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We’re kicking off the most exciting time of the year for the MaxFun Network with a trivia game show featuring hosts from tons of great podcasts.

J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong from “Go Fact Yourself” are joined by:

Alonso Duralde & Drea Clark - “Maximum Film!” 

Alexis B. Preston - “Comfort Creatures” 

Ben Harrison - “Greatest Trek” and “The Greatest Generation”

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With
Kevin Avery
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

DUNE MONTH CONTINUES! If you, too, are indulging in a Dune Month, YOU might find yourself searching certain video sharing website for 2000's Sci Fi Channel miniseries FRANK HERBERT'S DUNE, aka "The one where Paul Atreides is bringing big Anakin Skywalker energy." Or perhaps you'd like to skip that and just listen to us tell you about it. Either way, this is the episode for you! We're talking all 90 minutes of Episode 1, comparing it to all the other DUNEs we know, and doing it all with self-described "Dune guy" Jeremy Bent (Eurovangelists, Mission to Zyxx)! Then a quiz about Sci Fi/SyFy Originals...

What’s Good
Alonso - Mark Harris’s pieces,  “Missing the GBF” “How Bad Can It Get For Hollywood”
Drea - Minnesota update
Jeremy - Hell Divers 2
Ify - The Oscars being actually good

ITIDIC

1. The Oscars Were Last Sunday

Staff Picks
Alonso - Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Drea - Sunshine (2007) 
Jeremy - Society of the Snow
Ify - Love Lies Bleeding

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

How much Dune is too much Dune? We're fixing to find out this March on Maximum Film! We're starting with the 1984 Lynch/Dino De Laurentiis space opera that was a theatrical flop, yet remains an enduring (cult?) classic. Then we'll pitch some outside-the-box auteur/book series pairings to fantasize about.

What’s Good
Alonso - Schmigadoon Season 2
Drea - GORP-Core and scroggin
Guy - Whenever I Call You Friend at a steakhouse
Ify - performing at Leicester Square

ITIDIC

1. Dune 2 Makes a Huge Debut
2. Bootleg Willy Wonka Experience to become a literal horror movie 
3. AMC Theaters Launching “New” Nicole Kidman Pre-Show Spots

Dune “Glossary” handed out in theaters in 1984

Staff Picks
Alonso - The Straight Story
Drea - Love Lies Bleeding
Guy - The Taste of Things
Ify - Police Academy

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

This one is a wild ride, y’all. Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke have teamed up to make a wacky, raunchy lesbian road trip crime comedy, and (almost) everyone has an opinion about the results! Then, a hotline question about “litmus test” movies.

What’s Good
Alonso - reading more James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time)
Drea - voting and progressive voter guides
Ever - bench record and new goals
Ify - Naomi’s diorama

ITIDIC

• Tyler Perry Puts $800m Studio Expansion on Hold Because of AI
• Only 30% of the 100 Top Grossing Movies of 2023 Had Female Leads
•  Spirit Awards Were Last Sunday!

Staff Picks

Alonso - Gay USA
Drea - I Didn’t See You There
Ever - The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman & Old Yeller
Ify - Dune: Part Two

Y’all Gay podcast
Ever’s upcoming show dates

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Kevin Avery
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

Madame Web is Dakota Johnson seeing the future, barefoot villains with ADR as bad as their intentions, and a surprising dearth of Spider Women fighting crime. But is it the next Morbius? Is it time to #ReleaseTheClarksonCut? We’ve got resident Spider-Man-man Jordan Morris on the case! Then, a movie quiz about 2003 (did we mention this movie is set in 2003?) 

What’s Good
Alonso - Olive Oil Chocolate Cake
Drea -  “Who the F did I marry?” TikToks
Jordan - Pluto.tv & the Coneheads credits rap (see also: Dragnet rap, “City of Crime”)
Ify - Helldivers 2

ITIDIC

1. Ridley Scott is Making a Biopic about the BeeGees
2. Martin Scorsese’s Powell and Pressburger Doc Picked up by MUBI
3. Travis Kelce is a Movie Producer Now

Staff Picks
Alonso - Date and Switch
Drea - The Promised Land
Jordan - American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers
Ify - Starship Troopers

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

Today's movie takes on the guise of a weird '80s teen comedy, then adds in some supernatural phenomena and some axes. So we consult THE JV CLUB's Janet Varney on the peculiarities of Lisa's high school experience, and then make up some Monster Mash-up movies of our own.

What’s Good
Alonso - RO-TEL Dip
Janet - Mochi Muffins from Third Culture Bakery
Drea - Chocolate-dipped Twinkies

ITIDIC

1. The Oscars Are Adding a New Category: Best Casting
2. 2023 Sundance Darling FANCY DANCE Finally Finds a Home
3. Crunchyroll Merges with Funimation…Now Funimation Digital Downloads Will Disappear

Staff Picks
Alonso - Perfect Days
Janet - Housebound 
Drea - Players

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

With one extremely emotive stroke of the metaphorical podcast baton, we complete the magnum opus that is Best Picture Oscar Nominees 2023!  Is Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein too big to fit on the small screens at Netflix? Find out in our MAESTRO discussion, for which we're joined by Vanity Fair's chief critic, Richard Lawson. Then, a fun movie quiz about composer biopics (well, it's fun for some of us!).

What’s Good
Alonso - Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs singing Fast Car at the Grammys
Drea - Tracy Chapman singing Stand By Me on Letterman
Richard - Australian Survivor
Ify - Levels Nigerian Cuisine in St. Louis

ITIDIC

1. America Ferrera Sets Her Directorial Debut
2. Universal Studios Florida Reveals More Plans for “Epic Universe” Theme Park
3. Pedro Almodovar’s Next Film Will Be His First English Language Feature

Staff Picks
Drea - Amélie
Alonso - Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Richard - Death Trap
Ify - The Hangover

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

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Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

We catch up with Cord Jefferson's Oscar-nominated comedy that's about more than you might have guessed. Then, we've got new nominees for the Hall of Excellence: Best Fictional Books!

What’s Good
Alonso - Barbara Streisand’s memoir
Drea - Mom’s Dave confusion
Ellie - new season of True Detective
Ify - clear spheres/foggy balls 

ITIDIC
Godzilla Minus One Inching Towards a Near-Record Box Office Run
Sundance Concluded With Some Big Sales
Oscar Nominations Came out Last Week…

Staff Picks
Alonso - Household Saints
Drea - Plus One
Ellie - The Zone of Interest
Ify - Beetlejuice [also showing at Vidiots on 2/3/24]

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With
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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

You’ve heard the Plastics and the Art Freaks talk about their lives and loves. But what if you could hear them SING about it? That’s the service the new Mean Girls musical (adapted from the Broadway show) will provide, should you so desire. We’ve got writer/critic/musical theater wonk B.J. Colangelo with us to navigate the halls of the new North Shore High. Then, we’ll pitch some new grist for the book -> movie -> stage musical -> movie musical mill.

What’s Good
Alonso - Magic Coke Machine recipe
Drea - Ariel Bissett’s YouTube
BJ - Finding the Queen Beryl dress
Ify - Warhammer Old World and Sketchfest

ITIDIC

• Motive for Ruby Slipper Theft Revealed
• Lindsay Lohan Sets ‘Our Little Secret’ at Netflix
• Sundance Kicks Off, Celebrating Its 40th Birthday

Staff Picks
Drea - Totem
Alonso - Heathers the Musical (Live Stage Capture) on Roku
BJ - Crush
Ify - The Nice Guys

Little Women “Christopher Columbus” video

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

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Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

We've been keeping tabs on today's movie for a while -- either a couple years or a couple decades, depending on how you count it. To discuss the movie musical adaptation of the stage musical adaptation of the movie adaptation of Alice Walker's classic novel, we brought in Tre'vell Anderson, noted Fantasia Barrino expert (and also a journalist, author, critic and expert in other things). 

What’s Good
Alonso - The Cannon Film Guide, Volume I by Austin Trunick
Drea - try turning it off and on again
Tre’vell - customized ice cream 
Ify - “StIfy-core“

ITIDIC

1.  Chelsea Handler Hosted the Critics Choice Awards… 
2. Broadway’s Shucked Is Becoming a Movie
3. Paramount Marketing Exec Doesn’t Want to Call new Mean Girls a Musical

Staff Picks
Drea - Advice on Sundance Advance Online ticket sales (Dìdi (弟弟), Exhibiting Forgiveness, In the Summers, The Mother of All Lies, FRIDA)
Alonso - The Burial of Kojo
Tre’vell - Camp
Ify - Port Authority

Historically Black Phrases Live

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With
Kevin Avery
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher