Every Rom Com

This week on Now Streaming Jen and Luna recommend gay coming-of-age romances, stories about black women following their dreams and their hearts, some of the best films of 1994, and more, as we highlight some of the best rom com and rom com adjacent films and TV currently on streaming platforms. We’ll also tell you where to find some of the 80’s favorites and other films we recommended as double fe...

This week on Every Rom Com, we’re covering one of Jen’s all-time favorite movies - “Romancing the Stone”, one of the top-grossing films from the hit-filled year of 1984.  Learn about one of the film’s settings, Cartagena, Colombia, and its actual Mexican filming locations; find out how some of the film’s action sequences were filmed; get the low-down on the 1985 sequel “The Jewel of the Nile.” And...

This week on Every Rom Com, Jen recommends some lesser-known travel rom coms, Sophia recommends some rom coms featuring great families and friends, Jen brings in some sci fi rom com crossovers, and Sophia recommends a classic, and gives her opinion of John Patrick Shanley’s “Wild Mountain Thyme.” All this and where to find the movies we’ve recommended on the show in this week’s Now Streaming!

This week on Every Rom Com we’re headed to Japan to delve into Sofia Coppola’s second feature film, “Lost in Translation.” We’ll discuss iconic images and scenes from the film, let you know how to find the movie’s filming locations, workshop our sequel idea “Found in Translation”, and discuss themes of culture shock, alienation, unrequited love, and more! We’re joined this week by Jen’s sister-in-...

On this week’s Now Streaming Serena and Jen recommend 90’s throwbacks, addictive TV, down endings, and more! Join us as we talk about some new and old favorites including “Awkwafina is Nora From Queens”, “Normal People”, “The Bodyguard” and “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” 

This week on Every Rom Com join Jen, Sophia, and Serena on a first-class trip to Singapore for “Crazy Rich Asians”! We’ll talk about the powerhouse cast which made this 2018 film a milestone in Asian representation. We’ll talk about the amazing Singapore locations visited and glimpsed in the movie, to give you a head start on post-Covid travel-planning! And we’ll explore various critiques of the f...

This week on Every Rom Com we have fun joining Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck on their “Roman Holiday.” But we also take this romantic comedy classic very seriously, discussing screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s time on the Hollywood blacklist, the effects of World War II on Hepburn, and whether or not we ought to feel sorry for royalty in movies. Whether you’re here for the joys of gelato and dancing...

This week on Now Streaming, Jen and Sophia keep up the travel theme with trips to Italy, Northern Ireland, wine country, and a destination wedding. Jen also talks up her number 1 no-fail Netflix recommendation - “Kim’s Convenience”, and Sophia gets pumped about her heartwarming favorite, “Return to Me.” All this, plus where to find movies we’ve covered on past episodes on this week’s Now Streaming...

This week Every Rom Com is off to Jamaica with the 1998 Angela Bassett romance “How Stella Got Her Groove Back.” Jen, Sophia, and guest host Serena discuss age gap romances, a cast full of award-winning actresses, the true story behind Terry McMillan’s fiction, Jamaican tourist hot spots, and more. Serena also gives insight into Caribbean tourism and island life through her experience living and w...

This week Every Rom Com kicks off its travel series with a trip to Ireland in the 2010 romantic comedy “Leap Year” starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode. In this episode you’ll learn what the Irish really thought of this movie, find out how many women are proposing marriage, hear Jen and Sophia’s proposal stories, and you’ll get a tour through rom com tropes in a movie that’s loaded with them! Don’...

This week on Now Streaming Sophia recommends the Irish comedy  "Waking Ned Devine”, Jen gives a nod to reality show Terrace House: Aloha State, featuring Moxie's Lauren Tsai, and both Jen and Sophia reveal some of their all-time favorite rom coms currently playing on streaming sites.   Past Podcast Movies: Moonstruck - The Roku Channel The Half of It - Netflix 10 Things I Hate About You - Disney+...

Join Jen and Sophia as they finish Every Rom Com’s literary modernization series with a look at the “Twelfth Night” adaptation, “She’s the Man.” This Amanda Bynes/Channing Tatum rom com inspires a very low rating from one of the hosts, but also one of the deepest discussions yet, delving into gender roles in society, women’s soccer, and more! Come for the funny film commentary; stay for the resear...

This week on Now Streaming Cybil recommends bingeable TV shows including “Ginny and Georgia”, and Jen lets you know where to find great Shakespeare, Gen-X favorites, and Celine Sciamma’s gorgeous “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.”  Correction: The show "Greek" is currently on Hulu and freeform, not Netflix Past Episodes:  Moonstruck - Roku Channel The Half of It - Netflix 10 Things I Hate About You - D...

There are more than 10 things to love about “10 Things I Hate About You”, the 1999 teen rom com that launched the careers of Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. In this episode Jen and Sophia discuss the cast of future stars, the Seattle/Tacoma filming sites, teen movie teachers and parents, and compare this modernization to its original Shakespeare text, The Taming of the Shrew. All this and the meani...

In this episode of Every Rom Com: Now Streaming, Jen talks up "The Wedding Banquet", her favorite LGBT rom com; Sophia recommends the animated shorts "Purl" and "Paperman"; and Jen lets you know where to find some more Bollywood magic with "Lagaan." All this and more on this week's "Now Streaming."

Like Bollywood, this episode is a lot! Even if you’re an Austen fan or have seen this excellent 2004 Gurinder Chadha musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, you’re sure to learn at least one new fact about the movie, Indian culture, or one of the fascinating members of this cast and crew, which includes the first woman choreographer in Bollywood, actors from “Lost” and “Game of Thrones” and Cha...

This week on Every Rom Com: Now Streaming Sophia and Jen tell you where to find films they've discussed on the show as well as letting you know where to find other great rom coms and rom com adjacent films and TV. This week Sophia gives her impressions of Harold and Maude and Music and Lyrics, Jen lets you in on one of her top films of all time - Passion Fish, and Sophia decides she'll always incl...

This week Every Rom Com talks Austen as they continue their literary modernization series with the 90’s teen classic “Clueless.”  Sophia comes out against overdone fashion, Jen is the only one to defend original Emma, and California girl Cybil clues you in on some of the film’s locations and references. Plus, the panel covers the slang, soundtrack and stellar cast that have kept this teen rom com...

In this edition of Every Rom Com: Now Streaming Cybil and Jen tell you where to find films they've discussed on the show as well as letting you know what other great rom com and rom com adjacent films and TV they've been streaming. With "To All The Boys: Always and Forever", "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", "The Wilds" and more, this episode goes heavy on the coming of age stories!

Join Every Rom Com as they begin a literary modernization series with “The Half of It”, a teen rom com take on “Cyrano de Bergerac.” Along the way Sophia and Jen will talk philosophy of love, celebrate female writer-director Alice Wu, and use their own small town backgrounds to contemplate life in the fictional town of Squahamish. Currently streaming on Netflix, “The Half of It” is not to be misse...

In this Every Rom Com: Now Streaming bonus episode Sophia and Jen tell you where to find the films we've discussed on the show and also give some unusual and more traditional recommendations for Valentine's Day viewing. With everything from "The Love Witch" to "Ocean's 11", "Beginners" to "The Parent Trap", there's something for everyone!

In the nerdiest episode yet, Jen and Sophia geek out on film history, witch history and history history. They also perform some film school worthy analysis, and Jen reveals her not-so-hidden inner cat lady as they discuss Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak's somewhat improbable follow-up to "Vertigo" - the holiday witch-themed romantic comedy "Bell, Book and Candle."

Cybil and Jen take a deep dive into love and politics as they discuss the 2019 Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen romantic comedy, "Longshot." What are the challenges for women in power? How can we resolve the tension between idealism and compromise? And was this movie's raunchy humor just right or a little too much? We cover these questions and more in a wide-ranging discussion that definitely contai...

For the first ever episode of Every Rom Com, Jen, Cybil and Sophia revisit the romantic comedy classic "Moonstruck" starring Cher and Nicolas Cage. Along the way they extol the virtues of screenwriter John Patrick Shanley, talk about how great it is to see strong older women on screen, and discuss what kind of romantic future Loretta would have with either Ronny or Johnny Cammareri. They also deba...