Falling in Love Montage

Falling in Love Montage

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Falling in Love Montage episodes

  • The Wedding Singer (w/ Gena Radcliffe)

    Enough of the '80s, let's visit "the '80s"! Gena Radcliffe of Kill by Kill joins us to rap about the 1998 Sandler-Barrymore rom-com The Wedding Singer.


    Check out the Kill by Kill podcast and Gena's writings for The Spool. 

    1 hr 14 min
  • The Breakfast Club (w/ Bill O’Donnell)

    "This is what an entire diaspora of edgelords is to going to base their personality on."

    -Bill, The Brain


    "When I smoke locker-weed, I just gotta dance, y'all." 
    -Helen, The Basketcase


    "Did you ever have Saturday school? ...If it's expunged, you don't have to tell us."
    -Valerie, The Criminal

    We came together on a non-school-day to discuss one more (the last?) '80s movie mentioned by Olive in Easy A. Its chick-flickness may be dubious, but we were still delighted to have our good friend Bill O'Donnell back on to talk about the John Hughes for-real classic The Breakfast Club.
    We learned a lot about ourselves -- and a whole lot about the effects of athletic tape on hairy buttcheeks.

    Helen's whiny and pee-filled dog Walter also makes a cameo toward the end.

    Check out Bill on our When Harry Met Sally episode!
    Check out Bill's cousin Lisa Genova's new book Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting!
    And download and/or stream our 100th episode -- 16 Candles -- to help us contribute to Stop AAPI Hate and RAINN!

    1 hr 55 min
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous

    We needed a little break from the problematic '80s, so just for the heck of it, we decided to visit the problematic '90s -- and 1999's beauty-queen black comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous. But we'll be back with more John Hughes next month!


    Unless Kirstie Alley stops us. 


    1 hr 24 min
  • Sixteen Candles

    OK, we dragged our feet a little getting to our 100th episode -- and getting to Sixteen Candles. We know John Hughes' directorial debut is considered a landmark teen comedy, one that is loved and celebrated. And even coming upon our own celebratory landmark, we couldn't find much to celebrate in this stale cardboard cake of a movie.


    That said, our discussion of the film's major problems isn't incredibly thorough or personal, and we maybe back off of some things for which we should hold the filmmakers more accountable. 
    The hosts of Falling in Love Montage are acquainted with sexual assault, and we recognize that --no matter the decade or your age -- we (womxn and men) sometimes lack the language to describe what's happened to us. Sometimes we're conditioned to believe nothing did. Sometimes we're shamed into not disclosing.
    Also, as white people growing up in the '80s and '90s, we were party to perpetuating stereotypes we learned through cultural osmosis and films like this one. It is our place to hold ourselves accountable, and in this and many cases, that means accepting a larger responsibility for our complicity -- and recognizing it, listening, and doing better.

    We can't pretend that our discussion of a panty-centric coming-of-age movie or these show-notes about that discussion makes any real difference. But we can promise you that we will donate $1 to https://stopaapihate.org/ and https://www.rainn.org/ for every download of this episode up to 500 downloads.

    Thank you for being with us, whether this is your 100th episode or your first. 

    Note: Valerie mentions a Vox article in this episode. She actually means this excellent New Yorker article. 

    1 hr 22 min
  • Can’t Buy Me Love

    I don't have a lot to say about the 1987 teen rom-com Can't Buy Me Love that we haven't already said, so suffice it to say: check out this episode in which we have a lot to say about the 1987 teen rom-com Can't Buy Me Love.

    1 hr 43 min
  • Say Anything (w/ Michael M. Rader)

    Our hearts and Easy A told us to, so here we are, in February 2021, discussing Cameron Crowe's directorial debut Say Anything with January guest and still-amazing person Michael M. Rader on Galentine's Day and our fifth podcasting anniversary. 


    That was a run-on sentence, I know, but we've always been able to say anything to you. 

    Does Say Anything hold up after 32 years? Do we hold up after 5? Listen to find out. 

    (And again, listen to Michael on WHEEEEEEngs - A Sincere Wings Podcast
    & We'll Get It Right Next Year: An Adventure in Cinema)

    1 hr 31 min
  • Easy A (w/ Michael M. Rader)

    Welcome to 2021! New year, new sweat pants, new episode! 

    Much anticipated guest and pretend shag of the podcast Michael M. Rader joins us in adorning our bodices with red As ... and it doesn't smell that weird. 

     


    Listen to Michael on WHEEEEEEngs - A Sincere Wings Podcast
    & We'll Get It Right Next Year: An Adventure in Cinema

    1 hr 41 min
  • Happiest Season

    Happy December 27! We've almost made it through this 2020 nonsense, and we are MAKING THE YULETIDE EXTREMELY GAY with Clea DuVall's Happiest Season. Will Bella from Twilight and Cameron from Halt and Catch Fire find comfort and joy this holiday season? We spoil and ponder this question for about two hours -- happy holidays, from our family to yours!

    1 hr 43 min
  • A Simple Favor

    It's the time of Thanksgiving -- the time we all get together as family to celebrate life's blessings stay home in near-complete isolation and watch another Anna Kendrick movie to soothe our weary souls. This time, the Anna Kendrick movie is FiLM-favorite Paul Feig's sumptuous (Thanksgiving) feast, A Simple Favor.


    We tried to avoid spoilers when discussing this fun and twisty lady-thriller, so if you like to hear us talk about job interviews and Without a Trace and Jason Priestley, you'll love this one. And we are eternally grateful. You gotta have Faith, you know? #sisters #blessed

    A Simple Favor is currently streaming on Hulu and Prime Video in the US, so put on your designer bib and dig in.

    1 hr 16 min
  • Twilight (w/ Elle Riccardi)

    It's Halloween time, and you know what that means! Probably. I mean, I guess it would mean something spooky or scary maybe? Maybe like some kind of terrifying monster, like a vampire or something? And we do chick flicks, so you know what that means, maybe! A vampire-or-something chick flick, I suppose! 


    And -- yep, I did a Google search and the only item returned when I look up "vampire-or-something chick flick" is Twilight, so it's your spooky day -- we are finally exploring the 2008 YA adaptation Twilight, and we got our pal and unashamed* sparkly-vampire expert, Elle Riccardi to lend us an ice-cold hand.

    *Ashamed. A little bit ashamed.


    👻 Spooky FiLM Theme by Jon Biegen

    1 hr 50 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.