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

Sep 15, 2024
Calamity Jane (1953)
Sep 15, 2024
Sep 15, 2024
46 min
Izzy has selected one of her all-time childhood favourites today as she has picked out the Doris Day Musical Western classic Calamity Jane (1953) that tells a tale of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel).
Director: David Butler.

Sep 8, 2024
Spellbound (1945)
Sep 8, 2024
Sep 8, 2024
44 min
Hal has chosen Alfred Hitchcock's ‘Spellbound’ for his next film, the mesmerising romance and psychological thriller.
Bergman plays a psychiatrist who is determined to protect the identity of an amnesia patient (Peck) accused of murder, while also attempting to recover his memory. Come and listen to our thoughts on one of the most iconic dream sequences committed to film, designed by the famous surrealist artist, Salvador Dali.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Sep 1, 2024
The Green Mile (1999)
Sep 1, 2024
Sep 1, 2024
59 min
Izzy is back for this episode with a very popular Hollywood epic The Green Mile (1999) starring Tom Hanks as a death row prison guard during the Great Depression who witnesses supernatural events following the arrival of an enigmatic convict (Michael Clarke Duncan) at the facility.
Director: Frank Darabont

Aug 25, 2024
Le Goût des autres (2000)
Aug 25, 2024
Aug 25, 2024
43 min
Hal is switching up his podcast choice this week in taking a break from the Hitchcock marathon to select the Agnes Jaoui-directed French romantic comedy Le Goût des autres (English title: The Taste of Others) about six characters over the age of 35 in the French town of Rouen and their unique relationships. Will Izzy like this one with her being a romantic comedy "Purist"? Listen to find out.

Aug 18, 2024
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Aug 18, 2024
Aug 18, 2024
54 min
Izzy returns with an Oscar-sweeping choice as Jack Nicholson plays a criminal who is accused of faking insanity to serve his sentence in a mental institute rather than prison. Soon he finds himself as a leader to the other patients and up against the nurse in charge of the ward. Director: Milos Forman

Aug 11, 2024
Lifeboat (1944)
Aug 11, 2024
Aug 11, 2024
51 min
It's Hal's choice which of course means he is back on the Hitchcock bandwagon and this week he has chosen Lifeboat (1944) starring Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak and Walter Slezak as eight survivors of a WWII Nazi torpedo ship attack, who find themselves in the same boat with a man who sunk the ship.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Aug 4, 2024
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Aug 4, 2024
Aug 4, 2024
53 min
It's Izzy's choice this week and she has made a surprise choice by picking out a disaster film of the 1970's in The Poseidon Adventure as a group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.
Director: Ronald Neame

Jul 28, 2024
Rebecca (1940)
Jul 28, 2024
Jul 28, 2024
48 min
For Hal's choice, we are continuing the Hitchcock marathon and we have reached his arrival into Hollywood. His first American project under his seven-year contract to David O. Selznick was adapted from the Daphne du Maurier novel released the year previously.
A profoundly gothic tale, “Rebecca” was a critical and commercial success and a production that helped accelerate the early career of Joan Fontaine, who plays a naive young woman who marries a widower (Lawrence Olivier), whose former wife she becomes haunted by the spectral presence of.

Jul 21, 2024
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Jul 21, 2024
Jul 21, 2024
43 min
It's Izzy's choice and she has chosen the 2006 tragicomedy road movie starring Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin and Alan Arkin, all of whom play dysfunctional family members taking the youngest (Breslin) across the United States to a beauty pageant.
Directed by: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris

Jul 15, 2024
Prime Suspect: Keeper of Souls (1993)
Jul 15, 2024
Jul 15, 2024
48 min
It's Hal's choice this time and he's changing it up by selecting one of his all-time TV Drama episodes; Prime Suspect: Keeper of Souls (1993). Director: David Drury In Soho, Inspector Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) investigates the death of a teen male prostitute that leads to a paedophile ring, possibly involving the police themselves ...

Couple Indemnity
As far as film taste goes, ours couldn't be more different. Yet, since our very first date, our enthusiasm and open-mindedness towards different films, whether it's unfamiliar genres, distant decades or foreign languages, has been the basis of many more wonderful dinner-date conversations.
We hope you enjoy a peek into our film-nerd debates.








