Mary Versus the Movies

Mary Versus the Movies

Mary Jones

Episodes 272
Avg. Duration 48m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (24)
Since Mar 2021
Latest Episode May 2026

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Sure, the 1980s were a great decade for film. But have you seen all of them? No, neither has Mary. In fact, some pretty big films passed her by, what with being in kindergarten at the time: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Moonstruck, My Neighbor Totoro... So it's time to fix that. Artwork, opening and closing themes by Dennis Lingg Produced and edited by Mary Jones

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Episode 232 - The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)

May 07, 2026 53m

Pittsburgh's basketball team is the worst in the league, so their 14-year-old towel-boy goes to an astrologer and convinces the team to only have players who are Pisces, while twin brothers battle…

Hollywood Avalon, ep. 35 - "The Queen's Knight"/"Maid of Somerset"

May 04, 2026 4m Bonus

We return to the 1950s tv series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot with two episodes: Episode 3, "The Queen's Knight", which takes some inspiration from Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot, le Chevalier de la…

Episode 231 - The Unbelievable Truth (1989) - with Stephen Cooke

Apr 23, 2026 1h 17m

We welcome Canadian film critic and journalist Stephen Cooke to the show to talk about indie director Hal Hartley's debute film, the story of a misanthropic girl who falls in love with a mysterious…

Episode 230 - Manhunter (1986)

Apr 17, 2026 1h 2m

An FBI criminal profiler is on the trail of a serial killer, and enlists the help of a dangerous psychopath to track him down. No, it's not Silence of the Lambs, it's Michael Mann's thriller based on…

Episode 229 - Local Hero (1983)

Apr 10, 2026 49m

An American oil company offers to buy a Scottish village, but things don't go as planned in this comedic fairy tale about lonlieness, community, and the wonders of the natural world. Starring Peter…

Episode 228 - All That Jazz (1979) - with Julie Klausner

Apr 02, 2026 1h 1m

Grab the Visine and Dexedrine, folks, it's showtime! We welcome writer, actress, and comedian Julie Klausner to the show to discuss Bob Fosse's autobiographical exploration of death, sex, and…

Hollywood Avalon, ep. 34 - Apocalypse Now (1979)

Apr 01, 2026 24m Bonus

Francis Ford Coppola's epic about the Vietnam War draws as much from J.G. Frazer's The Golden Bough and Jessie Weston's landmark Arthurian study From Ritual to Romance as it does from Joseph Conrad's…

Episode 227 - Network (1976)

Mar 27, 2026 1h 11m

Never mess with the money. Newscaster Howard Beale has been fired from television, but not before he has a mental breakdown live on-air. What could be better for ratings? One of the great satires of…

Episode 226 - The NeverEnding Story (1984)

Mar 19, 2026 1h 4m

A bullied boy finds a magic book, bringing him into a fantastical world under threat of annihilation. Dennis Vs the Movies month continues with the movie that scarred millions of millennials.…

Episode 225 - An American Tail (1986)

Mar 12, 2026 1h 3m

The story of a young Russian-Jewish mouse who emigrates to America, is separated from his family, and has to find his way in 1880s New York City is a lushly-animated, sometimes grim story about…

Episode 224 - Mannequin (1987)

Mar 06, 2026 52m

Dennis Versus the Movies month kicks off with a favorite from Mary's childhood, the Philadelphia-set romantic comedy about a department-store window-dresser and the five-thousand-year-old Egyptian…

Episode 223 - The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Feb 27, 2026 57m

We're back watching James Bond, this time teaming up with a sexy Russian spy to take down a deranged Swedish shipping magnate who wants to blow up the world so that he can live under the sea. Also,…

Episode 222 - Cool Runnings (1993)

Feb 20, 2026 51m

The story of the Jamaican bobslead team is a family-friendly comedy that hits all the hoary old sports movie underdog beats. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, though it means they have to…

Episode 221 - Animalympics (1980)

Feb 13, 2026 58m

It's sports! It's animals! It's animation! It's celebrity voices! It's... a weird riff on Lost Horizon and I guess Saturday Night Fever with an alligator? It's Animalypics! From the creator of Tron!…

Episode 220 - The Man from Snowy River (1982)

Feb 06, 2026 57m

A young man loses his father and home, is forced to work for a land baron, falls in love with his boss's daughter, and captures a rogue horse in this drama based on an Australian ballad. It's corny…

Episode 219 - Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979/1982)

Jan 30, 2026 40m

A bland office drone has an affair with his married coworker and becomes obsessed with her, while juggling his suicidal mother and unemployed best friend; did we mention it's a comedy? Starring John…

Hollywood Avalon, ep. 33 - Parsifal (1912)

Jan 28, 2026 1m Bonus

A silent film of an opera sounds like a joke, but no, it's quite real--and honestly pretty disjointed and dull, playing more like highlights of Wagner's opera about the Holy Grail than a film in its…

Episode 218 - Missing (1982)

Jan 23, 2026 46m

An American journalist goes missing during the 1973 Chilean coup, and his family naively expects the U.S. government to help recover him, not realizing that they're behind the coup. Based on a true…

Episode 217 - Walker (1987)

Jan 16, 2026 49m

An Acid Western about a 19th century American mercenary overthrowing the government of Nicaragua is one of the angriest farces ever committed to film, reflecting on not only the historical…

Episode 216 - The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981) - special guest Josh Seybert

Jan 09, 2026 1h 31m

We finally welcome our special guest Josh Seybert to talk about a Czech comedy based on a gothic Jules Verne novel about a singing count, his missing girlfriend, and a strange castle in Transylvania.…

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