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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of death, knife fights, gunfire, murder, sexual misconduct, parental trauma, parental negliect, parental abuse. We weren’t aware there was such a thing as being a method director, but this legendary film seems to have proven that’s a thing. Because it’s one thing to make a schlocky B-movie for teenagers about juvenile delinquents. It’s another completely to try to rever...

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, sex work. We’ve jumped ahead to 1945 to tackle the question of whether it’s possible for a movie to have only one likeable character but still be compelling. The verdict - still unclear. This is a bizarre movie, down to the doctor who tries to save a dying young child trying to gain sympathy for having to drive all the way out to the house in the first place....

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, sexual assault, false imprisonment. We’ve got a new name, a new season, and a new series! First up, we talk about our name change with a tagline you may be familiar with. Then, we kick off a new series with a trip through ALL the decades - if the year ends in 5, we’re watching a movie from it! We kick things off with a frothy, zippy, real humdinger of a music...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER We're seen all the movies, we've enjoyed or destroyed them all based on how we feel, and the big night is here at last. We start off with a discussion of the 35th Annual Academy Awards and how unremarkable it was - save for one very uniquely petty acceptance speech. Frank Sinatra may be charming, but he really shouldn't emcee an awards show. Then we d...

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, sexual assault, false imprisonment. 1962 contained not one but two books that were thrust upon us as required school reading (or acting), but none loom as large as this story. To be fair, it’s one of the few stories about the pre-Civil Rights Act South that’s presented through the eyes of a child, and that means it’s perfect school fodder. The movie was a hug...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Horror, gore, child murderers, child molesters, serial killers, knives. We're coming up on the 2025 Oscars and we share our main picks, our takes on the nominees, and why Emilia Perez is one of the worst nominees ever posted to the Oscars, all in this bonus episode of Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?! You can email us with feed...

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of alcoholism, child neglect, substance abuse, addiction. Every year at the Oscars there’s a movie that stands out as the film that should be the Best Picture, just for the sheer raw power of its storytelling. This is that movie. Jack Lemmon is giving a performance for the ages, the supporting cast is rock solid, and the always contrarian Blake Edwards goes for broke. T...

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of abuse, car accidents, aging, mental illness.. If last week was about a world war, this film is about a two-woman war. Joan Crawford and Bette Davis were two of the bitterest rivals in the 30’s and 40’s, but by 1962 both were desperate for a hit. So was director Robert Aldrich, and the three combined to create a unique blend of gothic horror and Hollywood cynicism tha...

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of deafness, blindness, ableism. D-Day happened over 80 years ago, and to this day, there’s only been two films that capture the scope and scale of that bloody day. This movie is one of those, and unfortunately it’s the boring one. To be clear, the battle sequences are among some of the best committed to celluloid; there’s a few moments that will make you gasp at how we...

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of deafness, blindness, ableism. If you’ve ever done theater, and we definitely have, you dread the thought of having to deal with anything related to this movie and this story. And you’d be right to, because all too often we tell a sanitized, ableist, overacted retelling of a very real story: the breakthrough Annie Sullivan had teaching her student Helen Keller to comm...

CONTENT WARNING: imprisonment, solitary confinement, murder, homosexuality. The duds just keep on coming this week as a movie about one of America’s most dangerous (and quirky) prisoners just collapses under its own weight. Many times we celebrate directors and casts who deeply care about their subject. In this case, it somehow makes the whole experience worse, mostly because it commits the cardin...

We keep our Oscars series rolling and well, things have been rough to start. You’d think with a musical as culturally significant and iconic as this one that the movies would have done it up for fun. Sadly, this is an incredibly BORING movie. Sure, Robert Preston is incredible, and sure, the songs are fun, but after the 3rd of 17 dance breaks, you start to realize that our director just barely mad...

CONTENT WARNING: castration, sterilization, sex work, abuse, parental abuse and neglect, menace. Did you miss us? We missed you! That’s right, it’s been far too long, and we’re back with a patented Oscars(TM) series, this time focusing on the year 1962. We kick things off this week with mid-century Hollywood stalwart Tennessee Williams. Boy do we wish we hadn’t. There are some legitimately good an...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, childhood trauma, horror, earthquakes, demons, death. Oops, Freddy wasn’t really dead after the final nightmare. But as Wes Craven makes abundantly clear in this film, horror legends never really go away, they always stick around. Wes’ work in this film is admirable, and it’s some of...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, mental illness, childhood trauma, parental murder, suppressed memories, abuse. There’s been a wide variety of entries in the Freddy Knife Hands series, but finally, finally, we got the entry that makes zero sense and is a bonkers good time. No, this film...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, mental illness, pregnancy, teen pregnancy, body changes in pregnancy. You don’t usually expect the worst film of a horror franchise to be followed with one of the most unique entries, but Freddy Knife Hands is a fickle series of movies. It’s a stretch to...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, child neglect. You never expect 80’s horror movies to be quality cinema. But you do expect there to be some wild, ridiculous stuff that also has enough of an edge to be scary and terrifying. With the 4th installment of Freddy Knife Hands, the writers deci...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, misdiagnosis, medical malpractice, mental health stigma, suicide, mental illness. Wes Craven didn’t think Freddy Krueger could be a legitimate franchise character. And then the sequel basically printed money, and Wes thought it might be a good idea to jum...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, homophobia, trauma.. When we watched the original Nightmare on Elm Street for the show, we were only in our 2nd season and were still relative horror newbies. But it’s finally time to explore the entire Fred Krueger canon, and this week we start with a film that...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Horror, gore, child murderers, child molesters, serial killers, knives. Back in our second season in 2018 (?!??!?!) we talked about A Nightmare on Elm Street. We probably feel differently about it now. Check out our long ago review as we gear up for our new October series reviewing Freddy Knife Hands on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Se...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of war, racism, grief, trauma, PTSD, explosions, abuse, trauma. We’re wrapping up our series with Spike’s most recent joint, traveling to Vietnam for a cross between Apocalypse Now and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. It’s another bold swing in the new era of Spike, but yet again, the balance is all off. When this movie is...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of homicide, gun violence, racism, gang wars, gangs, drug use, sex, misogyny, death of a child, grief. We’ve jumped ahead to Spike’s new era of films for a movie we absolutely should have seen so much earlier. Why? Because it’s a Spike Lee Joint adapted from one of the most important Greek comedies ever written, and it happ...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of Nazi collaboration, antisemitism, robbery, racism, violence, murder, drug dealing, assault, gun violence, threats of violence, homicide, police. This week we’ve got a special double feature, with a Spike movie we loved without knowing it was a Spike Lee joint, and one from the past that took a different look at the world...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of underage attraction, racism, sexism, murder, drug use, prison, assault, violence. It’s been so long since we had a proper movie fight on this show, and this week’s movie finally fit the bill. David thinks this is actually a poignant allegory for the tragic events of 9/11 and trying to reckon with those emotions. Diana th...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, childhood grief, dysfunctional families, parental anger, drugs, poverty, grief, loss. It was only a matter of time before Spike Lee decided to make his own ode to basketball. Unfortunately, his script here is just not up to par, which is a shame, because underneath the flash and messy storytelling, there’s a real...