Falling in Love Montage
Every other week, Valerie and Helen will look at a different chick flick (muff film, broad comedy, lady thriller, period movie, whathaveyou) and boil it down to its themes and how those themes affect our tender feminine emotions. Mostly we'll just go off on tangents about Sex and the City. We'll talk about chick flick tropes, like love triangles/squares/pentagons and sisterhood. We'll explore just how strong girl power actually is and if real vampires sparkle in the sunlight, or if that's just movie magic. And we'll reveal our (Helen's) repressed sexual feelings for Hugh Grant. We'll get a dude's opinion, and we'll even listen to it.
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Episodes
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Years ago, a pair of sisters came together on Halloween to talk about Hocus Pocus. We thought the story ended there. We were wrong. Those lovable sisters are back, making magic, once again, because Disney dug up the past with Hocus Pocus 2, and like a bajilliondy people watched it, and we figured, One Way or Another, we could get some easy spooky-month downloads. Itchita kupita melaka mystika. Hocus Pocus 2 is currently streaming on Disney+. Check out our friend Jon Biegen at jinglejon.com, for all your podcast-jingle needs.
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
This time Valerie's just getting over COVID, and she still managed to watch, talk about, and edit an entire podcast episode on the Definitely Underrated Fun Film, 2015's The DUFF.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Whether we say it directly or not, both of us are still a little bit waiting to see if and when Mary Poppins will fly down to us and reveal we are secretly princesses. What we are in the meantime is chick-flick podcasters, so this month we decided to podcast about the 2001 chick flick The Princess Diaries. It's also our third Disney film this year, and our third Sandra Oh film this year, so. Yeah. Happy August, commoners listeners.
Friday Jul 01, 2022
Friday Jul 01, 2022
If you've been spontaneously crying as of late, and want more of that, this is the podcast episode for you. It's the last day of Pride month, and while we have failed to deliver a focused conversation about a piece of queer cinema, we are delivering on our mother's dying (to be determined) wish to discuss a personal favorite of her's - thus, a house-hold favorite of ours and a staple of our childhood — 1995's Sense and Sensibility. We are joined by our best friend/Jane Austin correspondent, Tracy Tanoff, for a (some may say) overlong celebration of Emma Thompson's adaptation. Catch Tracy streaming here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCTW4vTLi-wK5QEe14SI9keQ, and catch us crying eternally, everywhere.
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
We put this month's movie up to a vote, and if the votes told us anything, it's that 1 thing you hated about us is that we hadn't covered the classic '99 teen rom-com 10 Things I Hate About You yet. Well, now we have. Helen's bestie Jan Thrapp joins us again to talk about Shakespeare, our motives behind the various colors of underwear we possess, and Andrew Keegan's California cult. And we maybe introduce a new FiLM award. 10 Things I Hate About You is currently streaming on Disney+. Check your local animal shelters for information about fostering animals.
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
It was Helen's birthday this month, so this time, we covered a movie she wanted to cover! ...Just like we pretty much always do, whoops. Anyway, the movie Helen wanted to cover this time was the 2007 Disney spectacular Enchanted. Did we find it enchanting? It's a safe bet to say we did, but obviously these notes are meant to promote the episode, so officially you'll have to listen to the episode to find out!! Oh, also, it's finally getting a sequel later this year, so let's pretend we knew that and planned it, going in.
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
What do you get when you cross an embarrassment of pandas with embarassing podcasters? This. This is what you get. We had a box full of kittens-like good time discussing Domme Shi's 2022, unapologetically titled Pixar hit, Turning Red.
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow. Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow. Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow. Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow.
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
If you want more Jack Black than you can shake a stick at, there's no better choice than the Kung Fu Panda trilogy. But we're talking about Nancy Meyers's warm and fuzzy The Holiday this time, which Jack Black is also in (as well as Jude Law, Eli Wallach, and a couple of chick-flick all-stars). With this episode, we become the leading ladies of our own lives, by deciding that we can release a Holiday episode at the end of January in a pandemic.
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
It's the holiday season and the 107th episode of this chick-flick podcast -- so really what choice did we have but to discuss 2000's High Fidelity with our friend and Beta-Band-stan Shane Kearney? It makes sense if you consider our continued use of John Cusack as a 2021 coping mechanism, or if you know that one of our hosts wouldn't even be here if it weren't for a meet-cute in a record store in Chicago. Anyway, it's one of our top-5 favorite male-led rom-coms, with one of our top-6 favorite guests of the year. Happy holidays.