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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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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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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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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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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Alonso Duralde

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Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

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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