Watch With Jen™

Jen Johans recommends 5 great films for you to stream this week.Topics discussed: What Jack Kerouac and Nick Hornby characters have in common; rock star professors; Ethan Hawke as philosophizing preacher or shaggy dog; three Frenchmen who really know how to scare; the female battle with politeness; empowering women in horror; the power of female sexual fantasies; women without men and how that dynamic changes both genders; sex, drugs, and Martin Scorsese directed rock 'n roll; the whole Robbie Robertson controversy; Jen drops the F-bomb twice while quoting Levon Helm; Van Morrison as a high kicking, velvet wearing, scatting god; Anne Tyler novels; William Hurt & Kathleen Turner after Body Heat; how in an ensemble film like The Big Chill, of course Jen's falling for the messed up impotent guy; Lawrence Kasdan's underrated movies; the quarantine impact on The Sower and The Accidental Tourist; and quirky characters.Originally Posted on Patreon here with links: https://bit.ly/3cueTnKTheme Music: The Guitarist by Jahzzar, Free Music Archive

In addition to 5 excellent streaming recommendations, topics this week include: new Patreon tiers and rewards, winning or losing the pronunciation battle, literary adaptations and the stars and directors who love them, nice Bobby vs. scary Bobby, an embarrassing Jen anecdote involving Uma Thurman, crushing on shorter boys, cell phone addiction, Captain America getting Fast and Furious while saving the day, anesthesia side effects, singing country music, Ben Affleck the filmmaker, theatrical vs. extended cuts, and classic noir set-ups.Originally published on Patreon (4/13/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/35952898Theme Music: The Guitarist by Jahzzar, Free Music Archive

From the mean streets of Brazil to life in Witsec in San Diego to a hangout picture from a pissed off Howard Hawks to Janis Joplin almost jumping out of her shoes onstage to a thirteen-year-old witch coming into her own in a Studio Ghibli classic, Jen serves up 5 great films from the HBO Max streaming library for your viewing pleasure.Originally Posted on Patreon on 9/25/20 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42030767Theme Music: The Guitarist by Jahzzar, Free Music Archive

Episode 6 might be an all-timer in illustrating just how much Jen's cinematic tastes and interests run the absolute gamut.Topics discussed include: Hugh Grant, relationships from brother filmmakers to brotherhood, The Godfather, Cain & Abel, MMA, Beethoven, Jerry Maguire, cool girls, '60s French pop music, Pixie Mary Poppins, buying too many books on Kindle, the facade of perfection, women with canes, Billy Wilder, actresses who dish on screen kisses, age difference on film, new millennium existential angst, and stealing rare books.Originally Published on Patreon (4/6/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/35716740Theme Music: The Guitarist by Jahzzar, Free Music Archive

Jen Johans jumps as far back as 1939 for her first film recommendation today & then jumped back into the 21st century with 4 others that she hopes you'll love. Topics discussed include: Netflix over-choice, Ginger Rogers, Bill Pullman and Rufus Sewell's onscreen luck with the ladies, that sometimes it's okay to just say no to Christopher Nolan movies, Alfonso Cuaron can tackle Dickens (damn it!), what Brian Wilson and the Minnesota Twins have in common, that time when Hannibal scared Jen's brother into hanging up drapes, Drew's Script-o-Rama, why Grady Tripp is her spirit animal, sometimes you need over a dozen drafts to get it right, her fear of cruise ships, why workaholics are not the enemy (& no, not every woman in a movie needs love), and a reminder that there is no crazier place than the diary entries of Jen's Letterboxd account.Originally Posted on Patreon (3/30/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/35441910Theme Music: The Guitarist by Jahzzar, Free Music Archive

Pull up a chair, plug in your headphones & settle in for 5 film recommendations & 40 minutes of quarantine fun. Topics discussed this week include: the wisdom of Martin Scorsese & Roger Ebert, writer-directors Jay & Mark Duplass, hospital in-room movie selections, women kicking ass on film (whether people buy tickets or not), action movie franchises, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, why you should never trust Billy Zane in the water, Robert Elswit's relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson, paranoid thrillers, driving through southern Minnesota & winding up at Winona Ryder's place of birth, Kevin Bacon: good at being bad, collecting screenplays as a teen, the ever-evolving musical genre, & that time Jen Johans accidentally hung up on Rachael Leigh Cook.Originally Published on Patreon (3/23/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/35204345Theme Music: The Guitarist by Jahzzar, Free Music Archive

In addition to sharing 5 new titles that just might help liven things up around your house, topics discussed this week include: The Cadillac of microphones, Michelle Pfeiffer using & fighting against her beauty, Neil Simon, an imaginary Michael Haneke film festival, Howard Hawks: Hawksian Women & Men in Love, & digging the flawed side of Denzel Washington. Stay safe and stream on!Originally published on Patreon (3/16/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/34958634Theme Music: The Guitarist by Jahzzar, Free Music Archive

The training wheels have started to come off in the second episode of Watch With Jen & our host begins to talk. After news and notes on Episode 1, you'll find 5 stellar film streaming picks that Jen Johans would undoubtedly make you watch if you were hanging out in real life.She serves up spicy anecdotes about how Scorsese's lasagna ruined Quentin Tarantino's dating life, why dating fellow creatives is tough in general, Bon Jovi and 1960s records, plays filmography detective, chats about eastern westerns, fesses up about that time she accidentally snubbed Bobby Cannavale, gives a couple of shout-outs to friends, and talks about Stockholm Noir and Swedish crime.Originally published on Patreon (3/10/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/watch-with-jen-2-34770104Theme Music: The Guitarist by Jahzzar, Free Music Archive

After 14 years and 2,500 reviews published on FilmIntuition.com (and thousands of odes to movies on Twitter @FilmIntuition), Jen Johans has kicks off her first podcast - Watch With Jen - where she recommends 5 great streaming movie recommendations each week for you to enjoy.Originally uploaded on Patreon (3/3/20): https://www.patreon.com/posts/34563654Theme Music: The Guitarist by Jahzzar, Free Music Archive

A staff writer at WBUR's The ARTery and a contributing writer at North Shore Movies, Sean Burns was Philadelphia Weekly's lead film critic from 1999-2013 and worked as the movie section contributing editor at The Improper Bostonian from 2006-2014.Having graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and received an award for excellence in criticism from The Greater Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists in 2002, Sean's reviews, interviews, and essays have also appeared in Metro, The Village Voice, The Boston Herald, Nashville Scene, Time Out New York, Philadelphia City Paper, Movie Mezzanine, The House Next Door, and RogerEbert.com. Sean's writing has been called "jocular but serious, more like a 1940's daily reporter pounding out columns on a manual typewriter than a typical 21st-century novel gazing critic," but if you ask Sean's sisters, they'll just tell you that he swears too much and drives like an old lady.Very funny and imaginative, Jen once had the misfortune of sharing a podcast episode of Blake Howard's THE LAST (12 Minutes) OF THE MOHICANS with Sean and it's safe to say that everyone that had been laughing and marveling along with Sean was undoubtedly disappointed by the time they reached her half of the conversation.Today's episode starts out pretty traditionally as she asked Sean questions about his life and career but after about fifteen minutes or so, they loosened up, latched onto some tangents, and just went with it. Riffing on the most random of topics (apologies to Michael Douglas!), the last thirty minutes flew by in a fit of laughter.Originally Posted on Patreon (9/28/20) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42116374Theme Music: Solo Acoustic Guitar by Jason Shaw, Free Music Archive