NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING: Chick flicks
California Love
LAist Studios
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Call up your bestie and pour a glass of wine, because this episode is all about one of the most underappreciated movie genres: chick flicks!
Guests: Writer/director Susanna Fogel, writer/comedian Alex Edelman, and writing/directing team Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (“Freaky Tales,” “Captain Marvel”).
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| 0:39.4 | As we all know, Huntington Beach, and Moreno Valley. As we all know, sexism and film ended with the 2011 release of the film Bridesmaids. |
| 0:44.9 | But I want you to go back and think about the 1990s and the 2000s. |
| 0:49.8 | This was an era in which it was kosher for the New York Times critics to dismiss a movie as a |
| 0:54.8 | chick flick and referred to Nora Ephron and Nancy Myers as lesser talents than directors |
| 0:59.6 | of serious movies like Catherine Bigelow. |
| 1:02.2 | It was okay to indulge in male fantasies of being Rome's number one gladiator or except |
| 1:06.3 | that oil drillers could be trained as astronauts in a single week, but God forbid, a movie |
| 1:10.8 | was about a |
| 1:11.2 | wacky blonde looking for love in the big city. Sure, chick blicks may have raised an entire |
| 1:15.8 | generation, myself included, with unrealistic expectations for love and steady journalism careers. |
| 1:21.8 | But hey, I could have learned all of my life lessons from Fight Club and the Big Lebowski, |
| 1:26.2 | and then where would I be? |
| 1:28.1 | I'm your host, Franklin Leonard, and this is Nobody Knows Anything from LA Studios in the Blacklist |
| 1:32.6 | and the Ancler, and today we are reclaiming the term chick flick, maybe. |
| 1:38.3 | You got into Harvard Law? |
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