If what I think is happening is happening... it better not be.
A few notes:
TFW you fall asleep on your feet like a horse.
This week, Lindsay finally watched this twelve-year old tearjerker starring one of her all-time faves: Heath Ledger. Here are a few things we mentioned in the episode to check out:
This week, we blessedly moved past our month of Jane Austen and into the world of the Plantagenet dynasty. With a script and timing that felt Amy-Sherman-Palladino-esque, plus Katharine Hepburn delivering some of the sickest burns we've ever heard, we absolutely loved all 135 minutes of this film. Get into some 1960s Medieval camp with us!
There will be pork in the treetops come morning.
Shockingly, this is my least upsetting bonnet.
Continuing Jane-uary (IS IT OVER YET?!), this week we watched the 1995 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee and starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman. It also happens to star the real-life Mr. Emma Thompson (Greg Wise) as a truly yucky cad, plus Imelda Staunton (sorry boo, someday I'll remember your name the first time), and Hugh Laurie as pretty minor characters. Overall, a pretty good movie, but as always, bogged down by Jane Austen's circuitous plot lines and more than a few tropes we've seen her trot out just in the three weeks we've been doing this.
This movie delivered about 300% less archery than the poster promised.
This week we were joined by our friend Nicole (who was originally scheduled to talk about Sense and Sensibility next week, but was afraid she wouldn't be able to bear hearing us tear her favorite apart). The 1996 Gwyneth Paltrow vehicle Emma was a favorite of Lindsay's in middle school, but when we took a closer look... it leaves a few things to be desired. Specifically: any semblance of chemistry between the two romantic leads. But hey, it's based on the book that inspired Clueless, so it's not all bad.
There's like hella people at Versailles today.
This is the final episode of our 2017 fire sale, and it's another one of our favorite movies: Marie Antoinette. In fact, we love it so much that it was the theme of our joint 16th/21st birthday party in 2007. Honestly so happy to know that our girl Kiki got to live in this candy-colored Rococo Versailles fantasy while filming with her director-of-choice Sofia Coppola.
My hennies are my care. My hennies are my only care.
Continuing our fire sale of episodes that we recorded in 2017, we humbly present our recap of one of our actual favorite movies of all time: Elizabeth. It stars the #1 lady of our dreams, the luminous, enchanting, perfect, elegant, husky-voiced (etc) Cate Blanchett. This one has so many great and classic scenes (and BITCH! I love an episodic plot!), but our current favorite is "What?! What-uuuuh? What?!"
It's called fashion, sweaty. Look it up sometime ;)
We recorded this episode literal ages ago, but when we realized it had somehow gotten shoved out of the editorial calendar, we knew we had to make it right. This movie is such a good, campy time that it absolutely had to be represented here.
picture of tom cruise's three front teeth
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Can't wait to hear more about Reverend Fordyce's opinions about how I should be.
Rounding out Bec the Halls November, we watched The Prestige. This one is honestly just so good and so labyrinthine (hey-o, Bowie pun!). Even though I'd seen it a few times several years ago, there were still some details that surprised me all over again.
(If it's been a few years since you watched Arrested Development, the title of this episode came from a great visual gag after Buster kills a dove he purchased for an illusion.)
NEXT WEEK: The episode about Behind the Candelabra we recorded several months ago! If you need a refresher, you can check it out on HBOGo.
For the third week of Bec the Halls November, we watched a truly underwhelming film: A Promise. I immediately forgot most of this movie as soon as the credits rolled, because my brain efficiently sloughs off what it doesn't need to think about.
This is our second David Nichols film and our third Rebecca hall joint, and boy... this is movie just a good-ass time. Catherine Tate serving you the delightful 80s English mom to James McAvoy's college freshman son, Bumblebee Coffeecake in a shocking turn as the collegiate version of every uptight dweeb he's ever played, and Rebecca Hall giving you unreal levels of cool and chic liberal college activist.
If you haven't treated yourself to a viewing of this charming movie recently (or ever), I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a balm for these trying times.
Honestly, college boys are such trash and so beneath me it's just insane.
This week we're kicking off Bec the Halls month. To be honest, we filmed this one a whiiiile back, so the order for a few weeks is going to be a little wonky. Bear with us.
At the end of this one, we said the next episode would be Behind the Candelabra. It was the next one we recorded, but it won't be the next one published, ya dig? You're a smart gal, you can handle it.
Anyway, the actual next movie we'll be discussing is David Nichols' Starter for 10, which is a heck of a good time if you haven't already seen it. Get into it, berb.
Why is our girl Rebecca the only female character in this film? Stay tuned.
Man, it's a dark one. This week, we squint our way through The Witch- a great movie with the lighting of an old Cheers episode.
Dear God. Make me a bird, so I can terrorize my mom's tiddies.
We entered this viewing skeptically because we've been burned by BBC productions in the past, but this was a pretty spooky good time. Our girl Rebecca Hall serves you skeptical ghost hunter realness, and the end has a surprise twist that neither of us saw coming.
Sometimes the dang ol' menstruation jokes write themselves. And sometimes the movies do not. This week we trudged through Crimson Peak like so much red clay.
Careful. The stairways can be treacherous.
This week we watched the umpteenth collaboration from Hot Topic's favorite trio: Tim Burton, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Johnny Depp. Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Jamie Campbell-Bower, and a few other people whose names we've already forgotten round out the cast. Fake blood abounds.
Don't talk to me before I've had my coffee, amirite?
This week, we dive into the adequately depressing One Day which dares to ask the question. "What even was the '90s?"
Thanks! I got it from Express.
This week we watched the super-depressing, visually arresting 2012 adaptation of Anna Karenina with our best good Judy, Jenny.
This week we watched the 1996 film adaptation of an Arthur Miller play, The Crucible. Our girl Wino 4Ever serves an excellent performance here (as usual), even though it's a little odd for her to have played a 17-year-old two years after she played Jo March at various ages. The 90s were an odd time for portraying teenagers onscreen.
Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off teenager.
In the episode, we look into the obvious ties between this story and the red scare Arthur Miller was living through when he wrote the play, as well as the historical accuracy and feminist implications of the story, but we'll keep the show notes pretty pithy.
Here are a few fun Crucible-related things you should look at: