Film Club Face-Off Film Club Face-Off

In this episode, Amanda and Leigh discuss 2014 award season darlings Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and Whiplash. Note: there's about a two-minute segment where the audio gets warped. We don't know what happened. Apologies to your ears.

CWs: Drugs, suicide/suicidal ideation, attempted rape, mental illness, infidelity, guns, domestic violence, misogyny, toxic masculinity, abusive relationships, blood, assault, fat shaming, homophobic slurs, bullying, extreme humiliation

In this episode, Amanda discusses the follow-up poll for The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World, talks about the upcoming film pairing for the next episode, and gives her thoughts on several films she has watched recently: Sorry to Bother You, Mandy, BlackKklansman, Bird Box, Incredibles 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Tomb Raider, and Dumplin'.

CWs: mentions of suicide, ableism, racism.

In this episode, Amanda and Leigh are joined by a guest, Alex, to discuss two Saturday Night Live classics, The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World.

CWs: violence, Nazis, cultural appropriation, sexism, ableism, homophobia, Robe Lowe

Update: We did not recall the sexual assault/harassment issues with Rob Lowe when we recorded this podcast. We would have addressed that in the podcast if we had, and we are sorry for that oversight. Apologies if this had a negative impact on anyone listening.

In this mini episode, Amanda discusses the follow-up poll for Ginger Snaps versus Jennifer's Body, skips the Love, Actually rant, and gives her thoughts on the movies Cam and Destination Wedding.

In this episode, Amanda and Leigh discuss two recent cult classics and feminist horror films, Ginger Snaps and Jennifer's Body. Happy very belated Halloween! A perfect storm of illnesses and international travel worked against us this month.

CWs: Suicide, rape/sexual assault, murder, needles, drug use, predatory men, death/murder, cannibalism, body horror, dismemberment, animal death, fetishizing of WLW content, fire, kidnapping, PTSD, discussion of toxic masculinity behaviours, *cis-normative discussion

*The entire conversation is very cis-normative in talking about girls/women and puberty. Neither of us believe that menstruation makes a person a woman or that only women menstruate. The conversations we had about these films were about the representation of these things in the context of cis girls/women, who seemed to be the targeted audience, and we tried to do so in a way that wasn’t invalidating to others. Please let us know if we did not accomplish this. We always have a goal to be mindful of these things, but our own internal biases sometimes pop up, and we know that our intentions do not negate any negative impact we may have with our conversations.

In this mini episode recorded on Halloween, Amanda discusses the follow-up polls for All the President's Men and Spotlight, introduces the movies for the next full episode, and raves about the new Halloween film and the show The Haunting of Hill House (yes, it's a show, but for the Halloween mini it felt appropriate).