Flashback Film Friends

Flashback Film Friends is a series in which a Jezebel staffer watches a movie she or he has seen a million times, with a staffer who has never seen it once. Then they discuss—just like friends.

Flashback Film Friends

'Maybe It's Just a Bad Movie': A Lion and a Lamb Watch Twilight 10 Years After Its Release

Hazel CillsandMegan Reynolds

9/21/18 2:00pm

In 2008, when Twilight first hit theaters, I (Hazel Cills) was a teenager and thus unfortunately the movie’s target…

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2 Costume Drama Nerds Watch A Room With a View, the Pinnacle of the Form

Kelly Faircloth

8/10/18 2:59pm

It’s an iconic moment in the canon of romantic cinema, perhaps the iconic moment: George Emerson striding through an…

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Two High-Powered Working Women Revisit Baby Boom

Hazel CillsandMegan Reynolds

7/27/18 2:02pm

In my house as a child, there were three VHS tapes in heavy rotation. All three were actually compilations of movies my…

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'This Is Fucked Up, But Also I'm Crying': Rewatching The Notebook in 2018

Harron Walker

7/13/18 2:35pm

Like pastel Uggs and inch-thick highlights, I spent the better part of 2004 avoiding all things Rachel McAdams. She…

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Dick Remains Satisfying

Ellie Shechet

6/14/18 1:33pm

The 1999 comedy Dick is, in my opinion, very close to a perfect film. A fictionalized and beautifully dumb retelling of…