Cozy Quilt Cinema

We finally watched Love, Simon (2018) and gave it our first-ever perfect score, 9 of 9 on the Stitch Count! This week we're curling up with the story of a kid counting down the days to graduation with one big secret, a string of anonymous emails that turn into something like falling in love, and a F...

Some movies entertain you. Some movies find you at exactly the right moment and crack something open. Boy Meets Girl (2014) is both. This week Beth and Michelle curl up with Eric Schaeffer's tender, sex-positive trans romantic comedy set in small-town Kentucky, the story of Ricky Jones, a 21-year-ol...

Pieces of April (2003), written and directed by Peter Hedges on a shoestring budget and two digital camcorders, is a small film that quietly breaks you open and leaves you with the pieces. Katie Holmes plays April, the black sheep, the first pancake, preparing Thanksgiving dinner for an estranged fa...

What does it cost to be truly seen by another person and what does the world do when it doesn't know what to do with you? This week, Beth and Michelle climb into the blanket fort with two extraordinary guests to unravel Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012): a story of two lonely twelve-year-olds w...

This week we're curling up with a film that, we believe, has been misread by its own trailers for twenty-five years. Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), directed by Sharon Maguire, written by Helen Fielding, Richard Curtis, and Andrew Davies, and starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant is no...

What happens when the woman who's been doing everyone else's job for seven years finally finds herself in her element? Sam Raimi's Send Help (2026) answers that question in the most gloriously unhinged way possible and Beth and Michelle are here for every morally complicated minute of it. Rachel McA...

It's 2001 and Y2K didn't end the world, so Ivan Reitman sent aliens to finish the job. One rapidly evolving cloaca at a time. Beth and Michelle cozy in with Evolution (2001), the Ghostbusters-adjacent sci-fi comedy starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore, and Dan Aykroyd doing the mos...

It’s a rainy weekend so why not curl up on the couch with us and watch Bridesmaids (2011) and you’ll see why this movie has been living rent-free in our hearts for over a decade. Yes, there's a woman shitting in the street in a wedding gown. Yes, someone pukes on the back of someone's head. But here...

Beth and Michelle pull a worn, half-forgotten quilt from the top shelf and shake out the dust — because So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) has been sitting up there for thirty years, and it is absolutely still warm and cozy. Mike Myers plays Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco beat poet with a talen...

Beth and Michelle turned the air conditioning on for this hellish comedy. Harold Ramis' Bedazzled (2000) is the Y2K fever dream where Brendan Fraser sells his soul seven times over seeming more doomed but likeable with every wish. They dig into Elliot Richards's spectacularly bad attempts to shortcu...