Latest Feminist frequency Podcast Episodes
FFR 148: Nomadland
Feminist Frequency Radio - December 09, 2020 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsToday on the podcast Anita and Carolyn are hitting the road (figuratively, if not literally) to discuss NOMADLAND, the critically acclaimed film written, directed, AND edited by next year’s Eternals director Chloe Zhao. The film is gorgeous, as through main character Fern (played by Frances McDo...
FFR 147: Happiest Season
Feminist Frequency Radio - December 02, 2020 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsAnita and Ebony are joined by special and surprise guest Dave Proctor to discuss Happiest Season, Hulu’s new queer Christmas romcom from actor/writer/director Clea DuVall. Starring Kristen Stewart, Aubrey Plaza, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Steenburgen, Victor Garber, Dan Levy, Alison Brie, and Mary Ho...
FFR 146: LA Skins Fest
Feminist Frequency Radio - November 25, 2020 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsFor this week’s podcast we checked out the 14th Annual LA Skins Fest, a festival of Native American films which was held virtually this year. The festival was a great opportunity to explore films by and about indigenous people whose stories too rarely get told in mainstream media. On this episod...
FFR 145: Entertainment News
Feminist Frequency Radio - November 18, 2020 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsWelcome to the third installment of Feminist Frequency’s entertainment news round up; a semi-regular series where we share our thoughts on all the media and pop culture news that crawled from the depths of 2020 to illuminate our screens (and mostly dampen our spirits). In this episode we’re: (st...
FFR 144: Proxima
Feminist Frequency Radio - November 11, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 436 ratingsIn Alice Winocour’s new film Proxima, astronaut Sarah (played by Eva Green) faces challenges her male colleagues do not while making preparations to depart for a year aboard the ISS. As Sarah tries to balance the personal and professional, her daughter Stella goes on an emotional journey of her...
FFR 143: First Cow
Feminist Frequency Radio - November 04, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 436 ratingsOn the cusp of the 2020 US presidential election, we’re taking a look at a film set in 1820s Oregon Territory, telling the story of two men trying to make their way in the harsh frontier of the burgeoning American West. Join us on this week’s podcast, as we sink our critical teeth into this swee...
FFR 142: The Witches of Eastwick
Feminist Frequency Radio - October 28, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 436 ratingsToday’s episode of the podcast finishes up our spooky season series on occult-themed nostalgia watches with 1987’s The Witches of Eastwick, starring Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Cher, adapted from the John Updike novel. Join us as we try to figure out how we feel about this movie inclu...
FFR 141: Blade
Feminist Frequency Radio - October 21, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsWelcome to the second episode in our spooky season series, revisiting classic, cult or nostalgic witch and vampire movies as chosen by our patrons. Today we’re traveling back to 1998, when Wesley Snipes starred as the titular vampire hunter, Blade. 9 years after Tim Burton’s Batman, and 20 years...
FFR 140: Hocus Pocus
Feminist Frequency Radio - October 14, 2020 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsIn celebration of the spooky season, we’re looking at media depictions of witches and vampires, starting with Hocus Pocus. Starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker, this 1993 Disney classic sparks a feeling of campy nostalgia for many, but how did it hold up for us and what d...
FFR 139: Enola Holmes
Feminist Frequency Radio - October 07, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 436 ratingsThe Netflix film Enola Holmes introduces us to the much younger (and perhaps more brilliant) sister of the infamous Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. The film is based on a series of YA detective novels by author Nancy Springer, and our heroine (played in the film by Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Br...
FFR 138: The Matrix
Feminist Frequency Radio - September 09, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsThis week, by popular demand, we're talking about The Matrix, a film once co-opted by the online right that has in recent years seen a kind of reclamation as an explicitly queer, trans text. Carolyn kicks things off by telling us about a 20th anniversary screening of the landmark film that she a...
FFR 137: I May Destroy You
Feminist Frequency Radio - September 02, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsWe begin this week’s episode by acknowledging the passing of Chadwick Boseman, talking a bit about his impact, his legacy, and the grief so many of us have felt in response to the loss. Our main topic this week is the incendiary series I May Destroy You, written by and starring the staggeringly...
FFR 136: Lovecraft Country
Feminist Frequency Radio - August 26, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsOn this week’s FFR we discuss the first two episodes of HBO's Lovecraft Country, a show that blends horror elements into a tale about racism in 1950s America, but first we talk about how the horrors of anti-Black racism remain so inescapable in America today, where police have once again exacted...
FFR 135: Perry Mason
Feminist Frequency Radio - August 19, 2020 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsThis week, we explore the seamy underbelly of 1932 Los Angeles with HBO’s exciting revisionist take on the character of Perry Mason. In HBO’s series, crucial supporting characters have been reimagined--Della Street is now a queer woman, Paul Drake is a Black man--in ways that inform the series’ ...
FFR 134: Entertainment News--Mulan, Trump's Tiktok Crackdown, Ellen's Empire of Niceness, and More
Feminist Frequency Radio - August 12, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 436 ratingsThis week, we dive back into all the wild ups and downs of entertainment news to bring you our reactions to some of the biggest and most politically resonant stories of recent weeks! We discuss Disney’s decision to release Mulan on Disney+ for beaucoup bucks and the larger matter of what it mean...
FFR 133: 9 to 5
Feminist Frequency Radio - August 05, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsThis week, we revisit the classic 1980 comedy about sexism in the workplace, 9 to 5. We discuss all the ways in which the film still rings true, the insight with which it depicts women trying to navigate multiple manipulative sexist behaviors of men in positions of power, and how it doesn't lay ...
FFR 132: Palm Springs
Feminist Frequency Radio - July 29, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsThis week we're off to Palm Springs via the new time-loop rom-com on Hulu starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milotti. We discuss how Palm Springs tweaks the familiar structure of films like Groundhog Day in some significant ways to serve up something fresh, while also acknowledging that it can't ...
FFR 131: The Old Guard
Feminist Frequency Radio - July 22, 2020 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsAfter a brief detour into recent events in Portland, we get into Netflix's hugely successful new action flick, The Old Guard, featuring Charlize Theron as the de facto leader of a group of immortal mercenaries as they welcome a new member and face a new adversary. Our conversation touches on the...
FFR 130: Hollywood Scrambles
Feminist Frequency Radio - July 15, 2020 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsCartoon voices have been recast, episodes of 30 Rock have been pulled, and Gone with the Wind has been recontextualized. In this week’s episode of FFR, we discuss the many ways that Hollywood has scrambled in recent weeks to respond to the current conversation about racial justice, and whether a...
FFR 129: The Last of Us Part II
Feminist Frequency Radio - July 08, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 436 ratingsIn this week’s episode, Anita and Carolyn embark on a grim and arduous journey through the discourse over The Last of Us Part II. We share our personal reactions to the game’s cast of characters, talk about its view of humanity and its use of violence, discuss the game’s narrative structure and ...
FFR 128: I Am Not Your Negro
Feminist Frequency Radio - June 10, 2020 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsEbony hosts this episode of Feminist Frequency Radio to discuss the James Baldwin documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, with very special guest, the prolific and award-winning writer, scholar and activist, Dr. Taiyon J. Coleman. Together, they examine the 2016 film, directed by Haitian filmmaker Rao...
FFR 127: Police Brutality and Black Lives Matter
Feminist Frequency Radio - June 03, 2020 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsThis week’s podcast was recorded on May 31, 2020. We won’t be discussing a new piece of media; we’re discussing a nation at war. Over the past week, we have watched as righteous protests rise in the wake of the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd—and the deaths of many other black people i...
FFR 126: Entertainment News II - The Reckoning
Feminist Frequency Radio - May 27, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 436 ratingsAnita, Ebony and Carolyn are back with another Entertainment News roundup. What’s up for discussion today? The Snyder Cut of Justice League is coming (yikes)! E3 is cancelled, but do we even need it anymore? And Joe Biden is taking the black vote for granted. Commiserate with us as we wade throu...
FFR 125: Little America
Feminist Frequency Radio - May 20, 2020 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratings**Mark your calendar for Feminist Frequency’s 11th birthday party! This Thursday, May 21st from 5:00 - midnight Pacific time join at Twitch.tv/femfreq for guests, games, and giveaways. This week on the podcast we are delighted to think critically about the Apple TV+ series Little America. Th...
FFR 124: The Half of It
Feminist Frequency Radio - May 13, 2020 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsOn this episode of Feminist Frequency Radio we take a look at The Half of It, the second film from Saving Face director Alice Wu. Available for streaming on Netflix, the film is a take on the classic-literature-as-teen-movie genre, reimagining Cyrano de Bergerac as wry, bookish teenager Ellie Ch...
FFR 123: Josie and the Pussycats with Special Guest Caitlin Durante
Feminist Frequency Radio - May 06, 2020 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsCaitlin Durante—writer, comedian, co-host of The Bechdel Cast, Josie and the Pussycats enthusiast, and very special guest of Feminist Frequency Radio—returns to discuss the 2001 cult classic film with Anita and Carolyn. Can she convince us of its “borderline flawless” status, or, upon closer ins...
FFR 122: Entertainment News Strikes Back! with Special Guest Laura Hudson
Feminist Frequency Radio - April 29, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 436 ratingsBecause you asked (and because we need to focus on something other than coronavirus updates) Entertainment News is back! In this episode Carolyn and Anita are joined by returning special guest Laura Hudson, to discuss some of the most interesting recent entertainment news stories and media happe...
FFR 121: Mrs. America
Feminist Frequency Radio - April 22, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 436 ratingsThis week on the Feminist Frequency Radio podcast we grapple with Hulu’s limited series Mrs. America, focusing on the battle for and against the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. Join as we struggle with the powerful questions and feelings the series raises as this telling of feminism’s past ...
FFR 120: L. A. Originals
Feminist Frequency Radio - April 15, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsOriginally slotted to debut at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, but currently made available on Netflix, the documentary L. A. Originals chronicles the partnership between director Estevan Oriol and master graffiti artist and high profile tattooist, Mark Machado, aka Mister Cartoon. Join us as we sh...
FFR 119: Coping in Isolation
Feminist Frequency Radio - April 08, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 436 ratingsLike so much of life right now, the format for this episode of Feminist Frequency Radio will be a bit different. Check in with us while we shelter-in-place, and Anita, Carolyn and Ebony share the films, shows, books, games and new hobbies that are seeing us through self isolation. Time Stamps: ...
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