Dear Graham

We're back, bb! Adam and Amelia put aside their differences to reunite for their fans. We review the movie Bullet Train, available on Netflix. Spoiler: we had a terrific time!

I'm gonna level with you. I don't know if 34th Street is in this movie. Is it where the apartment is? Is it a major street in New York? I know New York is a grid system. It's very hard to get lost there. This is a good movie. The dude playing Santa kills it.

In this Classic Movie and Classic Cocktail installment, we review the 1957 film Desk set. Spoiler: We love it!

We review the lesser of Meg Ryan's romcoms that heavily feature a soundtrack and references to classic movies, but Amelia still would.

SPOILERS FOR JAMES BOND: NO TIME TO DIE We watched the new James Bond and ponder the future of the Bond franchise.

Adam and Amelia review THE Suicide Squad, the second pandemic movie we have seen. This is not an R rated podcast, though Amelia does very briefly discuss boobs. Buttholes also come up.

We sat down to talk about the movie Jungle Cruise, which is both bad and good. Listen to find out why. Also I watched Fear Street on Netflix. What a weird series of movies. We don't talk about that in this episode, it's just on my mind.

Adam reviews the terrible film New Mutants, which was many years in the making. Adam also tells his most recent best nap!

In this episode, we discuss Adam's new editing skills and the Disney+ Series Mighty Ducks Game Changers. This episode also features our newest segment, best naps. We are in need of more naps. Otherwise we'll make up some. Please send us best naps. Thank you Jorie for your nap, although you go uncredited in the podcast. It sounds like a good nap.

We reviewed the strangely anti union movie The Replacements, starring Keanu Reeves, Jon Favreau, and some other people. What a nonsensical blast! Also tune in for the debut of our new segment, Best Naps.

By sheer chance, we watch our second religious themed movie in a row, so I guess we're celebrating Lent (if in fact you're supposed to celebrate a person being trapped in the desert for 40 days and nights, if that happened to me and people celebrated it, I'd reevaluate how I've been treating people). There aren't nearly as many good Lent movies for us to watch completely by accident as Christmas movies. What's the Lenten version of Die Hard, for instance? Boondock Saints? No Alan Rickman, not nearly as fun. Anyway, Keeping the Faith is another of the late '90s, early '00s movies that aren't really made anymore. At least not with several well known actors for wide theatrical release. Everything's very meta and self aware now (which is fine, we liked Deadpool almost as much as the theater full of 13 year olds who saw it with us did, but we liked it more than their horrified parents who clearly did not do their research before coming to that film), and sometimes it's nice to just sit down and watch a comedy that somehow takes itself very seriously and has Ben Stiller in it. Is it a good film? I wouldn't say that. Is it a bad film? Probably not. It's background noise. Sometimes it's nice to just have some background noise. You're doing something completely unrelated and you can look up and say "Wait, Edward Norton directed this? The guy from American History X? What is that guy's deal, anyway?" Or you can wonder why Jenna Elfman's career in film didn't really take off because she's totally fine in this, and then Wikipedia her and wonder just a little bit less. To summarize, it's a solid film with some laughs, but the real laughs are the friends we made along the way.

We review Dogma, a movie that we love against our better instincts. We watched it again immediately after recording. Amelia says the F word repeatedly, just like in the movie.

We review the 2001 movie America's Sweethearts starring John Cusak, Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Christopher Walken, Stanley Tucci, and more. Critics hated it, we (for the most part) liked it very much!

Adam, Amelia, and special guest Christopher review the classic of cinema The Princess Bride. Join as we discuss the plot, likes and dislikes, and recast the movie (starring ourselves!).

Recorded on time but released a week late, tune in to hear Adam and Amelia discuss the Jon Favreau film Chef, and also last week's Wanda Vision. I think. As I said, we recorded this a week ago.

Please enjoy this final installment of our Groundhog Day series, recorded the day before groundhog day and released two days after. Please also feel free to listen to it on repeat.

Adam and Amelia review the Tom Cruise/ Emily Blunt action movie Edge of Tomorrow, aka Live Die Repeat. Then they also chat about Wanda Vision and annoy each other.

We talk WandaVision episodes 1 and 2, and several Groundhog day films. But not the best groundog day films. Saving those for later.

We bring on two very special listeners to discuss upcoming films and also whether or not Dune is fascist propaganda, but that's pretty much all I remember and we don't have an answer for the second one.

Recorded on Dec. 28 so as to be released before NYE, but released after NYE because we forgot, join us for a sort of short discussion of A Holiday Affair (which we both very much enjoyed), plus Wonder Woman and Soul (one of which we enjoyed).

Just an absolute blast of a film. And it's a Christmas movie.

We continue to talk about Christmas movies this week, with a terrible Netflix film. In this episode I was asked to name good Kurt Russell movies and I blanked, so I'm putting a list here: Tango and Cash Big Trouble in Little China Sky High The Thing The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes (I've never seen this, but it's a guaranteed winner, title like that)

Happiest Season is the first of our Holiday films we watched. Amelia was lukewarm. I was warm. We're putting this episode out on a Wednesday because everything is chaos and days of the week are a social construct.

Logan Lucky is a good movie. Watch Logan Lucky. Especially with Hillbilly Elegy coming out recently, if you're going to watch one movie about Appalachia, make it this movie. This episode is brought to you by Daniel Craig in James Bond: No Time to Die.* If you see Daniel Craig and it looks like his eyes are screaming for help, what he's really saying is "please go see No Time to Die." *We received no money from No Time to Die, we're just excited Daniel Craig fans. If they want to pay us, though, we'll happily take their money. Except Daniel Craig's money. It's no good here.** **Daniel Craig's money is no good here because he's British, and likely most of his money is in Pounds. We have concerns about the long term future of the Pound, and will therefore, not accept his money.

Hello! We reviewed the 1940 classic film The Philadelphia Story and also reviewed our drinks, a Pink Gin and a Hurricane! One of us liked our drink, the other did not, but we agreed on the movie. Shake up a cocktail and join us!

We are scheduling this episode in advance to come out the day before the 2020 US election, which is frightening. We loved this movie about protests and organizing but depending on the state of the nation we encourage all beloveds to listen to what their bodies need and do fluffy unimportant stuff if necessary (except unless you have not already VOTED in which case GO VOTE FRIENDS VOTE AGAINST TRUMP PLEASE and if you are considering voting for Trump please STAY HOME INSTEAD AND WATCH THIS MOVIE ON REPEAT UNTIL WEDNESDAY).

In this week's installment of Classic Movies and Classic Cocktails we watched The Haunting, after trying unsuccessfully to watch it some 6 years ago and getting too spooked.

We talk about Young Frankenstein, and ask what is acceptable in a comedy movie. Are we the people who should be deciding this? Yes. Or No. You decide. Are you the people who should be deciding that? Yes. Or no. We decide.

We attempted to cover a bunch of different Halloween things, to various degrees of success. We talk about those things in this podcast. We'll keep what those subjects are a mystery, not because we don't remember what they are, we definitely do, but because we just don't feel like saying them here. This is a link we promised for one of those things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vwiRE0Drjk&list=PLpKhoKHxzdGJh_tkcsrMdZ4Mz5zFpgl7E

Are we putting podcasts out on Thursdays now? Or did we just forget to put this out 4 days ago. Who knows? Nothing makes you appreciate Brendan Frasier like the 1932 version of The Mummy. It's no good. And not even in like a "well for the time it was impressive" way, it's just a struggle to watch. And yet Universal's tried to make universe of these monster films like 3 times since 2009. Enola Holmes is good, watch that instead. Just a fun, easy to watch film. Oh, and Machine Gun Kelly has a number 1 album and it's pop-punk? That's not in the podcast, I just don't understand how Machine Gun Kelly has a number 1 album that's pop-punk. That'd be like if they announced they were remaking Ghostbusters and Shia LaBeouf had been cast as Egon. That's fine I guess, but we all know he's more of a Venkman. Anyway, here's a podcast.

Let's take a second and talk about how ridiculously well Robert Redford and Jane Fonda have aged. You've got two people who are ridiculously good looking at a young age, sure they're probably statistically more likely to be ridiculously good looking throughout their lives, but you're rolling the dice here. Val Kilmer, there's a guy who was ridiculously good looking as a young guy. Top Gun, whatever Batman he was in (I know it was Batman Forever, get off my back Jim Carrey), he was doing pretty well. But then he rolled snake eyes (is that how craps works? How do/does craps work? People always play craps in movies and they seem to shout out completely random numbers but everyone at the table knows what the table needs, it's gibberish to me) and he's present Val Kilmer: a guy who despite his tracheotomy says prayer cured his cancer. I don't wanna step on anyone's beliefs here, but... well... Anyway, we recorded this like two weeks ago and realized we'd never put it out. Barefoot in the Park. It's solid.

Hooray for guests! Meghan and Bill joined us (social distance style) to chat about Arsenic and Old Lace while sipping some bubbly.

On this week's episode of Dear Graham, we talk about all of the things mentioned in the title!

We watched "An American Pickle" so you don't have to. But if you want to, you'll see lots of shots of Pittsburgh, including the spot we buy beer. But not too much beer, Mom and Dad. An acceptable amount. How much is an acceptable amount? Well, if you square the hypotenuse on the equilateral triangle, you'll arrive at your answer of 1 7/8ths. *I have no idea what I'm even saying in these write ups anymore. Buy my product.

Adam and Amelia review the 2009 movie adaptation of the acclaimed 1980s graphic novel Watchmen. It was not their favorite.

Ummm... it's an all time classic children's movie. We talk about it. Look, frankly I'm running out of things to say in these descriptions. But I'll leave you with this word problem: I can paint a house in 5 hours, you can paint it in 3, how long does it take us to paint it together?

One of us accidentally subscribed to the DC Comics streaming service. Did you know DC Comics had a streaming service? Based on their revenue you haven't, but there's actually some decent stuff on there. Not enough for $7.99 a month, but some decent stuff.  Anyway, this episode is about the animated Harley Quinn show. It's good. You should watch it. But not for $7.99 a month, that would be an insane price point for a streaming service like this.  Update: this show is moving to HBO Max on August 1st. Marked explicit because it's explicit.

We talk about the '90s film My Cousin Vinny, which tells the story of a mid level lawyer struggling with his own limitations in the harsh face of stardom. OR it's a story about a low level lawyer who's struggling with his own limitations in the harsh face of court. It's really a tossup.

Adam and Amelia voyage interstate for this live review for Graham! Many thanks to Rachel for suggesting the movie and cohosting.

In our first ever $50 tier sponsorship, we reviewed Cheech and Chong: Up in Smoke as requested. You will note that our sponsor did not pay enough to be in the next tier up, or we would have said that we liked it. Join us for this (classic?) stoner romp.

This is the first in a possible series of films we'll talk about and drink about. Have any recommendations? Send them to us. Our email is in the show. (It is NOT in the show.)

Jorie thinks Paul Rudd shouldn't be able to find happiness. It's a controversial opinion, and one we here at Dear Graham do NOT endorse. We're pro Paul Rudd finding happiness.

This podcast is about Bend it Like Beckham, but given the timing, we felt it was important to say the following: We recorded this podcast 2-3 weeks ago, before the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, and before Christian Cooper was accosted in Central Park. We don’t talk about any of this in this episode because of the when it was recorded but after recent events we at Dear Graham feel the need to make it clear that we believe Black lives matter, trans lives matter, and institutionalized racism exists in the United States and needs to be dismantled. We condemn police acts of violence against black and brown bodies. We encourage our listeners to join us in acknowledging and dismantling our own internalized racism, engage in our communities, and donate to causes which support these and other true and just goals, including but not limited to the following: local bailout funds, local Black Lives Matter groups, Bend The Arc (Jewish action), and the fundraisers for the families of George Floyd, Amaud Arbery and others murdered by the state and by white supremacy.

Adam presents a list of movies about war and Amelia was pleasantly surprised by how much she was interested! We tried to go with movies that were as non jingoistic as we could and that glorified warfare or the military as little as possible. This episode is scheduled to come out on Memorial Day, a somber holiday, so we didn't make jokes like we often do. Amelia said "trajection" in the last minute of the episode but that is not a word, and she meant trajectory. We had not looked up how to access any of the movies so here are some that are on various streaming services: The Great Escape: Amazon Prime Stalag 17: Amazon Prime Inglourious Basterds: Netflix At the time this podcast comes out, it looks like you have to rent the rest of them.

We randomly remembered how much we like Legion and wanted to talk about it.

By Grapthar's hammer, what an episode! Explicit warning: F word x2

Amelia's off attempting the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, so we'll have to check in with her next week. Adam just rants about Star Wars movies for 12 minutes. It's bad. He would encourage not listening.

Recorded on April 16, Amelia reviews a radio program released on the week of recording that will certainly not be available to Graham by the time the episode is released. She uses the F word twice to express her disdain for the song "Wagon Wheel." Join us!

We talk about the classic film Josie and the Pussycats. I'm not sure exactly where you can find it (we paid for it) but I'd be willing to bet if you wait another ten years it'll be on Turner Classic Movies. I have a rule about TCM that if a movie doesn't have 4 stars, I'm not watching it. I think everyone should embrace that rule. Who has time for a 3 star movie from 1945? Not this guy.

The title's a lie. We don't really talk about Olaf's Frozen Adventure. But I bet that sucked you in. You want to hear about Olaf's Frozen Adventure. Well this episode will give you a little tease. Just a little taste of Olaf's Frozen Adventure. If you want the rest, you'll have to come back every week, and then one day we'll sneak it in there, but the episode title will be something you won't expect, like "Josie and the Pussycats." We do talk about Frozen and Frozen 2 though. And we recorded it long distance with Graham and Rachel over the phone, so expect poor audio quality. Graham uses the F word to express their love of Olaf's Frozen Adventure, so don't listen with your kids unless your kids are adults.

Adam talks about a movie he saw 13 years ago, hasn't seen since, and only has a passing recollection of. If you're looking for an in depth, smart discussion of this movie, this is not the podcast for you. Also we talk about Antonio Bandaras a lot, because he's a good, underrated actor. He's not in this movie. We just like him. We hope you do too.