Happy Halloween!

We hope you enjoy the 2024 Is it Good? Spooktacular! This year, we're checking out one of the goriest horror comedies of all time, one that desperately deserves a second chance. Also, it's directed and written by Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. So that's fun!

Look out for:

• A Nazi & Zombies, but no Nazi Zombies
• The rare stop-motion animated Sumatran Rat Monkey
• An appreciation for practical effects
• A brutal, bloodthirsty take-down of Aaron Sorkin
• The ideal Halloween party movie
• Just like, a normal regular guy who's not doin' nothin' weird
• Zombaby!!!

This episode is definitely lighthearted and fun, but it is absolutely NOT acceptable for all audiences, as it's even more explicit than usual! So consider yourself warned. If that wasn't enough though, here's some content warnings for you:

Mentioned: Sexual assault (briefly), bestiality (extremely briefly), animal death (briefly), gore, blood, offensive portrayal of Pacific Islanders.

WELCOME TO IS IT GOOD? v2.0

We've gussied it up with a new coat of shiny lead paint, and we hope you enjoy! This week, a little bit of film festival discussion (more on that later), Antonio Banderas wearing an agal, bear-people or perhaps just people disguised as bears, it's unclear. From the minds that brought you Die Hard and Jurassic Park, comes something surprisingly mediocre.

Thanks to Tom Lehrer for the use of our theme song, "Selling Out".

Yet another sequel, but this time, one to a movie you've actually heard of! Probably the most relevant any movie on this podcast has ever been to anybody listening, but if relevancy was the goal, then we were damned from the beginning.

Things to look out for:

• Characters who don't care, and why should you?
• Bunny mask!! Like from Donnie Darko!!
• 2009 liberal critique of 1995 bigotry, I think?
• The same car crash, twice, except a different girl dies, this time on purpose.
• Nostalgia in its worst form.
• Crushed by falling object!! Like from Donald Darko!!

Thanks to Tom Lehrer for the use of our theme song, Selling Out.

Sorry, no movie clips this week! Copyright strikes for music tend to be pretty harsh, so it's best to stay away from using them here. Use your imagination! Or don't! Either way it's probably not as disappointing as the real thing. This week, your hosts discuss Roy Orbison's first and only film foray, The Fastest Guitar Alive. I'll let you in on a secret: There's a reason it was the only one.

Some stuff in this one:

• Deep ignorance about the history of popcorn (from the movie, not the hosts).
• Redface, but they actually didn't know (except for the guy doing it).
• Some of Orbison's worst lyrics.
• Confederate apologia.
• A really dumb gun.

Thanks to Tom Lehrer for the use of our theme song, "Selling Out".

Ready to listen to a T4T trans woman contemplate whether or not she can say the F-slur? God it's so late when I'm editing these. Anyways, the kids are back, and this time Christopher Walken is there. This is probably the best thing we've seen so far, so you're in for a treat.

Highlights include:

• Johnny Galecki is so bad, man. Always.
• A genuinely well-constructed plot.
• Lots of slick style.
• Fish boots? Fish boots.
• Yeesh, they died for no reason. That's kinda sad.

Thanks to Tom Lehrer for the use of our theme song, Selling Out.

In this episode, Nic and Mia still can't really get away from misogynistic films. I guess it's a good sign that all these misogynistic films failed, but it'd be nice to hear about a less gross film once in a while, yaknow? Anyways, still plenty of fun to be had, and in case you didn't notice, it's weekly episodes now!

Things to look out for:

• A genuine discussion of the sex scene discourse.
• Things that are similar to other movies we like, but don't work here.
• An extremely different movie from Tobe Hooper's other work
• A pretty shameless rehashing from Dan O'Bannon, like cmon man, you're just re-using your work from Alien.
• Horny movie, but in a bad way.

Thanks to Tom Lehrer for the use of our theme song, Selling Out.

Sorry for the delayed upload, travel plans got in the way.

This week, Mia and Nic dive into Laurence of Arabia star Peter O'Toole's finest gift to cinema, Phantoms (1998), wherein he performs against acting genius Benjamin G. Affleck. Yes, it's true, and yes, it's fun. Why are you still reading this?

Things to watch out for:

• A big macho cowboy Ben Affleck!
• A bunch of scientific explanations that don't actually explain anything at all.
• Utterly wretched sound mixing (don't worry, I fixed it).
• Surprisingly, zero phantoms.

Thanks to Tom Lehrer for the use of our theme song, "Selling Out".

This week, Nic and Mia delve into the bygone year of 2021, where Lisa Joy is releasing an extremely forgettable movie. Hugh Jackman stars as a mind reader! An honest-to-goodness mind reader, in a cyberpunk neo-noir flick no less! But no matter how hard he acts, it's still not cool. This episode is dedicated to the veterans of the Border Wars.

Highlights include:

• Explaining incels to Nic.
• Hugh Jackman's Batman audition.
• The women are written better!! (Note: the writing is still bad.)
• A legitimately cool aesthetic.
• A story that doesn't take advantage of it.
• Dead eels.