Comedy Tragedy Marriage
273 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsStan the Movie Man and Maude the Movie Broad, a couple married over 35 years, take turns choosing a movie, watching it together, then discussing why one loves it and whether the other one loves it, likes it or hates it.
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Hillbilly Elegy
April 17, 2024 05:40 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBA family with a history of poverty, mental illness, partner abuse and more has one member trying to break the cycle in the Netflix film “Hillbilly Elegy.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Get Out
April 10, 2024 01:56 - 56 minutes - 52.4 MBJordan Peele, at the time better known for his sketch comedy with Keegan-Michael Key, wowed audiences worldwide with his first film about race, neoliberalism and class disparity in 2017’s “Get Out.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
King of Kings
April 03, 2024 02:27 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBJeffrey Hunter, Rip Torn, Robert Ryan and a cast of thousands come together to tell the story of Jesus in 1961’s “King of Kings.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Poor Things
March 27, 2024 01:45 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBEmma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo star in the story of a strange woman finding her way and herself in the world in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
March 20, 2024 02:11 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBWhen two average people see UFO’s they are left with the feeling they have been left a message they must figure out in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 classic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Winter’s Bone
March 13, 2024 02:10 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBA hard Ozark’s life with an absent father, mentally ill mother and two younger siblings gets potentially impossible with the threat of homelessness for 17-year old Ree in 2010’s “Winter’s Bone.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
March 06, 2024 04:10 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBMarian Anderson lived at a time when African-Americans were treated as second class citizens. She didn’t want to be a civil rights fighter, but her voice put her at the frontlines of the beginning of a movement. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Barbie
February 28, 2024 03:17 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBMargot Robbie and Ryan Gosling bring iconic toys to life in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
The Holdovers
February 28, 2024 03:08 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBThree damaged people become a reluctant family over the Christmas holiday at an exclusive boys prep school in Alexander Payne’s Oscar nominated film “The Holdovers.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
A Simple Favor
February 14, 2024 03:07 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBTwo very different women become friends. But when one goes missing, the other begins a journey looking for her, and the truth, in “A Simple Favor.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Nyad
February 07, 2024 03:12 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBDiana Nyad had a seemingly charmed life: Gifted athlete, endurance swimmer, TV sports commentator, motivational speaker and winner of various awards. But one goal seemed out of reach…swimming from Cuba to Florida. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Bottoms
February 02, 2024 02:46 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBTwo high school senior girls plot to lose their virginity to the cheerleaders they have crushes on by starting an after school fight club in the 2023 satirical teen comedy “Bottoms.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
June
January 24, 2024 02:22 - 51 minutes - 48.1 MBBefore she was married to Johnny Cash, she was part of country music royalty. But even if no one knew who June Carter Cash was, she was a queen. She’s the subject of the new documentary “June” available to stream on Paramount+. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Free Guy
January 18, 2024 02:48 - 58 minutes - 54 MBA mild-mannered bank teller discovers there’s far more to his world, and another, than he ever suspected in”Free Guy,” starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Joe Keery and Taika Waititi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Good Grief
January 10, 2024 03:00 - 45 minutes - 42.6 MBAfter a married couple are separated by death, the surviving spouse leans on his best friends to deal with the loss in the Netflix original movie “Good Grief” starring Dan Levy, Ruth Negga, Himesh Patel and Luke Evans. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Christmas With the Kranks
December 22, 2023 04:38 - 58 minutes - 54 MBA couple of empty nesters plan on taking a cruise for Christmas but their friends and neighbors aren’t having it in “Christmas With the Kranks.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Santa’s Slay
December 13, 2023 02:39 - 56 minutes - 52.4 MBThe Jolly Old Fat Man is done delivering gifts and is just bringing the pain in 2005’s “Santa’s Slay” starring wrestler Bill Goldberg, Emilie de Ravin, Douglas Smith and Robert Culp. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Candy Cane Lane
December 06, 2023 03:28 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBEddie Murphy is a husband and father determined to win a Christmas decorating contest but must battle an evil elf named Pepper in the Amazon Prime holiday comedy (?) “Candy Cane Lane.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Crazy Heart
November 29, 2023 03:14 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBJeff Bridges is an alcoholic country singer seemingly hellbent on destroying every opportunity to redeem himself in 2009’s “Crazy Heart.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
The Last Picture Show
November 23, 2023 04:58 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBA small Texas town is slowly dying and taking all the citizens with it in Peter Bogdanovich’s black and white 1971 classic “The Last Picture Show.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
The Deer Hunter
November 15, 2023 03:44 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBRobert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, John Savage and Meryl Streep lead a cast of greats in Michael Cimino’s Vietnam war epic “The Deer Hunter.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Good Boys
November 08, 2023 03:23 - 54 minutes - 50.7 MBSixth-graders, a kissing party, a drone, Molly and raging hormones lead to a day of misadventures in the raunchy comedy “Good Boys.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Carrie
November 01, 2023 02:51 - 58 minutes - 54 MBBullying the wrong person leads to a deadly prom in “Carrie,” based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Doctor Sleep
October 25, 2023 02:15 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBDanny Torrance has grown up running away from his gift of the Shining, but now must embrace it to save a young woman with a more powerful gift from a group of Shining vampires in “Doctor Sleep.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Cujo
October 18, 2023 03:49 - 58 minutes - 54.5 MBA big lovable dog becomes a killing machine in “Cujo,” based on the novel by Stephen King. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Pet Sematary and Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
October 13, 2023 02:18 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBSpooky Season continues with a Stephen King double feature: “Pet Sematary” and “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
The Dead Zone
October 04, 2023 02:26 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBChristopher Walken and Brooke Adams play star-crossed lovers who are not meant to be, plus some psychic stuff, in “The Dead Zone,” based on Stephen King’s book of the same name. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Klute
September 27, 2023 01:57 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBJane Fonda won her first Best Actress Oscar portraying a world-weary sex worker alongside Donald Sutherland’s experienced yet naive cop in 1971’s thriller “Klute.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
The Manchurian Candidate
September 22, 2023 02:43 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBThe 1962 film “The Manchurian Candidate” came out at the height of the Cold War and reflected America’s fear of communist attack and domination. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
The Maltese Falcon
September 13, 2023 02:27 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBA hard drinking, morally ambiguous and tough-as-nails private detective takes on the case of his career in 1941’s “The Maltese Falcon” starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Don’t Worry Darling
September 06, 2023 00:49 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBOlivia Wilde produced, directed and co-starred in 2022’s “Don’t Worry Darling.” The film also stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles and Chris Pine. It came out with controversy, much of it centered in misogyny, put is the movie any good? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
August 30, 2023 02:23 - 55 minutes - 51.8 MBA mother, grieving and angry, takes unusual steps to find her daughter’s killer in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
To Kill A Mockingbird
August 23, 2023 02:37 - 57 minutes - 53 MBGregory Peck won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a crusading lawyer in the Depression-era South in “To Kill A Mockingbird.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Crack in the World
August 16, 2023 01:31 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBMemories of a childhood trip led to this week’s selection of the 1965 sci-if disaster film “Crack in the World.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Suddenly, Last Summer
August 09, 2023 01:43 - 58 minutes - 54.6 MBBased on a Tennessee Williams one-act play, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift star in the Southern Gothic potboiler “Suddenly, Last Summer.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Oppenheimer
August 02, 2023 02:12 - 54 minutes - 50.8 MBChristopher Nolan pours all of his filmmaking know how into the lush, dense and grand historical epic about the man who led the effort to develop the atomic bomb in “Oppenheimer.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
July 26, 2023 01:38 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBMargaret Atwood wrote about a dystopian future in 1984 that seems far closer to reality than it should. We watched the 1990 (or 1989, depending on your source) film version of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
July 19, 2023 01:25 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBStan and Maude jump in Quentin Tarantino’s Time Machine, traveling to 1969 to view the revised history of Sharon Tate and the Manson family in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
12 Angry Men
July 12, 2023 02:20 - 59 minutes - 55.2 MBThis 1957 film is perhaps more relevant now than when it debuted. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and more star in “12 Angry Men.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
The French Dispatch
July 05, 2023 02:15 - 56 minutes - 52.6 MBWes Anderson made “The French Dispatch” as a tribute to writers. His love for the written word is on full display in this 2021 film. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
The World According to Garp
June 28, 2023 01:24 - 59 minutes - 55 MBRobin Williams first successful film (following a raunchy comedy and the big budget bomb “Popeye”) was based on a John Irving novel “The World According to Garp.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
June 21, 2023 01:36 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBComic, actor, mimic, improviser Robin Williams was a genius at making people laugh, cry, and cry with laughter. His life and far untimely death are explored in the documentary “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Love to Love You: Donna Summer
June 14, 2023 01:47 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBShe was the Queen of Disco but there was so much more to know about Donna Summer. We learn some of what we want to know in the MAX documentary “Love to Love You: Donna Summer.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Frozen
June 07, 2023 02:44 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBA young princess with magical powers needs to figure out how to control her abilities and not hurt her sister and her kingdom in Disney’s “Frozen.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Being Mary Tyler Moore
May 31, 2023 01:29 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MBShe was a TV icon of the 1960’s and 1970’s, breaking boundaries in the depiction of women. She was viewed as America’s sweetheart but she was so much more. Learn about her in “Being Mary Tyler Moore.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
3000 Years of Longing
May 24, 2023 02:45 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBIdris Elba plays an eternal, magical djinn and Tilda Swinton is the academic that releases him from his bottle in 2022’s “3000 Years of Longing.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
20 Feet From Stardom
May 19, 2023 01:45 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBBackup singers are the unsung heroes of recoded and live music. A few of them get the spotlight for the first time in the 2013 documentary “20 Feet From Stardom.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
A Man Called Otto
May 10, 2023 01:48 - 54 minutes - 50.7 MBTom Hanks stars as a man trying to kill himself but life and his neighbors keep getting in the way in “A Man Called Otto.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
May 03, 2023 02:33 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBMaude selected a favorite book made into a new movie “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message
This Is The End
April 26, 2023 00:46 - 54 minutes - 50.4 MBSeth Rogan, Jay Baruchel, James Franco and more star as themselves in the stoner End-of-Days comedy “This Is The End.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stan-the-movie-man9/message