Black Girl Film Club

Hope you've been having a happy Pride month listeners! In this episode we welcomed Amanda and Erin from the podcast This Feels Bi to talk about Hedda (2025) dir. Nia DaCosta. In this episode, we talk to Amanda and Erin about queer coded movies, sexuality as gossip, Hedda and stereotypical bi representation, and the power dynamics within relationships. 🗣️ We love you Nia DaCosta!! Come on the show!...

We welcomed author and journalist Thomas Golianopoulos to the studio to talk Singleton's sophomore effort, Poetic Justice (1993) and Golianopoulos' biographical work, The Life of Singleton: From Boyz in the Hood to Snowfall. After exploding on to the scene with his directorial debut, Boyz in the Hood (1991`), John Singleton approached his second film with new perspective on a familiar setting — So...

We welcomed Jada Trabue in the studio to talk about her production company, Vi5ionary Pictures, and the inspiration behind her movie pick, Losing Ground (1982) dir. Kathleen Collins! Losing Ground was only the second feature film directed by a Black woman since 1922's A Woman's Error dir. Tressie Souders — in the film, uptight philosophy professor Sara clashes with her artist husband Victor when h...

If I let you go, do you think that you can fly? It's time for another movie on kids with extraordinarily bad vibes, this time 90s style in The Good Son (1993). The Good Son stars Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood as Henry and Mark, two cousins who reunite after a tragedy and become friendly before Henry starts exhibiting dangerous and violent behavior. In this episode: Britney tells us once again ab...

Have you considered that the kid has bad vibes?? This week, we're putting on our intellectual hats and talking parenting, the theory of nature vs nurture, and 1950s anxieties in The Bad Seed (1956) dir. Mervyn LeRoy and starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, and Evelyn Varden. Based on the 1954 novel, The Bad Seed follows 8 year old Rhoda who is suspected of murder after a classmate goes missing a...

We continue our celebration of Black women directors with Kasi Lemmons' feature debut, Eve's Bayou (1997), a story that examines truth and memory against the backdrop of an all Black bayou town in the early 1960s. In this episode, we talk through Kasi's inspirations for the story and intergenerational trauma and other hallmarks of the Southern Gothic genre. Our recommendations: Cuties (2020) Suppo...

Happy Black History Month and happy anniversary to us! 🖤🖤🖤 This month we're giving a spotlight to Black female directors, starting with Rungano Nyoni's On Becoming A Guinea Fowl (2025), a film that explores family secrets and complicit silence against the backdrop of a funeral. In this episode, we talk grief as a performance, women who protect bad men, and the shared experiences of family gathe...

Two things make up the meaning of Christmas: career advancement and extramarital affairs! For our last episode of 2025, we watched The Apartment (1960), directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Lemmon plays C.C. "Bud" Baxter, a middleman at an insurance company who allows his superiors to use his apartment to conduct extramarital affairs while falling in love with Fr...

Welcome to another cock-a-doodie episode of Black Girl Film Club! As the weather gets colder, we take on stan culture, fandom and unhinged devotion in Misery (1990), directed by Rob Reiner and starring James Caan and Kathy Bates. In this episode: Stephen King's experiences with fan backlash and substance abuse, King's vast influence on the horror genre, Kathy Bates' star making turn as Annie, the...

Welcome to primetime, bitch! We're joined by longtime friend of the show, Davalyn, to discuss A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors! Directed by Chuck Russell and starring Patricia Arquette, Heather Langenkamp, Craig Wasson, and Robert Englund, NOES3 sees a group of kids team up to fight the dream demon and a rescue a friend. #1 horror experts Dee and Britney give a breakdown of the franchis...

We welcomed Maya Williams (ey/they/she) back to the show to discuss their new chapbook of poetry, Feminine Morbidity, along with Sofia Coppola's 1999 feature debut, The Virgin Suicides. Based on Jefferey Eugenides' 1991 novel, this film follows the Lisbon sisters and their parents who are reeling after the youngest sister, Cecelia, takes her own life. In this episode: mental health portrayals in H...

Light as a feather, stiff as a board 🪶 On this episode of Black Girl Film Club, we invited Lauren from Fashion Grunge to have a long overdue conversation about The Craft (1997), directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True. Witches and spells and boys, oh my! In this episode: fashion as storytelling being the Only Black Girl; Rochelle did noth...

Surprise! We're back with a brand new Rough Cut, this time on Highest 2 Lowest (2025), Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's 5th collaboration and their first in 19 years. Highest 2 Lowest is a remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film High and Low — both movies follow a rich businessman who deliberates paying the ransom when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped. Highest 2 Lowest also stars A$ap Rocky, Jeffe...

We're not Josie Grossie anymore!! High school is still hell in Never Been Kissed (1999) directed by Raja Gosnell and starring Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, LeeLee Sobieski, and Molly Shannon. In this episode: a look at the real story that inspired the movie and the ethics of adults secretly mixing in with teens; what high school was like in the ancient days of the early 2000s; recovering from be...

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains 😌 Class is now in session, Black Girl Film Club listeners! We're going back to high school with 90s classic (and Britney's personal favorite), She's All That (1999) directed by Robert Iscove and starring Freddie Prinze Jr, Rachel Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, and Paul Walker and featuring Kieran Culkin, Clea Duvall, Usher Raymond, Lil Kim, Gabrielle Uni...

We're back to talk friendship, betrayal, and extreme hobbies...this time, above ground! In Fall (2022), recently widowed Becky and her friend Hunter become stranded after climbing a 2,000 ft decommissioned tv tower to spread her husband's ashes. Fall is directed by Scott Mann and stars Graces Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardener, Mason Gooding, and Jeffery Dean Morgan. In this episode: our collectiv...

🎵 What about your friends? Will they stand their ground? Will they let you down again? 🎵 We're looking at friendship dynamics and betrayal in The Descent (2005), directed by Neil Marshall and starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalia Mendoza, and Alex Reid. The Descent follows 6 women who become stranded in a uncharted cave system and have to survive cannibals and each other. If you can't fight togethe...

1, 2, 3, 4! This is a movie that we adore! 📣🏳️‍🌈 We're going on another trip — this time to New Directions in Jamie Babbit's But I'm a Cheerleader (1999). A satirical look at the horrors of conversion therapy, But I'm a Cheerleader follows Megan (Natasha Lyonne), an All-American cheerleader who's sent to a local rehab camp to learn about to be a Happy Heterosexual™ when her friends and family su...

Happy Pride, film club listeners! 🏳️‍🌈 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single podcast in possession of 2 microphones, must be in want of a of good ass movie. But enough hetero nonsense! In this episode we take a trip to Fire Island (2022) directed by Andrew Ahn and starring Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, Conrad Ricamora, James Scully, and Margaret Cho. Fire Island is a modern queer...

For a very special edition of In the Studio With, we have director Destiny Cox with us to talk about her short film You Were Dead Yesterday (2025), an Afro-Gothic take on living through, and surviving a zombie apocalypse. In addition to directing, Destiny is the co-founder of Wano Studios, a Philadelphia-based production company. During this interview, asked Destiny about the rewards of running he...

Silencio! We finally get lost in David Lynch's walking daydream Mulholland Dr. (2001) starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, and Justin Theroux. Lynch, as usual, declined to explain the meaning of the film and we here at Black Girl Film Club can little more than offer our musing and interpretations including: the Hollywood machine, the sinister nature of LA, shaping your identity, Ellen Degeneres wi...

You guys........we miss David Lynch. A lot. In part 1 of our David Lynch double feature, we discuss Eraserhead (1977), starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, and Jack Fisk. In this film, factory worker Henry Cooper becomes a father while living in an industrial wasteland. Lynch famously called Eraserhead his most spiritual film but, even more famously, declined to explain why. He al...

Heavy spoilers ahead! Welcome back to the Rough Cut! Along with literally everybody else in the world, we share our initial reactions of the most talked about movie of the year, Sinners (2025). Directed by Ryan Coogler, Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as twins Smoke and Stack, who return to the Mississippi Delta to open a juke joint and are attacked by vampires in process. In this extended episode...

BOO YOW! 👸🏾👸🏾 On today's episode, we look back to another 90s Black Movie Classic – B.A.P.S. (1997) directed by Robert Townsend and starring Halle Berry, Natalie Desselle-Reid, and Martin Landau. In this film, Nisi (Berry) and Mickey (Desselle-Reid) make the big jump from Atlanta to L.A. and attempt to make their dreams come true but get caught up in a scam involving an aging multi-millionaire...

Like phoenixes rising from the littered ashes of Oscars discourse‬ and Russo Brothers slop, we've triumphantly emerged from Cinema Purgatory™ for our 7th year to, once again, fill the internet airwaves with our hot takes on film. In this week's episode we're talking friendship, heart chakras, and bra money in One of Them Days (2025), directed by Lawrence Lamont and starring Keke Palmer and SZA in...