Couple Indemnity

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A couple’s guide to the films we love throughout cinema history.

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Paper Moon (1973)

This week we are delighted to be joined again by Scott Phipps (host of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast, as well as his own shows Reel Britannia, The Stinking Pause and Rainbow Valley podcasts) who has selected Hal and Izzy to review Paper Moon (1973), the wonderfully endearing road comedy-drama starring real-life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as protagonists Moze and Addie, who forge an unlikely partnership during the Great Depression. Director: Peter Bogdanovich

1h 17m
22 FEB

About Time (2013)

Izzy's choice has landed on Valentines Day this week so she has decided to go big and select one of her all-time favourites for the podcast with About Time (2013), the British romantic comedy starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy. At the age of 21, Tim (Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think. Director: Richard Curtis

56 min
15 FEB

Priceless (2006)

Hal has chosen the second French movie for the podcast this week with Priceless (2006), a romantic comedy starring Audrey Tatou and Gad Elmaleh. A shy waiter (Elmaleh) who works at a high-end hotel is mistaken for a young millionaire by the beautiful and intriguing fortune hunter Irene (Tatou). Director: Pierre Salvadori

47 min
8 FEB

Cool Runnings (1993)

For Izzy's choice this week, she has chosen the popular early 90's sports comedy film Cool Runnings, which is a first-time watch for Hal. When a Jamaican sprinter (Leon Robinson) is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach (John Candy) to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. Director: Jon Turteltaub

38 min
1 FEB

The Wrong Man (1956)

Hal is back on the Hitchcock marathon next week and has chosen the movie that he labels as the most underrated Hitch film from his canon of work. The Wrong Man is unique for being the only movie by the filmmaker based on a true story, based in 1953, where we see an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero (Henry Fonda) who is wrongly arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber. Director: Alfred Hitchcock

55 min
18 JAN

All The Presidents Men (1976)

Izzy's next choice is the much-acclaimed Hollywood biographical political thriller about the Watergate Scandal, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, as two reporters whose investigation for The Washington Post sheds light on the controversial scandal that compels the president to resign from his post. Director: Alan J. Pakula

57 min
11 JAN

Gregory’s Girl (1980)

For Hal's first choice of the year, we are going with the much-beloved Scottish coming-of-age romantic comedy Gregory's Girl, starring John Gordon Sinclair as Gregory, a teenage boy, who falls in love with a classmate and tries to win her love. The girl (Dee Hepburn) who he holds affection for bags a place in the school's soccer team. Director: Bill Forsyth

47 min
4 JAN

The Sound of Music (1965)

We kick off 2026 in style with a big epic Izzy has been wanting us to cover for a long time, The Sound of Music (1965). Maria (Julie Andrews), an aspiring nun, is sent as a governess to take care of seven motherless children. Soon her jovial and loving nature tames their hearts and the children become fond of her, leading to her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938. Director: Robert Wise

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A couple’s guide to the films we love throughout cinema history.

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