The Feminine Critique Podcast

It's a very EGOT Christmas when Rita Moreno shows up! Author/writer/comedian/andthensome Kevin Maher hops in Emily's golf cart to drive through Lifetime's Santa Bootcamp, a film with some charm but lots more terrible empty coffee up acting. Be sure to check out Kevin's new book Santa Doesn't Need Your Help wherever you find your reading materials, follow Kevin @KevinGeeksOut, and head to  https://...

Toepick! It's time for the annual figure skating-based Cozy Cardigan Christmas, this one directed by Fred Olen Ray no less! Emily brings in an expert on movies made for peanuts: the one and only Doug Tilley of Cinema Smorgasboard and the legendary Eric Roberts Is the F*cking Man. Frost up some cupcakes for an epic discussion on Tubi's A Royal Christmas On Ice, plus about 87 tangents on all things...

Emily puts on her dancing shoes and finds the perfect tango partner to tackle Lifetime's toe-tappin' original! The Head Hauntress Elizabeth Katheryn Gray box steps her way through the Mario Lopez/Jana Kramer love story (eh?) Steppin' Into the Holiday. Meet the world's most cloying child! Marvel at Mario Lopez's smooth skin! Harshly judge the fixin' up the barn montage! There's much to discuss, so...

NOT A TYPO: did you know there were certified Cozy Cardigan Christmas movies in TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT? This one's rough around the edges, but the keys are all there, plus some surprisingly forthright commentary about global warming as issued by Tom Arnold. The Projection Booth Podcast's Mike White joins Emily to tackle A Christmas Proposal, streaming on Tubi and loaded with all the montages you c...

Wait...an actual GOOD movie from The Hallmark Channel? We found it! Emily welcomes The Dark Corner Podcast's Dave (@darkcornercast) and Brandi (@Brandiwine12) to tackle the surprisingly funny AND rich Three Wise Men and a Baby. It's a Christmas miracle! Be sure to check out The Dark Corner Podcast, as well as Brandi & Dave's Star Trek Discovery podcast What the Future Holds. Boldly go there and br...

Cozy Cardigan Christmas romances are nice and all, but sometimes...well...don't you wish they involved more decapitations? Emily welcomes the one and only Abby Denson for a joyful dive into the SyFy Channel's Hallmark spoof Letters to Satan Claus, delightfully directed by Emma Jean Sutherland and wonderfully written by Michael Zara. The film is available now on Fubo or through any cable connection...

What do Kekoa Shaw, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2, and James Cameron's stunt hands have in common? Why, Netflix's Falling For Christmas of course! This is NOT to be confused with the OTHER movie titled Falling For Christmas that we covered a few years back. The one and only Jason Fozzie Bare Nelson (@fozziebare) joins Emily to talk all things Lindsay Lohan, gag reels, surprise bisexuality, and how...

Yup, it's started: the annual Stocking Stuffer season, where Emily falls down a red-and-green rabbit hole to the sprinkle fairy sound effects and public domain Christmas carols. We're kicking off the season early (sorry purists) with Hulu's My Christmas Fiancé, a romance (WHAT?!) about a chef (NO WAY) who falls in love (I THINK) with a Gordon Ramsay stand-in. Denise Richards is there, and I still...

Welcome to yet another big grab bag of catchup, this time, about 85% pure horror. We've got a whole lot of October viewing to discuss, including a deep spoilery dive into Halloween Ends and The Night House. Non-spoilery discussion includes: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Sole Survivor, She Will, Bullet Train, Spin Me Round, Confess Fletch, Hocus Pocus 2, The Forever Purge, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Sis...

Check those train schedules because we're riding the rails! Christine kindly indulges Emily in revisiting two of her beloved childhood favorites: 1985's The Journey of Natty Gann and 1986's Stand By Me. BOTH involve unsupervised 12-year-olds, talented first-time child actors, THE PAST, babyfaced John Cusack, regular faced Gary Riley, and so very many trains.  We'll be back in a few weeks, but in t...

Howdy partners! It’s another big ol’ catchup, where Christine and Emily wrangle their wild lists of what they’ve been watching (which is suitably 80% in the horror genre). We save the spoilery talk on Orphan: (Esther’s) First Kill, Nope, and Yellowjackets for the final fully warned segment. Before that, highlights include the career of Isabelle Fuhrman, the horror community’s ranking of new films...

Put on your most stylish pair of oversized reading glasses because we’re BOOKING IT! Christine and Emily welcome super special regular ghost star Jason Fozzie Bare Nelson to discuss a pair of films about the art of reading (among a LOT of other things). First up is 1989’s I, Madman, an odd little spin on the slasher streaming now on Tubi. Next is the better known Nocturnal Animals (currently strea...

Movies! TV! Twins! Nudity! Actresses from Game of Thrones who deserve better projects! It’s another big catch-all catchup where Emily and Christine dive into what they’ve been watching, including but not limited to: Amulet Nothing But the Night The Changeling The Deep House Watcher The Sadness The TwinThe Forest The Owners Freaky Torn Hearts The Matrix The Resort The Canyonlands Edge of the Axe Th...

How does one celebrate the sesquicentennial anniversary of lazy podcasting? With not one but TWO Marys, of course! It’s a super gothic 150th episode spectacular as Christine and Emily tackle two very ‘90s adaptations of some very 19th century literary properties: 1996’s Mary Reilly and 1994’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Take your shirt off and have yourself a good, well-oiled Branaghian time!

Here we go again! Christine and Emily reunite to barrel through a whole bucket of recent watches, plus an extended discussion about how we apparently process books differently when we read. It’s a SUPER NERD EDITION IN THE BEST WAY. We also go into a somewhat spoilery discussion of Hulu’s Fresh (but with fair warning). The rest of the list includes (BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO) the following: Communion...

Christine and Emily welcome SPECIAL GUEST STAR cartoonist Abby Denson to gleefully drool over two super special films. First up is Toshio Matsumoto’s Funeral Parade of Roses, a 1969 experimental queer drama that deserves a whole lot more attention. Next is Macoto Tezuka’s zany 1985 rock musical The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. THERE WILL BE ROCK ZOMBIES. Don’t forget to learn more about Abby a...

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Welcome back to another big batch catchup episode with what Christine and Emily have been watching! There’s LOTS to discuss, including (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) Heartbreakers, the Alien quadrilogy, Kimi, In the Cut, The Blue Lagoon, Spencer, The Grifters, House of Gucci AND The Last Duel, No Exit, Cast a Deadly Spell, The Deep House, Pledge Night, White Nights, 300: Rise of an Empire, West Side Story,...

Hello lovers! We’re diving into February with, well, a movie formerly titled February and one set on the month’s most famous day. Up first is the “I Can’t Believe It’s 21 Years Old” Valentine, a throwback slasher with big highs and lows. We follow it up with Osgood Perkins’ debut The Blackcoat’s Daughter, a chilly tale of a whole lot of stuff we don’t particularly understand. Tell us what we misse...

We’re back, and as usual, we’ve brought a boat load of stuff to talk about! A TITANIC load, you might say. Just kidding: DID YOU KNOW CHRISTINE HAS NEVER SEEN TITANIC? Side note: we don’t actually discuss Titanic, but if you want her to watch it, please tell us. So what DO we talk about? A lot, including: Don’t Look Up, Passing, Tick Tick Boom, The Power of the Dog, Being the Ricardos, Resident Ev...

Break out the catnip! Emily is back solo Hallmark’s The Nine Kittens of Christmas (aka Nine Lives of Holidays, which does NOT roll off the tongue). That’s right: WE’VE GOT A SEQUEL. AND KITTENS. Also, sour cream. Also, a note to our lovely listeners: due to some family health matters, this will likely be the last Stocking Stuffer of the season. There’s a chance we’ll resume in a few weeks to tackl...

Let’s see: there’s the holly and the ivy, Dasher and Dancer, and now, the REAL iconic duo of the holiday season, a young Kathy Najimy and young Roger Ebert (aka Emily and special guest star Jason Fozzie Bear Nelson). It’s a gleeful Stocking Stuffer as the pair dive into Netflix’s Single All the Way (plus a LOT of other things). Top that latte with whipped cream and have a listen!

The polar express keeps rolling, but we’re making a quick stop in upstate New York on this One December Night! Emily is joined by the one and only Head Hauntress, 5-time guest star Elizabeth Katheryn Gray to tackle Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (and maybe Murders?) 2021 star-studded tale of fading rock stars reuniting. Yes, IT’S THE BRUCE CAMPBELL & PETER GALLAGHER HALLMARK MOVIE!

The CGI snow is falling, empty coffee cups a'flowing, and red-and-green decked carolers are singing O Tannenbaum in perfect harmony as the town gathers together to find the perfect Christmas tree. Also, somewhere in Yonkers, Emily is drinking…a lot. That’s right! Stocking Stuffers are back! We start the season with Hallmark’s time travel(ish) 2021 original, Next Stop COMMA Christmas. Back to the F...

Buckle up: we’re just regular Working Girls, Jolt'ing Down a Dark Hall with our Snake Eyes on the way to a Slumber Party Massacre, where we’re Most Likely to Murder The Lodgers because did you know? There’s Someone Inside Your House! That’s right: it’s a catchup! Lots of movie talk, including Zola, F9, The Green Knight, High Fidelity and the works of Christine’s new crush John Cusack, Annette, Dol...