Memories of Movies

Join Joel and Bethany down yet another religious trauma rabbit hole as we talk about one of the best movies about evangelicalism we've ever seen - Stephen Cone's Henry Gamble's Birthday Party. We then continue down the path of movies about gay young men with Prick Up Your Ears. Happy pride to everyone!  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From –  Bojack Horseman soundt...

Bethany and Joel dive our way into some Mike Nichols work - his classic (rightfully) film The Graduate and also... another movie he directed called Day of the Dolphin whose most memorable and enjoyable element is it's tagline. Proof that directors who make great things can also make very... not great things!  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From –  Bojack Horseman...

Joel and Bethany go back to some depictions of the Old West and the Changing Times and Great Men who create the myths we know (or at least have myth created around them).  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From –  Bojack Horseman soundtrack – “I Will Always Think of You” Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - "Rather Lovely Thing" Bob Dylan - "Knocking on Heaven's Door" Nick C...

Join us for a spooky time with our favorite topic... religious trauma! Hooray! In addition we do a little section on having done this podcast for a year and how much fun we've had.  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From –  Bojack Horseman soundtrack – “I Will Always Think of You” The Others Score - "Sheets and Chains" Ghost Story Score - "Ghost Story" Joel’s Media M...

Don't you love Audrey Hepburn? And also just movies? Listen to Joel and Bethany wax poetic about just how much they love Charade and then also how they watched Funny Face, two movies with Audrey Hepburn in an age gap relationship where one of them works... much better than the other!  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From –  Bojack Horseman soundtrack – “I Will Alwa...

Join Joel and Bethany for our very own Redford Files, as we discuss Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, baseball, politics, and what the most frustrating kind of movie is. Sometimes unexpected movies lead to unexpectedly long conversations, this one was not planned to be so long!  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From –  Bojack Horseman soundtrack – “I Will Always Think...

It's time for some pinball! Listen to us discuss two very different movies whose only connection is a love of the game of pinball (we think?), a colon in the title, and some very different takes on what it looks like to come into a kid's life as a stepfather.  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From –  Bojack Horseman soundtrack – “I Will Always Think of You” Pinball...

Welcome to maybe our most distantly connected episode yet - two movies that are named after midwestern towns. At least we think so? Our West Coast origin is really clear here. Regardless, two really beautiful and heartfelt movies in two completely different ways. Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From –  Bojack Horseman soundtrack – “I Will Always Think of You” Fargo...

Join Bethany and Joel for one of our favorite times of the year - time to talk about all of the things we loved in movies for the year! We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week but it was fun to just chat about a good year at the movies. Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Joel –  Worst Movie of the Year:  Heart Eyes available on Netflix Best Theatrical...

Join us in our discussion of the Spanish Civil War! Which to be clear, we know basically nothing about, please do not take our expertise on anything. But we dive into two quite different movies touching on the same period of history and talk about Pan's Labyrinth as a fable about the importance of disobedience. Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From –  Bojack Horsema...

Bethany and Joel have their first strong disagreement on this podcast. We recommend watching both movies for yourself and picking a side! In general our team swashbuckles their way through these two very different Robin Hood stories (kinda). It's a good time!  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From – Bojack Horseman soundtrack – “I Will Always Think of You” Robin Hoo...

An entire episode of Joel and Bethany basically running around with a big flag that says MOVIES as we talk about just how much we loved these two films. We hope we never die, friends, at least as long as there is beautiful art in the world and people to share it with. Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From – Bojack Horseman soundtrack – “I Will Always Think of You” L...

Joel and Bethany go on a Rob Reiner retrospective in honor of him and his wife's tragic passing. What on earth was happening with Demi Moore's character in A Few Good Men? Which parts of talking about Stand By Me bring us both to tears? All this and more ahead of you! Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From – A Few Good Men score – Guantanamo Bay Come Go with Me – The...

Bethany and Joel discuss girls who have things! One of them has gifts and one of them has... a giant needle it turns out. Happy new year, may we all get the gifts we need and avoid the needles. Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious It's a Wonderful Life episode referenced in the show Book referenced in episode - We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal...

Join Joel and Bethany in some old timey comedy. Is there much in common between Monty Python and The Marx Brothers? What works and what doesn't work for us now as adults than when we were kids? All these answers and more!  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music from –  Camelot Song – Monty Python and the Holy Grail Chico Marx at the Piano – Night at the Opera Bojack Horse...

Happy holidays to all! This week Bethany and Joel talk about some holiday romcoms. We make wild speculations about our mother and some less wild ones. We discuss the likelihood of certain couples surviving the closing credits and wonder why Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman never made another movie together. Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music from –  While You Were Slee...

Once upon a time... two siblings talked about Cinderella and the different ways it could be told. Join Joel and Bethany as they discuss the 90s classic Ever After (more classic for Bethany) and how our parents instincts that movies could teach us leftist ideology was at least somewhat correct. Then dive into a much darker and uglier version of the story with 2025's The Ugly Stepsister. Find us on...

It's an accidental celebration of Noirvember! We would love to say we were clever enough to plan this but actually, as is often the case for us and so rarely the case for anyone in a film noir... we were just lucky. Listen to us discuss what we know everyone was dying to hear - WOULD Bethany still do Orson Welles in Touch of Evil? Gotta listen to find out! Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle a...

Listen to Bethany wax poetic about one of their personal heroes - Roger Ebert. Big movie dork episode this week as we discuss two different movie documentaries, one of which definitely worked better for us than the other! Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music from - Leonard Cohen - "I'm Your Man" Hitchcock/Truffaut soundtrack - "Floors of Glass" Bojack Horseman soundtrac...

Strap yourself in for a giant Halloween episode, friends! Joel and Bethany discuss the 2021 Netflix Fear Street trilogy and also briefly the terrible Fear Street movie that was released this year. Followed by a VERY LONG what we’ve been watching, because we haven’t seen each other for 5 weeks! Happy Halloween!  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From Fear Street 1994...

How many abs does any one man need? How do we feel about Zac Snyder both historically and now? How much do we really have to say about either of these movies? What's it feel like to revisit adolescent favs that are now kind of embarrassing? Many questions to be answered!  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From 300 soundtrack – “The Hot Gates” Jason and the Argonauts...

Get medieval with Bethany and Joel as we discuss one of our favorite movies of a few years ago and one new to both of us. Lots of violence and mysteries but also just a lot of fun!  Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySparkle and admiralobvious Music From: The Last Duel soundtrack – “Duel Preparations” The Name of the Rose soundtrack – “Kyrie” Bojack Horseman soundtrack – “I Will Always Think of You”...

Join Bethany and Joel as we talk about our experience and thoughts around silent film and the first (although certainly not the last) conversation about a couple of unconventional westerns. And please check out Nancy Kelly’s Thousand Pieces of Gold, a clearly underseen little gem. Interviews about Thousand Pieces of Gold here , here , and video interview here . Find us on Letterboxd at BethanySpar...

Join Bethany and Joel chatting about food, a weird topic for us both because of how we are both picky eaters but we also both really enjoy food movies! Nothing to bring folks together like a great meal and people obsessed with making it, as both our movies explore. Good times. Stay tuned as well for a small extra segment on the NYT Best Movies of the 21st Century and our picks for that.  Find us o...

Join Joel and Bethany to talk about Debra Granik's beautiful determination to tell stories about people we don't usually hear stories about. As a warning, this is a sad set of movies, but also a really beautiful and tender set. What do the stories about the outcasts of society say about community care and how well our social net actually works? Debra Granik interview referenced here Find us on Let...