This week, we're kicking off 2025 by catching up with the Dames and what we've been watching lately, from Hitchcock to Netflix.

Todd Haynes beautifully adapted Patricia Highsmith's novel into the 2015 Christmas romance CAROL, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

We kick off the holiday season with a look at the infamous Continental Films and their first release, "Who Killed Santa Claus?" from 1941.

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This week the Dames dive into Criterion's Interdimensional Romance collection with a look at A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Starman (1984), and we break some hearts with our thoughts about Eternal...

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....

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...

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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 prom...

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).

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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...

A running list of all the films we're talking about this month on the podcast.

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...

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 attac...

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

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 homi...

Here's what we're talking about for Spooky Movie Month this October 2023.

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 aga...

A list of 8 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Clueless (1995), Loser (2000), Eighth Grade (2018) and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023).

A list of 6 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Clueless (1995), Loser (2000), Eighth Grade (2018) and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023).

Here are the movies we talked about on the podcast in August 2023.

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 Fu...