Meet the Team

  • James Hauser

  • Joe Goratowski

  • Ryan Mueller

  • Ryan Mattila

Who We Are

We are a group of friends and filmmakers who started a sketch comedy group back in 2005 in Chicago. That eventually turned into a string of independent movies from 2006 to 2010. We approach talking about films from the standpoint of having made them (on a much smaller scale), and can commiserate with some of the challenges. Bottom line - we love movies, and many of the movies we love wouldn’t be called good by the common arbiters of quality (critics/award shows).

We’ve all gone on and started families, but this podcast became a way to get the band back together and bring in some new friends as well.

We’re a bunch of blue-collar folks that talk about all of the movies that don't get enough love. We give out awards to each film and try to determine whether they are actually bad, good-bad, or straight-up good! We hope you will enjoy being part of our group and hanging out with us.

“From the beginning, we’ve been very honest about the quality of our show. You can listen….but it’s not good”

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