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Have a Good Movie
by Macintosh & Maud
The podcast where Macintosh & Maud force each other to watch the movies they should've already seen.
Episodes
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BONUS - OSCAR PICKS
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER We’ve seen the movies, now it’s time to get the picks in before the awards! One of us is straight up guessing, the other is playing the odds, but which is which is a new wrinkle. And moreover, we can reflect on a unique set of films showcasing the...
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OSCAR SNUBS: The King of Comedy (1982)
It’s been a bit since we had an old-fashioned movie disagreement but this one was a bit polarizing. Likely because this was a real curveball from two of our faves, Scorsese and De Niro. The intensity and emotional weight is there, but it’s wrapped in a truly bizarre, sinister comedy that’s just…
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OSCAR SNUBS: Paper Moon (1973)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of child abuse. Something was in the air in 1973 where people wanted nostalgia and con artists in their films. But while George Roy Hill teamed up with Redford and Newman for the utter perfection of the genre, Peter Bogdanovich followed up one classic film with another...
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OSCAR SNUBS: Klute (1971)
In a decade of darker, boundary-crossing films, this week’s film is just under the rader for having some of the darkest undertones of all. And that’s beyond the fact that it might be one of the best portrayals of sex workers on screen, refusing to judge its subject on anything but her actual...
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OSCAR SNUBS: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Communism! A menace to all god-fearing Americans in the 1960s, a real travesty against society. At least that was the background that this novel and film dropped into to make a much larger point about the horrors of war and trauma. But even more than a knotty, complicated conspiracy thriller…
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BONUS - Oscar Nominations 2026
It's that time of year - to debate Oscar nominations! Except we haven't seen most of these movies so we have gut reactions to a bunch of things we have little to no business reacting to! Yet! We're talking Oscar nominations this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?! You can email us with...
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OSCAR SNUBS: A Face in the Crowd (1957)
1957 came hard for us with the ever-menacing presence of…Andy Griffith? This one is a real underrated gem, a heady brew of media stardom, political power and ego that makes an aimless narcissistic drifter into a king drunk on his sway. Everyone is fantastic in this movie and it has absolutely…
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OSCAR SNUBS: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
We're coming in this week like a flying saucer into Earth's atmosphere with a movie that's both way ahead of its time and also incredibly dated. Flying saucer movies could be a dime a dozen in the atomic age, but only a few managed to capture the public's imagination like this week's movie. This…
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OSCAR SNUBS: HIs Girl Friday (1940)
Next up in the Oscar Snubs is the paragon of fast-talking screwball comedies. Except that this movie might be too fast. That's right, when you tell five jokes in 30 seconds, and they're all dated back to the late 30's, at some point you're no longer funny, you're exhausting. It's impeccably...
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SNUBS: Duck Soup (1933)
We've got a new series to talk through movies that were snubbed for or didn't win major Oscars as we lead into awards season! We start off with a living Looney Tunes cartoon, which makes sense given that Looney Tunes based itself off these movies. The Marx Brothers were already comedy legends…
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WESTERNS: Tombstone (1993) / Wyatt Earp (1994)
We close out our Westerns series with a review of dueling Wyatt Earps. On one side, we have an absolute shitshow of a production saved at the last moment by two powerhouse actors and some absolute perfect melodrama. On the other side, we have Kevin Costner giving the most soulless performance of...
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WESTERNS: Young Guns I & II (1988, 1990)
It's rare to have two 80s movies back to back that encapsulate the entirety of the 80s, but boy does this get there. Take the best of the Brat Pack, throw them in a shockingly historically accurate western, sprinkle with some truly wild accents, and you get a rootin' tootin' good time. They're…
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WESTERNS: Unforgiven (1992)
A movie with this reputation and this level of talent should be expected to at least be a competent film. But somehow Clint Eastwood chose the most tepid, non-committal way to tell a story that has more in common with great existential novels than Westerns. And that might be interesting, if it...
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WESTERNS: Blazing Saddles (1974)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, . Mel Brooks’ now-classic Western spoof is as controversial as it is well-regarded. Mel pulled absolutely no punches making this movie, and assembled a writer’s room that was willing to push the envelope. The only problem is that Mel is too focused on…
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WESTERNS: Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
We’ve been on a run of serious films, so it was time to mix in a Western comedy. At least, that’s what this movie is supposed to be, but this is a comedy without a whole lot of jokes. We have some diverging opinions on this one, mostly coming down to the script, because this should be a much…
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WESTERNS: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sex work, sexual assault. Spaghetti westerns are their own unique style, their own flavor, and one of the key issues is the dialogue is almost always sloppy and cheesy. Yet Sergio Leone, a true master of filmmaking, took that to a different artistic height, and…
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WESTERNS: The Magnificent Seven (1960)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of brownface. If this movie is the rebirth of the Western, it'd be hard to tell because it's a real mess. It's a classic, and it absolutely makes sense why, but it's also a total mess of a film. No one knows what movie they're supposed to be in, the script is missing a...
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WESTERNS: High Noon (1952)
Our next film should, by all rights, be one of the greatest all-time Westerns even made. Instead, it's a mealy-mouthed, boring, limp noodle of a movie that's stuck trying too hard to be a Big Deal instead of being the allegory for McCarthyism it was written to be. Fred Zinneman has shots for…
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WESTERNS: Stagecoach (1939)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism against Natives, bullying, animal cruelty. Grab your six shooters and your saddles, we're kicking off our first-ever Westerns series! There's a lot in the genre for us to catch up on, and we start this week with a seminal film, one whose importance is...
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DECADES GRAB BAG: Spotlight (2015)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual abuse of minors by clergy. While no explicit mentions are made of actions or abuse, listener discretion is advised. This one has been on our must watch list since it came out, and somehow it lingered for 10 years. In fact, you might suspect we did this series...
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DECADES GRAB BAG: Munich (2005)
CONTENT WARNING: occupation, assassination, Israel & Palestine. We try not to be too political on this show, but sometimes a movie forces our hand. Still, Spielberg’s third labor of love isn’t a mess because of its subject matter. Instead, it’s a messy rush job that has little to no historical...
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DECADES GRAB BAG: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of homophobia, sexual assault, spousal abuse. This week's movie may not be the gayest movie ever but it's certainly one of the most famous. The star power here is off the charts, with two absolute bona fide movie stars and a perfect up and comer as our three gorgeous,...
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DECADES GRAB BAG: Better Off Dead (1985)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of suicide and suicidal ideation. While presented in a lighthearted manner, listener discretion is advised. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis or experiencing suicidal thoughts, please call or text 988 for help. Savage Steve Holland probably never...
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DECADES GRAB BAG: The Stepford Wives Double Feature (1975 / 2004)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of gaslighting, spousal abuse, spousal murder, murder, misogyny. We're getting a little spooky this week with a slow-burn cult horror classic that dares to make its female characters complex and unique and its male characters thoroughly one-dimensional. Somehow it's…
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DECADES GRAB BAG: The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of gambling. One would think that with the steely blue eyes of Steve McQueen and the highest-stakes poker game ever concocted, we'd be cooking with fire with this next film. Instead, we get one of the most boring 100-minute movies committed to celluloid. Nearly an hour...
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DECADES GRAB BAG: Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of death, knife fights, gunfire, murder, sexual misconduct, parental trauma, parental negliect, parental abuse. We weren’t aware there was such a thing as being a method director, but this legendary film seems to have proven that’s a thing. Because it’s one thing to…
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DECADES GRAB BAG: Mildred Pierce (1945)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, sex work. We’ve jumped ahead to 1945 to tackle the question of whether it’s possible for a movie to have only one likeable character but still be compelling. The verdict - still unclear. This is a bizarre movie, down to the doctor who tries to save a dying...
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DECADES: Top Hat (1935)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, sexual assault, false imprisonment. We’ve got a new name, a new season, and a new series! First up, we talk about our name change with a tagline you may be familiar with. Then, we kick off a new series with a trip through ALL the decades - if the year ends…
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OSCARS '62: The 35th Annual Academy Awards
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER We're seen all the movies, we've enjoyed or destroyed them all based on how we feel, and the big night is here at last. We start off with a discussion of the 35th Annual Academy Awards and how unremarkable it was - save for one very uniquely petty...
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OSCARS '62: To Kill a Mockingbird
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, sexual assault, false imprisonment. 1962 contained not one but two books that were thrust upon us as required school reading (or acting), but none loom as large as this story. To be fair, it’s one of the few stories about the pre-Civil Rights Act South…
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SPECIAL: 2025 Oscar Picks
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Horror, gore, child murderers, child molesters, serial killers, knives. We're coming up on the 2025 Oscars and we share our main picks, our takes on the nominees, and why Emilia Perez is one of the worst nominees ever posted to the...
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OSCARS '62: Days of Wine and Roses
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of alcoholism, child neglect, substance abuse, addiction. Every year at the Oscars there’s a movie that stands out as the film that should be the Best Picture, just for the sheer raw power of its storytelling. This is that movie. Jack Lemmon is giving a performance for...
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OSCARS '62: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of abuse, car accidents, aging, mental illness.. If last week was about a world war, this film is about a two-woman war. Joan Crawford and Bette Davis were two of the bitterest rivals in the 30’s and 40’s, but by 1962 both were desperate for a hit. So was director…
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OSCARS '62: The Longest Day
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of deafness, blindness, ableism. D-Day happened over 80 years ago, and to this day, there’s only been two films that capture the scope and scale of that bloody day. This movie is one of those, and unfortunately it’s the boring one. To be clear, the battle sequences are...
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OSCARS '62: The Miracle Worker
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of deafness, blindness, ableism. If you’ve ever done theater, and we definitely have, you dread the thought of having to deal with anything related to this movie and this story. And you’d be right to, because all too often we tell a sanitized, ableist, overacted...
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OSCARS '62: Birdman of Alcatraz
CONTENT WARNING: imprisonment, solitary confinement, murder, homosexuality. The duds just keep on coming this week as a movie about one of America’s most dangerous (and quirky) prisoners just collapses under its own weight. Many times we celebrate directors and casts who deeply care about their...
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OSCARS '62: The Music Man
We keep our Oscars series rolling and well, things have been rough to start. You’d think with a musical as culturally significant and iconic as this one that the movies would have done it up for fun. Sadly, this is an incredibly BORING movie. Sure, Robert Preston is incredible, and sure, the…
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OSCARS '62: Sweet Bird of Youth
CONTENT WARNING: castration, sterilization, sex work, abuse, parental abuse and neglect, menace. Did you miss us? We missed you! That’s right, it’s been far too long, and we’re back with a patented Oscars(TM) series, this time focusing on the year 1962. We kick things off this week with…
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FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: (Wes Craven's) Final Nightmare (1994)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, childhood trauma, horror, earthquakes, demons, death. Oops, Freddy wasn’t really dead after the final nightmare. But as Wes Craven makes abundantly clear in this film, horror legends...
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FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, mental illness, childhood trauma, parental murder, suppressed memories, abuse. There’s been a wide variety of entries in the Freddy Knife Hands series,...
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FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5: The Dream Child (1989)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, mental illness, pregnancy, teen pregnancy, body changes in pregnancy. You don’t usually expect the worst film of a horror franchise to be followed with...
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FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, child neglect. You never expect 80’s horror movies to be quality cinema. But you do expect there to be some wild, ridiculous stuff that also has enough…
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FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, misdiagnosis, medical malpractice, mental health stigma, suicide, mental illness. Wes Craven didn’t think Freddy Krueger could be a legitimate franchise...
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FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, homophobia, trauma.. When we watched the original Nightmare on Elm Street for the show, we were only in our 2nd season and were still relative horror newbies.…
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FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Horror, gore, child murderers, child molesters, serial killers, knives. Back in our second season in 2018 (?!??!?!) we talked about A Nightmare on Elm Street. We probably feel differently about it now. Check out our long ago review…
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SPIKE LEE: Da 5 Bloods (2020)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of war, racism, grief, trauma, PTSD, explosions, abuse, trauma. We’re wrapping up our series with Spike’s most recent joint, traveling to Vietnam for a cross between Apocalypse Now and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.…
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SPIKE LEE: Chi-Raq
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of homicide, gun violence, racism, gang wars, gangs, drug use, sex, misogyny, death of a child, grief. We’ve jumped ahead to Spike’s new era of films for a movie we absolutely should have seen so much earlier. Why? Because...
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SPIKE LEE: Inside Man (2006) / Clockers (1995)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of Nazi collaboration, antisemitism, robbery, racism, violence, murder, drug dealing, assault, gun violence, threats of violence, homicide, police. This week we’ve got a special double feature, with a Spike movie we loved...
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SPIKE LEE: 25th Hour (2002)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of underage attraction, racism, sexism, murder, drug use, prison, assault, violence. It’s been so long since we had a proper movie fight on this show, and this week’s movie finally fit the bill. David thinks this is…
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SPIKE LEE: He Got Game (1998)
CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, childhood grief, dysfunctional families, parental anger, drugs, poverty, grief, loss. It was only a matter of time before Spike Lee decided to make his own ode to basketball. Unfortunately, his script here is…
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