Season 3

Dec. 31, 2024

Comfort Films 132: The Holdovers (2023)

For the last of our offbeat holiday selections this year, we're talking about an instant new classic for us, The Holdovers! This film bridges the no-man's-land time between Christmas and New Year's Day, when time stretches, e...

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Dec. 24, 2024

Comfort Films 131: Frosty the Snowman (1969)

It's the most wonderful time of the year again, and that means it's time for our holiday special episode! This Christmas season, we decided to revisit a nostalgic animated favorite from childhood, the Rankin-Bass Frosty the S...

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Dec. 19, 2024

Comfort Films 130: A Midwinter's Tale (1996)

This week, our holiday episode is about an obscure little offbeat Christmas film that means a lot to us personally, A Midwinter's Tale - or In the Bleak Midwinter, if you're outside the US. Kenneth Branagh wrote and directed ...

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Dec. 4, 2024

Comfort Films 129: Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

We're kicking off a month of non-traditional holiday films with Bridget Jones's Diary, welcoming back guests Kate Duffy and Danny Zeliger to discuss this Sex and the City meets Pride and Prejudice chick flick classic. We talk...

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Nov. 27, 2024

Comfort Films 128: Paddington 2 (2017)

To cap off our Friendsgiving month, we welcome back Christina and Mac from World of Horror Podcast to talk about a feel-good family film that is as sweet as a delicious piece of pecan pie a la mode -- Paddington …

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Nov. 19, 2024

Comfort Films 127: Pitch Perfect (2012)

For the third installment of our Friendsgiving series, we welcome first-time guest and professional singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Zev Marx-Kahn to discuss Pitch Perfect (2012), which Zev first saw at age 11. I...

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Nov. 11, 2024

Comfort Films 126: The Name of the Rose (1986)

For this second episode of our Friendsgiving series, we welcome back Etta Goodridge (of previous episodes 35: Legally Blonde and 79: Wet Hot American Summer) to travel back in time to the Middle Ages to solve a monastery myst...

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Nov. 5, 2024

Comfort Films 125: My Blue Heaven (1990)

For the month of November, we're throwing a four-episode Friendsgiving celebration and inviting friends old and new to talk about some of their favorite films! We start with welcoming returning guest Frank Bonanno to discuss ...

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Oct. 29, 2024

Comfort Films 124: Maximum Overdrive (1986)

For the second of our DisComfort Films episodes for Halloween month, we’re joined by special guest and real life pal Cathleen Mortensen Bittner to discuss the one and only Stephen King adaptation directed by the man himself, ...

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Oct. 15, 2024

Comfort Films 123: Shaun of the Dead (2004)

It's October again--that time of year when comfort gives way to DIScomfort, the fog rolls in, the slashers sharpen their blades, and we gleefully indulge in rewatching some of our spooky season favorites! First up, we're talk...

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Oct. 2, 2024

Comfort Films 122: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Have you ever had one of the those days when you just wanted to stop the world and have an adventure with your best friends? We know that we sure have! Along with special guest Jessica Sandidge we dive back …

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Sept. 17, 2024

Comfort Films 121: Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)

School just started, but we're already ready for a couple of skip days! First off, we're joining Riff Randell (PJ Soles) and The Ramones to take on Principal Togar (Mary Woronov) and her fascist high school administration in ...

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Sept. 3, 2024

Comfort Films 120: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

We've got a golden ticket! For the second of our duo of kids' classics, we're indulging in a sweet treat - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory! We discuss Roald Dahl's wildly imaginative source novel, art director Harper Goff...

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Aug. 13, 2024

Comfort Films 119: The Wizard of Oz (1939)

I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore... This month, we're talking about kids' classics, and it doesn't get much more classic and comforting than The Wizard of Oz! Claire from Why the Flick podcast joins us to discuss th...

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July 30, 2024

Comfort Films 118: The Thin Red Line (1998)

For the second film in our war movies month, we're staying with WWII but heading over to the Pacific theater to discuss Terrence Malick's modern classic, The Thin Red Line. Unlike its film peer Saving Private Ryan, which came...

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July 3, 2024

Comfort Films 117: The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Can a war film also be a comfort film? This month we're exploring that question. First up this week, special guest Martin Harries of Film Vs. Film Podcast joins us to discuss one of his favorite comfort picks and a …

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June 24, 2024

Comfort Films 116: Frequency (2000)

Have you ever wanted to go back in time to right a wrong? Whether it's correcting an injustice, avoiding a mistake, or preventing an accident, all of us would love to get a second chance to make things right. In …

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June 11, 2024

Comfort Films 115: Interstellar (2014)

To celebrate Fathers' Day in June, we're turning our attention to a pair of films about dads and time travel. (It's a niche, but there are more options than you think!) For our first selection, we're going with Christopher No...

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May 28, 2024

Comfort Films 114: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

What happens when Star Wars superfans make a Star Wars movie? Rogue One - the missing piece of the Star Wars saga we never knew we needed. It started as a pitch for a standalone Star Wars story from an …

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May 5, 2024

Comfort Films 113: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

May the fourth be with you!! To celebrate Star Wars day, we're talking about the last film of the original trilogy (and the only one we haven't yet discussed), and we've brought back the brilliant Christopher Witty (previousl...

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April 29, 2024

Comfort Films 112: The Warriors (1979)

"WARRIORS, COME OUT TO PLAY-AY!" For the second of our juvenile delinquency duo of films, we cover Walter Hill's 1979 cult classic The Warriors. The film is adapted from Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name, which itself ...

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April 15, 2024

Comfort Films 111: Rumble Fish (1983)

April is John's birthday month, and this year, we're highlighting his adolescent penchant for juvenile delinquency with a couple of cult favorites. First up is Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel, Rumble ...

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March 25, 2024

Comfort Films 110: Beetlejuice (1988)

It's showtime! The second film in our celebration of cinematic sandworms is Tim Burton's 1988 horror comedy Beetlejuice. John and Georgia hit the dunes of Saturn by way of East Corinth, Vermont, to dig up the ghost with the m...

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March 10, 2024

Comfort Films 109: Tremors (1990)

To begin Sandworm Appreciation Month (in honor of the release of Dune Part Two), John and Georgia burrow deep into the desert earth of Perfection, Nevada to explore the 1990 cult classic Tremors, starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Wa...

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