Surviving Chick Flicks

Happy Halloween, everybody! We are back, just like the Sanderson Sisters, to talk about something spooky (or spooky-ish) for Halloween, and what better way to celebrate than with Hocus Pocus 2? Did this movie put a spell on us or did we place a hex on it? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What even is a "month?" Anyway, for this Manly Movie of Undetermined Time Frame, we review that movie where Pacino yells? No, not that one. It's the one where he yells and tries to do a Latin accent? No, not THAT one either. The other one. That's it. It's Carlito's Way. Here comes the review. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hey, we did an episode about our editor! Just kidding...sort of. On this episode, we are talking about the Oscar-nominated, anti-romcom, The Worst Person in the World. Did John and Sammie survive? What does sock puppet Joseph think? Was there an Armond White review? These answers and more are all here. Check it out! (Also, we didn't use any soundclips from the movie in the episode because 99.98% of this movie is in Norwegian and unless you actually speak Norwegian, it will do nothing for you.) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Continuing to play catch up, this episode was recorded in July. On this episode, we talk about the Hulu original romcom, The Hating Game. I wish I had a snappier episode descriptor than I do, but here we are. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We are trying to catch up on the backlog of unedited episodes. This was supposed to close out Pride Month. This week wrap up Pride Month 2022 to review a movie shot on an iPhone ironically recorded on an iPhone. (But not edited on an iPhone. That's too far.) Under the microscope this week is Sean Baker's 2015 drama, Tangerine. Did we end Pride Month on a high or a low? Find out here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Once upon a time, there was a President so popular, his legacy could be tarnished with the worst scandal ever - he asked a woman out on a date. This week, we bring Aaron Sorkin back into the mix and review the 1995 romantic comedy, The American President. Did we vote for it or against it? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Pride Month continues and our friend Mark returns to discuss a movie way funnier than its subject can ever be - conversion therapy. This week we are talking about the 1999 comedy, But I'm A Cheerleader. Did we give this movie an A or did we give it an F? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On our latest episode of our latest spinoff, this week we examine the 2005 true story, Coach Carter, the Samuel L. Jackson drama about a basketball coach who believed that excellence was demanded not just on the court but off the court as well. Was this a slam dunk or did we foul the movie out? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Pride month continues with a film that focuses on that most horrific of horrors...attending a gathering with your family. This week we give some attention to a film that gives some love to the bisexual community, Shiva Baby. Check it out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome to Pride Month 2022! Hope everyone is celebrating safely and definitely following one specific rule - don't fall asleep. Because we are kicking things off with the man of our dreams, Freddy Kruger, and his return to Elm Street to stalk teenagers in the sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, a film where subtext, just like teenagers, went to die. Check it out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What do you get when two nerds decide to pull a Frankenstein and create a woman using a computer? Comedy gold, Jerry. Gold. This week, we travel back to the 80s to review the John Hughes sci-fi comedy, Weird Science. Was this creation a success or a failed experiment? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ghostface is back and we needed some legacy characters to help us stop him. To properly examine the latest requel, Ro Karen and Mark return as well for a review of the fifth and latest entry in the Scream franchise - Scream. Did this movie do it's 25 year legacy and original creators justice or did it just make us want to...well, you know. Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

After many months of peace, a nemesis returns to wreak brutal havoc upon everyone in its path. And by havoc, we mean he's here to make you cry. This week we venture back to Nicholas Sparks with his Miley Cyrus starring coming of age drama, The Last Song. Did this movie end on a high note or was someone dead the entire time and John won't let it go? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The second qualification of what we consider a chick flick to be is "any film with a strong female lead." I think this movie has one actress playing TWO strong female leads. This week we take on the Renny Harlin directed, Shane Black penned 1996 action thriller, The Long Kiss Goodnight. Was this movie worth the $4 million check that paid for the screenplay or did we all pray for some kind of amnesia so we could forget this film when it was over? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's Manly Movie of the Month and with Sammie away, John and Joseph park the car at Harvard yard and review the Oscar-winning, Martin Scorsese directed crime drama, The Departed. But after it took the top prize and the directing prize (finally) at Thhe Oscars, does the film hold up all these years later or did we need to take it out to the desert and bury it? Also, I know that's a Casino reference, but you get the point. Anyway, find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Well, as the song says, we don't talk about Bruno, but we can talk about the movie it comes from. This week, we are joined by Joseph's daughter Aizlee and we take on the latest Disney movie driving parents crazy worldwide, Encanto. Did we find magic in this tale or did we banish it to live in our walls with the rats? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Yeah! Racing, bitch! Somehow this week, we have managed to combine sports flicks (kind of) and our manly movie of the month by once again returning to the realm of video game movies. This week, Sammie picked for us the 2014 racing drama, Need For Speed, a film where a performance was basically skyped in. Did we cross the finish line or did this film crash and burn? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Inspired by one Super Bowl and recorded before the most recent, John, Sammie, and Joseph start a new series within the show - Surviving Sports Flicks, an "as in depth" (LOL) look at the world of sports in cinema as we give to chick flicks. And what better way to kick things off with the moment football met cocaine as we examine the Oliver Stone gladiator metaphor, Any Given Sunday. After 20 plus years, does this hold up as one of the best football movies or did it get sacked? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What happens when you take two iconic actors, a bombshell actress, and a legendary director? Well, probably a lot of things, but specifically, you get a classic like Some Like It Hot, a film about romance, murder, and having to pose as the opposite sex to avoid being murdered yourself. Is this film still hot or did it age like milk? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode had a slight technical malfunction that did force us to finish the episode the next night with Sammie on the road. You might say, podcasting...It's Complicated. This week we are covering Nancy Meyer's comedy about love after divorce starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, and Jim from The Office. But, did we survive? Find out ere! Also, please check out House Parties here: https://www.facebook.com/housepartiestx/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Well, 2022 was off to a good start. Three films, three survivals of all three hosts. Then we had to wreck all that. For this Manly Movie of the Month, Joseph has us facing the legendary 1997 sequel that put a film franchise on ice for nearly two decades, Mortal Kombat Annihilation. Did anyone survive or did we give this film a fatality? Find out here. Please check out the band Magnolia Park here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7B76SsfzG0wWk1WEvGzCmY?si=MQR_06-bQ1i-vDAmRwLvmw --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Betty White passed away on New Year's Eve, 2021. White had a career that stretched back to the 40s and a legacy that will last forever. And we decided the best way to pay homage to her would be to travel back to 1999 to cover the beginning of White's career as a meme with the killer crocodile film, Lake Placid, also starring Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Meredith Salenger, and Brendan Gleeson. While a CGI cow might now have survived the movie, the question on the table is did we? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Take two adults that barely tolerate each other, toss in a baby they have to raise together, and hilarity ensues. Well....something ensues. This week we visit our friends Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhammel in the Greg Berlanti directed film, "Life As We Know It." Did we survive? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Happy New Year, everyone! We are back, all three of us (John, Sammie, & Joseph), with our first episode of 2022 and we are traveling all the way back in time to 2016 to talk about the coming of age dramedy, "The Edge of Seventeen" starring that girl from the Hawkeye show and the guy from that show about the bar, you know the one. Is it a modern classic or best forgotten like our actual seventeenth years on this planet? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Christmas shop at a store, he was doing just fine, well that was until he met a girl, trying to buy the same gloves that he was, it was only some gloves, it was only some gloves. Then they went on a date and they had a great time, he was like tell me your name and I'll tell you mine, then she wrote down her digits in a book and this Killers reference is falling apart now, but we have a new ep now and it's Serendipity. Was this movie meant to be or did fate have other options for it? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Well, we managed to record one episode in November, so naturally we release it in December, because time isn't real. This week it's kind of a Manly Movie of the Month and kind of a regular episode, but this week we take on the 2009 drama, Brothers, which stars a Spider-Man, a galactic senator, and history's greatest scarf stealing monster. Did we survive? Find out here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Planned for August, recorded on Halloween, and released in December. Nothing says the holidays like serial killers, huh. This week, we reunite with our old friend David Fincher and watch as Iron Man, Mysterio, and the Hulk break themselves trying to solve the murders attributed to the eponymous killer of this month's Manly Movie, "Zodiac." And we are joined once again by our friend, Mark, from Pink Milk After Dark. Do we survive? Find out here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This is the first of two episodes recorded in October and meant for release earlier, but life has gotten in the way, in both good and not so great ways. Thank you for being patient with us while we catch up. So, let's go back in time to spooky season and Phukett, Thailand are we excited, because this week we are talking about an incredibly divisive horror film that finally seems to be finding its audience - the 2009 demonic love story?, "Jennifer's Body." Joining us this week is our returning friend, Brianna from EnneaChat, to breakdown what this movie is and what we were told it was. But, did we survive? Find out here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In October of 2021, three podcasters joined online to talk about the 1999 indie horror classic, The Blair Witch Project, and went missing. A week later, their audio was found. And the podcasters didn't really go missing. Turns out, they just went to Denny's and didn't invite us. Jerks. But, after 21 years, does the film once declared to be "scarier that The Exorcist" still hold up? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

(Please note, this was recorded before the new trailer dropped, so our predictions were made before we saw it.) It's spooky season and we're celebrating in style, by continuing our Scream retrospective (all the way to Scream 5 in January), by taking a look at the most recent entry in the franchise, "Scream 4." And we are happy to be joined once again by Mark Perez of Pink Milk After Dark to discuss easily one of the more divisive entries in the series. That being said, unlike 85% of the people in this movie, did any of us survive? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The brothers Affleck return to the show as we look at the September Manly Movie of the Month, and Ben's directorial debut, with the film adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel, "Gone Baby Gone." The question isn't whether or not the right decisions were made, but if we survived the latest Affleck fest or not. Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

CW: spousal abuse, child abuse, loss of a child After venturing back to The Kissing Booth, John demanded a break and what an insane break we got. This week, we are talking about the latest film by splat-packer, James Wan, the incredibly divisive and completely insane horror flick, Malignant. And not only are we reviewing it, we are spoiling it heavily, so definitely check this out in theaters or on HBOMax before you listen. But, unlike 85% of the people in this movie, did we survive? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, we are heading back to Netflix to continue the saga of Elle and Noah, in the 2020 film, "The Kissing Booth 2," as part of our retrospective concluding with the third and (I assume final) installment, now available for streaming. Did we survive? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, we travel back in time to 2001 for a tale in which an actor desperate to shed his sparkly vampire reputation and woos one of the actresses from Lost. That's right. We are tackling the 2010 romantic drama, "Remember Me." Is it a tale worth remembering or would we rather forget it ever happened? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, we travel back to 1970 and explore the film "Wanda," the only feature film from director Barbara Loden, who wrote, directed, and starred in this forgotten gem of a film. Joining us in the discussion is director Cody McLain, who will also talk about his debut feature film, "So Help Me God." This week is more real life than fantasy for sure. But, did we survive? Find out here! Watch Cody's film, "So Help Me God" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W49_3jA-iuk&t=1264s --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, we hit up Netflix as we dive head first into the first part of The Kissing Booth trilogy, in honor of part 3 just dropping on the service. And we will be covering all three parts on the show (over three non-consecutive episodes). But were we swept off of our feet? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

*dial up noises* Don't you just love New York in the Fall? Makes me want to podcast. Specifically about the iconic screen couple Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and their third (and final to date) on screen collaboration, You've Got Mail, a movie that asks the question, "Is an online romance cheating" and then never really answers it. And we are joined this week by musician and professor Charles Praytor who suggested we do this film and John jumped at it immediately. But did we survive? Find out here! Check out the music Charles makes here: https://www.facebook.com/longshotsmusic https://www.facebook.com/KPCPMusic --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

For our July Manly Movie of the Month, Sammie brings us back to the world of tech companies, just in a totally different tone than last time, as we take on the 2013 comedy, The Internship. Join us as we do to Google what we did to Facebook. Did we log in for fun or did we delete our account forever? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this week's episode, we answer the hard hitting question - are you new cow or old cow? It'll make sense in context. This week we travel back to 2001 with the romantic comedy Someone Like You. Did we go to this movie like new cow or reject it like old cow? (I swear this will make sense later.) Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What's your favorite trilogy? All bets are off as we travel to Hollywood to reunite those old friends, Sidney Prescott and Ghostface, as they wrap up (for a while) the Scream (no longer) trilogy with maybe the most debated entry in the franchise, Scream 3. And if Wes Craven gets to reunite his Scooby gang, we do too as we bring back our friends Mark, Mindy, and Karen. Did this film slice and dice it's way to our hearts or should it have been left on the cutting room floor? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, John's nemesis, well....one of his nemeses...Nicholas Sparks, returns to be judged by us as we take on the 2002 film, A Walk to Remember. But after nearly two decades, does the film hold up or would we rather forget it? Find out here! Link to Noelle Devoe's article: https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/a40974/thoughts-i-had-while-rewatching-a-walk-to-remember-for-the-first-time-in-ten-years/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, the show goes off the rails as Sammie had to take a week off leaving John and Joseph on their own. What dastardly decisions did they decide on? They went Disney! But Sammie an adult in charge of them, our returning champion, Sandy Junek, to help take on the 2021 film, Cruella. Did we like the movie or did we want to skin it and make a coat out of it? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today we officially wrap up Pride Month with our Manly Movie of the Month, and it's a double feature. This month we take on the 2005 Gus Van Sant film, "Milk," and the 1984 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature, "The Times of Harvey Milk," directed by Rob Epstein. Two films that set out to honor the first openly gay person elected to public office. Find out our thoughts here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We wrap up the main episodes for Pride Month 2021 with a transgender related film that while made by a cis director, actually stars a trans actress playing a trans character. What a novel f***ing concept. This week we are watching and reviewing the 2017 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, A Fantastic Woman, starring Daniela Vega. The woman may be fantastic, but did we think the film was as well? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Pride month continues and this week we are going B for Bisexual and Berlin with the 2017 col war spy thriller, Atomic Blonde, starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, and directed by David Leitch. Did this film win over John, Sammie, and Joseph, or did we have to put a bullet in it? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Pride month continues and this week we take a look at the Oscar-winning "gay cowboy" movie, Brokeback Mountain where The Joker and Donnie Darko met herding sheep for Cousin Eddie, fell in love, then married Venom's girlfriend and Catwoman. And Velma. We shouldn't let John write these descriptions. That being said, did we fall in love among the trees and the sheep or did we find a way to quit this movie? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

John words good sometimes.

Two lesbians enter an apartment and steal $2 millions from the mob. It's not a joke, it's the plot of this week's movie, the 1996 neo-noir, Bound, from The Wachowskis! It's also the first movie we are watching to celebrate Pride Month for 2021. So, sit back, drink some scotch, and watch along with us as we take on this classic and bar-raiser of queer cinema. And this week, we welcome back our Scream queen, Ro Karen. But, does Bound hold up after 25 years? Find out here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

No need to keep refreshing the feed, the wait is over. It's Manly Movie of the Month time again. This month, Sammie requests that John and Joseph watch and review the 2010 Oscar winning drama, The Social Network. Did we "Like" the film or did it get Zucced? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There's a thin line between clever and stupid and this week's movie pole dances and licks that line. This week, John, Sammie, and Joseph take on the 1995...um...classic, Showgirls starring a whole bunch of people who probably should have known better. But, is there gold in them thar...um...hills, or do we just want to push this movie down the stairs? Find out here! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This that movie. You know the one. The one where the idealistic teacher takes the gig at the inner city high school to make a difference in the lives of the kids society essentially gave up on? No, it's not the one with Edward James Olmos. And no, it's not the one with Morgan Freeman or the Coolio song. It's "Freedom Writers" with Hilary Swank, McDreamy, and a toned down Delores Umbridge. But, did Sammie, John, or Joseph survive it? Tune in and find out. For more info about the Freedom Writers Foundation, visit http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app