The Podcast

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!

Your Hosts

Kristina “Krissie” Rettig wrangles roadmaps and release plans as a product manager by day. By night (and, honestly, most weekends), she’s a full-blown cinephile with a soft spot for movies that probably warped her childhood brain. Thanks to way too many age-inappropriate VHS rentals, she developed an encyclopedic knowledge of film, a very unorthodox sense of humor, and a desensitization to violence and sexuality. Yet she still turned out perfect.

She’s spent over a decade working in entertainment, covered Comic-Con three times for Variety, and even penned movie and tv reviews for PopAltar. Now she’s channeling all of that movie obsession—and a healthy dose of sarcasm—into a podcast designed to see if we can still love the problematic films that shaped us into little weirdos.

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Erin Maxwell has been scribbling about pop culture for the better part of two decades, with stints as a writer, editor, and reviewer at Variety, The Daily Mail, LA Weekly, and The Village Voice. She’s covered everything from comic books and horror to animation and, of course, TV and film.

Favorite films include John Carpenter's The Thing, Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, Robert Altman's MASH, David Lynch's Wild at Heart, and Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, though that might change tomorrow.

She spends her time collecting records, amassing a massive physical media collection, and spending way too much money on books, comics, and other physical media to hoard. She also enjoys snacks. But not celery. It’s the devil’s vegetable.

Instagram: erinemaxwell

Twitter/X: erinemaxwell

erinmax@gmail.com

Credits

Editor: Russ Lichter

Theme Song by: Spooky Dan