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The Good, The Bad, and The What!?

A weekly film podcast hosted by Ryan Oliver and Chris Thomas, dedicated to discussing the "good," "bad," and "what!?" films of a given subgenre, theme, motif, or filmography.

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03:21:55

GBW #182: Possessions and Premonitions (The...

The Good, The Bad, and The What!? ·

2025/05/09

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Jordan, Chris, and Ryan discuss three possession films that were all recently put out by Vinegar Syndrome and arrived in our monthly subscriber packages with 1972's "The Possession of Joel Delaney,"

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02:59:45

GBW #181: Shore Leave (The Fog / Humanoids from the...

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2025/05/01

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Chris, Jordan, and Ryan discuss three films that feature terrors from the sea encroaching the shore with John Carpenter's "The Fog" (1980), the infamous "Humanoids from the Deep" (1980), and the

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03:18:51

GBW #180: Game Over (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider / Hitman...

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2025/04/25

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Jordan is absent, but Ryan and Chris dive into three video game adaptations from the 2000's; an era where we didn't have films respecting their source material as we do currently with "The Last of Us,"

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03:35:40

GBW #179: Piety Pressure (Red State / The Sacrament /...

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2025/04/18

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, going into the Easter weekend, Jordan, Ryan, and Chris discuss three films about dangerous religious cults with Kevin Smith's 2011 genre detour "Red State," Ti West's found footage flick "The Sacrament" from 2013, and Garth Evans' "Apostle" from 2018. You

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02:41:36

GBW #178: Beyond the Veil (Enter the Void / A Ghost...

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2025/04/11

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Ryan is out on a work trip, but Jordan and Chris discuss three ghost stories from the POV of the ghost with Gaspar Noé's infamous 2009 film "Enter the Void," David Lowery's lyrical "A Ghost

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03:41:51

GBW #177: An Angel Gets His Wings (Vice Squad / The...

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2025/04/03

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Ryan, Chris, and Jordan pay their respects to the late, great character actor Wings Hauser, a GBW podcast favorite who sadly passed away this last month at age 77. We discuss three of his most memorable horror (or horror-adjacent) villain roles in 1982's

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03:20:35

GBW #176: "I Hate These Guys" (The Keep / Dead Snow /...

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2025/03/28

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Jordan returns with his set of picks, which are all World War II-set films (well, except for one, but close enough) in which we see the Third Reich get annihilated in satisfying ways with director Michael Mann's

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02:30:55

GBW #175: Aurora Gorealis (Planet of the Vampires /...

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2025/03/21

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, it's just Chris and Ryan again, this time discussing three films about space vampires with "Planet of the Vampires" (1965), "The Incredible Melting Man" (1977), and "Lifeforce" (1985)You

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02:30:08

GBW #174: Mystic Martial Arts (Witch from Nepal /...

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2025/03/15

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Jordan is taking a little time off, but Ryan and Chris dive into three mystic, genre-bending martial arts films from Golden Harvest with "Witch from Nepal," "Armour of God," and "The Seventh

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03:11:15

GBW #173: KISS of Death (Runaway / Never Too Young to...

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2025/03/07

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Jordan, Ryan, and Chris stumbled into three mid-eighties actioners that all feature KISS bassist Gene Simmons as the villain with 1984's "Runaway," 1986's "Never Too Young to Die," and

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03:10:59

GBW #172: Entertained to Death (Stay Tuned / Last...

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2025/02/28

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Chris, Jordan, and Ryan discuss three films about being transported into a game, television program, or movie, and having to fight your way out with "Stay Tuned" (1992), "Last Action Hero" (1993), and

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04:13:18

GBW #171: Cold Blooded (Blood Tracks / Iced / Trapped...

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2025/02/21

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Ryan, Jordan, and Chris discuss three winter-set slasher films with 1985's "Blood Tracks," 1988's "Iced," and 1993's "Trapped Alive."You can find this and future episodes - as

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03:34:22

GBW #170: Dark Romantasy (The Hunger / Titane / Your...

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2025/02/14

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, for Valentine's Day, Jordan, Chris, and Ryan dive into three films that generously could all fit the "dark romantasy" romance novel trope with 1983's "The Hunger," 2021's

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03:12:16

GBW #169: Monster Mash (The Mummy [1999] / The League...

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2025/02/07

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Chris, Jordan, and Ryan dive into three late-90's/early-aughts monster-mash adventure films with 1999's "The Mummy," 2003's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," and 2004's "Van Helsing."You can find this and future episodes - as well as subscribe to

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04:18:15

GBW #168: Cage Match Vol. 4: The Nickster! (Wild at...

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2025/01/30

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Ryan, Jordan, and Chris start off by paying their respects to the late, great David Lynch before getting into the episode proper. In lieu of doing a full Lynch retrospective (as we want to save some of his films for

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04:17:22

GBW #167: Stunt Set Boulevard (Shadow of the Dragon /...

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2025/01/24

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Jordan, Chris, and Ryan truly return-to-form after this terrible week (and year so far, frankly) to discuss three immensely entertaining, highly problematic, and questionable-in-quality L.A.-set DTV actioners with

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02:39:04

GBW #166: Top 10 Films of 2024

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2025/01/17

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, before we kick the episode off proper, all of us from the GBW Podcast would like to point listeners to a couple of places to donate (if it does not cause you any financial stress) for the current devastation happening in

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02:04:45

GBW #165: Quiver on the Set (Wes Craven's New...

The Good, The Bad, and The What!? ·

2025/01/09

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Ryan, Jordan, and Chris discuss three horror films about making a horror film where real terrors start happening behind-the-scenes with the "Scream" dry-run of "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" from 1994, 2000's "Shadow of the Vampire" (to tie into Robert

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02:21:56

GBW #164: New Year, New Me (Big / 13 Going on 30 / 17...

The Good, The Bad, and The What!? ·

2025/01/03

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, to ring in the new year, Chris, Jordan, and Ryan discuss three films about life-changing, body-altering wishes with 1988's "Big," 2004's "13 Going on 30," and 2009's "17 Again." You can find this and future episodes - as well as subscribe to our show -

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01:59:29

GBW #163: Bah Humbug (Scrooged / Mixed Nuts / Bad Santa)

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2024/12/19

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Jordan, Chris, and Ryan discuss three misanthropic, dark Christmas comedies with "Scrooged" (1988), "Mixed Nuts" (1994), and "Bad Santa." You can find this and future episodes - as well as subscribe to our show - on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple

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