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CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER STRONG CONTENT WARNING: Attempted rape/sexual assault, child abuse, alcohol use, drunkenness, violence, cockfighting, alcohol, child murder, surreal horror, trampling, repeated use of racist and sexist language. Please don’t watch this movie. We, uh, did not end this series on a high note. In the least. Look, we’re not above watching uncomfortable fil...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of racism and sexism, and later, discussions of rape culture, sexual assault, loss of hearing, deafness. Hey, look! A fun movie for once! Seriously some of the films in this category were meant to be entertaining but instead wound up being incredible bores. Even our favorite movie thus far deals with the intensely difficul...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Gambling, theft, abuse, homelessness, economic issues. Notwithstanding her often tempestuous behavior, we here at Macintosh & Maud consider Barbra Streisand as one of the greats. She’s already made an appearance as Dolly Levi, shining through her co-star’s complete lack of interest or care. But it’s this role that started her star...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER The nominees have been announced, and we’re weighing in with our takes on the nominees, the films, and what we plan to watch in this special bonus episode of Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?! You can email us with feedback at macintoshandmaud@gmail.com, or you can connect with us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Also please subscribe, rate a...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Mental illness, suicide, emotional turmoil, mental health facilities, institutional abuse, emotional abuse, emotional manipulation, racism, sexism, indigenous tokenism, alcohol, abusive language. We finally got a good one, y’all. I mean, if you know anything about Oscars history, you know this week’s movie has a giant legacy when it c...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Sexism, misogyny, mention of rape, manipulation, gaslighting, infidelity. Time to throw another flag in the ground for this podcast - Warren Beatty can’t act. Like, he might be slightly pretty, but if today’s entry is indicative of the man’s career, a plank of 2x4 would be a better casting option than the absolute black hole of this g...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Racism, colonialism, colonial attitudes, imperialism, depictions of brownface. This is now the second time, in an Oscars series, in which an otherwise pretty fun movie was spoiled by massive, massive racism. Like, our two stars perform in brownface as Afghani villagers for a good chunk of the movie, and it's just treated as a plot poi...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Physical abuse, emotional abuse, assassination, sexual harassment, mild mention of racism.. The only thing either of us knew about this week’s movie was that it was incredibly well-respected, and it inspired a lot of great mockumentaries that came after. So imagine our surprise (sort of) when we sat through a sprawling, lackluster, ai...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Workplace abuse, manipulation, discussion of vomiting from 47:00-47:18. You’re never really done with Stanley Kubrick, no matter how hard you try. I mean, yes, we did an entire series on the little tyrant a year ago, and we named an entire rule about him. But at least when we watched those movies, there was something interesting and u...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of homophobia and transphobia, robbery, death, police shooting, police violence. It’s finally awards season, and we had so much fun with last year’s Oscar series, we decided to come back for another round of a year in Oscars. And after our Spielberg series, watching and loving Jaws, we saw the list of contenders and realize...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Violence, espionage, conspiracy, murder, nuclear bombs. We’re closing out our Series: Impossible with a movie that isn’t the best…but it also isn’t the worst. The story for this movie hinges on a boring MacGuffin and a ton of easter eggs that only people who’ve watched the whole franchise closely (aka US) will appreciate. The characte...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Violence, espionage, trauma, gaslighting, panic/anxiety. At some point you just knew we were going to run across a movie in this series for which we had some differences of opinion. Turns out it’s this 2015 entry, which is both fun as hell and also very derivative of another spy we’ve talked about extensively on this show. But Bond as...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Violence, espionage, trauma, gaslighting, panic/anxiety. If M:I III was the forerunner of the Mission: Impossible franchise, then this week’s film proved the franchise was immensely profitable. And it also happens to be a pretty fun movie, with Ethan fulfilling a more senior role as he leads three relatively fresh and raw agents throu...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Violence, murder, espionage, body horror/suspense, trauma. It took 6 years before the next movie in the M:I franchise got released, but it might be the most successful in the franchise. Which is interesting, considering this movie went through absolute development hell, and passed through several writers and directors before finally l...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Violence, espionage, gaslighting, abuse, sexual assault. Well, it usually takes a while to get to the worst movie in a series, but with Mission: Impossible, they got it out of the way quickly. We’re not exactly versed in the cinema of John Woo, but if this is your introduction, it’s pretty damning. It’s not so much that Woo made a lac...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Violence, espionage, gaslighting, espionage, workplace romance. Tom Cruise is truly a fascinating character, with enough energy and zeal for stunts that could power whole cities, and a ruthless loyalty to whatever he sets his mind to - particularly the Church of Scientology. But we’re not here to talk about the Church today. No, we’re...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of grief, mental illness, war, slavery, racism, white saviorism, racist propaganda. Here we are, ending our journey through Spielberg’s catalog on a film that’s got to be a sure-fire smash. It’s got an impeccable cast, a great screenwriter, and one of the most compelling people in history around which to build a story. Whic...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of drug addiction, loss of a child, harmful drug tropes, gaslighting, relived trauma, murder, child abduction, assault, violence, injuries to eyes. The early-to-mid 2000’s were not a banner time for filmmaking, across the board. Sure, there’s some diamonds in the rough, but blockbuster films of that 5-6 year period were all...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER STRONG CONTENT WARNING: Incest, rape, forced separation from children, forced separation of family, physical abuse, verbal abuse, gaslighting, racism, generational trauma, violence. Listener discretion is advised. We weren’t ready for this week’s movie, nor were we disappointed. Spielberg’s first “serious” film packs one hell of a punch, telling a Bla...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Alien abduction, being treated as mentally ill, fear, obsession. Spielberg’s second film was intended to be his motion picture debut, a passion project of his since making an adolescent film in the mid-60’s. In many ways, it’s his personal love letter to sci-fi, and there are moment of sublime beauty and awe in this film. You could pr...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON the original summer blockbuster, defying all conventional movie business logic and studio conjecture. And all it took was nearly 6 months of shooting, a very young director on the verge of a nervous breakdown, a few stars with egos and tempers as big as their talent, and a very, very temperamental fake shark. Yeah, you probably know which movie this is now, but are you prepar...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Intense gore and violence, intense body horror, animal death, paranoia, murder, death, suggestions of mental illness, isolation. We’re finishing up our horror series with a movie Macintosh has had on his list for a long time, while Maud has mostly been indifferent. But this isn’t a movie that warrants a medium opinion. Critics at the...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Murder, occult rituals, sacrifice, demon worship, gore, alcoholism, family trauma, childhood trauma. Continuing our watch of some of the best new horror out, we caught up with this horror farce that’s as much Clue as it is The Hills Have Eyes. And given that this was a fairly low-budget production with little int terms of actual star...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. STRONG CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses the 2020 remake of The Invisible Man, and deals directly with domestic abuse, gaslighting, stalking, manipulation, self-harm, self-defense, violence against loved ones, and violent murder. If any of these topics or related topics are harmful to you, please skip ahead to 56:38 seconds to listen to our sec...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Murder, voodoo, racism, suicide, serial killers, possessed dolls, child endangerment, childhood trauma, blaming the victim, parents not believing children, violence, technological horror, artificial intelligence, gore. On paper, it’s the most ridiculously laughable premise for a horror film. Mom buys kid a doll possessed by the soul...