Episodes

Do we have soul? That all depends. We time travel back to the Year Two Thousand, crush on John Cusack, and talk High Fidelity with the splendiferous Kate Sloan.

Lord, we give you Curly. Try not to piss him off. We head on out to the country in search of ourselves and talk about City Slickers with our pal Morgan Gold along the way.

Our colors are blush and bashful. We bathe in tears—joyful and sad—and talk Steel Magnolias with friend of the show Ali Soukovich.

“You don't know the power you have over me. One word from you, one look, and I'm four years old again.” We discuss the The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, Wayne Wang and a mountain of mom feels with the wonderful Jessamine Chan.

“Don't let the man bring you down!” Hot Dog Correspondent Jamie Loftus joins Sarah and special guest host Miranda to talk School of Rock.

"I'm not a box, I don't have sides. This is it, one side fits all!" We and our pal Sam Pancake gear up for Mother's Day season with Postcards from the Edge.

"Most little girls are obsessed with ponies and mermaids, not big sweaty men making jump shots." We look at who's talking now, and talk Look Who's Talking Now, with the wonderful Miranda Zickler.

"Mom always says, 'don't ever eat nothin' that can carry its house around with it. Who knows the last time it's been cleaned.'" We and the wonderful Sooz Kempner enter Mount Rose American Teen Princess and talk Drop Dead Gorgeous!

A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live? We talk commie tomboys, Daddy da Vinci and Ever After with the wonderful Amanda Wong!

In which, for a fleeting moment, something passed between us. A faint sense of some common destiny. Join us as we talk Babe with the wondrous Caroline O'Donoghue!

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing! We try to figure out who Swing Kids was for, and we tackle some of the existential questions it poses along the way, with Carolyn Kendrick.

Do we look like we need psychological evaluations? We go Under Siege and try like hell to find its emotional core with our pal Josh Gondelman.

The only thing we know is we have to be kind! In which we go into the multiverse with MariNaomi and explore our love for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

“You don’t need to bite the donut to know it’s sweet.” In which we get BACK IN THE HABIT and talk Sister Act 2 with the wonderful Lynne Childress!

Grab your Remains of the Day lunchboxes and join us down at the Dairy Queen! We're talking Waiting for Guffman with the wondrous Woody Shticks!

"This is no dream, this is really happening!" In which we dissect the terror of Rosemary's Baby, on screen and off, with our pal Sarah Archer.

Every podcast should be informed that "Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating" at least once in its existence! We discuss pain, sorrow, hope and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with the tremendous Rain DeGrey!

We speak for all mediocrities in the world! We are their champions! We are their patron saints! We talk talent, aspiration, jealousy, Amadeus and so much more with the wondrous Maryanna Aster!

“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.” In which Sarah and Alex discuss one of King's greatest books and one of Cronenberg's least gory movies.

“All right everyone! Gird your loins.” We're talking fashion, feelings and The Devil Wears Prada with our great friend Eve Lindley!

“You remember the last time I saw you?” We go deep into the ocean of Moonlight feels with the incomparable Ryan Ken.

“Baby born with two heads. Must be from Brooklyn.” This week, Carolyn and Sarah open the gates and seize the day, exploring 1899 New York and the joys of Newsies—from Bottle Alley to the harbor—with the wonderful Claire Comstock-Gay.

We're taking this week off (and will be back next week with Newsies!) In the meantime we hope you'll enjoy this conversation we had about the intersection of horror, holiday movies, queerness, subtext and much, much more with...

"One time, I turned into a dog and they helped me." We celebrate the coming New Year with Candace Opper, the Statue of Liberty as Godzilla and the 20th Century's greatest movie about art restoration Ghostbusters II.