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It’s the most nervous Macintosh has ever been as we discuss one of his all-time favorite foreign films... Hello! and welcome to another episode of Macintosh and Maud Haven’t Seen What?! This week Macintosh transports Maud to 1960’s Hong Kong for a timeless film that redefines what a screen romance can be. Though he is on pins and needles hoping this movie holds up as well as when he saw it in high...

Sometimes a musical just needs to stay a musical, especially if you’re not going to film it well. Welcome again to Macintosh & Maud Haven't Seen What?! This week, we set our sights on 1890's New York and discuss the wiles of Ms. Dolly Levi and her schemes to find love. At least, that's what we would've done had Walter Matthau not been such a jerk. Enjoy our review of Hello, Dolly! After the br...

"L-I-V-E! Live! Otherwise you got nothing to talk about in the locker room."Welcome once again to another exciting episode of Macintosh & Maud Haven't Seen What?! This week, we kick off our "Love is In the Air" series by discussing love, life and happiness through the romance of a suicide-obsessed 17-year-old and a car-jacking, smooth-talking septugenarian. It's Harold and Maude! After the bre...

The 90th Academy Awards are over, and we've got opinions to share. LOTS of them. The film year has come to a close (or beginning, depending on how you view things) and we've got our breakdown on the awards and our feelings about them. It was a solid, fun year with good jabs and goofs, but overall wound up being a safe year for the Academy voters. We weren't angry with too many choices...just a lit...

We've got a music special and a ballot breakdown for the Oscars. Check out the show notes this week for so many fun links and things to listen to. As a special pre-Oscars offering, we’re breaking down the five nominees for Best Original Song! We have opinions and we’re not afraid of sharing them for a fairly strong crop of songs. Except for one. A very specific one. Then, we’re getting our snacks...

Every night in my dreams / I fear for / the memories / of just how bad James Cameron's / script waaaaass...We're closing out our Best Picture winners series with the much-beloved, insanely expensive and wildly successful Titanic from 1997. David's never seen this movie, and Diana saw it 6 TIMES in the theater. In what has to be one of the most bizarre movie experiences of all time, this may be the...

We might have had nicer things to say about this movie. But then we saw the Oscar nominees for 1971...Before reviewing this movie, we recognized that William Friedkin's The French Connection was a groundbreaking and unique film. It undoubtedly has one of the greatest car chases ever committed to celluloid. But maaaan is this movie a hot mess. We argue about whether the problem with the movie is th...

It's the biggest bummer movie of all time as we watch the Kramer family fall apart. So, FUN!Whew. This was a movie your friendly neighborhood co-hosts have been avoiding for a LONG time. And why would we be into it? It's a 2-hour film chronicling the drawn-out custody battle of a family torn apart by divorce. Oh, and it's incredibly sexist despite trying to be real and edgy. If not for Dustin Hoff...

Be honest - you'd get conned too if Robert Redford and Paul Newman were running it against you. The Set-Up. The Hook. The Tale. The Wire, The Shut-Out, The Sting. This week we fall into the long con with 1973's Best Picture, The Sting. George Roy Hill puts together a smart, deliberate film that takes its time to set up the con and hooks you in. It doesn't hurt that two dreamy dudes are running the...

Rain Man isn't so much a Best Picture as the best of a series of movies you might catch on basic cable on a Sunday afternoon...SPOILER ALERT: We reviewed the costume design in-depth for Phantom Thread. If you don't want to hear spoilers, it's tagged to the end of the episode, so you can simply stop after the final music. This week we watched 1988's Best Picture, Rain Man. The script has the same s...

Oscar Nominations are out which means it's time to praise AND yell at the Academy for their decisions. If you've been listening to our podcast so far, you know we're laser-focused on the Oscars. And Tuesday morning, the race for the golden dude officially started. We're here to talk about all of our feelings on the nominees, the admittedly few snubs, and the movies we haven't (and some we DEFINITE...

It's a miracle of epic proportions - we both agree this is a perfect movie. This week, David has Diana watch The Apartment, Billy Wilder's masterpiece and the 1960 Best Picture. This delightful, charming and dark romantic comedy beat Psycho, Spartacus, and Inherit the Wind across the board. Jack Lemmon is a national treasure, Shirley MacLaine is delightfully melancholy and Billy Wilder has an unca...

War is madness, like the madness of a British colonel aiding the enemy. Or blowing up a bridge. That kind of stuff. BIG episode today! We start by reviewing the 1957 classic war drama  The Bridge on the River Kwai . We adore Alec Guinness and enjoy William Holden, but we think we should tighten things up. A lot. Still, we have no argument against the movie being that year’s Best Picture - mostly b...

All movies end, especially after 3+ hours. But not all movies are truly good...We're back watching movies, and that means it's time to do a tour of Oscar-winners for Best Picture. This week, we're kicking things off with Mel Gibson's 1995 Scottish epic, Braveheart, and hoo, boy this one's a stinker. Right from the start we can't help but roll our eyes at the bad hair, the cartoon-like performances...

Ring in 2018 with our look back at the best (and worst) movies of the year! It's a new year, and Mac and Maud take a look back at the ridiculous amount of movies we saw this year. First, we talk about trends in our movies from the podcast, and then break down the best and worst movies of 2017. After that we've packed in reviews for 3 new movies from our break: Pitch Perfect 3, Jumanji: Welcome to...

We've got a mega-triple-packed episode with LOTS of stuff to talk about this week, so no wasting time! First, Mac & Maud talk about Coming To America (1988), Eddie Murphy's first foray into portraying multiple characters. And while Mac and Maud get some good gut laughs, we can't help but think that only about 1/3 of this movie is actually...y'know...good. That being said, Rick Baker is a geniu...

Mac & Maud had mixed reactions watching Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn and Dennis Quaid punch a hole in the sky in 1983's The Right Stuff. Space is awesome, and there's plenty of fun, hilarious anecdotes highlighting the insanity of the Mercury 7 program and America's flights into space. But as much as this movie may hold a special place in one of our intrepid host's heart, this movie doe...

Macintosh & Maud have confidence that 1965's Best Picture Winner The Sound of Music has a well-earned place in the canon of popular film. It's got powerful music and lyrics from Rodgers & Hammerstein, an outstanding screenplay that propels the story forward, and some fantastic directing from legend Robert Wise. But that's not what we consider our favorite things about the movie:Julie Andre...

There are two kinds of people in the world: Macintoshes who love and revere Sergio Leone movies, and Mauds who rightly call out a 3-hour movie for being waaaaayyyy too long. Fortunately for you, both are here to discuss their respective feelings on Leone's quintessential spaghetti western classic, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966). We talk about how Clint Eastwood was a badass in the 60's; ta...

It's a double feature this week! Two high school movies so Macintosh can finally see some of those dumb comedies he should've a looooong time ago. First, Aloha, Mr. Hand. It's time to watch Fast TImes at Ridgemont High (1982). We talk about the unexpected magic of Judge Reinhold, the genius of Sean Penn's surfer bro alter-ego, and the weird, awkward dancing of young Nicholas Coppola, soon to becom...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!For the holiday, we're putting out a special episode reviewing Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). The John Hughes epic road trip from hell just so happens to be set at Thanksgiving. While it does feature the genius pairing of Steve Martin and John Candy, it's not the most amazing movie ever, and runs a bit long. Besides, Mac & Maud have their own Thanksgiving...

Macintosh thought Maud was going to be mad as hell at him for thinking Network was one of the greatest movies of all time. It was poised to sweep the Oscars in 1977, but lost out on best picture and best direction to Rocky. If you ask us, though, this movie only gets saved by the writing and some still-amazing performances, like Peter Finch's wild-eyed madman prophet Howard Beale, or William Holde...

Macintosh's teen angst finally gets a body count when Maud finally gets him to watch Heathers. Macintosh breaks down some big, philosophical themes, Maud breaks down the very problematic tropes in the writing, and both agree that we wish we could have more Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in our lives. The whole episode is just so...very...NEXT WEEK: NETWORK (1976).You can email us with feedback...

Dear Father and Mother:November is the month which brings Macintosh & Maud to an undeniably great movie, Taxi Driver, watching a man who would not take it any more slowly descend into utter paranoid madness. We take a deep dive on the film, which deals with issues of violence, toxic masculinity, loneliness, mental health, vigilantism and the fear of the seedier side of life. So, you know, it's...

We'll let you guys in on a little insider secret: Macintosh and Maud gave Trading Places the highest rating thus far for a movie. Yeah, it's not news about frozen orange juice futures, but we think you'll still enjoy our review. Eddie Murphy is a powerhouse, Dan Aykroyd is absorbing playing against his mania, and a certain United States Senator makes a fun cameo. We also get into talk about econom...