Episodes

Aug. 23, 2023

Comfort Films 89: Happy Gilmore

Do you love Bob Barker? Well, then do we have a great episode for you! For the third week of our spectator sports month, we hit the green with everyone's favorite angry hockey player turned golfer, Happy Gilmore. We discuss …

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Aug. 16, 2023

Comfort Films 88: A League of Their Own (1992)

Georgia and John take the field to talk about one of their all-time favorite baseball films, Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own. We discuss the documentary on the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) t...

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Aug. 10, 2023

Comfort Films 87: Talladega Nights (2006)

Get ready to shake and bake with special guests Christina and Mac Hare from World of Horror Podcast as we talk a blue streak about the hilarious and heartfelt 2006 Adam McKay/Will Ferrell comedy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad ...

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Aug. 3, 2023

Comfort Films 86: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

Georgia and John finish out their month of westerns hanging loose from the noose with the iconic Sergio Leone-directed spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, as they tag along with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, a...

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July 27, 2023

Comfort Films 85: Shane (1953)

For the third week of our westerns month, we're discussing another early 50s classic, Shane. This movie has it all - family drama, good versus evil (with plenty of gray area to explore), a coming-of-age story, beautiful weste...

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July 19, 2023

Comfort Films 84: High Noon (1952)

In this second film of our Westerns month, we talk about another classic film that both defines and subverts the genre, High Noon, starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, and the unknown yet soon-to-be ...

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July 8, 2023

Comfort Films 83: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

This week, Martin from Film vs. Film Podcast joins us as we kick off a month of westerns with the movie that totally changed the genre, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the …

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July 1, 2023

Comfort Films 82: The Karate Kid Part II (1986)

For our fifth and final episode of the School's Out for Summer series, we're taking a long summer vacation with The Karate Kid Part II. Snatched from the certain doom of a summer in Fresno, Daniel accompanies his mentor Mr. …

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June 25, 2023

Comfort Films 81: Adventureland (2009)

It's the fourth week of our School's Out for Summer series, and it's time to stop messing around and get a summer job. In this episode, we discuss Adventureland (2009), starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and the alway...

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June 19, 2023

Comfort Films 80: Tommy Boy

Holy Schnikes! For the third week in our School’s Out series, we’re celebrating dads and grads as we take to the road with the 1995 Chris Farley/David Spade comedy Tommy Boy, the only movie we can think of where you’re …

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June 12, 2023

Comfort Films 79: Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

In this second week of School's Out for Summer month, we're going to summer camp with our guest Etta Goodridge! Directed by David Wain, written by Wain and Michael Showalter, and featuring many other members of MTV's The Stat...

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June 7, 2023

Comfort Films 78: Dazed and Confused

School's out for summer! That's our theme for this month, and we're kicking it off with the 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused, traveling back to the last day of school in a Texas town in 1976. We discuss the …

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May 31, 2023

Comfort Films 77: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

For the final week of our ani-MAY-tion month, we spring into the action with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. We discuss the landmark animation, which combines CGI and hand-drawn animation along with color offset, giving th...

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May 21, 2023

Comfort Films 76: Fantastic Mr. Fox

For the third week of our aniMAYtion month, we take a look at Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's book Fantastic Mr. Fox. We discuss Anderson's practical and playful approach to recording dialog...

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May 14, 2023

Comfort Films 75: Howl's Moving Castle

For this second week of our AniMAYtion month, we're taking a look at one of our favorites from Studio Ghibli, Howl's Moving Castle (English dubbed). We talk aesthetics, from steampunk fairy tale to Dark Academia to Steve Mart...

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May 6, 2023

Comfort Films 74: Robin Hood

We're back, and for May we'll be tackling ani-MAY-ted movies (and making that joke many times)! In the first episode of this four-part series, we welcome special guest Stewart Boyles, co-host of the unofficial MCU podcast, We...

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April 1, 2023

Comfort Films 73: The Godfather Part II

For the fifth and final episode in our Comfort Crime month, we continue the Corleone family saga with The Godfather Part II, which manages to be both a prequel and a sequel in one. We talk sibling rivalry, evil clownish …

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March 24, 2023

Comfort Films 72: The Godfather

For the fourth week in our comfort crime series, we go straight to the source with the grandfather of all modern mafia movies, The Godfather. Coincidentally, this is also the 51st anniversary of the release of this landmark f...

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March 19, 2023

Comfort Films 71: Dog Day Afternoon

For the third week in our Comfort Crime Month, we take a trip back to a sweaty August day in 1970s Brooklyn to ride shotgun with Al Pacino and John Cazale on a bank robbery gone very wrong in Sidney …

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March 12, 2023

Comfort Films 70: Heat

For the second week of our Comfort Crime month, John and Georgia deep dive into the Los Angeles underworld with Michael Mann's 1995 epic cops and robbers movie, Heat . This movie brings you so far into the symbiotic relation...

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March 4, 2023

Comfort Films 69: Goodfellas

For the first week of our paradoxical Comfort Films Crime Month, John and Georgia team up with special guest Christopher Witty to make a move against the Lucchese crime family as they discuss the quintessential crime classic,...

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Feb. 26, 2023

Comfort Films 68: Slumdog Millionaire

This week Georgia and John are joined by their longtime friend and artistic collaborator, Wayne Cardwell, to discuss one of his all-time favorite films, Slumdog Millionaire. We talk about the boundless love which guides Jamal...

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Feb. 18, 2023

Comfort Films 67: Warm Bodies

For the third week of our love month, John and Georgia turn up the heat to take on the 2013 romance/horror film Warm Bodies, starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer. We discuss the parallels with William Shakespeare's Romeo...

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Feb. 12, 2023

Comfort Films 66: 10 Things I Hate About You

For the second week of our love & romance month, we're taking a nostalgic trip back to the late 90s to revisit 10 Things I Hate About You--one of the standouts among the rash of teen movies that came out …

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