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Episode 91: Dame Astra

It's a brand new week and we're talking about some of the same old folks, plus a few new ones!
Garbage men! Harvey Weinstein’s life is ruined! Kevin Spacey’s second accuser has died, whatshisface got fired from SNL for being racist and this leads to a chat about Cancel Culture.
Streaming wars - https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1174061375825432576
GLOW gets a final season: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflixs-glow-renewed-fourth-final-season-1241286
What films/stars we *need* to know and how that changes (and whose responsibility it is): https://twitter.com/mat_johnson/status/1175121116941058050
Female Filmmaker Month
Plus listener questions
And reviews! Lauren talks Atlantics while Karen chats about Downton Abbey and Ad Astra, which does, in fact, exist.
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Episode 90: It's Complicated

 This week, we welcome a very special guest, Nannina Gilder, to discuss:
Venice rewards Polanski, Joker
Festival embargoes and White Male Privilege: https://www.firstshowing.net/2019/an-open-letter-about-the-harmfulness-of-embargoes-at-film-festivals/
Ehrlich and David Ayer argue on Twitter: what do critics owe to filmmakers? https://twitter.com/DavidAyerMovies/status/1172662993282224129 
Historical context and contemporary criticism - How far do we go with historical context? https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/1171846336301240320
More on female filmmaker month!
Listener questions!
And our review of Hustlers!
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Episode #89: Dame Filmmakers Month

We're back! This week, the Dames discuss:
The truth about box office drawshttps://twitter.com/rosstmiller/status/1169238383937445889?s=19
Some of our favorite female filmmakers
Adele Lim exiting Crazy Rich Asians 2 over pay disparityhttps://twitter.com/THR/status/1169252555446280193?s=19 
And why Scarlett Johansson should stop talking: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/scarlett-johansson-talks-woody-allen-elizabeth-warren-black-widow-1235618
Plus:
The Black Christmas trailer
Listener questions!
And some more thoughts on IT: Chapter 2!

Episode 88: Dame Chapter Two

In this episode, the Dames are chatting about:
D23 and the Disney-fication of the market
Eva Longoria's next directorial effort is Flamin' Hot, which ties right into...
The Annenberg Study unveils unsurprising but depressingly terrible truths about Latinx representation onscreen
Richard Linklater will be back with his new movie...in twenty years...
The Irishman and long movie runtimes
A listener question leads us into a deep discussion of Joker
Plus Lauren reviews Ready or Not and Karen talks about It: Chapter Two
 
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Episode #87: Dame or Not

The Dames are back in action with Very Special Dame Kimberly Pierce! On this episode, we discuss:
Venice just keeps getting worse: https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/rape-rows-risk-taking-sheen-off-starry-venice-020154001.html?__twitter_impression=true
This convo about how to approach films made by horrible directors: https://twitter.com/DirectorRB3/status/1163247484325380097
Spiderman is leaving the MCU because Disney and Sony are fighting: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sony-fires-back-at-marvel-spider-man-movie-divorce-1233490
Just because this shit is funny: https://twitter.com/DurexIndia/status/1164161746782658560?s=19 
New Matrix movie directed by Lana Wachowski: https://news.avclub.com/holy-crap-lana-wachowski-is-directing-a-new-matrix-seq-1837417210
New Trailers
Bombshell
Last Christmas
Plus, we review Ready or Not!

Episode 86: Dame Stories to Tell in the Dark

Welcome back! This week, Lauren and Karen are chatting about:
The analysis of dialogue in Quentin Tarantino's films 
https://time.com/5645347/quentin-tarantino-women-dialogue/
That creepy Dora review (and why publications allow these reviews to happen)
https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/dora-explorer-movie-sexist-review/
Critical responses to The Nightingale
The strange case of  The Kitchen and Warner Bros' refusal to promote it.
Guillermo del Toro using his Walk of Fame speech to elevate Issa Lopez and Tigers Are Not Afraid
Vanity Fair thinks we have too many movies available to stream, but also not enough? https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/netflix-hulu-amazon-streaming-film-snob
Plus reviews!
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
The Peanut Butter Falcon
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Episode #85: Once Upon a Dame...In Hollywood

This week, the Dames are joined by a Very Special Guest to discuss:
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's medieval rape drama
That weird Scorsese/Schoonmaker debate on Film Twitter
How the CATS trailer brought about the reign of Cthulha
Visionistickal director Taika Waititi's anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit
Plus
Comic Con round-up
Fantasia Festival summation
Top Gun: Maverick trailer
and 
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood

Episode 84:Big Little Dames

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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Episode 83: Stranger Dames

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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Episode #82: Dame Story 4

Here's what the Dames are talking about this week:
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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Episode #81: Doctor Dame

This week the Dames discuss:
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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Episode #80: Rocketdame

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!
 

Episode 79: Damesmart

On this week's all new episode:
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
 
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Episode #78: Ask for Dame

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

Episode #77: Dame Country

The Dames are back and have a lot on their mind:
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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Episode #76: Avengers End-Dame

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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Episode 75: Dame of La Mancha

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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Episode #74: Sha-Dames!

The Dames sit down to discuss:
Film bros are upset over thirst tweets
The Justice Department is upset that the Academy wants to ban Netflix from the Oscars
The Dames are still upset over Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters but they're fine with the cast
And people on Twitter are upset that art is political
We talk The Joker trailer
Listener questions
Reviews of Shazam! and Pet Sematary (2019)
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Episode #73: Hyperbolic Dames

The Dames spend some time shouting about:
Jordan Peele's Us and the prevalence of critics hyperbolizing films
The continuing saga of Jussie Smollett 
Zack Snyder’s Batman comments
Netflix and Brie Larson responding to trolls
The passing of Agnes Varda
Plus Listener Questions and Lauren's brief review of Us!
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Episode #72: Bechdel Dames

This week we're honored to have Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus of The Bechdel Cast as our special guest talking up all manner of stuff!
Babra Streisand makes some terrible comments she shouldn't have said
The sequel to To All the Boys I've Loved Before gets Hardwicked (no, not that guy!)
The studio doesn't want us to know Elton John was gay and cuddled with men
Fox lays off a bunch of people because you all wanted X-Men in the Avengers
Criterion announces its initial slate of streaming titles
Trailer Talk for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Lucy in the Sky and Aladdin
The ladies talk about Jordan Peele's Us
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