Episodes

For our second pink-themed film, we beelined straight for the pinkest film of all time, Pretty in Pink, the 1986 brat pack classic starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, and, of course, MR JAMES SPADER. We also...

This week for episode 35, we welcome special guest and awesome friend Etta Goodridge to discuss the 2001 chick flick extraordinaire, Legally Blonde. We talk female empowerment, using your privilege for good, and how being tr...

We wrap up our sword and sorcery month with episode 34, Willow, which was coincidentally released 34 years ago this month! In another bit of serendipity, the trailer for the new Willow TV show (that we were completely unawar...

Week 3 of sword & sorcery movies is here, and this time we're traveling all the way back to ancient Greece for 1981's Clash of the Titans. We talk about petty god squabbles, Star Wars connections, adventure genre conventions...

For our second week of sword & sorcery films, we went with our vote for one of the best of all time, Conan the Barbarian! This John Milius classic was released 40 years (and one day) ago, and it put …

This week, we're starting a series on sword and sorcery movies, one of our favorite genres, and for the first episode, we decided to get creative with our interpretation and finally take a bite out of the Star Wars franchise,...

This week we welcome a special guest, Kate Duffy, one of our dearest friends, to discuss her favorite comfort film, Moonstruck. It's totally serendipitous, since The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, a meta-film starring ...

This week for episode 29, we celebrate the 15th anniversary of Georgia's #1 favorite movie of all time, Edgar Wright's 2007 buddy cop/folk horror mashup masterpiece Hot Fuzz, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. We discuss Wr...

This week, we're closing out our month-long series on musicals with an episode on Jesus Christ Superstar. We explore the film as the passion story from Judas's perspective beginning to end, the perfection of Carl Anderson, t...

It's universally acclaimed as one of the best movie musicals of all time, and now it's a Comfort Films episode - #27, Singin' in the Rain! We talk about Gene Kelly's athleticism, Old Hollywood, and the transition from silent...

In honor of John's birthday week, we discuss Streets of Fire, the 1984 Walter Hill film taglined "A rock & roll fable." This is our second in a series of four music-forward films, and we examine whether Streets of Fire …

We're celebrating one of our all time favorite musician's birthdays this week with an episode on Rocketman, the 2019 Elton John musical biopic. We talk music, trauma, costumes, more trauma, and soulmate friendships. (Note t...

Hey, are we a Shakespeare podcast now? Don't tempt Georgia!! We're back with a discussion of one of our favorite Shakespeare adaptations, Kenneth Branagh's 1993 Much Ado About Nothing. Tune in to hear our thoughts on how Sh...

Join us this week to talk about The Fisher King, a wonderful modern take on the Arthurian myth by director Terry Gilliam, a former member of Monty Python who knows his way around a holy grail tale. It's a beautiful, …

Put on your utility belt and get ready for a new episode of Comfort Films! In anticipation of next week's release of The Batman, we went back to 1989 to revisit the genre-defining Tim Burton Batman, starring Michael Keaton a...

In this episode, we dip our toe into comic book movies and talk about our two favorites from the Marvel universe so far, Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2. We discuss the amazing soundtrack and visuals of the movies, …

This week for Valentine's Day, we celebrate the great and horrible things about love, with a conversation about one of our favorite movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Join us for a chat about life's big questions...

In this episode, John and Georgia fully nerd out on Star Trek, discussing the Original Series episode "Space Seed," which introduced superhuman Khan Noonien Singh, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. They talk utopian futur...

Join John and Georgia for episode 18 as they dive in to a rewatch of Daniel Craig's first outing as James Bond and discuss the evolution of his character over all five movies from Casino Royale to No Time to …

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...