The Straights Aren't Alright

Join Bex, Leif, Gillian, Meredith, and River as they talk about The Sound of Music and try not to be complete musical theatre kids about it. It goes... about as well as expected. This podcasts contains discussions of nazism and the politics of the 1930s listener discretion is advised. Guests Socials! Mer https://letterboxd.com/merthenerd/ Gillian: https://bsky.app/profile/cutiepuppyfire.bsky.socia...

Join Leif, Meredith, Gillian, Ellie, and River as they discuss the 2011 proshot version of Much Ado About Nothing  starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate as contemplate how much booze it would take to make the plot make sense, how and why Beatrice and Benedick invented love, and mull over the eternal question: Do Hero and Claudio Actually Work? In Each Retelling's Much Ado: https://open.sp...

Join Ellie, Jas, Sam, River, and new guest Meredith as they talk about 2003's Down With Love and try to sort out how much scheming is enough scheming, what happened to color correction, and what good tailoring can do for you. Guest Socials: Jas https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rfgykuajoxcz5zgllczl4mqj https://ineachretelling.tumblr.com/ Sam https://podcastindex....

In another accidental instance of Christmas in spring, join River, Ellie, Sam, and Jas as they discuss the 2009 movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and try not to completely tear their hair out at the writing on the wall of worse things to come. Guest Socials: Jas https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rfgykuajoxcz5zgllczl4mqj https://ineachretelling.tumblr.com/ Sam https://p...

Join Jas, Gillian, and River as they talk about the 2001 movie  Someone Like You , a movie that tries to explain how men are like cows in such a way that we wonder if the writer really just wanted to write a telenovela.  Guest Socials Gillian: https://bsky.app/profile/cutiepuppyfire.bsky.social https://puppywritesthings.tumblr.com/ Jas https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:pl...

Join River, Gillian, and Ellie talk about the 2020 movie Wild Mountain Thyme a movie that proports to be about land disputes and a guy thinking he's a bee but ends up being about Ireland's landscape and stereotypes and a case study in why one acts should maybe hesitate being adapted to feature length. Guest's Socials: Ellie: https://bsky.app/profile/elessar42.bsky.social https://ele...

Join Ellie, Sam, Gillian, and River as they talk about the made for TV movie  Eloise at Christmastime. But mostly: its seven plots, love letter to childhood chaos, and one very young and very hot waiter played by a Broadway Legend.  Guest's Socials: Ellie: https://bsky.app/profile/elessar42.bsky.social https://elessar42.medium.com/ Gillian: https://bsky.app/profile/cutiepuppyfire.bsky.social...

Join River, Sam, and Gillian as they discuss Shakespeare in Love (and not its boatload of Oscars), a movie loudly about Shakespeare and quietly about getting senpai to notice you and historical inaccuracies that a fourth grader could get right. Guest's Socials: Sam https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6354567 https://bsky.app/profile/demisemme.bsky.social Gillian https://bsky.app/profile/cutiepup...

Join River, Jas, Leif, and Gillian as they talk about the Muppets (2011) and are forced to contemplate the true questions of life: are they muppets or men, the value qualifications for second chance romance, and just how toxic are Miss Piggy and Kermit?   Guests Socials: Jas https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rfgykuajoxcz5zgllczl4mqj https://ineachretelling.tumblr.com/...

Join Ellie, Gillian, Charley, and River as they have a very wandering conversation about the 2001 movie  Amelie, the French Cinema establishment, trying to figure out how pay phones work, and the value of matching someone's freak in a relationship. Guests Socials Charley https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mystery-shack-lookback--6055929 http://youtube.com/CharleyMarlowe https://picarto.tv/realt...

Join River, Jas, Sam, and new guests Leif and Gillian as they explore the 1999 adaptation of A Midsummer Nights Dream, the other true to text adaptation of Shakespeare with some people you don't know and a lot more people you do know.  Guest's Socials: Sam https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6354567 https://bsky.app/profile/demisemme.bsky.social Jas https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://bs...

Join Bex, Callie, and River as they discuss the original building block of our modern filmic landscape (for better or for worse), 2008's Iron Man,  and try to figure out if it's a superhero action movie, a rom com, or a horror movie. Guest's Socials: Callie: https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/ https://ineachretelling.tumblr.com/ The Host's Socials: https://bsky.app/profile/dreamsr...

Join River, Sam, Ellie, Charley, and Bex as they discuss the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical 2 and debate whether its status as a certain generations' cultural juggernaut is earned along with the complications of Things Made For Children. Guest's Socials Sam: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6354567 Charley https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mystery-shack-lookback--605592...

In this episode join River, Jas, Sam, and new guest Charley as they discuss 2003's  The Santa Clause 2  contending with the rules of magic, the tent pole level love story, and dunk on Tim Allen.  Guests' Socials Jas https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rfgykuajoxcz5zgllczl4mqj https://ineachretelling.tumblr.com/ Sam: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6354567 htt...

In this episode watch Jas, Ellie, and Bex judge River's taste in rom coms as they explore one that's not not the reason this podcast exists in Only You from 1994. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only to the speakers. Jas: https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rfgykuajoxcz5zgllczl4mqj https...

In the latest episode, join River, Jas, Callie, Sam, and first time guest Ellie discuss what should've been a Disney Classic The Princess and the Frog and try not to fall down too many rabbit holes (frog holes?) and swooning over both the heroes and the villain. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only to the speakers. Jas...

In this episode, join River, Jas, and Ellie try and work out what works and what doesn't about the 2003 Christmas staple Love Actually only a month late for the season it takes place in. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only to the speakers. Jas https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rfgykuajoxcz...

Sometimes, movies are uncertain as to what they're  really about, and if we're lucky, they're short enough so as to not waste  all  of our time. Join River, Jas, and Bex as they talk about  Better Off Single, a movie that makes a mess of the wall it tries to throw Spaghetti at. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong...

Conquering the second episode hill, join River, Jas, and Callie as they tear 2014's Playing It Cool a new one and discuss that while a good cast can save a bad movie, it doesn't help if the script is also bad and do their best to not get distracted by thinking about how we'd rather be watching the MCU instead. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and o...

In our inaugural episode, join River, Jas, and Sam as they discuss the 1999 classic Notting Hill. A movie that has good bones, but complicated execution and a solid attempt at trying to solve the balance of "how much can being made in the 90s let you get away with" The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only to the speake...