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Evan Dawson talks about what matters to you on Connections. Do you have a story that needs to be shared? Pitch your story to Connections. For transcripts, please email our Move to Include team with a link to the episode.

2025 WXXI

Evan Dawson talks about what matters to you on Connections. Do you have a story that needs to be shared? Pitch your story to Connections. For transcripts, please email our Move to Include team with a link to the episode.

2025 WXXI
41hr 16min
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The unconventional date movie

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August 15, 202550min 58sec

The new horror film, "Together," starring real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco, focuses on a struggling relationship and features Cronenberg-levels of body horror ...but it has also been marketed as a date movie. This year has featured lots of films that eschew the typical formula of a date movie. Guest host Scott Pukos and his panel of movie lovers will explore this trend — is it just marketing or are audiences craving something beyond the standard rom-com?

Our guests:

  • Sarah Antao, rom-com expert and teaching staff member at the Focus Theater
  • Roemer Johansson, copywriter and member of the Little Theatre
  • Roberto Lagares, multimedia reporter for CITY Magazine
  • Adam Lubitow, projectionist and programmer at the Little Theatre and programming director for Anomaly: The Rochester Genre Film Festival
  • Dave Palmer, film critic for the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA)
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