The Grand Gesture

We bring on "The King of Cringe" for THAT AWKWARD MOMENT, something our guest JARED DOTSON of SOBER CINEMA takes issue with. However much to our surprise, he does not take issue with this not so well regarded romcom from 2014 starring Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan, and Miles Teller as three guys making a pact to navigate single life together after one friend's marriage ends. And while the romances don't particularly work here (except for the one with the great Mackenzie Davis who makes any role work) this boys club movie ends up having its own particular charms. Like a combination of ice cream and bourbon this one goes down easy in our latest episode you can find here and at the links below:

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Theme music by Soft and Furious

Intro: "Am I Drunk or in Love"

Outro: "I Like the Way You Are Talking to Me"

On this episode we take a trip back to the late 80s when cartoon rabbits didn't make fun of those with allergies and instead would go on angry drunken heartbroken benders. To do this we need an expert, not in drunken benders, but in that time period. So joining us for the first time is Charlee of WORD TO THE MUTHA, who hosts her own podcast looking back on music from the late 80s/early 90s. Give this episode a listen and feel old with us!

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On this episode we sprinkle a little Mark Ruffalo fairy dust and jump ahead to our fun and flirty thirties with guest EMILY DURKIN of THE ALL NIGHTER MOVIE REVIEW PODCAST for a discussion on 13 GOING ON 30. One host hates Jennifer Garner and is terrible while the other one is incredibly handsome. We also debate the relevance of VH1 to... well, anyone at this point, as well as the levels of cringe for making LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD your personal mantra. Better or worse than a flash mob THRILLER dance? Find out all of this and other minor topics like making out with a 13 year old the week before you get married on the latest episode of THE GRAND GESTURE!

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For Valentine's Day we offer up the legendary gift of EXCALIBUR... but mainly Helen Mirren in all her black magic glory. To do so we welcome an Arthurian legend expert, Josh Dotson of SOBER CINEMA. And when we say "expert" we mean someone who isn't shocked by the criminal ways in which King Arthur is conceived in this John Boorman fever dream of a film. As we recover from that shock we try to chart the many grand gestures seen in this film: the drawing of a sword, the coming of the king, the search for the Grail, and Helen Mirren.

Pretty much just Helen Mirren.

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For our first new release, Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD, we bring on a new guest in BEN ZUK from 99 FROM 99 a new movie podcast co-hosted by your lovable country bumpkin Mike. That podcast is presenting 99 episodes on films from 1999, including the great MAGNOLIA. Unlike the poor bastards on that podcast, we don't have to wait to discuss a PTA joint as we spend 38 minutes praising exactly how this great director prepares cinematic asparagus with this strange, sweet, ugly and beautiful love story in what is our favorite film of 2017. Enjoy this interruption in your earbuds with a nice loud piece of buttered toast!

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The entire point of this podcast has been to force the cynical and generally miserable coastal elite host, Dave, to be brought to the light by the noble and kind host, Mike. And there is perhaps no other film that can accomplish this feat other than Nora Ephron's classic YOU'VE GOT MAIL. But since every great romcom needs an outside voice, we bring on our first returning guest, NATASHA of THE RAD ASS BITCHES, to be our online pen pal and tackle today's most important questions:

• Are daisies truly the friendliest flower?
• Was that caviar truly JUST a garnish?
• And wasn't email much more fun than swiping left and right?

All of those questions and more of Dave's misery in our latest episode of THE GRAND GESTURE!

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Since the extent of our research on AARON SORKIN was one of us watching an episode of THE WEST WING and the other pulling up an IMDb tab on this accomplished writer, your hosts bring in a Sorkin expert in JESSE SCHOBER of the FIELD OF SCREAMS podcast. And no, it's not about Sorkin, but Jesse has compiled all of his knowledge on this man into one great speech that is to be found at the end of this show (so you have to listen). Before that though we go back to the good old days of American politics, or at the very least American politics as a romcom in ROB REINER's THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT starring ANNETTE BENING and MICHAEL DOUGLAS. As usual we find ourselves unable to recast Bening but often get confused by the various Presidential figures from the Sorkin-verse when MARTIN SHEEN makes an appearance, but none of that really matters because every character in this movie has a Grand Gesture worthy speech! Listen to them here.

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We kick off the new year as most people do... by reflecting on the film adaptation of musical THE LAST FIVE YEARS. Since your hosts Mike and Dave have not a musical bone in their body (just very bitter ones) we welcome singer/songwriter JACOB HALLER on from the podcast TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SONG to explain the appeal of this film that opens with a song about heartbreak and closes with a song about heartbreak. Thankfully we are united in our defense of the great ANNA KENDRICK and are also graced by Mr. Haller re-writing one of the more troubling songs to be a bit more humorous and honest. I can not stress enough that your hosts Mike and Dave DO NOT SING on this episode. So feel free to listen!

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Take a podcast holiday with us as we provide you with the fantasies of Nancy Meyers as lived out by Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet in THE HOLIDAY. Guest Natasha of The Rad Ass Bitches joins the show to debate if Meyers can pull off a more grounded love affair with Jack Black or if she needs the extremely handsome crutch of Jude Law to make her romantic plot take off. When your host Mike can get co-host Dave to shut up long enough about the charms of Mr. Law we also get into a hot or not with screen legend Eli Wallach, if Meyers is able to do for staircases what she has done for cinematic kitchens, and how to not cancel a sushi date. Happy holidays!

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On this episode we skip the New Year's resolutions because your hosts Dave and Mike are self-aware enough (just enough) to know that they can't and won't tolerate any self-improvement. Thankfully we have a guest who is actually a decent person in JESSI LAUREN of SEARCH TO FIND YOU to help provide some insight on the particular cold shower of growing up that Joseph Gordon-Levitt finds himself taking in LOOPER. An older version of himself played by Bruce Willis travels back in time on a mission to do some very bad things to save the woman he loves, and to do that he must woo his past self to step aside in what will probably be our strangest meet cute ever presented on this show. Enjoy this episode from the comfort of your home and not the gym as we move into 2018!

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