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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)…
1 day, 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, 6 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