Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Niall Glynn and Richard Drumm, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
So this week, Stewart Raffill’s Mac and Me.
Following a move to California, young Eric is feeling a little alienated and disconnected. However, the young boy’s life is quickly turned upside down following a chance encounter with a creature from another world that has a strange hunger for Coca-Cola and Skittles.
At time of recording, it was ranked 83rd on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 27th February 2021.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Note: This episode includes the consumption of McDonalds, Coca-Cola and Skittles on microphone.
- Mac and Me at The Internet Movie Database.
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- The Associated Press reports on McDonald’s response to Super Size Me by cutting out the “super size” menu options, March 2004.
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- Mark Snetlker at Entertainment Weekly discusses the hot new Hamburglar, May 2015.
- Squire Fridell talks to Yahoo! Entertainment about his involvement as Ronald McDonald in Mac and Me, August 2018.
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- Michael D. Dwyer at Syracuse University discusses the fifties nostalgia threaded through Reagan era cinema, 2010.
- Nathan Rabin discusses Mac and Me at The A.V. Club, December 2009.
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