Romcom

Since last summer, my Netflix algorithm has been hi-jacked by a genre assumed dead by many: the romcom. Between Set it Up, The Kissing Booth, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and recently The Perfect Date, users of the streaming service…

It's the final episode of season two! Irish Times writer Patrick Freyne joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about Netflix's big 2018 Christmas film, The Princess Switch. Netflix ran the Hallmark formula through their magic algorithms and made a…

Jeanne and Alan go guestless to talk about 2017's hotel renovation/dance recital Christmas combo Enchanted Christmas. Project manager Laura returns to her hometown to fix up The Enchanted Lodge, an abandoned hotel which used to host the big…

Writer Valerie Loftus joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe, a 2018 Hallmark movie starring the Queen of Christmas Lacey Chabert. It's not really based on Pride & Prejudice at all. Instead it's a…

Writer Caroline O'Donoghue joins Jeanne and Alan to talk about 2017's You Can't Fight Christmas, the heartwarming tale of Leslie Major, an interior decorator working in the Chesterton Hotel, a neighbourhood landmark whose new owner wants to…

Totally Dublin music editor Danny Wilson joins Jeanne and Alan to talk about 2017's Coming Home For Christmas, the heartwarming tale of Lizzie Richfield, a woman who loves Christmas and takes a job as house manager in a big old mansion…

Daily Edge writer Fionnuala Jones joins Alan and Jeanne to analyse 2010's Christmas Cupid, the heartwarming tale of a heartless career woman who gets visited by the ghost of her dead client and the ghosts of boyfriends past, present, and…

DJ Claire Beck joins Jeanne and Alan to discuss 2017's Christmas Festival Of Ice, the heartwarming tale of an aspiring lawyer who loves to sculpt ice on the side. When her town's ice sculpting festival loses its funding she decides to raise…

With Love, Christmas is the heartwarming tale of an advertising person who gets her crush in her office Secret Santa but also has to work with him on the big account AND they're up for the same promotion. Will there be a misunderstanding…

The Mistletoe Inn is the heartwarming tale of a jilted writer who goes to a writer's retreat to see if she has what it takes and finds love, acclaim, and herself along the way. It stars Alicia Witt and David Alpay and we liked it a whole…