The Hart Chicks Present… – 0001:0015.5 – Rom Com Promo!

It’s trope talk this week on The Hart Chicks Present as we ask ourselves so many questions about 2005’s The Baxter. While this film is our type on paper, it better get its grafting boots on. However, we’d go geode hunting in Malta with Justin Theroux and Jack Mechanic any day. We’re Doug and you’re dear hearts, and forever the twain shall meet

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Articles referenced:

“The Baxter.” In Wikipedia, January 6, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Baxter&oldid=998616179.

The Baxter. Accessed July 24, 2021. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBaxter.

“The Baxter Movie Review & Film Summary (2005) | Roger Ebert.” Accessed July 24, 2021. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-baxter-2005.

We get deep into our feelings this week in part two of our Kumail couplet, where we all catch The Big Sick, based on Kumail & Emily’s IRL relationship. Jaleh explains why it’s triggering, Jessica yammers on about Ray Romano, and Honorary Hart Chick Jamie publicly apologizes for not laughing at every single one of Jess’s jokes. Have a slice of sheet cake with a robot and join us, dear hearts.

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Articles referenced:

Nikita, Nidia, Ranti Andela, Ghina Zahra Fauziah, and Zhia Aulia Nazafi. “The Contrast Portrayals of American and Pakistani Culture in The Big Sick Movie.” Insaniyat: Journal of Islam and Humanities 3, no. 2 (2019): 111-126.

Riley, Jenelle. “‘The Big Sick’: How Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon Brought Their Real-Life Love Story to Screen.” Variety (blog), June 21, 2017. https://variety.com/2017/film/features/kumail-nanjiani-emily-gordon-the-big-sick-1202473121/.

It’s the beginning of an accidental triplet, and we are super duper in love with 2020’s The Lovebirds. It’s a caper, it’s a romance, it’s a comedy, it’s Kumail and Issa giving us the goods from t to b. If you like quotes about Doug and Dad, ideas for Sex & the City podcasts, and stories about not-real break-ups, then this is the episode for you. One, two, three, GO dear hearts!

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Articles referenced:

Adams, Sam. “The Lovebirds Updates a 1940s Genre for the 2020s.” Slate Magazine, May 22, 2020. https://slate.com/culture/2020/05/the-lovebirds-review-netflix-movie-issa-rae-kumail-nanjiani.html.

Nast, Condé. “Netflix’s The Lovebirds Is a Bad Romance.” Vanity Fair, May 22, 2020. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/05/the-lovebirds-netflix-review.

“The Lovebirds (2020 Film).” In Wikipedia, June 16, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Lovebirds_(2020_film)&oldid=1028868973.

Skiddly to your mailbox for those Netflix discs, because we’re taking it back to the mid-00s with a gem of a film. We’re talking Something New, but your beloved cohosts are the same as ever. We clamor for a remake with Ryan Atwood, we proclaim ourselves good teeth-ers, and we never walk alone because Donald Faison carries us. Drink some wine next to a water feature with us, dear hearts.

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Article referenced:

blackfilm.com. “An Interview with Director Sanaa Hamri,” January 2006. http://www.blackfilm.com/20060127/features/sanaahamri.shtml.

Cobb, Shelley.  “BLACKWOMEN, ROMANCE AND THE INDIEWOOD ROM COMS OF SANAA HAMRI” in Indie Reframed: Women’s Filmmaking in Contemporary American Cinema. Edited by Linda Badley. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016: pg. 154-168.

Gas up the jet and book your first class sleeping room because we’re flying to Singapore in our minds. We watched Crazy Rich Asians, and we have all the hot takes like, “Awkwafina is hilarious” and “this amount of wealth is unfathomable!” Plus, we talk about The Crown and its gateway into internet rabbitholes, bridesmaids with wet feet, and weirdly, OJ Simpson. Bok bok, dear hearts!

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Articles Discussed:

“Crazy Rich Asians: Behind the Soundtrack’s Multilingual Covers of Madonna, Coldplay, and More | EW.com.” Accessed June 27, 2021. https://ew.com/movies/2018/08/17/crazy-rich-asians-soundtrack-coldplay-madonna-kina-grannis/.

Washington Post. “Owning ‘Yellow’: How ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Singer Turned a Coldplay Song into a Mandarin Anthem,” August 20, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/20/in-crazy-rich-asians-coldplays-yellow-becomes-a-mandarin-song-about-risking-it-all-singer-says/.

Tseng-Putterman, Mark. “One Way That ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is a Step Backward.” The Atlantic, August 23, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/asian-americas-great-gatsby-moment/568213/.

Jaleh and Jessica host a podcast. WHOOPADEEDOO! It’s a quote-fest on this week’s episode, because we’re talking about The Wedding Singer, and it’s impossible not to quote along. We get intellectual about millennial 80s nostalgia before we devolve completely in classic Hart Chicks style. Now take off that Van Halen t-shirt, dear hearts, before you jinx the band and they break up.

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Article referenced:

Speed, Lesley. “Together in electric dreams: films revisiting 1980s youth.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 28, no. 1 (2000): 22-29.

It’s time to cliff-dive into our next couplet: rom-coms with male leads, starting with Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a modern classic full of one-liners and Jason Segel’s work of art. We mean the Dracula Musical, of course. Plus, we are pleased as punch to welcome Honorary Hart Chick Vince of The Future Break-Up (@futurebreakup), a guest spot years in the making. Sip on the Haderade and head to the North Shore with us, dear hearts.

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Articles Referenced:

Perfetti-Oates, Natalie. “Chick flicks and the straight female gaze: Sexual objectification and sex negativity in New Moon, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Magic Mike, and Fool’s Gold.” In Gender Forum, vol. 51, pp. 18-31. 2015.

The Mayors of Tangent Town have returned to discuss the magical realism of the modern fairy-tale, Penelope. We really get into this flick, as well as Rage Against the Machine, IMDB, and the plot of Atonement told badly. Plus, James McAvoy — need we say more? Don your best scarf & coat combo and hop a Vespa with us, dear hearts.

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Get your tokens, dear hearts, because we’re taking the El straight to Chicago for the April Christmas classic, While You Were Sleeping. Eliza Jo is back too, so you know we have lots of opinions about everything: Spaceballs, string cheese, and the dramaturgical impact of voiceover. No, seriously we do. Flip your coat to the reversible side and hunker down in a chunky sweater with us.

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Articles discussed:

American Film Institute. “AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 PASSIONS.” Accessed June 3, 2021. https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-passions/. 

CK Dexter Haven, it’s another classic! Change out of that space-aged dressing gown and swan dive into The Philadelphia Story with us. We talk toxic men, Dateline, drunk acting, and all things yar. We also talk about the actual heroine, which is Dinah and we won’t be taking any questions on the matter. Plus, who is going to make us the sequel with Mike & Liz, please and thank you? Don’t wait for the tiger, dear hearts.

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Articles discussed:

The A.V. Club. “The Philadelphia Story Delivered One of the Most Star-Studded Love Triangles Ever.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://www.avclub.com/the-philadelphia-story-delivered-one-of-the-most-star-s-1838267237.

Wakeman, Gregory. “The Philadelphia Story: How an 80-Year-Old Comedy Resonates.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210120-the-philadelphia-story-how-an-80-year-old-comedy-resonates.