About this podcast
A movie podcast that isn't just a bunch of straight white dudes. Comedian Kevin Avery is joined by film producer Drea Clark and film critic Alonso Duralde for a fast, funny, flight through film. Maximum Film! is news, reviews and in-depth insight, beamed directly into your ears every week.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 493 episodes
- Episode #480: 'Club Kid' and The Cinema of Unplanned Parenthood · 1 h 5 min · Episode 480The classic parenting dilemma: how late is your 10-year-old allowed to stay out at the club?
- Episode #479: 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York' with Bilge Ebiri · 1 h 7 min · Episode 479It's John Turturro and his amazing tweed dreamcoat vs. cryptobros the age of surveillance
- Episode #478: 'Wicker' with Brea Grant · 1 h 4 min · Episode 478That degree in underwater basket-weaving isn't looking so foolish now, is it...?
- Episode #477: 'Sense and Sensibility' (2026) with Nikki Payne · 1 h 7 min · Episode 477Did we need another Sense & Sensibility? Turns out, maybe yes. Romance novelist (and cultural anthropologist!) Nikki Payne joins us to weigh the merits of director Georgia…
- Episode #476: How I Met ‘Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother’ · 51 min · Episode 476Mahershala Ali and director Bassam Tariq developed Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother. It’s a film that centers on the American Muslim experience, but is by turns dramatic and…
- Episode #475: We Need to Talk about DIGGER · 1 h 11 min · Episode 475Billionaires are bad, art is good, and Tom Cruise is an actor
- Episode #474: 'Primetime' with Gillian Walters · 1 h 7 min · Episode 474What did you think was going to happen here?
- Episode 473: 'The Musical' with Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino · 1 h 5 min · Episode 473The theater's greatest weapon is the element of surprise!
- Episode #472: 'Practical Magic 2' with Angie Han · 1 h 1 min · Episode 472It's been 28 years, and the Owens sisters are still cursed. Does this lega-sequel break the spell?
- Episode #471: It's Absurdist, It's Disturbing, It's 'Buddy' · 1 h 0 min · Episode 471What if "I love you, you love me" was a demand, not a request?
- Episode #470: 'Coyote vs. Acme' with David Kittredge · 1 h 5 min · Episode 470Justice for cinema! Justice for toons! Justice for Kevin Avery!
- Episode #469: ‘Tony’ with Katie Walsh · 1 h 3 min · Episode 469Before he was Bourdain, he was...TONY (kinda)
- Episode #468: 'The Wrong Girls' with Hay Beacon · 1 h 7 min · Episode 468Hey, you! Be a buddy and take our listener survey! It'll help us keep the show great and maybe even...make it better?! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! - Producer Marissa and the MaxFilm…
- Episode #467: 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' with Andrea Subissati · 1 h 7 min · Episode 467Was the summer we spent at Camp Miasma the best darn summer of our lives?
- Episode #466: 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' with Ken Plume · 1 h 9 min · Episode 466A Marvel movie that gets back into the swing of things
- Episode #465: 'The Dink' with Jaron Myers · 1 h 6 min · Episode 465Is a pickleball comedy still a sports comedy? Don't ask the tennis guys...
- Episode #464: 'The Odyssey' with Dimitry Pompée · 1 h 5 min · Episode 464From Ithaca to Troy and back again, in under 3 hours!
- Episode #463: 'Phantom of the Paradise' [Listener Pick 2026!] · 1 h 8 min · Episode 463One of the weirdest movies of 1974, plus our favorite movies of 2026 so far!
- Episode #462: 'The Invite' with Amber Healey · 60 min · Episode 462Invite the neighbors over, what's the worst that could happen?
- Episode #461: 'Supergirl' with Amy Nicholson · 1 h 2 min · Episode 461Depressed, dog-loving, and donning a duster: meet Supergirl!
- Episode #460: 'Leviticus' with Justin Kirkland · 1 h 4 min · Episode 460Is your crush is a monster? Or that just a monster that looks like your crush?
- Episode #459: ‘Disclosure Day’ with Jamelle Bouie · 1 h 9 min · Episode 459Government coverup? Alien secrets? New Spielberg? Alert the media!
- Episode #458: Tropical Malady with Harry Dodge and Silas Howard · 1 h 1 min · Episode 458A queer love story between a soldier and a country boy in Thailand. There is a tiger involved.
- Episode #457: 'The Mandalorian & Grogu' with Danielle Radford · 1 h 9 min · Episode 457It may not be your daddy’s Star Wars movie, but it definitely contains a daddy.
- Episode #456: 'I Love Boosters' with Ryann Graham · 58 min · Episode 456It’s fashion, baby (and that's just the outer layer)
- Episode #455: 'Is God Is' with Sherin Nicole · 1 h 9 min · Episode 455Part revenge thriller, part Greek tragedy, and fully its own thing
- Episode #454: Count on 'The Sheep Detectives' · 1 h 1 min · Episode 454Turns out the coziest mysteries are made of wool
- Episode #453: 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' with Katie Walsh · 1 h 4 min · Episode 453New media, same haircuts
- Episode #452: 'Michael' with Tre'vell Anderson · 1 h 17 min · Episode 452A biopic about Michael Jackson that stops the story in 1988? What could possibly go wrong?
- [BONUS] Drea on 'Sleeping With Celebrities' Minisode: Bigfoot Guys, Aliens Guys, and That’s the Two Types of Guys · 33 minIt's #MaxFunDrive so here's a sleepy surprise: Drea can whisper!
- Maximum Sidebar! Episode 1 (BoCo Teaser) · 7 minSupport something you love and everyday can feel like Saturday...
- Episode #451: MOTHER MARY, Why You Buggin' · 1 h 6 min · Episode 451Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel get a little bitchy, a little twitchy, and a little witchy!
- Casters on Casters: MaxFilm! Double Feature · 47 minIt's MaxFunDrive. And here, for the first time, we give you an exclusive look (well, listen) at the craft of podcasting: presenting Casters on Casters. For MaxFilm! listeners…
- Episode #450: 'You, Me & Tuscany' with Dory Benford · 56 min · Episode 450You say "formulaic" like it's a bad thing...
- Episode #449: 'The Drama' with Ariel LeBeau · 56 min · Episode 449Zendaya & Robert Pattinson are at the center of THE DRAMA in the newest A24 film
- Episode #448: 'Project Hail Mary' with Rendy Jones · 1 h 9 min · Episode 448Lord & Miller & Gosling & Rocky
- Episode #447: 'Spacewoman' with Kevin Smokler · 1 h 3 min · Episode 447A new documentary takes a close look at an American space pioneer who ought to be a household name.
- Episode #446: 'Slanted' with Michelle Krusiec · 1 h 12 min · Episode 446Some teens will go to face-melting extremes to fit in...
- Episode 445: 'The Bride!' with Harmony Colangelo · 1 h 1 min · Episode 445Mary Shelley’s back and she’s got all new dance moves.
- Episode #444: Ida Lupino's 'The Bigamist' with Hadley Meares · 59 min · Episode 444In front of and behind the camera, Ida Lupino wants you to call her "mother."
- Episode #443: 'How to Make a Killing': It Was a Movie · 1 h 0 min · Episode 443Opinions differ on the latest Glen Powell vehicle, but a time was had by all.
- Episode #442: 'Wuthering Heights' with Alys Murray · 1 h 3 min · Episode 442Emerald Fennell’s version is goopy and gothic…but is it good?
- Episode #441: 'Pillion' with Nayland Blake · 1 h 3 min · Episode 441Alexander Skarsgaard’s in the saddle, and we’re along for the ride
- Episode #440: 'Send Help' with Kristen Lopez · 1 h 0 min · Episode 440Can a frumpy Rachel McAdams outwit, outplay, outlast her hot a-hole boss?
- Episode #439: 'The Testament of Ann Lee' with Emily St. James · 1 h 4 min · Episode 439We’re throwing our whole bodies into this discussion of Mona Fastvold’s epic historical musical biopic THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE. But it’s an audio medium, so you’ll have to take…
- Episode #438: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple with Jordan Morris · 1 h 9 min · Episode 438Nia DaCosta takes the '28 Years' reins and steers us toward a big showdown at 'The Bone Temple.'
- Episode #437: 'The Chronology of Water' with Roxane Gay & Alain Martin · 1 h 5 min · Episode 437Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is not what you’re expecting (unless, perhaps, you’ve read the memoir).
- Episode #436: MARTY SUPREME is a Real A**hole · 59 min · Episode 436Josh Safdie directed it, Timothée Chalamet stars in it, and it’s seriously stressing everybody out.
- Episode #435: Our Favorite Movies of 2025 · 1 h 22 min · Episode 435Oh what a year at the cinema it was…
