Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed
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Movie feelings, honestly handled.
You Are Good is a movie conversation show led by Alex Steed, where criticism gives way to feeling, biography, and present-tense life. Episodes use films like Coco, Lady Bird, Her, Hackers, and The Prince of Egypt as starting points for warm, funny, sometimes moving conversations.
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You Are Good is movie talk with the review apparatus stripped away. Alex Steed introduces each film, names the premise, and then treats it as a doorway into the lived stuff that gathers around art. The show is candid. It is also careful with feeling. Episodes on The Prince of Egypt, Coco, A Beautiful Mind, The Fifth Element, Hackers, Her, and Lady Bird show a wide appetite for movies that carry memory, culture, spectacle, death, family pressure, and private recognition. The conversations are not trying to rank films or settle canon. They ask what a movie stirs up, what it helps a person notice, and how it connects to being alive in a strange moment. Coco becomes a route into death, ancestors, culture, and connection. Lady Bird becomes a way to talk about mothers, daughters, class pressure, leaving home, generosity, anger, and big life changes. Her turns toward the present moment and what the movie makes newly visible now. A Beautiful Mind opens space for mental illness and the limits of tidy storytelling. Hackers gets treated as vibes and 1990s novelty as much as plot. The Fifth Element allows for playful plot talk, sci-fi excess, gender commentary, and jokes that move quickly without losing the larger emotional thread. Guests matter here because they bring biography, taste, and texture. The show often sounds like people finding the honest subject underneath the assigned movie. It is warm without being soft-focus. It can be loose, funny, blunt, and deeply affectionate toward the people in the room. Its best moments come when the conversation stops proving anything and starts recognizing something true: a performance, a family dynamic, a cultural memory, a private ache, or the need to find one another instead of staying isolated. For PlayNext users, it offers film discovery through emotional affinity rather than genre checklist.
Made for: For listeners who like film conversations that move past ratings into memory, relationships, culture, death, anxiety, and the way movies mark a life. It especially suits people drawn to warm, personal, guest-driven talk about familiar films.
What sets it apart: You Are Good separates itself from conventional film criticism by making emotional meaning the main event. The films are treated as prompts for human conversation, not objects to score.
A feelings podcast about movies.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns film discussion into candid, guest-shaped inquiry about the memories, relationships and emotions that viewers carry into a movie.
You Are Good uses a single movie as the way into a larger conversation about memory, identity and emotional life. Alex Steed leads discussions that move from the family tensions of Turning Red and Lady Bird to the troubling relationship at the center of Fifty Shades of Grey and…
This is where movie night becomes group therapy, and you are happily still holding the popcorn.
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A feelings-first conversation with Alex Steed, Sam Cole, and Siri Dahl that keeps The Fifth Element playful and easy to follow.
The episode treats The Fifth Element as a well of feelings, jokes, and shared delight, which suits a show that leans into movie-related emotion.
A warm, candid Lady Bird hang that values feeling over tidy verdicts.
You Are Good turns Lady Bird into a loose, feeling-first conversation with Mara Wilson. It favors memory and affection over tidy criticism, and it keeps circling back to mothers, daughters, and the strain of growing up around them.
A warm Lady Bird conversation that keeps biography, family pressure, and personal context in view.
PlayNext frames Lady Bird less as a verdict than as a conversation about how a film sits inside a life. Carolyn Kendrick's Central Valley background gives the discussion its clearest local weight, and the hosts are strongest when they stay close to family pressure, biography,…
A feeling-first conversation about growing up, family pressure, and what the film stirs up.
Turning Red is treated here as a story about adolescence, family pressure, embarrassment, memory, and the first rush of desire. Alex Steed, joined by Livia Tsang and Carolyn Kendrick, keeps the conversation close to feeling.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Alex Steed's You Are Good presents two conversations on the 1998 animated film The Prince of Egypt, first with composer Max Wolpert and then with poet Maya Williams.
A podcast episode discussing the movie Coco and its themes of death, dying, culture, and ancestors.
A podcast episode discussing the movie 'A Beautiful Mind' with guest Nathan Shuherk, focusing on the film's portrayal of schizophrenia and its emotional impact.
Three friends dissect The Fifth Element through the lens of 90s nostalgia, gender politics, and pure camp aesthetics.
Alex Steed introduces a feelings podcast about the 1995 movie Hackers with guest Ryan Keely, discussing its vibes and personal meaning.
A feelings podcast about the movie 'Her' that uses it as a jumping off point to discuss current events and personal emotions.
Mara Wilson’s library story turns Lady Bird’s car rebellion into something very specific.
Lady Bird's mother is read as a "shame mirror" for Christine and for Carolyn Kendrick.
A feelings podcast about movies discusses Mrs.
Alex Steed hosts a farewell episode of You Are Good discussing Elvira: Mistress of the Dark with guest Safe Slut, after Sarah Marshall's departure.
Three hosts dive deep into Pixar's Turning Red, exploring how the film uses a giant red panda transformation to examine the tension between family expectations and personal identity.
A feelings podcast about movies discusses Anchorman with guests Chris Kluwe and Sooz Kempner, exploring how the film makes them feel and its place in comedy.
A feelings podcast about movies discusses the 2001 film Josie and the Pussycats with guests Rax King and Niko Stratis.
Alex Steed and guest Sooz Kempner discuss the movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York on the podcast You Are Good, exploring the feelings it evokes.
Alex Steed and Sarah Marshall revisit the 2010 film Sex and the City 2 with guest Eve Lindley, an actor and model.
You Are Good revisits Fifty Shades of Grey, the 2015 erotic romantic drama directed by Sam Taylor Johnson and written by Kelly Marcel, as a re-release with Casey Calvert added later.