The Grand Gesture
A podcast where a professional therapist and and unprofessional movie watcher apply everything they've learned from BATMAN (1989) to 89 other lesser films.
4 years ago

The Rightness of Origins in STORIES WE TELL

As if the stories we compare ourselves to in romcoms weren't stress inducing enough... how about the real origin of filmmaker Sarah Polley? STORIES WE TELL is a documentary about her mother, her father, her place in the family and the correctness of all...

4 years ago

Mindful Homewrecking in THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

To wrap up our month on mothers at the movies we have to do a bit of homewrecking. And there is no better person to do it than Clint Eastwood as he shows up at Meryl Streep's door with a camera in hand and many notches on his belt. And while so far thes...

4 years ago

Age is a Number of Annoyances in HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK

Now we are getting somewhere with our mommy porn month. Not only do we put Angela Bassett in The Meryl Category of acting... but also as an object of desire for short former Broadway musical stars with questionable Jamaican accents. And that's as close ...

4 years ago

Food Porn Is Inspiring in JULIE & JULIA

We take a momentary break from our series on mommy porn (though our guest Jairo of MARK AS PLAYED and THE TRUE BROMANCE FILM PODCAST opens with a titillating anecdote on Kevin Costner's real life contribution to this art) to move on to the reason for Ins...

4 years ago

Contract Negotiation Kinks in FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

After last week's episode on BOOK CLUB we are contractually obligated to continue exploring the kinks of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and your hosts find Dakota Johnson pretty, pretty, pretty charming. And that's about it. However we attempt to work through a p...

4 years ago

Education Through Erotica in BOOK CLUB

As two well-read men of a certain age we figured we'd take a break from any part of that to watch some well-read women of a certain age get back to the basics of boning. We really didn't need anything else but BOOK CLUB sweetens the pot by starring Diane...

4 years ago

Layabout Lovers in EMPIRE RECORDS

On the second part of our expose of love in 90s cinema we "welcome" back Jessi to settle once and all if Rex Manning Day is worth celebrating. Along the way Dave of A PODCAST DIRECTED BY continues to dig his co-host's early grave by basking in his shamef...

4 years ago

Cutting the '90s Some Slack in REALITY BITES

With everyone hopefully laying on the couch at home we thought this was the perfect time to check in with our Gen X heroes of REALITY BITES. Jessi joins Dave and Mike to share her thanks that her glory days of dating the likes of Troys (defined here in i...

4 years ago

Boundaries for Best Friends in THE CABLE GUY

On this episode one host establishes some boundaries with another host (though supporting sex workers is deemed mostly acceptable) while our guest Amanda ‘HardCandiMandi’ Kosowiec of the CINEMA GEEKS podcast joins the show to explain her strategy for soc...

4 years ago

Everyone Hates an Expert in COPYCAT

On this episode celebrating the perhaps underrated COPYCAT from 1995 the topics range from the hatred of experts in the age of Trump, teaching your kid that not only will he not be the next Lebron James but he won't even be John Stockton, and the nostalg...