Movies That Made Us Gay

"Leeloo Dallas multipass" We watched "The Fifth Element" from 1997, directed by Luc Besson, and we love a future filled with supermodels, high fashion latex activewear, and Ruby Rhod on the airwaves. This movie has a lot of things going for it and possibly just as many going against it. For all the stunning visuals, A+ casting, and high fashion, there's a convoluted plot, third-act issues, and a practically non-existent antagonist. But we're willing to look past those problems because this movie is a fun watch, and our two leads, played by Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich, are just so darn watchable. We won't try to filter down the plot to a few sentences— that's nearly impossible— but we will say Willis, as the war-hardened flying cabbie Korben Dallas, is really showing us why he's a certified action hunk (in orange latex, no less). And Milla Jovovich is stunning as the ethereal, otherworldly, divine being Leeloo. Orange hair and bleached eyebrows never looked so good. Milla makes dialogue in a constructed language sound natural, and her physicality really shows the action star she would soon become. Story problems aside, this movie is still a ton of fun and a treat to watch. 
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"Wish me a happy Valentine's Day when you call. That'd be... nice!" We watched "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" with our friend Amber Shaw, and we need to wash the Blue Ruin hair dye out of our hands. Could this be the most romantic movie of all time? To a generation of millennials, the answer just might be yes. This loopy, Möbius strip, timey-wimey love story could only have been constructed by writer Charlie Kaufman and put to screen by visionary director Michel Gondry, and it has forever left a stamp on our impressionable minds. Jim Carrey gives a rare but memorable dramatic performance as the nebbish, lovelorn Joel Barish, and Kate Winslet delivers an Oscar-nominated performance as the prototype Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Clementine Kruczynski. Gondry's analog, sci-fi world brings us back to a pre-social media era in which one could plausibly have an entire relationship erased from their memory, and a mere postcard could seal the deal to your friends and family. Maybe smartphones would have been the death knell for Lacuna Inc., but we're glad to harken back to those naive days in the before times. There are theories about Joel and Clem's future relationship and whether or not they continued to have the erasure procedure done over and over again. Maybe meeting each other for the first time is their happy place. This movie just might be ours. 
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It's our favorite season on the podcast, awards! We invited over our friends and Oscar experts Joshua Clement and Harper Thomson back on the podcast to talk about our annual Oscar episode where we break down the delightfully chaotic categories of the 98th Annual Academy Awards, that are airing March 15th. With categories this year that are close calls like best actor. Has Timothée Chalamet's cocky campaign cost him the win? Will Ethan Hawke or Leonardo DiCaprio pull off a surprise win? Or will Michael B. Jordan's strong finish with the Actor's Award send him to victory? This might be the most we've talked about one of the male categories ever on the Oscar episode. We get into all the categories and talk about snubs with a full examination of wha' ha' happened with Wicked For Good, and our love Amanda Seyfried in Testiment of Ann Lee. And we do the second annual Empty Mug Awards! 
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"Droughts are for poor people. You think J-Lo has a brown lawn? People who use extra water have extra class." We watched "A Cinderella Story" with our friend Gabe Muñoz, and we've written this entire synopsis using T9 texting. Our gal, Hilary Duff, is having a moment with her new album release, so we took a stroll down memory lane and watched this early aughts modern fairy tale classic. For a teen romance based on a fairy tale, this didn't need to be as charming as it is, and a lot of that charm can be attributed to the stellar supporting cast - Regina King and Jennifer Coolidge in the same movie… fierce. Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray are Millennial royalty, but Jennifer and Regina as "wicked stepmother" Fiona and "fairy godmother" Rhonda are giving us everything - comedy, looks, a cat fight. It's like a "Drag Race" acting challenge come to life. This movie, like Hilary herself, has given way to some classic memes and has become woven into our collective consciousness. Like Hilary taught us - "laugh out loud."
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"No, I'm a star! Please, I'm a star!" After years of resisting the spell Mia Goth has cast on all of us, we're covering Pearl! Shot back-to-back with X during the dark days of the pandemic, Ti West's mélange of horror and 50's melodrama captivated audiences. We talk about how the movie feels outside the studio system and how it lends itself to its odd Technicolor fever dream tone. Who we'd take out of the 2023 Best Actress Race to fit in with Mia Goth's incredible performance, and the delightfully camp moments Pearl gives us. 
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