The Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington, is bored of Halloween when he discovers Christmas and decides to replace “Sandy Claws.” As predicted by Sally, Jack’s plan goes awry until Sally saves the day and wins Jack’s heart. 🎥 This movie stars Danny Elfman/Chris Sarandon (Jack), Catherine O’Hara (Sally), William Hickey (Dr. Finkelstein), Glenn Shadix (May…

💕 To celebrate the release of Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie movie, we are watching Barbie! Everything seems perfect in Barbie Land until Barbie and Ken take a trip to the real world. As Barbie and Ken are confronted with real world problems, they start to question everything they know. This episode is full of spoilers, fun facts, and some background on…

💕 In preparation for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie coming out later this month, this week’s rewatch is the Disney Channel Original Movie, Life-Size! After her mom dies, Casey tries a resurrection spell that goes awry, accidentally bringing her new Eve doll to life instead. As Eve learns to navigate the human world, she inspires Casey and her dad to e…

🏳️‍🌈 To celebrate Pride Month, we are watching the 2005 rom-com-dram: Imagine Me & You. Newlywed Rachel reconsiders her marriage (and sexual orientation) when she falls for her wedding florist. Will Rachel choose safe, comfortable love with her husband Heck or exciting, love at first sight with Luce? ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🎥 This movie stars Piper Perabo (Rachel)…

💌 To celebrate Pride Month we are watching the 2022 Hulu film Fire Island. In this modern day Pride and Prejudice, a group of best friends are on their yearly pilgrimage to Fire Island when they discover it will be their last. While trying to make the most of their last summer in gay paradise, they experience betrayal, friendship, and romance that …

💕 To continue our Mother’s Day celebration, this week we’re watching the 2001 romantic crime comedy, Heartbreakers. Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play a mother-daughter con team who seduce and scam wealthy men, but their plans go awry when they fall in love for real. 💰 🎥 This movie stars Sigourney Weaver (Max Conners/Angela/Ulga), Jenni…

💐 To celebrate Mother’s Day, we are rewatching a classic mother-daughter duo from the early 00’s: Freaky Friday! Therapist Tess and her teenage daughter Anna are total opposites who don’t see eye to eye on anything. With a little help from a magic fortune cookie, they switch bodies! 😲 While trying to live each other’s lives, they develop a new sens…

💗 Join us for another classic Sandra Bullock movie, Miss Congeniality! FBI agent Gracie goes undercover as a contestant in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a terrorist attack. Along the way, she befriends the other contestants, falls in love with a fellow agent, and learns the true meaning of feminism. 🎥 This movie stars Sandra Bull…

💗 This week we are joined by Shaleena from @everything90spodcast to watch the 2010 romcom Our Family Wedding. Lucia and Marcus are newly engaged. When they tell their families, they discover their dads have already met … and hate each other. Planning the wedding forces the fathers to spend time together, reflect on their own love lives, and come to…

💗 For Women’s History Month, we’re continuing our focus on female friendship by watching another 1995 classic: Waiting to Exhale! Join us as we recap this movie and talk all about friendship, terrible men, movie trivia, and Angela Bassett’s iconic car-burning scene! 🎥 Savannah, Bernadine, Robin, and Gloria are four besties who bond over the shortco…

💗 For Women’s History Month, we’re focusing on female friendship, starting with a rewatch of the ICONIC 1995 rom-com: Clueless! Join us as we recap this movie with our friend Sloan and talk all about high school friendship, Cher’s digital closet, 90’s fashion, and movie trivia! 🎥 Shallow, rich, and socially successful Cher and her bestie Dionne pla…

💗 For Black History Month & Galentine’s Day, we’re rewatching Girls Trip with our friends Vicky and Elise. Four college friends reunite for an epic weekend at Essence Festival that tests the strength of their sisterhood. Join us as we talk about long-term friendships, grapefruit handjobs, cheating husbands, and movie trivia! 🎥 This movie stars Regi…

🎉 This week we are watching the Netflix rom-com Someone Great. Jenny has just been dumped by her boyfriend of nine years and is about to move across the country so she enlists her besties, Erin and Blair, to have one last memorable night in New York City! Join us as we talk about friendships, break-ups, bathroom hand dryers, and movie trivia! 🌃 🎥 T…

💗 This week we’re following Elle Woods to Harvard in Legally Blonde. After getting dumped by her boyfriend, Elle decides to enroll in law school to win him back. She eventually becomes a star pupil and wins a murder trial while wearing her signature color, pink. Join us as we talk about break ups, the Legally Blonde Musical, alternate endings, and …

🎄Happy Holidays, Lovebugs! This week we’re rewatching the 2020 Christmas rom-com, Happiest Season. Harper invites her girlfriend, Abby, to her parent’s house for the holidays but reveals she isn’t ready to come out yet and wants Abby to hide in the closet with her. Let’s see if their relationship can survive this chaotic family gathering full of ex…

💕This week we are recapping one of Hadley’s favorites, Always Be My Maybe. Sasha and Marcus were best friends growing up, but after an awkward sexual encounter and the death of a loved one they lost touch. Now they are thrown together again 16 years later and at very different points in their lives. Let’s see if they can rekindle the bond they once…

💗 Join us for another classic Sandra Bullock rom-com, The Proposal! Our friend Chelsea is back to talk about this 2009 movie with us, where a book editor blackmails her assistant into marrying her for a green card, but along the way, they fall in love. Let’s see how this coerced office romance plays out 👀 🎥 This movie stars Sandra Bullock (Margaret…

🎃 We’re celebrating Halloween a little early with a recap of Practical Magic with our friend Emily. In this witchy cult classic, sisters Sally and Gillian learn to embrace their magic and find love, despite the age-old curse on their family that the men they love will die. Let's see if these witches can strengthen their bond and find a way to break…

💀 We’re kickstarting spooky season with a recap of the campy, cult-horror classic, Jennifer’s Body. A high-school cheerleader gets possessed by a demon, who gains power by killing and eating her male classmates. Let’s find out if her best friend can figure out how to save their town from this demon and the killer boy band who summoned it 🎸 🎥 Jennif…

Join us for a recap of Billy Porter’s new rom-com, Anything's Possible. In this coming-of-age Gen-Z love story, Kelsa and Khal fall in love while navigating high school drama, transphobic classmates, and teenage awkwardness. Although this movie came out recently and has an updated view on love and relationships, it still has some classic rom-com tr…

This 2009 movie is a classic in the rom-com genre, but it is not a love story 💔 Tom’s expectations about love & relationships (& women) leave him feeling heartbroken as he chases after his manic pixie dream girl, Summer. Join us as we discuss ALL of Tom’s red flags, our love/hate relationship with this misogynistic movie, and how our views on it ha…

✈️ We’re closing out our summer vacation with a trip to Ibiza! In this 2018 Netflix rom-com, Harper, Leah, and Nikki head to Spain for a work trip, where Harper ends up starting an adorable romance with DJ Leo West. This movie is pure chaos and it also has several cute love stories. Join us as we recap all of the hilarious shenanigans that happen o…

✈️ Join us for a trip to Singapore as we recap Crazy Rich Asians! In this 2018 rom-com-dram, Rachel and Nick are on their way to his best friend’s wedding when she finds out his family is basically Singapore royalty. Let’s see how Rachel handles meeting Nick’s insanely wealthy and judgy family! 🎥 This movie stars Michelle Yeoh, Constance Wu, Henry …

✈️ Join us on a trip to Rome in The Lizzie McGuire Movie! This 2003 film is a classic case of mistaken identity, when Lizzie finds out she’s identical to an Italian pop star named Isabella. Who will Lizzie end up trusting - Paolo, the famous heart-throb “singer”, or Gordo, her bestie who’s secretly in love with her? Our friend, Elizabeth, joins us …

✈️ We’re kicking off Summer Vacation by traveling to Jamaica in the 1998 rom-com, How Stella Got Her Groove Back! Stella and Delilah take a girls trip to Jamaica, where Stella falls in love with a local (who’s half her age 😱) named Winston Shakespeare. Is this a lasting love or just a vacation fling? Tune in to find out! 🌴🏖️ 🎥 This movie stars Ange…

🌈 To continue our celebration of Pride Month, we’re watching Love, Simon! In this 2018 rom-com, closeted teen Simon goes to great lengths to keep his blackmailer from revealing his secret to his high school. This story of self-acceptance has everything: 🏳️‍🌈love💞, friendship, drama 🎭, Oreos🍪, and the longest Ferris wheel ride imaginable🎡. 🎥 This mo…

🌈 Happy Pride Month! To celebrate, we’re watching the queer cult-classic: But I’m a Cheerleader 📣 This 1999 rom-com follows bubbly cheerleader Megan to True Directions, a gay conversion camp. Instead of “becoming straight,” she falls in love with a fellow camper and finds her place in the LGBTQ+ community 🏳️‍🌈💗 🎥 This movie stars Natasha Lyonne, Cl…

For Mother’s Day, we’re rewatching the rom-com musical Mamma Mia! 20-year-old Sophie is getting married and wants her father to give her away…but her mom’s diary reveals that she has three possible dads! So she invites them all to the wedding! Without telling her mom or her fiance 😲 Chaos ensues in between all of your favorite ABBA songs 🎶 🎥 This m…

👗 This week’s episode is about another pair of siblings: Jane and Tess Nichols from “27 Dresses.” Perpetual bridesmaid Jane plans her dream wedding to her dream groom...for her sister! 😱 This story has all of the classic rom-com tropes: unrequited love, sibling rivalry, a bridezilla, and Judy Greer as the bff sidekick! 🎥 This 2008 movie stars Kathe…

👯‍♀️ National Siblings Day is April 10th, so we’re rewatching the 1999 rom-com-dram “10 Things I Hate About You" 🎬 Teen sisters Bianca and Kat Stratford have a strict father who won’t let Bianca date until Kat does. Unfortunately, Kat has no interest in dating, until Bianca’s suitor pays the mysterious bad boy to pursue Kat. 🎥 “10 Things I Hate Abo…

👖Continuing with our female friendship theme, we’re watching “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” This coming-of-age rom-dramedy follows four teenage best friends Carmen, Bridget, Lena, and Tibby, who are about to spend their first summer apart. A magical pair of jeans help the girls keep in touch during their adventures: falling in love in Gre…

💐 We’re celebrating Women’s History Month by watching movies that feature female friendships, starting with Bridesmaids! This 2011 film is full of big names in comedy: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jon Hamm, Judd Apatow, and Paul Feig. Annie’s life is falling apart when her childhood friend Lillian asks her to be her mai…

🎂 It’s Sarah’s birthday episode! We’re rewatching one of her favorite rom-coms, the 2006 cult classic “John Tucker Must Die” featuring an early-aughts all-star cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbel, and Penn Badgley. Teen basketball star (and serial cheater) John Tucker’s ex-girlfriends come together to teach him…

🍍 Our rom-com recap this week is “50 First Dates,” featuring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. This 2004 film is on EVERY classic rom-com list and while we enjoy parts of Lucy and Henry’s love story, there are some problematic tropes that haven’t aged well 👀 Join us as we discuss all the good and bad of “50 First Dates” 🌺🌴🥥 This film is set in Hawai…

❤ Special bonus episode for Valentine’s Week! ❤ Today we’re watching the 2018 Netflix film “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”, featuring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. There are SO MANY relationships to talk about in this movie, since Lara Jean’s secret love letters get mysteriously sent to five of her crushes! 🙈 Her quiet high school existence ge…

❤ The Valentine’s Day Premiere is here! We’re taking a look at “The Princess Diaries”, featuring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. This classic rom-com (from 21 years ago! 😱) was a staple when we were growing up. Join us as we recap this coming-of-age tale, talk about how this movie influenced our views on romance, and decide whether this film can s…

Welcome to the Lovebug Club! Hosted by Hadley & Sarah - join us every other Monday as we rewatch our favorite rom-coms (and some not-so-favorite) and break down the messages presented in these love stories. We’ll call out red flags, discuss boundaries, and talk about relationship dynamics, both romantic and platonic. Do you have a rom-com you want …