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Today we're taking a look at a movie from director Luke Gilford that started out as a book of photographs taken on the Gay Rodeo circuit and became a lot more. It's NATIONAL ANTHEM, with EUROVANGELIS…

Listener Harrison gave us a great shortlist of films to choose from this year – a prize Harrison became eligible for by supporting the show at MaximumFun.org/join. We went with Nahnatchka Khan’s slas…

The third installment of Ti West's maybe-a-trilogy, MaXXXine follows up on the bloody sagas of X and Pearl. And it does so in 1980s LA drag. Writer and critic Sarah Gorr joins us to share her big fee…

Director Erica Tremblay's narrative feature debut stars Lily Gladstone and Isobel Deroy-Olson as an aunt and niece on the Seneca-Cayuga rez. After a long search for distribution, it's finally found i…

June Squibb’s film career has always defied expectations for what an actor can do at what age. So why not star in your first headlining role - an action movie no less- at 94? We talk THELMA, then pit…

Comedian Erin Foley joins the gang to take a look back at the best lesbian neo-noir 1996 has to offer…which is also probably the best of all of those things that any year has to offer. The first movi…

What happens when a Spanish director adapts an American graphic novel into a dialogue-free animated film? Laughter, tears, and an Oscar nomination, apparently. Sierra Katow joins us to get into this …

From Pamela Adlon (her feature debut as a director!) and comedy pals Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau, the comedy Babes is expanding this week across US theaters.  We are joined by director (and mom)…

Our friend Maria Lewis joins us from Australia once again, this time to break down George Miller’s highly anticipated follow-up to FURY ROAD (that’s also a prequel to FURY ROAD). Then we answer a hot…

The latest (and second) film from director Jane Schoenbrun is a glimpse into the void, into the ‘90s, and into a whole lot more – it all depends on how you’re watching. We’re joined by MaxFilm produc…

David Leitch, the director of Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train, and Hobbs & Shaw, got his Hollywood start as a stunt man. Now he’s coming full circle, making an action/comedy/romance about that stunt life…

Luca Guadagnino’s latest film (and biggest to date) has been the talk of cinema circles since its release. Whether it’s causing a thirst for threesomes, a craving for churros, or a burning desire to …

Writer/director (and Chicago native) Minhal Baig’s newest film centers around Malik and Eric, two young kids going through the things young kids go through, with the added complications of life in th…

Studio Ghibli’s GKIDS has a new film out about a little girl who just wants her mom to cook her a really specific dinner. If that sounds like not quite enough for a movie to be about, then you haven’…

We’ve seen the Sasquatch(es)! We head into the woods to talk wild animal actors, convincing bigfoot suits, bodily functions, and the legend of Sasquatch itself, with comedian and writer Joey Clift. T…

Vera Drew’s very personal, exceedingly irreverent, and definitely unauthorized THE PEOPLE’S JOKER got its TIFF premiere in 2022, but has been fighting a path to (legally) be shown in theaters ever si…

The second feature from director Rose Glass has been on our watchlist since Sundance…even longer in the case of our guest Mallory O’Meara (Reading Glasses), who had the film’s poster on her wall far …

It’s the final episode of Dune Month, aka “How You Dune? Month”...and it’s also the final days of #MaxFunDrive! If you’ve got the means and you’ve been putting it off, please join or upgrade to keep …

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