The Filminists Podcast

Tired of listening to men talk about movies? Us too! So why not listen to two queer girls who love badass women give you their take on popular visual media? (Cover art courtesy of Courtney Chesire: Insta -  @courtneymcheshire Website -  courtneymcheshire.com)

[the-filminists]

We're back! This month we watched the second movie in The Maze Runner trilogy, The Scorch Trials. Join us as we talk about the "trial" that didn't happen, and the similarities between this movie and The Last of Us the video game.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-filminists/id1455065882#episodeGuid=tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F1024498702

‎The Filminists on Apple Podcasts

‎TV & Film · 2021

[the-filminists]

Welcome to the Glade! Where this month we watched the first movie in The Maze Runner trilogy. Join us to talk about the token girl, and another YA dystopian future story.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-filminists/id1455065882#episodeGuid=tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F995330401

‎The Filminists on Apple Podcasts

‎TV & Film · 2021

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‎The Filminists on Apple Podcasts

‎TV & Film · 2020

We're back! This month we watched The Old Guard on Netflix. Join us as we talk about immortality, chosen family, and just doing your best to make the world a better place.

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‎TV & Film · 2020

Once upon a time, we went Into The Woods: to see, to sell, to get, to bring, to make, to lift. Into The Woods, then out of the woods, and home before dark! Yes, this week we talked about the movie version of Into The Woods. Come along with us on this fairytale journey.

[the-filminists]

‎The Filminists: Episode 35: Les Miserables on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The Filminists, Ep Episode 35: Les Miserables - Oct 14, 2020

This week on The Filminists we watched the movie version of Les Miserables. We discuss how relevant this movie is to real world problems, Cosette and Marius' love at first sight, and revolution of course!

[saturn-no-sega]

I hate that there are people who constantly compare wlw representation in cartoons by putting down the cartoon that did the most before it. Like, this shit's a ladder, not a pyramid.

I keep seeing posts about people calling out people who shit on Catradora's development in favor of how Lumity is going, and it doesn't make sense to me. You can't compare things like this because you don't see all of the fighting and struggling that goes on behind the scenes to get a love confession between two female leads? Noelle herself said that she had to fight to get the story she wanted to tell out there, and found ways to weave Catradora into the story of the show that they couldn't ignore it...but people want to complain because it took the entirety of the show to get what we got compared to Amity losing her shit in front of Luz in the first season of The Owl House.

Getting proper representation in a show - a "children's show" at that - is hard, and is a constant uphill battle. Amity gets to have a painfully obvious crush on Luz because Catradora was so essential to the story of She-ra and actually became cannon because Steven Universe got to show so many wlw relationships - even a lesbian wedding - because the seeds of Bubbline planted by Rebecca blossomed into a kiss in the finale because Korra and Asami got an implied happily ever after. And there are probably so many more examples that have and will happen because of the work that these shows did.

Tl;dr: I understand seeing how little we actually got in terms of representation in retrospect, but we can't put down these pieces of media, because doing so invalidates not only the importance of these milestones, but the hard work and sacrifices of these showrunners who just wanted to create a story for people like us.

[h-arleen]

Harleen “I Have A PhD, Motherfucker” Quinzel

[artemispanthar]

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Episode 30 - Pirates Of The Caribbean 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales - The Filminists

This week we watched Pirates of the Caribbean 5, so you don't have to! We discuss the superfluousness of one Jack Sparrow, nonsensical nauti

This week we watched Pirates of the Carribean 5, so you don't have to! We discuss the superfluousness of one Jack Sparrow, nonsensical nautical metaphors, and the absence of one Elizabeth Swan.

[prophecyguy]

everything about kylo ren gets exponentially more pathetic when you remember that he’s like thirty

[goodupstandingcitizen]

he’s doing his best

[prophecyguy]

[feministism]

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Episode 28 - Pirates of the Carribean 3: At World's End - The Filminists

This week on the Filminists, we discuss the complex and confusing web of betrayals, the total bs that is Will and Elizabeth not starting a pirate fleet, and the general mess that is this movie.

"That's a movie." We review Pirates of The Caribbean: At World's End. And, oooh boy, is it a doozy.

[radioh]

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Episode 24 - Birds of Prey

"This movie is the antithesis to the male gaze"

"This movie is like the antithesis to the male gaze."

This week we saw Birds Of Prey and we're still excited about it!

[stevenrogered]

Taika Waititi has made Oscars history.

At the 92nd Academy Awards, the “Jojo Rabbit” writer-director-actor took the prize for adapted screenplay. This makes Waititi the first person of Māori descent to win an Oscar. He was the first ever indigenous person to be nominated in the category. (x)

[the-filminists]

Friendly reminder that there are no female nominees for Best Director this year, there have only been 5 female nominees ever, and only one woman has ever won best director at the Oscars.

[sakura-haruka]

—Little Women (2019)

[chalamet]

Congratulations to Florence Pugh on her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Amy Curtis March in Little Women!