Cozy Quilt Cinema
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.
Clueless (1995): As If Cher Was Actually Clueless
Clueless (1995) is Amy Heckerling's Beverly Hills retelling of Jane Austen's Emma, and it's still changing how we talk. This week in the Blanket Fort, Beth and Michelle take on the question: is Cher Horowitz really clueless, or is she sheltered, sharp, and thoughtful? We follow Cher (Alicia Silverst...
Gypsy 83 (2001): Inside the Blanket Fort with Pat Green
This week we're ditching the usual format and pulling up a pillow inside the Blanket Fort with our friend Pat Green. No Stitch Count this time. Just three people talking about a movie and following the conversation wherever it goes. The movie is Gypsy 83, the 2001 indie about two goth misfits in San...
Muppet Treasure Island (1996): But Also, It’s Tim Curry
This week, we’re heading for the high seas with Muppet Treasure Island (1996), in memory of the brilliant and wonderful, Tim Curry. Tim Curry’s Long John Silver is charming, dangerous, funny, warm, and somehow exactly the person you want Jim Hawkins to stay away from and become best friends with at ...
9 to 5 (1980): Working Women, Rhinestones and Remembering Dolly Parton
This week on Cozy Quilt Cinema, we are taking a quiet moment to remember Dolly Parton with 9 to 5 (1980), the feminist workplace comedy that gave us one of her most iconic songs and one of her most memorable performances. Dolly stars alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as three women pushed to the ...
The Fifth Element (1997): The Future Is an Advanced Sh*thole
It’s 2263. We have flying cars, restaurants that come directly to your window, apartments the size of closets, and somehow humanity is still a mess. So naturally, the fate of the world rests with a burned-out taxi driver and a perfect being who takes one look at human history and immediately develop...
As Good as It Gets (1997): Learning How to Be a Person Again
In As Good as It Gets (1997), Jack Nicholson’s Melvin Udall is a romance novelist who seems determined to keep the entire world at arm’s length, that is until Helen Hunt’s Carol, Greg Kinnear’s Simon, and one ridiculously lovable monkey-faced little dog start getting through the armor. This week, we...
Project Hail Mary (2026): Fist My Bump and the Messiness of Science ft. Allaina Humphreys
We are in the Blanket Fort with our incredible friend Allaina Humphreys to talk about Project Hail Mary (2026), and it completely wrecked us in the best possible way. We thought we were getting a standard sci-fi survival story about a guy waking up alone in deep space or maybe a football movie. Inst...
10 Things I Hate About You (1999): 10 Ways to Tame a Shrew
Grab your blanket and get cozy. This week Beth and Michelle are curling up with the ultimate 90s teen rom-com, 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larry Miller. We're breaking down how this loose Taming of the Shrew adapta...
The Road to El Dorado (2000): The Horse Was a Surprise
Beth and Michelle are heading to 1500s Spain and beyond for their first ever animated movie on Cozy Quilt Cinema. This week they're unpacking The Road to El Dorado, the DreamWorks classic starring Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh as two con men turned accidental gods. They talk friendship over greed,...
My Brilliant Career (1979): A Sam Neill Tribute Episode
Beth and Michelle revisit My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong’s Australian period drama starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. Sybylla Melvyn is a headstrong aspiring writer surrounded by people who believe marriage is the only sensible future for a young woman. Then she meets the charming Har...