- Season 4 Recap: Two for One with David and Claire
Recollections, recriminations, and retractions from the past year. What's up next?
S11E4 - 32m - Sep 12, 2026 - Dune (1984/2021&2024)
Source Material: Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction epic Dune. The novel follows the fall of House Atreides and the rise of the teenage Paul Atreides as the messianic Lisan al-Gaib.
S4E10 - 2h 19m - Sep 5, 2026 - Fever Pitch (1997/2005)
Source Material: Arsenal superfan Nick Hornby's honest memoir of his ups and downs with the team.
S4E9 - 1h 48m - Jul 5, 2026 - The Parent Trap (1961/1998)
Source Material: Erich Kästner's Das doppelte Lottchen, about identical twin girls who are separated at birth and rediscover each other at a summer camp.
S4E8 - 1h 44m - Jun 7, 2026 - Suspiria (1977/2018)
Source Material: Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis, loosely adapted for the screen by Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi.
S4E7 - 1h 55m - May 10, 2026 - Special Episode: Clueless
Somehow Claire and David missed 1995's Clueless growing up. How does director Amy Heckerling and star Alicia Silverstone's take on Jane Austen's Emma compare to more literal interpretations?
S4 - 47m - Apr 4, 2026 - The Thomas Crown Affair (1968/1999)
Source Material: An original screenplay by Alan Trustman, following a millionaire who orchestrates a bank heist and the insurance investigator hired to track him down.
S4E6 - 1h 22m - Feb 28, 2026 - Mean Girls (2004/2024)
Source Material: Rosalind Wiseman's non-fiction guide for parents, Queen Bees and Wannabes, adapted into a screenplay by comedian Tina Fey.
S4E5 - 1h 51m - Jan 31, 2026 - Little Women (1949/1994/2019)
Source Material: Louisa May Alcott's semi-autobiographical novel of four sisters growing into womanhood. First published in 1868, and here reimagined by three different eras of Hollywood.
S4E4 - 1h 41m - Dec 21, 2025 - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935/1962)
Source Material: The Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novels about the disastrous voyage of an 18th century British warship. The novels were themselves based on the infamous real-world mutiny.
S4E3 - 1h 44m - Nov 30, 2025 - Dawn of the Dead (1978/2004)
Source Material: George Romero's screenplay for 1978's influential zombie movie Dawn of the Dead, the second installment in a franchise that began a decade prior with Night of the Living Dead.
S4E2 - 1h 26m - Oct 26, 2025 - High and Low (1963) / Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
Source Material: The American novelist Evan Hunter's novel King's Ransom, though directors Akira Kurosawa and Spike Lee largely use the book as a starting point for their explorations of social problems.
S4E1 - 1h 46m - Sep 6, 2025 - Season 3 Recap: Two for One with David and Claire
Another year, another 20+ movies for our heroic podcast hosts.
S3E11 - 32m - Aug 16, 2025 - True Grit (1969/2010)
Source Material: Charles Portis's 1968 novel, in which a young girl searches for a man with "true grit" to pursue her father's killer.
S3E10 - 1h 31m - Aug 3, 2025 - The Poseidon Adventure (1972) / Posideon (2006)
Source Material: Paul Gallico's 1969 novel. A group of passengers on an ocean liner struggles to reach safety after the ship is capsized by a massive wave.
S3E9 - 1h 45m - Jul 13, 2025 - My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) / La Boda de Mi Mejor Amigo (2019)
Source Material: Ronald Bass's original screenplay for the 1997 romantic comedy.
S3E8 - 1h 39m - Jun 21, 2025 - The Wages of Fear (1953) / Sorcerer (1977)
Source Material: The 1950 Georges Arnaud novel, in which four men are hired to transport nitroglycerin to the site of an oil well fire.
S3E7 - 2h 2m - May 17, 2025 - Romeo and Juliet (1968) / Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Source Material: William Shakespeare's renowned tragedy. Both films adhere closely to the Bard's text.
S3E6 - 1h 34m - Mar 15, 2025 - The Time Machine (1960/2002)
Source Material: H. G. Wells' 1895 novella The Time Machine, a contemplation of humanity's future in a world of accelerating technological innovation and economic inequality.
S3E5 - 2h 4m - Feb 22, 2025 - The Shop Around the Corner (1940) / You've Got Mail (1998)
Source Material: Hungarian-born playwright Miklós László's Parfumerie, a tale of two coworkers who fall in love via the written word, despite not being able to stand each other in real life.
S3E4 - 2h 18m - Dec 22, 2024