There Will Be Duds
by There Will Be Duds
A weekly conversation on twitch turned podcast. We review a wide variety of films drawn randomly from a cup -- the twist is that once a month we review a "bad" movie, or, a dud. The podcast is broadcasted on Twitch and YouTube every Wednesday at 7pm EST at twitch.tv/ThereWillBeDuds
Episodes
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223 - Idle Hands
Odds and Ends: More childhood trauma! In media! Normal childhood trauma next year, it'll be a great time! Feature Film: Chris gets the dud pick this time around, and he went with the panned Idle Hands, starring some atypical 90s teen actors, one of those classic soundtrack albums, and... sigh......
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222 - A Tale of Two Sisters
Odds and Ends: More childhood trauma media! This time, Ida brings in some Nordic horror, as well as some good old Zelda spooks. Feature Film: Ida brings in one of her favorite horrors ever, the Korean classic A Tale of Two Sisters, or more like, A Tale of Two Twists-ers! Don't read this if you...
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221 - Ghostwatch
Odds and Ends: Continuing our month of shared trauma from our early days, it's T.J.'s turn to tell us about all of his anti-kinks. Feature Film: In 1992, the BBC scared the piss out of the UK when they pulled a War of the Worlds-esque stunt with their airing of Ghostwatch, a fictional movie about…
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220 - Poltergeist
Odds and Ends: It's October, which means it's our month of horror! Each week this go around, we're taking turns sharing our personal childhood trauma media, i.e. stuff that we watched too young that scared the effing ess out of us. Feature Film: Nick has the first pick, and he went with the other...
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219 - Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Odds and Ends: We talk about Chris Hansen's totally normal and not at all movie affirming attitude surrounding the new movie about him, Primetime. Feature Film: It's dud week, and this time it's another one of those movies we know exclusively from a one minute clip on Youtube from like a decade...
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218 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension wsg Kevin Rowles
Odds and Ends: Welcome to There Will Be Duds (but in coding language or something), your foremost podcast for tech and PC knowhow, but mostly just keyboards; we cover some recent hot topic shows in the post-chat Feature Film: Guest Kevin brings in a cult classic and favorite of his, which I'm…
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217 - City of God
Odds and Ends: More very cool Youtube automation and restrictions; we both saw a new movie, and it's actually not one that's been out for months already! In fact, it's not really out in wide release at all. Look at us, like movie people who watch movies and review movies. Feature Film: We talk...
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216 - Troy & The Odyssey wsg Josh Matthews (Learning About Movies)
The audio (and video) was kind of funky this episode. I did the best I could, but there's going to be some echoing here and there throughout. Feature Film: Josh from Learning About Movies returns to the show again for our double feature on two adaptations of the Homeric epics, those being Troy…
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215 - The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Odds and Ends: Honoring the dead for sure for real; we talk about the recent Apple TV hit Widow's Bay Feature Film: Dipping back into Korean cinema with Kim Jee-woon's send up to spaghetti westerns, most specifically Sergio Leone's classic of almost the same name. It's like that turned up to 11…
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214 - The Relic/The Item (wsg/Regs)
Odds and Ends: It's America's birthday (give or take), and a big one at that! To honor this great nation, we discuss some fun undertold stories from our history. Feature Film: Regs returns to bring us a dud this time, that being The Relic, about a monster thing in a box that breaks out and...
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213 - Crash
Odds and Ends: We talk about homemade food things that should be monstrosities, but then you try it and da bih ga. Feature Film: Widely regarded as one of, if not the worst best picture winner ever, we talk about Crash in all of its misguided glory, leading to a first ever judgement call in Duds...
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212 - The Apartment
Odds and Ends: T.J. quizzes newly christened Star Wars watcher Nick on his knowledge of Glup Shittos; we both watched another great 2026 horror movie, isn't that great? Feature Film: Billy Wilder makes his third appearance on the show as we discuss yet another classic of his, the classic rom com...
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211 - From Dusk Till Dawn/Apex (wsg/Regs)
Odds and Ends: We're joined by Regs, host of our sister podcast (in T.J.'s head, we talk about it), No Country for Old Films! And many many more, actually, he's quite the busy boy. In an attempt to make him feel comfortable, T.J. has an additional in-house guest from Regs' neck of the woods....
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210 - Daddy Can't Dance
Odds and Ends: We talk about the smash hit Desert Warrior, funded by the Saudi royal family; y'all heard about this Westeros? Feature Film: It's Daddy Can't Dance, or White Men Can't Dance. Either way, Pete Weaver can't dance. Well, okay, he can, but not well enough to do any good here. Might as...
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209 - Paranoia Agent
Odds and Ends: How's Myspace doing in 2026? Oh...; we talk about the drama, er, The Drama, with capital letters, because it's a movie title, so it's a proper noun, and those are capitalized. Just a lil bit of knowledge from yours truly. Feature Film: Our feature film this episode is... not a...
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208 - Con Air
Odds and Ends: T.J. went to Florida to see the launch of Artemis II, but mostly just helped rescue marine animals Feature Film: Maybe THE ultimate dude movie of the 90s, Con Air features a huge lineup of stars, or at least faces you'll probably know from something, even if you can't quite figure...
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207 - Return to Oz
Odds and Ends: We watched some new stuff, how about that? Nick talks about the HBO prestige trash show Neighbors, and we both talk about the movie that basically everyone's seen anyway so why even talk about it really, Project Hail Mary Feature Film: We return to Oz! Or actually, we just go…
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206 - The Underground Comedy Movie
Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about the hot new indie game Rollercoaster Tycoon 2; rising from the ashes of another month of duds, we go over the current state of the dud list Feature Film: Choosing pain over pleasure, T.J. picked The Underground Comedy Movie, and what an apt choice it was. Directed…
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205 - Freddy Got Fingered
Odds and Ends: We attempt to break down the WB/Paramount/Netflix love triangle, which spirals into T.J. advocating ethical body shaming; Nick talks about the new Gore Bervinski (iykyk) movie Feature Film: We discuss the misunderstood (?) classic (?) by Tom Green (???), Freddy Got Fingered, which...
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204 - White Chocolate
Odds and Ends: Nick's very un-romantic romance double feature for Valentine's Dayl; T.J. raves about the movie based on the show about the band named Nirvanna the Band, but I forget what it's called... wocka wocka, ba dum tshhh, thanks folks I'll be here til next Wednesday at 7 pm EST, oh lord,...
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203 - The Bye Bye Man
Odds and Ends: We do a belated overview of our favorite stuff from 2025. Games, shows, movies, music, etc. Actually, no etc., I think it's just those four things; we also both saw the new Sam Raimi movie Send Help, so we... well, we talk about that, too, what do you think? Feature Film: Kicking…
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202 - Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Odds and Ends: We go over the Oscar nominations; the second 28 Years Later movie is out, did you know? Feature Film: We talk about the infamous documentary Dear Zachary, which is very sad and I don't feel like making any jokes in this episode description, so byeeeeeee... Next week's movie: The…
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201 - From the Vault Nintendo 64 Retrospective
We're opening the vault again, which we've started using as a means to feature stuff other than what we normally do on the show. This time, we're doing video games! Again. Nintendo video games! Again. It's the Nintendo 64, in all it's janky and dated glory. This is part 1 of an eventual trilogy…
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200 - The Evil Dead Trilogy
Happy 200th to us! To celebrate, we invited some friends to a cabin in the woods to talk about some movies, most of which take place at a cabin in the woods. We didn't necessarily plan on doing two Sam Raimi trilogies in a row for our milestone eps, but what can I say? The guy makes good movies.…
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199 - SLC Punk!
Odds and Ends: We talk about Rob Reiner and other filmmakers we lost recently; T.J. saw a new Wes Anderson movie, and he liked it?! Okay, calm down, it's not that exciting Feature Film: Proving Tarantino wrong, we talk about the great Matthew Lillard and SLC Punk!, a cult indie about some culty...
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198 - Black Christmas and Black Christmas
Odds and Ends: We celebrate our very small listening audience while going over our Spotify wrapped for the show. If you're reading this, dear audience, we luv u. Feature Film: To close out another year, we take all the good will from the original Black Christmas and throw it in the garbage as we...
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197 - Black Christmas; Bugonia
Odds and Ends: Christmas wishes and new year's resolutions; Nick talks about the newest Lanthimos picture, Bugonia; we talk about some unsung Brian Yuzna classics, shoutout the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, and try to understand Ben Shapiro's high-IQ review of One Battle After Another…
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196 - Dances with Wolves; Frankenstein
Odds and Ends: The new Coke ad has us down yet another AI rabbit hole, but T.J.'s cat just wants to play catch with dad; we discuss the new Frankenstein adaptation by Guillermo del Toro, and ask why there aren't any hot lady monsters. Feature Film: For a cheeky lil Thanksgiving movie, we talk…
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195 - Dr. Strangelove
Odds and Ends: We do a bit of a deep dive into a Zack Snyder fan song, and talk about Snyder v. Gunn: Dawn of Incels. Feature Film: We check back in with Stanley and talk about his romantic comedy, Dr. Strangelove. It's about a lot of idiots, discussed by some idiots. It's also anti-war, did you...
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194 - Mazes and Monsters
Odds and Ends: Avoiding the horror of social interaction at high school reunions Feature Film: We're closing out our month of horror with the odd anti-Dungeons and Dragons movie, Mazes and Monsters (get it?). Probably most notable for being featuring the first starring role of one Thomas Jeffrey...
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193 - Scream
Odds and Ends: Nothing to see here, folks, move along... Feature Film: We're talking about a classic from one of the masters of horror, that being Scream and them being Wes Craven. I feel like this would be the perfect opportunity for me to be super meta in the description here and maybe break…
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192 - Clown in a Cornfield
Odds and Ends: The whole gang is here this time, and we're fighting off the horrors of being old by talking about old Facebook trends and how boomers have infected social media. Feature Film: Peyton's pick for the month is the recent Clown in a Cornfield, an incredibly by the books slasher, until...
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191 - The Fourth Kind; The War of the Worlds
Odds and Ends: We embrace our oldness and talk about important things like the weather, and that youngster George Harrison's new record All Things Must Pass; T.J. saw the new War of the Worlds that everyone was talking about when this episode was recorded. Good thing we release these right away…
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190 - Creepshow
Odds and Ends: It is TOTALLY spooky season for us, just as it is for you, dear listener. If you believe it in your heart, seasons can be year round! Feature Film: Nick picked our first horror month movie this year, Creepshow! A collaboration between horror icons George Romero and Stephen King and...
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189 - Walk the Line; The Naked Gun
Odds and Ends: The wish for more very well-timed sequels; T.J talks about the new Naked Gun, starring Lesliam NeelsonFeature Film: We talk about a musical biopic about Johnny Cash. He did songs and some other stuff.Next week's movie: Creepshow (1982)You can join the conversation Wednesdays at 7pm...
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188 - Synecdoche, New York; Weapons
Odds and Ends: Giving dumb stupid old ads the what fer; we talk about Zach Cregger's newest horror slash comedy slash drama, Weapons. Feature Film: Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, the very Charlie Kaufmany Synecdoche, New York. I had the thought to write some sort of heady, meta thing here…
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187 - Undefeatable; Thunderbolts*
Odds and Ends: T.J. brings up a lawsuit against the new movie Together that he may have some personal ties to... well, almost, he could have maybe sort of had some ties, but he doesn't, but that'd be cool or interesting if he did; inspired by the recent and decent superhero movies, T.J. checked…
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186 - La Haine
Odds and Ends: T.J. shares some insider info about the newest woke movie, The Fantastic Four; T.J. talks about the newest iteration of Superman, while Nick talks about the newest iteration of The Last of Us; isn't it great just having continuous new iterations and adaptations and no original…
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185 - The French Connection wsg Josh Matthews (Learning About Movies)
Odds and Ends: Josh is back again, and we discuss how our feature film this week led to us crossing paths. We watched one of those dumb Netflix docks, the one about the poop cruise called Poop Cruise, and we have some things to say. Feature Film: The classic template detective movie is on the…
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184 - 28 Days/Weeks/Years Later
Odds and Ends: This is sort of our anniversary episode! Meaning, it's near our anniversary and we did a trilogy, so you know, sort of. T.J. reworks song lyrics from his youth. Feature Film: We're talking about the recently trilogized 28 Blanks Later series, Weeks and all. Sorry, warts and all.…
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183 - Battle Royale 2: Requiem
Odds and Ends: We had a little bit of time left in this one, so T.J. and Ida talk about the newest Final Destination movie. Feature Film: Meri Kurisumasu! Ida and Peyton wouldn't leave the voice call until we talked about the second Battle Royale movie, so here we are. A sequel that is impressive...
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182 - Battle Royale
Feature Film: Some of T.J.'s friends from a nerd ass weeb Battle Royale roleplay fan group he used to be in (real life - NOT CLICKBAIT) join the show to talk about the cult classic film itself. We get into the weeds on a lot of shit most people won't even have context for here. Even Nick! He said...
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181 - An Autumn Afternoon
Odds and Ends: T.J. wants to play another game, a game about games (and movies); we both did our homework, so we're able to talk about both Common Side Effects and Sinners! Feature Film: We talk about the final film by director Yasujiro Ozu, An Autumn Afternoon. We struggle through our issues…
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180 - True Stories
Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about an AI slop advertising campaign he's been subjected to; we almost talk about Sinners and we almost talk about Common Side Effects, but instead we just talk about the newest season of Black Mirror. Feature Film: We check in with David Byrne and Talking Heads again...
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179 - Twisted Pair
Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about [REDACTED], which has been his Roman empire as of late; we coincidentally have both been watching some spy movies, probably inspired by this week's feature film. Yeah, definitely. Feature Film: We cap off another dud month with a dip back into the Breeniverse! Just...
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178 - Axe 'Em
Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about his A Minecraft Movie experiences, and a potentially very... unfortunate cleanup job he had to do; we go over the most recent season of The White Lotus Feature Film: We make an attempt to parse the (literally) unintelligible Axe 'Em, which despite only being able…
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177 - Going Overboard
Odds and Ends: In lieu of watching other movies, T.J. yells at clouds; since we're true gamerz, we talk about the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, even though we mostly talk about the Gamecube games Feature Film: We continue our dud month (which is also an accidental SNL month) with Adam Sandler's first...
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176 - Movie 43
Odds and Ends: We had a hard time coming up with an opening convo, so T.J. resorts to a classic starter; we both watched Mickey 17, the newest from director Bong; T.J. also watched Adolescence, like everyone else by this point. Feature Film: An insufferable comedy anthology movie with a very...
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175 - Norbit
Odds and Ends: We talk about Harmony Korine's new experiment in griefing via film; T.J. saw the newest Paddington movie, and a new adaptation (sort of) of Breaking Bad Feature Film: We kick off another Dud month with the infamous Norbit, featuring some of the most irritating characters ever put…
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174 - Waking Ned Devine
Odds and Ends: Our Oscars recap; we saw a gimmick movie; Nick questions T.J.'s Letterboxd top 4 Feature Film: We talk about our sorta St. Patrick's Day movie, Waking Ned Devine, another movie that feels like a fantasy world that in actuality is just a quaint UK town. It's a nice enough movie and...
About this show
A weekly conversation on twitch turned podcast. We review a wide variety of films drawn randomly from a cup -- the twist is that once a month we review a "bad" movie, or, a dud. The podcast is broadcasted on Twitch and YouTube every Wednesday at 7pm EST at twitch.tv/ThereWillBeDuds
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