Falling in Love Montage

Two musical-loving, straight-passing white women extend their lives by wading deep into drag culture in this Pride episode in which Helen and Valerie cover the 2004 romp Connie and Carla, the largely forgotten Nia Vardalos rom-com in which two musical-loving, straight-passing white women extend their lives by wading deep into drag culture.

Donate to Fanaticure’s June 2024 Pride charity drive for Equality Florida here. Since June is almost up, we at FiLM will also be donating $1 to Equality Florida for each July 2024 download of this episode. Thank you for your support! 

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Welcome to Debbie Country, where Cameron Crowe is the next Martin Scorceez and the podcast hosts are admittedly pretty biased in their fervent — albeit grungy and nostalgic — love of the 1992 romantic comedy Singles. 

Reach out in the Falling in Love Montage Podcast group on Facebook if you want to be an early investor in our musical adaptation (don’t tell Cameron 🤫)!

Cohost Helen has gotten her own groove mostly back after having to skip March, and we are finally here with 1998’s How Stella Got Her Groove Back. We haven’t covered an adaptation of a work by the iconic and complicated Terry McMillan since we talked Waiting to Exhale in episode six, so if you yourself were waiting until now to exhale, we hope you’ve been resting peacefully these last eight years.

We had a lot of thoughts and feelings about this one, but we still managed to keep this conversation under 90 minutes — you hear that, everyone involved in bringing How Stella Got Her Groove Back to the screen??

Leap year only comes around every four years, and this year — our 8th anniversary — marks the second leap year we’ve experienced as a podcast. We couldn’t think of a better time to finally bring you an enthusiastic discussion of the oft-mentioned 2010 rom-com Leap Year — but we didn’t do that.
Instead, we’re here with an enraged dialog about the best-forgotten 2010 rom-bomb Valentine’s Day. The movie about the holiday Valentine’s Day. The one that happens every year.
Enjoy. ❤️

It’s the 20th anniversary of the beloved film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’s The Notebook, and that means we and our podcast are really old, and that means it’s time to finally cover this movie. 

Join us as we ascend the figurative Ferris wheel that is this 2004 romance. Do our pants get pulled down? Do we fall in love? Has this metaphor already worn itself out?