Chick Flicks Podcast

In this episode of Chick Flicks, McKenzie and Bridget talk about badass eco-warrior women and their boyfriends in two animated films: FernGully and Princess Mononoke .  FernGully is a terrifying movie from your childhood, directed by Bill Kroyer and starring the vocal talents of Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, and Robin Williams. Princess Mononoke is a Studio Ghibli movie by the filmmaker...

In this episode of Chick Flicks, McKenzie and Bridget cover two cult classics about competition between women, beauty, and putting makeup on corpses: Drop Dead Gorgeous and Death Becomes Her .  Drop Dead Gorgeous boasts an all star casts that includes Kristen Dunst, Allison Janney, Amy Adams, and Brittany Murphy. It was written by Lona Williams and directed by Michael Patrick Jann. Death Beco...

What's the most dangerous occupation? According to slasher movies, it's being a teenage camp counselor. In this episode of Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie discuss the final girl trope (a term coined by Carol J. Clover) and its use in the films Friday the 13th (1980) and The Final Girls (2015).  Friday the 13th was directed by Sean Cunningham and written by Vic Miller. It stars Betsey Palme...

In Midsommar , Director Ari Aster continues to explore themes of family, community, and terrible things happening to a person’s head. Is Midsommar really a “female empowerment” movie? Listen to Bridget and McKenzie talk about Florence Pugh’s intense screaming, bad vacations, and disappointing boyfriends in this Chicklet episode.  Midsommar stars Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor and is in theater...

Bridget and McKenzie visit the 1980’s with the classic kid’s adventure film The Goonies and the Netflix show Stranger Things . They find that The Goonies is a relic with some pretty problematic jokes and that Stranger Things is disappointingly not all that strange.  The Goonies was directed by Richard Donner and produced by Steven Spielberg. Stranger Things was created by the Duffer Brothers...

Lizzie and The Handmaiden are films about women whose love (or simply lust) for one another creates a powerful catalyst that dismantles patriarchal structures. In this episode of Chick Flicks, we think only one of these films has a queer love story that works. Lizzie was directed by Craig MacNeil and stars Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart. The Handmaiden is based on the novel Fingersmith by Sarah...

 Our heroes rise from the ashes (or retirement) to deliver some much deserved payback in these two revenge fantasy movies: John Wick and Revenge .  

 What do American Psycho and Gone Girl have in common? Boring men who talk at length about music to women who are smarter than them. Oh, also: blood-lust perpetuated by toxic patriarchal structures!!!  If you would like to donate to aid in people's access to abortion healthcare, please click here . 

After eight seasons, three dragons, and one thousand pairs of boobs, the massive television hit, Game of Thrones , has come to an end. So what do the Chicks think? Let's just say that if we were Daenerys, we would "dracarys" showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff.

In our 18th episode, we talk about magical puberty in two nostalgic classics: Teen Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer .

In this episode of Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie compare the debut films of two female directors: Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides and Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Mustang . 

In this episode, we talk about sexy women robots in Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic, Blade Runner , and the more recent 2014 film, Ex Machina , by Annihilation 's Alex Garland.

Hasta la vista, chickies. In the fifteenth episode of Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie discuss two sequels by James Cameron: Aliens and Terminator 2 .

We saw Jordan Peele's new horror film Us over the weekend and were so excited about it we recorded a mini episode to share our thoughts! This is a new episode format we're calling "Chicklets!" Look out for the next Chicklet when there's a cool new movie or TV show that we wanna talk about.

 In the fourteenth episode of Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie talk about vampires that aren’t named Edward OR Spike! The vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night would definitely shame you about the music on your favorite Spotify playlist. 

In our 13th episode, we talk about two found footage horror films: Paranormal Activity & The Taking of Deborah Logan . In these two movies about demonic possession, we find something more sinister than losing your bodily autonomy to the devil-- an abusive boyfriend and non-consensual filmwork! 

In the twelfth episode of Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie discuss two movies about all women expeditions into truly terrible territories: The Descent and Annihilation . 

In this episode of Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie discuss two movies that center around motherhood, paranoia, and the believability of women in horror movies: Rosemary’s Baby and Hereditary .

"They're coming to get you, Barbara!" In this zombie-themed episode, Bridget and McKenzie discuss the movie that started it all, Night of the Living Dead, with recent South Korean film, Train to Busan.

In episode 9 of Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie compare two confinement thrillers: Disturbia and Housebound . Tune in to find out their feelings on peak aughts-Shia LaBeouf and kiwi humor! 

We discuss our Top 5 films of 2018 which is mostly us talking about To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Just kidding. Sort of.

In their eighth episode of Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie discuss two foreign monster movies: South Korea’s The Host and Ireland’s Grabbers. Tune in for a very bad impression of an Irish accent!

You better watch out, he sees you when you’re sleeping, etc., etc. In this holiday themed episode of Chick Flicks, Bridget and McKenzie discuss Rare Exports and Black Christmas, two wonderful examples of how even the most wonderful time of the year can have a dark side.

In the sixth episode of Chick Flicks, McKenzie and Bridget cover two divisive horror movies, It Follows and Jennifer’s Body. Both of these films have intriguing things to say about the sexuality of teenage girls and they are more relevant than ever in today’s ongoing discussion of sexual violence and the #metoo movement.

In this episode we talk about the different depictions of trauma in two horror films, M. Night Shyamalan's Split, and Jennifer Kent's The Babadook.