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Today we're taking a look at a movie from director Luke Gilford that started out as a book of photographs taken on the Gay Rodeo circuit and became a lot more. It's NATIONAL ANTHEM, with EUROVANGELISTS' own Oscar Montoya as our very special guest! Plus, we're naming favorite instances of drag on film and pitching fresh Westerns that deserve that angel investor capital.

What’s Good
Alonso - McConnell’s x See’s Candy Ice Cream Collab
Drea - Minnesota State Fair’s “Fried Ranch”
Oscar - Platform Crocs
Ify - going to the beach (esp Carbon, Zuma)/ “listening to me”

Drag Moment Movie Mentions
See them as a Letterboxd List!

Sylvia Scarlett
Some Like it Hot
Yentl
Victor/Victoria
Bugs Bunny
Port Authority
Romeo + Juliet
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Legend 

Cole Escola’s “Our Home Out West”

Staff Picks
Alonso - Small Town Gay Bar
Drea - A Quiet Place: Day One (and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe)
Oscar - Hellzapoppin’
Ify - Boys in the Sand (FYI: NSFW)

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Kevin Avery
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

Listener Harrison gave us a great shortlist of films to choose from this year – a prize Harrison became eligible for by supporting the show at MaximumFun.org/join. We went with Nahnatchka Khan’s slasher comedy from last year, TOTALLY KILLER (starring Kiernan Shipka as a teen who ends up back in time and tries to catch a murderer…before the murderer catches her! That inspires our latest slate of Hall of Excellence nominees: Best Time Travel Movie. (Vote for your winner at facebook.com/groups/maximumfilm before July 29, 2024).

What’s Good
Alonso - Not watching the news
Drea - cat ordeal over at last
Ify - WHOOP band

Hall of Excellence Nominees
Alonso - Time After Time
Drea - Peggy Sue Got Married
Ify - Interstellar

Staff Picks
Drea - The Final Girls
Alonso - Let It Snow
Ify - The Blackening

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

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Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

The third installment of Ti West's maybe-a-trilogy, MaXXXine follows up on the bloody sagas of X and Pearl. And it does so in 1980s LA drag. Writer and critic Sarah Gorr joins us to share her big feelings about it! Then most of us take a Hotline email about introductions to horror for the horror-averse.

What’s Good
Alonso: Corpses, Fools and Monsters by Willow Maclay and Caden Gardner
Drea: European election relief
Sarah: Sister’s first visit to LA
Ify: Sundresses, day parties…etc

ITIDIC

1. John Cena is Retiring from the WWE
2. Toho Will Release My Hero Academia: You’re Next in the US
3. Mark Ruffalo Got The Avengers Cast Together to Dub the Film in the Lakota Language

Staff Picks
Alonso - FTA
Drea - Dandelion
Sarah - Mother, Couch
Ify - A Nightmare on Elm Street

Sarah’s Letterboxd list, “Horror 101"

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

Director Erica Tremblay's narrative feature debut stars Lily Gladstone and Isobel Deroy-Olson as an aunt and niece on the Seneca-Cayuga rez. After a long search for distribution, it's finally found its home on AppleTV+. We'll tell you why you should look out for it, and then round out the aunt-ly experience with a movie quiz all about the Aunts of Cinema.

What's Good
Alonso - the hand fan
Drea - Diet Cherry Ginger Ale ("Fruit Splash")
Ify - not the hockey clinic, but Arizona Hard Iced Tea

ITIDIC

• IATSE and Studios Reach a Tentative Agreement
• Wicked Release Moved Up to Nov 22 – The Same Weekend as Gladiator 2
• World’s Largest Screen X Auditorium to Open at a New Jersey Mega-Mall

Staff Picks
Alonso - Catch the Fair One
Drea - Frybread Face and Me
Ify - Sorry to Bother You

Look out for: Justin Simien’s BLACK HOLLYWOOD on MGM+
Alonso's screening in Tennessee 

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

June Squibb’s film career has always defied expectations for what an actor can do at what age. So why not star in your first headlining role - an action movie no less- at 94? We talk THELMA, then pitch some frankly amazing ideas for future action thrillers with unlikely stars.

What’s Good
Alonso - Sasha Geffen’s article on Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Drea - returning to swimming
Ify - cropping his t-shirts…oh and TV Chef Fantasy League, now on MaxFun!

ITIDIC

1. Neon Exec: Independent Films Have to be an “Event” to succeed in theaters
2. Boulder Looking Like A Top Candidate to be the New Home of Sundance
3. Eddie Murphy Says New Shrek is Coming…and a Donkey Movie

Staff Picks
Drea - Kinds of Kindness
Alonso - Tuesday
Ify - Speed Racer

Alonso on Go Fact Yourself
See Alonso at the Academy Museum w/Justin Simien on 6/29
Alonso on The Flop House

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

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Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

Comedian Erin Foley joins the gang to take a look back at the best lesbian neo-noir 1996 has to offer…which is also probably the best of all of those things that any year has to offer. The first movie directed by the Wachowskis, Bound gets more intriguing as time marches on. And now it also has has 4K Blu-Ray restoration from Criterion. Then we take a hotline call from a listener wondering about what movies we might remake from a different directorial perspective.

What’s Good
Alonso - Swiffers
Drea - Jenny Nicholson rabbithole (here’s that Hallmark video Alonso mentions)
Erin - WNBA All-Star Weekend in Arizona
Ify - Beer League Hockey (w/ comedians)

ITIDIC

• Sony Buys Alamo Drafthouse
• AMC Has Its Best Weekend of 2024
• Megalopolis Finds a Distributor – Lionsgate

Staff Picks
Alonso - Big Boys
Drea - Janet Planet, Thelma
Ify - Thelma
Erin - Billy Elliot

Erin's long-running women's sports podcast is Herlights

Alonso’s Upcoming Events w/Hollywood Pride:
Johnny Guitar at The Frida Cinema, 6/22/24
All About Eve at the Egyptian, 6/25/24 (w/ Ben Mankiewicz)
Bound 4K restoration at the Egyptian, 6/26/24
Signing and discussion w/Justin Simien at the Academy Museum, 6/29/24

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Alonso Duralde

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What happens when a Spanish director adapts an American graphic novel into a dialogue-free animated film? Laughter, tears, and an Oscar nomination, apparently. Sierra Katow joins us to get into this conversation (which we've carefully cordoned off with warnings and chapter markers to avoid any big spoilers)! Then everyone shares some animated films that delivered adult-level gut-punch moments. 

What’s Good
Alonso - Cannon Films Promo Reel 1986
Sierra - Children of Blood and Bone
Ify - Indie creators at Summer Games Fest

ITIDIC

1. Warner Bros to Premiere a Fully-Animated Looney Tunes Movie This Week
2. ‘Terrifier’ Actor Cast as Steamboat Willie in Upcoming Horror Film ‘Screamboat’
3. Lacey Chabert and Brennan Elliot Making 10th Movie Together This Fall (on Hallmark)

Staff Picks
Alonso - Earth Girls Are Easy (and also Palace)
Sierra - Fantasia
Ify - Antz
 

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Alonso's Plugs:
Alonso on Bullseye
The Flop House: Boat Trip
The Film Library: A Kanopy Podcast
Free with Ads: The Opposite of Sex

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Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

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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Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
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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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With
Kevin Avery
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher