Hugh Do Hugh Think Hugh Are?

Lift Your Skinny Hills Like Antennas To Hughven! You ever been so proud of a mountain you artificially raised its height with the help of your local community? If not then you haven’t been doing it like they do it in ‘The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down a Mountain’. In one of the half dozen movies from 1995 that Hugh Grant starred in (you could say he was at the ‘peak’ of his powers), we learn about rural Welsh pride, English imperialism and the hotness of cartography. We’re treated to sprawling vistas and local pubs, charming characters and amiable emergency town hall meetings. There’s peril, sure, but it’s mild, all in service of vibes so good they would have appeared in an Upworthy article, had it not been 1917. Also it’s World War I but don’t worry about it.

His name! Oh, his name! Please, could you tell us to whom we are so much obliged? It's not Naughty Willoughby, it's our friend Hugh Grant! In double breasted jackets and britches galore, Hugh's taking a trip to Regency England to hang out with the many, many national treasures that keep popping up in his movies. There are two uneligible ladies, three eligible gentlemen, various actually eligible ladies who pop up and cause trouble, sickness, picnics, piano playing, emergency trips to London, and above all... oh, how they all yearn!

Satire was a mistake! This week we lament the existence of American Dreamz, a hyper-offensive 2006 political parody worth absolutely no-one’s time. Join us as we try and parse what, if anything, this film is trying to say about US politics, reality TV and conflict in the Middle East. How come this movie feels 200 years old? Is it secretly a Carry On movie? Why are Americans so horny for their veterans? Listen and find out! Maybe just don’t listen. Hugh Grant is in this movie.

We're heading over to LiverpHughl for panto season! Who doesn't love children's classic Peter Pan, with the courageous Lost Boys, flight-giving Tinkerbell and fearsome Captain Hook? Ah, but what of the behind the scenes drama that the glowing faces of the audience are not privy to? For it is dark back there, dark and dangerous. There's play director Hugh Grant, who delights in abusing the teens in the company. There's actor Alan Rickman, who also delights in abusing the teens in the company. There are stage hands and reviewers who - you guessed it - delight in abusing the teens in the company. Second star to the right and keep on 'til you accidentally do incest and then die!

Folks, it is time to care about literature. One of Hugh Grant’s earliest outings, the 1988 film Rowing With The Wind is a slice of speculative Hugh-storical fiction about some famous writers and their traumatic antics. Director Gonzalo Suárez invites us to imagine the life and times of writer Shelley, raconteur Lord Byron, and the other writer called Shelley, placing them in a highly unsexy holiday romp with all the dramatic potential of BBC’s Normal People. We’ll get an early glimpse of Hugh as a caddish lad, strain to understand the confusing and non-existent plot points, and find out exactly how Frankenstein was written. Join us as we get inundated with psychodrama, chess and nipples. This is chaos. Help.

At Madam Kozlova's all your dreams come Hugh! In this episode we discuss carceral reform movie Paddington 2, which is about how prisons could be made a whole lot more jolly with a bit of bunting and a spot of afternoon tea. Cops are bad but also good, practicing good manners is essential, and keeping calm and carrying on can and will save the day in this time-warp movie. Are we equipped to discuss the subtleties of the extremely confused messaging in this film? Absolutely not, but our sandwiches are spread with marmalade on a knife made of justice. Let's do this!

Please don’t stop the HUGHsic! In today’s episode we dig perhaps too deep into Marc Lawrence’s 2007 romcom Music & Lyrics, a late-in-the-game Hughing that sends up ‘80s pop stars and the music industry around them. It’s a movie of fictional smash hits and Hugh Grant butt wiggles. It gives us Careless Whisper sax and ABC synths. It’s got Drew Barrymore delivering a frankly inhumane volume of rhyming lines. Join us as we try and figure out whether this movie predicted 2010s-era Gary Barlow, if it invented PSY’s Gangnam style, and whether Hugh’s music could do with more minor thirds.

We're starting with the film that launched Hugh Grant into the hughllowed hughlls of hughllywood: Four weddings and a Funeral. The film which gave us stuttering, twitchy, unthreatening love interest Hugh. The film where Andie MacDowell is there, and occasionally says things. The film where Hugh is super posh but his sister is... cockney? The film where everyone lives in a castle in Surrey or a castle in Scotland. Join us to find the answers to some very important questions like: are there nipples in this movie? What is bonking? Why is Rowan Atkinson? And, of course, do you, Charles? Do you? Do you Charles?

Yes, after many google searches to double check no one had already taken our very good podcast name, Hugh Do Hugh Think Hugh Are? is here! Prepare to be absolutely bamboozled with excellent Hugh Grant takes, puns, and wikipedia trivia. Join us as we slowly come to the realisation that Richard Curits romcoms comprise about 5% of his filmography; marvel in our attempts to understand all the weird, inexplicable period pieces that he was part of in the 80s; listen as the penny drops, and we realise we have to watch Cloud Atlas in its entirety. Who knows what we might find out along the way - perhaps we’ll work out whether Hugh Grant is hot, I don’t know - as we bring you a solid 40 episodes of content about the foibles and heel turns of Hugh John Mungo Grant.