J&M Podcast

This week, Jeanette and special guests, Colleen Bradley and Nzinga Murray, continue their journey of their Harry Potter franchise series to talk about the 2002 fantasy film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Director Chris Columbus (not to be confused with Christopher Columbus) and written by Steve Kloves. The film continues Harry Potter's journey at Hogwarts where the heir of Salazar Slyth...

This week, Jeanette and special guest, Oscar Martinez, continue their journey of Greig Fraser cinematography series to talk about the 2012 political action thriller film, Zero Dark Thirty. Inspired by true events, the film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks. This search leads to the d...

Today, Jeanette and special guest Elise Dean come together for their niche film series to talk about the 2023 Comedy Film, Quiz Lady. Directed by Jessica Yu, written by Jen D'Angelo and stars Sandra Oh and Awkwafina, the film focuses on a tightly wound, game show-obsessed young woman is encouraged by her eclectic older sister to compete on her favorite game show, Can’t Stop the Quiz, in order to p...

This week, Jeanette and special guest, Myles Webb, join together to talk about the 2013 Romantic-Comedy Drama, Enough Said. Written and Directed by Nicole Holofcener and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Toni Collette and Ben Falcone. The film follows a divorced masseuse who begins a relationship with man who she is not fully attractive to, only to discover that her...

This week, Jeanette and special guest, Jennifer Chan, continue their "Whatever We Feel Like Series" Series and talk about the 2018 Psychological Drama, Life Itself. Written and Directed by LDan Fogelman and starring Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Mandy Patinkin, and Antonio Banderas the film follows multiple couples over numerous generations, who are all connected to a single event. From a lack of con...

This week, Jeanette and Mero join forces to talk about the 1988 Fantasy Horror Comedy film, Beetlejuice. Directed by Tim Burton and written by Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren, and Larry Wilson. The film stars Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis as a recently deceased couple who, as ghosts haunting their former home, contact Beetlejuice, an obnoxious and devious “bio-exorcist” from the Netherworld, to sc...

This week, Jeanette and Mero join forces to talk about the 2004 American Action-Adventure Heist film, National Treasure. Directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Jim Kouf and the Wibberleys, the film stars Nicolas Cage as Benjamin Franklin Gates, a middle aged man who searches for a massive lost Freemason treasure that has been hidden away by the founding fathers of the United States. With the he...

This week, Jeanette and special guest, Colleen Bradley, continue their sci-fi/fantasy series to talk about the 1984 Comedy Horror film, Gemlins. Directed by Joe Dante, the film stars Zach Galligan as Billy, a young man who receives a mogwai creature from his father as a Christmas gift. With the pet, Billy has to follow three rules: do not take the mogwai into a bright light, especially sunlight; d...

Episode 80 - Postcards From The Edge by J&M Podcast

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Episode 78 - Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by J&M Podcast

Today, Jeanette and special guest Alec Baer come together for their films you should have seen in film school series to talk about the 2002 Meta Comedy-Drama Film, Adaptation. "Based" on a novel by Susan Orlean, the film was directed by Spike Jonze, written by Charlie Kaufman, and stars Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper. The film focuses on Charlie Kaufman struggle with writer's block a...

Today, Jeanette and special guest Elise Dean come together for their niche film series to talk about the 2000 Romantic Drama Film, Where the Heart Is. Based on a novel by Billie Letts, the film was Directed by Matt Williams and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel and stars Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, and Stockard Channing. The film focuses on a pregnant 17 year old name Novalee Nation, who...

This week, Jeanette and special guest, Oscar Martinez, continue their journey of Greig Fraser cinematography series to talk about the 2018 American biographical political satire black comedy-drama film, Vice. Based on the life of former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, the film follows Cheney on his path to becoming the most powerful Vice President in American history. Though this...

This week, Jeanette and Mero come together to talk about the 1997 American Drama Film, The Ice Storm. Directed by Ang Lee, written by James Schamus, and based on a book of the same name by Rick Moody. The films focuses on two dysfunctional New Canaan, Connecticut, upperclass families who try to deal with tumultuous social changes of the early 1970s, and their escapism through alcohol, adultery, an...

Episode 73 - The Old Guard by J&M Podcast

This week, Jeanette and special guest, Colleen Bradley, begin their sci-fi/fantasy series to talk about the 2007 Romantic Fantasy Adventure film, Stardust. Based on Neil Gaiman's 1999 book and directed by Matthew Vaughn, the film stars Charlie Cox as Tristan, a young man who searches out for a falling star to a woman he likes who does not like him back. When he finds out the star is not only on th...

This week, Jeanette and special guest Nzinga Murray come together for the journey in search of a Strong Female Lead Character film series to talk about the 2015 American Western Film, Jane Got a Gun. Directed by Gavin O'Connor, written by Brian Buffield, Anthony Tambakis, and Joel Edgerton, and starring Natalie Portman and Joel Edgerton the film follows a woman who asks her ex-lover for help in or...

This week, Jeanette and special guest, Jennifer Chan, switch gears from our "Romantic Comedy Series that Isn't a Foreign Film Even Though We Started with Foreign Film Series" Series to "Whatever We Feel Like Series" Series and talk about the 1995 Coming-of-Age Drama, Kids. Directed by Larry Clarke and starring Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, and Chloë Sevigny, the film follows a group of teens tra...

This week, Jeanette and special guests, Nzinga Murray and Elise Dean, talk about the 2022 Action Adventure Comedy film, The Lost City. Starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, the film follows a romance novelist and her cover model escaping from a billionaire who wants her to find a lost ancient burial chamber described in one of her books. From a Jamba Juice butt to tasting one's thoughts, thi...

Episode 68 - The Fifth Element by J&M Podcast

This week, Jeanette and special guest Nzinga Murray come together for the journey in search of a Strong Female Lead Character film series to talk about the 2011 Action Thriller Film, Colombiana. Directed by Olivier Megaton, written by Robert Mark Karmen and Luc Besson, and starring Zoë Saldaña. Fifteen years after her family was murdered by a drug lord in Colombiana, a woman becomes a stone-cold k...

Today, Jeanette and special guest Elise Dean come together for their niche film series to talk about the 2006 Romantic Comedy Teen Sports Film, She's the Man. Directed by Andy Fickman and starring Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum. The Shakespearian adaptation follows a young lady who disguises herself as her twin brother and attends his boarding school in order to play soccer after her own high school...

This week, Jeanette and Mero come together to talk about the 2012 Romantic Comedy Film, The Five Year Engagement. Directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by Stoller and Jason Segel, the films focuses on Tom proposing to his girlfriend, Violet, one year after they met. Though they plan on getting married within the next year, life obstacles get in their way, causing their engagement to extend and...

This week, Jeanette and special guest, Oscar Martinez, talk about the 2022 Superhero film, The Batman. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film follows the titular character two years into his vigilante career, where he uncovers corruption within the Gotham City while pursuing the Riddle, a serial killer who targets the city's corrupt elite . This episode continues our focus on now Oscar...