Female Gaze: The Film Club

It's a full house as Chels , Jesse , and Paige are joined by Jenn from The Community Rewatch Podcast , BI-CON extraordinaire Gillian , and Danny from Talk Me Into Podcast to cover the Season 14 reunion of RuPaul's Drag Race.  The gang recaps the season and gives their thoughts on the queen's looks, their impressions of them this season, and what we want from them. We dive into the f...

Trigger Warning: Mentions of suicide. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 Chels , Jesse , and Paige are joined by Sharai from A Nightmare on Fierce Street ,  Blerdy Massacre , and The Alter Tapes to cover season 14 episode 6 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The gang breaks down the twenty challenges within the episode and ponder who in costuming hates Bosco and Angeria and why production...

Chels ,  Jesse , & Paige are joined by Eoin Daly to cover season 14 episode 13 of RuPaul's Drag Race. It's a big week for the queens, with a big mini challenge that includes our dearly beloved Dolly Parton and the enormous task of roasting Ross Mathews. Bosco bounces back from her near elimination last week and Chels and Jesse are praising the chocolate bar nonsense. Paige and Chels...

Chels ,  Jesse , & Paige are joined by dear friend Miss Megan Mann cover season 14 episode 12 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The group is shocked that the queens put on a pretty good Moulin Rouge! themed Rusical and are delighted by special guest Leslie Jordan directing the queens and Academy Award nominee Andra Day judging. Megan gives us her thoughts about the season as a whole and the queens s...

Morgan and Chels dive into the mess and finally give their thoughts on the 94th Academy Awards.  The Gals get into all of the nominees, which films hit with them, which films flopped in their eyes, and offer some films and performers that deserved more love. They debate who should win, gush over some perfect categories, and show that you can like more than one film at once.  Please rate, review, a...

It's family only tonight as Chels ,  Jesse , & Paige cover season 14 episode 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race. It's a very special LaLaPaRUza smackdown! After the Snatch Game disaster, the queens are going head-to-head in this dramatic tournament to see who goes home. We're shocked, gooped, gagged, and STRESSED seeing our favorites in danger. We have some hot takes about who really...

Chels & Jesse are joined by Gavin from The Mixed Reviews to cover season 14 episode 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The only thing worse than bad is boring, and that's this season's Snatch Game. We're all perplexed as to how it had no jokes, the confusing runway theme, and how we ended up with a winner. Join us as we investigate how it all went wrong and preview LaLaPaRUza Smackd...

Morgan and Chels go are joined by Grace Aki from Tell Me on a Sunday and our darling Jen W . to talk about one of Morgan's favorite film of 2021, Passing! The Gals dive into Rebecca Hall's directorial debut, starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Bill Camp, and Alexander Skarsguård and based on Nella Larson's book of the same name. Having read the book, they get into ho...

Chels ,  Jesse , & Paige are joined by Eoin Daly to cover season 14 episode 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The queens are going to Drag Con! The two panels talk all things men, fatherhood, and toxic masculinity to varying levels of success. We learned which queens can hold a conversation and who should stick to texts. Then fun shoulder pads runway where few contestants understood the assignment...

Chels ,  Jesse , & Paige are joined by Gavin from The Mixed Reviews and Murtada from Sundays with Cate to cover season 14 episode 8 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The gang has gathered a super group of guests for this Girl Group musical extravaganza! This episode left us all shocked, confused, and furious. Things started off strong with Bosco crushing the reading challenge before nosediving into...

BONUS SERIES Chels ,  Jesse , & Paige are joined by Luis from The Mixed Reviews to cover season 14 episode 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The gang is gooped and gagged at this incredible all tops, no bottoms episode. Jesse and Chels bring their soap opera aftershow to the main stage as the queens star in a soap opera parody full of Dynasty, Reba, and toots to boot. Plus, Jasmine Kennedie's...

BONUS SERIES Chels and Jesse are joined by Gavin from The Mixed Reviews and Sharai from A Nightmare on Fierce Street and Blerdy Massacre to cover season 14 episode 6 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The queens are given another design challenge that leads to confusing winners and horrifying losing looks. Untucked came back to life this week, Daya is becoming her own saboteur, and Bosco is the narrator...

Morgan and Chels go are joined by Peggy at the Movies to talk about one of Morgan's favorite franchises, SCREAM! In this spoiler filled discussion, the gals reveal the first time they watched Scream, be it in a theater or because their grandma let them watch the VHS at 5 years old. They breakdown some of their favorite kills, the progression of Sydney, Gale, and Dewey, and the passing of the...

BONUS SERIES Chels , Jesse , and Paige cover season 14 episode 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The gang is shook by the departure of Kornbread and theorize if she'll come back and what it means to lose the narrator of the show. Then they discuss the returns of Tempest DuJour, Kahmora Hall, and Jaymes Mansfield for the "Save a Queen" PSA challenge and how Bosco and Lady Camden had thei...

BONUS SERIES Chels , Jesse , and Paige are joined by the delightful Joey Moser cover season 14 episode 4 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The team is SHOCKED by everything this week, from a good acting challenge to a surprising bottom group of queens. Our favorite Loni Love returned to the judges panel for Night of a Thousand Jennifer Lopez's, and JLo herself kind of appeared in a prerecorded mess...

BONUS SERIES Chels and Jesse are joined by Gavin from The Mixed Reviews and Greg to cover season 14 episode 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The queens are having a pair of balls this week and the team breaks down each queen's looks. The team discusses if they'd rather do the jungle themed Hide & Chic or the patriotic Red, White, and Blue Ball. Greg takes the chair as the resident Miche...

Morgan and Chels go back to high school English with The Tragedy of MacBeth, starring Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, and directed by Joel Coen.  Morgan expresses her love of Shakespeare and how this adaptation stands above the rest. Chels shares the story of reading this her senior year and aggravating her teacher. Follow us! Twitter Instagram Cover Art by the incredible Grace Aki

BONUS SERIES Chels is joined by Jesse to cover season 14 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The two review the second batch of  queens and how they compared to the first ones we met and marvel at the girls that can dance in heels. Jesse remarks how gross that pool of TicTacs would be in a post-COVID competition and they're both understanding but disappointed in who goes home. The elephant in the roo...

Morgan and Chels are back for a new season of Cinema Gals and talking about one of their favorite films of 2021, CODA!  This Sundance winner stars Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Eugenio Derbez, and Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin.   Morgan talks about watching this film at its virtual Sundance premiere, where it won basically every award and Chels argues how coming-of-age films like this sho...

BONUS SERIES Chels is joined by two squirrel friends Paige and Jesse to cover season 14 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The gang reviews the first batch of new queens, how they showed off their personality, and how tough it was to pick a bottom two. Plus, tons of season 11 references, another Missouri queen, and everything comes back to Crystal Methyd. Join us this season and let us know who you think...

The Gals are joined by Miss Megan Mann from Those Gals Have Moxie and Once Upon a Stream to talk about their favorite funny films Booksmart and Blockers. Megan enlightens us with her Mount Everest facts, Chels loses her marbles, and Morgan has a pop quiz! Please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast and follow our friends! Follow Megan! Twitter Instagram Bookstagram Grief in the National Park...

Pick up your boobs and get in a tree , spooky season is upon us! We are joined by the spookiest Gal in all the land, Sharai Bohannon from the A Nightmare on Fierce Street podcast. Sharai has brought to this coven a the spookiest double feature of them all, The VVitch and Hereditary. We breakdown these two A24 hits, Morgan shares some fun old timey names, Chels appreciates Toni Collette making her...

The Gals are joined again by  dear friend and cover artist Grace Aki from Tell Me on a Sunday Podcast to deep dive star of the oughts, Alison Lohman. The gang explores her four major films White Oleander, Big Fish, Matchstick Men, and Drag Me to Hell in an attempt to figure out why Ms. Lohman disappeared from Hollywood. Chels apologizes to Morgan for almost killing her for this marathon, Grace has...

Morgan and Chels welcome The Mixed Review hosts Gavin and Luis to celebrate the Gals turning 30! We flashback to 1991 and talk about all the hits from The Addams Family and Fried Green Tomatoes to Beauty and the Beast and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. The gang reminisces on when mid-budget dramas made big bucks at the box office, and question the taste of the times and how far fi...

In this minisode, Morgan and Chels chat about the first MCU film in 2 years and Scarlett Johansson's final appearance as Natasha Romanoff. They talk about their expectations going into the film and if the film served the titular hero before touching upon Rachel Weisz and David Harbour, and waxing poetically about MVPs Florence Pugh and Cate Shortland. Will the Gals be watching the 27 other MC...