Join us for the second episode in our month of romances, as we discuss the 1972 film The Way We Were . We follow Barbara Streisand’s Katie and Robert Redford’s Hubbell from college days as distant admirers, through their free-spirited early relationship, and their difficult marriage full of compromise. Do all good romances end in everlasting love? We’re not sure, but we do have a lot to say about Katie gettin’ naked and jumping in bed with a passed out Hubbell. The girl has moxy. Episode 54 – TH...
Mar 14, 2014
We kick off March with a month-long detour, putting comedy aside to take a look at some of the most beloved films of the romantic-drama. We’ll be plunging into the depths of unrequited love, longing gazes and epic love stories spanning the years, starting with the 1942 film Casablanca . Back in the ‘40s as Rick and Ilsa, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman lit up the screen as long-lost lovers with their unexpected reunion in the titular city in Morocco. With the foreground of WWII and the love t...
Mar 07, 2014
Join us this week as we discuss the 2010 film Leap Year, starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode for some reason. We’re happy this is not a leap year as the so-called Irish tradition of women only being able to propose to men one magical day every four years is the stupidest thing we’ve ever heard. The road trip premise and beautiful landscapes of Ireland don’t help this dud very much, but we found that whiskey helped us a lot when talking about it. While the film works like romantic comedy paint-b...
Feb 28, 2014
This week we discuss the 2010 film Jack Goes Boating , directed by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, originating from the play by Robert Glaudini. We found this romantic comedy-drama beautifully simple and a bittersweet way to remember one of our favourite actors. Episode 51 – JACK GOES BOATING
Feb 21, 2014
This week we celebrate one year of podcasting with the 1989 Rob Reiner/Nora Ephron film When Harry Met Sally . The film, which tops many ‘best of’ romantic comedy lists, (and also gave us our namesake thanks to the very famous diner scene), sparks a spirited discussion on the age-old friendship/relationship debate, homage vs. imitation, truths about love that transcend time period and why secondary characters in romantic comedies might be more interesting than the leads. We don’t all love Billy ...
Feb 14, 2014
Join us for the last episode of our first year of podcasting! We chose this very special time to talk about the 2008 Kevin Smith film Zack and Miri Make a Porno , for some reason. Get ready for an in-depth discussion on a film that is not as bad as you expected it to be. With a classic romantic comedy premise of friends realizing their unrequited love, the spin of ‘they make a porno!’ doesn’t have quite enough bang to refresh the genre, (see what we did there), but does include some very funny p...
Feb 07, 2014
It’s cold outside friends, so let’s lament summer with the wintery romantic comedy tale, 1996’s Beautiful Girls . While Ted Demme’s oft-dramatic, coming-of-age film is plagued with actors who all look a little too old to be 20-somethings, there is plenty of genuine adult-panic mixed in with its easy-listening rock and roll soundtrack, misogyny and very questionable hair and fashion stylings. We won’t all agree that Timothy Hutton is an adorable romantic lead, or whether his relationship with Nat...
Jan 31, 2014
Check out our latest episode and our first brom-com* of the year, 2010’s She’s Out of My League , starring Canadian favourite Jay Baruchel. Is this film a great example of subverting the genre, or does it pale in comparison to the loser-guy-wins-popular-girl trope that has been done better? Is a man shaving another man’s nether regions the true test of friendship? While we don’t all get behind this one, we can at least all agree we want more T.J. Miller in everything. Episode 47 – SHE’S OUT OF M...
Jan 24, 2014
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the 2012 film The Five Year Engagement . Romantic comedies set around weddings or wedding planning are pretty much old hat– does this Jason Segel/Nicholas Stoller vehicle do anything to refresh the genre? Is it furthering outdated, sexist notions of marriage, or is it boldly suggesting that weddings just aren’t that important? We don’t agree on a lot this episode, but we can all agree that Princess Diana is a pretty great super-hero costume. Episode 46 ...
Jan 17, 2014
Welcome to our first episode of 2014! We start the year off with the 90s classic Sleepless In Seattle , starring romantic comedy vets Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. As we look ahead at the new year and ponder the important things in life, we get down to the important questions: Is the film a worthy homage to the classic romance An Affair to Remember, or just a dud? Is it a great platform for Meg Ryan’s comic skills? What becomes of Annie and Sam after leaving the empire state building? And lastly, is t...
Jan 10, 2014
We ring in the end of the year with a discussion on the 2011 ensemble New Years Eve . With so many characters and so little in the way of plot or character development, the film celebrates the end of a year and the beginning of a new one with punch-in-the-face-style romances and bloated resolutions from people we don’t care about. For those who longed for Hilary Swank and Jon Bon Jovi to act side by side, Garry Marshall was listening. For this very special New Years episode we got a little help ...
Dec 31, 2013
Join us for another episode celebrating the holiday season with the 1995 film While You Were Sleeping . After a great debate on Love Actually, it’s nice for us all to agree on how delightful this film is… and our crushes on Bill Pullman. While most holiday films focus on the build-up to Christmas, this one steps away to show the days after spent with family and friends, which many take for granted. It teaches us to appreciate those moments, even if they are riddled with bad advice on how to lie ...
Dec 27, 2013
You know it, you love it, we… are pretty divided on it! It’s the favourite holiday rom com, 2003’s Love Actually. It’s hard to summarize our longest episode to date, so we’ll just say there’s lots of yelling, lots of swearing, and more characters being called “dum-dum” than ever before! So if you real-ly love Christmas, come on and let it… snow. Episode 42 – LOVE ACTUALLY
Dec 26, 2013
Join us this week as we discuss one of the most depressing holiday movies ever, 1960’s The Apartment! Directed by Billy Wilder and starring a very young Shirley MacLaine, a still-pretty-young Jack Lemmon, and a “Yeah, he’s kinda old already” Fred MacMurray, the film really focuses on the sadness that some experience around the holidays. While it tackles some very serious issues like depression and suicide, it is still a very funny romantic comedy at heart. Will Miss Kubelik choose love or securi...
Dec 15, 2013
We kick off December with the 2001 film Bridget Jones’ Diary, because, what better way to start the holiday romantic comedy season than with a fun-loving, kind of sloppy, hopeless romantic female icon like Bridget Jones? It’s been awhile since the phenomenon of the book-turned-major film starring Renee Zellwegger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant was the talk of the town, so we reflect on the big questions: Is Mark Darcy delightfully frumpy, or just super boring? Why do British romantic comedies alway...
Dec 09, 2013
Check out our latest episode as we take a look at a growing sub-genre, the “bromance” (or “bromantic comedy”, if you will), with perhaps one of the earliest of its kind, the 2004 film Sideways . Featuring unlikeable characters doing unlikeable things, with a hint of road-trip, male-bonding, budding romance, this wine-fest/character study maintains a gentle, thoughtful air… and even with all that drunk driving. So much drunk driving. Also, do you remember that Paul Giamatti was in Private Parts? ...
Nov 29, 2013
Join us for our latest episode where we discuss the 1940 film The Philadelphia Story , that boasts vintage Hollywood cache with the likes of Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and the very funny Katharine Hepburn. While the film revived Hepburn’s career in Hollywood, it is still to this day a top ranking film on many major lists of the all-time best romantic comedies… which shows that a lot of people are surprisingly okay with some light domestic abuse. That aside, Jimmy Stewart as a romantic interest (...
Nov 23, 2013
