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Have you ever wondered, “what is the worst movie Elizabeth and Alexandra have ever watched for this podcast”? Well look no further, it’s this one! Garnering some of our lowest reviews ever was The Human Contract, a film Tessa Thompson appears in for 30 seconds. Tune in this week while we eviscerate this public service announcement against dating Virgo men. CW: domestic violence, attempted suicide,...

This one is for the dancing queens. We are covering Tessa Thompson’s 2008 movie, Make It Happen. Somehow a hybrid of Burlesque, Fame, and Footloose, this movie has a little something for everyone: Mary Elizabeth Winstead for the Scott Pilgrim film-bro, cutthroat dance school drama for any former Gleeks or Dance Moms fans, and Salt N’ Pepa for your parents. 

This week, we venture deep into the bowels of YouTube bootlegs to watch and discuss a film that deserves to be banished to that ninth ring of streaming hell. The Initiation of Sarah is everything you could imagine an ABC family movie about demonic sororities could be. Tune in this week to hear us debate one of our favorites questions to ask of films: is it gay?  CW: human sacrifice, demons, witche...

We are back with a brand new season covering the filmography of Tessa Thompson! Can’t remember where you know her from? Don’t worry! We’ll help you figure it out. This episode covers When A Stranger Calls, a 2006 film that boldly asks “what if we stretched 20 minutes of well written suspense into an hour and a half. Listen along to hear us discuss ecofeminist horror, lament the aesthetic of the ea...

Finally, after many weeks, we have made it to the final episode of Season 2! This week, we bring you Sam Claflin’s most recent film, Book of Love. This season finale has all of your favorite Where Do I Know Them From staples: color analysis, discussion of women’s media, rom com commentary, and jokes about nipples on book covers. Tune in until the end to hear our takeaways from this season, and the...

When we started this season, we certainly did not expect that we would be watching yet another animated biopic about the life of an artist. But, that’s the great thing about Where Do I Know Them From, it’s full of exciting surprises. This week’s movie, Charlotte, was also full of surprises (derogatory). Put on your fancy-pants monocle and listen to us talk art history, color theory, and the larger...

You know the age old adage, “nothing is certain in life except death, and taxes… and the fact that all straight white men between the ages of 25 to 35 love Edgar Wright movies.” Yes, it’s that time in the season where we have to acknowledge that we do have film bro tastes and that the film bros may or may not have made some points. This week we cover Last Night in Soho, and while this might be Sam...

Do you feel that chill in the air? We’re kicking off the autumn season with the requisite low quality thriller. This week we cover Sam Claflin’s 2021 movie, Every Breath You Take. Far inferior to the song by the Police, this thriller tested our attention spans, our knowledge of ethical psychiatric practice, and our ability to recognize Sam Claflin only by his ear. The plot has more twists and turn...

This one is for the Scrabble girlies! This week Elizabeth and Alexandra are covering Sam Claflin’s 2020 film,  Enola Holmes . Following the adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister, this movie once again features Sam Claflin playing an anti-reform curmudgeon, but has the added bonus of Millie Bobby Brown attempting to set the record for most fourth wall breaks. This episode is sure to be a do...

When we started this journey, we knew one thing for certain: we love Sam Claflin in a rom com. But every rule has an exception, and even the great Claf himself must be humbled. So, this week, we bring you Love Wedding Repeat— a movie that truly pushes the boundaries of “romantic comedy” by being neither romantic nor funny. Well, actually, it was pretty funny, though not in all the ways it intended...

Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” While we cannot know for sure, modern philosophers and hosts of Where Do I Know Them From are fairly certain this phrase was meant to predict the relationship between Greta Gerwig’s  Barbie  and the girlboss feminism movies that came before it. One such movie,  Charlie’s Angels  (2019) stars Sam Claflin,...

Now, gentle listener, we know what you have been thinking: “Sam Claflin is soft boy, play soft roles, when will he try grizzled?” This week, listener. This week. Finally in his 2019 film The Corrupted , Sam Claflin plays a grizzled ex-con trying to get his life back on track. Can Sam play working class? How many British TV actors can you fit in one mediocre movie? And are there special therapists...

This week, we cover Sam Claflin’s 2018 film,  The Nightingale . A break from our typical silliness, this is probably our most sincere episode yet, and we strongly recommend everyone give it a watch (after viewing the content warnings of course). Don’t worry though, we still manage to give you a 3 minute tangent on birds and fangirlish gushing about the sound design and cinematography. Jennifer Ken...

End of summer leaving you feeling unmoored? Remember, it could be worse! This week, Alexandra and Elizabeth discuss Sam Claflin’s 2018 survival film, Adrift. Float along with us as we desperately cling to any symbolism and color theory we can find in this vast, vast ocean of unlikeable characters. This week we will finally answer the question at the forefront of everyone’s mind: What can Sam Clafl...

Who doesn't love a war movie? This week's episode covers Sam Claflin's 2017 film Journey's End. Based on a play of the same name, this movie covers a week in the life of several British officers on the front lines of WWI. While this movie is soul-crushingly depressing, the filmmakers knew exactly the right recipe to keep us crawling back: naive Asa Butterfield, wise Paul Bettany, a...

This one is for all my girlies who love a dark period piece. This week's episode cover's Sam Claflin's 2017 film, My Cousin Rachel . Never did we intend for movies about being in love with your cousin to become a theme on this podcast, and yet, here we are. This film, starring Rachel Weiss, is an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1951 novel of the same name. As we all know, women a...

This week we enter Sam Claflin's war movie era with his 2016 film Their Finest . While the internet feels definitively that this is not , in fact, Claflin's finest film, we sure had a good time discussing it. Covering a propaganda office during World War II, this period piece has one of the more complicated plots we have ever covered. It leaves you questioning everything: the nature of tru...

Fresh off our episode for Love, Rosie we have another movie where Sam Claflin falls in love with a small quirky dark hair girl with great eyebrows. What can we say, the man knows what he's good at. This week's episode covers Me Before You , Claflin's 2016 film co-starring Emilia Clarke star. While not our funniest episode (hard to make a joke about physician-assisted suicide), we do so...

It's a question as old as time: "can men and women really be friends?" For those of us still shackled to the gender binary, this question has yet to be answered, but this week Alexandra and Elizabeth will try. That's right this week we are covering Sam Claflin's 2014 movie, Love, Rosie , perhaps the most iconic besties to lovers flick since When Harry Met Sally . We will laug...

Need a reason to dump your straight white boyfriend? Where Do I Know Them From brings you their episode on The Riot Club . This 2014 film starring Sam Claflin brings us the darker side of "just guys being dudes." Covering the annual debaucherous dinner of a fictional Oxford secret society, the film provokes Elizabeth and Alexandra to consider modern gender, ethnic, and class dynamics, th...

This week we have a real treat-- Where Do I Know Them From 's first horror episode! That's right this episode cover's Sam Claflin's 2014 movie The Quiet Ones. For all of you who saw Sam Claflin in On Stranger Tides and thought "what if this priest was a filmmaker and this mermaid was a possessed child," do we have a movie for you. We lament the audio production studio god...

In perhaps our most anticipated episode yet, Alexandra and Elizabeth cover 3 of the 4 Hunger Games movies, Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1, and Mockingjay Part 2 . We dive into the impact of these films on our culture and the psyches of an entire generation of youth, eventually coming to the conclusion that we could run a far more efficient corrupt government than Presidents Snow OR Coin. This ep...

In this episode of Where Do I Know Them From? Alexandra and Elizabeth tackle our first franchise, Snow White and the Huntsman and The Huntsman: Winter's War. These movies were a doozy, listeners, and like always we have some thoughts. Tag along with us as we bravely venture through a thicket of confusing action plot, goopy magic, and feminist imagery. Tune in this week to find out who would wi...

AVAST, ye podcast listeners, it's time we be setting sail for Season Two! ...too much? Yeah... It's the first episode of Season Two and Alexandra and Elizabeth cover Sam Claflin's first feature film, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides . We spend 50 minutes discussing the importance of accurately portraying mermaid anatomy, the influence of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies o...

In the beginning, there was Adam. Sound familiar? It's not the Bible, it's our podcast's origin story! Much like the book of Genesis this podcast originated with an Adam -- though a drastically different one. That's right, before there was Saoirse, Alexandra and Elizabeth watched all of Adam Driver's movies. Now, by popular demand, we have recorded an episode covering all the h...