A Chick Flick Podcast
We are a podcast that often covers people’s underrated comfort movies, and this time we finally tackle the long neglected 2003 Valerie-comfort-watch (and Jesse-Spencer vehicle!) Uptown Girls. If that’s not a comfort movie for you, 1) why not, it’s sweet and fun, and 2) we hope you take some comfort in the knowledge that we’ll talk about a different movie next month.
Probably.
OK, there’s a non-zero chance this will just be an Uptown Girls podcast moving forward.
Dear listeners — some of whose names we know — thank you for helping us celebrate Valerie’s birth month by listening to our episode covering 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano. We forgot how wonderfully bonkers. Thank you for listening.
For the month of ‘ly in the year of our lord ’25, we assigned ourselves some summer school. Kind of a lot of summer school, in fact.
Making his first FiLM appearance since we covered Frozen in 2017, Helen’s son (and Valerie’s nephew!) Elam joined us, this time to discuss three whole movies — if you consider the High School Musical movies to be movies. We truly are all in this together — and by “this,” we mean High School Musical, High School Musical 2, and High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Was this the most fun we’ve had in a while? BET ON IT (bet on it) bet on it (bet on it)!
For June, we really wanted to bring you something queer. Like gay queer. And I believe we’ve done that, but also, as a fun bonus, it turns out we’ve brought you something weird queer as well. So this episode — and this movie — lives in that cozy, perfect, Venn-diagram-intersection of good queer things.
We talked about Yorgos Lanthimos’s gorgeous dark/etc. comedy, The Favourite. To make an otherwise unsettling Pride month better. But still kind of unsettling. But, like, unsettling in a cool way. Happy Pride.
We gave you exactly one month’s notice that we were going to cover the underrated 2002 cutie vehicle Two Weeks Notice for May (“Sandy summer,” we called it, very cleverly). So if this surprised you, I don’t know what to say.
It’s been 25 years since the globally beloved Miss Congeniality came out, and it’s been 9 years since this only-just-slightly-less-globally-beloved podcast first started. And I don’t really remember where I was going with that, but that’s the timeline.
Anyway, we’re finally bringing you what you really want — a frank, 2-hour discussion of the Sandra Bullock beauty pageant classic, and eventually, somehow, world peace.
