Falling in Love Montage

What do you get when you cross an embarrassment of pandas with embarassing podcasters?  This. This is what you get.  We had a box full of kittens-like good time discussing Domme Shi's 2022, unapologetically titled Pixar hit, Turning Red. 

Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow. Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow. Here we are again, for the first t...

If you want more Jack Black than you can shake a stick at, there's no better choice than the Kung Fu Panda trilogy. But we're talking about Nancy Meyers's warm and fuzzy The Holiday this time, which Jack Black is also in (as well as Jude Law, Eli Wallach, and a couple of chick-flick all-stars). With this episode, we become the leading ladies of our own lives, by deciding that we can release a Holi...

It's the holiday season and the 107th episode of this chick-flick podcast -- so really what choice did we have but to discuss 2000's High Fidelity with our friend and Beta-Band-stan Shane Kearney? It makes sense if you consider our continued use of John Cusack as a 2021 coping mechanism, or if you know that one of our hosts wouldn't even be here if it weren't for a meet-cute in a record store in C...

Merriam-Webster defines "footloose" as "having no ties; free to roam about."  So yeah. It's our podcast and our Octobermonth episode, and we wanted to talk about Footloose with our friend, return guest Ollie Brady. So we did. It's almost spooky how much everybody cut, everybody cut, everybody, everybody cut footloose. Check out some of Ollie's guest turns on the Media-eval Podcast ! The very talen...

Happy JAN(uary?)-September in October! For this Sept. episode we happen to be releasing in Oct., we brought in Helen's BFF Jan (Thrapp)!  After 20+ years of friendship and 5+ years of Falling in Love Montage, we wanted Jan's first visit to be really formidable, so we spent 2.5 hours (after cutting it down) talking about Onur Tukel's 2016 satirical black comedy about formidable women, Catfight.  Ch...

It's still technically August, which we all know is Valerie's birth month, so for a special gift, we tackled Peter Bogdanovich's 1993 dram-rom-com The Thing Called Love, starring Samantha Mathis and River Phoenix (in Phoenix's last full role). If you've never seen it (and, statistically speaking, a lot of you will have never seen it) -- don't worry, we take plenty of silly, irrelevant tangents too...

Enough of the '80s, let's visit "the '80s"! Gena Radcliffe of Kill by Kill joins us to rap about the 1998 Sandler-Barrymore rom-com The Wedding Singer. Check out the  Kill by Kill  podcast and Gena's writings for The Spool . 

"This is what an entire diaspora of edgelords is to going to base their personality on." -Bill, The Brain "When I smoke locker-weed, I just gotta dance, y'all."  -Helen, The Basketcase "Did you ever have Saturday school? ...If it's expunged, you don't have to tell us." -Valerie, The Criminal We came together on a non-school-day to discuss one more (the last?) '80s movie mentioned by Olive in Easy...

We needed a little break from the problematic '80s, so just for the heck of it, we decided to visit the problematic '90s -- and 1999's beauty-queen black comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous. But we'll be back with more John Hughes next month! Unless Kirstie Alley stops us. 

OK, we dragged our feet a little getting to our 100th episode -- and getting to Sixteen Candles. We know John Hughes' directorial debut is considered a landmark teen comedy, one that is loved and celebrated. And even coming upon our own celebratory landmark, we couldn't find much to celebrate in this stale cardboard cake of a movie. That said, our discussion of the film's major problems isn't incr...

I don't have a lot to say about the 1987 teen rom-com Can't Buy Me Love that we haven't already said, so suffice it to say: check out this episode in which we have a lot to say about the 1987 teen rom-com Can't Buy Me Love.

Our hearts and Easy A told us to, so here we are, in February 2021, discussing Cameron Crowe's directorial debut Say Anything with January guest and still-amazing person Michael M. Rader on Galentine's Day and our fifth podcasting anniversary.  That was a run-on sentence, I know, but we've always been able to say anything to you.  Does Say Anything hold up after 32 years? Do we hold up after 5? Li...

Welcome to 2021! New year, new sweat pants, new episode!  Much anticipated guest and pretend shag of the podcast Michael M. Rader joins us in adorning our bodices with red As ... and it doesn't smell that weird.    Listen to Michael on WHEEEEEEngs - A Sincere Wings Podcast & We'll Get It Right Next Year: An Adventure in Cinema

Happy December 27! We've almost made it through this 2020 nonsense, and we are MAKING THE YULETIDE EXTREMELY GAY with Clea DuVall's Happiest Season. Will Bella from Twilight and Cameron from Halt and Catch Fire find comfort and joy this holiday season? We spoil and ponder this question for about two hours -- happy holidays, from our family to yours!

It's the time of Thanksgiving -- the time we all get together as family to celebrate life's blessings stay home in near-complete isolation and watch another Anna Kendrick movie to soothe our weary souls. This time, the Anna Kendrick movie is FiLM-favorite Paul Feig's sumptuous (Thanksgiving) feast, A Simple Favor. We tried to avoid spoilers when discussing this fun and twisty lady-thriller, so if...

It's Halloween time, and you know what that means! Probably. I mean, I guess it would mean something spooky or scary maybe? Maybe like some kind of terrifying monster, like a vampire or something? And we do chick flicks, so you know what that means, maybe! A vampire-or-something chick flick, I suppose!  And -- yep, I did a Google search and the only item returned when I look up "vampire-or-somethi...

Have you missed our overlong episodes? I'm being waggish, I know you have not. Folks, as sorry as we are about asking you to listen to us go on and on and on and on about Mike Nichols' 1988 Working Girl, perfectly written by Kevin Wade, we'd be more sorry if we didn't talk, joke, and cry for hours about Mike Nichols' 1988 Working Girl, perfectly written by Kevin Wade.  But as we always say to Mick...

John Hodge and Danny Boyle's 1997 Crime/Comedy/Fantasy/Absurdist Tale brings us a literal and figurative celestial cast and everything else about it, well, it's not logical, but we love it.  But is it a chick flick? One bark for yes. 

And now 🥁 🥁 🥁  the episode you have not been waiting for and may have already heard!  Please enjoy this summer hottie, previously released on the Flying Machine Network Patreon channel in October 2018. Helen and Valerie talk about nothing and everything but mostly they talk about the 1999 American Science Fiction Horror film Deep Blue Sea.  If you previously paid for this content and now you're...

Happy Pride! As every good brand can tell you right now, we are living in difficult times. So difficult, in fact, that we talked for two hours -- just like in the old difficult times! This month's movie is admittedly pretty white, pretty straight, plenty corporate, hella cisgendered, and doesn't wear a mask (mostly), but this month's movie does happen to be Josie and the Pussycats -- the best movi...

Well, we kinda lucked into a quarantine McConauMay special event. We recorded one great episode on Magic Mike with our friend Jon Biegen of Stranger Still back in March. Then, when that episode was lost faster than Big-Dick Richie's tearaway pants, we recorded another, even greater episode on Magic Mike with our friend Jon Biegen of Stranger Still in April! And here we are in McConauMay 2020 with...

Nothing makes a woman feel more like a girl than a man who sings like a boy, and nothing makes a chick flick fan feel more like a real podcaster than a very special guest. We were delighted to have The Flop House Podcast's own Dan McCoy join us -- from a very safe distance -- to talk about the 2012 aca-hit Pitch Perfect. We find harmony with Anna Kendrick et al, but we also find plenty to criticiz...

It's April the first! And here we are with a new episode, just for you! Just kidding! It's an old episode that was originally just for paying Patrons, but since the world and network fell apart, we're sharing it with you now! In this bonus episode, Helen and Valerie analyze a gender-swapped adaptation of the classic story of the Three Little Pigs. Special guests Maintenance Guy and Walter (the dog...

Big vibes today! We're back in 2020 with our first episode of the year.  The release of this episode coincides with two very special occasions, Galentine's Day and our 4 year podcasting anniversary. 🎊 So Happy Galentine's Day, pals! And pssht, you don't have to be a gal to celebrate. All that is required to participate is appreciating and honoring the friendship between women. If you consume this...