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Published 05/13/24
Published 05/13/24
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Shah Rukh Khan's classic Main Hoon Na!Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 04/29/24
Ask Anne Hathaway, Gone Girl is a romantic comedy!Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 02/28/24
Long live the Queen!Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 02/13/24
On Gina Prince-Bythewood’s hot, romantic sports film.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 01/19/24
“Love” means "nothing" in tennis.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 12/29/23
Golf pro. Love amateur. Podcast listener.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 12/14/23
A podcast about a movie about America's other favorite pastime.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 12/06/23
On one of the most influential films of the last two decades years.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 11/14/23
Everybody has a secret...Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 10/25/23
Show me the podcast!Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 10/13/23
The Sports Romance miniseries continues with 2015’s stellar sequel/reboot of the Rocky series.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 09/27/23
Taking a look at the romance in the Oscar Best Picture winner!Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 09/13/23
It’s the grand finale of the queer romance mini-series!Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 08/31/23
Hello, romantics! It’s the long-awaited grand finale of the Bad Romance miniseries. Manish (@vertigay314) welcomes guest Zaki Hassan (@zakiscorner) for Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece The Shining! Featuring one the most toxic marriages in Hollywood, the film has been interpeted and reinterpreted. But it’s a horror classic for a reason. Starring Shelley Duvall and Jack Nicholson, The... Read More Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 08/23/23
IPTBY continues its queer romance series with Francis Lee’s tender and gritty 2017 film.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 08/10/23
IPTBY’s queer romance miniseries continues with Andrew Haigh’s Weekend.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 07/26/23
Digging into another Todd Haynes film as IPTBY continues to look at queer romance films.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 07/14/23
It’s Christmas in June on the podcast.Click the icon below to listen.      
Published 06/28/23
Happy Pride month, romantics! Your host Manish (@vertigay314) celebrates with guest Priyanka Bose (@mspriyankabose) with their pick, the seminal lesbian romance DESERT HEARTS, directed by Donna Deitch. The two talk about the lovely filmmaking, thoughtful themes, and strong performances of this influential queer classic. Starring Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau, the 1985 indie film was the first feature film with a positive lesbian storyline which is wild to think about! It's greatly...
Published 06/14/23
Hello, romantics! The podcast covers its most recent movie yet with the 2022 romcom BROS! Manish (@vertigay314) welcomes back Daniel Brilliant (@FilmnSports21) for his pick, the sweet, raunchy, and discourse-heavy film starring Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane. The two go into themes of identity and queerness, how the film navigates its representation, and its romcom homages. Directed by studio comedy fave Nicholas Stoller, Bros was the first of its kind and should be held up as a new romcom...
Published 05/24/23
Hello, romantics! Your host Manish (@vertigay314) continues the queer romance miniseries with Ang Lee's 1993 film The Wedding Banquet with guest Alex Marcus (@MediaThinkings)! With a complicated family dynamic, winning performanes, and Ang Lee's signature compassionate filmmaking, this film is a hidden gem. Alex and Manish dive into the film's sexual politics, the parental pressures, and a contender for Best Movie Boyfriend. Starring Winston Chao, May Chin, and Mitchell Lichtenstein, The...
Published 05/10/23
Hello, romantics! Your host Manish (@vertigay314) continues the queer romance miniseries with the twisty erotic noir Bad Education! He welcomes back Sal (@Salandthebadpun) to for her pick, and they discuss the great Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's take on identity, abuse, queerness, classic cinema, and filmmaking. Starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Fele Martinez, the film is challenging and disturbing yet beautiful, wistful, and 100% queer!
Published 04/26/23
Hello, romantics! Your host Manish (@vertigay314) begins a new miniseries on Queer Romance: queer movies, queer guests! First up is Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) with Stephen Frears' 1985 My Beautiful Laundrette. Both a tender, steamy queer romance and a biting look at Thatcher-era England, the film is quite transgressive and radical for its time. Starring a young Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke, the discussion goes into the look of the film, the performances, and how it compares to...
Published 04/12/23