Have a Good Movie
The podcast where Macintosh & Maud force each other to watch the movies they should've already seen.
Episodes
August 10, 2025
Our next film should, by all rights, be one of the greatest all-time Westerns even made. Instead, it's a mealy-mouthed, boring, limp noodle of a movie that's stuck trying too hard to be a Big Deal instead of being the allegory for McCarthyism it was written to be. Fred Zinneman has shots for days, but he can't get convincing performances from his actors, and nobody in the cast can convincingly portray the real tension of this movie...
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August 3, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism against Natives, bullying, animal cruelty.
Grab your six shooters and your saddles, we're kicking off our first-ever Westerns series! There's a lot in the genre for us to catch up on, and we start this week with a seminal film, one whose importance is unfortunately the only thing it's really got going for it. John Ford practically created the Western as we know making this movie but the dialog...
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July 29, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual abuse of minors by clergy. While no explicit mentions are made of actions or abuse, listener discretion is advised.
This one has been on our must watch list since it came out, and somehow it lingered for 10 years. In fact, you might suspect we did this series just to watch this movie, and you'd be at least a little bit right. Fortunately, the film doesn't disappoint, taking the well-worn movie...
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July 23, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: occupation, assassination, Israel & Palestine.
We try not to be too political on this show, but sometimes a movie forces our hand. Still, Spielberg’s third labor of love isn’t a mess because of its subject matter. Instead, it’s a messy rush job that has little to no historical value and also fails at being an entertaining movie. Nothing about this story passes the smell test, down to the fact that it looks lik...
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of homophobia, sexual assault, spousal abuse.
This week's movie may not be the gayest movie ever but it's certainly one of the most famous. The star power here is off the charts, with two absolute bona fide movie stars and a perfect up and comer as our three gorgeous, fabulous, out of this world drag queens. Unfortunately the movie seems to think that ultimately we need less time with the queens and mor...
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July 13, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of suicide and suicidal ideation. While presented in a lighthearted manner, listener discretion is advised. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis or experiencing suicidal thoughts, please call or text 988 for help.
Savage Steve Holland probably never contemplated his cartoons and wacky sense of humor would result in him making a true cult teen classic, but that's exactly what happened. John Cus...
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of gaslighting, spousal abuse, spousal murder, murder, misogyny.
We're getting a little spooky this week with a slow-burn cult horror classic that dares to make its female characters complex and unique and its male characters thoroughly one-dimensional. Somehow it's the men that are utterly unbelievable for a change. That said, there's a pretty great movie to be found in among the wreckage, a fact that ...
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June 23, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of gambling.
One would think that with the steely blue eyes of Steve McQueen and the highest-stakes poker game ever concocted, we'd be cooking with fire with this next film. Instead, we get one of the most boring 100-minute movies committed to celluloid. Nearly an hour of this movie is preamble and exposition and when we finally get to the poker game we might as well have just had the Kid lose in the fi...
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June 19, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of death, knife fights, gunfire, murder, sexual misconduct, parental trauma, parental negliect, parental abuse.
We weren’t aware there was such a thing as being a method director, but this legendary film seems to have proven that’s a thing. Because it’s one thing to make a schlocky B-movie for teenagers about juvenile delinquents. It’s another completely to try to reverse engineer that terrible movie in...
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June 7, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, sex work.
We’ve jumped ahead to 1945 to tackle the question of whether it’s possible for a movie to have only one likeable character but still be compelling. The verdict - still unclear. This is a bizarre movie, down to the doctor who tries to save a dying young child trying to gain sympathy for having to drive all the way out to the house in the first place. Only one main character is likeab...
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May 30, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, sexual assault, false imprisonment.
We’ve got a new name, a new season, and a new series! First up, we talk about our name change with a tagline you may be familiar with. Then, we kick off a new series with a trip through ALL the decades - if the year ends in 5, we’re watching a movie from it! We kick things off with a frothy, zippy, real humdinger of a musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Ro...
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March 16, 2025
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We're seen all the movies, we've enjoyed or destroyed them all based on how we feel, and the big night is here at last. We start off with a discussion of the 35th Annual Academy Awards and how unremarkable it was - save for one very uniquely petty acceptance speech. Frank Sinatra may be charming, but he really shouldn't emcee an awards show. Then we dive deep into the 2025 Oscars, are...
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March 10, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, sexual assault, false imprisonment.
1962 contained not one but two books that were thrust upon us as required school reading (or acting), but none loom as large as this story. To be fair, it’s one of the few stories about the pre-Civil Rights Act South that’s presented through the eyes of a child, and that means it’s perfect school fodder. The movie was a huge labor of love from the entire cr...
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February 28, 2025
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CONTENT WARNING: Horror, gore, child murderers, child molesters, serial killers, knives.
We're coming up on the 2025 Oscars and we share our main picks, our takes on the nominees, and why Emilia Perez is one of the worst nominees ever posted to the Oscars, all in this bonus episode of Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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February 19, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of alcoholism, child neglect, substance abuse, addiction.
Every year at the Oscars there’s a movie that stands out as the film that should be the Best Picture, just for the sheer raw power of its storytelling. This is that movie. Jack Lemmon is giving a performance for the ages, the supporting cast is rock solid, and the always contrarian Blake Edwards goes for broke. This could have easily been a melod...
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February 16, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of abuse, car accidents, aging, mental illness..
If last week was about a world war, this film is about a two-woman war. Joan Crawford and Bette Davis were two of the bitterest rivals in the 30’s and 40’s, but by 1962 both were desperate for a hit. So was director Robert Aldrich, and the three combined to create a unique blend of gothic horror and Hollywood cynicism that still resonates today. We contin...
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February 10, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of deafness, blindness, ableism.
D-Day happened over 80 years ago, and to this day, there’s only been two films that capture the scope and scale of that bloody day. This movie is one of those, and unfortunately it’s the boring one. To be clear, the battle sequences are among some of the best committed to celluloid; there’s a few moments that will make you gasp at how well legendary ringleader Darryl F. ...
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February 1, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of deafness, blindness, ableism.
If you’ve ever done theater, and we definitely have, you dread the thought of having to deal with anything related to this movie and this story. And you’d be right to, because all too often we tell a sanitized, ableist, overacted retelling of a very real story: the breakthrough Annie Sullivan had teaching her student Helen Keller to communicate. So you’ll have to pardon ...
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January 24, 2025
CONTENT WARNING: imprisonment, solitary confinement, murder, homosexuality.
The duds just keep on coming this week as a movie about one of America’s most dangerous (and quirky) prisoners just collapses under its own weight. Many times we celebrate directors and casts who deeply care about their subject. In this case, it somehow makes the whole experience worse, mostly because it commits the cardinal sin of being boring. It’s not t...
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January 15, 2025
We keep our Oscars series rolling and well, things have been rough to start. You’d think with a musical as culturally significant and iconic as this one that the movies would have done it up for fun. Sadly, this is an incredibly BORING movie. Sure, Robert Preston is incredible, and sure, the songs are fun, but after the 3rd of 17 dance breaks, you start to realize that our director just barely made a movie. They might as well have ...
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