The Good, the Bad and the Weird
by Nicho and Chris
The Good, the Bad and the Weird is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by two friends, Nicho and Chris, who explore all aspects of film from forgotten classics, to gore-fests, to more contemporary films. Join us as we explore the good, the bad and the weird that cinema has to offer!
Episodes
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#201 Ginger Snaps
Puberty is a bit of a monster but it could be worse when you get bitten by a werewolf in the 2000 coming of age classic, Ginger Snaps! Join Nicho and Chris as they explore what makes this teenage love affair with death stand out in comparison not only to other werewolf movies but other teenage...
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MicroView #83 Teen Wolf
It's time to score the winning points in the lead up to a much more serious werewolf puberty movie with the classic, Teen Wolf! Join Nicho and Chris a s they explore how Teen Wolf is clearly not shot in Nebraska and how basketball should have been a bigger part of the story!
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#200 An American Werewolf in London
Time to take a bit of a vaction from the horror that was the Twilight Saga and travel to the lovely rainy and werewolf filled streets of London in An American Werewolf in London! Join Nicho and Chris as they backpack into the past to explore the milestone in the werewolf genre to see if it still...
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MicroView #082 The Wolf Man
Listen to them creatures of the night what music they make as Nicho and Chris kick off the spooky season with the furrier side of the horror spectrum with the 1941 classic, The Wolf Man! Join them as they discuss why The Wolf Man still has so much staying power 80 years later and how it…
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#199 Breaking Dawn: Part 2
Grab your glasses, toast and prepare to reenact Charlie getting drunk to celebrate the end of the Twilight Saga with Breaking Dawn: Part 2! Join Nicho and Chris as they examine if there is a little something that made this whole saga worth it as Bella becomes what she has always wanted, an 18...
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MicroView #081 Fifty Shades of Grey
When people say at least it's still a better love story than Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey is one of the few that fall short of this meme. Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look at this fanfic turned phenomena to see how little it deviated from the source material while making BDSM so vanilla…
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#198 Breaking Dawn: Part 1
Dawn of the final day of The Twilight Saga, a dawn that includes a wedding, honeymoon, vampiric blue balling, pregnancy and death! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into what is supposed to be the racier of the Twilight Saga flicks to see if it holds any hope of worth for the franchise or not!
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MicroView #080 Twilight: The Musical
One parody stands above them all when it comes to making fun of Twilight! It isn't some high budget Hollywood spoof or celebrity jab! It is instead a fan-made parody that somehow got it it right in Twilight: The Musical! Join Nicho and Chris as they explore why this parody works within and…
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#197 Eclipse
You know what would be more interesting than talking about this movie? Staring into an actual Eclipse and it's lore dump of a movie. Join Nicho and Chris as they continue the Twilight Saga with the third movie, Eclipse. A flick rife with many unexplained and unapologetic issues.
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MicroView #079 Blood and Chocolate
Take a brief reprieve from the Twilight Saga for more bad werewolf romance with Blood & Chocolate! Join Nicho and Chris as they travel to Bucharest to see if at least one good werewolf/human romance is achievable.
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#196 New Moon
The Twilight Saga continues with New Moon as Bella proceeds to lead Jacob on and everyone makes even dumber decisions! Join Nicho and Chris as they expose themselves to the truly awful follow up to Twilight to see if they can see past the sparkle and love the fandom puts on the begging of this...
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MicroView #078 Vampires Suck
What's worse than Twilight? A Twilight parody full of out of date references and random gags. Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into the first parody of Twilight to see where it lacks the bite that makes a good parody.
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#195 Twilight
Hang on dear spider monkeys for the latest dive into the, for some reason, wildly popular vampire werewolf romantic triangle that is Twilight! Join Nicho, a Twilight hater, and Chris, a fan of the fans, as they take a look at this beloved flick to try to understand its sparkly charm while...
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MicroView #077 Final Summer
The summer of dead kids and murderous children come to an end with Final Summer! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into find out if this slasher rises to something more elevated or sinks into the mire of being just another slasher!
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#194 Sleepaway Camp
Sumer may be coming to an end but children murder is still full of surprises in Sleepaway Camp! Join Nicho and Chris as they go to summer camp in this cult classic horror flick to see if it is still one of the most shocking movies in horror history!
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MicroView #076 Summer of 84
A childhood is never complete without the hunt for your friendly neighborhood serial killer! Join Nicho and Chris as they go on the hunt with the nostalgia filled Summer of 84 to see if it was just riding the wave of 80s vibes set in motion by Stranger Things or if stands on its own and deserves...
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#193 A Nightmare on Elm Street
One Two, We're Coming for you Three, Four, Better lock your door Five, Six, better listen to the newest episode on A Nightmare on Elm Street! Join Nicho and Chris as they tuck in and enter the dream world of Freddy Krueger to explore the lasting impact this terrifying and goofy movie has had on...
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MicroView #075 Prevenge
Sometimes revenge is a dish best served while still in the womb! Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look at Prevenge as they explore darkly comedic flick that tries to get a lot into a small package!
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#192 M
"This won't bring the children back. We... we must keep a closer watch on our children! All of us." Haunting words that linger as Chris and Nicho continue their dive into childeren murder true crime flicks with Fritz Lang's M! In this episode they look at how an almost 100-years-old movie still...
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MicroView #074 A Record of Sweet Murder
Would you be willing to kill for a nameless cosmic god to save one life? Find out as Nicho and Chris take a dive into A Record of Sweet Murder to find out how far one man will go to save a childhood friend!
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#191 Memories of Murder
Memories and partial truths come together in Bong Joon Ho's remembrance of the Hwaesong Murderer. Join Nicho and Chris as they explore how these memories resonate across time, cultures and their goals of reaching the supposed killer at large!
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MicroView #073 American Psycho 2
Ever wonder what happened if a movie shoved true crime into the middle of its making because the studio executives told them to? Find out as Nicho and Chris take a look into the forced sequel to American Psycho that has more in common with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho that the people involved should...
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#190 Psycho
Ever wonder what happened to that weird woman you saw buy and sell a car in front of a cop who totally got her license plate anyways? Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into the groundbreaking and cinema changing Psycho and look into what makes it so unsettling but also a bit off when viewed from…
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MicroView #072 The Happening
Ever wonder what would happen if someone took the classics The Birds and tired to make the twist being partially explained but also trying to make it so muddled it becomes done? All while people make stupid decisions because they think plants can count or that they can outrun the wind. Join Nicho...
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#189 The Birds
Ever wonder how many birds you could take out in a fight for you life? Well Nicho and Chris did as they talk about the classic, iconic and at times silly Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds! Join them as they dive into how a slapstick style comedy masterfully transitions into a horror icon!
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MicroView #071 Chocolate
Sometimes disabilities are not some physical dismemberment but something in the mind. Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look at the Thai flick, Chocolate to end the disabled martial arts series with every gangs secret weapon, the mentally disabled.
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#188 The One-Armed Swordsman
Coming in the avenge the end of Season 7 is an movie so good, it will make you want to avenger your clan with one arm behind your back! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into The One-Armed Swordsman and explore what set it apart from its disabled influences, how the world around it shaped its...
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MicroView #070 Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman
DISCLAIMER: We are sorry for the audio quality on the first part of this MicroView. We did not notice until we got to editing. Sorry in advance. Two icons of cinema clash in the newest MicroView from Nicho and Chris! One bline and one missing an arm!
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#187 The Tale of Zatoichi
Close your eyes and return to the early days of The Good, the Bad & the Weird Podcast as Nicho and Cris return to bring honor to The Tale of Zatoichi! A movie that still deserves the praise for creating a compelling and iconic disable martial artist upon which all others stand on his shoulders.
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MicroView #069 Blind Woman's Curse
The arc of revenge comes to a close in this final instalment as Nicho and Chris return to Meiko Kaji for one last revenge flick! This time around, she is the target! DISCLAIMER: We are sorry for the audio quality on the first part of this MicroView. We did not notice until we got to editing.…
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#186 Kill Bill: Vol 2
Revenge is never a straight line but in the second installment of Kill Bill, it kinda is. Join Nicho and Chris as they bring to a close Tarantino's epic Frankenstein of a revenge flick!
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MicroView #068 Promising Young Woman
How to you take revenge for the dead when you have no proof and no one will believe your story? Find out in the latest MicroView as Nicho and Chris explore Promising Young Woman. A wannabe edgy movie that is too well written and good to be considered edgy.
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#185 Kill Bill: Vol 1
Revenge is never a straight line and neither is storytelling or inspirations as Nicho and Chris discover in Kill Bill: Vol 1. In this episode they explore some of the inspirations that Tarantino pulled from but also brought new light to forgotten or ignored films by mainstream American audiences!
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MicroView #067 Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance
What happens when revenge has run its course and a studio is looking to set the groundwork for a new serial franchise? Find out in the latest episode as Nicho and Chris take a look at how the sequel to the iconic Lady Snowblood franchise, Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance veered so off course.
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#184 Lady Snowblood
The time for knights in shining armor is over! It is time for women to take revenge! It is time for Asura snow! Stained fiery red in this deep dive into Lady Snowblood! Join Nicho and Chris as they explore the historical context and the ideas of traditionalism vs Western influence in this film…
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MicroView #066 Maleficent
Good girls go bad in the last MicroView of the Golden Age and Silver Age Disney related movies with 2014's Maleficent! Join Nicho and Chris as they take a look at Disney's revisionist history of one of, if not THE greatest villain to grace their movies!
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#183 Sleeping Beauty
You don't have to go to sleep for 100 years for the conclusion of the Golden and Silver Ages of Disney from The Good, the Bad and the Weird Podcast! It's here now! Join Nicho and Chris as they put to rest this arc of Disney and explore why this movie ended the decadent age of Disney and why it is...
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MicroView #065 Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time
What happens when your happily ever after is taken from you? Find out how Disney tackled this very question in what some consider the best direct-to-video Disney sequel in Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into where Disney created something more than a money…
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#182 Cinderella
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo into the Silver Age of Disney with 1950's Cinderella! Return to the world of Disney Princesses with Nicho and Chris as they dive into yet another princess movie that saved Disney from ruin but with a little different quality.
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MicroView #064 Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge
With the success of Disney's adaptation of Snow White cemented in cinematic history, return to the Vaterland to explore the 1955 adaptation, Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge! Join Nicho and Chris as they explore where this German adaptation pulled from Disney while also making it their own.
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#181 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Once upon a time, on a podcast far away, lived a pair of Disney haters. Only the sweet and pure heart of Snow White could melt the hearts of Nicho and Chris! Join them as they take a look at the early days of animated feature films and the one and only Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that set the...
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MicroView #063 Betty Boop: Snow-White & Poor Cinderella
Boop-Oop-a-Doop into the princess movies of Betty Boop in the newest MicroView. Join Nicho and Chris kick off the Golden Age and Silver Age princess movies of Disney with a couple shorts that pre-date the beginnings of their own iconic feature films. In this episode Nicho and Chris take a look at...
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#180 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Time to dilly-dally shilly-shally and focus on the future that is always the children in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children! Join Nicho and Chris as they dive into the first major sequel to the popularly milked dry Final Fantasy VII franchise and look at where this movie succeeded and where...
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MicroView #062 Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within
Travel to the distant future of 2065 where aliens have taken over the world and it is up to #87 of Maxim Magazine's 2001 Hot 100, Aki Rose in all her CGI realism to save the world as Nicho and Chris say farewell to 2025!
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#179 Die Hard
Yippie Ki‐Yay Everyone! It's Christmas Eve! Thank you for listening to us on the eve of the most magical time of the year as Nicho and Chris tackle the age old question, is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Find out where we stand in an answer that might surprise you!
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MicroView #061 Jack Frost
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost dying in a car crash and being resurrected as a sentient snowman who melts in 2 days in 1998's weird family holiday adventure, Jack Frost. Join Nicho and Christ as they take a look back at the odd attempt at a blockbuster meant to hit your right in…
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#178 A Christmas Story
Ohhhhhhh fuuuuuuuudge……… It's another holiday season of cheer, family drama, embracing the weird interests of your significant other and Nicho reminding you that this movie makes him want to shoot his own eyes out! That's right, it's time for 1983's A Christmas Story! Join Nicho and Chris as they...
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MicroView #060 The Muppet Christmas Carol
Kick off the festive season with a stroll down the visions of the ghosts of Christmas past present and future as seen through the eyes of the Muppets in The Muppet Christmas Carol! Join Nicho as he gives a bah humbug to the holiday and Chris as she explains the various elements that make this...
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E177 Gone in 60 Seconds
Blink and you'll miss the latest and last high speed episode of Nic Cage November with Gone in 60 Seconds! Join Nicho and Chris as they explore the hip remake of the 1974 movie to see if it deserves the title of classic Nic Cage or if it should have been left in the dust!
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MicroView #059 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Treasure awaits again in a world tour in National Treasure: Book of Secrets! Join Nicho and Chris as the take a trip through a rather loose interpretation of historical facts to find the city of gold in the much maligned sequel that gave Nic Cage the title, National Treasure!
About this show
The Good, the Bad and the Weird is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by two friends, Nicho and Chris, who explore all aspects of film from forgotten classics, to gore-fests, to more contemporary films. Join us as we explore the good, the bad and the weird that cinema has to offer!
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Nicho and Chris