Once More, With Feelings!

About Once More, With Feelings!

Cozy Quilt Cinema is the movie podcast for people who stay in their feelings after the credits roll. Every week, Beth and Michelle curl up with a movie, whether it's a beloved comfort classic, an overlooked gem, or something entirely new and unpack the hope, heartbreak, humor, and humanity stitched into every story. Smart, funny, feminist, and unapologetically inclusive, Cozy Quilt Cinema feels like riding home after the movie with your best friends while you're still unpacking everything you just watched. Every episode ends with The Stitch Count, our signature three-part film analysis featuring the Castellini Test, Inclusivity & Gaze, and the Tremors Gold Standard, a thoughtful look at representation, storytelling, and the things that make movies truly memorable. So grab your favorite quilt, settle into the blanket fort, and join us for the conversations that begin after the popcorn is gone.

Publisher

PeaPod Productions

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

17 Nov 2024

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

102 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Dark Shadows (2012): The Tim Burton Parallelogram

   It's week two of our Supertobertacular! All month long, we're celebrating Halloween with our picks of not-so-scary movies, ranging from the least scary to, well, not-so-scary. This week, we're digging up Dark Shadows (2012), Tim Burton's gothic soap opera turned vampire comedy, starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, and Helena Bonham Carter. Barnabas Collins has spent 200 years in a coffin, only to wake up in 1972 to discover that his family's fortune is gone, his mansion is falling apart, and the witch who cursed him is still holding a grudge. Also, lava lamps are apparently terrifying. Beth and Michelle get into the Tim Burton Parallelogram (you know, Burton, Depp, Bonham Carter, and Danny Elfman), the surprisingly elaborate cannery dispute masquerading as a supernatural love story, and the questionable medical qualifications of a psychiatrist who apparently knows her way around a pipette. Along the way, we talk about the movie's gorgeous gothic aesthetic, its gloriously dysfunctional family, Eva Green's spectacularly obsessive Angelique, and why this film might be better than we remembered. We also wonder whether a ghost is really that impressive when the rest of your family includes a vampire and a werewolf. Is Dark Shadows an overlooked bit of Burton brilliance, a campy mess, or a little of both? And how does it fare when we put it through our Stitch Count? Grab your favorite haunted heirloom coverlet, crawl into the blanket fort, and join us for a little witchcraft, a little bloodwork, and an awful lot of cheese.

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Teen Witch (1989): Top That, If You Dare

   Welcome to week one of Supertobertacular, Cozy Quilt Cinema’s all-month celebration of not-so-scary movies. We start with the least spooky of the spookies and work our way up to the spookiest ones we can tolerate (Michelle is a weenie, and she’s not sorry). First up is Teen Witch (1989), the cult classic every Gen X girl swears she watched on HBO. Louise Miller is 15, invisible at school, and hopelessly in love with football star Brad Powell. Then a bike accident leads her to Madame Serena’s door, where she learns she’s the reincarnation of a witch born in 1636 and her powers arrive on her 16th birthday. She uses them for popularity, revenge, and a love spell, and finds out magic can’t give her the one thing she actually wants. Fair warning, there is no Halloween in this Halloween-month movie, there is a LOT of saxophone, and Michelle is recording through a very rough week of grape-related regret. Grab your patchwork counterpane, climb into the blanket fort, and join us for the rap that launched a thousand Gen X memories.

3. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Fried Green Tomatoes (1991): Love, Chosen Family, and Towanda

   It's our 100th episode, and somehow no movie fits that milestone better than Fried Green Tomatoes. This week in the Blanket Fort, Beth and Michelle dig into John Avnet's 1991 classic starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, and Cicely Tyson, the story of a stifled Birmingham housewife, a nursing home friendship, and the Depression-era love story of Idgie and Ruth that changes everything. We talk grief, growing older, invisibility, chosen family, and what it means to finally find your inner Towanda. We also get into the film's handling of race, the novel's more explicit love story, and why Jessica Tandy earned her Oscar nomination at 82. This one got a perfect 9/9 score on our Stitch Count. How would you rate Fried Green Tomatoes? A hundred episodes means a hundred conversations, and we've gotten to have a lot of them with people we love. Thank you to Bri Castellani, who helped build the DNA of this show with the test that still bears her name. To Pat Green, who's been in the fort so many times he probably knows where we keep the spare blankets. To Allaina Humphreys, who introduced us to a book we never would have picked up on our own. And to Polly Schattel, who brought a filmmaker's eye and a friend's heart to every conversation. This one's for all of you, and for everyone who's been curled up in the Blanket Fort with us along the way.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 12 / 100

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Social presence

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