Surviving Chick Flicks
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Welcome to Surviving Chick Flicks - a film podcast hosted by John - an unprofessional film critic, Sammie - a self described chick flick fan, and Joseph - a movie buff we conned into this. Each week they will take a chick flick (which is any film that panders to women, has a strong female lead, or was written/directed by a woman) and examine and review it. Tune in each week for a new episode every Friday (weather permitting)!
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Betty White passed away on New Year's Eve, 2021. White had a career that stretched back to the 40s and a legacy that will last forever. And we decided the best way to pay homage to her would be to travel back to 1999 to cover the beginning of White's career as a meme with the killer crocodile film, Lake Placid, also starring Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Meredith Salenger, and Brendan Gleeson. While a CGI cow might now have survived the movie, the question on the table is did we? Find out here!
Take two adults that barely tolerate each other, toss in a baby they have to raise together, and hilarity ensues. Well....something ensues. This week we visit our friends Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhammel in the Greg Berlanti directed film, "Life As We Know It." Did we survive? Find out here!
Happy New Year, everyone! We are back, all three of us (John, Sammie, & Joseph), with our first episode of 2022 and we are traveling all the way back in time to 2016 to talk about the coming of age dramedy, "The Edge of Seventeen" starring that girl from the Hawkeye show and the guy from that show about the bar, you know the one. Is it a modern classic or best forgotten like our actual seventeenth years on this planet? Find out here!
In October of 2021, three podcasters joined online to talk about the 1999 indie horror classic, The Blair Witch Project, and went missing. A week later, their audio was found. And the podcasters didn't really go missing. Turns out, they just went to Denny's and didn't invite us. Jerks. But, after 21 years, does the film once declared to be "scarier that The Exorcist" still hold up? Find out here!
Wanna build a school with us? This week we are taking on a movie that no matter what side of the aisle you are on, we're probably going to risk alienating you, the 2011 drama, "Won't Back Down." And we drug Joseph Johnson into this discussion as well. Did this movie get a passing grade or did it fail? Find out here!
How's your wife and my podcast? It's time for the April Manly Movie of the Month and to celebrate Spring and the start of baseball season, what better thing to do than to quote along with the 1989 comedy, Major League? Did the movie as Jobu to come and have us survive or was it a swing and a miss? Find out here!
You know that recurring dream where you're the youngest copy editor working for a major newspaper and they send you back to high school and it's still like when you actually went to high school and suddenly your brother's there with you and he's cooler than you? Well, it's not a dream. It's a movie! This week, John and Sammie take on the 1999 rom com, "Never Been Kissed." Did we fall for it or did we abandon it standing on a pitchers mound in front of the other town and media from all over the city? Find out here!
What's your favorite scary sequel? As the fifth entry of the Scream franchise will be hitting theaters (remember those?) in early 2021, John and Sammie decide to continue the journey we began back in October of 2020 and slowly make our way through all of the adventures of Ghostface and his friends, Sidney, Gale, Randy, and Dewey, along with the new ones the made along the way. Some of whom won't make it to the end. And we couldn't talk "Scream 2" without bringing back our fellow Scream devotees, Mark, Mindy, and Karen. The people on screen might not have, but do our hosts survive "Scream 2?" Find out here.
Check out Mark on PInk Milk After Dark: https://servingpinkmilk.com
CW: This episode contains discussion of rape, sexual assault, Roman Polanski, and some other topics of a sensitive nature. Listener discretion is advised.
In what will probably be the final episode we cover featuring a 2021 Oscar nominee, we're going big and tackling the darkly comic revenge thriller, "Promising Young Woman," and we needed help. Joining us this week is the glue that stuck us together in the first place, our best friend, Sandy. But, did we survive it as a group? Find out here.
Throughout the 1980's and first part of the 1990's, John Hughes was a legend. As a writer for the National Lampoon and screenwriter of some of the most iconic comedies of our time. So naturally, we have to focus on one of his films that maybe doesn't get as much attention as some of his other work. This week, John and Sammie take on the 1987 Hughes penned, Howard Deutch directed rom com, Some Kind of Wonderful. But does it live up to its title? Find out here.
This week, John and Sammie go "all in" to look at the directorial debut from screenwriter and playwright, Aaron Sorkin, with the 2017 Academy Award nominated film, Molly's Game, based on the memoir and true story of Molly Bloom. But is the film a "flop" or is it a "straight flush?" No, wait, "royal flush." No,......ugh....other poker term. I fold. Check it out here!
It's your classic love story - boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, boy is mauled by a lion, boy's brain is put into a giant animatronic t-rex. You know, romance. This week John and Sammie bring in special guests author/Twitch host, Brianna Beard, and actress/writer, Amanda Spangler, to discuss the good, the bad, and the what the hell in the 1993 cult classic, Tammy and the T-Rex, starring Denise Richards and Paul Walker. But did we survive? Find out here!
Watch Brianna's Twitch channel here: http://Twitch.tv/UnlikelyBeard
All things must end, and that includes the story of Laura Jean and Peter. This week, John and Sammie bid farewell to the Covey family and the people surrounding them with the final (at least for now) entry in the "To All The Boys" franchise, "Always And Forever." But is the farewell fond or not? Find out here!
It's officially awards season, and we continue checking out new films, especially those getting awards buzz (sorry, Tom &Jerry), with the newly crowned Golden Globe winner for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director (Chloe Zhao), Nomadland - a study of life, love, loss, and minimalism. It may have won over the Hollywood Foreign Press, but did it win us over? Find out here!
Lara Jean and Peter are back. And there was much rejoicing. This week, we are back in Netflixland taking on the long awaited (I guess long and I assume awaited) second chapter in the "To All The Boys" franchise, "P.S. I Still Love You." Did we survive? Did we also spend ten minutes on the trailers for "Mortal Kombat" and "Disney's Cruella?" Find out here!
1February 25, 1964. Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke are in Miami to watch their friend, Cassius Clay, become the World Heavyweight Champion. The victory will be celebrated by all four men as they face changes in their lives and in the world. This week, John and Sammie take on the feature film directorial debut of Academy Award winner Regina King, the Golden Globe nominated adaptation of Kemp Powers' play, "One Night In Miami." But is the film a knockout or did our hosts have to knock it out? Find out here!
After an operator error took out the episode on The Bodyguard, we pick back up with our regularly scheduled next episode and it has everything - infidelity, betrayal, Kathy Bates in a Cowboy hat. Yes, this week we tackle our first Tyler Perry film, "The Family That Preys." We also discuss the Super Bowl and give our definitive answer on The Bodyguard as well. But did we survive this family drama? Find out here!
As if we don't stray away from the traditional definition of chick flicks as it is, sometimes we just need to talk movies outside of our usual fare. And so we kick off this new monthly series of special episodes entitled "Manly Movie of the Month," which are a series of films where there is absolutely no way under our own definitions could ever qualify as a chick flick. This month, Sammie picks the 2012 hillbilly gangster movie, Lawless, starring Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, Jessica Chastain, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, and actual cannibal Shia LeBeouf. Do we praise the outlaw nature of this film or do we enact some frontier justice on it? Find out here!
From an iconic scene in HBO's Sex and the City to an actual book to...naturally...a movie, years of advice and pep talks and over analysis is explored and depicted in the 2009 romantic comedy, "He's Just Not That Into You" starring Ben Affleck and others. While all of that might help you figure out why the guy you went out with didn't call you back, the real question on the table is, are John and Sammie into this movie? Find out here! (And as a bonus, John kicked the episode off with the Sex and the City clip.)
Please note that this episode contains discussion of suicide and mental illness. Listener discretion is advised.
This week, we lean into rule #3 of our definitions of what a chick flick is ("any film written or directed by a woman"), by discussing the sophomore effort from director Kimberly Pierce, the 2008 drama, Stop-Loss, starring Ryan Philippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish, and Joseph Gordon Levitt. Yeah, this is kind of a heavy movie, NGL. But, the question on the table is did we survive it? Find out here!
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