RomComoisseurs Podcast

Max wanted to title this episode: "Blehfbejgbeghsjb beh bah buh" (spelling my own). Noah Centineo stars in this Netflix original film that's less a movie and more just a collection of tropes. Centineo plays Brooks, a handsome boy trying to get into Yale who starts an app where he will be a perfect date.

Dana and Max dive into the 1997 Oscar-winning film about a curmudgeon and the waitress he fails in love with, but also mostly about a cute dog.

Remember 2007? Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore starred in a movie about a washed-up 80's pop star and the woman who helps him write a song for a hot new pop star. Max and Dana go a little bit off the rail.

Katherine Heigl and James "Criss Chros" Marsden star in the 2008 film about a type-A woman who believes in love and a cynical man who doesn't. Will they make it work? Turns out, yes, because like it or not, this is a very quintessential rom-com, and actually a pretty good one!

Max and Dana rank all of the men of the Love, Actually universe. This episode also features a surprise background appearance from Max's girlfriend, Kat.

This movie has three Oscar winners in it! THREE! Guess who?

'The Holiday' is a luxury cashmere sweater of a movie from Nancy Meyers in which Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet swap homes (equally but oppositely enviable real estate) and fall in love with Jude Law and Jack Black respectively. Critics at the time gave it mixed to negative reviews and I'm taking this opportunity to shame them.

We're not pretending that 'A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding' is a romcom (Amber and Richard have less chemistry than the siblings in that creepy coffee commercial), but did you really think we weren't going to watch it?

Vanessa Hudgens is a bakery owner who swaps places with a duchess who's about to marry the prince of a small European country. It's streaming on Netflix. What are you waiting for?

Max and Dana are back, and we watched 2007 hit, 'No Reservations' in which Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an uptight chef who learns how to love thanks to laid-back chef, Aaron Eckhart. Also she has to adopt her niece. Look, the movie was pretty bad, we mostly talk about The Guardians of Ga'hool.

The movie is Rob Reiner's 2008 Electra-complex fantasy 'Rumor Has It...' in which Jennifer Aniston discovers that her family was the basis for the book and movie 'The Graduate.' This movie also stars Mark Ruffalo and a bunch of Oscar winners!

Did you know that 'The Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement' is written by Shonda Rhimes?! You do now. The 2004 movie from Garry "Fun Establishing Shot" Marshall stars Anne Hathaway, Chris Pine, and Julie Andrews in all of their best roles to date. Check those Pine dreamy blue eyes...

Dana and Max get animated with the 2017 Japanese movie 'Your Name' about a teenage boy and girl who wake up in each others' lives. Don't worry, we'll tell you when to stop listening if you want to avoid spoilers.

Dana was under the weather so we went back to 1987 for the ultimate sick-day classic, 'The Princess Bride,' directed by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright.

'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' (2018) is a totally wholesome Netflix delight that's taken the Internet by storm. Lana Condor stars as Lara Jean, whose private love letters she's written get actually mailed to their subjects. But let's be real: this movie really stars Peter Kavinsky's smile.