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In the final episode of Stephen King month at Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie discuss mean nerds and killer cars in Misery and Christine. Misery feels more relevant than ever in today’s extreme fandom culture, while Christine touches upon frightening incel adjacent themes. Misery (1990) was directed by Rob Reiner. It stars James Caan and…

Stephen King month at Chick Flicks continues with Cujo and Pet Sematary! In this episode Bridget and McKenzie discuss the inherent un-scariness of Saint Bernard dogs, family dynamics, rabies, and children named Tad and Gage. Cujo was directed by Lewis Teague, based on an adapted script written by Don Carlos Dunaway and Barbara Turner. It stars Dee Wallace.Pet Sematary…

Listen here! Carrie Cuts Too Close to Real Life School Violence Pauline Kael’s review of Carrie The original ‘Carrie’ is the movie that made me want to be a critic by Owen Gleiberman Revisiting the film of Stephen King’s Firestarter by Becky Lea

Listen here! FernGully at 25: How an Upstart Disney Rival Created a Millennial Silent Spring by Chantel Tattoli PRINCESS MONONOKE Might be Miyazaki’s Angriest Film by Kyle Anderson Looking Back at Princess Mononoke After 20 Years by Leah Schnelbach

Listen here! Jia Tolentino on Drop Dead Gorgeous Jesus Loves Winners: Satirizing The American Scam In “Drop Dead Gorgeous” by Emilly Colucci “Jesus Loves Winners”: How “Drop Dead Gorgeous” Found Cult Success As A Flop by Louis Peitzman The Gloriously Queer Afterlife of Death Becomes Her by Kristy Puchko Is Death Becomes Her the Anti-Aging Parable We…

Listen here! ‘Kill her, Mommy! Kill her!’: A Queer Take on ‘Friday the 13th’ by Nick White The Final Girls: A Slasher Movie Inspired by Woody Allen

Bridget and McKenzie visit the 1980’s with the classic kid’s adventure film The Goonies and the Netflix show Stranger Things. They find that The Goonies is a relic with some pretty problematic jokes and that Stranger Things is disappointingly not all that strange. The Goonies was directed by Richard Donner and produced by Steven Spielberg.…

Lizzie and The Handmaiden are films about women whose love (or simply lust) for one another creates a powerful catalyst that dismantles patriarchal structures. In this episode of Chick Flicks, we think only one of these films has a queer love story that works. Lizzie was directed by Craig MacNeil and stars Chloe Sevigny and…

What do American Psycho and Gone Girl have in common? Boring men who talk at length about music to women who are smarter than them. Oh, also: blood-lust perpetuated by toxic patriarchal structures!!! Listen here! Interview: Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner on Restoring the Female Voice to History in “Charlie Says” by Stephen Saito The…

In episode 18 McKenzie and Bridget discuss two movies about magical puberty. Listen here! ‘Teen Witch’: Hackneyed Plot Under a Hex by Chris Willman 25 years later, Teen Witch is still fun, and a little ridiculous by Marah Eakin Interview with Fran Rubel Kuzui Luke Perry, in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ Helped Redefine the Male Love Interest…