It’s been quite awhile, and thank goodness Ashlee and Carolyn were at the ready to almost completely unpack the meticulously crafted balance of subtly and clarion call for the cumbersome nature of swallowing intersectional micro (and honestly, macro) aggressions in Mariama Diallo’s anticipated feature film debut, Master (2022). Our music folk razaq…

Secrets are complicated, right? A multi-generational magical realist, sci-fi, drama furthers even the mess out of what is a superhero in the context of Black women and girls in Julia Hart's 2019 well received, Fast Color. In Plain Sight: Fast Color by Carolyn Mauricette Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story FAST COLOR Q&A with Gugu Mbatha-Raw & director J…

With Carolyn on the verge of a bionic hip and Ashlee on the verge of a losing some good sanity, the two chose the unwind this holiday season with a 90s action comedy, Keenan Ivory Wayans' A Low Down Dirty Shame. What's its historical context? How does it function as a potentially progressive vehicle and be questionably problematic at the same time?…

It's all fire dicks and armageddon in Wormwood, New Mexico in the mid-1990's. Thank the seven star alignments that we're still here to talk of the tale... Ashlee couldn't believe she found even more to unpack in the film she's dissected to death, 1995's Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight, a pretty under-discussed and underappreciated (to a degree) …

I mean, of course Black women do. And are we believed when we say they're out there? Carolyn leads an exploration into J.D. Dillard's minimalist masterpiece, Sweetheart from 2019. And a 'lil bonus somethin' somethin' :) The Invisible Black Women Epidemic Ashlee's Sweetheart blurb Sweetheart: A Creature Feature with Heart (Carolyn's Review) Trey Ant…

Carolyn and Ashlee have another sentimental chat about Black mothers and inter-generational relationships between Black women and girls in 1994's underrated Spike Lee jawn, Crooklyn. Speaking of Black women, DON'T MISS Carolyn's virtual lecture, A Different Monster: Black Women and the Monstrous for Fantastia Film Festival 2021 on August 21 at 4:00…

VH1 Reality content was totally inspired by the like-films that came before... And this is the one where Carolyn thinks she swindled Ashlee into watching a musical, which Ashlee argues the music in the drum-heavy 1959 visual affair, Black Orpheus actually wasn't cringey or shoe horned. This vibrant, beautiful film based on the play, Orfeu da Concei…

Our guide to 'finding other Black horror to support 'cha damn self', Carolyn and Ashlee talk why Amazon's newest latest, THEM just AIN'T, and how the reception sparked the need again, to emphasize that the kind of content folks want, is out there! Especially the still underappreciated Black women content creators who've made horror films like R. Sh…

Carolyn teases her budding talent for lecturing Canadian genre film history and Ashlee processes the bone marrow of Jason Krawczyk's pen and Audrey Cummings' eye on 2019's darkly comedic/fantasy, horror fare, She Never Died! Watch it now on Tubi Carolyn's review She Never Died was a 2019 BiTS winner!…

There's so much more in 2019's for-the-family flip on Tom Hanks' 1988, Big... Little, starring Regina Hall, Issa Rae, and Marsai Martin is all about digging up those ugly childhood memories that inform who we are as adults. And how much of it carries into our on the job personas. And Carolyn and Ashlee just hate mean bosses. Time's Up For Toxic Wor…

Carolyn dusts off her French and nostalgia for Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 caper, Diva. Ashlee is just here to make Law & Order: Special Victims Unit references and point out the many conspiracies that this intriguing film highlights. Jean-Jacques Beineix: The Hollywood Interview A Brief History of Cinéma Du Look NEW ART thanks to Samara Banks of M…

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo... For our final episode of the year, Ashlee wanted to ramble about arguably the best movie of the year, Radha Blank's Kool-Aid Man debut, The 40-Year-Old Version. Dealing with grief? Having a hard time acheiving the level of being a working artist AND comfortably paying your bills? Unearthed a raw talent that your ag…

Carolyn's Summer sci-fi fave KIN, a story about a working-class kid just trying to find some normalcy after a family loss turns into a journey of destiny tied to a an otherworldly device that only he (Myles Truitt's Elijah) has the power to wield! KIN was based on a short film (BAG MAN) by Josh and Jonathan Baker who have talked about in-depth the …

bell hooks wrote the book, Feminism Is For Everybody, Lizzie Borden made the penultimate film exemplifying that. Listen to Carolyn lead the lesson on Borden's 1983 docu-fiction Born In Flames. You can also read Carolyn’s essay, “Born in Flames’ Adelaide Norris, A Sci-Fi Joan of Arc” for further reference. The Political Science Fiction of “Born In F…

…it’s a gas, gas, gas. Ashlee breaks out the tissues and nostalgia for 1986's Jumpin’ Jack Flash while Carolyn adds even more context for the broader discussions about Whoopi’s career in the mid-1980’s. What backlash ensued? Can we still look back in fondness and enjoy it today? The answers may be as complicated as British intelligence spies, moles…

Carolyn throws roses at the feet of Sanaa Lathan in her most radical ass starring vehicle, 2004’s Alien vs. Predator. Our bad: we forgot to note the under critiqued, ‘aliens built the pyramids’ myth the film plays with which, we both agree undermines how African civilizations haven’t been fully respected… ever. “Last One Standing: Alien vs. Predato…

The Midwestern teen gothic noir that Carolyn and Ashlee wish they had during high school. What About “The Breakfast Club”? by Molly Ringwald Modern English shares new quarantine performance of ‘I Melt With You’ Addressing the Epidemic of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Two Black Trans Women Were Killed in the U.S. in the Past Week as …

Ashlee and Carolyn travel back in time with Stefan Bristol's Netflix debut film See You Yesterday. An Interview with Fredrica Bailey and Stefon Bristol On 'See You Yesterday' Carolyn's In Plain Sight: Afrofuturism and Inclusivity Series John Boyega's Protest Rally Speech Carolyn on Twitter @vfdpixie Ashlee on Twitter @AshleeTakesNote Sound edits by…

Ashlee and Carolyn discuss Tayarisha Poe's debut feature film Selah and the Spades. With Selah and the Spades, Tayarisha Poe Is Capturing the 'Volatility of Being Alive' Carolyn on Twitter @vfdpixie Ashlee on Twitter @AshleeTakesNote Sound edits by CarolynGraphics by Ashlee Intro/Outro Music: Hmu by Drake Stafford (FMA)…