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

May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019
1hr 16 min
By popular demand request and because Eddie Albert tells us, "it's always open season on princesses", we talk Roman Holiday with special af guest Millie De Chirico of Turner Classic Movies and TCM Underground. 💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍💇🏼♀️🏍 Find Millie at @milliedechirico and programming awesome shit for @TCMUnderground. Thank you to Greg for sharing Woke Harry Met Sally in our facebook group. [written by Amanda Recupido] Visit flyingmachine.network/support for that good ass monthly Patreon access to bonus content from all of the networks shows including archived Comrade Radio content like the episode Helen mentioned, CC 34 - You Haven't Seen!? Comrade Movie Week.

Apr 29, 2019
Apr 29, 2019
1hr 23 min
Happy Birthday month, Helen! 🎈 Valerie, Helen, and special guest, Tim Hulsizer talk about PJ Hogan's 1994 Australian comedy-drama film, Muriel's Wedding. Tim Simms couldn't make it. 🤷🏻♀️ Hello, Murial! Goodbye Porpoise Spit! We mention our Network Patreon Support page but guess what? We say the wrong URL. You can show your support by visiting flyingmachine.network/support or by joining our podcast facebook group discussions here.

Mar 31, 2019
Mar 31, 2019
1hr 9 min
By unpopular demand, we close out Marchden (or Marsden March) with The Best of Me, the film (a) critic has called, "…a contrived manipulation and an insult to female sensibilities." Written by suspected anti-Semite Nicholas Sparks and filmed in the breathtaking bayou, we try to love this movie with the oppressive sincerity of "lucky roughneck" Dawson Cole (Marsden). It's a miracle.

Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019
1hr 10 min
Big news guys, it's our first Katherine Heigl movie—and also—our first James Marsden movie! Is this serendipity or a highly contrived plot similar to that of 2008's 27 Dresses? Either way Marsden March is here or James Marchden or whatever silly name we want to call it. Download now for your ticket to the tadifa ghetto 😏 Check out Flying Machine's blog featuring a new post by sweetheart of the podcast Ryan Lynch, 33 And 1/3 Under 45: Track Eight: Marry Me

Feb 28, 2019
Feb 28, 2019
1hr 5 min
Valerie and Helen took to the theater this month (with friends, yes they have some) to watch 2019's What Men Want. All of their secret thoughts about the film are contained within this episode. So, if you can't read our minds, you may have to listen - which, coincidentally, is also the theme of the film. Thank you for your continued support. Falling in Love Montage podcast turned three this month! 🎉 Check out our sister show Divisive Issues on the Flying Machine Network. To hear more about how Helen and Valerie feel about gender swapped film properties in general (and in specific) check out FiLM podcast's March patreon episode . Follow Ashley Johnson on Instagram - she presh and gives good dubsmash. Watch a weird video Valerie made about men's knees 😬

Jan 29, 2019
Jan 29, 2019
1hr 49 min
Happy January! We couldn't be more thrilled to pop the lid on 2019 with the discussion of this film, based on the first in a trilogy of books by Kevin Kwan and directed by sweetheart of the podcast, Jon M. Chu. We're talking Crazy Rich Asians y'all! (I can say y'all, I live in Atlanta where it is definitely not snowing). More things we want to share: We co-hosted part 3 of Darren Husted's amazing limited series 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Episodes': http://shoutengine.com/HowtoLoseaGuyin10Episodes/ Check out Potstirrer Podcast with Jaye Pool on our Network, Flying Machine: http://flyingmachine.network/potstirrer or at https://potstirrerpodcast.com Remember our 'Now You See Jem II' campaign? :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIv3A-2RxSE Wanna see Ryan Hansen being his best Ryan Hansen? :https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRHlIUUZnPDTIe4io3rv0bA

Dec 30, 2018
Dec 30, 2018
1hr 54 min
It's possibly our most-favorite (and most-referenced) movie, and we're going to try our butts off to convince ourselves and y'all that it's maybe a chick flick. We're talking about Heathers. Joining us for this intellectual croquet match is Phil Gonzales of Deep in Bear Country: A Berenstain Bearcast, It's Del Toro Time!, and Klickitcast: A Beverly Cleary Podcast. Phil uses his podcasting expertise -- and general ability to f*** with the eagles -- to help us pull this high school black comedy apart, and to keep us on track by reminding us that we gotta motor if we're gonna be ready to publish this episode in 2018. Happy Heathersdays, FiLM Buffs.

Dec 26, 2018
Dec 26, 2018
1hr 50 min
Happy Holidays to all, and to all a -- hey wow, we published an episode; I can scarcely believe it! We've wanted to talk about The Family Stone for as long as we've had this platform, so when Elle Riccardi -- of Handbook Podcast; Flying Machine's own Short, Colorful and Loud; and our episode on The Wedding Planner -- asked if we'd ever considered covering The Family Stone, we shouted, "OMG, yes!!" so loud that we knocked her off her feet from 1000 or so miles away. And similarly, on a dozenth-ish viewing, The Family Stone knocked us off our feet, and we step all over ourselves trying to explain our love for this not-completely-unproblematic holiday movie. Merry Christmas and stuff, from our smug family to yours.

Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 2018
17 min
If you woke up today thinking, I would like to hear Helen, Valerie, and Amy talk even more about John Hughes' Some Kind of Wonderful, than wow, are you lucky! But hey, let's all take a minute to remember how lucky we are if we woke up today at all. I love you!

Dec 2, 2018
Dec 2, 2018
1hr 50 min
"I think it's hip that you paint. I think it's hip that I drum. And it's perfect that we're friends." - Watts Listeners, we think it's hip that you listen. We think it's hip that we FINALLY released this episode. And it's perfect that we all LOVE Some Kind of Wonderful. After years of friendship, we finally courted Amy Pascal. We didn't paint her portrait, or take her to the Hollywood Bowl, or spend our college savings on her, but we did ask her to reschedule with us at least a half dozen times so you know her love is true. Amy Pascal is our kind of WONDERFUL and we learn more about this film talking to her than we've learned in any of our gazillionty viewings. Find more from Amy Pascal at http://theamypascale.com and on Twitter & Facebook.
