The Dames have a lot to unpack in this episode, including:

• Summer blockbusters and why you're wrong about them!
• That thing that happened that makes us mad
• Why a certain director needs to STFU about Bruce Lee: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/shannon-lee-quentin-tarantino-hate-bruce-lee-or-sell-books-1234977088/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
• Tom Cruise's birthday! 

The Dames discuss the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Plus:

• Anthony Mackie's recent comments about Sam and Bucky's relationship, and how Disney/Marvel want to have it both ways: https://variety.com/2021/tv/awards/anthony-mackie-falcon-winter-soldier-paul-bettany-wandavision-podcast-1234999174/
  https://twitter.com/ZREllor/status/1405611013274312711 
• Does Batman? Well? DOES HE?
• Hot Movie Dads

This week! The Dames are discussing the films and career of the great Lois Weber: director, writer, and Hollywood badass.

We also catch up on a few films we overlooked in our Pride episode.

The Dames celebrate the start of Pride month with a discussion of favorite LGBTQ+-themed films! Plus:

• Cannes found FOUR WHOLE FEMALE DIRECTORS!
• Favorite Palme d'Or winners across the ages!
• Apparently Shrek 2 premiered at Cannes?
• The Conjuring 3 has Catholic imagery! And other shocking revelations.

Our May bonus episode is here! Listen along as we discuss Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

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The Dames dig deep into literature and film to discuss book to film adaptations, from The Woman in the Window to The Da Vinci Code and Psycho. Plus, why adaptation theory is probably not the best measure of a successful film. 

This week! The Dames are talking about:

• Great directors who never get included in the Great Directors lists
• Dracula, Dracula movies, and anticipating Chloé Zhao's Dracula movie
• Plus a bit of what we've been watching and more Twitter wars

The Dames return for a grab-bag episode of stupid men, awesome women, and Jamie Dornan thinking he's a bee. 

• BAFTA-winning Noel Clarke has been accused of sexual harassment and bullying by over twenty women (trigger warning): https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/apr/29/actor-noel-clarke-accused-of-groping-harassment-and-bullying-by-20-women
• Chloe Zhao won Best Director! 
• Why male critics need to SHUSH
• Plus: Wild Mountain Thyme, bad Irish accents, Mare of Easttown, and Preston Sturges!

This week! The Dames discuss SEQUELS and the Scream franchise in particular, plus:

• Writing what you know
• Whether Stephen King would be "allowed" to write Carrie today
• More bad Twitter takes
• Citizen Kane v Jaws

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