I Hate It But I Love It

Put on a cute outfit and do a DANGEROUS ASS SPORT HOLY CRAP cause we're talking about  Whip It ! In the third week of our "I Love It But I Love It Month", Kat and Jocelyn discuss powerful female friendships, question  why  Juliette Lewis has to be such a B, and Jocelyn tries to come up with her roller derby name. This episode brought to you in part by Best Fiends. If you're looking for a fun game...

Hang out with your rotting friend in a grotty porno theatre cause we're talking about An American Werewolf In London!  In the second week of our "I Love It But I Love It Month", Kat and Jocelyn discuss which monsters are the best, how this movie tenderly explores the anxiety of otherness, and Nigel returns ONCE AGAIN to the hallowed halls of the podcast. This episode brought to you in part by  Rit...

In the first instalment of I Love It But I Love It,  a special month where we talk about the movies we love and not at all hate, we're talking about Kat's favourite movie,  The Thing ! We discuss hot Kurt Russell, excellent plotting, hot Kurt Russell, themes of disenfranchisement and paranoia, and NO SERIOUSLY HOT KURT RUSSELL. Today's episode brought to you in part by Nutrafol. Nutrafol helps you...

Welp. We started this crap year with  Cats.  And by god, we're ending it with  Tenet.  Kat and Jocelyn discuss endless exposition, terrible sound mixes, and try our damnedest to wrap our heads around why ANYONE would EVER do a Tenet. Brought to you in part by Virtual Game Night . If you're getting Zoom fatigue spice up your calls with Virtual Game Nights. Comedian Olly Robinson hosts live games fo...

Accidentally murder a beloved holiday icon and then get forced into a line of employment against your knowledge, consent, or will, cause we're talking about  The Santa Clause! Kat and Jocelyn discuss predatory legal contracts, child slavery, uncomfortable child actors whose age we can't discern, and how this movie bears an upsetting resemblance to one WE SWORE WE'D NEVER DISCUSS. This episode brou...

Scream at your co-worker then take WAY too long to make someone a drink cause we're talking about Cocktail! Kat and Jocelyn discuss how this film hews uncomfortably closely to Jordan Peterson's philosophies, praise the best soundtrack of all time, and discuss how each of the bars depicted in this movie is like a worse Coyote Ugly.   This episode brought to you in part by Prose . Prose creates cust...

It's our 200th episode, and to celebrate, we're talking about Robert Zemeckis's  Contact ! We discuss how this film is a combination of Zemeckis's best instincts AND his worst, how this film is a perfect encapsulation of what it's like to be a woman in... any industry, and talk about how FRIGGIN MUCH WE HATE MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY'S CHARACTER ARE YOU KIDDING ME. This episode brought to you in part by...

Rattle off a couple of puns while literally every woman in your life tells you what a joke you are cause we're talking about Goldeneye . Joined by James Bond expert, podcast Care Bear Cousin, and all around delightful guy Craig Fay, we discuss how the James Bond songs are written, rank the Russian accents (hint: none of them are good), and talk about how Pierce Brosnan was, for a time, the perfect...

Slather yourself in gross makeup and do German Expressionism Lite cause we're talking about  Beetlejuice ! Kat and Jocelyn discuss Michael Keaton's exceptional performance, the complete lack of stakes in this movie, and a couple of sequels that mercifully did not come to be.  Today's episode brought to you in part by Nutrafol. Nutrafol helps you take control of hair growth, it is formulated with p...

Put on your lowest riding jeans and dance on the world's stickiest, grimiest bar cause we're talking about  Coyote Ugly ! Kat and Jocelyn discuss a movie about a bar that virtually never discusses alcohol, how Violet's boyfriend AND dad are max controlling, and how Coyote Ugly is the only place it's permissible to be a Karen. This episode brought to you in part by  Prose . Prose creates customized...

Twirl around on the Austrian hills and then make a shit-ton of clothes out of approximately two (2) curtains cause we're talking about  The Sound of Music ! Kat and Jocelyn discuss vicious nuns, drunk Christopher Plummers, and how these children make for improbably good puppeteers. This episode brought to you in part by  Ritual . When Ritual set out to develop the vitamin essential for women, they...

Assemble a super team of famous literary characters, then never bother to explore or explain their characters in any way, cause we're talking about  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ! Kat and Jocelyn discuss terrible puns, impossible action sequences, and how this movie literally ended careers (specifically, Sean Connery's). This episode brought to you by Betterhelp. Betterhelp offers profess...

Drive your spaceship into hell and then marry your spaceship because it's your girlfriend and also a haunted house (?) cause we're talking about  Event Horizon ! Kat and Jocelyn discuss how this movie's positively NUTS for eye stuff, strange editing, effective sequences, and what they think things are like in Hell. This episode brought to you in part by Rothy's.  Rothy's  is the everyday flat for...

Grab your hockey mask, your machete, and go to space cause... why not, cause we're talking about  Jason X ! Kat and Jocelyn, along with special guest Jon Blair , discuss this VERY silly movie, touching on plush knit fabrics, genuinely committed performances, curious nanotechnology, and what Jason sequel they'd prefer to see. This episode brought to you in part by  Cove . Cove is on a mission to ma...

Make an excellent, heartfelt, scary film and then follow it up with a pile of crap because we're talking about It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two ! Kat and Jocelyn discuss the challenges inherent in adapting one of Stephen King's longest and unwieldiest properties, skewed identity politics, some excellent performances, and some audacious child actors. This episode brought to you in part by Rothy'...

Wake up in a cube and then move through the cube and maybe get cut into cubes while saying the word CUBE a lot (Cube!!!) cause it's Halloween Month and we're talking about  Cube ! Kat and Jocelyn discuss what the cube was for, ponder why you would ever need a freelancer to design... a cube, and talk about some schmacty shmacting. This episode is brought to you in part by FIGS. FIGS create the high...

Be a special time boy and send your daughter a message through the power of love gravity (???) cause we're talking about INTERSTELLAR! Kat and Jocelyn discuss Christopher Nolan's characteristically terrible sound design, discuss the grandpappy of all deus ex machinas, and how this is a movie about a man who POWERFULLY loves exactly one of his children. This episode brought to you in part by Rothy'...

Create 19 montages and one musical sequence and still SCARCELY come in at feature movie length cause we're talking about  Rocky IV ! In this episode, Kat and Jocelyn discuss montages-within-montages, scene-stealing robots, how Sylvester Stallone wrote the  Rocky  movies, and we all learn that Kat is  extremely  passionate about  Rocky IV . This episode brought to you by Betterhelp. Betterhelp offe...

Go to truly the worst bar of all time and watch a man rip another man's throat out FOR REAL cause we're talking about  Road House!  In this episode, Kat and Jocelyn discuss cartoonish fight sequences, how this town is a REAL contender to be under-the-domed, and Jocelyn's unexpected feelings for Sam Elliot.   This episode brought to you by Betterhelp. Betterhelp offers professional counseling secur...

Wait two hours and change to watch Al Pacino  inhale  the scenery, cause we're talking about  The Devil's Advocate ! In this episode, Kat and Jocelyn discuss terrible accents, how this movie feels like it's covered in oil, and ponder exactly why the devil would need to start up a law firm. This episode brought to you in part by  Prose . Prose creates customized hair care products for people, not h...

Jump in a barely functional spaceship and say a bunch of made up swears mixed with very awkward attempts to speak Mandarin, cause we're talking about  Firefly ... AND, bonus, we also talk about  Serenity ! Kat and Jocelyn touch on which characters they love (and which character is honestly just Ron Swanson in space), ponder what life is like on the Reaver ships, and talk about our enduring love fo...

Cover the Louvre with anagrams (also, your blood) and go on a very dour treasure hunt cause we're talking about Ron Howard's adaptation of The Da Vinci Code ! (Which is... a lot stinkier than we remembered). In the final installment of T. Hanksgiving, Kat and Jocelyn discuss Tom Hanks' first turn as puzzleboy Robert Langdon, touching on how anagrams aren't actually a good way to leave clues for so...

In the third week of T. Hanksgiving, we talk about Robert Zemeckis'  Cast Away ! We talk about how Wilson floating away is funny (sorry), why dentists disagree with this movie, and Kat gets VERY mad about the title of this film (and not, as you might assume, social insurance numbers). This episode brought to you by Betterhelp. Betterhelp offers professional counseling securely online. Visit better...

In the second week of T. Hanksgiving, we're talking about Ron Howard's Splash ! We discuss how Tom Hanks simply... HAD to know that Madison was a mermaid, how the ending of this movie is NOT a happy one, and Kat continues to fixate on social insurance numbers. This episode brought to you by Betterhelp. Betterhelp offers professional counseling securely online. Visit betterhelp.com/HATELOVE and joi...

Happy T.Hanksgiving, the month where we discuss naught but Tom Hanks films! And we're kicking it off with the timeless story of boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-regrets-not-being-big, boy-turns-big-and-destroys- everyone's-life-including-his- own: Big ! Kat and Jocelyn discuss Tom Hanks's boundless charm, the HORRIFYING Elizabeth Perkins plot (nononono (ewewewew)), ponder who made Zoltar, and K...