that's literally the only qualifier for that segment Feature Film: We check back in on our buddy David Lynch with his movie Blue Velvet, just to see if he's doing okay. Turns out he's fine and thinks this movie is just as funny as we do. Next week's movie: The Celebration (1998) You can join the conversation every Wed...
Jan 11, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 132
Odds and Ends: There's another new X-Files show and it sure is a show; we're still watching Christmas movies, this time we talk about the recent The Holdovers and the not-so-recent (20 years, woof) Love Actually Feature Film: We check out another flick by that Spielberg fella, the first of the Indiana Jones series, Raiders of the Lost Ark. T.J. goes in to some fan theories of let's say varying validty. Nick thinks that maybe the 80s was a pretty good time for movies, and we wonder if our favorit...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 131
Odds and Ends: We pick some movie-centered resolutions for the new year, because this is a movie podcast after all, in case you didn't know; our closing remarks on the holiday season and what our favorite things to do in life are (the answer will SHOCK you!!!) Feature Film: We talk about a somewhat cult classic that is most known for an about 8-second clip about trash time, Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2! We also sorta do a look into the entire series, because we both* watched all the movies i...
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 130
Odds and Ends: We welcome Christmas time with our coldest of opens; Nick dropped out of his Futurama binge for no particular reason; T.J. saw Napoleon and liked... well, y'know, the history is pretty cool; what traps would be in a Saw Christmas movie? Feature Film: We discuss one of the great Christmas classics with John McTiernan's Die Hard. Do people still argue about that? Because, well, they shouldn't. So there. Eat it, Harvey. Next week's movie: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) You ...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 129
Odds and Ends: Nick's got the Jeopardy bug, T.J. saw three great movies in theaters, and Trevor saw some hot garbage, which to him is also great Feature Film: Our guest Trevor is a certified CAM boy (Crazy About Madea), so to honor the holiday season, he brought in A Madea Christmas, and we have to remind ourselves that this is not a "dud" episode. Featuring the hilarious and creative antics of one Larry who is a Cable Man (and his overabundance of foreskin), it certainly is a movie that exists....
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 128
Odds and Ends: Macy Gray Thanksgiving Parade; Nick had a Hanksgiving double feature; T.J. watched an okay movie Feature Film: We check out the first movie (kind of, maybe, with certain parameters) by legendary director Stanley Kubrick, The Killing. A crime noir that is... well, it's a crime noir. Lead actor Sterling Hayden is a very interesting man and we go off on a few tangents here. Next week's movie: A Madea Christmas (2013) You can join the conversation every Wednesday at 7pm EST on Twitch ...
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 127
Odds and Ends: Inspired by our Michael Crichton feature this week, we discuss various fictional corporations and how great they are (at being bad); Vertical Limit and other fun dumb blockbuster kino, of which Gerry B is our last bastion Feature Film: Luke Ferris from the Least Important Things podcast stops by to talk about one of his best bads, Richard Donner's Timeline. A star-studded time-travelling romp that just doesn't give a shit about the hows or the whys, what is by no means a "good" mo...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 126
Odds and Ends: There's a Zelda movie in the works, and we are cautiously pessimistic about it; T.J. watched the Terrifier movies, and Nick watched something equally as scary - a King of the Hill Halloween episode Feature Film: We discuss the movie that's only ever been known as a Thanksgiving harvest time classic and not associated with any other holiday, The Nightmare Before Christmas! A bite-sized feature that packs a lot of story and character and charm, with some pretty neat stop-motion anim...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 125
Odds and Ends: They/Them Follow starring Ethan Bacon; Great British Baking Show is back and we're here for it; we watched Five Nights at Freddy's and it wasn't as bad as we expected Feature Film: Edward Yang's final film, Yi Yi, is a lengthy family drama with plenty of yearning sadbois. A very cozy feeling movie, something you could put on with chill lofi beats to study to. Or maybe drink some depth charges to. Next week's movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) You can join the conversatio...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 124
