Kate Duffy

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 about the scandal of casting Texas-born Renee Zellweger as a definitively British character, Colin Firth's re-envisioning of his BBC Mr. Darcy as the modern Mark Darcy, Hugh Grant's pitch-perfect though (at the time) against-type portrayal of sleazy Daniel Cleaver, Helen Fi...

It's our 100th episode!! To celebrate, we welcome back one of our earliest guests, the great Kate Duffy, to discuss a film that has been our number one requested comfort film over the course of the show. We talk about the incredible Nathan Lane and his unforgettable breakout role as Albert/Starina, how the film deals with irony around conservative family values, the restrained hysteria of Robin Williams's Armand and how it relates to male anxiety, the advancements (and sometimes, lack thereof) w...

To kick off a month of love & romance films, we welcome special guests Kate Duffy and Danny Zeliger to discuss Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. We talk about the origins of modern day rom-coms, the difficulty of overcoming a bad first impression, the cardinal social sin of awkwardness, romanticizing the past, Tom Hollander's serial killer vibes as Mr. Collins, and which characters we identify with most. Take a turn...

This week we welcome a special guest, Kate Duffy, one of our dearest friends, to discuss her favorite comfort film, Moonstruck. It's totally serendipitous, since The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, a meta-film starring Nicolas Cage as a version of himself, came out this week as well, and we all love him awful, like Cher's wonderful Loretta in Moonstruck. We talk magical realism, Shanley screenplays, love as strong as a pizza pie to the face, and how much we all want to be a fantastic old gr...