Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about an AI slop advertising campaign he's been subjected to; we almost talk about Sinners and we almost talk about Common Side Effects, but instead we just talk about the newest season of Black Mirror. Feature Film: We check in with David Byrne and Talking Heads again with their narrative feature, True Stories (some of wh…

Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about [REDACTED], which has been his Roman empire as of late; we coincidentally have both been watching some spy movies, probably inspired by this week's feature film. Yeah, definitely. Feature Film: We cap off another dud month with a dip back into the Breeniverse! Just as mind-boggling as the previous Breen screener we c…

Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about his A Minecraft Movie experiences, and a potentially very... unfortunate cleanup job he had to do; we go over the most recent season of The White Lotus Feature Film: We make an attempt to parse the (literally) unintelligible Axe 'Em, which despite only being able to understand like 5% of what was going on, we manage …

Odds and Ends: In lieu of watching other movies, T.J. yells at clouds; since we're true gamerz, we talk about the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, even though we mostly talk about the Gamecube games Feature Film: We continue our dud month (which is also an accidental SNL month) with Adam Sandler's first movie, Going Overboard, even if he doesn't really wa…

Odds and Ends: We had a hard time coming up with an opening convo, so T.J. resorts to a classic starter; we both watched Mickey 17, the newest from director Bong; T.J. also watched Adolescence, like everyone else by this point. Feature Film: An insufferable comedy anthology movie with a very similar frame narrative to a different insufferable comed…

Odds and Ends: We talk about Harmony Korine's new experiment in griefing via film; T.J. saw the newest Paddington movie, and a new adaptation (sort of) of Breaking Bad Feature Film: We kick off another Dud month with the infamous Norbit, featuring some of the most irritating characters ever put to the screen. Even though T.J. has some weird affinit…

Odds and Ends: Our Oscars recap; we saw a gimmick movie; Nick questions T.J.'s Letterboxd top 4 Feature Film: We talk about our sorta St. Patrick's Day movie, Waking Ned Devine, another movie that feels like a fantasy world that in actuality is just a quaint UK town. It's a nice enough movie and all, but T.J. just wants to talk about the political …

Odds and Ends: A documentary about Prince gets shut down for trying to be interesting; Nick watched the new movie Companion, and T.J. watched the slightly-less new show Scavengers Reign Feature Film: We check out another movie by Marty and local guy Paul, about the guy from Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. There's a lot of dumb controversies around thi…

Odds and Ends: There's a LOT of Oscar drama happening, and probably even more since we recorded this; T.J. saw the epicly badass and so cool Flight Risk, while Nick finally checked out Hundreds of Beavers Feature Film: We watch another movie from the time where they thought it was a good idea to make children's movies as ugly as possible. The Cat i…

Odds and Ends: We are super jazzed about the present day, yessiree; We recap some of our 2024 first watches highs and lows Feature Film: Tarsem Singh's epic The Fall, shot over 4 years in 28 different countries, is one of those "you gotta see it to believe it" type movies. So hopefully you watched it, because this is a podcast! Wocka wocka! Unless …

Odds and Ends: We share our thoughts on the Golden Globes and what they mean for the rest of awards season, as well as touch on a particular fun... thing about the director of one of the big winners. We also both saw the new Nosferatu, so we talk about that. That's kind of the thing with this show, if you didn't know by now. Feature Film: The UK cu…

Odds and Ends: T.J. presents a pretty grim conspiracy theory; we finally watch some Christmas (adjacent) movies, just in time for, well, January Feature Film: We check in with Paul Schrader again to see how he's doing. He's doing fine, thanks. He just always makes movies about these lonely and despondent guys, so I'm a little concerned. He says he'…

Odds and Ends: Why not honor the end of the year by having another discussion about AI and physical media preservation? We also talk about Hot Frosty, and other not-actually-that-bad Hallmark-esque Christmas movies. There's not a lot. Feature Film: We try to discern the baffling Christmas TV special that is clearly vying for holiday classic status,…

Odds and Ends: January might not be a dump month next year? Nick read a new book by one of his favorite authors and has something to say about it; We watched a bunch of new movies! Look at us! Feature Film: We return to India (or more specifically, Japan) yet again to watch another Takashi Miike movie. This time, the very unique Happiness of the Ka…

Odds and Ends: We try to prepare for a very special music festival coming to our hometown; Nick finally played Metroid Dread, which means T.J. can blather on about inane bullshit for 30 minutes. So what's new?Feature Film: The rom-com classic (and potential Fall vibes classic?) When Harry Met Sally (with three dots at the end), a charming lil thing…

Odds and Ends: While this episode is after Halloween, us recording it weren't, so we're still talking about horror movies. Namely the very recent Trap, the opposite of very recent Nostferatu, and T.J. talks about some of the VHS movies. Feature Film: We talk about a forgotten Fincher, The Game. Well, I wouldn't say it's "forgotten," really, but com…

Odds and Ends: The Uzumaki show is all wrapped up, as is another spooky season. Also, T.J.'s computer took a dump so there's no video for almost all of this (except movie clips). Feature Film: Nick recommended a double dud to close out our horror month, the first and last movies in the Sleepaway Camp series! Both classics in... a certain way, one o…

Odds and Ends: We talk about the big sack boys, I mean the Detroit Lions, and how they've got such great sacks; Nick watched and older spooky flick, and T.J. watched a bunch of new ones Feature Film: Once again we chat about a Japanese horror, though the horror in this one is almost just in name only. From a trio of anime legends, we get... a live-…

Odds and Ends: It's been a couple weeks, so it's time for another conversation about AI, but we also talk about the dead internet theory (and dead Steak and Shakes); Nick revisits a favorite from his youth; T.J. is otaku'd-up and talks about two more Japanese movies Feature Film: Nick's horror recommendation is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure,a sort of hor…

Odds and Ends: Nick unknowingly invokes a curse that we try to use for good, but might backfire accidentally; Even though we're still putting off our Uzumaki talk, we still do a little Junji Ito dive; Nick watched a Tim Burton movie that's not Beetlejuice, and T.J. thinks you should give the alternate version of Alien 3 a try (no, really) Feature F…

Odds and Ends: Spooky season is upon us , which means that Brat summer is over, but not for T.J.; Our cats have some valuable input Feature Film: Our horrorspondent Chris returns for yet another double feature with two more movies in the found footage and analog horror realms, the cult classic Lake Mungo and the recent hit Late Night with the Devil…

Odds and Ends: T.J. needs to eat sometimes, so he mukbangs (does a mukbang? is mukbanging?) during this episode, sorry about that; the Beetlejuice sequel is pretty good, and gave T.J. an idea for a better usage of deepfake AI tech in movies Feature Film: We discuss the oddity of Leonard Part 6, a Bill Cosby movie that has been reviled long before, …

Odds and Ends: Luke from the Least Important Things podcast returns; We discuss the recent few entries in the Alien franchise Feature Film: Luke recommended another Crichton Classic/Crap (take your pick) with the Antonio Banderas-led The 13th Warrior. It is definitely one of those things that is a movie, that is for sure. At least if the movie isn'…

Odds and Ends: T.J.'s back from another Gen Con with another screening of one of our short films; David Lynch is sick, and also sick; We like HBO shows so much that we'll start calling it Max if they ask really nicely Feature Film: We discuss a Kiwi comedy classic, What We Do in the Shadows, by a couple of the guys who worked on Flight of the Conch…

Odds and Ends: We answer a viewer question (that viewer is me) about what movie titles bother us; also, our beloved sidepod The Boys Will Be The Boys is back in town... which really just means we talked about the newest season of The Boys Feature Film: We talk about a couple classics of the silent era from one of the giants, Sherlock Jr. and The Ge…

Odds and Ends: Twisters saves movies, and T.J. thinks it's just a nice movie; Nick saw Longlegs, which is less nice; T.J. also gives a shoutout to The Watchers, which has all the Shyamalan trademarks, for better and for worse Feature Film: We're talking about the IFD oddity Space Thunder Kids, a hodgepodge anime thing that's actually eight other an…

Odds and Ends: Robert Towne's Oscar-nominated dog; we're old and it's been a few minutes, so we talk about how cool things were before current year; we also finished some cool games and Josh asks for some of our best video game recommendations Feature Film: We discuss the original adaptation of the literary classic, Lord of the Flies. It's our favo…

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 P…

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…

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 oddbal…

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 …

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 …

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 Face…

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,…

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 …

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-co…

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 abo…

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 …

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.…

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, t…

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 ac…

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 d…

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…

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…

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 lan…

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…

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 …

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 every…

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. …

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. goe…