Mary Versus the Movies

09/07/2025

Sidney is a washed-up playwrite; Myra is his rich and sickly wife; Clifford is his younger lover and protégé. Let’s just say they’re not a happy throuple in this comedy-thriller adapted from the long-running stage play. Starring Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, and Christopher Reeve. Written by Ira Levin and Jay Presson Allen. Directed by Sidney Lumet.

Sidney is a washed-up playwrite; Myra is his rich and sickly wife; Clifford is his younger lover and protégé. Let’s just say they’re not a happy throuple in this comedy-thriller adapted from the lo…

04/07/2025

Nick Chapman is a film student who suddenly hits it big in Hollywood, and finds out how much of a curse that is. The directorial debut of Christopher Guest is a sly satire of filmmaking that has a surprisingly sweet center.

Starring Keving Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, J. T. Walsh, and Michael McKean. Written by Christopher Guest, Michal McKean, and Michal Varhol. Directed by Christopher Guest.

Episode 193 - The Big Picture
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-193-the-big-picture-1989

27/06/2025

A man turns his farm into a baseball diamond inhabited by the ghosts of disgraced ballplayers in what might be the most boomer dad film ever made.

Starring Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Burt Lancaster, and Timothy Busfield. Written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson.

Episode 192 - Field of Dreams
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-192-field-of-dreams

23/06/2025

It’s a solstice miracle! I picked up the repaired laptop yesterday, and despite with the “genius bar” guy said, they *did not* replace the whole hard drive and logic board—it was just a bad battery. Our lost episodes are saved!

20/06/2025

Sidney is a washed-up playwrite; Myra is his rich and sickly wife; Clifford is his younger lover and protégé. Let’s just say they’re not a happy trouple in this comedy-thriller adapted from the long-running stage play.

Starring Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, and Christopher Reeve. Written by Ira Levin and Jay Presson Allen. Directed by Sidney Lumet.

Episode 191 - Deathtrap
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-191-deathtrap-1982

Also, let’s give it up for Dennis, who got my old and broken laptop up and running so we could start recording again!

12/06/2025

Everything else aside, the website for the live show is now up and running, with the ability to purchase tickets. Thanks so much to Bruce for all his work getting this up off the ground!

"Beaches have become battlefields!" SURF N***S MUST DIE1987 | 93 minutes | U.S.A. Saturday, July 19, 20257 p.m. - doors7:30 p.m. - screenPodcast chatter thereafterPopcorn, beverages, and more on site. Purchase includes a one-year subscription to Mary vs. The Movies' Patreon. Join Mary and Dennis for...

06/06/2025

Four directors remake several classic Twilight Zone episodes, as well adding as their own material. Does it work? Do anthology films work? Can this movie escape the tragedy that occured during production? Is this a movie, or just tv on a big screen?

Starring Dan Ackroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan, and John Lithgow. Oh, and Dick Miller. Directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller. Written by John Landis, Richard Matheson, Melissa Mathison, George Clayton Johnson, Jerome Bixby, and Rod Serling.

Episode 189 - Twilight Zone: the Movie
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-189-twilight-zone-the-movie-1983

30/05/2025

Aliens crash-land in the American southwest, and it’s a race between NASA and the CIA over whether the truth is ever exposed. Also, it’s a race between my attention and my eyelids—this is an incredibly soporific film.

Starring Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins, James Hampton and Pamela Bellwood. Written by Thomas C. Chapman and James L. Conway. Directed by James L. Conway

Episode 188 - Hangar 18
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-188-hangar-18-1980

29/05/2025

A young blacksmith joins King Arthur’s court and hopes to win the hand of the fair Linet, but first he must defeat Vikings, Druids, the villainous Sir Palamedies, King Mark, and a very burly guy in a turban. If it didn’t feature brownface and a far-too-old Alan Ladd in the title role, it might have been a pretty good movie.

Starring Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, Peter Cushing, Patrick Troughton, Anthony Bushell, and Harry Andrews. Directed by Tay Garnett. Written by Alec Coppel, Bryan Forbes, and Dennis O’Keefe.

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Episode 25 - The Black Knight
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/hollywood-avalon-ep-25-the-black-knight-1954