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FFR 231: Machos Who Are Daddies
Feminist Frequency Radio - April 12, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsCalling all daddies, zaddies, and baddies! This week on our “Machos: Fully Loaded” series, we’re continuing our investigation of onscreen masculinity through a discussion of fatherhood in media, looking at portrayals of dads and father figures who've been central figures of movies and television...
FFR 230: Lady Machos
Feminist Frequency Radio - April 05, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsIt’s time for Lady Machos! This week on our “Machos: Fully Loaded” series, we’re continuing our investigation of onscreen masculinity through a discussion of gender transgression and the women in media who have taken some of the most memorable and iconic macho action roles in history. Links Men...
FFR 229: Machos on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Feminist Frequency Radio - March 29, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsOn this episode of our “Machos: Fully Loaded” series, we’re talking about mental health, trauma, therapy, vengeance, and more, as we focus on onscreen representations of masculinity and emotional or mental health struggle. Links Mentioned: Machos: Fully Loaded film list - https://letterboxd.co...
FFR 228: Soft Boys
Feminist Frequency Radio - March 22, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsOn this episode of our “Machos: Fully Loaded” series, Kat and A.C. are…not talking about machos? Instead, we’re going full sweetie mode to look at another side of masculine characters onscreen, the Soft Boys of cinema. From artists suffering for love to macho momma’s boys, join us as we try to p...
FFR 227: Machos Who F***
Feminist Frequency Radio - March 15, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsThis installment of “Machos: Fully Loaded” is for mature listeners only because we’re talking about exotic dancers, adult film stars, and machos who engage in sex work. From Magic Mike and Boogie Nights to more triple-X-rated arthouse picks, we’re tackling the onscreen intersections of masculini...
FFR 226: Teen Machos
Feminist Frequency Radio - March 08, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsIt’s the first episode of this season of Feminist Frequency Radio, presenting “Machos: Fully Loaded!” This week we’re going back to high school, getting to know some of the moodiest machos of all: teen machos! From big men on campus to the bad boys underneath the bleachers, we’re taking a look a...
FFR Presents - Machos: Fully Loaded
Feminist Frequency Radio - March 01, 2023 10:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsFeminist Frequency Radio’s Kat Spada and special guest A.C. Lamberty introduce you to a brand new season of the podcast with a different spin. For the next several episodes, we will be bringing you all of the feminist media criticism goodness you crave, but this time exploring the specifics of m...
FFR 225: The Menu with Soleil Ho
Feminist Frequency Radio - February 22, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsOur “Eat the Rich” mini-series concludes with a high-concept final course and an exciting special guest. Soleil Ho—writer, podcaster, and San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic—joins our discussion of Mark Mylod’s 2022 comedy thriller The Menu, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, and Hon...
FFR 224: Glass Onion with Devindra Hardawar
Feminist Frequency Radio - February 15, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsAnita and Kat welcome special guest Devindra Hardawar for the next installment of our Eat the Rich mini-season. This week we’re discussing Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion. Guest and co-host opinions on the film run from 1-10, so listen in to see where you land on this lively episode of Feminist Frequ...
FFR 223 Triange of Sadness with Karen Tongson
Feminist Frequency Radio - February 08, 2023 09:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsThe first course of this "Eat the Rich" mini-season is served! Kat and Anita are joined by professor, podcaster, and author Karen Tongson to sink our teeth into Ruben Östlund's Oscar-nominated 2022 saga Triangle of Sadness. Tune in to find out how we think the movie's satirical look at class dyn...
EAT THE RICH teaser! What’s coming up on FFR?
Feminist Frequency Radio - January 25, 2023 10:05 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsKat and Anita are offering up a three course meal of — Triangle of Sadness, Glass Onion, and The Menu — all films exploring wealth and privilege. Take a listen to this amuse bouche to get a taste of the upcoming Eat the Rich series on Feminist Frequency Radio.
FFR 222: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with Ebony Adams
Feminist Frequency Radio - November 23, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsWe return to the MCU for the final episode in this mini-season of Feminist Frequency Radio. Author, activist, and beloved member of the Feminist Frequency Family, Ebony Adams returns to the podcast as special guest for our discussion of Wakanda Forever, the highly-anticipated yet complicated seq...
FFR 221: Twin Peaks with Leena van Deventer
Feminist Frequency Radio - November 16, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsBelieve it or not, neither of our cohosts had ever seen Twin Peaks, the cult classic created by Mark Frost and David Lynch that has legions of devoted fans even three decades after its debut in 1990. Joining the conversation is special guest, award-winning game developer, writer, and arts manage...
FFR 220: Tár with A.C. Lamberty
Feminist Frequency Radio - November 09, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsWe’re talking about Todd Field’s first film in 16 years: the Cate Blanchett showpiece Tár. A darling of the Venice Film Festival, and heavily buzzed about for awards consideration, Tár is a meandering two-hour and 38-minute journey through its titular character’s fall from grace. Joining our con...
FFR 219: That Time When with Anita Sarkeesian & Carolyn Petit
Feminist Frequency Radio - November 02, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsOn this special episode, Kat Spada interviews cohost Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency Family Founder Carolyn Petit about their new Nebula original series, That Time When. Directed and presented by Anita and written by Carolyn, the show dives into some of the most divisive moments of moder...
FFR 218: She-Hulk with Annalee Newitz
Feminist Frequency Radio - October 26, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsWelcome to the first episode of a mini-season of pop culture goodness! Today Anita, Kat, and returning special guest Annalee Newitz are talking about She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, the most recent of the MCU’s forays into television series. Created by Jessica Gao and starring Tatiana Maslany, the sh...
FFR 217: Hackers with Shadi Petosky
Feminist Frequency Radio - September 28, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsOn the season finale of Cyberpunk Summer, we’re hacking the planet with special guest, Emmy-winning writer and producer, Shadi Petosky, discussing Hackers, a 1995 crime thriller from director Iain Softley. A crew of high school hackers led by Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie find themselves i...
FFR 216: Strange Days with Emily St. James
Feminist Frequency Radio - September 21, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsThis week on our Cyberpunk Summer series, we’re joined by writer, journalist, and podcaster Emily St. James to discuss Strange Days, Kathryn Bigelow’s 1995 action thriller starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, and Juliette Lewis. Based on a story by Bigelow’s ex-husband James Cameron, Strange ...
FFR 215: Ghost in the Machine with Mike Eagle
Feminist Frequency Radio - September 14, 2022 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsWe are discussing Ghost in the Machine on this episode of Cyberpunk Summer, a 1993 horror sci-fi film from director Rachel Talalay (whose follow-up film was Tank Girl). Karen Allen plays the intended victim of a serial killer who, after his physical death, remains “alive” when his soul is transf...
FFR 214: Blade Runner with Inkoo Kang
Feminist Frequency Radio - September 07, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsOn this episode of Cyberpunk Summer, we’re welcoming special guest, writer, critic, and podcaster Inkoo Kang to talk about Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s 1982 film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Set in the dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, Harrison Ford...
FFR 213: Spy Kids with Fran Tirado
Feminist Frequency Radio - August 31, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsOkay, so maybe “Cyberpunk” is a stretch for this one. Still, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to discuss one of our special guest—writer, critic, podcaster, and media consultant—Fran Tirado’s childhood faves. This week, we are talking about the first movie in Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids franc...
FFR 212: Total Recall with Karen Tongson
Feminist Frequency Radio - August 24, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsSpecial guest, professor, podcaster, and prolific author Karen Tongson joins Anita and Kat for episode five of our “Cyberpunk Summer” series, where we are discussing the 1990 sci-fi action film Total Recall, from director Paul Verhoeven. Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1966 short story “We Can Remembe...
FFR 211: TRON with Geraldine DeRuiter
Feminist Frequency Radio - August 17, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsOn this episode of Cyberpunk Summer, we are discussing TRON, a 1982 adventure film directed by Steven Lisberger and starring Jeff Bridges as a software engineer-turned-arcade owner, who is corporeally transported into cyberspace by a power-hungry computer program. Anita and Kat are joined by acc...
FFR 210: The Net with Bridget Todd
Feminist Frequency Radio - August 10, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsWelcome to Cyberpunk Summer, episode 3, where we are discussing the 1995 thriller The Net, directed by Irwin Winkler and starring Sandra Bullock as a systems analyst whose life is threatened by cyber terrorists in a film that drives home the mid-’90s fascination with how much of our lives were j...
FFR 209: eXistenZ with Kristian Bruun
Feminist Frequency Radio - August 03, 2022 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsFor episode 2 of Cyberpunk Summer, Anita and Kat are joined by by actor, producer, and writer Kristian Bruun to discuss eXistenZ. While you may think that sounds like an off-brand male enhancement supplement, it’s actually a sci-fi film from David Cronenberg. The filmmaker—known for his work def...
FFR 208: Johnny Mnemonic with Ryan Broderick
Feminist Frequency Radio - July 27, 2022 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsCyberpunk Summer is here, and we’re coming in hot with JOHNNY MNEMONIC, the 1995 film directed by Robert Longo and based on the 1981 short story by one of the authors credited with the invention of the cyberpunk genre: William Gibson. It boasts a preposterous cast, including Keanu Reeves, Dolph ...
FFR 207: Hollywood in the 1980s with special guests Walter Chaw
Feminist Frequency Radio - June 29, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsIn our Hollywood by the Decade series, we’ve been exploring film history by watching and discussing landmark films from the beginnings of cinema up through the 1980s with new expert guests for each decade. In this final episode, we’re joined by two special guests: prolific writer and film critic...
FFR 206: Hollywood in the 1970s with special guest Carolyn Petit
Feminist Frequency Radio - June 22, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsCarolyn Petit returns as special guest to lead our discussion of the 1970s on the penultimate episode of our “Hollywood by the Decade” series. She selected two acclaimed films to focus our discussion. From 1971, Alan Pakula’s KLUTE, in which Jane Fonda plays a sex worker who teams up with an inv...
FFR 205: Hollywood in the 1960s with special guest Dr. Philana Payton
Feminist Frequency Radio - June 15, 2022 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratingsThe 60s in America are remembered as a time of cultural upheaval and revolution, but did Hollywood keep in step with contemporary conversations? Our expert and guide on this episode of Hollywood by the Decade is Dr. Philana Payton, a scholar-activist with research interests in Black film and tel...
FFR 204: Hollywood in the 1950s with special guest Alonso Duralde
Feminist Frequency Radio - June 08, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 435 ratingsHalfway through our “Hollywood by the Decades” series, we time-travel to the 1950s with our special guest—writer, podcaster, and film review editor—Alonso Duralde. We’ll be framing our conversation around two 50s films recommended by Alonso: ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) and THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1...
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