Falling in Love Montage

Falling in Love Montage

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Falling in Love Montage episodes

  • Sense and Sensibility (w/ Tracy Tanoff)

    If you've been spontaneously crying as of late, and want more of that, this is the podcast episode for you.


    It's the last day of Pride month, and while we have failed to deliver a focused conversation about a piece of queer cinema, we are delivering on our mother's dying (to be determined) wish to discuss a personal favorite of her's - thus, a house-hold favorite of ours and a staple of our childhood — 1995's Sense and Sensibility. 

    We are joined by our best friend/Jane Austin correspondent, Tracy Tanoff, for a (some may say) overlong celebration of Emma Thompson's adaptation. Catch Tracy streaming here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCTW4vTLi-wK5QEe14SI9keQ, and catch us crying eternally, everywhere. 

    2 hr 42 min
  • 10 Things I Hate About You (w/ Jan Thrapp)

    We put this month's movie up to a vote, and if the votes told us anything, it's that 1 thing you hated about us is that we hadn't covered the classic '99 teen rom-com 10 Things I Hate About You yet. 

    Well, now we have. Helen's bestie Jan Thrapp joins us again to talk about Shakespeare, our motives behind the various colors of underwear we possess, and Andrew Keegan's California cult. And we maybe introduce a new FiLM award.

    10 Things I Hate About You is currently streaming on Disney+. Check your local animal shelters for information about fostering animals.

    1 hr 57 min
  • Enchanted

    It was Helen's birthday this month, so this time, we covered a movie she wanted to cover! ...Just like we pretty much always do, whoops. 


    Anyway, the movie Helen wanted to cover this time was the 2007 Disney spectacular Enchanted. Did we find it enchanting? It's a safe bet to say we did, but obviously these notes are meant to promote the episode, so officially you'll have to listen to the episode to find out!! 

    Oh, also, it's finally getting a sequel later this year, so let's pretend we knew that and planned it, going in.

    1 hr 55 min
  • Turning Red

    What do you get when you cross an embarrassment of pandas with embarassing podcasters? 

    This. This is what you get. 
    We had a box full of kittens-like good time discussing Domme Shi's 2022, unapologetically titled Pixar hit, Turning Red. 

    1 hr 43 min
  • Groundhog Day

    Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow. Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow. Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow. Here we are again, for the first time, talking about the Harold Ramis 1993 classic Groundhog Day. Does spring come early for the podcast? Listen and let us know if you hear a shadow. 

    1 hr 21 min
  • The Holiday

    If you want more Jack Black than you can shake a stick at, there's no better choice than the Kung Fu Panda trilogy. But we're talking about Nancy Meyers's warm and fuzzy The Holiday this time, which Jack Black is also in (as well as Jude Law, Eli Wallach, and a couple of chick-flick all-stars). With this episode, we become the leading ladies of our own lives, by deciding that we can release a Holiday episode at the end of January in a pandemic. 

    1 hr 8 min
  • High Fidelity (w/ Shane Kearney)

    It's the holiday season and the 107th episode of this chick-flick podcast -- so really what choice did we have but to discuss 2000's High Fidelity with our friend and Beta-Band-stan Shane Kearney? It makes sense if you consider our continued use of John Cusack as a 2021 coping mechanism, or if you know that one of our hosts wouldn't even be here if it weren't for a meet-cute in a record store in Chicago.

    Anyway, it's one of our top-5 favorite male-led rom-coms, with one of our top-6 favorite guests of the year. Happy holidays.

    1 hr 46 min
  • Footloose (w/ Ollie Brady)

    Merriam-Webster defines "footloose" as "having no ties; free to roam about." 


    So yeah. It's our podcast and our Octobermonth episode, and we wanted to talk about Footloose with our friend, return guest Ollie Brady. So we did.
    It's almost spooky how much everybody cut, everybody cut, everybody, everybody cut footloose.

    Check out some of Ollie's guest turns on the Media-eval Podcast!
    The very talented Jon Biegen did our spooky intro music -- hit him up if you want him to make music for you!

    And if you want to hear us talk about an actually scary movie, don't forget we covered Sixteen Candles back in April.

    1 hr 57 min
  • Catfight (w/ Jan Thrapp)

    Happy JAN(uary?)-September in October! For this Sept. episode we happen to be releasing in Oct., we brought in Helen's BFF Jan (Thrapp)! 


    After 20+ years of friendship and 5+ years of Falling in Love Montage, we wanted Jan's first visit to be really formidable, so we spent 2.5 hours (after cutting it down) talking about Onur Tukel's 2016 satirical black comedy about formidable women, Catfight. 

    Check out Catfight, currently streaming on US Netflix, and check your local county animal control for information about fostering animals.

    2 hr 21 min
  • The Thing Called Love

    It's still technically August, which we all know is Valerie's birth month, so for a special gift, we tackled Peter Bogdanovich's 1993 dram-rom-com The Thing Called Love, starring Samantha Mathis and River Phoenix (in Phoenix's last full role). If you've never seen it (and, statistically speaking, a lot of you will have never seen it) -- don't worry, we take plenty of silly, irrelevant tangents too.


    Note: Helen's audio is a little wonky at parts in this one, but it should still be listenable. And we know you're only here for Dermot Mulroney's hats anyway DID YOU KNOW DERMOT MULRONEY WAS IN THIS??

    1 hr 29 min

About Falling in Love Montage

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Every other week, Valerie and Helen will look at a different chick flick (muff film, broad comedy, lady thriller, period movie, whathaveyou) and boil it down to its themes and how those themes affect our tender feminine emotions.