Comedy Tragedy Marriage

Maude and I both were disc jockeys on country radio during The Judds heydays as hit machines of the 1980's. No one knew of the turmoil going on behind the scenes between mother Naomi and daughter Wynonna, nor the pain and abandonment of the forgotten Judd, sister Ashley. All is revealed in the documentary series “The Judd Family: Truth Be Told.” ***Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual abuse of children.***

Five lives were lost due to the recklessness of one man. His hubris is documented and ultimately dissected in the documentary “Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster.”

Actress Mariska Hargitay works through a complicated relationship with her mother, the late actress Jayne Mansfield, in front of the camera in the new documentary “My Mom Jayne.”

Even in a house of God, evil lurks in the dark and cold halls of a 14th century Benedictine abbey in the 1986 murder mystery film “The Name of the Rose,” starring Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham and Christian Slater.

A 1978 quadruple homicide of fast food workers in Speedway, Indiana is the subject of an interesting and unique documentary available to stream on Hulu, “The Speedway Murders.”

Wes Anderson's second feature film starred Jason Schwartzman in his film debut, as a student at a prestigious private boys school, and Bill Murray as the rival for the affection of a teacher, played by Olivia Williams, in the 1998 movie “Rushmore.”

A massage therapist and an archivist of classic television shows meet at a party and begin dating but a separate friendship threatens to poison a budding relationship in the 2013 film “Enough Said.”

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

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.”

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.”

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.'

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.”

​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.”

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

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).”

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.”

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.

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.

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

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.”

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.”

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.

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.”

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

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.”

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.

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.”

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

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.”

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

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.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.

​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.”

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.”

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.”

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.”