Black Girl Film Club

Black Girl Film Club heads ~black to school with this week’s episode. We’re discussing Spike Lee’s 1988 classic School Daze, starring Laurence Fishburne, Spike Lee, Giancarlo Esposito and Tisha Campbell-Martin. Ashley and Britney engage in a rather nuanced conversation about the history of HBCUs, life at HBCUs, Black Greek Letter Organizations and the scene where Tisha Campbell-Martin licks the Let’s Jam Extra Hold Conditioning Gel from Giancarlo Esposito’s part. Listeners, you’re in for a real treat. Follow us on Twitter at blkgirlfilmclub. Visit us at blackgirlfilmclub.com.

On this week’s episode, Black Girl Film Club discuss Sound of Metal (2020) directed by Darius Marder and starring Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, and Paul Raci. Ashley and Britney learn more about the Deaf community and read a listener letter. There are no recommendations this week. Go watch this movie! Follow us on Twitter @ blkgirlfilmclub. Check us out on Instagram @ blackgirlfilmclub. Visit us at http://www.blackgirlfilmclub.com.

We dug deep into the BGFC Archives and unearthed something we've been teasing since our very first official release: our pilot episode, recorded in the ancient time of AD 2017. Braindead/Dead Alive (1992) is Peter Jackson's 3rd directorial feature and stars Timothy Balme and Diana Peñalver as two lovers determined to stay alive after the undead take over their New Zealand neighborhood. Out of all the movies we've watched together, this movie is probably the slimiest and, 6 years ago, we wondered if Peter would ever get back to this kind of filmmaking (seems unlikely)? We also wondered who would get the ax in the then-burgeoning Me Too Movement, and would there continue to be more additions to the Lord of the Rings franchise (unfortunately, there is no end in sight)? Since this is our pilot episode, you get to hear all the mistakes and giggles of two girls just finding their podcast wings. Thank you to everyone who has supported us and listened to us grow over these last few years 💖 Our recommendations: Heavenly Creatures (1994), The Frighteners (1996) Support your girls with a ko-fi! ko-fi.com/blackgirlfilmclub Check out the rest of our socials at linktr.ee/blackgirlfilmclub

We're going back under the sea and giving our first impressions of The Little Mermaid (2023), directed by Rob Marshall and starring Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Javier Bardem, and Melissa McCarthy. In this episode, we wonder........just what the hell Disney is doing? This week's recommendation: Ponyo (2008) Support your girls with a ko-fi! ko-fi.com/blackgirlfilmclub Check out the rest of our socials and join our new Discord server at linktr.ee/blackgirlfilmclub

We kick off #noirvember by traveling back to our childhoods with Belly (1998), a hip hop classic directed by industry legend Hype Williams and starring DMX, Nas, T-Boz, Taral Hicks, and Method Man. In this episode, we give Hype his well-deserved flowers, discuss if this movie really depicts Black people in a stereotypical light, and reflect on just how influential this movie has been over the last 25 years. This week's recommendations: Paid In Full (2002) and State Property (2002). Support us with a Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/blackgirlfilmclub Check out the rest of our socials at linktr.ee/blackgirlfilmclub