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Comedy Tragedy Marriage

Comedy Tragedy Marriage

By Stan the Movie Man

Stan the Movie Man and Maude the Movie Broad, a couple married over 35 years, take turns choosing a movie, watching it together, then discussing why one loves it and whether the other one loves it, likes it or hates it.
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Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Comedy Tragedy MarriageOct 21, 2020

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Poor Things

Poor Things

Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo star in the story of a strange woman finding her way and herself in the world in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.”
Mar 27, 202454:09
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

When two average people see UFO’s they are left with the feeling they have been left a message they must figure out in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 classic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Mar 20, 202458:13
Winter’s Bone

Winter’s Bone

A hard Ozark’s life with an absent father, mentally ill mother and two younger siblings gets potentially impossible with the threat of homelessness for 17-year old Ree in 2010’s “Winter’s Bone.”
Mar 13, 202456:01
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands

Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands

Marian Anderson lived at a time when African-Americans were treated as second class citizens. She didn’t want to be a civil rights fighter, but her voice put her at the frontlines of the beginning of a movement.
Mar 06, 202458:28
Barbie

Barbie

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling bring iconic toys to life in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.”
Feb 28, 202457:08
The Holdovers

The Holdovers

Three damaged people become a reluctant family over the Christmas holiday at an exclusive boys prep school in Alexander Payne’s Oscar nominated film “The Holdovers.”
Feb 28, 202453:16
A Simple Favor

A Simple Favor

Two very different women become friends. But when one goes missing, the other begins a journey looking for her, and the truth, in “A Simple Favor.”
Feb 14, 202444:00
Nyad

Nyad

Diana Nyad had a seemingly charmed life: Gifted athlete, endurance swimmer, TV sports commentator, motivational speaker and winner of various awards. But one goal seemed out of reach…swimming from Cuba to Florida.
Feb 07, 202451:28
Bottoms

Bottoms

Two high school senior girls plot to lose their virginity to the cheerleaders they have crushes on by starting an after school fight club in the 2023 satirical teen comedy “Bottoms.”
Feb 02, 202448:11
June

June

Before she was married to Johnny Cash, she was part of country music royalty. But even if no one knew who June Carter Cash was, she was a queen. She’s the subject of the new documentary “June” available to stream on Paramount+.
Jan 24, 202451:57
Free Guy

Free Guy

A mild-mannered bank teller discovers there’s far more to his world, and another, than he ever suspected in”Free Guy,” starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Joe Keery and Taika Waititi.
Jan 18, 202458:24
Good Grief

Good Grief

After a married couple are separated by death, the surviving spouse leans on his best friends to deal with the loss in the Netflix original movie “Good Grief” starring Dan Levy, Ruth Negga, Himesh Patel and Luke Evans.
Jan 10, 202445:59
Christmas With the Kranks

Christmas With the Kranks

A couple of empty nesters plan on taking a cruise for Christmas but their friends and neighbors aren’t having it in “Christmas With the Kranks.”
Dec 22, 202358:20
Santa’s Slay

Santa’s Slay

The Jolly Old Fat Man is done delivering gifts and is just bringing the pain in 2005’s “Santa’s Slay” starring wrestler Bill Goldberg, Emilie de Ravin, Douglas Smith and Robert Culp.
Dec 13, 202356:37
Candy Cane Lane

Candy Cane Lane

Eddie Murphy is a husband and father determined to win a Christmas decorating contest but must battle an evil elf named Pepper in the Amazon Prime holiday comedy (?) “Candy Cane Lane.”
Dec 06, 202356:08
Crazy Heart

Crazy Heart

Jeff Bridges is an alcoholic country singer seemingly hellbent on destroying every opportunity to redeem himself in 2009’s “Crazy Heart.”
Nov 29, 202355:24
The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show

A small Texas town is slowly dying and taking all the citizens with it in Peter Bogdanovich’s black and white 1971 classic “The Last Picture Show.”
Nov 23, 202358:17
The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter

Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, John Savage and Meryl Streep lead a cast of greats in Michael Cimino’s Vietnam war epic “The Deer Hunter.”
Nov 15, 202359:30
Good Boys

Good Boys

Sixth-graders, a kissing party, a drone, Molly and raging hormones lead to a day of misadventures in the raunchy comedy “Good Boys.”
Nov 08, 202354:45
Carrie

Carrie

Bullying the wrong person leads to a deadly prom in “Carrie,” based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.
Nov 01, 202358:21
Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep

Danny Torrance has grown up running away from his gift of the Shining, but now must embrace it to save a young woman with a more powerful gift from a group of Shining vampires in “Doctor Sleep.”
Oct 25, 202359:30
Cujo

Cujo

A big lovable dog becomes a killing machine in “Cujo,” based on the novel by Stephen King.
Oct 18, 202358:56
Pet Sematary and Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

Pet Sematary and Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

Spooky Season continues with a Stephen King double feature: “Pet Sematary” and “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines.”
Oct 13, 202356:17
The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone

Christopher Walken and Brooke Adams play star-crossed lovers who are not meant to be, plus some psychic stuff, in “The Dead Zone,” based on Stephen King’s book of the same name.
Oct 04, 202356:17
Klute

Klute

Jane Fonda won her first Best Actress Oscar portraying a world-weary sex worker alongside Donald Sutherland’s experienced yet naive cop in 1971’s thriller “Klute.”
Sep 27, 202356:32
The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

The 1962 film “The Manchurian Candidate” came out at the height of the Cold War and reflected America’s fear of communist attack and domination.
Sep 22, 202358:10
The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

A hard drinking, morally ambiguous and tough-as-nails private detective takes on the case of his career in 1941’s “The Maltese Falcon” starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet.
Sep 13, 202357:02
Don’t Worry Darling

Don’t Worry Darling

Olivia Wilde produced, directed and co-starred in 2022’s “Don’t Worry Darling.” The film also stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles and Chris Pine. It came out with controversy, much of it centered in misogyny, put is the movie any good?
Sep 06, 202357:22
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

A mother, grieving and angry, takes unusual steps to find her daughter’s killer in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
Aug 30, 202355:59
To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird

Gregory Peck won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a crusading lawyer in the Depression-era South in “To Kill A Mockingbird.”
Aug 23, 202357:16
Crack in the World

Crack in the World

Memories of a childhood trip led to this week’s selection of the 1965 sci-if disaster film “Crack in the World.”
Aug 16, 202356:28
Suddenly, Last Summer

Suddenly, Last Summer

Based on a Tennessee Williams one-act play, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift star in the Southern Gothic potboiler “Suddenly, Last Summer.”
Aug 09, 202358:59
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan pours all of his filmmaking know how into the lush, dense and grand historical epic about the man who led the effort to develop the atomic bomb in “Oppenheimer.”
Aug 02, 202354:52
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)

The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)

Margaret Atwood wrote about a dystopian future in 1984 that seems far closer to reality than it should. We watched the 1990 (or 1989, depending on your source) film version of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Jul 26, 202357:01
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Stan and Maude jump in Quentin Tarantino’s Time Machine, traveling to 1969 to view the revised history of Sharon Tate and the Manson family in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Jul 19, 202356:54
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

This 1957 film is perhaps more relevant now than when it debuted. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and more star in “12 Angry Men.”
Jul 12, 202359:40
The French Dispatch

The French Dispatch

Wes Anderson made “The French Dispatch” as a tribute to writers. His love for the written word is on full display in this 2021 film.
Jul 05, 202356:49
The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp

Robin Williams first successful film (following a raunchy comedy and the big budget bomb “Popeye”) was based on a John Irving novel “The World According to Garp.”
Jun 28, 202359:23
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

Comic, actor, mimic, improviser Robin Williams was a genius at making people laugh, cry, and cry with laughter. His life and far untimely death are explored in the documentary “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind.”
Jun 21, 202357:11
Love to Love You: Donna Summer

Love to Love You: Donna Summer

She was the Queen of Disco but there was so much more to know about Donna Summer. We learn some of what we want to know in the MAX documentary “Love to Love You: Donna Summer.”
Jun 14, 202357:27
Frozen

Frozen

A young princess with magical powers needs to figure out how to control her abilities and not hurt her sister and her kingdom in Disney’s “Frozen.”
Jun 07, 202349:30
Being Mary Tyler Moore

Being Mary Tyler Moore

She was a TV icon of the 1960’s and 1970’s, breaking boundaries in the depiction of women. She was viewed as America’s sweetheart but she was so much more. Learn about her in “Being Mary Tyler Moore.”
May 31, 202358:47
3000 Years of Longing

3000 Years of Longing

Idris Elba plays an eternal, magical djinn and Tilda Swinton is the academic that releases him from his bottle in 2022’s “3000 Years of Longing.”
May 24, 202357:29
20 Feet From Stardom

20 Feet From Stardom

Backup singers are the unsung heroes of recoded and live music. A few of them get the spotlight for the first time in the 2013 documentary “20 Feet From Stardom.”
May 19, 202355:02
A Man Called Otto

A Man Called Otto

Tom Hanks stars as a man trying to kill himself but life and his neighbors keep getting in the way in “A Man Called Otto.”
May 10, 202354:48
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Maude selected a favorite book made into a new movie “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.”
May 03, 202357:07
This Is The End

This Is The End

Seth Rogan, Jay Baruchel, James Franco and more star as themselves in the stoner End-of-Days comedy “This Is The End.”
Apr 26, 202354:27
Leanne Morgan & Mae Martin Netflix Comedy Specials

Leanne Morgan & Mae Martin Netflix Comedy Specials

Maude selected two comedy specials; Leanne Morgan’s “I’m Every Woman,” and Mae Martin’s “SAP.” Two very different specials from very different comics, both available on Netflix.
Apr 19, 202355:29
The Menu (2022)

The Menu (2022)

A high-end restaurant located on a secluded island becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a select few in 2022’s “The Menu.”
Apr 12, 202353:38
The Whale

The Whale

Brendan Fraser won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in “The Whale.” It’s an impressive performance, but is it a good movie? Maude and I discuss.
Apr 05, 202354:11