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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 ju ...
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Introducing Mean Guys, the podcast that traces two brothers' journey of discovery through what some may describe as 'feminine' films. We'll be watching some of your favourite 'chick flick' picks - from cheesy romcoms to trashy teen dramas - and seeing how they hold up to the questionable taste of us Mean Guys.
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This very special Halloween episode delves into the story of two close-but-disparate sisters and how they found themselves shunned by their community because of their unusual background -- they were bitches who had either never before seen Practical Magic, or they thought it was silly, or both. Join us as we come to terms with every wild thing the …
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (w/ Angel Kofsky)
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You asked for it (we think? It would have been a long time ago; we could be wrong. Someone definitely asked for it, we're pretty sure), and after a mere half-dozen years, we did it -- Michel Gondry's beloved sci-fi dram-rom-com Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And for the discussion, we brought someone unforgettable -- poet, host of the Ku-Po…
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For Valerie's ~b i r t h m o n t h~ we are covering the maybe universally beloved but also possibly largely unknown (?? we don't know!) romantic drama classic (???) Untamed Heart. We have a great time talking about this '90s gem that's a little bit urban Nicholas Sparks, a little bit Moulin Rouge/Tarzan/Splash, and all schmaltzy Christian Slater Na…
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Irish Wish (w/ Sarah Norton)
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Dog mom, (cool) Disney adult, and generally fabulous person* Sarah K. Norton joins us as we travel, with Netflix's help, to Ireland for summer vacation. Will Lindsay Lohan's Maddie end up with the European faux Property Brother, or will she end up with Jimmy from Downton Abbey? Will she ever write the great Irish-American novel? Will she fall off t…
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Two musical-loving, straight-passing white women extend their lives by wading deep into drag culture in this Pride episode in which Helen and Valerie cover the 2004 romp Connie and Carla, the largely forgotten Nia Vardalos rom-com in which two musical-loving, straight-passing white women extend their lives by wading deep into drag culture. Donate t…
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Welcome to Debbie Country, where Cameron Crowe is the next Martin Scorceez and the podcast hosts are admittedly pretty biased in their fervent -- albeit grungy and nostalgic -- love of the 1992 romantic comedy Singles. Reach out in the Falling in Love Montage Podcast group on Facebook if you want to be an early investor in our musical adaptation (d…
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
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Cohost Helen has gotten her own groove mostly back after having to skip March, and we are finally here with 1998's How Stella Got Her Groove Back. We haven't covered an adaptation of a work by the iconic and complicated Terry McMillan since we talked Waiting to Exhale in episode six, so if you yourself were waiting until now to exhale, we hope you'…
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It's March y'all, officially Spring, so in honor of that, we're going to spring a surprise on you and switch up our regularly scheduled programing. We're looking forward to discussing the 1998 McMillan classic How Stella Got Her Groove Back, but in the interim, please enjoy a throwback from August 2019 when we were on our beloved podcast network, F…
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Leap year only comes around every four years, and this year -- our 8th anniversary -- marks the second leap year we've experienced as a podcast. We couldn't think of a better time to finally bring you an enthusiastic discussion of the oft-mentioned 2010 rom-com Leap Year -- but we didn't do that. Instead, we're here with an enraged dialog about the…
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The Mean Guys emerge from hibernation for a special edition podcast about the movie of the musical of the movie Mean Girls.
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It's the 20th anniversary of the beloved film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's The Notebook, and that means we and our podcast are really old, and that means it's time to finally cover this movie. Join us as we ascend the figurative ferris wheel that is this 2004 romance. Do our pants get pulled down? Do we fall in love? Has this metaphor already wo…
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For a podcast that has never covered a Hallmark movie in its 7+ years of existence, our fans sure love to throw Hallmark holiday movie memes and articles our way. Now it's our turn -- see how much you like it* when we throw Hallmark holiday movie content at you, haha! Yes, for this holidaymonth, we are talking about the holly-jolly, gay-appareled, …
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Legally Blonde (w/ Vanessa Riley)
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Aristotle and Holland Taylor once said, "The law is reason, free from passion." Valerie and Helen once said, "Oh man, we really should cover Legally Blonde at some point." And six or so years later, here we are -- covering 2001's beloved Legally Blonde with long-overdue repeat guest, beloved Vanessa Riley from The Square Roots Podcast. Habeas corpu…
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (w/ Tracy Tanoff)
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To round out our whirlwind 2023 sampling of various Bennet and Darcy types (a Darcuterie, if you will), we've brought back our bestie and official Austen correspondent Tracy Tanoff for the third time/adaptation this year. Spooky month brings us to our likely last Pride and Prejudice for the foreseeable future -- the 2016 action-comedy-horror-chick-…
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We waited a long time to see our oldest friend grace the silver screen and make it pink, but Barbie is here now, and we are glad to be able to bring our OK-maybe-not-as-objective-as-they-could-be thoughts to you in this, the year of our Lord*, 2023. *Greta Gerwig
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Something New (w/ Gloria White)
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It is the dog days of summer and we have dog mom and Atlanta comedian Gloria White joining the pod to discuss the 2006 ultra chick flick, Something New. Bonus: Listeners who imbibe can take advantage of the opportunity to drink every time we crack a title pun. ✨ Check out Gloria on Instagram Find her on all the socials, look for the handle "glow07"…
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Fire Island (w/ Tracy Tanoff)
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We had such a gay old time covering Pride & Prejudice earlier this year that for Pride month, we wanted to have an even gayer, new time -- so we grabbed our beloved Austen correspondent Tracy Tanoff to talk about the 2022 loose P&P adaptation Fire Island. Does Elizabeth find her Darcy? I don't know who those people are, but I can tell you I've got …
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Bring It On (w/ Owen Choules)
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It's been 23 years since Bring It On brought its cheer to the world, and it's been something like 6 years since we had our beloved friend and cheerleader-lover* Owen Choules on to talk about a chick flick with us. So do we do a high kick and delight in this classic, or do we give it the spirit finger? Does Owen still tolerate us? What is team capta…
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For better or worse, 1998's Can't Hardly Wait is a quintessential exhibit of 90s High School cinema. A movie with almost as much cringe as it has stars. Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont weave a magical story wherein Kenny Fisher gets the girl, Jenna Elfman gets the cab, and Amanda Beckett gets to stand up for herself, for like, at least a minute. An…
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You are all cordially invited to the wedding of us and Maya Erskine (pending her consent) - and surprise - you're the toast master too. We're here to talk about Plus One, which is fresher than diner fish* . *Fish you order at a diner, but why would you do that?!
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Pride & Prejudice (w/ Tracy Tanoff)
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that two women in possession of a chick flick podcast must eventually cover 2005's Pride & Prejudice. Fan favorite and Jane Austen correspondent Tracy Tanoff joins us for truly the most exemplary podcast she's guested on in in many years. For more Austen fun, check out Tracy's Fine Curated Links! On the autism…
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Thelma & Louise (w/ Malcolm Nygard)
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To start 2023 off on the right route, we wanted to talk about best friends with a best friend. So we brought FiLM fave Malcolm Nygard on to fan-girl out with us over the ultimate road trip movie, Thelma & Louise. Check out Malcolm's thoughtful Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/theoscargrouch/ and see if you can spy a chick flick or two in his to…
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It's what you were all hoping for, I'll keep telling myself -- for the holiday season, and to close out 2022, we covered a new Christmas classic, Falling for Christmas, starring Lindsay Lohan. We not only talked about it, but we also watched it! And if you don't listen and enjoy, magic Santa will push you down a mountain. We'll be back next year wi…
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It's November for a few more hours, and we are thankful to be here with you, talking about another problematic (!) fave (?), 1999's Never Been Kissed. We shouldn't say this because we're your teacher hosts, but it's totally rufus. Sorry in advance for Helen's questionable audio -- she was recording on an iPhone from a frilly pink bedroom in South G…
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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-m…
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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.
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