The Good, The Pod and The Ugly

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Long-running film podcast featuring hosts Ken and Thomas and numerous guests talking filmographies, oddities, classics and side hustles. Through ten season they have talked about nearly every movie ever made (verified by PodStats Inc).

SEASON 11: Darren Aronofsky, one of the more divisive directors of the last 25 years. Genius? Weirdo? Actress enthusiast? Empty calorie provocateur? A little of each maybe? We will find out! He has a wild filmography we can’t wait to get into.

In what can be described as a “temporal pincer movement” we will be pairing his latest with his earliest until we end up in the middle. He has a small filmography in sharp contrast with his penchant for infinity scarves so each pairing/recording will be in two parts. So you can skip The Fountain.

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ARONOFSKY FINALE! SEASON FINALE!

Apr 05 2024 83 mins

Our Darren Ssarfinale!Season 11 of The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly concludes on an odd note, both mathematically and colloquially, as the boys wrap up their Darren Aronofsky season with Episode 9 covering PERFECT BLUE (1997), joined by frequent guest Ryan.The debut film of famed anime and short-lived director Satoshi Kon released one year prior to Aronofsky’s debut (PI), Perfect

ARONOFSKY 8: BLACK SWAN

Mar 29 2024 59 mins

DARREN ARONOFSKY CH. 4 E2: THERE'S A LITTLE BLACK SWAN ON THE SUN TODAYSeason 11’s temporal pincer movement by The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly draws to a close with tricky reflections on BLACK SWAN (2010). Listen to our opinions double, pirouette, and morph during Chapter 4, Episode 2, covering our final Darren Aronofsky movie but not our season’s finale, with No-Longer-Sp

ARONOFSKY: CH 4 PT 1: THE WRESTLER

Mar 22 2024 63 mins

SCARF SEASON: ARONOFSKY 7Alright, brother. It’s the smackdown, drag-out matchup you’ve been waiting for all season long as THE WRESTLER (2008) jumps into the ring with The Good, The Pod, and the Ugly for Chapter 4, Episode 1. In this final chapter, we watch with teeth and sphincters clenched tight on the edge of our folding chair seats as the subject of Season 11, director Darr

ARONOFSKY 6: I NOAH LOT

Mar 15 2024 67 mins

ARONOFSKY SEASON! NOAHChapter 3, Episode 2: So the Voice of Kenneth spake unto The Good, The Pod, and the Ugly, and it sayeth: Let there be NOAH (2014); and all the peoples then of the world rejoiced for Darren Aronofsky for his blockbuster that bringeth forth He of the Scarf his firsteth and onlyeth picture to be No. 1 opening weekend at the box office.As the temporal pincer movem

ARONOFSKY: CH 3 PT 1:THE FOUNTAIN

Mar 08 2024 59 mins

THE FOUNTAINNo one expects the Spanish Inquisition, and no one expected Darren Aronofsky to follow up the success of Requiem for a Dream with a genre-breaking, scyfy-romantic-period-spiritual-medical drama (kinda? maybe?) entitled THE FOUNTAIN (2006). Join your hosts Ken and Thomas along with returning guest Ryan for Season 11, Chapter III, Part A as they drink from The Fountain, a

ARONOFSKY CH. 2 PT. 2: mother!

Mar 02 2024 46 mins

SCARF SEASON #4: GARDEN OF EDITS: mother!Rejoin Ken and Thomas along with guest Shannon in the rebirth of Season 11, Chapter II as they tackle (figuratively) Darren Aronofsky’s MOTHER! (the 2017 film, not the parent of Darren!).After the big budget success of NOAH, and having not made a movie with a female lead with whom he was romantically involved in well over seven years (if r

ARONOFSKY CH 2 PT 1: REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

Feb 23 2024 68 mins

DARREN ARONOFSKY CHAPTER TWO, PART ONE:Deuce by you! Deuce by you! Whoa #2! REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000), Darren Aronofsky’s second film, follows these three simple rules for success:#1 Adapt a novel you love. – As a college student, Aronofsky fell in love with Hubert Selby, Jr.’s LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (1964). He’d owned a copy of Requiem but hadn’t finished it until he len

ARONOFSKY CH. 1 PT. 2: THE WHALE

Feb 17 2024 77 mins

SCARF SEASON CONTINUES WITH THE WHALE!Thar she blows, Part II of our initial Darren Aronofsky pairing for Season 11 of TGTPTU: THE WHALE (2023). Special guest Ryan returns to continue cohosts Ken and Thomas’ temporal pincer movement of working our way from first and last films sequentially inward and he provides a dissident and dissonant voice to the cohosts’ The Whale love son

ARONOFSKY I: PI AND PIE SEASON PREMIERE

Feb 02 2024 53 mins

Aronofsky Chapter One Pt. One: PiTGTPU SEASON 11 returns to form with our classic (or outdated) temporal pincer movement to cover the entirety of (yes, all eight) wide release films of director Darren Aronofsky. Hosts Ken and Thomas with guest Ryan - pause, pop pills, make a note - kick off the inaugural episode of the new season with Aronofsky’s first feature film, PI (1998), a

SIDE HUSTLE FINALE: BEATTY-EYED

Jan 18 2024 142 mins

SEASON FINALE! SIDE HUSTLE 15: WARREN BEATTY! SHAMPOO and DICK TRACY!Our epic tenth season comes to a close in a flurry of bug hair, blow dryers, primary colors and the horror of Madonna acting with Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Most legendary actor/directors we might talk about from his era (Beatty was born in 1937) need a separate Wikipedia page for their filmography and biogra