Feminist Frequency Radio Podcast
1) FFR 269: The Kids Are All Right
For the first episode of our "Focus on the Family" season, we're taking it back to Lisa Cholodenko's 2010 film THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, a real time capsule of mainstream queer cinema for its era.
2) FFR Season Preview: Focus on the Family
From festival favorites to reality TV, this season we're discussing onscreen portrayals of all different kinds of families, and what Hollywood thinks it's saying about any of it.
3) FFR Bonus: Emilia Pérez
"Bingo." As the epic conclusion to our season of Musical Mayhem, we watched Jacques Audiard's 2024 extravaganza EMILIA PÉREZ. Did we hate it? Kinda! Did we love it? Kinda!
4) FFR 268: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
It's Andrew Lloyd Webber week in our Musical Mayhem season, and to turn the volume all the way up, we've selected Joel Schumacher's most renowned superhero flick, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
5) FFR 267: THE WIZ
Watching the 1968 film adaptation of the Broadway musical THE WIZ, we can't help but feel that director Sidney Lumet and screenwriter Joel Schumacher deeply underserved their stars, craftspeople, and ...Show More
6) FFR 266: FUNNY GIRL
We couldn't do a whole season about movie musicals without watching a Barbra vehicle, and we found a lot of nuance in FUNNY GIRL's exploration of labor and gender dynamics.
7) FFR Bonus: DEAR EVAN HANSEN
Listen to a preview clip of this week's full-length bonus episode for Patreon only, where we take a deep dive into the shallow waters of DEAR EVAN HANSEN.
8) FFR 265: GLEE
Never has the micro-generational divide between Kat and A.C. been sharper than in their relationships to GLEE, arguably the most influential musical series ever on television.
9) FFR 264: ALL THAT JAZZ
Is this the first "perfect" movie we've covered on this podcast? This was Kat's first time watching Bob Fosse's 1979 self-referential musical drama All That Jazz, one of A.C.'s absolute favorites.
10) FFR 263: GUYS AND DOLLS
For the first full episode of our new "Musical Mayhem" season, we watched GUYS AND DOLLS. The gender dynamics in this movie feel like they'd be right at home in today's "trad wife" resurgence...