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Just the gang today to talk about a movie that has divided critics and moviegoers alike...at least, those moviegoers who actually took the very secretive bait that DIGGER's ad campaign was offering. Tom Cruise and Riz Ahmed star in this latest film from Alejandra G. Iñárritu. Then, we've got a different kind of movie quiz about films set in their not-so-distant future.What’s GoodAlonso - Every Time a Bell Rings by Emily St. James and Lauren TheisenDrea - Luna Wants TunaKevin - Returning to GBBO ITIDICWB Watertower Already Repainted to Reflect MergerSteven Spielberg and Michael Bay Might Be Making the Next Transformers MovieStaff PicksAlonso - The Social ReckoningDrea - Fjord, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, and Dr. StrangeloveKevin - Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass  Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmaxfilm Follow us on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, or LetterboxdWithKevin AveryDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher

Director Lance Oppenheim's debut feature, Primetime has a sales pitch that's hard to deny: Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen. So does the movie live up to that enticing promise? We have true crime buff, former Dateline devotee, and co-host of All Things Cozy, Gillian Walters, with us to discuss the film as both a work of fiction and a portrait of real (if complicated) man and moment in TV history. Then we'll talk about some of our most memorable morally ambiguous moviesWhat's GoodAlonso - Magazine BreakDrea - Lili Reinhart's wig in The Love HypothesisGillian - Spooky Kitty Soap Holder from Bath & Body WorksKevin - The Sixty-Year Mission screeningITIDICViral Lesbian Bar Article From Boston Globe Is Piquing Hollywood’s InterestAn Indie Filmmaker Is Distributing His Movie Via One Traveling Copy of a DVDStaff PicksDrea - Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!Alonso - No Sleep TillGillian - The DUFFKevin - Hope (kinda) & Avengers: Endgame (still)  Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmaxfilm Follow us on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, or LetterboxdWithKevin AveryDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher

This week we've got expert musical improvisors Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino with us to discuss a movie about a middle school musical gone way off course, at the hands of a drama teacher pushed to the edge. Part comedy, part film noir, it's the feature debut of director Giselle Bonilla, and it was a Sundance premiere. THE MUSICAL! Then we talk about other films that use film noir tropes to comedic ends, and pitch some actually-pretty-genius new movies in that genre too.Look out for Jess and Zach's movie, Mock TrialListen to Off Book (or see it live!)What’s GoodAlonso - Get your colonoscopy!Drea - Bob the Drag Queen even makes the Love Island Reunion show funJess - The Gilded Age on a planeZach - The Wolves of Glendale, Go to the WoodsKevin - seeing the Rams liveITIDICAMC Burbank Pepper-Spray Guy: Villain or Hero?New California Post Production Tax Credit Becomes LawStaff PickAlonso - You Had to Be ThereJess - Original Cast Album: Company (w/”Co-Op” double feature)Drea - The IncomerZach - The Court JesterKevin - Resident Evil Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmaxfilm Follow us on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, or LetterboxdWithKevin AveryDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher

The stars of the original Practical Magic stars are back (at least, most of them) and just as cursed as ever. We have Hollywood Reporter TV Critic Angie Han with us to weigh in on whether this film left us feeling charmed, or like we'd been hit by a truck. Then, in honor of a family that has two sisters in every generation, we have a movie quiz about two-sister films! What’s Good?Alonso - Meg Stalter’s Emmys ensembleDrea - uno spaghettoAngie - TrüFrü Dark and White Chocolate Covered Freeze Dried StrawberriesKevin - Movie theater seat snobberyITIDIC‘Woman Unknown’ Wins Venice Film FestivalMPA Projects Proposed Federal Tax Credit would Add 143,000 Film & TV JobsStaff PicksDrea - If I Go Will They Miss MeAlonso - Now, VoyagerAngie - The History of ConcreteKevin - Martha Marcy May MarleneHere's a Letterboxd list of Two- and Three-Sister Movies Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmaxfilm Follow us on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, or LetterboxdWithKevin AveryDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher

Casper Kelly might be most famous for his this-shouldn't-be-so-creepy comedy short "Too Many Cooks." Now he's got his feature directorial debut on his hands (but don't sleep on Yule Log 2, according to Alonso), and It's Buddy, a comedy horror that owes a debt of gratitude to the insistent cheerfulness of Barney the Dinosaur. We'll get into all that, and then talk about some of our favorite times TV crossed over onto the big screens.What's Good:Alonso: kouign amannDrea: Minnesota State FairKevin: Costco beltITIDIC• Summer U.S. Box Office Hits All-Time $4.76B Record: How Audiences Surrendered To Moviegoing• Telluride’s Top-Secret Film Was a Documentary and people are abuzz (You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes doc)Staff Picks:Alonso: We Are PatDrea: Oasis: Don't Look Back in AngerKevin: Colony (Gunche) Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmaxfilm Follow us on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, or LetterboxdWithKevin AveryDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher