*This episode is a re-upload*

Ahoy hoy! Just like HSM 2, it is out with the old and in with the new. After our 6 week dive into Romcommentaries and Magic Mike, we are back to regularly scheduled programming.

This week Troy is joined by longtime friend and first-time podcaster Caleb Busie to talk about 1997's Waiting for Guffman. These two cute boys talk all about the mockumentary format, the performances of the ensemble cast, and the entirety of the film.

Later, Troy and Caleb shell out awards, discuss the box office, and talk about all the things we have been watching. Everybody dance, cause this one is for the books.

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Ahoy hoy! Just like HSM 2, it is out with the old and in with the new. After our 6 week dive into Romcommentaries and Magic Mike, we are back to regularly scheduled programming.

This week Troy is joined by longtime friend and first-time podcaster Caleb Busie to talk about 1997's Waiting for Guffman. These two cute boys talk all about the mockumentary format, the performances of the ensemble cast, and the entirety of the film.

Later, Troy and Caleb shell out awards, discuss the box office, and talk about all the things we have been watching. Everybody dance, cause this one is for the books.

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Caleb's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXOCqXwgqBcKZm8nq0CsXJA

Ahoy hoy! While we work on bringing you more episodes, I decided to try my hand in audio commentary. Every Friday in summer I will record audio commentaries for romcoms, or as I like to call them, Romcommentaries, and digest the films in both a structured and more realistically unstructured discussion about the power of cinematic love. You can listen to the commentary while watching the film, or enjoy it as a solo piece. There are no rules. 

This week Troy tackles the emotional and hilarious 1987 classic Broadcast News. As he navigates the relationships throughout the film, Troy also contextualizes the past and present of broadcast news and discusses the careers of Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, and James L. Brooks. If anything happens to me, you tell every woman I've ever gone out with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me.

Movie starts at 7:17 if you're watching on Criterion, and 7:32 for streaming anywhere else <3

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Ahoy hoy! While we work on bringing you more episodes, I decided to try my hand in audio commentary. Every Friday in summer I will record audio commentaries for romcoms, or as I like to call them, Romcommentaries, and digest the films in both a structured and more realistically unstructured discussion about the power of cinematic love. You can listen to the commentary while watching the film, or enjoy it as a solo piece. There are no rules. 

This week Troy dives head first into Preston Sturges' 1941 classic The Lady Eve. He goes over the history of the screwball comedy, talks about the career of Preston Sturges, and idolizes the performances of Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. After contextualizing, Troy finds it hard to get through this one (as he would rather watch it), but nonetheless gets it done, snakes and all. After all, let us be crooked, but never common.

*The  score accompanying the opening historical context is taken from the Criterion Collection Bluray menu, and should be credited to the film itself. In lieu of providing a proper composer (there isn't one), I have included the opening titles as reference. I do not own anything.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu72ZHpNkBc

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Ahoy hoy and Happy Birthday America! It is July 4th weekend, and what better way to show American pride than commentating on almost 4 hours of Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL.

In Magic Mike, Troy is joined by Griffin to talk about the 2012 hit.  The boyz of pod discuss the magic of Channing Tatum, Soderbergh as director, and the beginning of the McConaissance. Come for the bad McConaughey impression, stay for the friendship.

In Magic Mike XXL, Troy takes the solo plunge as commentator and discusses why sometimes sequels are better, Channing Tatum as our modern Gene Kelly, and sex positivity.

It's XXL baby, and that's how we like it. Watch it with the film or listen solo, there are no rules. Magic Mike starts at 4:51. Magic Mike XXL starts at 1:56:00.

* I, Troy, falsely identify the choreographer of Magic Mike to be American bluegrass icon Alison Kraus,  not Alison Faulk. I looked at the name about 500 times, and then like all tests I've ever taken, forgot everything. Alison Faulk, thank you for your talent. Let's get a spaghetti dinner on me. *

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Ahoy hoy! While we work on bringing you more episodes, I decided to try my hand in audio commentary. Every Friday in summer I will record audio commentaries for romcoms, or as I like to call them, Romcommentaries, and digest the films in both a structured and more realistically unstructured discussion about the power of cinematic love. You can listen to the commentary while watching the film, or enjoy it as a solo piece. There are no rules. 

This week’s film is How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Together we explore my bias in thinking Angela Bassett to be our greatest living film actress, the power of Whoopi Goldberg, and defining the 90’s as the epoch for romcoms. Let your hair down and find your groove because we’re going to Jamaica. You deserve it baby. Movie starts at 11:58.

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Ahoy hoy! While we work on bringing you more episodes, I decided to try my hand in audio commentary. Every Friday in summer I will record audio commentaries for romcoms, or as I like to call them, Romcommentaries, and digest the films in both a structured and more realistically unstructured discussion about the power of cinematic love. You can listen to the commentary while watching the film, or enjoy it as a solo piece. There are no rules. 

Pack your bags and bring your dog cause this week’s Romcommentary is Legally Blonde! Together we explore the vast depths of feminist power in the disguise of a romcom, Reese Witherspoon’s career, and how much I actually don’t know what happens in this film. This episode could use some mascara and some serious highlights, but she's not completely unfortunate looking. Movie starts at 3:56.

* This episode features a problematic misreading of the film quote, "I need a Jackie, not a Marilyn," by saying "I need a Jackie, not a Kennedy," and then using the inverse of it as if to correct the situation by making it worse.  All claims of being the "residential expert on Legally Blonde," should be ignored. *

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Ahoy hoy! While we work on bringing you more episodes, I decided to try my hand in audio commentary. Every Friday in summer I will record audio commentaries for romcoms, or as I like to call them, Romcommentaries, and digest the films in both a structured and more realistically unstructured discussion about the power of cinematic love. You can listen to the commentary while watching the film, or enjoy it as a solo piece. There are no rules.

This week’s film is Me Before You, a movie experience I remembered as being funnier and a lot more charming than what it actually is...morose. But cute! We get in the feels on this one brah, so put on your favorite pair of stockings and get ready to laugh, cry, and cough... a lot...together! Movie starts at 3:26.

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*This film handles suicide as a topic and theme. If you or someone you know are having depressing or suicidal thoughts, call the Suicide Hotline at 800-273-8255 or visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/, https://save.org/, or https://www.thetrevorproject.org/*

Whoa! The fellas are joined by Zachary Ratchford this week to premiere their new podcast, As Time Goes By, and talk about the 1994 action thriller Speed. Together these maestros of the medium discuss po' boy sandwiches, Dennis Hopper as the heavy, and run through the box office numbers. You don't want to miss what my mom called, "strange and unnecessary."