Maximum Film!

They say it's hard to make new friends as an adult...

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025

Welcome to Phase 3 of the MPU (MaximumFilm! Podcastic Universe)

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025

...with special guest friend of the pod (and of Ify) Cody 'Zig' Ziglar!

Transcribed - Published: 2 May 2025

Andrew Ahn remakes a classic of queer cinema, now even gayer.

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2025

An episode that really ties the podcast together…IN PERSON!

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

A lesson in grieving doubles as a guide on how to fit a Great Dane in your a rent-controlled apartment.

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

This marriage is a real hoot…

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

In BoCo as in Tiny Boys, the first taste is free!

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

It's MaxFunDrive, and Director Bong got us multiple Robert Pattinsons

Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2025

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It’s been 25 years…did Patrick Bateman ever return those video tapes?

Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2025

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A 'Captain America' sequel that’s also an 'Eternals' sequel and an 'Incredible Hulk' sequel

Transcribed - Published: 28 February 2025

Cinema’s favorite little bear has come out of hibernation…

Transcribed - Published: 21 February 2025

Folk music smashes, culture clashes, and all the face acting the Academy can handle

Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2025

It has 13 Oscar nominations...but should you Screen It?

Transcribed - Published: 7 February 2025

Architecture & pop culture fanatic Kendra Gaylord gets Brutalized with us!

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

Did Keke crush it and SZA sizzle?! This is but one question on this week’s show. Another? Plus, “Drea, Alonso and Kevin bring on “Bring It On”” is a sentence that makes little to no sense. It will make more sense after you listen to the episode. Fine. They reveal the female buddy comedies that made each of them LOL. But literally made them laugh out loud.

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

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.

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

It’s Maximum Horny on today’s Maximum Film. We are looking at the 2024 erotic thriller(?), Babygirl, starring Nicole Kidman, written and directed by Halina Reijn. Our returning guest today is filmmaker, writer, comedian, and the host of the It’s Always Halloween Podcast, Lucé Tomlin-Brenner.

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

We are looking at the 2024 film, Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell Ross, based off the 2019 Colson Whitehead book of the same name. Plus we look at other films covering lesser known historical events. Our guest today is the talented director and writer, Tristán T.A. Hill.

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2025

The end of the year is upon us and we’re here to talk about our favorite films of 2024 aka the BEST films of the year.

Transcribed - Published: 27 December 2024

Today we are looking at the 2024 film, Nightbitch, directed by Marielle Heller, based on the 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder of the same name, starring Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, and beautiful pack of pooches. Plus we are looking at other films that portray motherhood in a more complicated light. Writer and director, Mo Perkins, joins us.

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2024

Today we’re looking at the 2024 period drama, Queer, directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, based on the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs of the same name. Plus, we are looking at other straight action stars who have portrayed queer characters on screen. Senior Culture Writer for Newsweek, H. Alan Scott, joins us.

Transcribed - Published: 13 December 2024

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.

Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2024

We are looking at 2024’s Gladiator II, a sequel to the original 2000 film, also directed by Ridley Scott. It stars Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, and Connie Nielsen. Plus we look at the Top Turkeys of 2024 and our favorite Legacy Sequels. Writer and comedian, Kevin Avery (The Great North, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver), joins us.

Transcribed - Published: 29 November 2024

We are looking at the 2024 Netflix adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson play, The Piano Lesson, directed by Malcolm Washington, starring John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, Ray Fisher, and Samuel L. Jackson. Plus we take a music-movie quiz written by Steven Ray Morris. Emmy-winning film and television producer, Shelby Stone, joins us.

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2024

We are taking a look at A24’s 2024 spiritual horror film, Heretic, starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East about two Mormon missionaries whose faith is tested by a seemingly awkward, but polite man. Plus we look at more movies about playing games. Oh No, Ross and Carrie's Ross Blocher joins us.

Transcribed - Published: 15 November 2024

We are taking a look at the new Steve McQueen film Blitz, the 2024 historical war drama starring Saoirse Ronan as Rita, a single mother, working in a bomb factory, and introducing Elliot Heffernan as her son, George. Plus we look at other films where characters go on a journey to find their way home again.

Transcribed - Published: 8 November 2024

We are taking a look at Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, the new Netflix movie focusing on the true story about serial killer Rodney Alcala’s 1978 appearance on The Dating Game. Plus we look at other true crime stories dramatized on film. Lucy Fitzgerald from Wine & Crime joins us.

Transcribed - Published: 1 November 2024

Anora is a 2024 romantic-comedy (?) written and directed by Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project), starring Mikey Madison as stripper Anora Mikheeva, and follows her beleaguered romance with Vanya (Mark Eidelstein), the son of a Russian Oligarch. All that and a discussion of other films portraying sex work.

Transcribed - Published: 25 October 2024

The Substance is a 2024 body horror film written and directed by French filmmaker Coralie Farageat, starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid. The film follows a recently displaced celebrity who decides to take a secret drug that temporarily creates a younger version of herself with unexpected side effects. All that and a discussion of films that make you squirm. The one and only Katya Zamolodchikova joins us.

Transcribed - Published: 18 October 2024

The Substance is a 2024 body horror film written and directed by French filmmaker Coralie Farageat, starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid. The film follows a recently displaced celebrity who decides to take a secret drug that temporarily creates a younger version of herself with unexpected side effects. All that and a discussion of films that make you squirm. The one and only Katya Zamolodchikova joins us.

Transcribed - Published: 18 October 2024

Joker: Folie à Deux is the 2024 follow-up to 2019’s Joker. Directed again by Todd Phillips (of The Hangover fame originally), it stars Joaquin Phoenix (reprising the Oscar-winning role as Arthur Fleck), joined by musician-turned-actor Lady Gaga, playing the iconic comic book character Lee Quinzel aka Harley Quinn. All that and discussion of other musical moments in “none-musicals.”

Transcribed - Published: 11 October 2024

Will & Harper is a 2024 American documentary film directed by Josh Greenbaum and follows Will Ferrell and Harper Steele as the duo made a 17-day road trip across the United States discussing Harper’s transition, and their friendship. All that and discussion of other iconic friendships in cinema. Film Critic and Essayist, Willow Maclay joins us!

Transcribed - Published: 4 October 2024

After undergoing facial-reconstructive surgery, Edward becomes fixated on an actor in a stage production based on his former life. That’s the setup for A Different Man starring Sebastian Stan, written and directed by Aaron Schimberg. All that and a discussion of best plays-within-films from movie history. The Wrap’s Kristen Lopez joins us!

Transcribed - Published: 27 September 2024

The call is coming from inside the...you? But from the future?

Transcribed - Published: 20 September 2024

This guy comes around every 36 years like clockwork

Transcribed - Published: 13 September 2024

In Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, it’s all drugs and fine dining until [redacted]

Transcribed - Published: 6 September 2024

Reflections (from 1999) of the way life used to be (in 1968)...for three best friends

Transcribed - Published: 30 August 2024

It's the summer between middle school and high school. All your YouTube videos are now deeply embarrassing.

Transcribed - Published: 23 August 2024

"Cinema is a spectrum." - Ify Nwadiwe

Transcribed - Published: 16 August 2024

Taking the concept of "based-on-a-true-story" and getting it up on its feet...

Transcribed - Published: 9 August 2024

It’s not even our first rodeo in the past two weeks! But it IS our first tornadeo…

Transcribed - Published: 2 August 2024

A trip to the gay rodeo to find your people...

Transcribed - Published: 26 July 2024

It’s our annual Listener Pick episode, and we’re going back in time…to 2023!

Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2024

Maxine Minx is back and she can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin

Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2024

Lily Gladstone enters aunt mode, and won't take no for an answer

Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2024

Everybody put on your June Squibb hats, we’re headed to an action movie!

Transcribed - Published: 28 June 2024