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Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're watching the Netflix original Irish Wish this week, and no, we still can't say the title.  Maddie, a book editor in NYC with big dreams of writing stories of her own, is in love with her author, Paul Kennedy. Unfortunately for Maddie, Paul falls for her best friend, and with days to go before the wedding, Maddie makes a wish t...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're watching Under the Tuscan Sun this week, and going back to what we're now learning was a fantastic year for the American economy: 2003. No wonder 35-year-old women felt so much more settled than they do today... Seriously, if we didn't know what she looked like and someone told us Frances was in her 50s, we'd believe...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're watching Results this week, starring Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders and Kevin Corrigan. Trevor wants to spread his fitness philosophy to the masses, Kat wants to get paid and Danny just wants to be able to take a punch in this indie, fitness-focused rom com. In the words of a featured IMDB review, we're "not really sure what...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're watching Plus One this week, starring Jack Quaid and Maya Erskine. Ben feels like he's falling behind in life while searching for his perfect match. All of his friends are married or in serious relationships. Even his dad is moving on with a new fiancée and stepchildren. Alice recently broke up with her longtime boyfriend afte...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Dust off your boomboxes, we're headed back to 1989 with Say Anything, staring John Cusack, Ione Skye and John Mahoney. "Noble underachiever" Lloyd enters into a "friends with potential" relationship with brainy and beautiful Diane the summer after they graduate from high school. Will their fledgling situationship surv...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We are returning to our roots this week with a Netflix Original movie: Players, starring Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans, Jr. and Tom Ellis.  Mack and her friends have spent their entire adult lives running plays and bouncing from one one-night stand to the next. It's fun, but Mack wants a real relationship. She enlists her friends to help...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Well, friends, our Cinderella-fest has come to an end, and yes, we really are watching a movie entitled "Another Cinderella Story". This one stars Selena Gomez, Drew Seeley and Jane Lynch as the wicked not-step-mother. We're back in the San Fernando Valley, because of course we are. Mary just wants to dance and fall in love wit...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're headed back to 2004 with A Cinderella Story, starring Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray and a wicked step-mother played by podcast favorite, Jennifer Coolidge. This one is technically a "teen romantic comedy," so we'll count it.   Sam wants more out of life than being her step-family's live-in servant. She's...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're watching Ella Enchanted this week! Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy and the ever-delightful Cary Elwes star in this 2004 film. Ella of Frell was blessed with the gift of obedience as a baby and she's sick of it. Deciding enough is enough, she embarks on a quest to find her fairy godmother, Lucinda, the only person capable of removing...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week, by popular demand, we watched the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, starring podcast favorites Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Susan is a flighty and infuriating heiress in possession of a leopard (possibly spelled with a "w". "Leopawd"?). David is a paleontologist who needs a million dollars for his mus...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! To close out 2023, we are watching a listener-recommended movie: Megamind, starring Will Farrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross and Brad Pitt (with just a hint of J.K. Simmons!).  Megamind learns at a young age that he's pretty terrible at being good. Tired of trying to win the adoration of his classmates, he reinvents himself as an...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're wrapping up our holiday-themed movies this year with Last Christmas, starring Emilia Clarke, Emma Thompson, Michelle Yeoh and Henry Golding.  Things aren't going well for Kate. She's always wanted to be a singer, but she feels stuck as a career elf at a year-round Christmas shop in London. She's turned into a bit of...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're continuing our Christmas movie theme with the Netflix original: Christmas With You, starring Aimee Garcia and Freddie Prinze Jr. Pop star Angelina is burned out. She's being told she's old and no longer relevant. Her producer has given her one week to churn out a Mariah Carey-esque Christmas single to save her career, but...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Happy holidays, everybody! Our first Christmas-themed rom com of the year is the Netflix original Love Hard, starring Nina Dobrev, Jimmy O. Yang and Darren Barnet. Perpetually single but ever hopeful Natalie, a journalist from LA, decides to take a chance and expand her online dating horizons. She swipes right on what she thinks is the perfec...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Our Julia Roberts streak continues with My Best Friend's Wedding. Food critic Julianne comes to an uncomfortable realization when she finds out the man she had a marriage pact with is getting married and is asking her to join the wedding party. Is she in love with Michael? Can she steal him back or is it too late? This movie stars Julia...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Our Julia Roberts streak continues this week with Runaway Bride! This unlikely spiritual successor to Pretty Woman reunites Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo,  Larry Miller, Patrick Richwood (the elevator operator!), Kathleen Marshall and director Gary Marshall. Journalist Ike Graham is a columnist for USA Today. Short on time, he...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're kicking off a Julia Roberts... well, not quite month. Series of movies? Yeah, let's go with that. We're starting the Julia Streak (definitely still workshopping) with Pretty Woman, the classic 90s tale about an obscenely wealthy business man falling for a hooker with a heart of gold.  Lydea and Chris had never seen this m...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we are watching the Netflix Original movie: The Out-Laws! Bank manager Owen is meeting his fiancée's mysterious parents for the first time a week before his wedding. They're kind of awesome, and he wants so badly to impress them, but wait... why do the infamous thieves holding up his bank know his name and smell like his s...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Ellie Kemper, Luke Grimes and Nico Santos star in this week's movie: Happiness for Beginners. Desperately trying to reinvent herself after her divorce, Helen signs up for a beginners group hike on the Appalachian Trail. She's surprised and not so excited to see an old friend among the hiking group's merry band of misfits.  You...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we're watching Netflix's choose-your-own-adventure rom com: Choose Love! Cami Conway has a great job and a wonderful boyfriend, but she still feels like something is missing in her life. Does she just need to get over her nebulous commitment issues?  Is she longing for the road not taken with her handsome high school lab p...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! As promised, we're watching Deadpool this week.  How did this one make the cut, you ask? Well, to quote the man himself: "some of the best love stories start with a murder. And that's exactly what this is, a love story." We're not 100% sure we believe him, but we can confirm that, at the very least, this movie contain...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We are continuing our "Is it a rom com?" trend this week with Free Guy, starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery and Taika Waititi. Guy is just a simple video game character whose life is turned upside down when he meets the girl of his dreams. Would you believe she's a real human player? Plot twist! Guy will have to leve...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're watching The Princess Bride this week. We know it's funny and there's kissing, but is it a rom com? Westley (Cary Elwes) is killed on the high seas before he can marry his true love, Buttercup (Robin Wright). Heartbroken and convinced Westley is dead, Buttercup agrees to marry a less-than-charming prince. However, before...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Is Goundhog Day, the 1993 film starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, a rom com? Countless top rom com lists and Google seem to think so, but we weren't so sure.  We decided to watch this classic time-loop tale to decide for ourselves, and you get the joy of hearing our thoughts on it!  Check out Groundhog Day on Netflix today. And if...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're back! Whoo! We're starting off strong with one of our favorite movies, Legally Blonde, and asking our new favorite question: "Is it a rom com?"  Sorority girl and fashion major, Elle Woods, is dumped by her boyfriend for being "too blonde." Determined to win him back, she enrolls as a law student at Harvard...