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Episode 379: “Wicked: Part I” with Paul Miles Schneider

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Drea Clark, Movies, Film Reviews, Alonso Duralde, News, Twitter, Ify Nwadiwe, Film, Diverse, Reviews, Criticism, Tv & Film, Woke, Comedy, Queer

4.7924 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Today we are looking at 2024’s hit musical movie adaptation, Wicked: Part I, directed by Jon M. Chu, starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum. Plus we hear from the listener looking for movie recs while they recover from surgery. Author Paul Miles Schneider (The Silver Shoes trilogy) joins us.

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0:00.0

You also don't care about feminism.

0:03.7

Your favorite show is Entourage.

0:05.0

To be honest, when I found out that patriarchy wasn't about horses, I had lost interest anyway.

0:10.0

I wonder if I know what you mean.

0:12.9

I wonder if you wonder.

0:16.9

Hello everyone and welcome to Maximum Film.

0:19.1

It's episode 369, and you know what?

0:22.7

Witches?

0:23.4

Sometimes they go whine.

0:25.0

It's your boy iffy wide away and in the booth with me all my friends.

0:27.9

So let me introduce you to them.

0:30.3

First up, and foremost, we have the Christmas Daddy himself in full power, beaming, just bleeding red and green with little sparkles in

0:40.7

between it, an amazing critic and even more amazing writer.

0:45.1

Alonzo Duralde, what's good?

0:46.8

Oh, yeah, if he is December, so I'm just, I'm levitating at this point.

0:50.7

So what's good with me, I, you know, look, we're heading to that season where people are looking for gifts, maybe gifts for their friends who are movie obsessed.

0:59.8

And I happen to know folks who write books, so I'm just going to be plugging away here.

1:05.2

This week I want to talk about, so the BFI, the British Film Institute, has this series of books they do called BFI Film Classics,

1:12.9

where they get an author to sort of go deep in on one movie and really kind of explore it and dissect it and examine it and look at its cultural impact and all that kind of stuff.

1:23.6

And they've just put out a new one written by Justin Wyatt, somebody that I have known back since I was running a film festival in Texas and he was teaching film at the University of North Texas.

1:35.0

And he's written a whole book about Robert Altman's Three Women.

1:38.9

And that is a movie that once you see it, you're like, I would like to know more.

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