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Director Jane Schoenbrun's latest film has had a certain kind of movie fan salivating for months now, and it's finally in theaters. So, are we still...salivating? Is this getting gross? Editor of RUE MORGUE Magazine, Andrea Subissati, joins us to discuss. Then, we get our tongues tied up with a movie quiz about film titles even longer than TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA.

What's Good

Alonso: Jeni's Dark Chocolate Bombe

Drea: Full-body skin care

Andrea: Double cone, the American way

Kevin: finally solving the Vitamin C face care situation (Paula's Choice C5 Superboost Moisturizer)

ITIDIC
Ellison Says Paramount Will Exit CA if Suit Isn’t Settled By October
WB Promotes The End of Oak Street on AI Dog Podcast
One Night Only Director Removed Says Audiences Don’t Like Sex Scenes

All titles from our  Long Titles Movie Quiz as a Letterboxd list

Staff Picks

Alonso: Trick (1999)

Drea: Wet Hot American Summer

Andrea: Milk & Serial

Kevin: Undertone

 

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Ken Plume -- author, filmmaker, and longtime host of A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume -- joins us to talk about the movie that everyone seems to be talking about. Is it a great Spider-Man movie, or the greatest Spider-Man movie? Then, we answer a Hotline call (yes, we still take those!) about forbidden films of our youths. 

What’s Good?

Alonso - Friends with pools

Drea - Texting other people in a group Zoom

Ken - Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee

Kevin - Summer tabs! Urgent tabs!

ITIDIC

Netflix Sued Over Loss of Hard Drive With Unreleased Nicolas Cage Film

Sundance to Expand Competition as Fest’s Debut in Boulder Grows Nearer

Staff Picks

Drea - Late Fame

Alonso - Nights of Cabiria

Ken - 1941

Kevin - Practical Magic

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Is it possible for a sports comedy to fit the formula, but still break the mold? Josh Greenbaum, director of Barb and Starr Go to Vista Del Mar, takes a whack at it with THE DINK, starring Jake Johnson and Mary Steenburgen. It's streaming now on AppleTV. And we have comedian (and yes, pickleball enthusiast) Jaron Myers with us to discuss! Then we get some pitches together for thoroughly modern movies that wouldn't have made sense a few years (or decades) ago. 

What's Good?

Alonso - Severin Films’ Disco Italiana box set

Drea - Bob the Drag Queen recapping Love Island on YouTube

Jaron - Big Brother 24-Hour Feed recap podcasts

Kevin - SDCC ‘26 (check out Minister FarraComic-Con)

ITIDIC
Sony, Alamo Drafthouse, to Reopen Cinerama Dome/Arclight at Long Last
Comic-Con 2026 – Hits and Misses
Paramount/WB Merger Paused Until June 2027, Or Court Ruling

Staff Picks

Drea: Mustache

Alonso: Family Plot

Jaron: Heavyweights

Kevin: Paper Lion

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Everybody's talking about Christopher Nolan's latest film...and so are we! We've got Eurovangelists co-host Dimitry Pompée with us to discuss the first movie ever shot in 70mm IMAX film, adapted from one of history's oldest and most famous works of literature...it's THE ODYSSEY! Then we'll talk about some of the books we read in high-school that have been (or should be) adapted for the big screen.

What's Good?

Alonso: vegetables that don't give you explosive diarrhea

Drea: Blue Diamond Dill Pickle Nut-Thins

Dimitry: The Ottoman Empire (Rise of Empires: Ottoman on Netflix)

Kevin: the Other Mommy trailer

ITIDIC
Hollywood Deems the Box Office “Back” – Big Time
A Rotoscoped TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is in production

The Odyssey/We Bought a Zoo meme

A Letterboxd List: High-School Reads

Staff Picks

Alonso: The Good House

Drea: The Return

Dimitry: Polite Society

Kevin: The Long Walk and other great movies to fall asleep to, if you're Kevin

Listen to Eurovangelists!

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As a MaxFunDrive milestone goal, we set the challenge that if we got enough new/upgrading/joining supporters of Maximum Film!, one of those folks would get to pick a movie for us to do an episode on. Well, thanks to supporters like Molly, we hit that goal, and this episode is the result: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (one of Molly's faves) is a 1974 rock musical fantasmagoria from early in writer/director Brian DePalma's career. It's box-office flop-turned cult classic. And it is heavily reliant on the dubious cultural power of songwriter and actor Paul Williams.  

As if this episode needed to be MORE special, we also mark the mid-year by naming some of our favorite films of the year so far.

What's Good?

Alonso - oh, let's call it "current events"

Drea - fixing her own portable AC unit

Marissa - Paramount+ (sorry) has a 90s sitcom "live" channel

Kevin - reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

ITIDIC
GLAAD Study Shows Drop in LGBTQ Characters in FIlm
A Look Back at the Pop Culture of 1974…

Staff Picks

Drea - Horsegirls

Alonso - Ishtar

Marissa - Tommy

Kevin -  River [Ribâ, nagarenaide yo]

 

Kevin at Comic-Con: 
Malcolm & Friends Panel: Thursday, 12:30pm, Room 6A
The Pitching Hour: Friday, 12pm, Room 32AB

 

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