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No, Sports Movies Are Never Actually About Sports (Ft. Ted Lasso, The Longest Yard, Bull Durham, and A League of Their Own)
Season 2 Episode 2
Lauren and Christine suit up, stretch out, and run excitedly out of the locker room as they ponder the American love of the sports movie (or tv show)…
11 hours ago
Yes, Movies About Sex Used to Include Sex (Ft. One Night Only, It Follows, Porky's, and Bachelor Party)
Season 2 Episode 1
In their triumphant return for season two, Lauren and Christine stay up all night and wonder why Millenial and Gen Z films about sex are mostly about…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Yes, He Is Eddie Murphy, Dammit! (Ft. Boomerang, Bowfinger, and Dolemite Is My Name)
Season 1 Episode 21
In a fun-size episode, Lauren and Christine wear red leather suits and get out their diplomas from the Velvet Jones School of Technology while discus…
5 months, 1 week ago
Yes, Pop Culture Invented Friend Groups (Ft. Love is Blind, The Big Chill, and St Elmo’s Fire)
Season 1 Episode 20
Lauren and Christine honor “girl code,” map out love triangles and quadrangles, and book a big table for brunch as they consider the recent-ish popul…
6 months ago
No, Cathy and Heathcliff Aren’t Hollywood’s First Mad Lovers (Ft. Wuthering Heights, Body Heat, & 9 1/2 Weeks)
Season 1 Episode 19
Lauren and Christine sweat, sigh, and gasp as they consider passionate, obsessive, madly-in-love couples with unhappy endings. They make bad choices,…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
No, Rob Reiner Didn’t Invent Rom-Coms, But He Perfected Them (Ft. When Harry Met Sally, The Sure Thing, and It Happened One Night)
Season 1 Episode 18
Lauren and Christine take a road trip, sing show tunes, and bicker as they revisit two classic rom-coms directed by Rob Reiner, and the one directed …
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Yes, Rebels Are Always On the Run (Ft. One Battle After Another, North By Northwest, and Running on Empty)
Season 1 Episode 17
Lauren and Christine change their names, color their hair, and get fake IDs as they discuss Hollywood’s long love for mistaken identities, new identi…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Yes, Hollywood Has Always Turned the Camera on Itself (Ft. The Studio, Jay Kelly, and The Player)
Season 1 Episode 16
Lights, camera, and action as Lauren and Christine ask why Hollywood is so fascinated with making media about itself - a fascination that is as old a…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Yes, Teachers and Students Are Always Complicated (Ft. After the Hunt, The Children’s Hour, & Tea and Sympathy)
Season 1 Episode 15
Lauren and Christine pour the tea, button their cardigans, and worry about getting tenure as they discuss three films about complicated relationships…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
No, Don't Let That Dashingly Handsome Vampire Inside (Ft. Sinners, Dracula, and Interview With the Vampire)
Season 1 Episode 14
In this Halloween episode, Lauren and Christine hunt vampires from Europe in the 19th century to the American South in the 21st. If vampires are meta…
11 months, 1 week ago