The Silver Nitrate Witches' Movie Review Brew

As the world flocks back to Runway with the release of the sequel this month, the Silver Nitrate Witches take a look at The Devil Wears Prada (2006), growing up with Anne Hathaway, and the strangest grilled cheese with a special surprise guest.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches have an addition to our coven - our first guest Audra Lambert, who joins us as our art, gallery, and museum correspondent! Together, the three of us gather around the cauldron to chat about Ocean's 8 (2018), heist movies, and headlines of the art world. Audra Lambert currently serves as Curator of New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Southern Indiana, and has worked in an arts advising and curatorial capacity with a range of civic organizations and institutions. You can find her online at audraveronalambert.com, and on Instagram @av_lambert_You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their songs “Highway Moon” and “Movie.” You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

I got 99 problems, but Agent 99 ain't one of them! I spy with my little eye a new episode about super secret agents and the sub-sub-genre of the spoof spy movie.Also, Isabelle's desk is noisy and the world's loudest snow plow was coming down Laura's street, so apologies for any background noise!

Join your Silver Nitrate Witches on a trip to Frell this week, visiting Hathaway in her fantasy role of Ella, from Ella Enchanted (2004). We talk all things Cinderella story, some early aughts fashion, and Heidi Klum. Isabelle even agrees with Roger Ebert for once!You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their music! You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

This week, Isabelle takes us back 25 years to the film debut of the star of our season, Anne Hathaway, with The Princess Diaries. We spend some time appreciating Garry Marshall's and Meg Cabot's separate visions, reminiscing about the cool girl-power movie we grew up with, and being bothered by Roger Ebert. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabella Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks so much to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies!

We are opening our third grimoire (aka season 3) and it's dedicated to the high priestess that is Anne Hathaway. If that sounds archaic, it's not as old-fashioned as Laura using "obstruse" instead of "abstruse." Find out what movies we'll be discussing this season in our podcast that is held together with duct tape and dreams, like Belle's favorite book.

Your Silver Nitrate Witches are just popping in this cozy evening to wish our listeners happy holidays, and introduce you to our next season next year!You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks so much for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Merry Witchmas, Coven! Let's dive into the winter wonderland that is the history of the Christmas movie, particularly the Hallmark Christmas movie. Stay till the end and get a little dose of movie magic, holiday-style, too! Btw, Fern is the cat :)You can follow Laura Valenza @ljvalenza and Isabelle Lang @bellang303. Special thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their song "Highway Moon." Learn more about the band at finemotormusic.com.

This week, Isabelle brings you the podcast of your dreams, literally, with some movie magic from the film Inception (2010). Can you believe she doesn't say the phrase "dream team" once? She's impressed with her restraint. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks so much to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies

Hey baby, we're honoring the legacy of Diane Keaton by taking a closer look at her classic and empowering comedy, Baby Boom. Topics include art, Frank Stella, architecture, Bauhaus, and more. CLARIFICATION: the Bentwood chair was invented in the 19th century, but it was still very popular in the 20th!You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks so much for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Your Silver Nitrate Witches are taking a break for the holiday this weekend, but we'll be back with more mini episodes next week. Plus, we'll be announcing our third Grimoire (aka Season 3) and returning to full-length episodes soon. Stay witchy. And keep watching movies.

Creme de la creme a la Edgar. That's it. That's the episode.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks so much for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Let's shed some light on the feminist politics around George Cukor's 1944 film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman. This history might have some surprising connection to today's political climate.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks so much for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Join Isabelle this week as she joins the coven from The Craft (1996) and takes a trip down slumber party memory lane with Light as a Feather. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks so much for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Blessed sanhaim, ciné-coven! That's right—this week, you get not one but TWO episodes. In our Halloween bonus special, Isabelle and Laura tackle paranormal investigative reality television. In this spirited investigation, we're feeling the magic of Conjuring Kesha, Dead Hot with Vanessa Hudgens, Living for the Dead, the Girly Ghost Hunters, and more!You can follow Laura Valenza @ljvalenza and Isabelle Lang @bellang303. Special thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their song "Highway Moon." Learn more about the band at finemotormusic.com.

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches pause talking about HOW we talk about movies, and instead Isabelle tells Laura all about WHERE movies get filmed, in this special Potion episode about on-location filming projects. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks so much to Fine Motor for the use of their songs "Highway Moon" and "Movie." You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Join Isabelle this week to share a bit of insight about why Harvard gets a guest appearance in Legally Blonde (2001)!You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks so much to Fine Motor for the use of their songs. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks so much for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Your silver nitrate Witch Laura is attending a toga party this week. What came first, the toga party or Animal House? Find out in this mini episode!You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their song "Highway Moon." You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Do you believe God plays dice with the universe? How about just with the stars? Join Isabelle this week as she talks about astrology, star gazing, and magic telescopes...literally, along with the 1994 film IQ. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

A bit of tea magic to help you feel more like yourself? Yes please! Join Isabelle as she examines a cozy scene from Studio Ghibli's film Ponyo (2008), and walks you through a delightful drink recipe.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies!

Your silver nitrate Witch Laura is flying solo on her broom this week. But she meets some feisty and funny friends, Butch and Sundance, while flying over the Wild West. We departing from our educational theme this season to honor the life and legacy of actor Robert Redford.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their song "Highway Moon." You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Toga! Toga! Toga!Join your Silver Nitrate Witches on Fraternity Row this week as we explore National Lampoon's Animal House, college in the 60s, and the National Lampoon itself. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their songs "Highway Moon" and "Movie." You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Your witchy guide this week is Isabelle, who takes you through some ins and outs of candle magic, as inspired by our OG silver screen witches: The Owens Sisters. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their song "Highway Moon." You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Forrester? Where are you? This week, your host witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, are Finding Forrester, with its epic cast comprised of Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, and starring Rob Brown in his debut role. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their songs "Highway Moon" and "Movie." Learn more about the band at finemotormusic.com.

This week, your host witch, Laura Valenza, is looking like "a high-end stripper, the kind for governors or athletes." Can you guess the movie? Dust off your red A's and stitch them on your bustiers because we're headed to Ojai High with Emma Stone in Easy A. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their song "Highway Moon." You can find out more about the band at finemotormusic.com.

This week, your Silver Nitrate Witches reunite IN PERSON in New Orleans! Together we chat a bit about a fantastically weird and wild movie, Cat People (1982), the Audubon Institute, and pool scenes. What more could you want?You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenze and @bellang303. Like the theme song? You can check out the band Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

It's not October 3rd quite yet, but your Silver Nitrate Witch Isabelle Lang is always ready to talk about Mean Girls (2004). You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenze and @bellang303. Music for episodes is provided by Fine Motor, and you can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Why are we called the Silver Nitrate Witches' Movie Review Brew? Hear the story behind the name in this week's mini episode by Laura Valenza. (And learn a little film history, too!)You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thank you to Fine Motor for the use of their song "Highway Moon." You can find out more about the band at finemotormusic.com.

This week, your host witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, head back to middle school to take a lesson from the goofy god of rock himself, Jack Black. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their songs "Highway Moon" and "Movie." You can find out more about the band at finemotormusic.com.

Reese Witherspoon, Victor Garbo, and Bette Davis, oh my! You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks so much to Fine Motor for the use of their music. You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com.

Your Silver Nitrate Witches don't miss a beat in this episode on Damien Chazelle's iconic jazz world movie from the 2010s, starring Miles Teller and JK Simmons. We cover what it means to be an artist, if success and ambition are gendered, homophobia and racial representation, and whether movies need to have clear morals and likeable characters (hint, hint: they don't!).You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

Who knew bread could be so fascinating?

Your Silver Nitrate Witch Laura Valenza brings you a charming anecdote and fun film fact. Come back soon for full length episodes with (Isabelle Lang as well) on Whiplash, School of Rock, Finding Forrester, and more!Thank you to Fine Motor for the use of their song "Highway Moon."

This week we don’t have a whole witches’ brew, but just a little sleeping draught for you: a minisode looking into the Siskel & Ebert reception of the 1983 film Educating Rita, with one of your Silver Nitrate Witches, Isabelle Lang. Let’s talk education as granting choice, alcoholic academics, and our shared annoyance with Roger Ebert’s thoughts on literature movies.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

This episode, your Silver Nitrate Witches head off to boarding school, despite Laura's protests that they're super scary, and take a look at the reception to the 1989 Robin Williams movie that's not quite a Robin Williams movie, Dead Poets Society.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

Your Silver Nitrate Witches (Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang) are brewing pink potions with a touch of peroxide this week. The competition for dye jobs and law jobs proves steep at Harvard where we're rooting for Elle Woods to succeed in Legally Blonde (2001). We cover women's empowerment and sisterhood, the early 2000s and their weird obsession with dumb blonde jokes, and contemporary fascism. Plus, ChatGPT helps us recreate MGM's "The Blonde Translator."BTW, the Yale professor who was interviewed on American Hysteria and has some great books on understanding fascism? His name's Jason Stanley.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

Welcome to the Silver Nitrate Witches’ Movie Review Brew. Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang explore the way we review movies! From experienced critics to posts from casual viewers, we want to talk about how we talk about movies, how that’s changed over time, what directions we see it going in, and more. Announcing the theme of Season 2!

Did you ever wonder how Hollywood came to be? Did you ever wonder how Thomas Edison was a part of that? Did you even know there was a connection there? We did! The Silver Nitrate Witches give you a special episode today on how Hollywood was almost New Jersey. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches travel to New Mexico to explore the reviews and reception of Salt of the Earth (1954), a film based on the historic 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company. This three-part series has everything: communists, Catholic newspapers, feminism, deportation, and even a prison full of women chanting “We want bathrooms!”You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches travel to New Mexico to explore the reviews and reception of Salt of the Earth (1954), a film based on the historic 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company. This three-part series (whoops, it got longer!) has everything: communists, Catholic newspapers, feminism, deportation, and even a prison full of women chanting “We want bathrooms!”You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

Today, the Silver Nitrate Witches pay homage to the baddest Head Bitch In Charge, Bette Davis, exploring the reviews and reception of In This Our Life (1942). The fall of the decadent South meets a fiery end, with lots of tragic turns on the highway to hell, piloted there by the monster femme fatale herself.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches travel to New Mexico to explore the reviews and reception of Salt of the Earth (1954), a film based on the historic 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company. This two-part series has everything: communists, Catholic newspapers, feminism, deportation, and even a prison full of women chanting “We want bathrooms!”You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

The Silver Nitrate Witches attend a show by Lady Lou in the Bowery this week, exploring the reviews and reception of the film She Done Him Wrong (1933), starring Mae West and Cary Grant. From critics body-checking the leading lady to a history of the beer growler, of all things, this episode transports us to a pre-Code Hollywood salacious story.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches check in at the Grand Hotel (1932) to explore the reviews and reception around a film with one of the most star-studded casts of the era. We look at the predictions of catty leading ladies, the censorship of Joan Crawford, and even how technology like the typewriter and switchboard liberated women, both economically and in other ways…You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.