{"podcast":{"title":"Cozy Quilt Cinema","slug":"cozy-quilt-cinema-7107847","podcast_index_feed_id":7107847,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/OnceMoreWithFeelings/feed.xml","website_url":"https://cozyquiltcinema.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/19419842/Copy_of_OnceMoreWithFeelingsMain2_4_1_awij6.png","author":"PeaPod Productions","episode_count":88,"summary":"Cozy Quilt Cinema is a movie podcast hosted by Beth and Michelle, a queer couple who review films through an emotional, feminist, inclusive lens. From beloved horror classics to hidden indie gems, they bring their wit, heart, and real conversation. Each episode closes with The Stitch Count, a three-part feminist film analysis covering: the Castellini Test (a tongue-in-cheek metric created by filmmaker Bri Castellini), Inclusivity & Gaze, and The Tremors Gold Standard. It’s movie criticism that actually cares. Whether you’re a longtime cinephile or just someone who loves a good cozy watch, climb into the blanket fort and settle in.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T20:17:11.947859+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cozy-quilt-cinema-7107847"},"episode":{"title":"Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) Retrospective: More Than a Caricature","slug":"bridget-jones-s-diary-2001-retrospective-more-than-a-caricature","published_at":"2026-05-18T09:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cozy-quilt-cinema-7107847/bridget-jones-s-diary-2001-retrospective-more-than-a-caricature","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cozy-quilt-cinema-7107847","url":"https://OnceMoreWithFeelings.podbean.com/e/bridget-joness-diary-2001-retrospective-more-than-a-caricature/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/6r2vvkqdmbg8vvxd/Bridget_Jones_Diary8efyx.mp3","summary":"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 not, it turns out, a film about a clumsy woman falling into love. It's a film about a woman falling into herself. We revisit Bridget's diary entries, her Chardonnay budget, and her genuinely iconic fireman's pole moment with fresh eyes and find something we didn't expect: a protagonist who owns her mistakes with more dignity than most films afford their leading men. Along the way, we look at the slow-burn case for Mark Darcy, the sexiest fight scene not involving a hammer, and why \"I like you just as you are\" hits harder at the end than it would have at the beginning. We also run the film through the Stitch Count (the Castellini test, Gaze and Inclusivity, and the Tremors Gold Standard) and come out the other side with 5 out of 9 stitches holding it all together. Tighter than you'd think, but perhaps looser than it should be. This one's dedicated to one of our listeners, Nicole. Happy birthday! Music by <a href=\"https://pixabay.com/users/pianocafe_kumi-35185506/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=370804\">pianocafe_Kumi</a> from <a href=\"https://pixabay.com/music//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=370804\">Pixabay</a>","meta_description":"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), directe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5196,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cozy-quilt-cinema-7107847/episodes/bridget-jones-s-diary-2001-retrospective-more-than-a-caricature/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cozy-quilt-cinema-7107847/bridget-jones-s-diary-2001-retrospective-more-than-a-caricature.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}