3. Mr Holland's Opus

In our last episode of Season One, Alex adds our first animated film to the list with this Pixar studio tearjerker, Inside Out. Catherine and Alex discuss the importance of expressing and experiencing emotions and feeling all the feelings through this movie, which is definitely geared more towards adults than kids!Are Pixar the ultimate masters of emotional manipulation? Do we cry ugly tears every time we watch the Bing Bong scene? What are our own personality islands?! Find out in this episode in This Made Me Feel Things! Also, we’re taking a short break! However, we’re working on the next set of episodes for Season 2 and we will be back later in 2022 ✌️Links 🔗Telling a Story from Inside Out | Lessons From The Screenplay - YouTube Instagram | [email protected] leave us a review to help people find us ✨Credits: hosted, produced and edited by Alex Kemp and Catherine Spinks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Catherine takes us on a trip to the ballet this week with the 2000 film, Center Stage. It’s a dance film about a group of friends who meet in one of New York’s most competitive dance schools. The film follows Jody as she fights against all the rules to become the ballet dancer she’s always dreamed of being. Catherine and Alex discuss their own brief ballet backgrounds and talk through the challenges we were met with growing up with those early 2000 films that convinced us that any dream was possible if you just work hard enough. Instagram | [email protected] leave us a review to help people find us ✨Credits: hosted, produced and edited by Alex Kemp and Catherine Spinks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get out your tiger print crop tops and crimp your hair, and get ready for a cross-country roadtrip with Miss Britney Spears!Alex takes us back this week with the Britney Spears classic, Crossroads. We discuss Britney’s turbulent experience in the entertainment industry as she rose to fame and then was taken over by a conservatorship under her father.A special note about this episode: we recorded this way back in 2021 before the conservatorship was lifted. Some of the details we discuss on the conservatorship at the time of the original recording are now outdated, however, we have provided an update as of April 2022 in the intro to the episode. #JusticeForBritney ✌️Links 🔗Britney Spears' Conservatorship, ExplainedBritney Spears Full Statement on her Conservatorship - VarietyInstagram | [email protected] leave us a review to help people find us ✨Credits: hosted, produced and edited by Alex Kemp and Catherine Spinks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“I’m going home in a PANEL VAN?!?!” 🚚 😱 We’re going back to Sydney in the year 2000 for this iconic Australian teen drama with dodgy guys and a major teen identity crisis. We speak about the intense stress of finishing high school in Australia and also get into some heavier topics around what that stress can do to some people. We talk about how realistically this movie captures the Italian community in Sydney, who you should and shouldn’t date in your teens and just how nice it is to see your local suburbs on the big screen. Links 🔗'Tim Tams and panel vans: Looking for Alibrandi, Australia's best teen movie' - The Guardian AustraliaIf you require any help due to some of the mental health related topics discussed in this episode, please contact the any of the following organisations for support.Australia 🇦🇺Beyond BlueR U OKLifelineUnited States 🇺🇸National Suicide Prevention HotlineInstagram | [email protected] leave us a review to help people find us ✨ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re feeling thirty, flirty and thriving in this episode – or are we?! We’re discussing one of the quintessential Rom-Coms of the 2000s that repopularised the Thriller dance and made all the 13-year-olds fall head over heels in love with Mark Ruffalo (and Jennifer Garner). Have romantic comedies ruined us millennials, do we dream too big? Did Jenna truly get her happily ever after? Do popular girls always have to be mean girls? Were Catherine and Alex as cool as TomTom or as dorky as Jenna when they were 13? Find out in this episode!Links 🔗'13 Going On 30 Alternate Opening and Ending' - YouTube'Romantic Comedies Ruin Real Life Relationships: Survey' - NY Daily News'13 Going on 30's Mixes Messaging | Good and Bad Takeaways' by The Take - YouTube'Billy Joel - Why Vienna' - YouTube'In Defense Of "13 Going On 30" Mean Girl Lucy' - BustleInstagram | [email protected] leave us a review to help people find us ✨Credits: hosted, produced and edited by Alex Kemp and Catherine Spinks Copyright Disclaimer: The song ‘Vienna’ written by Billy Joel, from the album The Stranger (1977), is owned by Columbia Records.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re back at high school this week as Catherine has chosen Mr Holland’s Opus (1995), a film that her 10-year-old self thought was very inspirational. Through the rewatch and discussion she realises that it’s really not that good… not every film ages well! We talk about white men doing their jobs and getting congratulated for it; we lament how 90s movies romanticised dodgy student-teacher relationships; and a missed opportunity to meaningfully represent the hearing-impaired community. Instagram | [email protected] leave us a review to help people find us ✨Credits: hosted, produced and edited by Alex Kemp and Catherine Spinks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Alex has chosen a film very close to her heart, The Joy Luck Club (1993). We are joined by a very special guest, Kat, to talk about this powerful movie exploring the ever-complex dynamic of cross-cultural mother/daughter relationships. Join us as Kat and Alex discuss the impact of their mothers’ experiences of migrating to Australia from Asia and the striking relatability they found in the mother-daughter relationships in the film. We dive into the concept of tiger parenting and its stereotypes, and the romanticism of Chinese storytelling told through this cinematic masterpiece. Links 🔗Amy Tan Talks About Joy Luck Club - YouTubeThe Story of the Swan (Opening Scene) - YouTubeHoward Ho's Musical Analysis of Joy Luck Club & Mulan - YouTubeTiger Parenting Explained - Crazy Biatch Asians PodcastJoy Luck Club Cast & Crew Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - YouTubeIn 1993, Joy Luck Club changed Hollywood. Until it didn't.  Instagram | [email protected] leave us a review to help people find us ✨Credits: hosted, produced and edited by Alex Kemp and Catherine SpinksCopyright Disclaimer: Audio clips from The Joy Luck Club are owned by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (1993). Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every two weeks, Catherine and Alex choose an iconic movie that impacted the millennial generation and discuss how it made them feel then and now.We’re kicking off with Catherine’s choice this week – the great classic The Wizard of Oz (1939).Follow us down the Yellow Brick Road as we discuss how the Wicked Witch gave us nightmares;  how the Cowardly Lion is too pure for this world and is there REALLY no place like home? Instagram | [email protected] leave us a review to help people find us ✨Credits: hosted, produced, and edited by Alex Kemp and Catherine SpinksCopyright Disclaimer: Audio clips from The Wizard of Oz are owned by Warner Bros. (1939). Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.