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Stan the Movie Man and Maude the Movie Broad, a couple married over 30 years, take turns choosing a movie, watching it together, then discussing why one loves it and whether the other one loves it, likes it or hates it.

Stan the Movie Man


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    Thelma

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 68:37


    June Squibb gets her first lead role at the age of 93, proving it's never too late, in the 2024 film “Thelma.”

    Mothers' Instinct

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 56:03


    Best neighborhood friends are pushed to the limit by a tragic death and mental illness in the 2024 film “Mothers' Instinct” starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain.

    Moving On

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 51:29


    Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda join forces in a fight against evil, sort of, in the 2022 film “Moving On,” also starring Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree.

    MobLand and Happy Face

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 56:52


    In a slight departure from our usual selection, Maude picked the first episodes of two new limited streaming series on Paramount+. We discuss the British crime drama “MobLand” and the true crime drama “Happy Face.”

    Encanto

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 45:52


    A multi-generational family blessed with magical powers is faced with possibly losing their gifts in the Disney animated musical “Encanto.”

    A Complete Unknown

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 66:22


    Timothee Chalamet learned to play the guitar and harmonica and worked with vocal coaches for years to get the sound of Bob Dylan just right and it paid off with another Oscar nomination for his performance in “A Complete Unknown.”

    Munich

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 65:14


    After the attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Summer Games, the government of Israel put in motion a secret plan to find and assassinated the planners of the attack. This worldwide mission is dramatized in Steven Spielberg's 2005 dramatic thriller “Munich.”

    September 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 61:05


    The 1972 Munich Olympics was the scene of a terrorist attack against the Israeli team. How ABC Sports scrambled to cover the unfolding story is the subject of the film “September 5.'

    Anora

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 67:37


    When a sex worker thinks a Russian white knight has rescued her from the life, her dreams come to a quick end in the Academy Award winning film “Anora.”

    Notes on a Scandal

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 55:18


    ​A lonely teacher near retirement feels invigorated by a new, younger friend and fellow educator at her school. But the discovery of an illicit and illegal affair provides an unexpected opportunity in the 2006 film “Notes on a Scandal.”

    Heretic

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2025 65:36


    Hugh Grant goes dark in a thriller about religion and doubt in 2024's “Heretic” also starring Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East.

    Birdman

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 75:02


    Michael Keaton is an actor typecast from his previous superhero films now trying to be taken seriously on Broadway in the 2014 Academy Award winning film “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).”

    Fantastic Voyage

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 58:52


    The Cold War moves from macro efforts to the microscopic in a race to save a scientist's life in the 1966 Academy Award-winning film “Fantastic Voyage.”

    Lee

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2025 53:23


    Kate Winslet has come a long way since playing Rose on the doomed Titanic. Acting as both producer and star, Winslet bravely takes on the role of WWII photographer Lee Miller in the film Lee, available to stream on Hulu.

    Tuesday

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025 52:34


    Death takes wing as a parrot in the imaginative and touching 2023 film “Tuesday,” starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew and Arinze Kene as the voice of Death. Stream the film on Max.

    You're Cordially Invited

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 45:21


    A double booked wedding leads to shenanigans galore in the Amazon Prime original film “You're Cordially Invited” starring Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon.

    A Different Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 56:46


    When a man with a facial deformity undergoes an experimental treatment that reveals a handsome face but a mountain of insecurity, it's only made worse by the arrival of “A Different Man.”

    Juror #2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 57:46


    Being on the jury of a murder trial is stressful. Being on the jury of a murder trial when you might actually be the one responsible for the death is a whole new level of stress. Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, JK Simmons and more star in the Clint Eastwood directed “Juror #2.”

    Asteroid City

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2025 48:41


    It's a TV show about a play within a movie. Wes Anderson's “Asteroid City” plays with all the standard Wes Anderson toys but in a unique way.

    Die Hard

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024 54:14


    A New York City cop travels to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve trying to reconcile with his estranged wife at her company's holiday party when terrorists take over Nakatomi Plaza and he becomes a one-man army to save 30 hostages, his wife and his marriage in 1988's “Die Hard.”

    Krampus (2015)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024 51:15


    Keeping the Christmas spirit alive may be the key to surviving the holidays for one family in “Krampus.”

    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2024 51:21


    A good, old fashioned, family Christmas is all Clark Griswold wanted. What he gets is an ever unfolding disaster in 1989's “National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.”

    The Polar Express

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2024 55:12


    Robert Zemeckis used motion capture to create all the characters in 2004's “The Polar Express.” It's a story about holiday belief starring Tom Hanks.

    Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 47:02


    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a theologian and anti-Nazi activist in Hitler's Germany. It was dangerous to have opposing views to the government of WWII Germany and Dietrich paid the ultimate price. His life is the subject of the film “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin.”

    When Worlds Collide

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 60:55


    It's the end of the world and Humanity has one hope in 1951's “When Worlds Collide.”

    The War of the Worlds (1953)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 55:53


    The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West colored a great deal of American cinema. That is evident in 1953's “The War of the Worlds.”

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 54:33


    There are friends, there are enemies, there are frenemies and then there is “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 58:10


    Humanity's struggle with good and evil is personified in the 1941 film starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

    Bride of Frankenstein

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2024 52:14


    If you think you have trouble finding a mate on the apps, imagine being Frankenstein's monster! Everyone that sees you screams in your face and chases you with torches and pitchforks. The only way to find love is to build your mate in the lab. This week's film is “Bride of Frankenstein.”

    The Phantom of the Opera

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 66:10


    For nearly 100 years old, “The Phantom of the Opera” looks pretty good for its age. This 1925 production stars Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry in a tale of all-consuming love and the pursuit of stardom.

    Frankenstein (1931)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2024 68:18


    The quintessential mad scientist story gets its most iconic telling in 1931's “Frankenstein” starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke and Boris Karloff as The Monster.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024 59:57


    Based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” from 1945 gives viewers a look at the corruption of one man's soul via his portrait.

    Shutter Island

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2024 62:08


    ​US Marshalls are sent to an island hospital for the criminally insane to search for a missing patient, but things are not as they seem on “Shutter Island.”

    Trumbo

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2024 55:55


    The Blacklist was a group of writers and other Hollywood creatives that were accused of being communists and refusing to testify against their fellow creatives to a congressional committee. They were jailed for contempt and weren't allowed to work in Hollywood. But the film “Trumbo” shows how they found a way around it.

    All That Jazz

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 63:55


    Bob Fosse was a troubled genius. Both are on full display in his 1979 semi-autobiographical film “All That Jazz.”

    God & Country and Bad Faith

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 58:29


    The Christian Nationalist movement isn't a new creation. It's been building slowly over the last 75 years. Two documentaries, “God & Country” and “Bad Faith,” look at the underpinnings of this threat to democracy and America as we know it.

    1941

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 52:49


    Steven Spielberg's screwball comedy “1941” has a massive cast, lots of special effects, huge stunts…and isn't very good.

    The Post

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2024 63:58


    Steven Spielberg turns back the clock and revisits a tumultuous time in American politics and journalism in 2017's “The Post” starring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Bob Odenkirk and more.

    Always

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2024 59:20


    The romantic fantasy gets the Steven Spielberg touch with 1989's “Always” starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Brad Johnson and the final film appearance by Audrey Hepburn.

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 60:22


    A boy from a broken home finds an unexpected friend in the woods from out of town…WAY out of town, in Steven Spielberg's classic 1982 film “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”

    Anatomy of a Fall

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2024 56:49


    A troubled marriage, a mysterious death and a contentious trial make for a simmering legal thriller in 2023's “Anatomy of a Fall.”

    Wag the Dog

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2024 54:25


    A president in the midst of a tight reelection campaign is facing a potential sex scandal. That's when he calls in a fixer and a Hollywood producer to deflect the public's attention to a fake war in “Wag the Dog.”

    Donnie Darko

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 58:31


    Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell and more star in a classic look at stifling suburban conformity, mental illness and time travel in “Donnie Darko.”

    A Few Good Men

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2024 59:29


    Tom Cruise and Demi Moore get the bulk of screen time, but Jack Nicholson's performance is the one you'll remember from 1992's “A Few Good Men.”

    Alien

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2024 57:07


    A ship in deep space faces a threat unlike anything in human history. They don't paid enough for this garbage. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Harry Dean Stanton and more star in “Alien.”

    Brats

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2024 58:04


    If you went to the movies, or rented movies, in the 1980's, you've likely seen films starring one or more members of the Brat Pack. In a new documentary, Pack member Andrew McCarthy looks at how that name, and the implications with it, affected him personally and his fellow actors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message

    Soul

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2024 59:34


    When a promising jazz musician, on the verge of his big break, has an accident and is on the edge of death, his spirit goes on an adventure in the 2020 Disney/Pixar film “Soul.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message

    The Poseidon Adventure

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2024 54:52


    A stacked cast, including Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters and Ernest Borgnine, and Oscar-winning special effects highlight the 1972 disaster epic “The Poseidon Adventure.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message

    Godzilla Minus One

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 59:23


    A giant beast wreaks havoc on Japan already decimated by a just concluded World War II while a soldier deals with the loss of his family and guilt over his inactions when first faced with the monster in “Godzilla Minus One.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message

    Jaws

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 57:34


    Three men plus a small boat and a big shark is the formula for the first summer blockbuster known as “Jaws.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message

    Deadpool 2

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 59:10


    Ryan Reynolds is back in the red and black suit but it's not all fun and games as the Merc with the Mouth is on a mission…to find his heart. Yeah, I just puked a little in my mouth too. This episode is “Deadpool 2.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message

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