Filmsplain

Wrapping up part 1 of Season 4 with our most valid crash outs over series finales. Cedes and Kim will return in Filmsplain: Doomsday! SPOILERS FOR: Stranger Things, Gen V, The Boys S4, YOU, The Umbrella Academy, The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother

Join Cedes and Kim in this engaging episode about mawwiage (get the reference?) presented in film. The rise of marriage now being shown as a horror, as opposed to a love story! TRIGGER WARNING: Discussions of school shootings and mental illness presented in films. SPOILERS FOR: Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, Ready or Not & Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, The Drama, Beef

Cedes and Kim discuss shock value in film. What is considered too much of it, and is it always needed? TRIGGER WARNING: Discussions of assault, SA, suicide, bullying, violence, and gun shootings as depicted in films. SPOILERS FOR: Yellowjackets, Squid Games, and The Walking Dead Resource site for specific trigger warnings in films: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/

Cedes and Kim talk about book to screen adaptations once again. Does every book need to be a movie? How much of the book can be removed before it doesn't follow the source material? Should we be making more music videos? Will Cedes talk about Shakespeare yet again? MINOR SPOILER ALERT: The Long Walk and Carrie

Join Cedes & Kim as they talk about time travel, time loops, and all that weird time shit depicted in movies! SPOILERS FOR: Back to the Future 1 and 2, Meet the Robinsons, Click, Dr. Strange, Avengers: Endgame and Infinity War, About Time, Men in Black 3, and Minutemen.

Join Cedes and Kim on the discussion of what they think about the current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Cedes and Kim take a moment to talk about the good ol' days of Blockbuster and how streaming is killing community spaces.

Follow along as Kim and Cedes tell you all the elements to create a cult classic and discuss some of their favorite cult classic films.

Cedes and Kim finally talk about their thoughts on Wicked and Wicked: For Good! SPOILERS for Wicked, Wicked: For Good, and the Wicked musical.

You know what time it is! Award season is not complete without Kim and Cedes telling yo all about their thoughts on the previous year's movies

Listen along as Cedes shares her favorite comfort shows!

Listen along as Kim shares her main comfort shows. SMALL SPOILER FOR: The Good Place

Join Cedes and Kim as they discuss slashers and mysteries and how YOU, yes you, can make a good killer (for a movie of course). SPOILERS FOR: Final Girls, F Marry Kill

Kim and Cedes explain one of the biggest recession indicators of them all: an increase in vampire films and TV.

Have you been seen double? Kim and Cedes discuss the plethora of twins, doppelgangers, doubles and multiples we've been increasingly seeing in films. Listen as the discuss the phenomenon and why it occurs.

In this episode Cedes and Kim talk about double standard female characters face for doing the same things, or much lesser evils, that their male character counterparts do. It all just boils down to misogyny, doesn't it? SPOILERS FOR: Attack on Titan

Are superheros too woke? Are you too evil? The answers may surprise you. In this episode Kim and Cedes talk about the increase in diversity in superhero films. SMALL SPOILERS FOR: Superman (2025) and Fantastic Four (2025)

Kim and Cedes are finally back, and to commiserate their comeback, they play catch up by updating you on what shows and movies they have been watching since the last episode.

We're splitting up... this season in half. Listen as Kim and Cedes talk about the history of television series splitting up their seasons and why it used to makes sense but doesn't so much now. SMALL SPOILER FOR: Black Mirror

do you have a #passion4fashion? come listen to cedes discuss how animated shows have inspired a generation's fashion and style choices.

Kim and Cedes talk about the value and importance of intimacy and safety coordinator. Trigger/Content Warning: brief mentions of sexual harassment/sexual assault

Kim and Cedes attempt being business moguls. Learn how to pitch your film and market it post production.

In the wise words of Mariah Carey; it's just a sweet, sweet fantasy baby. Listen to Kim and Cedes discuss the history and rise of fantasy movies, as well as what constitutes something as a fantasy movie. SPOILER FOR: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1

Play along... and follow us both on letterboxd kim: @dewonatree cedes: @cedesss99

Exactly what the title says: discourse on discourse, is the current way we are having film discourse productive? Is the correct way to have film discourse? And what the hell is going on with the current state of film discourse? We try to answer these questions and more in today's episode.