Filmme Fatales

Note: We will be taking a one month break from the show to focus on some work and personal events we have coming up -- thank you for your continue support! See you soon! <3 -- "Yes, she's emotionally disturbed. She's unbalanced!" For our final week on the incomparable Joan Crawford, we will be talking about one of our favourite films: the 1962 psychological thriller, What Ever...

"A man can lie, steal... and even kill. But as long as he hangs on to his pride, he's still a man. All a woman has to do is slip - once. And she's a "tramp!" Must be a great comfort to you to be a man." For our third week on Joan Crawford, we are looking at the 1954 gritty Western, Johnny Guitar , where love, power, and revenge collide. Directed by Nicholas Ray, the fil...

"Oh, I loved her so much. Oh, please God, don't ever let anything happen to Veda." For our second week discussing the legend Joan Crawford, we are chatting about her Oscar-winning performance in the 1945 film, Mildred Pierce . Based on a novel by James M. Cain, Mildred Pierce follows the titular character, played by Joan, as she tries to build a life for herself and her daughters awa...

"That's all quite propper. But supposing I saw you and yelled 'Hi baby. Remember Manchester.'" Our next Filmme Fatale is the incomparable Hollywood golden girl, Joan Crawford. This week, we are discussing the 1932 film Grand Hotel. Ahead of its time in cinematography and plot, this movie follows a group of dynamic and flat characters as they intersect living within a hotel in...

"We need to be quiet for awhile. Storm... it's powerful, so we need to be quiet for awhile." For our final week on the 96th Academy Awards Best Actress nominees, we are talking about the breakout star of the group: Lily Gladstone in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). The film is described as an American American epic, wester crime drama and centres around the Os...

"If the summer doesn't sing in you, then nothing sings in you. And if nothing sings in you, then you can't make music." For our fourth week focusing on Best Actress nominees at the 96th Academy Awards, we are discussing Carey Mulligan in Bradley Cooper's 2023 biopic, Maestro . This film focuses on the marriage between Leonard Bernstein, the first great American composer and a...

"Just because we are on a one way street hurtling to death doesn't mean we have to succumb to mediocrity." For our third week discussing the Best Actress nominees for the 96th Academy Awards, we are discussing yet another biopic! The Oscars love them and we love to hate them. Nyad (2023) is an American biographical film surrounding Diana Nyad's multiple attempts to swim from Cuba...

"Somebody said, of course money doesn't make you happy, but it's still better to cry in a car than in a subway." For our second week discussing Best Actress nominees from the 96th Academy Awards, we are discussing Sandra Hüller's grounded and pensive performance in Justine Triet's 2023 courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Fall . In this film, Sandra portrays a German writer livi...

"I have adventured... and found nothing but sugar and violence." For our final week on Emma Stone and our first week on Oscars 2024, we are discussing her highly anticipated and praised role in Yorgos Lanthimos' sci-fi-comedy film Poor Things . In this film, Emma plays a woman who had her unborn child's brain implanted into her head; subsequently, she must learn to navigate the w...

"As it turns out, I'm capable of much unpleasantness." For our third week on Filmme Fatale Emma Stone, we are discussing the historical dark comedy-drama, The Favourite (2018). Emma Stone plays Abigail, a woman trying to climb out of poverty in 18th-century England. To do this, she competes with Sarah, played by Rachel Weisz, for the favour of Queen Anne, played by Olivia Colman. Thi...

"I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope." This week, we're taking a look at the surprise smash hit romance musical,  La La Land  (2016). Emma Stone plays Mia, an aspiring actress, opposite Ryan Gosling as Sebastian, a jazz pianist on a mission to save the "dying" genre. Described by some as an ode to Old Holly...

"If Google Earth were a guy, he couldn't find me if I was dressed up as a 10-story building." We are back baby!! Happy 2024, the year that we vow to be far more consistent with this little baby podcast of ours. To kick things off, we're talking about Emma Stone's breakout lead role in the 2010 teen romantic comedy film, Easy A . Easy A follows Olive Penderghast, who fabricate...

Finally! It is the long-awaited finale of our month-long exploration of Scream Queens throughout cinematic history. To end off, we are watching the campy, technicolor, horror (comedy?) Pearl (2022) starring the modern day Scream Queen: Mia Goth. In a few short years, Mia Goth has cemented herself as the modern Horror It Girl; starring in films such as Suspiria (2018), X (2022), and Infinity Pool (...

For Halloween, we're dedicating a month of episodes to Scream Queens! This week, our Scream Queen is taking a Sci-Fi twist with Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979). Trapped on a spaceship with a strange and violent grower (not a shower) Alien, Sigourney Weaver and her team of astronaut scientists must fight to survive. Spoiler alert: they do terribly! Except for our girl Sigourney, who is one of...

For Halloween, we're dedicating a month of episodes to Scream Queens! This week, we're continuing on with Jamie Lee Curtis , who just so happens to be the daughter of last week's Filmme Fatale, Janet Leigh. How apt then that we're also discussing the titular film, Halloween (1978). In Jamie Lee Curtis' movie debut, she plays Laurie Strode, a high school senior who is stalked an...

Welcome to a new month of Filmme Fatales podcast! This month, we are mixing it up in honour of spooky season with a bit of a different format. Instead of focusing on one actress for the entire month, we're looking at 4 iconic Scream Queens ! To begin, we're looking at one of the most iconic, influential, and imitated films of all time: Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 OG slasher film Psycho . S...

For our final episode on Michelle Yeoh's impressive career, we dive into her Oscar winning role in the genre-defying, Oscar-sweeping, hot-dog-fingering, 2022 epic multiverse film, Everything Everywhere All at Once . With a stellar cast and crew, this movie explores themes of intergenerational trauma, mental health, nihilism, and more through one of the most unique lenses in cinematic herstory....

For our third instalment discussing Michelle Yeoh's filmography, we're diving into the 2018 romantic comedy credited with blasting the doors open in Hollywood for Asian representation... okay Jan. Crazy Rich Asians is a romantic comedy film with an entirely Asian cast that is often applauded for the representation it provides... but who exactly is the film representing? We get into the com...

For their second Michelle Yeoh film, Jeff and Chase are diving into yet another biopic–this time, the complicated and harrowing story of Myanmar's former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in Luc Besson's The Lady (2011). Michelle plays the political figure during her initial return to Burma as she becomes the leader of the National League of Democracy, fighting to bring democracy to a country unde...

After a short hiatus, Jeff & Chase are back back back again with one of the most prominent and relevant Filmme Fatales in the world right now -- Michelle Yeoh ! Before her meteoric rise to mainstream, Hollywood fame following her Academy Award winning performance as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once ), Michelle was already a well known Hong Kong martial arts actress with multiple...

"Do you guys ever think about dying?" Of course, Jeff & Chase had to finish off Margot Robbie month with a chat about perhaps the most talked about film and role of the year: Greta Gerwig's Barbie ! The buzz has been real on this film since Robbie's casting announcement back in 2019, and we finally get to talk about what we thought! We discuss the campy costumes, sets, humour...

You know what they say: behind every successful man is a badass broad. For the third and penultimate episode on filmme fatale Margot Robbie's career, Jeff and Chase are diving into one of her most known and repeated characters: DC Comic's Harley Quinn! Robbie is by far the best known actor to take on this role and is the first to play Quinn in a live-action film. We talk about the chaotic...

Lick my ass, Diane, she can do a fucking triple. This week, Jeff & Chase are talking about Margot Robbie's performance as the smashingly (pun intended) brazen, country-bumpkin figure skater Tonya Harding in the 2017 biopic, I, Tonya . This was Margot's first Oscar nomination of her career, so it is a must watch in her filmography! Next Week's Film:  Birds of Prey  (2020) CONNECT W/...

Have you ever wanted to watch Rear Window or Saw , but with a supremely lower budget and nonsensical plot? Jeff & Chase have the perfect film for you! In one of her first films ever, Margot Robbie stars as a bossy big sister in Australian Slasher/Thriller I.C.U. Jeff & Chase explore this film's ups and downs, themes of voyeurism, as well as some aspects of Margot's freshman perform...

For the final review of Angela Bassett doing the thing, Jeff and Chase are taking a deep dive into her most recent critically-acclaimed performance as Queen Ramonda in in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). Jeff & Chase discuss superhero movies as a genre (they disagree) and why this performance should have been Angela's second Oscar win (rather than her second Oscar snub). -- We have h...