Join us as we uncover each other's media and pop culture blindspots. We're a couple getting to know each other better by sharing the must-see movies from our past.
Episodes
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Are there times in your life when you’re more open to a particular show or movie? We find out when we revisit a series that Dave just couldn’t get into the first time Ashley brought it up, long before they ever started dating. PARTY DOWN was Rob Thomas’s (the writer-director, not the singer of “Smooth”) follow-up to VERONICA MARS. The series follows Adam Scott as a washed-up actor and his co-workers at a second-rate catering company in LA as they work disastrous parties and events, while trying to figure out their careers, or lack thereof, in and around the fringes of the entertainment industry. The humor is dark, sarcastic, and frequently silly, so it’s right in Ashley’s wheelhouse. But will Dave come around?
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Saturday Feb 16, 2019
Saturday Feb 16, 2019
This week we’re talking Slartibartfast, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Ford Prefect. No, we aren’t advertising for some weird diet shake, an odd new laundry detergent, or a car that ceased production in 1961…it’s just a few of the interestingly named characters from the 1981 BBC TV adaptation of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. Ashley, a huge fan of the book series, wonders if one needs a live action version of a near perfect story. For Dave, who knew the story from books, radio and the series, his pick is pure nostalgia. Will it stand the test of time? Speaking of time, we’re recording this episode live-ish from GALLIFREY ONE 2019, the US’s largest fan-run DOCTOR WHO convention. We’ll rundown some of our favorite moments from the conference so far, plus give a brief history of how Dave and Ashley got into WHO in the first place.
01:50 - Dave’s Pick: Hitchhiker’s Guide
37:05 - Gallifrey One 2019
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Monday Feb 04, 2019
Monday Feb 04, 2019
Dave and I saw a truly outstanding film this weekend, and although it breaks the rules for our podcast, we really wanted to talk about it. The film was ROMA. Director Alfonso Cuarón takes us into his childhood in the Colonia Roma neighborhood of Mexico City. Told from the perspective of the beloved nanny who helped raise him and his siblings, this film is gorgeous from first shot to last, and it is all the things a film should be: engaging, evocative, deeply moving, and most of all profoundly human. Go see it if you haven’t, and maybe see it again if you have.
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Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
It seems everything gets a gritty remake these days, but did LM Montgomery’s classic book series ANNE OF GREEN GABLES really need the Batman Begins treatment? Disapproving of the recent remakes, this week Dave and Ashley review the original, Kevin Sullivan’s 1985 adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (yes we realize there is a 1934 film as well). Ashley tries and (perhaps) fails to be somewhat objective about her pick and one of her childhood favorites. And Dave waxes poetic about the joys of watching Anne (Megan Follows) find her chosen family and make a place for herself in the world.
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Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
It’s a Bergman bonanza as Dave and Ashley review FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982). This portrait of a large family seen through the eyes of young Alexander is both joyful and devastating. Ashley is drawn in by the powerful and grounded female characters, and the wonderful, terrible portrayals of characters coping (or not) with their own mortality. Dave finds some connection to his past, and is inspired by the contrast of Alexander’s Christmas spent with a large, warm family versus time spent in the austere home of his sadistic stepfather, the Bishop. All this plus Dave’s review of Criterion’s monumental new 39-film box set, INGMAR BERGMAN’S CINEMA.
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Friday Dec 07, 2018
Friday Dec 07, 2018
A listener poll of Ashley’s Christmas related picks decided our next film. By a landslide listeners chose THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, an actual Christmas/Halloween classic, over some lesser known and less well respected films (MIXED NUTS has a 10% Rotten Tomatoes rating). Dave is on the record as having complicated feelings about Tim Burton films. And Ashley was a little hesitant to revisit a childhood favorite, considering how mainstream Nightmare has become. Will they be charmed by the spirit of this film nonetheless?
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
A stranger walks into a small town cafe somewhere in the California desert and proceeds to change the lives of everyone connected to said cafe. Interesting how so many American stories start in nearly the same way and end up in very different places. This week we’re talking about BAGDAD CAFE (1987), a charming indie by German director Percy Adlon. This movie has Dave nostalgic for the Mojave Desert of his youth, and sends Ashley on a tangent about American idealism, interstates, and the slow starvation of small towns. All this plus lederhosen, magic kits, later days romance, and an unexpected female friendship.
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Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
We’re finishing off a very eventful October by reviewing John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic HALLOWEEN…on Halloween! Dave has somehow never seen this film due to his general disdain for the dead teenager/slasher genre. Ashley thinks he’ll love this homage to Hitchcock’s genre-defining PSYCHO, or at least enjoy watching her jump a foot and a half off the couch with every jump scare. So let’s watch the film that launched a thousand horror movie cliches and at least as many sequels. Turn on the lights, check the backseat, and always, always pay attention to warnings from dogs and kids named Tommy.
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Sunday Oct 07, 2018
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
October’s here and we, like the rest of the western world, have gone into spooky mode. This week we're talking about obscure psychological thriller, DON’T LOOK NOW (1973) directed by Nicolas Roeg. A portrait of grief with a bit of the supernatural mixed in, Dave’s pick stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a couple coping with the loss of their young daughter. A fan of late 60s and 70s psychological horror, Ashley finds plenty to love here, especially in the abandoned, labyrinthine Venice that serves as both backdrop and symbol in this film. Can this couple escape from a prophecy of doom?
Want to watch for yourself first? Ample spoiler warnings are provided so you’ll know to stop the episode before we discuss the ending.
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Sunday Sep 16, 2018
Sunday Sep 16, 2018
As an actor, how does one follow a performance in a record breaking blockbuster like JURASSIC PARK? If one is Laura Dern, you star in a controversial indie film by a first-time director about the abortion debate, of course. This week it’s her movie, her choice as we discuss Ashley’s pick, dark comedy CITIZEN RUTH (1996) by Alexander Payne. Ashley and Dave marvel at Laura Dern’s ability to render a character with virtually no redeemable qualities as vaguely loveable, and the fact that this film still feels extremely relevant even 20 years later. Plus an appearance by the late, great Burt Reynolds, and SaWT favorites Mary Kay Place and Swoosie Kurtz.
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