Falling in Love Montage

We had such a gay old time covering Pride & Prejudice earlier this year that for Pride month, we wanted to have an even gayer, new time — so we grabbed our beloved Austen correspondent Tracy Tanoff to talk about the 2022 loose P&P adaptation Fire Island.

Does Elizabeth find her Darcy? I don’t know who those people are, but I can tell you I’ve got my eye on Noah and Will. (Hahaha, this is a ruse, as I have watched the movie and actually know what happens! Spoiler alert: lots of beautiful super-queer shit). 

Check out Gay Austen, per Tracy’s recommendation, and then watch Fire Island on Hulu — twice in a row, if you’re cool.

It’s been 23 years since Bring It On brought its cheer to the world, and it’s been something like 6 years since we had our beloved friend and cheerleader-lover* Owen Choules on to talk about a chick flick with us. 

So do we do a high kick and delight in this classic, or do we give it the spirit finger? Does Owen still tolerate us? What is team captain Torrance’s connection to the dad from The Shining? Listen to find out! Rah!

*Yeah, he won’t object to that descriptor at all, probably

For better or worse, 1998’s Can’t Hardly Wait is a quintessential exhibit of 90s High School cinema. A movie with almost as much cringe as it has stars. Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont weave a magical story wherein Kenny Fisher gets the girl, Jenna Elfman gets the cab, and Amanda Beckett gets to stand up for herself, for like, at least a minute. And who knows, there’s always a possibility of a sequel with less Smashmouth and F slurs.   

To start 2023 off on the right route, we wanted to talk about best friends with a best friend. So we brought FiLM fave Malcolm Nygard on to fan-girl out with us over the ultimate road trip movie, Thelma & Louise.

Check out Malcolm’s thoughtful Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/theoscargrouch/ and see if you can spy a chick flick or two in his top ten.

Thelma & Louise is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, and geez, Louise, do we ever recommend you watch it.