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Cinematix Problematix

Cinematix Problematix

By: Kristina Rettig & Erin Maxwell | Cinematix Problematix
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 Welcome, fellow cinephiles to Cinematix Problematix - where we make morally shaky excuses to still love films filled with racism, misogyny, objectification, and inappropriate sexualization. Some of these films are like your favorite uncle who you love seeing at Christmas because he makes everything more fun, but then he slips in a super racist comment over dinner and your mom says “Oh, honey, he’s just from a different time.” Movies are time capsules and filmmakers were just doing their best - their most woman and minority-hating best and we’re here to come to their defense. We’ve lost the ability to forgive, so let’s start exercising that muscle with something that brings all of us together. Movies. And Judging things. Possibly hating them. So feel free to laugh and judge with us as we go back to a different time and try to find a way to still love the movies that made us the freaky weirdos we are today. Enjoy the show!© 2025, Cinematix Problematix. All rights reserved. Art
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  • Falling Down: D-Fens, Destruction, and Demented Male Behavior

    Falling Down: D-Fens, Destruction, and Demented Male Behavior
    Nov 21 2025

    Today, we’re talking about the 1993 Joel Schumacher film Falling Down. It follows a down-on-his luck man named William Foster (aka D-FENS) over the course of a 24 hour period on a hot day in 1990’s Los Angeles. Sitting in traffic, surrounded by a cacophonous crescendo of standard LA traffic stimuli, he abandons his car in the middle of the freeway, and sets off on a cross-city trek from East LA to Venice. Along the way, he takes out all of his pent-up resentments on a murderer’s row of LA archetypes that include: a Korean shopowner, hostile Latino gang members, homeless people, fast food workers, construction workers, a neo-nazi who owns a gun shop, and - my favorite - his ex wife (who has a restraining order against him).

    Join us to discuss how this film is still relevant today, as well as to revel in how disturbed Erin was watching it.

    CREDITS

    Hosted by: Kristina “Krissie” Rettig & Erin Maxwell

    Edited by: Russ Lichter

    Theme song by: Spooky Dan
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • MASH: Haughty Docs, Horrible Morals, and Hot Lips O'Houlihan

    MASH: Haughty Docs, Horrible Morals, and Hot Lips O'Houlihan
    Nov 14 2025

    This week on Cinematix Problematix, we’re dissecting Robert Altman's 1970 war satire MASH*, the Vietnam-era movie that pretended to be about Korea so the studio wouldn’t panic. Join us as well to deconstruct this Robert Altman classic that has recently come under fire do to, well, a lot of things. Mostly having to do with Hot Lips.

    This film sports an incredible ensemble cast of Donald Sutherland (Hawkeye Pierce), Elliot Gould (Trapper John McIntyre), Robert Duvall (Major Frank Burns), Tom Skerritt (Duke Forrest), Sally Kellerman (Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan), and many others. This film has a run time of 1 hr and 56 minutes.

    CREDITS

    Hosted by: Erin Maxwell & Kristina “Krissie” Rettig

    Edited by: Russ Lichter

    Theme song by: Spooky Dan
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    52 mins
  • Song of the South: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, Zip-a-Dee-WTF??!

    Song of the South: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, Zip-a-Dee-WTF??!
    Nov 7 2025

    This week on Cinematix Problematix, we’re cracking open the Disney vault — the part they pretend doesn’t exist — to revisit the 1946 film Song of the South, a movie so controversial that even Disney+ is like, “Yeah, we’re good.” Join us as we eviscerate this Disney "classic," a movie that has the chutzpah to not only be racist, but boring.

    The film stars Ruth Warrick as Sally, Hattie McDaniel as Aunt Tempy, Bobby Discoll as lil’ Johnny, and Luanna Patton as Ginny, and the film has a brisk runtime of 1 hour and 34 minutes, and is still way too long.

    CREDITS

    Hosted by: Kristina “Krissie” Rettig & Erin Maxwell

    Edited by: Russ Lichter

    Theme song by: Spooky Dan
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    48 mins
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