Welcome back! This week, the Dames are discussing:

• R Kelly's latest legal troubles
• HBO's Big Little Lie to director Andrea Arnold
• Peter Farrelly's new "suicide comedy"
• Aziz Ansari, apologies, and revisiting problematic elements in TV and film without cancelling them
• Plus Lauren chats about Fantasia Fest
• And Karen reviews The Lion King 
• Plus: Go see The Farewell!

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Join us this week as we discuss:

• More Kevin Spacey garbage
• Halle Bailey is our new Little Mermaid and racists are mad
• The New York Times talks about the future of cinema
• Is horror a male-centric genre?
• Listener questions!
• The trailer for Knives Out
• Plus we review Annabelle Comes Home, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Stranger Things 3

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• Max Landis is terrible, as if you needed reminding
• Jill Solloway replaces Bryan Singer on Red Sonja
• POP TV saves One Day at a Time
• Paul Rudd joins the Ghostbusters sequel and Lauren can't wait
• The Dames discuss their favorite films of 2019 (so far)
• Listener questions
• Reviews of The Farewell, Annabelle Comes Home, Toy Story 4, and Midsommar

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• The (misplaced?) hype surrounding Ari Aster's Midsommar
• Max Landis is back i n the news
• Tom Cruise vs. Justin Bieber
• Cuba Gooding Jr. gets arrested for groping a woman
• Director Franco Zeffirelli died
• We answer listener questions about wiping films from our brains, favorite musicals, and makeup effects
• We give our thoughts on the first trailer for Doctor Sleep
• Karen reviews Men in Black: International

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On this week's episode, the Dames discuss:

• BOOKSMART “backlash” discussion and issues around MA - what we expect from films and directors in terms of representation, and do we hold female/minority directors to higher standards?
• The Wonder Woman 1984 poster
• Your questions!
• Lauren talks The Farewell, Scorsese, and the Berkshire International Film Festival
• The Dames review Always Be My Maybe and...
• ROCKETMAN!

• Jason Mitchell dropped by manager, fired from Showtime's The Chi and Netflix movie.
  • https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jason-mitchell-dropped-chi-netflix-film-misconduct-claims-1212454
• Blue Is the Warmest Color director Abdellatif Kechiche is back at Cannes with Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo and really likes getting his actors drunk and making them do stuff. Is it art or assault?
• Quentin Tarantino and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• Moby and Natalie Portman
• Your Questions!
• Trailer talk with Terminator: Dark Fate
• And our review of Booksmart

On this week's show:

• Cannes head thinks that having too many women would show a lack of respect 
• A Rainy Day in New York gets a release
• Disney takes control of Hulu - what does this mean for the future of cinema?
•  Robert Pattinson is Batman 
• Plus, Lulu Wang's The Farewell has a trailer
• And reviews:
  • John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum
  • The Sun is Also A Star
  • Ask for Jane
  • Aladdin

• Constance Wu and the nature of "difficult women"
• Anjelica Huston had some very complicated things to say about male directors
• Joe Carnahan went on a Twitter rampage because critics are the enemy!
• Chris Hemsworth and Tiffany Haddish are making a movie together
• A brief Endgame rant
• Listener questions!
• Our thoughts on the It: Chapter Two trailer
• Movie reviews including a wealth of Netflix content, Poms, The Hustle, and Detective Pikachu! Plus Lauren gives a rundown on the Tribeca Film Festival
• We also bid a fond farewell to one of the Dames!

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The Dames sit down to discuss:

• Olivia Munn fights the Fug Girls and makes us question the role of a critic versus a publicist
• Joe Russo claims the MCU has given us an openly gay character but we have doubts
• We answer your listener questions and name our guilty pleasure films
• Karen rants against Game of Thrones
• Karen and Kristen dive into a spoiler-heavy review of Avengers: Endgame

We're also giving away copies of On the Basis of Sex and Miss Bala on Blu-ray this month! To enter, just leave us a review anywhere and send us a screenshot!

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In this episode, the Dames discuss: 

Roman Polanski (siiiiiiigh) 

Quentin Tarantino (siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh)... as well as the fact that Karen and Lauren really don’t care about ‘Little Women’ (gasp!) 

Kristen rails against the horrendous animated reboot of ‘The Addams Family’. 

Oh yeah, and Kristen talks to legendary, fantabulous director Catherine Hardwicke about all things ‘Lost Boys’ and ‘Miss Bala’.

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