Confidently Controversial

Best of Con Con Season 1 - Flowers in the Attic

If you listen to this show you know that if there's one thing Kim and I hate, it's a bucket list. However, watching this movie together would have been on ours if we approved of such things.
Listen to us try to talk about a movie that makes no sense to anyone and probably shouldn't exist...but we are so glad it does. BONUS: You also get to hear us talk about another V.C. Andrews book a lot in this episode - My Sweet Audrina. We may actually talk more about that book than this movie, but who's counting? Not us. 
We are cooking up Season 2 and can't wait to share it with all of you!!
KIT, Emily 
 
 

Best of Con Con Season 1 - One Crazy Summer

Look, we are silly people. We laugh uncontrollably at the dumbest things. We spent a week cracking up about a meme that alluded to a toilet getting married. At the end of the day, we are basically 10 year old boys trapped in the bodies of wildly elegant and beautiful middle aged women.
All that being said, I think we held back a little on some of our early episodes and didn't fully let that red freak flag fly... until this episode. One Crazy Summer is a goofy movie, a goddamn delight and the film that helped us stop pretending to be normal and start acting like our weirdo selves. If you haven't listened yet, do yourselves a favor and give it a go. We talk about fart-related deaths, dog doctors, and other funny stuff - you'll love it. 
We will be back with season 2 real soon. In the meantime catch up with us on Instagram, TikTok and more - you know how to find us.
xo, Kim

Best of ConCon Season 1 - Steel Magnolias

Why do we love this episode? Is it because we learn about Emily's fears of confrontation at the post office? Maybe it's the deep dive we take into lawn skeletons? Or maybe it's because we are two ladies who keep our emotions locked down real tight and we need a movie like Steel Magnolias to feel. Probably the last one, but if you haven't heard this one or even if you have, you should tune in again for the joy, the tears, and the diabetes. 
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See you soon, Connies!

Pretty in Pink

Happy 50th episode, friends! Thanks for joining us in this thing called podcasting for over a year now - we are truly grateful. In our final episode of season 1, we are bringing Mr. James Spader back to the pod, this time in the role that gave women everywhere confusing feelings in their hearts, minds, and second-hand prom dresses. Join us as we posit that 1986's Pretty in Pink was never a love triangle, but in fact a square and truthfully, one where the wrong wig won in the end. 
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See you soon, Connies! 

Project X

Ssssshock the Monkey with us as we explore the evils of animal testing and the scariness of chimpanzees with the 1987 film Project X. This movie has it all - Matthew Broderick,  Helen Hunt, sign language, chimpanzees addicted to cigarettes, actors doing animal sound voiceovers, the list goes on and on. Was this episode was worth the two week wait and the $16.99 to purchase the DVD on Amazon? You be the judge! 
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Rerun: Eddie and the Cruisers

It's a rerun! No new ep this week, but why not listen to an old fave with a new intro?
 
So, Eddie in the Cruisers is a movie about a band that sings songs that you probably thought were by Bruce Springsteen. The End.
Ok, ok, ok, on this week’s episode of Confidently Controversial Emily shares one of her family faves, 1983’s Eddie and the Cruisers. Starring bad lip syncer Michael Pare, hotsy totsy Tom Berenger, cranky Ellen Barkin, and David Silver’s dad Matthew Laurance, this is a film where not too much happens, but it takes a long time to do so. Swing by to see if you can solve the mystery of what the heck happened to Eddie. Where is he? Who is he with? Is he thinking of me?
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She-Devil

She's the devil in disguise... oh yes she is. Is she though? Like really? Or is she a woman who has been lied to, cheated on, and made to feel like she doesn't matter? Huh, society? What about that? Anyway, this week on Confidently Controversial we are watching a movie that kinda helped us form the idea for this crazy little pod, 1989's She-Devil, starring Meryl Streep, Rosanne Barr, and Ed Begley, Jr. Turns out, this movie might be an iconic feminist masterpiece and we just all wrote it off as a silly little tale of revenge. It's campy, it's weird, it's a little bit fun and not terrible - come watch with us!
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Romancing the Stone

Is Michael Douglas hot? We gotta be honest, even after watching peak Douglas trapse through the jungle without sleeves for days and days, we still can't really come up with a definitive answer. We did, however, rewrite the theme song to this movie and it is a hit. Won't you join us as we watch Kathleen Turner (who Emily hates for some reason), the aforementioned Michael Douglas, and underutilized talent Danny DeVito in 1984's Romancing the Stone. It's not as great as you remember. Fair warning.
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The Breakfast Club

Somehow we recorded this episode like two days before The Breakfast Club kids celebrated the 40 year anniversary of their big Saturday detention. March 24, 1984. I want to tell you we did it on purpose, but you know us by now and you know that this is simply not true. We are messy and it was a total accident. Either way, 40 years. Rough. You will like the ep though, we recorded it on vacay. So definitely listen and pretend we have our shit together. 
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The Muppets Take Manhattan

What are the Muppet rules? Do they know they are Muppets? Can they have relationships with any species? Is it okay that some of them are naked most of the time or is Kermit just a weirdo? We don't really answer any of these questions on this week's episode of Confidently Controversial, but we do watch 1984's The Muppets Take Manhattan and talk a lot about the genius of Jim Henson. And we also give ourselves anxiety about sore throats and stuff. Tune in, you'll love it.
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