Episodes

This one may be our favorite episode yet. For our final Rob Reiner ride we discuss the classic coming of age movie Stand By Me, gun-toting chain-smoking preteens, learning to process grief and loss, and those small moments t...

It's episode 3 of the Rob Reiner Run (now the Rob Reiner Rampage, since it feels more metal), and John & Georgia are discussing the movie that put mockumentaries on the map, This Is Spinal Tap, a fake rockumentary so …

For Georgia's birthday, we discuss her number one comfort film of all time, The Princess Bride. (Eventually. After 15 minutes of digression into Macho Man Randy Savage, He-Man toy, and somehow, Samuel Beckett. But William ...

Happy New Year, comfort fans! John and Georgia ring in 2022 talking about arguably the best romantic comedy of all time, When Harry Met Sally..., starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. This is the first of a 5-movie Rob Reine...

In this last episode of the Christmas season, John and Georgia discuss the 2008 Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon comedy Four Christmases, touching on family-free holidays, the child-free lifestyle, and the futility of trying to...

In this bonus Christmas episode, Georgia and John discuss Jim Henson's masterful Muppet/hillbilly Gift of the Magi, which is technically not a "film," but a fantastic Christmas special and a Macey family Christmas viewing mus...

In this double header of Christmas classics, John & Georgia discuss classic tales adapted to modern settings, the similarities between Victorian England and the America of the 80s, and ponder why all Gen X kids frequently hun...

In this second episode of the Christmas series, John and Georgia talk about Christmas traditions, exalted expectations, eccentric family, and how sometimes a good story about a bad experience is more fun than having a good ex...

In the first of four Christmas-themed episodes, John and Georgia make the case for Die Hard as a definitive Christmas action movie and uncover the many doppelgangers of Huey Lewis.

Happy Thanksgiving from Comfort Films! In this holiday episode, John and Georgia take on the heartwarming and hilarious Thanksgiving classic Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. They talk road movies, non-traditional Thanksgivin...

Bustin' makes us feel good! Bustin' out another episode of Comfort Films, that is. This week, John and Georgia turn their attention to paranormal comedy classic Ghostbusters, its basically perfect script and cast, and why a...

This week, John and Georgia talk about the 80s pop sci-fi classic: the brilliance of Christopher Lloyd and MIchael J. Fox, the sublime weirdness of Crispin Glover, time travel anxiety, and cola wars.

This week, John and Georgia examine the seminal baseball comedy Major League, how it's possible to love sports movies even if you don't really love sports, and complicated reactions to problematic content in old favorites.

This week, to celebrate Halloween, John and Georgia take a deeper than expected dive into 80s teen vampire flick The Lost Boys, starring Kiefer Sutherland, the Coreys (Haim and Feldman), Jason Patric, and Jami Gertz. Besides the obvious fangs and …

This week, John and Georgia are joined by John's mother, Eileen Macey, to discuss her favorite comfort film, Defending Your Life. They hash out the film's themes of reincarnation, fear, hope, and growth, as well as exploring the age old …

In this episode, John and Georgia make a very non-traditional comfort film pick and discuss action, cars, post-apocalyptic weirdness, feminism, climate change, and some light anti-capitalism.

In this first episode, John and Georgia Macey define what makes a "comfort film" and discuss one of their mutual favorites, the Coen brothers's 1987 comedy Raising Arizona.