Description
Always Be My Maybe
No notes. This is a gorgeous, funny, beautifully-performed, character-driven rom com.
Always Be My Maybe
Year: 2019
Written by: Ali Wong, Randall Park & Michael Golamco
Directed by: Nahnatchka Khan
Stars: Ali Wong, Randall Park, James Saito, Michelle Buteau, Vivian Bang, Keanu Reeves, Daniel Dae Kim
Show notes:
This month Lisa and Charles Adrian try very hard to put their fingers on exactly how it is that this rom com is as good as it is.
If you would like to skip the plot summary for this month’s film you can spool forward 9 and a half minutes into the episode.
Correction: when we talk about the Billy Eichner film Bros, we call it Boys. We mean Bros.
In this episode we mention the films:
The Apartment (1960) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/)
Notting Hill (1999) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125439/)
Bros* (2022) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9731598/)
Saving Face* (2004) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384504/)
Dirty Dancing* (1987) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092890/)
Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109831/)
About Time (2013) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194499/)
Love Actually (2003) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314331/)
And the TV series:
Don’t Trust The B In Apartment 23 (2012-2013) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1819509/)
Tuca & Bertie (2019-2022) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8036272/)
Fresh Off The Boat (2015-2020) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3551096/)
*Films marked with an asterisk have previously been featured on the podcast.
You can find a list of Hallmark Christmas movies on imdb here: https://m.imdb.com/list/ls068976997/ and you can read about Chekhov’s Gun on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun.
Next month we are planning to watch either or both of the following Meg Ryan-led rom coms: French Kiss (1995) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113117/) and IQ (1994) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110099/).
If you would like to suggest films for future episodes, you can tweet Lisa: @LisaStowaway.
We record these episodes over the internet. Sometimes the audio is not perfect. We apologise for that.
Music in this episode is by Martin Zaltz Austwick (martinzalzaustwick.com).
Artwork is by Lisa Findley.
Thank you for listening!
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