Comedy Tragedy Marriage

Maude is still in the mood to celebrate the season with 1942’s Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Marjorie Reynolds. While the film has cringe-inducing scenes of blackface and outdated ideas about the autonomy of women, the charm of the stars and the breezy dance numbers almost make up for the racism and sexism.

This episode, Stan the Movie Man picked the most recent version of Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch. Is this retelling of How the Grinch Stole Christmas just the thing to make your heart grow three sizes? Maude the Green Broad and Stan have some thoughts.

Maude and Stan jump into the wayback machine to a Christmas long past for the 1949 TV version of THE Christmas Carol, starring Vincent Price.

Stan the Movie Man reached back into the childhood archive and pulled the only film for which John Wayne won an Oscar, 1969’s True Grit. It has sweet memories for Stan, but will his better half, Maude the Pluckie Broad, feel the same way?

Maude dives into the musty bookshelves of an Anglophile in New York City and a quaint bookstore in London in the 1986 film 84 Charing Cross Road.

With help from Maude, Stan selected the 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic The Shining, based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name. There are things to like and dislike about the film and we hit them all.

Maude’s pick this week makes for a serious episode for the first half as she and Stan watched the documentary Defiant Requiem, telling the story of a Jewish musician’s defiant presentation of Verdi’s Requiem in a World War II concentration camp.

Stan’s pick this week is the odd and atmospheric The Lighthouse, a story of two men driven mad by isolation on a small island. Is Maude mad about Stan’s choice? Listen and find out.

Maude the Sincere Broad made this episode’s pick, Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! While it’s her Halloween favorite, Maude has a bone to pick with corporate America for monkeying with this classic.

Stan the Movie Man selects the movie this episode, IT Chapter 1, and he finally finds a film Maude the Movie Broad doesn’t like. Can their marriage survive? Subscribe and give a 5-star review at Apple Podcasts.