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James Willey hosts a 30-minute podcast where they discuss two movies that share a common genre or theme. This is a podcast for any movie lover, whether they are casual viewers or cinephiles, and James wants the podcast to be accessible for those who love the movies being spoken about or those who have never heard of them! For business inquiries, email: moviegoodormoviebad@gmail.com
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Ep. 28 Adaptation Good or Adaptation Bad? (Love, Simon/Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda)
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We're back with another episode of Adaptation Good or Adaptation Bad?! Hayley had suggested two different books to cover for Pride and we decided to cover both! In this episode, we also discuss out thoughts on Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom, Hayley's thoughts after finally seeing Longlegs, weirdly, the Love, Victor tv show, and largely how our opini…
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Ep. 27 Barbenheimer Month: Barbenheimer One Year Later (Barbie/Oppenheimer)
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Welcome to the main event of Barbenheimer Month of the podcast! This was a fun episode where Hayley joined and we talked about our theatrical experience with Barbenheimer, its impact, what we think of Barbie as a feminist film, and the shock of experiencing Oppenheimer. If you want to submit a movie recommendation for the podcast, please fill out t…
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Ep. 26 Barbenheimer Month: Christopher Nolan (The Prestige/Tenet)
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This week, we are continuing Barbenheimer Month and speaking about two films from Christopher Nolan, The Prestige and Tenet! Also in this episode, I briefly share my non-spoiler thoughts about Longlegs, speak about seeing The Big Chill, talk about my lack of awareness for television, talk about beginning to collect Criterion Collection films, my th…
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Ep. 25 Barbenheimer Month: Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird/Little Women)
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Welcome to Barbenheimer Month everyone! We are celebrating the massive, global phenomenon that rocked the box office, but before we get to the main event, we are examining films from each director and starting with Greta Gerwig! If you want to submit a movie recommendation, please fill out this Google Form! And for 3 dollars a month, you can suppor…
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Ep. 24 Pride 2024: Adaptation Good or Adaptation Bad? (Red, White and Royal Blue)
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Join Hayley and I for the first episode of Adaptation Good or Adaptation Bad?, where Hayley and I look at a book and one of its film adaptations, in order to assess and compare the two and wonder if the film succeeds as an adaptation. Today, we are talking about the queer book and film, Red, White, and Royal Blue! If you want to submit a movie reco…
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Ep. 23 Pride 2024: Queer Horror (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge/Jennifer's Body)
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Back with another episode of the podcast for Pride! This week, I wanted to look at my favorite genre, horror, and examine how its existed through queering, with one example being explicitly queer and the other an example of queer-coding. Both movies are favorites of mine and while one is beginning to receive respect, the other deserves more! If you…
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Ep. 22 The Works of Rachel Sennott and Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby/Bottoms)
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Time for the second episode of Pride! Although both of these films are new, Rachel Sennott have made such an impression on me with two wildly different films, that they felt perfect to have featured on this newest episode of the podcast with Shiva Baby and Bottoms! Please enjoy! If you want to submit a movie recommendation, please fill out this Goo…
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Ep.21 Pride 2024: Gregg Araki/Todd Haynes (Mysterious Skin/May December)
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Welcome everyone to the first episode of Pride for 2024! While only one of these films is queer, both were made by queer directors, both are favorites of mine, and obviously, while this is a heavier episode than typical for the podcast, I do think it was important to cover both movies. Please enjoy this episode, and stay tuned for the rest of the P…
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Ep. 20 The 25th Maryland Film Festival (Secret Mall Apartment and More!)
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At the beginning of May, I got the opportunity to attend the 25th Maryland Film Festival after the festival being gone last year and I got to see some really amazing films that previously played at Sundance, SXSW, and Fantastic Fest, and some of them have release scheduled planned, have distribution, and some need to find a home so you can all watc…
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Back after a brief hiatus with a long promised episode that I have avoided making, but in the recording process and the edit, but for those who have asked, we are talking about Elvis! And spoilers, I still think Elvis is fine! If you want to submit a movie recommendation, please fill out this Google Form! And for 3 dollars a month, you can support …
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Ep. 18 The All-Americana Road Trip (The Muppets Movie/Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me)
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Welcome everyone to easily my favorite episode of the podcast so far, as I talk about one of the most formative films of my younger years and a film that profoundly changed my life by helping me dive into the work of one of my favorite directors. It was impossible to cut any of the audio speaking about my love of The Muppets, Jim Henson, Twin Peaks…
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Ep. 17 The Life and Death of Lydia Tár (Monster Hunter/Tár)
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Hello everyone, thank you for joining me for a more somber episode as we examine the life and death of Lydia Tár and one of her proudest contributions to the world of film, creating the score for the Monster Hunter movie, and talk about her mediocre, Oscar-bait, fear-mongering biopic, Tár. Please be kind as we share about her life. *I appreciate ev…
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Ep. 16 Listener's Pick #2 (The Witches of Eastwick/Safe)
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We are back with the second Listener's Pick episode of the podcast! Thankfully, I had seen both of these films and was able to revisit them both in time for the podcast, and if you have ever wanted to hear me openly wonder if a film was extremely feminist or falling victim to the male gaze, question if Jack Nicholson could pull Cher, Susan Sarandon…
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By far the quickest an episode has gone from recording to being uploaded, this is the Oscars recap episode. I speak in this episode about how I made some of my predictions, the predictable nature of the Oscars, if that will continue, the musical performances, the atrocity that is Jimmy Kimmel's standup routine, The Boy and the Heron, The Zone of In…
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Ep. 14 Hayley (My Spouse) and I's Three Favorite Romantic Films (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind/Your Name)
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What better time to listen to a Valentine's Day episode of the podcast then *checks notes* two weeks late and in March! But seriously, thank you all of course for the flexibility in this episode, this was the second go-around recording due to tech issues the first time and it came out wonderful! And of course, thank you to Hayley for joining us thi…
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Ep. 13 Young Queer Love (Blue (2002)/Show Me Love)
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Two of my favorites and also for a long time, two films only available through 360p copies on Youtube. I also give some extended thoughts on my time at the Virtual Sundance Festival, some of my favorite films, technical issues that plagued my experience, and then jumped into these two really amazing and under seen queer films! There is a balance be…
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Ep. 12 A Tribute to Zac Efron (High School Musical/The Iron Claw)
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This episode started largely as a meme, but I had lots of fun with it! It's cool to pay tribute to an actor who has deserved a lot more credit in his career through two films that sit in similar themes and are both sports films. I had many more hot takes about High School Musical than I was expecting, especially about the performances and the music…
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Ep. 11 A24 2023 Recap (Past Lives/Close/Earth Mama/All 2023 A24 Films!)
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Welcome everyone to the first episode of the podcast for the year and for this episode, I wanted to talk about the great work of one of the companies that has supported me the most in the previous year, A24! Overall, I recommend many of these films and I think I do a great job of giving a little bit of an idea for each, as well as ones I may not re…
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Ep. 10 A Queer Christmas Special (Spencer/Tangerine)
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Deeply apologize for the delay everyone, I have a cat who just recently had surgery and is now recovering. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas and even though it is after the fact, Spencer and Tangerine are lovely films for any time of the year. I speak about them enough this episode, but thank you all for this wild year, and see you for the A24 …
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Ep. 9 The Perspective of Children (The Florida Project/Aftersun)
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Welcome back everyone! I accidentally picked two A24 films this week that are some of the most emotionally devastating films I could have covered for the podcast today, whoops! Both of these films are some of my favorites of all time and they are also unique because of their focus on the perspectives of children, a viewpoint that's often trivialize…
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Ep. 8 Conflicted Interests (Anatomy of a Fall/Decision to Leave)
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Welcome back everyone, this is easily my favorite episode that I have ever done for the podcast! To talk about two more recent films, one an upcoming awards season contender, another a film that deserved so much more credit during the last awards season. Decision To Leave is one of my favorite films of all time and it is shocking a film from a lege…
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Ep. 7 Terror of the Kaiju (Shin Godzilla/The Host)
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Welcome to the second of our two horror-themed episodes for Halloween (it's November now, but shhhhhh)! It's weird to have found two kaiju films both centered around the existence of a poor and disorganized government, but I am glad Shin Godzilla and The Host are those two films. Also, weird this is the second podcast episode I have done about a fi…
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Ep. 6 Body Horror Extravaganza (Tetsuo: The Iron Man/Titane)
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Welcome to the first of our two horror-themed episodes for Halloween! Body horror is my favorite subgenre of horror, my favorite genre of film, and I weirdly picked two body horror films where our protagonists bond with machines, and that was a big accident! My appreciation for both of these films grew with this watch, and although I gave only mino…
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Ep. 5 Listener's Pick Vol. 1 (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies/End of Evangelion)
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I am so glad to be publishing our first episode of the podcast where I did an episode based off of a suggestion of the listeners, so thank you to Ethan for suggesting End of Evangelion and thank you to "boop squig" for suggesting Bodies Bodies Bodies, two films I greatly love, one being an A24 slasher and the other being an incredibly thematically …
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Ep. 4 New/Next Film Festival (9 Indie Films Coming Soon!)
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Hi ya'll, I appreciate everyone's support during my temporary delay! After spending more hours researching audio drift in podcasts, we now have working video for the podcast on Patreon! I also recognize that none of the films spoken about in today's episode are widely accessible or available, and they are still very worthy of being spoken about. Th…
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Ep. 3 A Satoshi Kon Retrospective (Perfect Blue/Millennium Actress/Tokyo Godfathers/Paprika)
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Hi ya'll, welcome back to the podcast! Apologize for the slight delay today, but I am extremely excited to be talking about my favorite director of all-time, Satoshi Kon, and his four wonderful films, Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika. The format for this episode is a bit different and there is less of a requirement to…
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Ep.2 The Internet is Scary (Host (2020)/We're All Going To The World's Fair)
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Hi ya'll, welcome back to the podcast! And thank you all for the outstanding support so far. I have many big things planned for the podcast and today, I am extremely excited to discuss our theme! I feel like the internet opened up a Pandora's Box that few could really understand and that society and inundated with so much more information than they…
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Ep.1 Suburban Satires (Serial Mom/Greener Grass)
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Hi ya'll, welcome to the first episode of the podcast! Thank you for your patience as I had to navigate several delays. And of course, one that I wanted to be especially conscientious of was supporting those on the picket line during the SAG-AFTRA/WGA strikes. During this time, the podcast is not covering any struck films that have been made by any…
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