Couple Indemnity

A couple’s guide to the films we love throughout cinema history.

Episodes

Days of Wine and Roses (1962)

May 4, 2025 • 58 mins

Hal has come back with another of his heavy-hitters this week by selecting the powerful romantic drama starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick, depicting the downward spiral of two average Americans who succumb to alcoholism and their repeated attempts to deal with their problems.

Director: Blake Edwards

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Annie (1999)

April 27, 2025 • 42 mins

Izzy has practically transported us in a time-machine to her childhood by selecting the 1999 made-for-television adaptation of the popular Broadway musical Annie, the young girl (Alicia Morton) living a “hard-knock life” in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan (Kathy Bates), Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It’s an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New Y...

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The Master (2012)

April 19, 2025 • 62 mins

For a special one-off episode, we have taken a trip to the cinema to see yet another Paul Thomas Anderson highly-acclaimed film The Master (2012), telling the story of Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), a WWII Navy Veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society, who meets Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the leader of a cult known as The Cause. Dodd sees something in Quell and accepts him into the movement. Freddie takes ...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

April 13, 2025 • 55 mins

Hal has returned to his love for Frank Capra this week and has chosen one of the most important political dramas from Hollywood history with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), about a naive, newly appointed and idealistic United States senator (James Stewart) who fights against government corruption. Director: Frank Capra

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Legally Blonde (2001)

April 6, 2025 • 56 mins

Izzy has picked out one of her childhood and early teen Rom Com favourites in Legally Blonde, the story of fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) who follows her ex-boyfriend to law school, where she discovers that there is more to her than just looks. Will Hal be just as enamoured and as unrestrained in his praise for this early 2000's female classic movie as Izzy? Listen to find out. Director: Robert Luketic

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Midsomer Murders: Tainted Fruit (2001)

March 30, 2025 • 36 mins

Hal is returning to one of his old favourite murder mystery shows set in the rural murderous world of Midsomer with the 2001 episode of Tainted Fruit with another case for Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles) and Sergeant Troy (Daniel Casey). Melissa Townsend (Lucy Punch), the daughter of the manor, has been accused of causing the death of a local poacher and has received a number of disturbing death threats. When she ...

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Amadeus (1984)

March 23, 2025 • 61 mins

Izzy has selected the 1984 Best Picture Academy Award Winner Amadeus as her selection this week, the depiction of the life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), as told by Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him. Director: Milos Forman

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Stage Fright (1950)

March 16, 2025 • 57 mins

Hal is back with the next in the series of his favourite Hitchcock films starring Jane Wyman & Marlene Dietrich. Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd) is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich) is the real murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herself, but when she...

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Phantom Thread (2017)

March 9, 2025 • 61 mins

Izzy's next choice is yet another Paul Thomas Anderson film with Phantom Thread (2017), a extraordinary portrait of renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion in 1950s London -- dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites and debutantes. Women come and go in Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and compan...

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Some Like It Hot (1959)

February 16, 2025 • 48 mins

Hal has chosen an iconic Hollywood Classic comedy film Some Like it Hot about two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) during the prohibition era who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder. Director: Billy Wilder "And where did you get that phoney accent? Nobody talks loike that!"

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There Will Be Blood (2007)

February 9, 2025 • 56 mins

Izzy has gone big for her next choice with Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic period drama starring Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oilman as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

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Too Many Crooks (1959)

February 2, 2025 • 33 mins

Hal has selected another of his British comedy favourites from the 1950's with Too Many Crooks, a highly amusing spoof on crime films, portraying four would-be criminals who manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter. What can go wrong? Director: Mario Zampi

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Nosferatu (2024)

January 26, 2025 • 52 mins

For Izzy's choice this week, she's selected the brand-new release of the Gothic Horror remake Nosferatu, a story we are very familiar with having recently watched the silent 1920's Classic in the cinema and recorded for our Halloween episode. The film stars Bill Skarsgard as the vampire Nosferatu and Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp as the married Hutter couple, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney ...

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Boogie Nights (1997)

January 19, 2025 • 69 mins

Hal has selected an absolute corker for this week's episode by choosing Boogie Nights (1997) a crazy Hollywood drama set in 1970's San Fernando Valley and focus on a young nightclub dishwasher (Mark Wahlberg) who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn in the latter part of the decade into the wild excesses of the 1980's. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

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Little Women (2019)

January 12, 2025 • 54 mins

Izzy is kicking off the New Year of 2025 with one of her favourites from recent years that is the latest adaptation of Little Women, the classic story set in the years after the Civil War: Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy (Florence Pugh) studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejecte...

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The Green Man (1956)

January 5, 2025 • 42 mins

For the final podcast of the year, Hal has selected one of his British comedy favourites of the 1950's The Green Man, starring Alastair Sim playing a professional contract killer who, with his assistant, plan the murder of a prominent businessman (Raymond Huntley). The murder is scheduled to take place during the businessman's stay at a seaside hotel. However a salesman (George Cole) and his new female partner ((Jill Adams) have le...

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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

December 22, 2024 • 62 mins

Izzy has selected one of Hal's all-time favourite films in the festive classic It's a Wonderful Life where an angel (Henry Travers) is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman (James Stewart) by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. Director: Frank Capra

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Home Alone 3 (1997)

December 15, 2024 • 45 mins

Hal has gone very left-field for his first festive film choice as he has selected the much-maligned Home Alone 3, and why it is a sequel that should carry a far superior reputation than it does. In the third installment in the film franchise, with an all-new cast of actors, Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off four international criminals who are seeking a top-secret microchip in his toy car. Director: ...

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The Holdovers (2023)

December 8, 2024 • 52 mins

It's the beginning of our festive film season and for Izzy's first Christmas choice she has gone for award-winning The Holdovers (2023), a 70's tale of a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker (Dominic Sessa), and with the school's head cook...

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Rope (1948)

December 1, 2024 • 58 mins

Hal has returned to his Hitchcock marathon for his next selection by choosing Rope (1948), the classic psychological crime thriller portraying two men who try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death. Director: Alfred Hitchcock

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Couple Indemnity

Episodes

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The Master (2012)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Midsomer Murders: Tainted Fruit (2001)

Amadeus (1984)

Stage Fright (1950)

Phantom Thread (2017)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Too Many Crooks (1959)

Nosferatu (2024)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Little Women (2019)

The Green Man (1956)

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Home Alone 3 (1997)

The Holdovers (2023)

Rope (1948)

Popular Podcasts

Days of Wine and Roses (1962)

Annie (1999)