Falling in Love Montage

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.

It is March, and we are sisters, and that technically makes us March sisters.

So this time the “March sisters” pulled in an extra honorary sister to finally fall into the warm embrace of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019). Joining us is Shannon Campe of Little Women: A Modern Audio Drama, whose expertise and contagious fanaticism have helped us realize we were no longer little girls.

Check out Shannon’s own fabulous Little Women adaptation at www.littlewomenpodcast.com.

When we covered Bridget Jones’s Diary for our first-ever episode on Galentine’s Day in 2016, we couldn’t have known the world would give us the incredible gift of a fourth Bridget Jones movie on our very anniversary nine years later. But that’s where fate finds us today, watching Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy — happy, heartbroken, and humbled that we have gotten to do this for going on ten years now.