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Wrapping up part 1 of Season 4 with our most valid crash outs over series finales. Cedes and Kim will return in Filmsplain: Doomsday!SPOILERS FOR: Stranger Things, Gen V, The Boys S4, YOU, The Umbrella Academy, The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother

Join Cedes and Kim in this engaging episode about mawwiage (get the reference?) presented in film. The rise of marriage now being shown as a horror, as opposed to a love story! TRIGGER WARNING: Discussions of school shootings and mental illness presented in films.SPOILERS FOR: Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, Ready or Not & Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, The Drama, Beef

Cedes and Kim discuss shock value in film. What is considered too much of it, and is it always needed?TRIGGER WARNING: Discussions of assault, SA, suicide, bullying, violence, and gun shootings as depicted in films.SPOILERS FOR: Yellowjackets, Squid Games, and The Walking DeadResource site for specific trigger warnings in films: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/

Cedes and Kim talk about book to screen adaptations once again. Does every book need to be a movie? How much of the book can be removed before it doesn't follow the source material? Should we be making more music videos? Will Cedes talk about Shakespeare yet again?MINOR SPOILER ALERT: The Long Walk and Carrie

Join Cedes & Kim as they talk about time travel, time loops, and all that weird time shit depicted in movies! SPOILERS FOR: Back to the Future 1 and 2, Meet the Robinsons, Click, Dr. Strange, Avengers: Endgame and Infinity War, About Time, Men in Black 3, and Minutemen.

Join Cedes and Kim on the discussion of what they think about the current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Cedes and Kim take a moment to talk about the good ol' days of Blockbuster and how streaming is killing community spaces.

Follow along as Kim and Cedes tell you all the elements to create a cult classic and discuss some of their favorite cult classic films.

Cedes and Kim finally talk about their thoughts on Wicked and Wicked: For Good! SPOILERS for Wicked, Wicked: For Good, and the Wicked musical.

You know what time it is! Award season is not complete without Kim and Cedes telling yo all about their thoughts on the previous year's movies

Listen along as Cedes shares her favorite comfort shows!

Listen along as Kim shares her main comfort shows.SMALL SPOILER FOR: The Good Place

Join Cedes and Kim as they discuss slashers and mysteries and how YOU, yes you, can make a good killer (for a movie of course). SPOILERS FOR: Final Girls, F Marry Kill

Kim and Cedes explain one of the biggest recession indicators of them all: an increase in vampire films and TV.

Have you been seen double? Kim and Cedes discuss the plethora of twins, doppelgangers, doubles and multiples we've been increasingly seeing in films. Listen as the discuss the phenomenon and why it occurs.

In this episode Cedes and Kim talk about double standard female characters face for doing the same things, or much lesser evils, that their male character counterparts do. It all just boils down to misogyny, doesn't it?SPOILERS FOR: Attack on Titan

Are superheros too woke? Are you too evil? The answers may surprise you. In this episode Kim and Cedes talk about the increase in diversity in superhero films.SMALL SPOILERS FOR: Superman (2025) and Fantastic Four (2025)

Kim and Cedes are finally back, and to commiserate their comeback, they play catch up by updating you on what shows and movies they have been watching since the last episode.

We're splitting up... this season in half. Listen as Kim and Cedes talk about the history of television series splitting up their seasons and why it used to makes sense but doesn't so much now. SMALL SPOILER FOR: Black Mirror

do you have a #passion4fashion? come listen to cedes discuss how animated shows have inspired a generation's fashion and style choices.

Kim and Cedes talk about the value and importance of intimacy and safety coordinator. Trigger/Content Warning: brief mentions of sexual harassment/sexual assault

Kim and Cedes attempt being business moguls. Learn how to pitch your film and market it post production.

In the wise words of Mariah Carey; it's just a sweet, sweet fantasy baby. Listen to Kim and Cedes discuss the history and rise of fantasy movies, as well as what constitutes something as a fantasy movie. SPOILER FOR: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1

Play along...and follow us both on letterboxdkim: @dewonatreecedes: @cedesss99

Exactly what the title says: discourse on discourse, is the current way we are having film discourse productive? Is the correct way to have film discourse? And what the hell is going on with the current state of film discourse? We try to answer these questions and more in today's episode.

Get it?.. Like the iconic 2005 movie Herbie: Fully Loaded with Lindsay Lohan... because its a reboot of The Love Bug (1997) which is a reboot of The Love Bug (1968) which had multiple sequels. We don't talk about that in this episode but we do talk about reboots, and the difference between those, sequels, remakes and revivals. You're confused? Don't worry so were we, let's figure this all out together.

Cue the laugh track as Cedes and Kim try to navigate their discussion about sitcoms and the lack there of... where have they gone?

Kim and Cedes take you through the history of witches and witchcraft in film and TV. SMALL SPOILERS FOR: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, WICKED, FEAR STREET, WIZARD OF OZ, WANDAVISION, AND AGATHA ALL ALONG

Ahhhh, we're back again as Kim takes you thorugh the core four of avatar the last airbender as Dungeons and Dragons characters.

Cedes gives your her takes on the atla characters big 3 (sun moon and rising) signs.

Cedes tells you what shows she's been watching recently.

Cedes and Kim discuss the history of radicalization and propaganda within the media and talk about the themes within the films that radicalized their generation.

Kim and Cedes take time to explore the different elements of a film.

Kim and Cedes discuss the Dos and Don'ts of Entertainment Journalism.

In the first bite-sized episode of the season, Kim discusses the core six Disney princesses as Dungeons & Dragons classes!

Kim and Cedes discuss the most standout actors and movies of 2024 in the third annual Filmsplain awards! :)

Kim and Cedes dissect the ways in which women are portrayed in cinema, how that's changed over time, how it reflects society's perceptions of women and more in this girlslay episode.

Kim and Cedes discuss villains, their origin stories and what makes them worthy of a redemption arc. SPOILERS FOR: Agatha All Along, Wandavision, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, The Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, Multiverse of Madness, Charmed, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Cruella and Maleficent

SPOILERS FOR SCREAM 1-6Kim sits down and talks to you about the different Ghostfaces to rank them on a fun little tier list.

Cedes and Kim are joined by special guest Kristi, and the three of them discuss Shakespearean Adaptations.

SPOILERS FOR SCREAM 1-6Cedes sits down on this fine Thursday morning and talk about each death in the Scream movies.

Kim and Cedes go over and possibly sing/rap some of their favorite theme songs and discuss what makes a good theme song.

Listen to Kim yap about two very dear interests to her: Scooby Doo and Dungeons & Dragons. She puts each of the characters as a D&D class!

In this episode Kim and Cedes talk about references to movies in music and the fact that art sometimes imitates art.

Join Cedes as she ranks her favorite death scenes from the Final Destination franchise. Warning this episode contains spoilers for all 5 of the Final Destination movies currently out, most of the deaths are also gruesome and/or gory. Listen if you dare!!!

Kim and Cedes talk about the importance of sounds and music in films such as Nope, La La Land and Black Panther.

Or alternate title: Kim yaps about her Letterboxd top 4. Listen as Kim talks about some teen/YA movies she loves and a little bit of her sad formative years.

Cedes and Kim rank Disney Channel Original Movies such as Geek Charming, Luck of the Irish and many many more.

Cedes has seen a plethora of teen drama tv shows. Listen to her yap about her favorite teen dramas, least favorites and teen dramas in between .

Kim and Cedes talk ships, and they're not talking boats. They'll go into detail about what ships are, their personal rules on ships, and what characters they ship. SPOILERS FOR: Yellowjackets, How I Met Your Mother, The Bear, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vampire Diaries, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, The OC, Gen V and Umbrella Academy.