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Movie Bones

Movie Bones

By: Justin Miller
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Movie Bones is a film podcast adventure, exploring the rich history of movies available from free-streaming platforms to find out how much of it still has value, whether it's in the form of thought-provoking art-house films to cheesy cult classics. Justin Miller and Ryan Spurlock subject themselves to it all, and render judgement.

And because the best adventures are shared, we hope you'll watch them alongside us. Especially because we talk spoilers. Did we mention that? I guess now we did. New episodes every Wednesday.


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Here's how we rate the films we dig up, based, naturally, on that most famous film archaeologist himself, Indiana Jones...


• “Fortune & Glory” films are pure gold. They're movies to go back to again and again. These are the films would find a great home in your physical movie library, if you've still got one - they're that good.

• “Trust Me” films are imperfect gems that still offer a really good time. Buy a digital copy to stream if you want to make sure you always have access to it.

• “Belongs in a Museum”: If you think of museums as places you pay to get in to see things you wouldn’t necessarily want to bring home with you, then you’ve got a good feel for this category. If you can’t find these movies for free on sites like Tubi, you might still consider renting them off one of the paid platforms when the mood strikes.

• “Bad Dates”, happen when ‘free’ is the only price you’d be willing to pay to experience it, and only because at least one person showed up to make a good film. It could be the special effects were ahead of their time, the stunning cinematography, or some other aspect. But generally speaking, these are once-and-done films. Once you’ve seen it, you’ve gotten everything out of it you’ll ever get.

• “Don’t Look At It”. Movies so bad they’ll melt your face off, whether from boredom or some really horrible sensibilities, and nobody doing ‘their best’ could make it worth enduring again. If you've taken the chance to watch it along side Ryan and me, we make no apologies, because part of what makes this podcast journey unique is the shared risk of the occasional exploding head!

• “Nuke the Fridge”; A category reserved for films that manage to be fun because they’re bad in entertaining ways. You know the kind. This is kind of a ‘modifier’ category, that’ll often be applied alongside one of the other ratings.

• “Kill it with FIRE”; A new basement category, to only be used sparingly. This is our "Break glass in case of Emergency" basket. Films in this category don't just have horrible sensibilities, but go out of their way to feature them as an integral part of the plot and theme so you can't just wait them out. First appears in our review of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", and hopefully will never again!


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Episodes
  • Episode 97 - "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961)

    Episode 97 - "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961)
    Jan 28 2026

    Pre-script note: We recorded this episode shortly before the murder of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Had we known it beforehand, the events around their killings could, and would have likely been included in the discussion as two people who did not allow a great evil of our day to pass through them.


    This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'Judgment at Nuremberg' (1961) and talk about...



    - not being able to avoid drawing parallels to current events

    - the way the film addresses complexity of one morally compromised nation attempting to bring charges against officials of another morally compromised nation

    - arguing the omnipresence of sin for the cause of avoiding responsibility

    - Judge Haywood: the observer character

    - The impulse to forget and the choice not to look

    - "There is no war in Ba Sing Se"

    - How amoral monsters draw into complicity those who aren't naturally moral monsters

    - how choosing the 'lesser evil' ends up driving you to evil

    - speaking out about the current state America and the world

    - *"It came to that the first time..."*

    - Not letting evil pass through us for the fear of losing lesser things

    - Some great cinematography tricks for a courtroom drama

    - Our Verdict

    - Next week's film: 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' (1942)



    Did we get the movie wrong? Tell us why! And let us know what films you think we should cover.

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    38 mins
  • Episode 096 - "Under the Yum Yum Tree" (1963)

    Episode 096 - "Under the Yum Yum Tree" (1963)
    Jan 23 2026

    This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'Under the Yum-Yum Tree' (1963) and talk about...


    https://tubitv.com/movies/100014481/under-the-yum-yum-tree


    - Dean Jones does Jimmy Stewart?

    - Sexual revolution and 60's cinema

    - Unusual, plot specific apartment layouts

    - Was 'not-looking' not an option?

    - Making your heroine complicit in obvious traps to the point of stupidity

    - Hogan as prototypical Quagmire

    - Could use more torture for Hogan, honestly

    - How is this guy not in jail already?

    - Making you wonder what happened, in the creepiest way possible

    - Ending on the high note

    - Our Verdict

    - Next week's film: 'Judgment at Nuremberg' (1961)



    https://tubitv.com/movies/100006404/judgment-at-nuremberg



    Did we get the movie wrong? Tell us why! And let us know what films you think we should cover.

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    32 mins
  • Episode 095 - "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967)

    Episode 095 - "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967)
    Jan 14 2026

    This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'The Taming of the Shrew' (1967) and talk about...


    - Abuse: the Movie

    - Trying to understand the rationale for Shakespeare writing it this way

    - Controversial even in Shakespeare's time.

    - With some small changes, could be a horror story

    - The horror of psychological manipulation

    - Connection to "10 Things I Hate About You"

    - Compared to other Shakespeare romantic comedies that work (More understanding)

    - Peter York's first film

    - A good adaptation of a bad story

    - Our Verdict

    - Next week's film: 'Under the Yum-Yum Tree' (1963)



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    19 mins
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