Comedy Tragedy Marriage

For the 294th and final episode of Comedy Tragedy Marriage, Maude and Stan discuss what is their favorite “couple movie,” the 1984 teen classic “Sixteen Candles.”

Christopher Reeve donned the blue tights and red cape of the Man of Steel while Margot Kidder played the plucky, spelling-challenged reporter Lois Lane in 1978’s “Superman: The Movie.”

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon embody country music legends Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 2005 Academy Award winning 2005 film “Walk the Line.”

An enemy from Captain Kirk’s past returns for revenge in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”

Chaos and fear raced through Dallas, TX and the nation in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963. The 2013 film “Parkland” starring Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti, Colin Hanks and many more, tracks the harrowing hours and days following the fatal shots.

***Trigger Warning: Descriptions of sexual abuse*** Richard Strauss was a physician for the Ohio State University athletic department and the student health center. From 1978 to 1998, he sexually abused hundreds of male students. The survivors of his abuse discuss the effects it had, and is still having, on their lives in the HBO documentary “Surviving Ohio State.”

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.”