It Pod to Be You

Your host Manish (@TheManish89) and guest Mike Schindler (@mumbles3k) discuss Doug Liman’s action-comedy-romance film Mr. & Mrs. Smith. From the superstar power couple of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, to the work of Doug Liman, and… I mean Pitt and Jolie are pretty hot, right?

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Your host Manish (@TheManish89) and guest Brendan Cassidy (@BrendanJCassidy) discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, the 2017 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, and Vicky Krieps that, yes, is a romantic comedy in our book. Drama, romance, relationship dynamics, poisoning, this episode covers it all!

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Your host Manish (@TheManish89) talks a classic Julia Roberts rom-com with guest Radhika Menon (@menonrad)—1999’s Notting Hill. Celebrity culture, the stuttering likeability of Hugh Grant, and of course the perfection of one Julia Roberts, they touch on it all.

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Your host Manish (@TheManish89) celebrates the ten year anniversary of Band Baaja Baaraat, the seminal Indian rom-com starring Ranveer Singh Anushka Sharma. His guest Saleha (@Salandthebadpun) helps look back at the film that’s been influential and one that still holds up a decade later.

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Your host Manish (@TheManish89) returns with the podcast that is all about falling in love on the big screen! On this episode, he discusses Leslye Headland’s Sleeping with Other People with guest Joel Arnold @joelkarnold. A different take on the standard rom-com story, with a memorable cast, they talk about sleeping with other people and Sleeping with Other People.

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Your host Manish (@TheManish89) welcomes Diego Crespo (@thediegocrespo) to the show to discuss the rom-com adventure movie Romancing the Stone. They talk about the film’s stars, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, the director Robert Zemeckis, and the late great screenwriter Diane Thomas. From its Aquaman connections and how it remains a landmark adventure movie, they dig into this treasure of a film.

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On this special episode, your host Manish (@TheManish89) has on guest Kayleigh Hearn (@ronchronchronch) to help guide him through superhero romances through film. They start with Superman: The Movie and the relationship between Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Then they shift their focus to the MCU and the DCEU, going from Tony Stark and Pepper Potts to Diana and Steve Trevor, and from Thor and Jane Foster to Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle, and of course Peter Parker and Mary Jane and the Raimi-era Spider-Man movies.

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Hello again, romantics! Welcome back to the Summer of McConaughey! It Pod to Be You presents the fifth and final part of its series chronicling the highs and lows of Matthew McConaughey’s 2000s run as rom-com leading man! Your host Manish (@TheManish89) has guest Marcelo (@MarceloJPico) on to discuss 2009’s Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, co-starring Jennifer Garner, Emma Stone, and Michael Douglas. Listen as they discuss the end of the road for McConaughey’s rom-com career in the 2000s, as well as how important the film is in his career. 

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Hello, romantics! On this episode, your host Manish (@TheManish89) covers the rom-com-zom film Warm Bodies. He’s joined by Anya Stanley (@BookishPlinko) to discuss the 2013 take on Romeo and Juliet and zombie films. respectively. If you’re not a horror fan, or even if you’re not a rom-com fan, Warm Bodies does well by meeting you in the middle.

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Hello again, romantics! Welcome back to the Summer of McConaughey! It Pod to Be You presents the third part of its five-part series chronicling the highs and lows of Matthew McConaughey’s 2000s run as rom-com leading man! On this episode, your host Manish (@themanish89) welcomes David Giannini (@daveagiannini) on to discuss 2006’s Failure to Launch, starring MM and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Originally released over on our Patreon: Patreon.com/TalkFilmSociety

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