Falling in Love Montage

10th Anniversary Special

After a decade of podcasting together, we take a moment to reflect back on the many things that have transpired since our first episode. From the challenges of audio recording and editing to the joy of rewatching some of our favorite films and the sometimes cringe, sometimes delight of watching new ones. However, nothing has been as impactful as connecting with listeners, having the opportunity to join a network of incredibly talented people, and the privilege of hosting some of the most remarkable guests. But mostly we just play games and bemoan how after ten years, we still have the same unhinged and mentally feeble sex predator in office. If that interests you, have a listen.You can find Helen's playlist here: Stand-out songs from every chick flick covered on the (now 10-year-old!) Falling in Love Montage Podcast!
Spotify playlistTidal playlistA heartfelt thank you to the incredible individuals who have joined our programming over the years. 🫶🏼 You put the Falling in Love in Falling in Love Montage Podcast!Kat Grier, Karen Wurl, Frances Chang, Hooks Morgann, Jessie Cooper, Nicole Kemper, Malcolm Nygard, Erin Gambril, Owen Choules, E LaStar, MC Williams, Ollie Brady, Tracy Tanoff, Vanessa Riley, Ariel Azzara, Ryan Lynch, Megan Griffin, Bill O'Donnell, Juha Heikkilä, Tara Thoma, Elle Riccardi, Ryan Healey, Nick Wood, Jon Biegen, Whitney Segars, Allyson, Mariela, Lauren DeBlasi Jackson, Brian Flanagan, Amy Pascal, Phil Gonzales, Tim Hulsizer, Millie De Chirico, Dan McCoy, Michael M. Rader, Gena Radcliff, Jan Thrapp, Shane Kearney, Gloria White, Sarah Norton, Angel Kofsky, Shannon Campe, Marisa Macias, Mitchell Anderson, Matthew Mammola, and Matt LaStar. 

Notting Hill (w/ Marisa Macias)

Valerie and Helen welcome first-time guest Marisa Macias to talk about fifth-time (to the podcast) Richard Curtis classic Notting Hill, gay awakenings, and who the most well-known Welsh person in America is. It's nice! Surreal, but nice.

Sleepless in Seattle

You fell in love with us on the radio* -- you weren't expecting it, and you couldn't help it. It was the sound of our voices, the things we said. And suddenly, you knew -- you weren't satisfied with the chick flick discourse your other relationships were providing. From there, you followed us, over the airwaves and across the country, until we finally, finally covered Nora Ephron's 1993 more-than-classic Sleepless in Seattle. It was our second foray into the Tom-Hanks-Meg-Ryan-iverse, and you were destined to hold our hands as we went.  *podcasts are sort of like radio, whatever, leave me alone

A Merry Little Ex-Mas

Have yourself A Merry Little Ex-Mas. Or at least a podcast episode about the 2025 movie of that name, which is what this is.

Freakier Friday (w/ Sarah Norton)

After going almost a full year without covering a new Lindsay Lohan movie, we were desperate -- and fortunately for us (and you!! wink! 😉!!) the universe gave us Freakier Friday. Nothing was going to stop us from covering it -- not even the fact that we haven't covered Freaky Friday. Beloved Lindsay-Lohan-correspondent Sarah Norton joins us as we gush about -- but don't fully spoil -- this highly relatable tale about waking up in your mother's body just two days before she is due to marry this really handsome British chef guy. Just like we did when we were kids.  Check out Part 1 of Sarah's hit (and Ari-approved) TikTok on Wicked!

Lisa Frankenstein

It's mwa-ha-ha season yet again, and if you thought Diablo Cody had mwa'd her last ha with Jennifer's Body, we are like annoyingly excited to correct you by talking about the 2024 "coming-of-rage" dark rom-com Lisa Frankenstein -- a piece seemingly made exactly for our '80s-minted eyes, and a movie that is, if Lisa Frank should somehow be reading these show notes, really just a straightforward remake of Weird Science and nothing to do with her intellectually property in any way ha ha

Uptown Girls

We are a podcast that often covers peoples' underrated comfort movies, and this time we finally tackle the long neglected Valerie-comfort-watch (and Jesse-Spencer vehicle!) Uptown Girls. If that's not a comfort movie for you, 1) why not, it's sweet and fun, and 2) we hope you take some comfort in the knowledge that we'll talk about a different movie next month. Probably.  OK, there's a non-zero chance this will just be an Uptown Girls podcast moving forward.

Joe Versus the Volcano

Dear listeners -- some of whose names we know -- thank you for helping us celebrate Valerie's birth month by listening to our episode covering 1990's Joe Versus the Volcano. We forgot how wonderfully bonkers this movie was. Thank you for listening. 

High School Musical: The Trilogy

For the month of 'ly in the year of our lord '25, we assigned ourselves some summer school. Kind of a lot of summer school, in fact.  Making his first FiLM appearance since we covered Frozen in 2017, Helen's son (and Valerie's nephew!) Elam joined us, this time to discuss three whole movies -- if you consider the High School Musical movies to be movies. We truly are all in this together -- and by "this," we mean High School Musical, High School Musical 2, and High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Was this the most fun we've had in a while? BET ON IT (bet on it) bet on it (bet on it)!

The Favourite

For June, we really wanted to bring you something queer. Like gay queer. And I believe we've done that, but also, as a fun bonus, it turns out we've brought you something weird queer as well. So this episode -- and this movie -- lives in that cozy, perfect, Venn-diagram-intersection of good queer things.  We talked about Yorgos Lanthimos's gorgeous dark/etc. comedy, The Favourite. To make an otherwise unsettling Pride month better. But still kind of unsettling. But, like, unsettling in a cool way. Happy Pride.