Dear Graham

Recorded on Dec. 28 so as to be released before NYE, but released after NYE because we forgot, join us for a sort of short discussion of A Holiday Affair (which we both very much enjoyed), plus Wonder Woman and Soul (one of which we enjoyed).

Just an absolute blast of a film. And it's a Christmas movie.

We continue to talk about Christmas movies this week, with a terrible Netflix film. In this episode I was asked to name good Kurt Russell movies and I blanked, so I'm putting a list here: Tango and Cash Big Trouble in Little China Sky High The Thing The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes (I've never seen this, but it's a guaranteed winner, title like that)

Happiest Season is the first of our Holiday films we watched. Amelia was lukewarm. I was warm. We're putting this episode out on a Wednesday because everything is chaos and days of the week are a social construct.

Logan Lucky is a good movie. Watch Logan Lucky. Especially with Hillbilly Elegy coming out recently, if you're going to watch one movie about Appalachia, make it this movie. This episode is brought to you by Daniel Craig in James Bond: No Time to Die.* If you see Daniel Craig and it looks like his eyes are screaming for help, what he's really saying is "please go see No Time to Die." *We received...

Hello! We reviewed the 1940 classic film The Philadelphia Story and also reviewed our drinks, a Pink Gin and a Hurricane! One of us liked our drink, the other did not, but we agreed on the movie. Shake up a cocktail and join us!

We are scheduling this episode in advance to come out the day before the 2020 US election, which is frightening. We loved this movie about protests and organizing but depending on the state of the nation we encourage all beloveds to listen to what their bodies need and do fluffy unimportant stuff if necessary (except unless you have not already VOTED in which case GO VOTE FRIENDS VOTE AGAINST TRUM...

In this week's installment of Classic Movies and Classic Cocktails we watched The Haunting, after trying unsuccessfully to watch it some 6 years ago and getting too spooked. 

We talk about Young Frankenstein, and ask what is acceptable in a comedy movie. Are we the people who should be deciding this? Yes. Or No. You decide. Are you the people who should be deciding that? Yes. Or no. We decide.

We attempted to cover a bunch of different Halloween things, to various degrees of success. We talk about those things in this podcast. We'll keep what those subjects are a mystery, not because we don't remember what they are, we definitely do, but because we just don't feel like saying them here. This is a link we promised for one of those things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vwiRE0Drjk&l...

Are we putting podcasts out on Thursdays now? Or did we just forget to put this out 4 days ago. Who knows?  Nothing makes you appreciate Brendan Frasier like the 1932 version of The Mummy. It's no good. And not even in like a "well for the time it was impressive" way, it's just a struggle to watch. And yet Universal's tried to make universe of these monster films like 3 times since 2009.&nbsp...

Let's take a second and talk about how ridiculously well Robert Redford and Jane Fonda have aged. You've got two people who are ridiculously good looking at a young age, sure they're probably statistically more likely to be ridiculously good looking throughout their lives, but you're rolling the dice here. Val Kilmer, there's a guy who was ridiculously good looking as a young guy. Top Gun, whateve...

Hooray for guests! Meghan and Bill joined us (social distance style) to chat about Arsenic and Old Lace while sipping some bubbly.

On this week's episode of Dear Graham, we talk about all of the things mentioned in the title!

We watched "An American Pickle" so you don't have to. But if you want to, you'll see lots of shots of Pittsburgh, including the spot we buy beer. But not too much beer, Mom and Dad. An acceptable amount. How much is an acceptable amount? Well, if you square the hypotenuse on the equilateral triangle, you'll arrive at your answer of 1 7/8ths.  *I have no idea what I'm even saying in these writ...

Adam and Amelia review the 2009 movie adaptation of the acclaimed 1980s graphic novel Watchmen.  It was not their favorite.

Ummm... it's an all time classic children's movie. We talk about it.  Look, frankly I'm running out of things to say in these descriptions. But I'll leave you with this word problem: I can paint a house in 5 hours, you can paint it in 3, how long does it take us to paint it together?

One of us accidentally subscribed to the DC Comics streaming service. Did you know DC Comics had a streaming service? Based on their revenue you haven't, but there's actually some decent stuff on there. Not enough for $7.99 a month, but some decent stuff.  Anyway, this episode is about the animated Harley Quinn show. It's good. You should watch it. But not for $7.99 a month, that would be an insan...

We talk about the '90s film My Cousin Vinny, which tells the story of a mid level lawyer struggling with his own limitations in the harsh face of stardom.  OR it's a story about a low level lawyer who's struggling with his own limitations in the harsh face of court. It's really a tossup. 

Adam and Amelia voyage interstate for this live review for Graham! Many thanks to Rachel for suggesting the movie and cohosting.

In our first ever $50 tier sponsorship, we reviewed Cheech and Chong: Up in Smoke as requested. You will note that our sponsor did not pay enough to be in the next tier up, or we would have said that we liked it. Join us for this (classic?) stoner romp.

This is the first in a possible series of films we'll talk about and drink about. Have any recommendations? Send them to us. Our email is in the show. (It is NOT in the show.)

Jorie thinks Paul Rudd shouldn't be able to find happiness. It's a controversial opinion, and one we here at Dear Graham do NOT endorse. We're pro Paul Rudd finding happiness. 

This podcast is about Bend it Like Beckham, but given the timing, we felt it was important to say the following: We recorded this podcast 2-3 weeks ago, before the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, and before Christian Cooper was accosted in Central Park. We don’t talk about any of this in this episode because of the when it was recorded but after recent events we at Dear Graham feel the n...

Adam presents a list of movies about war and Amelia was pleasantly surprised by how much she was interested! We tried to go with movies that were as non jingoistic as we could and that glorified warfare or the military as little as possible. This episode is scheduled to come out on Memorial Day, a somber holiday, so we didn't make jokes like we often do. Amelia said "trajection" in the last minute...