Episode 45 – Can You Make it Through Four Christmases?
Christmas and the comedy hijinks that ensue. Set in San Francisco makes it extra. Four families, one day, no mercy.
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Episode 44 – Family Stone
The Stone family unites in common cause when their favorite son brings his uptight girlfriend home for the Christmas holiday, with plans of proposing. Overwhelmed by the hostile reception, she begs her sister to join her for emotional support, triggering further complications. (IMDB summary)
Episode 43 – Hey Buddy, We Have to Watch ELF
Today we are talking about the 2003 holiday favorite directed by Jon Favreau starring Will Farrell, James Caan and Mary Steenburgen. Raised as an over-sized elf, Buddy, a human travels from the North Pole to NYC to meet his biological father who doesn’t know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.
Episode 42 – My Fellow Americans
Today we are talking about the 1996 Peter Segal film My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon, James Garner and Dan Ackroyd. The film pairs two of Hollywood’s legends Garner and Lemmon as former presidents and rivals who have to join forces to expose the current president’s corruption.
Episode 41 – Welcome to Mooseport
Today we are talking about the 2004 film starring Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, Maura Tierney. When Gene Hackman as the former president returns to his vacation home in the quaint eastern town and is approached to be the mayor. Seeing it as an opportunity to keep his ex-wife away from taking half of his home he decides to run.
Bert Langdon: “We’ll find dirt. Even if we have to make it up.”
Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:
• The male gaze of Gene Hackman to Maura Tierney
• Ray Romano, the clueless male romantically
• Bruce the Moose
• Baby Fred Savage
• “The Eagle”
• Love triangle
• A golf game where the dame is the prize (come on!)
Next week’s film is My Fellow Americans
Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts.
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Episode 40 – Do We Wish Dave Was Our President?
Today we are sharing the 1993 film, DAVE about a man who looks like the president so he momentarily stands in for him while he recovers from a stroke. This star studded film illustrates the idealism of what we expect from our administration.
Episode 39 – Take a Long Shot and Listen
Today we are kicking off this month of political movies with a romantic comedy starring Seth Rogan and Charlize Theron. Theron plays the Secretary of State who is running for President and hires childhood chum played by Seth Rogan as her speech writer. And the romantic comedy hijinks occur.
Episode 38 – This Octopus Will Be Our Teacher
Today we are talking about last year’s Netflix doc about a special relationship between a National Geographic diver and a small octopus. What started as an experiment seeing what would happen if he visited the octopus everyday turned into a life lesson at the perfect time that he needed it.
Episode 37 – Climb that Dawn Wall
preferred it to Free Solo. This film follows Tommy Caldwell as he strives to be the first person to free climb The Dawn Wall, the last unclimbed portion of the famous El Capitan of Yosemite.
Episode 36 – Keepin’ it Spicy with Sriracha
Today we are talking about the small indie film written and directed by Griffin Hammond. Support this indie filmmaker as well as find out the story behind your favorite Pho condiment. Why is there a rooster on the bottle? Where did this stuff come from? Where is it made? And why is it so cheap? Find out these answers to your “burning” questions as well as see how the sauce is made.
