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The Long-Anticipated Hiatus! from 2015-04-21T17:18:07
Dear friends, fans, and friend-fans, Now that it’s Facebook-official, I (Alia) can very happily announce that Lisa gave birth to her baby last week! Mom and baby boy Jasper are happy and heal...
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Episode 85 – WHAT WOMEN WANT from 2015-03-25T12:19:38
Welcome to the latest episode, where we discuss 2000’s What Women Want. In Nancy Meyer’s first foray into rom com directing, she goes BIG: Two of the biggest stars at the time as leads,...
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Episode 84 – MAID IN MANHATTAN from 2015-02-27T03:00:07
Welcome to the latest episode, where we nurse the emotional scars handed to us from the Oscars by delving into our very first Jennifer Lopez movie, 2002’s Maid in Manhattan. We couldn’t...
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Episode 83 – IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT from 2015-02-13T13:25:39
Happy Birthday to us! We turn the terrible twos this week, so we thought we’d celebrate with a special movie we’ve had in the hopper for quite a while: 1934’s It Happened One Nigh...
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Episode 82 – ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND from 2015-01-21T16:01:05
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Brought to us by the filmmaking team of Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman, it passes its ten-year ann...
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Episode 81 – A FISH CALLED WANDA from 2015-01-09T17:04:21
Take an ear-gander at our first movie of 2015, as we discuss 1988’s A Fish Called Wanda. With the amazing ensemble cast of John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin, this f...
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Episode 80 – THE HOLIDAY from 2014-12-24T21:38:40
We celebrate the Holidays once again as we discuss the 2006 film The Holiday, which is surprisingly short on the holiday stuff and big on the painfully long scenes. A good starting premise is too-s...
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Episode 79 – GROSSE POINTE BLANK from 2014-12-05T17:48:04
This week we discuss 1997’s Grosse Pointe Blank, starring John Cusack as a hit man, Dan Aykroyd as an evil hit man, and Minnie Driver as his love interest (Cusack’s not Aykroyd’s&...
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Episode 78 – 9 to 5 from 2014-11-21T01:44:03
Check out our latest episode as we take a break from the romance to discuss the acclaimed 1980 comedy 9 to 5. While the gender politics haven’t aged all that well, the trio of Jane Fonda, Lil...
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Episode 77 – HELLO AGAIN from 2014-10-30T19:53:44
We celebrate Halloween with a discussion of Hello Again, a little known ghostly rom com from 1987 starring Shelly Long and Gabriel Byrne. It’s the age old story of a suburban housewife who ch...
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Episode 76 – YOU’VE GOT MAIL from 2014-10-12T19:44:03
Join us this week as we tackle the 1998 rom com killing machine You’ve Got Mail. Written and directed by Nora Ephron, based on source material from the 1937 play Parfumerie and the 1940 movie...
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Episode 75 – CLUELESS from 2014-09-24T19:30:23
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the 1995 Amy Heckerling film Clueless. Both an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, and a highschool movie at the start of the teen-movie craze of the ...
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Episode 74 – HITCH from 2014-09-11T15:40:34
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the 2005 film Hitch, Will Smith’s first, and interestingly, last romantic comedy vehicle, and boy is this movie something. Smith barely keeps this one tog...
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What She’s Having Goes Bi….Weekly! from 2014-09-04T00:34:31
Friends, we’ve decided to cut our episodes down to bi-weekly for the time being. Stay on the lookout here and on facebook for upcoming movie announcement mini-sodes and lots of other good stu...
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Episode 73 – THE F WORD from 2014-08-28T18:08:52
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the newly released 2014 film The F Word, (or the more generic “What If” to those outside Canada). Starring Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan, and...
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Episode 72 – THE HEARTBREAK KID (1972) from 2014-08-20T15:05:09
Join us this week as we discuss the 1972 film The Heartbreak Kid. This isn’t your average Farrelly Brothers’ remake, but the original helmed by comedian/actor/director/writer Elaine May. The film s...
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Episode 71 – THE PRINCESS BRIDE from 2014-08-11T12:37:48
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the beloved 1987 film The Princess Bride. We also team up with our bros from the Rewatchability podcast, J.M. McNab and Blain Watters, for our first ever ...
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Episode 70 – BULL DURHAM from 2014-07-30T22:11:29
Check out our latest episode as we discuss 1988’s Bull Durham, a movie about sex and baseball, and sexy-baseball. We follow Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Kevin Costner through a season of the min...
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Episode 69 – MARRIED/YOU’RE THE WORST from 2014-07-23T12:34:21
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the newly released FX pilots Married and You’re the Worst, the first in the crop of tv pilots coming this year in our very own rom-com tradition. Pa...
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Episode 68 – ROXANNE from 2014-07-16T21:32:43
Join us this week as we discuss the 1987 film Roxanne. Starring Steve Martin and Darryl Hannah, and boasting a wonderful cast of supporting characters, (hey there Fred Willard and Damon Wayans!), t...
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Episode 67 – THEY CAME TOGETHER from 2014-07-09T19:26:19
This week we watched the much anticipated 2014 film They Came Together. Packed full of silliness and absurdity, this self-reflexive parody includes an ensemble that reads like a list of your favour...
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Episode 66 – MODERN ROMANCE from 2014-07-02T15:33:29
Check out our latest episode as we go back to 1981 when the genre was fresh and exciting, and Albert Brooks was telling it like it is with his second feature, Modern Romance. While Brooks holds a s...
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Episode 65 – OBVIOUS CHILD from 2014-06-25T18:50:46
Join us this week as we discuss the newly released 2014 film Obvious Child. Friends, we couldn’t wait to see this film and were not disappointed – in fact, we engage in the kind of gush...
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Episode 64 – WORKING GIRL from 2014-06-18T16:11:13
Check out our latest episode as we take on Working Girl, a film that packs 80s star power with the likes of Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver. Helmed by Mike Nichols, it shows us...
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Episode 63 – THE OTHER WOMAN from 2014-06-11T16:13:46
For our latest episode, we braved half-empty theatres to see 2014’s The Other Woman, starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton and some guy from Game of Thrones (aka Alia’s “second...
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Episode 62 – THE WEDDING SINGER/50 FIRST DATES/BLENDED from 2014-06-04T21:21:08
Well friends, we’re back from hiatus to present a little thing we like to call the Sandler-Barrymore Trifecta. That’s right: we watched 1998’s The Wedding Singer, 2004’s 50 First Dates, and 2014’s ...
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Episode 61 – HAPPY ACCIDENTS from 2014-05-09T19:40:13
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the 2000 film Happy Accidents. What’s more fetching than an earnest, fun-loving man that also reveals that he’s a time-traveller? We’re not sure. This mov...
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Episode 60 – MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING from 2014-05-02T19:20:41
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the 1997 film My Best Friend’s Wedding. A vehicle that re-launched the rom-com reign of Julia Roberts, (“how dare she take a break from romantic comedies?...
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Episode 59 – VERY SPECIAL EPISODE: HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER from 2014-04-25T17:15:09
Last month, the two-part series finale of the epic romantic comedy sitcom How I Met Your Mother unleashed unto the interweb a haze of confusion, upset, and in some cases, blind fury. We’ve le...
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Episode 58 – HIGH FIDELITY from 2014-04-13T01:01:38
Join us this week as we discuss the 2000 film High Fidelity, by the guys who brought you Grosse Pointe Blank, plus the guy who wrote Con Air, and Stephen Frears. Based on the book by Nick Hornby, J...
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Episode 57 – GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST from 2014-04-04T14:23:05
Check out our latest episode as we discuss the 2009 film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Perhaps a surprise to anyone who ignored this one back in 2009, the film is a loose adaptation of Dickens’ A Chr...
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Episode 56 – THE NOTEBOOK from 2014-03-28T18:55:40
We say goodbye to March and our month-long excursion into romance (sans-comedy) with sighs, daydreams and long gazes out the window… and also the 2004 film The Notebook. A vehicle that launched the...
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Episode 55 – THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY from 2014-03-25T00:10:45
It’s almost springtime and we continue our romance month by warming up to some mature summer lovin’ with 1995′s The Bridges of Madison County. Maybe it’s the age-old tale of forbidden love, or how ...
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Episode 54 – THE WAY WE WERE from 2014-03-14T15:06:51
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 ...
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Episode 53 – CASABLANCA from 2014-03-07T19:01:45
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, longin...
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Episode 52 – LEAP YEAR from 2014-02-28T15:00:43
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 bei...
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Episode 51 – JACK GOES BOATING from 2014-02-21T17:52:16
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 simp...
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Episode 50 – WHEN HARRY MET SALLY from 2014-02-14T15:46:16
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 namesa...
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Episode 49 – ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO from 2014-02-07T17:13:56
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 i...
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Episode 48 – BEAUTIFUL GIRLS from 2014-01-31T20:37:47
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 ...
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Episode 47 – SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE from 2014-01-24T19:41:23
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...
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Episode 46 – THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT from 2014-01-17T20:34:34
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/Nic...
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Episode 45 – SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE from 2014-01-10T22:32:04
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 pon...
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Episode 44 – NEW YEAR’S EVE from 2013-12-31T20:22:30
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 o...
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Episode 43 – WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING from 2013-12-27T19:35:21
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 t...
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Episode 42 – LOVE ACTUALLY from 2013-12-26T20:07:50
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&#...
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Episode 41 – THE APARTMENT from 2013-12-15T17:14:16
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-youn...
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Episode 40 – BRIDGET JONES’ DIARY from 2013-12-09T03:38:41
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 fe...
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Episode 39 – SIDEWAYS from 2013-11-29T20:38:59
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...
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Episode 38 – THE PHILADELPHIA STORY from 2013-11-23T19:40:55
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 H...
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