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CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Murder, misogyny, “purity” tropes, blood, violent death, mental illness, dissociation, knives and blades, snakes. The fact that we hadn’t seen the mother of all slasher movies weighed pretty heavy on us, so we finally decided it was time to fix that. And wow were we pleasantly surprised. As was most of the country - in a year where J...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Death, haunting, paranormal occurrences, body horror, grave desecration, kidnapping, suggested sexual assault, clowns, skeletons, dead bodies. We’re back from our hiatus and we’re ready to get scary and spooky for Scaretober 2020! This week, we’re kicking things off with a horror film that kinda traumatized children, since it gave St...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of violence, death, horror tropes, sex work, misogyny, prison, gore, body horror, war, transphobia, transphobic representation, politics and current events. Kristin Devine of Roll to Play Podcast Network, Powered by the Players, and Christmastide, OH joins us for the mother of all action antihero movies…and its sequel. It...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Discussionsof racism, transphobia, imprisonment and offensive tropes, toxic masculinity, murder, rape, death, plane crashes. One of the reasons we opted to do an action movie series was the specific purpose of watching the movies we’re covering today. The hype has been so massive, and ever-present, that we couldn’t ignore it any long...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Discussionsof racism, transphobia, imprisonment and offensive tropes, toxic masculinity, murder, rape, death, plane crashes. Claudia Elvidge, creator of The Beacon, joins us this week for a discussion of a film renowned for its bonkers quotient. You know, that point where an objectively not great movie suddenly becomes awesome just b...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of racism and racist action, Asian-American stereotypes, violence, snakes, danger to animals. AJ Ganaros of Straight Off the Top of My Headlines, Shattered Worlds RPG, and Christmastide, Ohio joins us this week to talk about a truly seminal piece of film. That word gets tossed around a lot for a lot of different movies, b...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of misogyny, child sexual abuse, homophobia, violence, murder. Lindsey Nelsen of Historical Hotties is joining us this week for a movie that is mostly important because it resurrected Robert Downey, Jr.’s career and possibly got him the role of Iron Man. We shouldn’t pretend that wasn’t one of the reasons this movie became...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Audio of a gunshot, discussions of violence and murder, police officers. Becca of Magic Folk returns to our show to talk about another truly bonkers movie, and one that is so close to being good. Action comedies were definitely a thing when this movie came out, but this movie amped the satire to its maximum limit, making ridiculously...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Mentions of violent death and injury. Tim Devine and Kent Blue of the Roll to Play Podcast Network are here to talk about Die Hard on a mountain. Or at least, that’s what this lesser-known 90’s action flick has been called in some circles. There’s similarities to that quintessential cat-and-mouse action movie, for sure, but for its t...

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CONTENT WARNING: Blood, broken bones, gang violence, police, broad stereotypes. We’re back for a summer series packed with all sorts of action, and we’re kicking things off with the movie that broke Jackie Chan in America! And wow is this movie a wild ride. Imagine a Saturday-morning cartoon writing a martial arts film in New York, but then actually...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon This week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?! we take one final look at the 26 (!!!) movies we watched for the series, make some rankings, and talk about what’s coming after our hiatus! 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 and review the sho...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Murder, killing, torture, violence to people’s eyes, trauma, parental secrets, memory, jealousy, family jealousy, adoption, sex. We’re wrapping up Part III of our Bond saga with Kent Blue of theRoll to Play Podcast Network, and we’re talking about what very well could have been Daniel Craig’s final Bond film. I mean, he drives off into the sunset...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Sexism, misogyny, murder and killing, mention of cyanide poisoning, childhood trauma, trauma, grief, betrayal, terrorism, sex. This week, Jamie O’Duibhir of the Anti-Church stream on Twitch joins us for a big Bond fight as Macintosh and Maud are throwing down on which of the Craig Bond films will be crowned the champion. Maud’s already gone on re...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of sexual relationships with a minor, trauma, sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse, transphobia and transmisogyny, drag, medical abuse and malpractice. This week, Angel, the creator of Finding Atlas (To Have and to Hold), joins us for a crossover with The Doghouse: A Riverdale Podcast to watch and review the 2001 film version of...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of a cast member in brownface, racism, sexism, violence, drunkenness and drinking, grief, trauma, murder, revenge. This week, long-time friend of the pod Kate Harlow of The Space-Agers is here to rein in our expectations with the messy, lesser sequel of Casino Royale that is still seen as a relative low point in the Craig era. Nothing...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Sexism, misogyny, violence, murder, assassination, trauma, language. This week, Andrew of the incomparable Keanu-cast Cool Breeze Over the Mountain is here to praise the biggest game-changer in the entire Bond franchise. Like, no one was ready for what Barbara Broccoli was planning in 2006 when she finally got the rights to tell James Bond’s orig...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of whitewashing, racism, sexism, misogyny, violence, torture. Also, one clip that contains the sound of gunshots and breaking glass [7:32-8:09]. This week, Becca of Magic Folk is here to talk about the most wild, weird, so-bad-it’s-kind-of-amazing entry in the Bond franchise. I mean, this movie is bonkers, bouncing back and forth betwe...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of misogyny, sexism, violence, psychosexual relationships, abuse and codependence, "Stockholm Syndrome". This week, Kayla of Gates of Orchid and Iris and DM Dalliance joins us to go through a real low point for Bond. This probably isn’t the worst Bond movie we’ve seen, but it’s definitely in line to be the most mediocre Bond film we’ve...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Murder, dead bodies, gaslighting, manipulation, paranoia, suggestions of dissociative identity disorder, drugs, memory loss, death, underage drinking. This week, our librarian friend James Wilcox joins us for a Bond film that really had no right being as good as it was. I mean, they started shooting a Thanksgiving release in April and had no comp...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of misogyny and womanizing, sexual harassment. This week, Jen and Micah of I Never Saw That join us for a movie on their timeline and on our radar from 1995! It took 6 years to make the next Bond film after Licence to Kill, but the wait was most definitely worth it. Pierce Brosnan is hooooooottttt and yet also fun, charming, and roguis...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, violence, specific acts of violence in the film, sex, misogyny. It’s officially season 4 of Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?! but instead of taking a break, we’re already on the clock to finish our James Bond film watch before we see the 20th Bond film, No Time to Die. So we’re kicking things off with an epic double-f...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon We’ve seen all the films, now it’s time to hear the awards. We wrap up Oscars ‘67 by discussing the 40th Annual Academy Awards with all the winners, surprises, and big moments. And, we even spend a little time wondering why the Academy doesn’t take a page from its past and re-introduce some elements from this broadcast that would work really well today. It’s a ti...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon We’re here with our review of the 2020 Academy Awards, where the show is so self-congratulatory you can almost smell the collective heads up posteriors. Seriously, it was a boring mess of a ceremony, but that didn’t stop us from shouting with delight at Parasite taking home 4 Oscars, including Best Picture. In a year in which the Academy once again showed its unc...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon The Oscars are forthcoming and we’re here to talk about our predictions, along with our takes on the Best Songs! Spoiler: it’s not a great category! You can email us with feedback at macintoshandmaud@gmail.com, or you can connect with us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. If you like the podcast, make sure to subscribe and review on iTunes, Spotify, or your favo...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, abusive husbands, abuse of power, abuse against women, violence, hanging, death penalty, true crime. For our final film in the Oscars ‘67 series, we’re tackling a movie that’s both ahead of its time but also not artful enough to make its point in a solid way. Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel invented the true crime genre, an...