Who The Hell Are We?
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Who The Hell Are We?
Authors Melanie Benjamin and Edward Kelsey Moore talk books, movies, aging, ambition, and everything in between. Each episode features one book or one movie—something to read, something to watch, and plenty to say. It’s a podcast about stories, friendship, and figuring it out as you go. Suggestio...
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Night of the Hunter
Robert Mitchum's sinister preacher, Charles Laughton’s only directorial effort, and one of cinema’s most haunting thrillers — The Night of the Hunter...
Laughing Gas
It’s Book Club week as Ed and Melanie take on Laughing Gas (1936) by P. G. Wodehouse. A book with aristocrats colliding with Hollywood child stars in...
Falling In Love At Cambridge
Melanie and Ed discuss Maurice (1987), the Merchant Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel of forbidden love. They explore the film’s emotional tone...
The Champ
A 1931 film about a washed-up boxer and his son turns into one of the most emotional episodes Ed and Melanie have ever recorded. They walk through The...
Sexy Rexy
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), a ghost story with real romantic power. Gene Tierney is luminous, Rex Harrison is “Sexy Rexy,” and the ending still br...
Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
Melanie and Ed begin a new movie-book rhythm with their first book episode: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles — a novel of restraint, elegance, and qui...
Klaatu Barada Nicto
Melanie and Ed discuss the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and explore why Klaatu’s quiet alien warning still resonates.
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Nuns and Roses
A Technicolor convent clings to a cliff in Black Narcissus (1947), where desire, memory, and madness simmer. Ed and Melanie unpack Kathleen Byron’s un...
Best thing in a mediocre movie - the story of her career
Lena Horne leads a dazzling cast in Stormy Weather (1943), but the film holds back from giving her a real role. Melanie and Ed revisit this musical la...
Strong women put in their place
Hepburn dazzles, Grant simmers, and Stewart steals a kiss — but we’re asking what the movie does to its strongest character. Wit, weddings, and one qu...
I’m Divorcing My Husband Over This Movie
The team watches Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)—Melanie immediately wants a divorce. Monkey chaos, Cold War weirdness, and a survival story that forge...
A Party Full of Mirrors
REISSUED for Pride Month | The Boys in the Band (1970)
A queer dinner party implodes in Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking pre-Stonewall dr...
Read. Watch. Repeat.
After more than 100 episodes of delightful chaos, Melanie and Ed are finally giving *Who the Hell Are We?* a little structure—just a little. From now...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie is WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER (1957), starring Jayne Mansfield and...
Torch Song
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie is TORCH SONG (1953), starring Joan Crawford and Michael Wilding.
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The Holiday
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie is THE HOLIDAY (2006), starring Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, a...
Valentino
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie is VALENTINO (1977), directed by Ken Russell and starring Rudolf Nureye...
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie is THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951), starring Michael Rennie, Patri...
Fistful of Dollars
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie is FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964), directed by Sergio Leone and starring Cli...
Shadow of a Doubt
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie is SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring...
Georgy Girl
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie is GEORGY GIRL (1966), starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, Charlotte Ra...
Random Harvest
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them.
This week's movie is RANDOM HARVEST (1942), starring Ronald Colman and Gre...
Trapeze
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them.
This week's movie is TRAPEZE (1956), starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis...
The Rose Tattoo
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them.
This week's movie is THE ROSE TATTOO (1955), starring Anna Magnani, Burt L...
Sudden Fear
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them.
This week's movie is SUDDEN FEAR (1952), American film noir thriller film...
Stormy Weather
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them.
This week's movie is STORMY WEATHER (1943), starring Lena Horne, Bill "Boj...
*insert lame excuse here*
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them; their audio engineer let the holidays, day job, COVID, and aliens delay posting this epis...
Cold [vodka] Opening
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946), starring David Niven, Roger Livesey...
10th Anniversary!
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: BLACK NARCISSUS (1947), starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, and...
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964), Written and directed by Jacques Dem...
Cowabunga, Big Kahuna
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: GIDGET (1959), starring Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, Art...
Maurice
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: MAURICE (1987), starring The James Wilby, Hugh Grant, and Rupert Grave...
NUTS!
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: BATTLEGROUND (1949), starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montal...
Melanie's Potty-Mouth T-Shirt Reveal
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: CAT PEOPLE (1942), starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, and...
Lost Moral Compass
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (1950), starring Joan Crawford, David Brian, and...
Cooley High
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: COOLEY HIGH (1973), starring Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and...
Tuggle and TV
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: WHERE THE BOYS ARE (1960), starring Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Paul...
Madame X
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: MADAME X (1966), starring Lana Turner, John Forsythe, and Ricardo Mont...
Mendacity!
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958), starring Paul Newman, Elizebeth Taylor,...
Authors in London Stories
Melanie and Ed love watching old movies and dishing on them. This week's movie: THE LONG, HOT SUMMER (1958), starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Or...