Watch With Jen™

It's heating up out there and the same can be said of this week's five streaming recommendations. This week Jen's serving up a tense road thriller, a Hollywood comedy, a movie that will make you crave Italian food, a laidback Santa Fe set romcom, and Spike Lee's best popcorn picture.

Hindered by deadlines and bad allergies, this is a shorter than usual episode of Watch With Jen, but these movies deserve a closer (and/or second) look so we hope you'll enjoy it all the same. Additionally, Jen's announcing a few new changes to the podcast schedule, which are explained in this episode. Namely? With five films to tide you over, she's planning on releasing these shows every other week, keep sprinkling in the super popular conversational episodes of Watch With Jen & Friends, and then every so often, deliver some shorter theme and surprise episodes to keep you entertained.

Originally Posted on Patreon (6/12/20) at https://www.patreon.com/posts/38178025

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Returning once again with 5 outstanding recommendations of great movies that you can stream right now.

Originally Posted on Patreon (6/5/20) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37936381

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Though they've started opening bigger tentpole movies earlier and earlier with each passing year, Memorial Day weekend has traditionally been the time when the summer movie season really gets underway as top titles begin raking in huge box office returns. Of course, 2020 is the exception to that rule so for this week's Watch With Jen film recommendations bring that feeling of summer back with a handful of movies that will mentally transport you back to the theater . . . at least for a little while.

Selecting an '80s female driven comedy, a film that's set in the heat of summer, and a big action movie that seems like precisely the kind of sophisticated cinematic escape we could use right now, this week's titles might be more familiar and accessible than some of the ones you've encountered in the past but host Jen Johans wanted to bring a little retro summer movie season fun back to you.

Originally Posted on Patreon (5/29/20) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37665684

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Jen Johans recommends 5 great films for you to stream this week.

Topics discussed: What Jack Kerouac and Nick Hornby characters have in common; rock star professors; Ethan Hawke as philosophizing preacher or shaggy dog; three Frenchmen who really know how to scare; the female battle with politeness; empowering women in horror; the power of female sexual fantasies; women without men and how that dynamic changes both genders; sex, drugs, and Martin Scorsese directed rock 'n roll; the whole Robbie Robertson controversy; Jen drops the F-bomb twice while quoting Levon Helm; Van Morrison as a high kicking, velvet wearing, scatting god; Anne Tyler novels; William Hurt & Kathleen Turner after Body Heat; how in an ensemble film like The Big Chill, of course Jen's falling for the messed up impotent guy; Lawrence Kasdan's underrated movies; the quarantine impact on The Sower and The Accidental Tourist; and quirky characters.

Originally Posted on Patreon here with links: https://bit.ly/3cueTnK

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In addition to 5 excellent streaming recommendations, topics this week include: new Patreon tiers and rewards, winning or losing the pronunciation battle, literary adaptations and the stars and directors who love them, nice Bobby vs. scary Bobby, an embarrassing Jen anecdote involving Uma Thurman, crushing on shorter boys, cell phone addiction, Captain America getting Fast and Furious while saving the day, anesthesia side effects, singing country music, Ben Affleck the filmmaker, theatrical vs. extended cuts, and classic noir set-ups.

Originally published on Patreon (4/13/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/35952898

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From the mean streets of Brazil to life in Witsec in San Diego to a hangout picture from a pissed off Howard Hawks to Janis Joplin almost jumping out of her shoes onstage to a thirteen-year-old witch coming into her own in a Studio Ghibli classic, Jen serves up 5 great films from the HBO Max streaming library for your viewing pleasure.

Originally Posted on Patreon on 9/25/20 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42030767

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Episode 6 might be an all-timer in illustrating just how much Jen's cinematic tastes and interests run the absolute gamut.

Topics discussed include: Hugh Grant, relationships from brother filmmakers to brotherhood, The Godfather, Cain & Abel, MMA, Beethoven, Jerry Maguire, cool girls, '60s French pop music, Pixie Mary Poppins, buying too many books on Kindle, the facade of perfection, women with canes, Billy Wilder, actresses who dish on screen kisses, age difference on film, new millennium existential angst, and stealing rare books.

Originally Published on Patreon (4/6/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/35716740

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Jen Johans jumps as far back as 1939 for her first film recommendation today & then jumped back into the 21st century with 4 others that she hopes you'll love. Topics discussed include: Netflix over-choice, Ginger Rogers, Bill Pullman and Rufus Sewell's onscreen luck with the ladies, that sometimes it's okay to just say no to Christopher Nolan movies, Alfonso Cuaron can tackle Dickens (damn it!), what Brian Wilson and the Minnesota Twins have in common, that time when Hannibal scared Jen's brother into hanging up drapes, Drew's Script-o-Rama, why Grady Tripp is her spirit animal, sometimes you need over a dozen drafts to get it right, her fear of cruise ships, why workaholics are not the enemy (& no, not every woman in a movie needs love), and a reminder that there is no crazier place than the diary entries of Jen's Letterboxd account.

Originally Posted on Patreon (3/30/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/35441910

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Pull up a chair, plug in your headphones & settle in for 5 film recommendations & 40 minutes of quarantine fun. Topics discussed this week include: the wisdom of Martin Scorsese & Roger Ebert, writer-directors Jay & Mark Duplass, hospital in-room movie selections, women kicking ass on film (whether people buy tickets or not), action movie franchises, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, why you should never trust Billy Zane in the water, Robert Elswit's relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson, paranoid thrillers, driving through southern Minnesota & winding up at Winona Ryder's place of birth, Kevin Bacon: good at being bad, collecting screenplays as a teen, the ever-evolving musical genre, & that time Jen Johans accidentally hung up on Rachael Leigh Cook.

Originally Published on Patreon (3/23/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/35204345

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In addition to sharing 5 new titles that just might help liven things up around your house, topics discussed this week include: The Cadillac of microphones, Michelle Pfeiffer using & fighting against her beauty, Neil Simon, an imaginary Michael Haneke film festival, Howard Hawks: Hawksian Women & Men in Love, & digging the flawed side of Denzel Washington. Stay safe and stream on!

Originally published on Patreon (3/16/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/34958634

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