Episodes

To wrap up our Christmas series and our first season of Comfort Films, we revisit the nostalgic Christmas special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. We have both been watching this annually since we were kids in front of our giant ...

For this third episode of our second annual holiday series, we finally decided to tackle the most ubiquitous Christmas season film of all time, It's A Wonderful Life. Welcoming Georgia's mom, Jean Hughes, as our guest, we di...

For this week's episode, we discuss the new Christmas film Spirited and two other Christmas favorites starring its leads, Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. John and Georgia talk about the heartwarming and hilarious Elf, and th...

Welcome to the second annual Comfort Films Christmas series, ya filthy animals! We kick it off this year with a nostalgic look back at 1990's Home Alone, discussing Macaulay Culkin's star-making turn as Kevin McCallister, ki...

For this last episode of our mystery month, we welcome special guest Jenn Riedell to discuss the cult classic murder mystery farce, Clue. It's the best board game movie we can think of, commanding a huge nostalgic piece of r...

It's week 3 of our mystery series, and we're searching every warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse looking for the one-armed man to exonerate Harrison Ford's Dr. Richard Kimble. In this discussion of the 1993...

It's week 2 of our mystery series, and we're revisiting a directing team that we haven't discussed since way back in episode 1! The Coen Brothers's comic twist on the noir detective story, The Big Lebowski, is one of the …

This week, we're kicking off a month-long mystery series with the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock! We discuss Hitchcock's comprehensive approach to filmmaking, his fruitful collaboration with Jimmy Stewart (whose wholes...

To close out our four weeks of John Carpenter horror, we decided to watch him end the world not once, but twice! Both of these films (two and three in Carpenter's apocalypse trilogy, which started out with The Thing, our …

For this third week of our John Carpenter horror month, we decided to take inspiration from our episode number and go to Area 51 for an alien adventure with The Thing, Carpenter's 1982 alien invasion movie starring Kurt Russe...

It's week two of our John Carpenter horror movies month, and since we're also hitting the big 5-0 in our episode count, we decided to do a double feature! We talk about Halloween and The Fog, two Carpenter classics that …

It's scary season, and this year, we've decided to focus on a series of horror films from a director we love in the genre, John Carpenter. For the first in the series, we're taking a closer look at They Live, …

In this final episode of the "straight to the sequel" series, John and Georgia revisit Indiana Jones in the third film of the original trilogy, The Last Crusade. What can we say, we love a grail story! (See episode 23, …

For our third in the straight to the sequel September series, we're talking about Christopher Nolan's 2008 film, The Dark Knight. We discuss the dark/light motif that weaves through every aspect of the film, the significant ...

In this super-sized episode, we discuss one of our most beloved movie sequels, The Empire Strikes Back! For this second episode in our "straight to the sequel" September series, we talk about all the things that make this a ...

For the first episode in our "straight to the sequel" September series, we're talking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. We love this movie so much, we can watch it as a standalone film without needing to start at the beginning of …

For the big finish to our sun and sand series, we doubled up on the sandiest movie we could find--Dune! Not only did we watch both movies and hours of special features, but we also listened to the audiobook. We …

At Comfort Films HQ, we choose a lot of our picks based on nostalgia, but every so often a new movie comes along that instantly makes a mark on us as a future comfort film. For our penultimate summer selection, …

For the next entry in our summer series, we have the great fortune to be joined by the awesome Claire White from the (equally awesome) Why the Flick? podcast to discuss her favorite comfort film, Jurassic Park! We talk Spiel...

In this episode from our continuing summer movies series, we discuss the 1991 Kathryn Bigelow-helmed surfing bank robbers movie Point Break. We talk mixed religious symbolism, Bigelow's innovative action filming techniques, ...

This week for our 40th episode, we're discussing the classic 80s action/adventure/archaeology film Raiders of the Lost Ark. We talk about the similarities and differences between Han Solo and Indy, the perfect team-up of Har...

We're kicking off a series of sun & sand movies with the 1999 Brendan Fraser action/adventure film The Mummy! We talk Egyptian mythology, Beni the frenemy, the finer points of archaeology versus grave robbery, and how Imhote...

For our much delayed final episode of the pink-themed film quartet, we revisit the 1995 Amy Heckerling teen rom-com "Clueless." We discuss its roots in Jane Austen's Emma , the awesome 90s-ness of it all, and we riff on the …

This week, for our third pink-themed film, we revisited the 1997 film Romy & Michele's High School Reunion, starring Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow. We talk female friendship, the power of tapping into your own uniqueness, the...