Black Girl Film Club
Black Girl Film Club is a podcast aimed at creating a space for black girls to watch and discuss movies. Join hosts Britney and Ashley as they analyze movies and the film industry from their unique, and often underrepresented, point of view. New episodes twice a month!
Episodes
July 11, 2025 • 109 mins
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What about your friends?
Will they stand their ground?
Will they let you down again?
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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 together against strange cavemen 2 miles...
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June 30, 2025 • 90 mins
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 suspect that she's a lesbian. But I...
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June 25, 2025 • 114 mins
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 retelling of Jane Austen's classi...
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June 6, 2025 • 72 mins
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 her own studio, her film influences ...
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June 4, 2025 • 135 mins
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 wigs, and the Blue Box Theory.
We...
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May 16, 2025 • 118 mins
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 also hated when people tried to ex...
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April 30, 2025 • 138 mins
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: we hate on Variety and analyze ...
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April 10, 2025 • 95 mins
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 and his sinister nephew.
B.A.P....
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March 25, 2025 • 109 mins
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 her film debut. In the grand trad...
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December 14, 2024 • 95 mins
In this edition of the Rough Cut, we talk horny Christmas movies with Netflix's Hot Frosty (2024).
In this episode: more investigations into the Holiday Movie Industrial Complex, Lacy Chabert: Queen of Christmas, snowman nipples, horny old people, and why every Christmas movie is based in trauma (thanks Charles Dickens!).
Our recommendations: Falling For Christmas (2022), The Holdovers (2023), Gremlins (1984), Looney Tunes "The ...
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November 29, 2024 • 125 mins
Remember: You Are One 🧪🍳
On this latest edition of the Rough Cut, we chat about the psychological affects of Hollywood and the anti-aging industry in The Substance (2024) directed by Coralie Fargeat and starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid.
Also in this episode: aging out of society, the mythology behind "black don't crack," aging on the internet, fertility and trad cottagecore weirdness.
Our recommendatio...
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October 29, 2024 • 135 mins
Sweets for the sweet 🍭🍬
After literal years, we finally confront the Stacy Adams big bad himself, Candyman (1992) directed by Bernard Rose and starring Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, and Kasi Lemmons.
In this episode: our childhood experience with the film; local urban legends and the power of belief; Clive Barker's The Forbidden and Eddie Murphy as the first choice for Daniel Robitaille; smash or pass: the Juice Demon or the Can...
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October 11, 2024 • 102 mins
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! BEETLEJUICE!!
We're summoning the juice demon and bio-exorcism expert in Tim Burton's classic, Beetlejuice (1988) starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Catherine O'Hara.
In this episode: Beetlejuice's wild journey from page to screen; calypso songs to get possessed to; goth legend Lydia Deetz; the importance of production design; how we'd haunt a house; and Tim Burton's en...
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October 2, 2024 • 91 mins
We're back with more Black vampires with The Transfiguration (2016), a coming of age tale of Milo, a struggling Brooklyn teen who believes he is a vampire. The Transfiguration was directed by Michael O'Shea and stars Eric Ruffin, Chloe Levine, and Aaron Moten.
In this episode: Milo's Vampire Code of Ethics; #TwilightSucks; using movies to scare the hoes; Black writers and the occult; vampirism as a coping method for grief.
Our r...
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September 20, 2024 • 112 mins
Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill ⛸️🩸
We're taking another bite into Black vampires with Blade (1998), the iconic Marvel film directed by Stephen Norrington and starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, N'Bushe Wright and Sanaa Lathan!
In this episode: blood raves and dhampirs; The Haunting of Renesmee; real Y2K aesthetics; Marvel 360 deals and our predictions for the long-delayed reboot.
Our recommendations...
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August 30, 2024 • 123 mins
Ladies and gentleman, madames et monsieurs...welcome to a different kind of Rough Cut. Prepare yourselves, mortals, as we explore two adaptions of Anne Rice's epic tale: Interview with the Vampire (1994) and it's tv adaptation (2022-).
In this episode: the history behind the 1976 novel; Oprah denouncing the dark energy in the first film; Ashley admits she was wrong about Sam Reid; Louis the Bird; the effect on race on the tv adapt...
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August 15, 2024 • 109 mins
Y'all know Black Girl Film Club? That podcast where two Black women talk about movies? Well, the feds heard they got backstage passes to Lady Raven's latest show, so they set up a trap for them. This whole episode is a trap 🪤
This episode has spoilers for M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie Trap (2024), starring Josh Hartnett as a serial killer trying to escape the ultimate trap – a pop star's arena concert.
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July 29, 2024 • 98 mins
🎵 We can’t take our eyes off of youuuu 🎵
We watched 90s teen classic 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), a retelling of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew!
In this episode, we wonder if Shakespeare's 430 year old play is as misogynistic as it seems on the surface and talk about how 10 Things launched the careers of several actors, the unpopularity or 90s (white) feminism and whether we still have charming Bad Boys™ in 2024.
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July 24, 2024 • 102 mins
🚨This episode is full of spoilers!🚨
Happy birthday to youuuuu!! 🎈 We watched the latest horror du jour: Osgood Perkins' Longlegs (2024), starring Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, and Nicholas Cage.
In this episode: surprise Blair Underwood, Big Actor™ Nic Cage, evil twin dolls, glam rock, religious trauma in horror movies, and the best Longlegs memes.
Our recommendations: Cure (1997), Zodiac (2007), Dead Silence (2007), Signif...
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July 12, 2024 • 101 mins
We're taking it back to English class with a Shakespearean High School!AU: She's The Man (2006), a popular adaption of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
In this episode, we praise our childhood fave Amanda Bynes, reminisce about Old Navy fashions, and look at gender identity and politics of the early 2000s.
If podcasts be the food of love, then play on!
Our recommendations: Get Over It (2001), O (2001)
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