Falling in Love Montage

Is it hot in here or is it just August? If you're looking for a breakout summer comedy that's got everything from urinating on a crowd to bootyhole-kush to sploshing, then look no further than 2017's Girls Trip. Oh, we should also mention it's a remarkably grounded narrative about friendship and a powerful portrayal of black women that audiences everywhere desperately want and deserve. Ryan, Sasha...

Hey sister, go sister, soul sister, snow sister   In our first ever clean* episode, sisters Helen and Valerie talk about Disney's 2013 Frozen. Our special "guest Matt" will melt you like an Olaf by an open fire. *an earnest attempt to not say F**k and S**t

Helen and Valerie are once again joined by their mother, Karen Wurl , for this belated Mother's Day treat. The three of them, now fully recovered from the emotional trauma of watching last year's Mother's Day (may you rest, sweet Garry), venture to Venture Cinema to watch 2017's comedy caper Snatched.

Falling in Love Montage is packing up the moon and dismantling the sun  for the Never-A-Bride™ June series is now over and done.  Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Owen Choules came by to put the podcast to bed.  The honor of your presence is requested by  Helen & Valerie together with their comrade family featuring Owen Choules of Classic Schmassic  

Here we are, week 3 of our month long Never-A-Bride spectacular. It's a little on the nose, but we're talking about Bridesmaids. Not as divisive as current U.S. politics, but Paul Feig manages to cause turbulence once again. That reminds me, "There's a colonial woman on the wing, there's something they're not telling us!"

My Best Friend's Wedding is the second film in our four-week bonus, antithetical bridal month bonanza. That's right, every Monday in June we're going to deliver fresh cut podcast bouquets straight to your internet door. This is our vow* to you.   *inconspicuous details or conditions printed in an agreement or contract, what I'm saying is "we'll probably honor this vow"

It's 1997 again so remember, if you've got to make a call, we brought our flip-phone. Helen and Valerie are joined by the divine and consummate Erin Gambrill of the Ladies Who Library podcast. We answer this burning question, "can you write a super bowl campaign and like a boy at the same time?"

20 years ago, two impressionable young women walked into a movie theater to watch Romy and Michele's High School Reunion and they pretty much haven't stopped talking about it since. Seeing as you might not have 20 years to listen to them talk about the film, they graciously condensed their discussion to just under 2 hours. Now, would you excuse me? I cut my foot before and my shoe is filling up wi...

Your FiLM podcast hosts are not completely on board with the much dated and gender awkward title of our thirty-third episode, Man Up. However, what they do like is the charming, thoughtful, and deliberate screenplay found in between the title page and FADE OUT.   Tess Morris sought out to make a clever and enjoyable romantic comedy and we think she succeeded. And to 'one up' her Man Up movie, she...

Give it up for the one and (likely) only time we'll get to discuss a Coen brother's film on Falling in Love Montage. We like to stay flexible, and this is a very comfortable stretch for us as we, and special guest Malcolm Nygard, have a rich and uproarious conversation about Intolerable Cruelty. Are you asking yourself where you have heard Malcolm's intoxicating voice before? Maybe you recall it f...

In this, our third clip episode, you'll hear bits and pieces from Ghostbusters, Jane Eyre, Bridget Jones's Baby, Crank, While You Were Sleeping, and Overboard.  I feel it is only fair to remind you that we absorbed a whole lot of acute sexism during our Ghostbusters research and then, the next thing you know, it was November and our fragile little female bodies and minds were very, very weary.  On...

Welcome to our thirtieth episode—and our first episode as part of the Comrade Radio family! We are majorly, totally, butt-crazy in love with this new undertaking.  Also of equal excitement is the announcement of our special guest, Nicole Kemper of 'The Feminist Mistake podcast' and 'Critical Crop Top'. Nicole writes, directs, produces, and stars in some of Atlanta's premiere sketch comedy and web...

Can you guess the name of this film solely from a peak at Helen's note taking?  1) She's shaking her vag-heart right at him 2) Coughing equals death 3) Was he the most masturbated about man at this time? (look that up!) Give up? Need context?  Well, it's Moulin Rouge of course!     

I've pulled these two quotes that, I believe, fully color the movie, Bend it Like Beckham. "There is a history of seeing difference, in terms of culture (...) as problematic. For me, difference is celebratory." - Gurinder Chadha (writer, director) "This movie kicks balls" - Matt LaStar (Ask A Matt)

FiLM podcast is back with a full episode and we're discussing the 2005 feature film Hitch. Joining us is a special guest, Jessie Cooper. He is the host and co-host of such podcasts as 'Turn to Page', 'Alphabet Flight', 'Random Sampling', and 'Me, Last Year'. Join the three of us as we successfully keep from making a single joke about "getting jiggy" with anything, well up until right now.

These podcasters do more than watch movies, call actors by the wrong name, and go off on tangential rants. OR DO THEY? Outtakes, bloopers, and anecdotes about your favorite and least favorite chick flicks are just one chick-click away.

In this episode, Helen observes some stunning parallels between Overboard and James Cameron's Titanic, meanwhile Valerie fetishizes macaroni necklaces and Matt observes the many unromantic themes the film would rather you ignore. Oh—and Happy New Year!

"While you were sleeping, on your brother I was creeping" Those are just some of the lines from an epically bad rap, written by Valerie and inspired by the 1995 film While You Were Sleeping. If you'd like to hear more of that rap, start getting her drunk like right now. If you'd like to hear special guest Heather Hooks delight the ever-loving shit out of us, start listening like RIGHT NOW.

Chev Chelios may never be a bride. He may never land the DeLauer Diamond or Gulden's Mustard accounts. Chev may never stand on the pitcher's mound of a high school baseball field waiting to be kissed in front of the entire student body. Chev Chelios may never do any of these things thanks to that back-stabbing bitch, Ricky Verona. Oh, and also, Chev may die or something, blah, blah, blah. Anyway,...

What is there to say about Bridget Jones that we haven't already said? It looks like a lot. Please join us for our last over-long discussion of our fierce friend.  2016's Baby has taken full advantage of its generous gestation period and presents a noticeably grown-up film while still offering moments of pleasant predictability. 

A lot has changed since Jane Eyre: An Autobiography was first published. Foremost, women are less likely to publish work under a man's name for fear of facing discrimination (although I imagine this still occurs).  But one thing has not changed, women still love men who are hiding other women in their attics. <— definitely not true. I made that up.  This podcast, while "small and plain" is stil...

If you like listening to or haven't listened to enough tendentious podcasts about the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot—then this episode is for you.  Two sisters who've never been criticized for being "too funny" discuss a film that's actually been criticized for being "too funny". 

Nostalgia kills: a talking point for a lot of current issues but also an appropriate sentiment for episode 19: Jem and the Holograms (2015). Buttholes like me (Valerie) who were so precious about a cartoon they watched while still sporting their milk teeth, sized this film up and cut it down—sight unseen. My generation's refusal to embrace this re-imagining shut Jem out of the theater after just t...

As I uploaded the episode I couldn't help but wonder, will anybody listen? If they do listen, will they be surprised the episode is shorter than the running time of the movie? Across town Helen was getting a surprise of her own; the details of which I'm uniformed. I expect she'll tell me at brunch. What I do know is this, Matt flew coach with one of stars of Sex and the City. Who? You'll have to l...

How do women of the nineties handle loss, humiliation, manipulation, and degradation? How ever the hell they want. This could mean commiserating, seeking justice, or reclaiming what is yours. It might also mean sophisticated degrees of extortion (but no one is perfect). Above all it means surviving. Survive—and help others to survive. That is the best revenge. Helen and Valerie toast to The First...