From Pamela Adlon (her feature debut as a director!) and comedy pals Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau, the comedy Babes is expanding this week across US theaters.  We are joined by director (and mom) Trish Sie (Players, PitchPerfect 3) to talk about the film, which may or may not be anything like Bridesmaids. Then the gang will pitch some movies about personal experiences which the movies rarely get quite right.  

What’s Good
Drea - Davey and Jonesie’s Locker
Trish - Terrible, Thanks for Asking
Ify - In his Cure era

Alonso’s Book covered in PEOPLE

ITIDIC

1. Deadpool & Wolverine Enters the Popcorn Bucket Conversation
2. Streamers Roll Out “Pride Month” Collections
   • Criterion
   • Hulu
   • Max
   • Netflix
   • Paramount+
   • Prime
3. The Infamous Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience is Now an Internet Musical

Staff Picks
Drea - Ghostlight
Trish - The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Ify - Mrs. Doubtfire

Check out Trish’s new On Cue Podcast 

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

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Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

Our friend Maria Lewis joins us from Australia once again, this time to break down George Miller’s highly anticipated follow-up to FURY ROAD (that’s also a prequel to FURY ROAD). Then we answer a hotline call about “stereotypical” characters that don’t rub us the wrong way for some reason.

What’s Good
Alonso - TIME Magazine issue from his birthday
Drea - “digital pebbling” 
Maria - the healing power of friendship
Ify - Being in Ohio

ITIDIC

1. The Next “Benoit Blanc Mystery” Has Its Title
2. Palme d’Or Announced - And It’s 5 in a Row for NEON

Guy Branum talking about Baron Harkonnen on FEELING SEEN

Staff Picks
Alonso - Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker
Drea - Patty Cake$
Maria - After the Party
Ify - Emma.

Maria’s latest books:
Mockingbird: Strike Out: A Marvel: Heroines Novel
Assassin's Creed Mirage: Daughter of No One
The Graveyard Shift

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The latest (and second) film from director Jane Schoenbrun is a glimpse into the void, into the ‘90s, and into a whole lot more – it all depends on how you’re watching. We’re joined by MaxFilm producer (and now host of the new show, Primer), Christian Dueñas to see it all.

Then, we have a fast and loose movie quiz about…Justice!

What’s Good
Alonso - Jenny Nicholson’s 4-Hour Deep Dive into the Star Wars Hotel’s Failure
Drea - clocking the perfect mileage
Christian - “Sex Vampire” playlist and the artist Filmmaker
Ify - Postal Service/Death Cab concert

ITIDIC

1. Cannes First “Hit” Is the Unexpected Emilia Perez
2. Yorgos Lanthimos Has Already Set His NEXT Next movie at Focus

#MaxFilmontheCroisette

Staff Picks
Drea - Hit Man
Alonso - Little Darlings
Christian - Skinamarink
Ify - Detective Pikachu

Subscribe to PRIMER, new from Maximum Fun!

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David Leitch, the director of Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train, and Hobbs & Shaw, got his Hollywood start as a stunt man. Now he’s coming full circle, making an action/comedy/romance about that stunt life, with a pair of Oscar-nominated Barbenheimer love interests at the center. And we’ve got filmmaker April Wright, director of Stuntwomen: The Untold Story, here to offer an insider’s perspective!

What’s Good
Alonso - The Circle
April - Taurus World Stunt Awards
Drea - new Doctor Who with Jinx Monsoon

ITIDIC

1. George Clooney to Make His Broadway Debut in Good Night and Good Luck Adaptation
2. Art Directors Guild Suspends Their Training Program
3. B Movie Legend Roger Corman Has Died at 98

Staff Picks
Alonso - Stunt Rock
April - Dolemite Is My Name
Drea - Birds of Prey

You can watch April’s movie Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story on all of Alonso’s streaming services, and even some others!

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Luca Guadagnino’s latest film (and biggest to date) has been the talk of cinema circles since its release. Whether it’s causing a thirst for threesomes, a craving for churros, or a burning desire to pick up a racket, folks have been talking about it, and now we are too, with help from LAFCA President and critic Robert Abele! Then we’ll hear a lot more about Alonso’s forthcoming book, HOLLYWOOD PRIDE, out soon on May 14! 

What’s Good
Alonso - Justin Chang winning a Pulitzer Prize
Drea - PRF Facial in Vegas
Robert - LA Lemons galore and making food with them 
Ify - Warhammer Cafe in Monrovia

ITIDIC

1. Slamdance Is Moving to Los Angeles!
2. Vin Diesel’s Riddick Sequel Will Begin Filming This Fall
3. McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys Are Revealing MCU Spoilers

Vin Diesel Street Sharks Demo (as referenced by Ify)

Tennis player Andrea Petkovic’s review in The Guardian (referenced by Robert)

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Staff Picks
Drea - The Idea of You
Alonso - Egoist
Robert - Whatever is on Criterion 24/7! (also: Evil Does Not Exist)
Ify - Dial M for Murder

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Writer/director (and Chicago native) Minhal Baig’s newest film centers around Malik and Eric, two young kids going through the things young kids go through, with the added complications of life in the Cabrini Green housing projects of the ‘90s. Robert Daniels (another Chicagoan) is here to help us talk through it. Then, a Hall of Excellence update and a Hotline letter that inspires a plethora of short film recommendations!

What’s Good
Alonso - Support socks
Drea - Bentonville lineup announced
Robert - belated birthday dinner at Italian Village
Ify - big wooden sword

ITIDIC

1. Jennifer Aniston Producing a 9 to 5 Remake
2. Messi is Getting His Own TV Show to Premiere at Cannes
3. Hollywood Sacrificing Massive Profits through Racial Inequality

Cruising Electric (1980)

Yearbook short 

Staff Picks

Drea - I Saw the TV Glow
Alonso - Our Song
Robert - Mr. Thank You
Ify - The Great Debaters

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Studio Ghibli’s GKIDS has a new film out about a little girl who just wants her mom to cook her a really specific dinner. If that sounds like not quite enough for a movie to be about, then you haven’t seen CHICKEN FOR LINDA! We’ve got returning guest, film critic Carlos Aguilar, on to join the conversation, and we’re even pitching some childhood memories of our own that could become future features.

What’s Good
Alonso - Cap’n Crunch Cinnamon Crunch 
Drea - Reusable skincare masks
Carlos - Long Beach flea market
Ify - Matthew Lillard’s D&D whiskey (Quest’s End), ren faire costume

ITIDIC

1. Participant Media closing up shop
2. Tarantino Is Scrapping ‘The Movie Critic’ as his “10th and final film”
3. The Academy’s New Rules 

Staff Picks
Alonso - Uncropped
Drea - The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Carlos - I Like Movies
Ify - Baby Reindeer

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We’ve seen the Sasquatch(es)! We head into the woods to talk wild animal actors, convincing bigfoot suits, bodily functions, and the legend of Sasquatch itself, with comedian and writer Joey Clift. Then, a new set of HALL OF EXCELLENCE nominations, this time for best non-speaking performance!

What’s Good
Alonso - It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful by Jack Lowery
Drea - wool dryer balls
Joey - Furiosa and Garfield coming out on the same day
Ify - Mammoth, moving, and some Warhammer inclusivity stuff

ITIDIC

1. At CinemaCon, NATO CEO Warns Studios Against Relying on Blockbusters
2. At Coachella, Will Smith Makes a Surprise Appearance to sing ‘Men in Black’

Staff Picks
Drea - Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Alonso - Pom Poko (also callback to Hundreds of Beavers)
Joey - Fancy Dance
Ify - Monkey Man

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Alonso Duralde

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Vera Drew’s very personal, exceedingly irreverent, and definitely unauthorized THE PEOPLE’S JOKER got its TIFF premiere in 2022, but has been fighting a path to (legally) be shown in theaters ever since. That fight is finally over, and THE PEOPLE’S JOKER can be seen by the people…though certain folks seem to be forming their opinions on the movie sight-unseen. We get into the film, plus pitch our own “Code 17” movies (and yes, we’ll explain what that means!).

What’s Good
Alonso - American Genre Film Archive, and their 15th Anniversary series at USC
Drea - Midwesterners of NCAA Women’s Basketball All-Tournament Team
Ify - “I’m into fountain pens now”

ITIDIC

1. David Lynch Wants to Make An Animated Movie for the whole family
2. Francis Ford Coppola Screened His Self-Funded Epic to Studios…So Who’s Buying?
3. Disney Sets (and Re-Sets) a Ton of Movie Release Dates Through 2026

Staff PIcks
Alonso - Two for the Road
Drea - Rotting in the Sun
Ify - Between Two Ferns: The Movie

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The second feature from director Rose Glass has been on our watchlist since Sundance…even longer in the case of our guest Mallory O’Meara (Reading Glasses), who had the film’s poster on her wall far before its premiere. Now that we’ve left Arrakis in the rearview, we’ve got our hands free to take on the buff and bloody (and yes, horny)  LOVE LIES BLEEDING.  

What’s Good
Drea - graphite chopsticks/improved chopstick game
Mallory - Washington Capitals making the NHL playoffs
Alonso - The Good Place (finally!)

ITIDIC

• Dev Patel’s AMA Sheds Light on the Challenges of Indie Filmmaking
• Ang Lee Rejects 3D, Saying the Industry Is Not Built For It
• The Billboard Charts May Be Broken

Letterboxd list "Song Lyrics as Titles"

Staff Picks
Drea - Pain & Gain
Alonso - Pumping Iron / Pumping Iron II: The Women
Mallory - My Animal
Ify - also My Animal

malloryomeara.com

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Alonso Duralde

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