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Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! It's our 100th episode! We've watched 98 movies for this podcast (and if that math doesn't track for you, it means you didn't listen to part 2 of Falling Inn Love. Go listen now!) Which movies did we like the most? The least? Which episodes were our most popular? And what the heck is a "rom com" anyway? We attemp...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're watching 10 Things I Hate About You this week! It's one of the least problematic 90s rom coms we've had with some of our favorite 90s/00s actors. How are we going to feel about this one? Our final rambling conclusions may surprise you.  10 Things I Hate About You is loosely based on "Taming of the Shrew." Pretty...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We have a special guest this week. Some thought this day would never come. It only took 98 episodes to make it happen! Chris, the husband, is joining us for our review of A Knight's Tale, starring Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk and Laura Fraser. A Knight's Tale is what we can only d...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Today we are watching what really feels like a 90s action movie rom com: True Lies, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. Harry's double life as a secret agent has caused some trouble in his marriage. His wife, Helen, has been driven into the arms of a guy pretending to be a spy after Harry's lack of attention leaves...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we are watching the 2007 Disney musical rom com: Enchanted, starring Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey, Timothy Spall and a non-singing Idina Menzel. After an encounter with an evil queen, Giselle finds herself tossed out of her fairytale world and onto the streets of New York City. Thankfully a handsome and...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're watching another rom com that toes the thriller line this week: Good on Paper, a Netflix original movie, starring Iliza Shlesinger, Margaret Cho and Ryan Hansen. Good on Paper is a mostly true story based on Iliza's own adventures in dating. Andrea, a moderately successful stand-up comedian, befriends and then starts dating a...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're discussing the Apple TV+ movie Ghosted this week, starring Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and Adrien Brody. Hunky farmer/scholar Cole has been described by family and friends as being "too clingy" when it comes to his relationships with women. He decides to be more like a cactus (minimal care and maintenance required) after me...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we are watching the 2022 rom com: Ticket to Paradise, starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts. David and Georgia divorced years ago, but they still can't stand each other. Can they overcome their differences and work together to stop their daughter from making the biggest mistake of her life? Listen to our thoughts today and...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we are watching the 2011 romantic comedy: Crazy, Stupid, Love. This film stars a lot of famous people including Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Bacon, Lio Tipton and the Queen of Dubious Netflix rom coms herself, Joey King. Cal's world is turned upside down when Emily, his wife of 25...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We have another listener recommendation this week! Our friend and friend of the podcast, Doug Shilo, recommended the 1999 romantic comedy Blast from the Past, starring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone. The Weber family has spent 35 years in a bomb shelter after mistaking a plane crash for the blast from a nuclear bomb. When the doors fin...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we are watching the 2023 Netflix rom com: Your Place or Mine, starring Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher. Debbie thinks she's going to have to put her career plans on hold when her childcare falls through. Thankfully, long time buddy Peter offers to fly across the country to help her out!  Email us at MadeMePodcast@gmail.com...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week, in honor of Lydea's recent excursion to Ireland, we're watching Leap Year, starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode. Anna, a young woman who does not know the meaning of spontaneity, runs off to Ireland to propose to her long-time boyfriend (a cardiologist) on Leap Day. We acknowledge that we probably should have waited for a...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We have another listener recommendation this week! Our friend and friend of the podcast, Geoff Gallagher, thought we might like to watch everyone's favorite 90s nanny, Fran Drescher, and Timothy Dalton in The Beautician and the Beast. We couldn't help but notice the similarities between this and some of our newer rom coms (we'r...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we are watching Table 19, featuring podcast favorite Anna Kendrick. After much consideration, Eloise, pregnant, newly single and recently relieved of her Maid of Honor duties, decides to attend her oldest friend's wedding. She ends up at the dreaded Table 19 with other misfit guests who "should have known to send regrets&q...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we are watching the movie-turned-Broadway-musical: Waitress! And if we happen to call it "The Waitress" at any point in the episode, we're sorry. Really feels like there should be a "the". Waitress stars Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion and Jeremy Sisto. On the verge of leaving her abusive marriage, Jenna discov...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Are there any Disney rom coms, you ask? Why yes! We submit for your listening pleasure Tangled, starring the vocal talents of Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi. Tangled is a retelling of "Rapunzel" with plenty of smolder and show stopping song numbers worthy of Broadway. You can stream Tangled on Disney+! Listen for our thoughts on this...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We have a special guest! Two guest hosts in one week! Aren't we popular? Petar Leonard from our Scott Pilgrim episode is back to talk about one of his other favorite movies: Starship Troopers. He even has it on VHS!  We know what you're thinking. Surely they didn't watch Starship Troopers and make an episode about it. Surely if...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We're watching Wedding Crashers this week, starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams. Every wedding season, childhood friends John and Jeremy partake in their favorite hobby: crashing weddings to pick up girls. Everything is great until John realizes he wants something more out of life. This movie was recommended to us by our...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we are watching Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, starring what should be a formidable rom-com foursome: Adam Devine, Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza. Following an intervention regarding their bad behavior at family events, Mike and Dave set out to find dates to their sister's wedding. The hope is that "nice girl...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! The Winter of Hugh rolls on with Two Weeks Notice, starring Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock. In an effort to save her community center, lawyer Lucy takes a job as billionaire playboy George's Chief Counsel. She's so good at her job that George finds himself incapable of making decisions without her. Unfortunately, his newfound needine...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Because we love our action movies just as much if not more than our rom coms, we decided to check out Shotgun Wedding this week. Shotgun Wedding is a 2022 action rom com starring Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel and Lenny Kravitz. Darcy and Tom are having second thoughts about getting married while at their destination wedding in the Philippines....

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! This week we're watching the 1994 rom com Four Weddings and a Funeral, starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell. Somewhere in the UK in the 90s, Hugh Grant falls for a dull, high-society American woman and hangs out with his close-knit band of misfit  buddies. If that sounds vaguely familiar, then you probably listened to our Notting Hill...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! We are back this week with Notting Hill! We know we made you wait for this episode. Sorry about that! We hope it's everything you dreamed of and more!  Notting Hill is a 1999 romantic comedy drama starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. A travel bookstore owner's life is turned upside down when the most famous woman in the world walk...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Yes, yes, we know we said we were watching Notting Hill this week, but we decided to change our plans. We have a real treat for you all this week. Special guests Kait and Sam from The Swift Talk: a Taylor Swift podcast have joined us to discuss the movie Valentine's Day! Why the Swift Talk? Fun fact: Valentine's Day was Taylor Swift...

Movie recommendations or comments for us? Text us here! Okay, we're not 100% convinced this one is a "rom com" (it has a lot of com and a bit of rom if you squint), but it's one of our favorite movies. Pitch Perfect stars Anna Kendrick as Beca, a reluctant college freshman who joins an a cappella group that has seen better days. Can the Barden Bellas defeat their cross-campus r...