Citizen Dame

Episode 266: Sundance Favorites - Dame Joy

Did you the Sundance Film Festival is celebrating it's 40th anniversary? The festival kicks off this week in Park City, Utah, the Criterion Channel has a selection of festival faves, and we are joining the fun with a chat about a few of our own. This week, the Dames discuss Donna Deitch's Desert Hearts (1985), Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala (1991), and Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy (2006).

Episode 265: Happy Dame Year!

We're back to discuss some of our favorite films (new and old) of 2023, including Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, and, uh, Love Birds? 
Happy New Year! We're looking forward to bringing you a lot more fun stuff in 2024!

Episode 264: Holiday Rom-Coms - The Dame Around the Corner

For our last episode of 2023, we chat about some holiday rom-coms (or not-quite-rom-coms) that give us all the feels: The Shop Around the Corner, The Holiday, and the unfairly maligned Last Christmas.
Happy holidays and we'll see you all in 2024!

Episode 263 — Holiday Horror: Dame Exports

This week, the Dames welcome our very special guest, Shannon McGrew of Creepy Kingdom to chat about holiday horror — or more specifically, movies about the darker side of Christmas magic. Join us as we discuss Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010), Krampus (2015), and Violent Night (2022).

Episode 262: Holiday Noir - The Thin Dame

This week, the Dames welcome the holiday season with a look at three holiday noir films: The Thin Man (1934), Repeat Performance (1947), and They Live By Night (1948).

Episode 261: Billy Wilder - Double In-dame-nity

Just us for the last Noirvember episode of the year! The Dames are talking all things Billy Wilder this week, focusing on Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, and Witness for the Prosecution. Just promise not to tell anyone the ending. 

Episode 260: Women Direct Noir - Damewitness

This week, the Dames take a look at three noirs directed by women: Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker (1953), Muriel Box's Eyewitness (1956), and Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976). 

Episode 259: Barbara Stanwyck - Sorry, Wrong Dame

The Dames kick off Noirvember by discussing fast-talking, fast-living dame Barbara Stanwyck in three iconic roles: Baby Face, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and Sorry, Wrong Number. No man stands a chance. 

Episode 258: Haunted Houses — Polter-Dames

The Dames are wrapping up Spooky Movie Season with a chat about haunted houses. This week we dive into The Changeling (1980), Poltergeist (1982), and The Others (2001).
We also get a wee bit emotional over the end of Our Flag Means Death season 2.

Episode 257: Gothic Horror - Crimson Dames

The Dames carry on with Spooky Season and discuss Gothic horror, where the ghosts are metaphors and the horror is for love. Deborah Kerr goes mad in The Innocents, Vincent Price has an unhealthy attachment to his dead wife in The Tomb of Ligeia, and nothing is OK at Crimson Peak. 

Episode 256: Urban Horror - The Lost Dames

Join us this week as we dive into urban horror and urban legends with The Lost Boys (1987), Candyman (1992), and Urban Legend (1998).

Episode 255: Witch Movies - The Dames of Eastwick

This week, the Dames fill a podcast blindspot and talk all about witches, focusing on Haxan, The Witches of Eastwick, and The Witch. These films encompass feminism, patriarchal fears, justifiable homicide, cool curses, and Jack Nicholson's tiny tiny ponytail. 

Episode 254: High School Horror - Massacre at Dame High

This week the Dames are finishing out Back to School Month and welcoming Spooky Movie Season with the perfect combination: high school horror movies. We're talking Massacre at Central High (1976), The Craft (1996), and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). 

Episode 253: Kindergarten Dames

We carry on with our back-to-school discussing some movies set in kindergarten, including Kindergarten Cop and Little Monsters. 
Plus, some more Garbage People we hope we don't have to talk about again:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/16/russell-brand-accused-of-sexual-assault-and-emotional-abuse
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaqvn/tim-ballards-departure-from-operation-underground-railroad-followed-sexual-misconduct-investigation
 

Episode 252: Middle School Movie Dames

Autumn is in the air and this month is all about school-time movies. This week we're going back to middle school with EIGHTH GRADE (2018), ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET (2023), and YOU ARE SO NOT INVITED TO MY BAT MITZVAH (2023). Give us a listen and relive the great and dreadful middle school years!

Episode 251: Amy Heckerling - Fast Dames at Ridgemont High

We're back this week to discuss the back-to-school films of Amy Heckerling! Heckerling is responsible for some generation-defining movies: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless, and Loser. 
Plus: Danny Masterson is going to jail for a long, long time.  

Episode 250: John Woo - Dame/Off

This week we're celebrating 250 episodes with a lively chat about John Woo. With a career spanning five decades, we narrow down our discussion to three movies: Hard Boiled (1992), Face/Off (1997) and Mission: Impossible II (2000).
 
We also have thoughts about Vanity Fair's glorious First Look images from the new season of Our Flag Means Death. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/08/our-flag-means-death-season-2-first-look

Episode 249: Dame-bolique - A Grab Bag Episode

The Dames take some time to catch up on all the things we've been watching, including:
Dracula Boat! Or: The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Diabolique
Dial M For Murder
What We Do in the Shadows
Good Omens 2
Blue Beetle
And many more! 
Come for the trenchant commentary, stay for the correct pronunciation of Demeter.

Episode 248: Remaking Hitchcock - The Dame Who Knew Too Much

We're celebrating Hitch's birthday with Hitchcock remakes that actually work, including one in which he remakes his own movie. Join us for this chat about The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Throw Momma from the Train (1987) and The 'Burbs (1989).

Episode 247: Dames of Future Past

The Dames talk older films set in the future...that is now the past! It makes sense when you hear it. This week we cover the iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, the neon-tinted recent past of Back to the Future Part II, and dire environmental predictions in Soylent Green.