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Episode 385: "Hard Truths" with Kirby Howell-Baptiste

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4.7924 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

With a city in flames, four individuals come together to confront Hard Truths. Kirby Howell-Baptiste (“The Good Place”, “Killing Eve”)  joins us from London to talk Mike Leigh’s latest film “Hard Truths”. Wildfires have claimed historic Hollywood landmarks. And movies that capture the locations they’re set in perfectly.

Transcript

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You also don't care about feminism. Your favorite show is Entourage. To be honest, when I found out

0:06.6

that patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest anyway. I wonder if I know what you mean.

0:12.8

I wonder if you wonder.

0:18.9

Hello and welcome to Maximum Film.

0:21.0

I'm your host, Kevin Avery, filling in for Ify Waterway.

0:24.2

You want to know who else is with me?

0:26.0

I'm going to tell you, let's start with movie critic and author of books.

0:29.4

Yes, plural, the most recent of which is Hollywood Pride.

0:32.5

Alonzo Dorale, What's Good?

0:34.6

Look, what's good right now is that my building is safe.

0:38.8

I did briefly evacuate last week to Long Beach with Dave,

0:43.1

but we're back and hoping that the winds don't shift too much.

0:47.2

And my what's good actually this week is an app that I think most of us had never heard

0:52.0

of last week and now everyone in Southern California has it on their phone.

0:55.8

And that would be watch duty,

0:58.1

which is a nonprofit app that was started by developers in Santa Rosa

1:02.5

to track wildfires.

1:05.1

And it has proven itself to be invaluable

1:08.3

for people living through all of this right now with the the palisades fire,

1:14.4

the Eaton fire, all the other ones to kind of keep track of where they are, what zones need

1:20.3

to be evacuated, where shelters can be found, where pets can be taken, where people can go to

1:25.7

get food and clothing and all kinds of

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