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Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of war crimes, rape, murder, misogyny, violence toward women, hanging, WWII executions, war, mentions of racism. We don’t watch a lot of war films here at Mac & Maud HQ, but as we worked through 1967, we couldn’t help but watch one of the most iconic action films of all time. It’s hard to enjoy this movie on its own merits, since s...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon STRONG CONTENT WARNING: Racism as a plot point, and the use of two terms in the bio and description of two cast characters. Also, misogyny, discussion of anti-semitism, and abduction of women. We went into this one expecting a fun, whimsical romp of a musical to cleanse the palette after several serious films in a row. Instead, we got a fun, whimsical romp of a m...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon STRONG CONTENT WARNING: Racism and discussions of racism in the deep south. Also, violence, murder, misogyny and abuse of women. Last year, the Academy championed a film that explicitly whitewashed Southern racism by centering an amazing black story on his white chauffeur. It’s not the first time they would do this, and it certainly won’t be the last. But the bit...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of incdeints of animal cruelty and negligence, mtions of racism and anti-Semitism. Well, we did it, everyone. We found the worst movie. Literally, this is now our worst rated film of all time, and it’s not even close. The entire production was a fiasco of epic proportions, and that’s before Rex Harrison’s complete and utter lack of ene...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon The 2020 Oscar nominations have been announced and…well…it happened. David’s full of hot takes and huffiness, while Diana’s utterly nonplussed. Yet both agree that Parasite is amazing and Todd Phillips deserves to get detained by security for the entire ceremony instead of watching the show on camera. Ugh. Here’s hoping the winners are more interesting than the n...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of violence, torture, prisons, labor camps, sadistic wardens, death of a loved one, prayer and Christian iconography. 1967 was a year of change, with the growth in revolutionary ideas, escalation of the war in Vietnam, and the “Summer of Love”. So it’s fitting that one of the real big award contenders that year was a prison chain-gang...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon We’re embarking on our most ambitious series yet for this movie review show - the major Oscar nominees of 1967. The year is loaded with classic movies that truly challenged the idea of what stories Hollywood could tell and what audiences wanted to see. And no movie embodies that more than this week’s entry, a dizzying, unpolished, proto-indie gangster movie about...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon 2019 is coming to and end, so this week we’re here to talk about the rest of the new movies we watched this year, our overall show ratings and trends, and our Bottom 3/Top 5 movies of the year! Come enjoy our wrap session before we hit the ground running in 2020!! Macintosh & Maud have started a Patreon! Any little bit you can contribute helps, and we have sp...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon Santa’s come for all of us this year as we team up with the amazing hosts of Cool Breeze Over the Mountains for a crossover event of epic proportions. We knew when we picked Babes in Toyland this year, we’d need to cover the 1986 version as well. But that version happens to star a then-unknown Keanu Charles Reeves, a cultural icon and phenomenon that our cohorts...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon We're here with some reviews of the best (and worst) of streaming holiday movies this year with some choice holiday selections you can watch on various streaming services this holiday season: Noelle (Disney Plus) The Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (Netflix) A Knight Before Christmas (Netflix) The Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (Netflix) Let It Snow (Netfli...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of racism and antisemitism, along with problematic elements of this film. It’s been so, so long since we watched a solidly good movie, and this week we’re back on track. Vincente Minnelli Found a muse in Judy Garland and took her from cute little girl roles to powerhouse talent over the making of this movie. Not that Judy didn’t act l...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: The synopsis of this film contains a slur directed at the Romani community, used for a significant plot point in this film. As well, discussions of gaslighting, manipulation, and emotional abuse of women, and misogyny. We were prepared for a good, old-fashioned family Disney musical this week as we ventured into our film. What we got instead was...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions ofemotional abuse, neglect, and gaslighting of women and female characters; poor representation; horror themes and fears of children. We’re rounding out 2019 with holiday and Christmas(ish) movies this year, starting with this recent classic that one of us (cough David cough cough) hadn’t already seen. It’s not for lack of trying eith...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of insensitive jokes about pedophilia, fighting between siblings, excessive drunkenness, vomiting, collegiate drinking, poor depictions of suicidal characters. We finish up our road trip this week with the final film in our little Griswold excursion, and this time, it’s Rusty taking the family on a cross-country adventure. Automatical...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of misogyny, gambling addiction, sex workers, teen gambling. Our movie this week is often thrown out as an absolute low point for Chevy Chase’s career. After a pretty dull run through the late 80’s and a disastrous attempt at a late-night talk show, Chevy clearly made a money grab for the character that made him America’s most oblivio...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of fatphobia, sexual harassment, sexual harassment of underage teens, sexism, misogyny. This week’s Griswold adventure is a true cable classic, and honestly, it’s earned that title. Amy Heckerling, a director we just cannot escape on this show, manages to punch up the funny and puts Clark and Ellen on equal footing. Which is good, bec...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of infidelity, womanizing, racism, death of an animal, anxiety, stress, threats of violence, family dysfunction, strong language. We’ve gassed up the Wagon Queen and we’re headed across country with the Griswolds to kick off this holiday season. Diana hadn’t seen any of the Vacation series except for Christmas Vacation, so what better...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon STRONG CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and this film’s exploitative portrayal of that disorder. In the course of researching this episode, we learned that this film had a strong negative impact on the DID community, and that it has and could cause trauma for individuals with DID. As well, the film deals with child sexu...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING:In our discussion of Joker, discussion of mental illness, representing illness in film, brutal violence, and abuse. Please don’t see that movie. We continue Shyamalan-Tober this week with the movie that nearly tanked M. Night’s career for good. I mean, what do you make of a horror-thriller filmmaker who suddenly decides to write and direct a grown...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of mental illness, violence, cults and harmful communal living, disabilities and neurological issues, bad depictions of mental illness, performers Joaquin Phoenix and Adrien Brody. This week in our M. Night Shyamalan series, we’re examining a film that many consider his masterpiece, but in reality is both messy and problematic. There’...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of disabilities and disabled people, male privilege, patriarchal attitudes. This year we’re celebrating the Halloween season with a review of the films of the polarizing master (?) of suspense, M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan’s always been a bit of a disputed figure in movies, and his track record has been mixed, but is that just critic...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of sexual harassment, a story choice involving step-siblings being romantically involved. We’re wrapping up our female directors series with the ur-teen comedy that helped kick off movies that defined a generation of high school teens - except maybe David, who hasn’t seen any of them. We’ve tackled some big movies on that list, but po...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of transphobia and trans-exclusionary ideology, sexual and physical abuse, drugs, sex work, mental illness, attempted murder, shooting. This week’s film might just be the least well-known on the list, though it packs a decent amount of creative firepower. Mary Harron helms this biopic/docudrama/ideological exploration of Valerie Solan...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Discussions of sperm donation, family strife, marriage, affairs, marital strife. If you remember the 2010 Oscars, you remember the giant buzz this little-indie-that-could generated. It had a powerhouse cast, relatable family struggles and dynamics, an LGBTQ+ couple presented with no real complications, and a healthy dose of humor. After all the buzz for this...

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon STRONG CW: Discussions of rape, child abuse, sexual abuse, violence against women, murder, mental illness, serial killers. This week, we take a hard turn into true crime with a then-rising-star Charlize Theron and true blue movie star Christina Ricci. Theron donned prosthetic makeup and a dark persona to portray Aileen Wournos, a sex worker-turned-murderer whose...