This Ends at Prom

"I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.” DIRTY DANCING turns 35 this year, so we're having difficult conversations about Johnny Castle and Frances "Baby" Houseman's relationship, dissecting what makes Swayze such a...

"Dear Diary, my teenage angst bullshit has a body count.” This Ends at Prom is celebrating 2 years and 100 episodes by tackling one of the most highly requested films since the show's launch, the black comedy classic HEATHERS. We're exploring the ways this film completely changed the landscape of what was possible for teen girl cinema, why the film has become endlessly quotable after all these yea...

"Better a silly girl with a flower than a silly boy with a horse and a stick.” We're kicking off the month with a trip to the medieval times for the anachronistic classic, A Knight's Tale. This is another one of those movies that on paper seems like a teen boy movie, but I don't know many boys who were watching Heath Ledger change his stars during their sleepovers. We're joined by the absolutely m...

"I know you probably think I'm a manipulative bitch for sleeping with two guys, but try looking at it this way: the sexual revolution is just like any other revolutionthere's gonna be casualties.” This week we're talking about a forgotten teen film from 2010, misunderstood at the time for its progressive themes and imperfect protagonist. Kat Dennings' Caroline Wexler is the anti-manic pixie dream...

"Who do you think you're fooling? You're so scared I can smell it. Your fear is the most predictable thing about you. You've lived your whole life in fear. Terrified of making a mistake, scared to death you won't get that A, that ticket out. Afraid you'll never escape your mother and her name tag. Or your father who won't return your calls.” Kevin Williamson is known for movies like SCREAM and THE...

"WE'RE GAY AND WE'RE PREGNANT!!!" If you're listening from America, you probably already know why we chose this week's show. We're here to talk about UNPREGNANT, an abortion road trip movie that tackles the severity of the lengths people are willing to go when they're denied abortion access, without ever feeling like a bad time. The world and the government are making us feel bad enough, we don't...

"If you guys are so interested in my sexual failures, why don't you go have a few of your own?" Happy Summerween, Prom Party! As part of our TEEN MOVIE HELL series, this week we're joined by the director of THE WOLFMAN'S HAMMER and the trans-inclusive intersectional feminist vampire girl gang flick BIT to talk about the 80stastic gender-reversed TWILIGHT predecessor, ONCE BITTEN. Together, the tri...

"Listen to your mother and don't marry anyone til you've slept with what, at least 10 people?" As Pride month comes to a close, we're talking about one of the best releases of the last five years, the bisexual Jewish dramedy, SHIVA BABY. The Wives are joined by pansexual Jewish writer, editor, and all-around magical human, Ariel Fisher. Ariel gives us a rundown on Jewish culture, BJ waxes poetic a...

"From a deep, immaculate kiss, she spread her two ripe, dripping limbs and then I happened." We're continuing on with our Pride month celebration with the underseen coming-of-age Winona Ryder masterpiece, WELCOME HOME, ROXY CARMICHAEL. This week The Wives are joined by Dr. Ken Schneck, a brilliant mind and absolute die-hard fan of this film. We discuss being queer in Ohio, returning to your hometo...

"Are you kidding me? We conduct a nationwide manhunt for you and you're boning the suspect? Did you think this was a joke? "Let's divert federal resources and man-hours so I can have my collegiate lesbian fling in style." Pride month continues with another groundbreaking queer film, this time, the queer spy comedy that helped every queer girl in the 2000s with a Blockbuster membership card feel ju...

"I've always felt a little different than everyone else. So I did what any outsider would do, made weird art." Happy Pride Month! Did you know that last year brought one of the most groundbreaking showcases of teenage queerness in a mainstream animated feature? That's right, we're talking about THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES. It's time to unpack all of our father/daughter trauma and make the diffi...

"Are you joking? Do you guys like it here? Who the hell likes being stuck in a place where you can't even smile? It's hot as balls, everybody's an asshole. I just wanna go home." Harmony's birthday is just around the corner so The Wives Colangelo are discussing a movie that was pivotal to Harmony's coming of age experience. While WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY might not be specifically "teen girl" ori...

"Ma, it's changing out there! You'll like it. People who are different, their time is coming!” We're saying farewell to MAY-usical month with a double feature that's big and beautiful, John Waters' HAIRSPRAY from 1988 and the 2007 movie musical made of the broadway show it inspired. The Wives Colangelo are joined by Kate Hagen of The Black List to talk about fat representation, what the musical lo...

"Yeah, independent. I kiss who I want, when I want." It's BJ's birthday week so The Wives Colangelo are talking about one of her all time favorite movies, GREASE 2! In honor of the film's 40th anniversary, we're talking about what made GREASE 2 go from flop to cult favorite, and how the film succeeds where GREASE falls short. Harmony interviews BJ about her love of the film, but we aren't afraid t...

"When I was eight years old I told my dad that I wanted to take an acting class. He said, there are fifty billion people in this world, if one-tenth of 1% of them wanted to be actors, that would still be five million people. Do you really think you're prettier than five million people?" This week The Wives Colangelo are tackling the most musical theatre movie musical of movie musicals, the 2003 in...

"Can I betray the man who once inspired my voice? Do I become his prey? Do I have any choice?" We're kicking off MAY-usical Month 2.0 with a film everyone forgets is actually about a teen girl, because all of the men are in their 30s, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004). Can BJ convince the notoriously anti-traditional musical Harmony to join the dark side and embrace Joel Schumacher's messy interpret...

Julie Pierce: "I wish I had courage like you." Miyagi: I wish I had chocolate bar with almonds.” Long before angry, toxic, fanboys review bombed CAPTAIN MARVEL and GHOSTBUSTERS (2016) for the crime of being women-led films in a male dominated franchise, there was 1994's THE NEXT KARATE KID. The Wives Colangelo are joined by Elijah Taylor of the Kicking & Screaming podcast to talk about martial...

“Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained." It's hard to believe that a full decade has passed since Jennifer Lawrence and her singular side braid shot an arrow through all of our hearts, but time has been oddly kind to the girl on fire, and we're going to talk about it. Why does this movie hit...

“You ignored the Donald Miller geek for seventeen years, now you want to ride the Ronnie Miller express!” We're heading back to the 1980s and letting Patrick Dempsey buy our time, because this week is all about CAN'T BUY ME LOVE. Together the wives assess one of the earliest version of the teenage "bet" subgenre of romantic comedies, try to figure out what it is about popularity that turns everyon...

"Honoring your parents sounds great but if you take it too far...well, you might forget to honor yourself." This week The Wives are heading back to the world of animation to talk about Pixar's latest masterpiece, TURNING RED. /Film editor and professional fangirl Hoai-Tran Bui joins to help make sense of why so many people were pearl-clutchingly angry over an animated teen girl film, reminisce abo...

TW/CW: Discussions of mental illness, intrusive thoughts, and suicide We're not talking about a movie this week, because quite honestly, we don't have it in us. The Wives sit down to have a candid discussion about living with mental illness, knowing when to set limits, and why "the show must go on" isn't always the best course of action. There's laughs, there's tears, and there's a lot of vulnerab...

"I'm the Marcia F*cking Brady of the Upper East Side and sometimes, I wanna kill myself. So there's your psycho analysis, Dr. Freud." This week The Wives are joined by the incomparable host of American Hysteria, non-binary queer dreamboat Chelsey Weber-Smith. Together they all discuss the "naughtiest" teen film of 1999, explore the queer themes scattered throughout, and give their respects to one...

"We'll always remember the trip. I wanna go back again next year with you. Something so amazing, magical. Something so beautiful. Feels as if the world is perfect. Like it's never gonna end." It's the most debaucherous time of the year, prom party, and we're going to analyze the heck out of it. Harmony Korine's SPRING BREAKERS is a wild time capsule of 2012, a look at an evolutionary step of "The...

"I'm perfect but nobody in this sh*thole gets me, because I don't put out!" Sometimes the world feels absolutely impossible to deal with and the only cure is listening to teenage Diane Lane and Laura Dern try to burn it all down. This week we're going back to the 80s and talking about the peak of punk rock teenage girl rebellion, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS. We address how this is a...

"This is the story of how my town, Salem, lost its motherf*cking mind. Now I understand that you may think I'm exaggerating, that I'm being hyperbolic, that there's no way an entire suburb could freak the f*ck out to the degree they'd want to kill four teenage girls...but I promise you, this is a hundred percent a true story." With season 2 of Euphoria in the rearview, we're diving into Sam Levins...