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The Cinephile Hissy Fit Asks What’s Your Number?

Anna Faris and Chris Evans in What's Your Number? Image from IMDb Pro

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network continue to lament about how many current Hollywood stars are missing a charisma-defining romantic comedy or romantic drama on their resumes. Those are the movies that hit all the quandrants and turn people into bigger stars. There’s an active gap within talent, but all we have to do is go back ten to fifteen years ago to when rom-coms were still a cottage industry. One of those is What’s Your Number? starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans.

The cover photo of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast

For their 159th episode, two highly experienced film critics, two sexually active dads, and two jump-shooting teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, are back for their second “Romance Before Bromance” series looking at romantic film choices on the resumes of superhero movie superstars. This time around it’s Chris Evans showing up as the love interest of Anna Faris in 2011’s What’s Your Number? Landing weeks after Captain America: The First Avenger that year, Chris flexed that he could flex. Are things getting embarrassing yet? If not, you can watch this one to see fellow MCU dudes Chris Pratt, Martin Freeman, and Anthony Mackie showing up too. Come learn more and stay for the mutual love and respect for the fun movies encapsulate. Enjoy our podcast!

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Written by Don Shanahan

DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic writing here on Film Obsessive as the Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor for the film department. He also writes for his own website, Every Movie Has a Lesson. Don is one of the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network and sponsored by Film Obsessive. As a school teacher by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the nationally-recognized Critics Choice Association, Online Film Critics Society, North American Film Critics Association, International Film Society Critics Association, Internet Film Critics Society, Online Film and TV Association, and the Celebrity Movie Awards.

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