IMDbitch Fest

Extemporaneous Political Chatter

June 28, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 28.6 MB

The girls are BACK, BABY and they're fired up! Lady Gaga at the Superbowl, Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala, Harry Styles in an ugly dress, the return of 2000's fatphobia/fashion - nothing is off limits!

Edward "Cullen" Scissorhands

April 05, 2022 13:47 - 41 minutes - 30.6 MB

The girls see The Batman and read their Google search history.

I'm Cancelling My Subscription To Hollywood

March 29, 2022 14:09 - 48 minutes - 36.2 MB

The girl's log ON and go OFF about the Academy Awards, The Slap, and Lady Gaga's successful rebrand as a caregiver to aging stars.

Ellen DeGeneres Was From Louisiana This Whole Time

March 09, 2022 12:00 - 48 minutes - 36 MB

Rhiannon initiates an intimate Q&A about Jo's trip to Louisiana

The Inspector Gadgetry Of It All

February 23, 2022 15:24 - 31 minutes - 24 MB

Against all odds, the girls continue to grapple with Jackass Forever.

Johnny Knoxville, SJP, and Me

February 15, 2022 15:24 - 38 minutes - 28.9 MB

The girls wonder if the Jackass franchise is worthy of critical inquiry, if we will ever see hole on TV, and what has to happen to the human brain for it to want to start a podcast.

Women in STEM

February 08, 2022 12:00 - 42 minutes - 31.5 MB

Jo survives a nor'easter, Rhiannon ponders Courteney Cox's lips, and the girls see Scream 5

Mechanical Bull Near Me

February 01, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 29.2 MB

We're back, baby!

She's So Lucky: A Star Is Born (2018)

August 31, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MB

The week your heavenly hosts Jo and Rhiannon go googoo for Gaga, in general and also in writer-director-actor-singer-songwriter-Sam Elliott-impressionist Bradley Cooper's passion project: A STAR IS BORN (2018). It goes without saying that we're off the deep end, so watch as we dive into the 21st century's (first) rendition of this rich and timeless folktale for the finale of our She's So Lucky season. It's hard keepin' it so hardcore...but hey, we manage :) Stay tuned for our next seas...

She's So Lucky: Burlesque (2010)

August 24, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 34.6 MB

“It’s a passion, an emotion, it’s a fashion,” it’s: BURLESQUE (2010), the penultimate episode of our She’s So Lucky season! Naturally the movie that brought Christina Aguilera to the silver screen, Cher to musicals, and Stanley Tucci to wearing a feather boa finds Jo and Rhiannon going balls to the absolute wall discussing about this star-bedazzled bustier of a movie, burlesque as a concept/culture/verb/lounge, something known as [the] “vocal runs,” and reckoning with how much they each ador...

She's So Lucky: From Justin To Kelly (2003)

August 10, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 29.7 MB

What happens when you contractually obligate the winner (Kelly Clarkson) and runner-up (Justin Guarini) of the first season of American Idol to make a spring break musical together, you ask? Well wonder no longer, dear reader, because the answer is From Justin to Kelly (2003), a movie described by Kelly Clarkson herself as "real, real bad!" A crown jewel of our She's So Lucky season, episode 6 finds your hosts examining American Idol culture, 2003 texting culture, towel choreography culture,...

She's So Lucky: A Walk To Remember (2002)

August 04, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 30.9 MB

Give yourself some bad mood bangs and button up those fuzzy cardigans and tune in to episode 5 of our season dedicated to diva debuts on-screen. Film writer Karen Janszen and Adam Shankman (dir. The Wedding Planner; Cheaper by the Dozen 2) use the dazzling writing of Nicholas Sparks (writ. The Notebook; Nights in Rodanthe) to take us on A Walk to Remember (2002)--one that we'll never forget. This week, Jo and Rhiannon and Jamie (played by enigmatic chartreuse Mandy Moore) are here to teach a...

She's So Lucky: Goldmember (2002)

July 27, 2021 20:21 - 50 minutes - 44.9 MB

Groovy baby, yeah!!! We won't beat around the bush: episode 4 of our She's So Lucky season takes us all the way back in time to 2002 for Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter's acting DEBUT in, you guessed it, AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER, directed by Jay Roach and starring...Mike Meyers...! This episode finds your hosts rightfully unhinged as we attempt to walk a mile in Beyoncé's shiny platform boots and situate the very concept of Austin Powers within the zeitgeist of the 21st century, a conver...

She's So Lucky: Crossroads (2002)

July 20, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MB

Episode 3 of our She's So Lucky season all about pop stars on film finds us at a certain Crossroads (2002), starring Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning, and Kim Cattrall, directed by Tamra Davis, and written by Shonda Rhimes. In the wise words of Juliette Lewis as shouted over the wise music of Britney Spears: SIMPLER TIMES. To no one's surprise we here at @imdbitchfest take this film VERY seriously--as this episode very much proves! Go back in time with us as we contemplate Cr...

She's So Lucky: Glitter (2001)

July 14, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MB

The second installment of our She's So Lucky season is all about Mariah Carey, and somewhat about her first starring role in Glitter, a 2001 romantic musical drama directed by Vondie Curtis Hall and co-starring Da Brat, Terrence Howard, Tia Texada, and also somehow Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi! Sparing any lyrical puns about how Obsessed we continue to be with the topic of pop stars on film or how researching for a Mariah-centric episode was a shared Fantasy come true or how All [We] Want ...

She's So Lucky: The Bodyguard (1992)

July 06, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB

And we're back! With a brand new season that's simply Obsessed, Glamorous, Fergalicious, Toxic, etc.: She's So Lucky: Pop Stars' Film Debuts! To kick things off with a pioneering film within the genre, this week's episode is on the 1992 Whitney Houston vehicle The Bodyguard, co-starring Kevin Costner as a former Secret Service agent hired to protect a famous actress and singer (played by Whitney, obvs) following escalating threats from a mysterious stalker. Catch us this season a...

We Need To Talk About Kevin: Clerks II (2006)

March 16, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MB

What better or more obvious choice to bookend a season all about needing to talk all about Kevin (Smith) than CLERKS II (2006), which reunited audiences with the Quick Stop crew in the new millennium. In this retrospective episode, Jo, Rhiannon, and John reflect on lessons learned, opinions hardened, and what watching seven Kevin Smith movies in rapid succession does to the human mind, body, and spirit. While CLERKS II was certainly not Kevin's last tour through the View Askewniverse, it cer...

We Need To Talk About Kevin: Jersey Girl (2004)

March 09, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MB

This week Kevin Smith had these three Jersey girls talking about his sixth film and first foray beyond the View Askewniverse: JERSEY GIRL (2004), starring Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, George Carlin, Jason Biggs, and, far too briefly, Jennifer Lopez. Listen along as we process this sweetie pie daddy-daughter comedy in context and contrast to everything we thought we knew about Kevin. Tangents in this episode include but are not limited to: Ben Affleck's seemingly Dunkin-soothed breakup, A Bear's L...

We Need To Talk About Kevin: Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

March 02, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutes - 37.1 MB

Snoochie boochies! It's episode 5 of the We Need To Talk About Kevin extravaganza/intervention/season! This week, Jo, Rhiannon, and John travel even deeper into Kevin Smith's psyche with his 2001 Jersey-to-Hollywood buddy adventure comedy JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK, starring the View Askewniverse ensemble. Join us and decide for yourself whether twenty years have aged this cinematic basket of inside jokes, celebrity cameos, and easter eggs like a fine wine or a fine weed. Snoogans!

We Need To Talk About Kevin: Dogma (1999)

February 23, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes - 44.7 MB

In this, the fourth episode of Season 4: We Need to Talk About Kevin, Kevin Smith had Jo, Rhiannon, and John questioning their faith as they reckoned with his 1999 religious ~fantasy comedy~ DOGMA. This unholiest of holy romps brings Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, George Carlin, Linda Fiorentino, Janeane Garofalo, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Jason Mewes, and literally Alanis Morissette together as Pastor Kevin's congregation of fallen angels, prophets, and misfits. Denounced ...

We Need To Talk About Kevin: Chasing Amy (1997)

February 09, 2021 12:00 - 49 minutes - 39 MB

Welcome to the third installment of IMDbitchfest's We Need to Talk About Kevin series! Jo, Rhiannon, and New Jersey ambassador/season guest John continue their cruise through the 1990s with Kevin Smith’s third strike/film in the View Askewniverse: the notorious CHASING AMY (1997), starring Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, and Jason Lee. This movie begs the question: who better than Kevin Smith and his beanie'd crew to examine and portray the ever-unfolding and delicate intricacies of human se...

We Need To Talk About Kevin: Mallrats (1995)

February 02, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes - 43.8 MB

In their second session of processing and deep psychoanalysis, Jo, John, and Rhiannon march their talk about Kevin straight to the mall with his 1995 "romantic buddy comedy" MALLRATS! The trio discuss emerging patterns, mall culture, suburbia, Kevin's penchant for tweeting drama, counterculture of yore, and faces old (Kevin) and new (Ben Affleck) of View Askewniverse as it comes into focus with this second installment, and more. So, meet us at Orange Julius and loiter at Hot Topic with @IMDb...

We Need To Talk About Kevin: Clerks (1994)

January 26, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 44.7 MB

Welcome to the inaugural episode of IMDbitchfest Season 4: We Need to Talk About Kevin: The Films/Oeuvre of Kevin Smith! In this episode, Jo and Rhiannon introduce their season guest, New Jersey's own Kevin Smith sexpert John Bazley, and together the trio clocks in to get the shelves stocked and the season started with Kevin's legendary debut as a writer-director-(silent) actor: CLERKS (1994), starring Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, and, of course, Kevin. Pop in for some smoke...

Listener's Choice: Amélie (2001)

January 19, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 30.8 MB

Presenting...our very first Listener's Choice episode, selected by our first Patreon raffle winner Dee Hylton aka Jo's mom!!! Dee slipped a very special DVD into our picnic baskets with baguettes sticking out of them: the dreamy 2001 French romantic fantasy situation Amélie (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet)! In this episode Jo and Rhiannon look deep into their hearts and into the mirror as they fondly reminiscence their long lost youths and chat about what makes this endlessly twee movie a seemingly...

You Better Watch Out: New Year's Evil (1980)

December 29, 2020 12:00 - 32 minutes - 25 MB

Jo and Rhiannon send off Season 3, 2020 the year of our lord, and their very lives in this episode vaguely about NEW YEAR'S EVIL (1980), the "new wave" slasher genre's answer to the question: are there even any horror movies about NYE? The girls toast and roast the 1980s as a whole, beg Hollywood to get a grip about tropes and stereotypes about mental health and hospitals, and throw in a few party poppers and resolutions for good measure. Auld lang syne, baby!

You Better Watch Out: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

December 25, 2020 12:00 - 40 minutes - 30.6 MB

What's This, you ask? Why, This is Halloween! And Christmas! It's downright a/The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)! Jo, Rhiannon, and their three-sizes-too-small Grinch hearts let loose on some very Hot Topic(s) in this very special episode: Tim Burton, pop culture saturation, nostalgia, Disney, the "shipping" of Jack and Sally, and the persistent and beloved phenomenon this movie remains. Most importantly, they answer the age old question of if this is a Halloween or Christmas movie--the a...

You Better Watch Out: Black Christmas (1974 & 2019)

December 22, 2020 12:00 - 36 minutes - 28.3 MB

Don't bother locking those doors because this week's episode is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE! For a special You Better Watch Out "two-fer," if you will, the gals bring the original (Dir. Bob Clark, 1974) and newest (Dir. Sophia Takal, 2019) interpretations of BLACK CHRISTMAS, the sensational seasonal sorority slasher, together in conversation. This episode has it all: musings on feminist horror, 1970s cool girl fashion, cursed statues, creepy Christmas vibes, DivaCups™, and Jo and Rhiannon's...

You Better Watch Out: Krampus (2015)

December 15, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 25.9 MB

It's Christmas with the Krampuses! Krampi? Who cares! In this episode, Jo and Rhiannon dig deep into the velvety cloak pockets of the 2015 horror comedy Krampus, the neither holly nor especially jolly Hollywood debut of the horned and scorned man, myth, and legend himself. Join us as we roast this film o'er an open fire and unwrap the meaning of this anti-Clausian antihero and his NOT-so-merry crew of possessed and murderous toys and treats.

You Better Watch Out: Gremlins (1984)

December 08, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutes - 24.2 MB

Welcome to Gremlins 303: Critical Gremlins Theory! This semester, Professors Jo & Rhiannon will be covering the breakdown of The American Dream, globalization, and the ouroboros that is late capitalism, all through the lens of the 1984 horror comedy Gremlins.

You Better Watch Out: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

December 01, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 31.1 MB

Christmas movie? Barely. Horror movie? It's a stretch. And yet, this week, Jo & Rhiannon take you into the dirty, naked heart of New York City and the infamous castles right outside its borders (you know the ones!) with the 1999 psychosexual thriller Eyes Wide Shut. This steamy puzzler has everything you could ever want: a masked sex cult, fairly tame nudity, pretty boring orgies, spooky piano, and Tom Cruise in Uggs! Eyes Wide Shut? More like Ears Wide Open!

You Better Watch Out: Thankskilling (2009)

November 25, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes - 23.2 MB

In the inaugural episode of You Better Watch Out, IMDbitch Fest's season of holiday horror, Jo & Rhiannon are burdened with the task of discussing the 2009 Thanksgiving slasher film Thankskilling. Have you ever seen a movie so bad you longed for the end of humanity? Have you ever microwaved a chicken bone for so long that it became soft to the touch? Were you in speech and debate? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this episode is for you!

IMDbitch Fest: The Biden Years (Patreon Bonus Episode)

November 19, 2020 21:19 - 40 minutes - 31.6 MB

Welcome to IMDbitch Fest's first Patreon Bonus Episode! This episode is public in the hopes that it entices you to reach for your chosen device, visit patreon.com/imdbitchfest, and sign up to become an official patron. In this month's bonus episode, we explore the true crime industrial complex (in which we are both actively complicit) and remind the world that Rhiannon and Joe Biden share a birthday (November 20)!

Bonus: The After-Party

November 03, 2020 00:45 - 25 minutes - 18.8 MB

In this bonus episode, Jo & Rhiannon reflect on the Y2K'Oscars, decide the best picture of the decade, and reveal their upcoming season.

Y2K'Oscars: The Hurt Locker (2009)

November 02, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 28.1 MB

In their final episode of the Y2K'Oscars series, Jo & Rhiannon go deep into the heart of the military industrial complex. It's Capri Suns in the desert heat! It's guys doing war and wanting sons! It's beloved by critics, derided by veterans! It's The Hurt Locker, baby! (Tuesday is Election Day, so we're releasing this episode a day early. Please vote! Please!)

Y2K'Oscars: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

October 27, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes - 25.9 MB

Are you ready for yet another casual convo about colonialism, tokenism, and the Academy? Buckle in, doggies, as we bum you (and ourselves) out about the 2008 smash-hit Slumdog Millionaire! Who invented the revolver? Whose mug is that on the American $100 bill? Are Jo & Rhiannon smart enough to win $1,000,000? Phone a friend, ask the audience - we don't care! Just make sure to tune in to this, the penultimate episode of the Y2K'Oscars, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

Y2K'Oscars: No Country For Old Men (2007)

October 20, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 28.4 MB

Sidle on down, saddle on up, and make your way over to west Texas, which Rhiannon, Jo, and our country's top geographers all agree is the more western side of Texas. Those saucy little media darlings the Coen brothers have produced yet another tale of the brutality of the human condition and we're here to break it down for you. Come for the Lord Farquaad haircut, stay for the achingly earnest love we clearly have for this movie.

Y2K'Oscars: The Departed (2006)

October 13, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 32.1 MB

Hey wiseguy, why don't you park the cah and come on down to the bah where Jo & Rhiannon are cooking up a titillating tale of cat and mouse... or should we say rat and rat? It's a Southie story and it's got everything: cahps, contrah-fuckin-ban, and a whole lot of microwprahcessahs.

Y2K'Oscars: Crash (2005)

October 06, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 32.4 MB

Jo & Rhiannon take forty minutes out of their busy schedules to argue an impassioned case against the bizarre cultural artifact that is Crash, 2005's so-called "Best" Picture.

Y2K'Oscars: Million Dollar Baby (2004)

September 29, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutes - 23.3 MB

If you give a baby a million dollars...what happens? Jo & Rhiannon dive fist-first into the world of boxing to find out.

Y2K'Oscars: Return of the King (2003)

September 22, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 25.4 MB

"Two girls to rule them all, two girls to find them, two girls to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them..." Jo & Rhiannon continue their treacherous journey through the 00's with this record-breaking best picture winner that is little more than a long series of widow's peaks, chapped lips, and horse murder. Join us as we explore a fantastical world where Gollum is everything, all elves are straight-edge (and pansexual), and Pirates of the Caribbean is as seminal as Star Wars.

Y2K'Oscars: Chicago (2002)

September 15, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 28 MB

Extra! Extra! Calling all gum-shoes and stool-pigeons! Grab your bean-shooters and a gin chickey and cozy up to the radio as Jo Hylton and Rhiannon "Charlie" Cates spin a yarn about murder, molls, and mouthpieces in 1920's Chicago. It's a catchy little number, all about burlesque, Billy Zane, the big house, and Renée Zellweger's back muscles. And don't forget: this is Chicago, kids. You can't beat fresh blood on the walls.

Y2K'Oscars: A Beautiful Mind (2001)

September 08, 2020 12:00 - 24 minutes - 18.9 MB

Jo & Rhiannon spin through a kaleidoscope of tweed, mathematics, shoddy mental illness representation and 1950's collegiate masculinity as they try to make sense of 2001's A Beautiful Mind.

Y2K'Oscars: Gladiator (2000)

September 01, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 25.6 MB

IMDbitch Fest is back with a brand new season! We're watching our way through every Best Picture winner of the "aughts," a term we both staunchly reject. First up: 2000's Gladiator, the first prestige blockbuster of the new millennium, starring baby-faced football dad Russell Crowe. Join us as we get down and dirty with the movie that is somehow sword, tiger, chains, blood, dust, football, AND Nascar, all rolled into one, and ponder such questions as "What is Rome?" and "Did Julius Caesar ac...

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