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Olivia Colman is a rude yet disarming fisherwoman. Alexander Skarsgård is a man made out of wicker, at her request. By Peter Dinklage. If you need more reasons to consider the new "fable" movie, WICKER, we're considering it this week with Reading Smut and Reading Glasses co-host Brea Grant. Then, we'll talk about other fables we think would make great films. Plus, another Christmas Movie Minute in the books!

What’s Good
Alonso - Old Halloween ads on YouTube (for example…)
Drea - Covid and Flu Boosters
Brea - Burbank, CA, Horror Mecca??
Kevin - Redshirts by John Scalzi

ITIDIC
Heated Rivalry Coming to Movie Theaters
Cheyenne Jackson Champions Actors Who Are Close to Saving their SAG Insurance

Staff Picks
Drea - Border
Alonso - Wildwood
Brea - Your Monster
Kevin - You Can See Everything

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Did we need another Sense & Sensibility? Turns out, maybe yes. Romance novelist (and cultural anthropologist!) Nikki Payne joins us to weigh the merits of director Georgia Oakley’s new adaptation, and separate the Willoughbys from the Bradleys. Then we read a hotline email about esoteric movie insights and subject Alonso to the first Christmas Movie Minute of the year!

What’s Good?
Alonso - I’ll Believe in Anything by Jacob Tierney
Drea - Libby and their addition of an AI opt-out
Nikki - Take Charge of My Heart on Netflix
Kevin - Casey Abrams concert

ITIDIC
Netflix Reports Box Office for the First Time for La Bola Negra’s Big Success
Soderbergh to Step in to Finish The Batman 2

Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson on Graham Norton

Staff Picks
Drea - Wildwood
Alonso - Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Nikki - Rye Lane (hey, we did an episode!)
Kevin - Carrie (1976)

Alonso’sHave Yourself a Movie Little Christmas

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Years ago, Mahershala Ali announced that he was working with Marvel to develop a new feature Blade with himself as the titular vampire slayer. The first director attached to the project was Bassam Tariq. Blade ended up in project hell, never quite able to get off the ground, despite Ali getting in great shape and training with swordplay. Eventually Ali and Tariq took advantage of Marvel’s delinquency (and Ali's training) to develop Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother. It’s a film that centers on the American Muslim experience, but is by turns dramatic and action-packed. The team discusses the film and uses the opportunity to talk about some of their favorite films with MacGuffins.

What’s Good

Alonso - Carrie on Amazon Prime

Drea - Her friend is cancer free!

Kevin - It’s finally cold (by Southern California standards)

ITIDIC

Indiewire Editorial: Are There Too Many Horror Movies?

Crazy Rich Asians to Be Adapted Into a Series, With Same Cast and Filmmakers

After Years of Concern, TCM Looks Like It’s Sticking Around at Skydance

Staff Picks

Drea - Tenzing

Alonso - The Devils

Kevin - The Book of Eli

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Just the gang today to talk about a movie that has divided critics and moviegoers alike...at least, those moviegoers who actually took the very secretive bait that DIGGER's ad campaign was offering. Tom Cruise and Riz Ahmed star in this latest film from Alejandra G. Iñárritu. Then, we've got a different kind of movie quiz about films set in their not-so-distant future.

What’s Good
Alonso - Every Time a Bell Rings by Emily St. James and Lauren Theisen
Drea - Luna Wants Tuna
Kevin - Returning to GBBO

ITIDIC
WB Watertower Already Repainted to Reflect MergerSteven Spielberg and Michael Bay Might Be Making the Next Transformers Movie

Staff Picks
Alonso - The Social Reckoning
Drea - Fjord, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, and Dr. Strangelove
Kevin - Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

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Director Lance Oppenheim's debut feature, Primetime has a sales pitch that's hard to deny: Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen. So does the movie live up to that enticing promise? We have true crime buff, former Dateline devotee, and co-host of All Things Cozy, Gillian Walters, with us to discuss the film as both a work of fiction and a portrait of real (if complicated) man and moment in TV history. Then we'll talk about some of our most memorable morally ambiguous movies

What's Good
Alonso - Magazine Break
Drea - Lili Reinhart's wig in The Love Hypothesis
Gillian - Spooky Kitty Soap Holder from Bath & Body Works
Kevin - The Sixty-Year Mission screening

ITIDIC
Viral Lesbian Bar Article From Boston Globe Is Piquing Hollywood’s Interest
An Indie Filmmaker Is Distributing His Movie Via One Traveling Copy of a DVD

Staff Picks
Drea - Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Alonso - No Sleep Till
Gillian - The DUFF
Kevin - Hope (kinda) & Avengers: Endgame(still)

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This week we've got expert musical improvisors Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino with us to discuss a movie about a middle school musical gone way off course, at the hands of a drama teacher pushed to the edge. Part comedy, part film noir, it's the feature debut of director Giselle Bonilla, and it was a Sundance premiere. THE MUSICAL! Then we talk about other films that use film noir tropes to comedic ends, and pitch some actually-pretty-genius new movies in that genre too.

Look out for Jess and Zach's movie, Mock Trial
Listen to Off Book (or see it live!)

What’s Good
Alonso - Get your colonoscopy!
Drea - Bob the Drag Queen even makes the Love Island Reunion show fun
Jess - The Gilded Age on a plane
Zach - The Wolves of Glendale, Go to the Woods
Kevin - seeing the Rams live

ITIDIC
AMC Burbank Pepper-Spray Guy: Villain or Hero?
New California Post Production Tax Credit Becomes Law

Staff Pick
Alonso - You Had to Be There
Jess - Original Cast Album: Company (w/”Co-Op” double feature)
Drea - The Incomer
Zach - The Court Jester
Kevin - Resident Evil

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The stars of the original Practical Magic stars are back (at least, most of them) and just as cursed as ever. We have Hollywood Reporter TV Critic Angie Han with us to weigh in on whether this film left us feeling charmed, or like we'd been hit by a truck. Then, in honor of a family that has two sisters in every generation, we have a movie quiz about two-sister films!

What’s Good?
Alonso - Meg Stalter’s Emmys ensemble
Drea - uno spaghetto
Angie - TrüFrü Dark and White Chocolate Covered Freeze Dried Strawberries
Kevin - Movie theater seat snobbery

ITIDIC
‘Woman Unknown’ Wins Venice Film Festival
MPA Projects Proposed Federal Tax Credit would Add 143,000 Film & TV Jobs

Staff Picks
Drea - If I Go Will They Miss Me
Alonso - Now, Voyager
Angie - The History of Concrete
Kevin - Martha Marcy May Marlene

Here's a Letterboxd list of Two- and Three-Sister Movies

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Casper Kelly might be most famous for his this-shouldn't-be-so-creepy comedy short "Too Many Cooks." Now he's got his feature directorial debut on his hands (but don't sleep on Yule Log 2, according to Alonso), and It's Buddy, a comedy horror that owes a debt of gratitude to the insistent cheerfulness of Barney the Dinosaur. We'll get into all that, and then talk about some of our favorite times TV crossed over onto the big screens.

What's Good:
Alonso: kouign amann
Drea: Minnesota State Fair
Kevin: Costco belt

ITIDIC
• Summer U.S. Box Office Hits All-Time $4.76B Record: How Audiences Surrendered To Moviegoing
• Telluride’s Top-Secret Film Was a Documentary and people are abuzz (You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes doc)

Staff Picks:
Alonso: We Are Pat
Drea: Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
Kevin: Colony (Gunche)

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Shelved after completion in 2023, COYOTE VS. ACME has finally detonated onto big screens everywhere. We have director David Kittredge (whose doc BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL is finally making it to theaters as well!) with us to follow this courtroom-drama-by-way-of-Merrie-Melodies. Then we'll talk about the fictional lawsuits that the characters of other films might have on their hands.

What’s Good
Alonso - But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition by Kristen Lopez
Drea - Daisy Chain Fields Festival (link is to non-profit beneficiaries if you want to donate!)
David - Boorman and the Devilon the big screen, and people going back to the cinemas
Kevin - French press coffee

ITIDIC

• New AMC Theaters Venture Aims to Put Smaller Films on Big Screen
• Remembering Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, Movie Stars

Staff Picks
Alonso: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Drea: Hadestown: the Musical
David: Buffet Infinity and Buddy
Kevin: The End of Oak Street

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The main character of TONY is Anthony Bourdain, but Matt Johnson’s latest film is not exactly a biopic. We have film critic Katie Walsh with us to discuss Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, and the rest of the kitchen crew in this unusual coming of age movie. Then we’ll think up some other personalities we’d like to see inspire coming-of-age/early-life pics.

What’s Good
Drea: actors with real teeth
Katie: Matt Johnson’s biceps
Kevin: finding childhood books (Chilling Ghost Stories, and Choose Your Own Adventure: The Cave of Time and Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons)

ITIDIC

• Sold-Out Silent Film Fest Showcases Brand New Silent Films
• IndieWire: The Prescience of Disney’s Direct-to-Video Sequels

Staff Picks
Drea: The Cycle of Love
Katie: The Rivals of Amziah King
Kevin: The Conversation

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Comedian Hay Beacon joins us to discuss THE WRONG GIRLS, Dylan Meyer’s feature debut as a writer/director, starring Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat. Meyer has said that the movie is not for everyone, but it’s really for the people it’s for. So…are we those people? Plus, we chat about our favorite “serious” actors to see take comedic turns .

What's Good?
Alonso: Widows Bay
Drea: "Mamdani!" social media posts (and that they're being addressed)
Hay: the dog they found!
Kevin: finding a great hotel pen

ITIDIC
Marvel Unveils Its New X-Men Cast at D23
Pleasantville 4K Release Removes Reese Witherspoon “slut” line

Staff Picks
Alonso: Never Going Back
Drea: It Ends
Hay: Leviticus
Kevin: Ocean's Eight

Listen to Hay's podcast, No Contact.

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Director Jane Schoenbrun's latest film has had a certain kind of movie fan salivating for months now, and it's finally in theaters. So, are we still...salivating? Is this getting gross? Editor of RUE MORGUEMagazine, Andrea Subissati, joins us to discuss. Then, we get our tongues tied up with a movie quiz about film titles even longer than TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA.

What's Good
Alonso: Jeni's Dark Chocolate Bombe
Drea: Full-body skin care
Andrea: Double cone, the American way
Kevin: finally solving the Vitamin C face care situation (Paula's Choice C5 Superboost Moisturizer)

ITIDIC
Ellison Says Paramount Will Exit CA if Suit Isn’t Settled By October
WB Promotes The End of Oak Street on AI Dog Podcast
One Night Only Director Removed Says Audiences Don’t Like Sex Scenes

All titles from our Long Titles Movie Quiz as a Letterboxd list

Staff Picks
Alonso: Trick (1999)
Drea: Wet Hot American Summer
Andrea: Milk & Serial
Kevin: Undertone

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Ken Plume -- author, filmmaker, and longtime host of A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume -- joins us to talk about the movie that everyone seems to be talking about. Is it a great Spider-Man movie, or the greatest Spider-Man movie? Then, we answer a Hotline call (yes, we still take those!) about forbidden films of our youths.

What’s Good?
Alonso - Friends with pools
Drea - Texting other people in a group Zoom
Ken - Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee
Kevin - Summer tabs! Urgent tabs!

ITIDIC

• Netflix Sued Over Loss of Hard Drive With Unreleased Nicolas Cage Film
• Sundance to Expand Competition as Fest’s Debut in Boulder Grows Nearer

Staff Picks
Drea - Late Fame
Alonso - Nights of Cabiria
Ken - 1941
Kevin - Practical Magic

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Is it possible for a sports comedy to fit the formula, but still break the mold? Josh Greenbaum, director of Barb and Starr Go to Vista Del Mar, takes a whack at it with THE DINK, starring Jake Johnson and Mary Steenburgen. It's streaming now on AppleTV. And we have comedian (and yes, pickleball enthusiast) Jaron Myerswith us to discuss! Then we get some pitches together for thoroughly modern movies that wouldn't have made sense a few years (or decades) ago.

What's Good?
Alonso - Severin Films’ Disco Italiana box set
Drea - Bob the Drag Queen recapping Love Island on YouTube
Jaron - Big Brother 24-Hour Feed recap podcasts
Kevin - SDCC ‘26 (check out Minister FarraComic-Con)

ITIDIC
Sony, Alamo Drafthouse, to Reopen Cinerama Dome/Arclight at Long Last
Comic-Con 2026 – Hits and Misses
Paramount/WB Merger Paused Until June 2027, Or Court Ruling

Staff Picks
Drea: Mustache
Alonso: Family Plot
Jaron: Heavyweights
Kevin: Paper Lion

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Everybody's talking about Christopher Nolan's latest film...and so are we! We've got Eurovangelists co-host Dimitry Pompée with us to discuss the first movie ever shot in 70mm IMAX film, adapted from one of history's oldest and most famous works of literature...it's THE ODYSSEY! Then we'll talk about some of the books we read in high-school that have been (or should be) adapted for the big screen.

What's Good?
Alonso: vegetables that don't give you explosive diarrhea
Drea: Blue Diamond Dill Pickle Nut-Thins
Dimitry: The Ottoman Empire (Rise of Empires: Ottomanon Netflix)
Kevin: the Other Mommy trailer

ITIDIC
Hollywood Deems the Box Office “Back” – Big Time
A Rotoscoped TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is in production

The Odyssey/We Bought a Zoo meme

A Letterboxd List: High-School Reads

Staff Picks
Alonso: The Good House
Drea: The Return
Dimitry: Polite Society
Kevin: The Long Walk and other great movies to fall asleep to, if you're Kevin

Listen to Eurovangelists!

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As a MaxFunDrive milestone goal, we set the challenge that if we got enough new/upgrading/joining supporters of Maximum Film!, one of those folks would get to pick a movie for us to do an episode on. Well, thanks to supporters like Molly, we hit that goal, and this episode is the result: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (one of Molly's faves) is a 1974 rock musical fantasmagoria from early in writer/director Brian DePalma's career. It's box-office flop-turned cult classic. And it is heavily reliant on the dubious cultural power of songwriter and actor Paul Williams.

As if this episode needed to be MORE special, we also mark the mid-year by naming some of our favorite films of the year so far.

What's Good?
Alonso - oh, let's call it "current events"
Drea - fixing her own portable AC unit
Marissa - Paramount+ (sorry) has a 90s sitcom "live" channel
Kevin - reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

ITIDIC
GLAAD Study Shows Drop in LGBTQ Characters in FIlm
A Look Back at the Pop Culture of 1974…

Staff Picks
Drea - Horsegirls
Alonso - Ishtar
Marissa - Tommy
Kevin - River [Ribâ, nagarenaide yo]

Kevin at Comic-Con:
Malcolm & Friends Panel: Thursday, 12:30pm, Room 6A
The Pitching Hour: Friday, 12pm, Room 32AB

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Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Amber Sealey joins us to discuss the new marriage dramedy from Olivia Wilde, which premiered at Sundance and is now opening across the country. Costarring Wilde, Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Penelope Cruz, it provokes laughs, anger, rug envy, and that perennial question: are the straights okay? Then we discuss our favorite films that are set in a single location!

What’s Good
Alonso - Christian Marclay’s The Clock returns to LACMA; Spain in World Cup quarterfinals
Drea - Emily Wilson’s translation of THE ODYSSEY
Amber - potpourri basket of hippie gum; Skylight Books opening an Eagle Rock location
Kevin - young love drama before Shrek at Cinespia

ITIDIC
Alamo Drafthouse to Begin Screening Unsold Festival Darlings
Universal Opts to Skip “Influencer Screenings” for THE ODYSSEY

Staff Picks
Alonso - Splitsville
Drea - Widow’s Bay (because An Unmarried Woman and The Heartbreak Kidaren’t streaming)
Amber - Such Brave Girls
Kevin - The Invitation

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It’s neither a bird, nor a plane, nor Superman. It’s Supergirl, the newest film from James Gunn’s DC that has some folks talking, but probably not as many as Warner Bros. would like. We’ve got LA Times film critic, Unspooled co-host, and friend of the show Amy Nicholson along to talk about the stellar highs and dank cave lows, plus we name some of our favorite superhero movie acting performances.

What’s Good
Alonso - binging THE BOYS
Drea - watching an accidentally funny moment on repeat in the film Jefferson in Paris for the Supporting Actresses podcast
Amy - watching The World Cup (and YouTube videos of dog agility competitions)
Kevin - digging through original Backrooms videos, and other short films (Alone Time, The Hole)

ITIDIC
'Michael’ Becomes the Highest-Grossing Biopic Ever
Netflix Announces Weird Willy Wonka Project

Staff Picks
Drea - True Grit
Alonso - Minions & Monsters
Amy - Buffet Infinity
Kevin - Aline

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LEVITICUS is the new Australian horror movie that turns (already quite frightening) gay conversion rituals into something even more haunting. And with us to unpack it is our friend Justin Kirkland, who just happens to have a new podcast exploring (with good humor!) how the Bible has been yielded as a weapon. Then we imagine some classic romances with a devilish twist.

What's Good?
Alonso - UDM14.com
Drea - Bentonville Film Festival 2026!
Justin - Launch of This is Not a Weapon podcast
Kevin - life-changing coasters

ITIDIC
AmazonMGM Bails on Guadagnino’s Almost-Complete Sam Altman Movie
Madonna Says Her Biopic was Scrapped at Universal Over Budget

Staff Picks
Alonso - The Boys in the Band (1970) (in new 4K UHD!)
Drea - Color Bookand Maddie's Secret
Justin - The Birdcage
Kevin - Invaders from Mars (1953)

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Steven Spielberg's new film may be about conspiracies, coverups, and car chases, but it all hinges around the concept of journalism you can trust...so who better to join us than our favorite trusted journalist (and movie podcaster, with UNCLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER), NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie! We put DISCLOSURE DAY under the microscope, then talk about some directors whose filmographies reveal hidden secrets.

What's Good?
Alonso - chicken soup
Drea - Lawrence, KS welcoming Algeria for the World Cup
Jamelle - making your own stock
Kevin - Guy Branum's My Life as a Goddess

ITIDIC
AMC Postpones Concert Simulcast Plan to Make More Room for…Movies
Sean Penn Directing a Jan 6 Movie Starring Bradley Cooper (maybe?)
SUPERGIRL’s Cape Uses Fabric from Original Reeve Superman Cape

Staff Picks
Drea - The Furious
Alonso - Jewel's Catch One
Jamelle - George Wallace (1997)
Kevin -September 5

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