This Made Me Feel Things Alex Kemp, Catherine Spinks

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!

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.

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.

“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 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.

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 have to be mean girls? Were Catherine and Alex as cool as Tomtom or as dorky as Jenna? Find out in this episode!

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.