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Monday Feb 03, 2014
Monday Feb 03, 2014
We begin another snowy month in Brooklyn with a discussion of Frozen, the latest Disney animated film to take the box office by storm. As expected, Frozen has many familiar elements -- songs, orphans, princesses, endless mention of "true love," and an adorably goofy sidekick -- but the story (the first Disney animated feature to be directed by a woman!) also plays on what we know about fairy tale tropes and twists them in a direction that is focused more on sisterly love rather than romance.
Thursday Jan 09, 2014
Thursday Jan 09, 2014
Monday Dec 16, 2013
Monday Dec 16, 2013
The final frontier: women surviving space by way of fearlessness, wit, sex, and a prominent stripping scene. In one of our laugh-iest episodes ever, Eleanor and Kseniya discuss Gravity (2013), Alien (1979), and Barbarella
(1968) with I Love Bad Movies co-editor Matt Carman. We debate whether Ripley is a cat lady, the concept of the "final girl," and Sandra Bullock's frequent vehicle troubles.
End credits music: Leonard Nimoy, "Music To Watch Space Girls By"
Tuesday Nov 12, 2013
Tuesday Nov 12, 2013
An epic tale of the horrors of motherhood. And who better to discuss this with if not one of our very own mothers? Eleanor, Kseniya, and Eleanor's mom, Dr.
Paula Kagan, delve into the surprisingly funny and spooky aspects of Polanski's classic film and our own early scares.
Dr.
Paula Kagan is an author, radical nurse, Associate Professor
of nursing, as well as an affiliated faculty member of Women & Gender Studies at DePaul University in Chicago.
Monday Sep 23, 2013
Monday Sep 23, 2013
Spoiler Alert. Recorded
the morning of the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, Kseniya and
Eleanor take a look at television's most riveting anti-heros--Breaking
Bad's Walter White, Mad Men's Don Draper, and Sopranos' Tony
Soprano--through the wives who must deal with them. Skyler White, Betty
Draper, and Carmela Soprano, often the recipients of Internet ire, are
in need of exploration and your hosts, with the help of Pop Culture
Happy Hour's Mike Katzif, are here to do so.
Related reading:
- Anna Gunn's Op-Ed in the New York Times, I Have a Character Issue - August 23, 2013
- That Mind-Bending Phone Call on Last Night’s “Breaking Bad” by Emily Nussbaum - September 16, 2013
- Anna Gunn And 'Breaking Bad's' Skyler White: Just The Tip Of A Very Big Iceberg by Maureen Ryan - August 25, 2013
Wednesday Sep 11, 2013
Wednesday Sep 11, 2013
Kseniya and Eleanor return after a long summer of either getting married or avoiding a sunburn, respectively, so it's high time to catch up on the movies and TV, new and old, that were consumed. In addition to a chat about Orange Is The New Black, Kseniya brings A League of Their Own, Marie Antoinette, Magic Mike and Dogfight to the table, while Eleanor talks In A World, Bringing Up Baby, and All That Jazz.
Wednesday Jul 24, 2013
Wednesday Jul 24, 2013
This is a live Q&A session that followed our screening of Slums of Beverly Hills on April 24, 2013 (part of our 2 Good 2B 4Gotten series).
Star Natasha Lyonne, director/writer Tamara Jenkins, co-star Kevin Corrigan and cinematographer Tom Richmond joined us to reminisce about the highs and lows of making a picture that was, and still feels, very personal to them all. Hearing this conversation is like eavesdropping on a family reunion.
Tamara talks about some of the struggles of being a female filmmaker (and why "women in film" panels aren't all they're cracked up to be), while Natasha, expresses how being Tamara's stand-in for Slums made her feel about her future.
Plus: Auditioning breast doubles, filming the vibrator dance scene, and learning how to fake an orgasm on camera.
Whether you've never seen the movie or sleep with a VHS of it under your pillow, this is a conversation all indie film lovers will enjoy.
Friday Jun 28, 2013
Friday Jun 28, 2013
We discuss Frances Ha, the new film directed by Noah Baumbach, and written by Baumbach and the film's star, Greta Gerwig.
This is a film about the rocky terrain of female friendship as well as what it means to be alone. We talk about why we love Frances so much, despite her flaws and poor decisions. (It might have something to do with her death-defying ability to pee on Subway tracks.) And we take a look at whether Frances Ha bears any of the cynicism found in Baumbach's past works, and suggest other great films that explore female friendship.
Cristina Cacciopo (the former film programmer for the dearly departed 92YTribeca, but newly instated at the Alamo Draft House) joins the conversation as the resident Baumbach "nerd." (Her words.)
Friday May 24, 2013
Friday May 24, 2013
What good is sitting all quiet in your room? / Come hear the podcast play. / Life is a Cabaret, old chum, / Download our episode 10! This week we're joined by Chicago artist, performer, projectionist, film archivist and movie lover, Lyra Hill. From her earliest memories of watching a broken Costco DVD of Cabaret, Lyra has been fascinated with the Bob Fosse--directed and choreographed musical. Eleanor and Kseniya had never seen it until now, but through a discussion of the grungy aesthetic, the love triangles and the sinister historical context that hangs over this twisted romance, they come to appreciate it as well.
Thursday Apr 18, 2013
Thursday Apr 18, 2013
We admit it, the ladies of Girls aren't exactly role models. In part 2 of our Season 2 recap, we are joined by Queerty television blogger Chris J. Kelly to review the fluctuating emotional ages of Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, and Shoshanna. We also take a moment to discuss how believable we found the OCD revelation, why we're so obsessed with that Patrick Wilson episode, and why the 'man running to the rescue' component of the finale may not have been so bad.