Watching Out Loud

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to talk about the complicated relationship to masculinity and community with Martin Scorsese’s 1990 blockbuster, GoodFellas. And here it is! Our first fan-requested film, we dive into what makes GoodFellas a “man” film and discuss whether or not that is a bad thing or what it even means in the first place.Socials: @watchingoutloud

What we need is some divine intervention, and that’s exactly what Maxxxine delivers. This week we’re wrapping up the Ti West X trilogy with our star, Maxine, finally getting what she deserves: the Hollywood spotlight. This film takes all those slasher horror tropes and repackages them for a final girl that is anything but a victim. She’s the fucking movie star of our dreams 🤩Socials: @watchingoutloud

We don’t care what anyone says, Pearl IS a star! The prequel to X, this second film in the Ti West’s trilogy gives horror a technicolor makeover. Another ode to film and a girl’s longing for love and acceptance through stardom, this film changes the discussion around female sexuality in the horror genre. If a girl can’t have love and sex, then can we really blame her for becoming murderous? Who’s to say? We say, you listen! Socials: @watchingoutloud

We’re following up The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the first of Ti West’s scream queen trilogy, X (2022). Starring Mia Goth and paying homage to TCM and the 1970s slasher flick, we look at how the X rating and the rise of pornography coincides with the value of women’s looks as society wonders what could be more horrifying than a woman that has aged, gasp!Socials: @watchingoutloud

Season 2 is here, kittens! We’re yapping about Tobe Hooper’s film that revolutionized the horror genre forever: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This season, we’re Leatherface apologists as we discuss a disillusioned America the dying working class. What fun!Socials: @watchingoutloud

Happy holidays, watchers! In this bonus episode while we're on hiatus, listen to us relive the absolute nightmare that is the 1998 holiday flop, Jack Frost. Even Michael Keaton slipping into his Beetlejuice voice can't save this movie from a good roast. See you in 2025!

The season 1 finale! We're wrapping up our first Halloween Special series with Final Girl Sidney Prescott and the Scream franchise. She's the Final Girl that transgresses all the tropes and brings the horror heroine into the 21st century. We couldn't miss the opportunity to gab about Nev Campbell and crush on Skeet Ulrich (probably too much) as we navigate Wes Craven's meta-horror in its ultimate form. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Letterboxd: @watchingoutloud Email: [email protected] Sources: Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. 1993. https://www.businessinsider.com/scream-movies-cool-facts-you-may-not-know-2021-10#scream-4-was-meant-to-be-the-start-of-a-new-trilogy-20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(1996_film)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_2  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(2022_film)  https://womensmediacenter.com/fbomb/how-sidney-prescott-redefined-the-final-girl-trope

Welcome to prime time, bitch!! This week we’re talking about final girl Nancy Thompson and perhaps the most successful horror franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street. In the first film of this franchise, teenage Nancy chases after the monster herself. Throughout all of her films, she is outsmarting Freddy Krueger at every turn, ultimately killing the killer every chance she gets. It is also in this series that writer/director Wes Craven introduces his particular brand of meta-horror, primarily centered on the final girl, which alters horror in the decades to come.Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpodLetterboxd: @WOL_podEmail: [email protected]: Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. 1993.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street#/media/File:A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_(1984)_theatrical_poster.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_3:_Dream_Warriors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Craven%27s_New_Nightmare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Langenkamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Thompson_(A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street) https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59752/15-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-nightmare-elm-street

Get a load of this episode, you bitch! In the second installment of our Season 1 Halloween Special, we are talking about the final girl that faces the horrors of outer space: Ellen Ripley. In the Alien franchise, Ripley as a final girl doubles as one of the first women action heroes. We discuss the ways the final girl navigates the sci-fi sub-genre of this horror franchise, and the parallels we see between the scream queen and the female action hero. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Letterboxd: @watchingoutloud Email: [email protected] Sources: Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. 1993. Zinoman, Jason. Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror. 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_3  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Resurrection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigourney_Weaver

In the first installment of our Season 1 Halloween Special, we are looking at the franchise that introduced the canonical horror icon: the Final Girl! Laurie Strode is the founding mother of the Final Girl trope, as the term is coined by film critic Carol Clover in the 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws. Your hosts are going to tell you all about what makes a girl a Final Girl and how Laurie Strode establishes and transforms this trope throughout the Halloween franchise. And be sure to tune in next week to see which Final Girl we're fawning over next! Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Letterboxd: @watchingoutloud Sources: Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. 1992. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_girl#:~:text=Clover%20studied%20slasher%20films%20from,whether%20she%20kills%20him%20herself https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Strode https://collider.com/who-was-the-first-final-girl https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/trivia/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(1978_film)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_H20:_20_Years_Later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(2018_film)

Holy shit! Look who's been beat with the **cutie-pie stick! Is that you, watcher?? This week we're taking a cruise down the I-5 with Reese Witherspoon in this 90s white trash reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood. The 1996 film Freeway seems too silly to be taken seriously, but we look at all the ways this campy over-the-top film tackles real world issues of women born with the odds stacked against them. By the end of the film, Reese Witherspoon takes her place as one of our founding mothers and Queefer Sutherland gets exactly what he deserves! Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Letterboxd: @watchingoutloud Sources: https://vaguevisages.com/2021/06/09/trash-trauma-and-revenge-in-matthew-brights-freeway/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_(1996_film)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116361/trivia/  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/202406/long-haul-serial-killers?amp

These soggy bottom girls are going on an adventure through the Coen Brothers' epic 2000 film, O Brother, Where Art Though? We talk about the way the Coen Brothers adapted one of the oldest texts in world history into a tour de force of their staple comedic style while providing a unique depiction of Depression era America. In this episode, each one of us is a Dapper Dan Man! Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Letterboxd: @watchingoutloud Email: [email protected] Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72777/14-fun-facts-about-o-brother-where-art-thou  https://www.charactour.com/hub/characters/view/Ulysses-Everett-McGill.O-Brother-Where-Art-Thou  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey  Wolters, Loes. “Men of Constant Comedy: The comic reception of the Oddyssey(s) in O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Classics@ Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, Harvard University, June 2021.

Let's turn to the right and take a look at the Coen Brothers' first screwball comedy, Raising Arizona (1987). The first of its kind to portray the seemingly simple lives of struggling men and immovable women, the Coen Brothers use their particular brand of humor to showcase the follies of everyday life and the absurd circumstances that form their heroes. We take a look at the 1980s politics that inspire Hi and Ed's kidnapping plot, an innovative way to start a family to say the least. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Letterboxd: @WOL_pod Email: [email protected] Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Arizona  https://www.deepfocusreview.com/definitives/raising-arizona/ https://musebycl.io/obsessed/existential-gut-punch-raising-arizona https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/quotes/?item=qt0437218 https://screenrant.com/ten-best-raising-arizona-quotes/

Not the bees!!!!! This week we're warming ourselves up with the roast of Nicolas Cage in the 2006 remake of the horror-flick The Wicker Man. This film gets roasted like it's a detective trapped in a giant man made of wicker that is set on fire in a harvest ritual that may actually be a ploy to just make that man shut up already! Instagram & Tiktok: @watchingoutloudpod Letterboxd: @WOL_pod Email: [email protected] Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(2006_film)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/trivia/ 

This one is a heartbreaking, devastating bop for your hosts. We're covering the 2003 film Monster and discussing the traumatic upbringing that turned Aileen Wuornos into the "monster" known as the first woman serial killer. This one's heavy, but we'll be back to your regularly scheduled buffoonery next time! Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: Arrigo, Brice A. (2004). "Serial Murder and the Case of Aileen Wuornos: Attachment Theory, Psychopathy, and Predatory Aggression". Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 22 (3): 375–393. doi:10.1002/bsl.583. PMID 15211558. DeLong, Candice, host. "Aileen Wuornos." Killer Psyche, Wondery, August 2021, https://open.spotify.com/episode/4gmxT64vENpVQdxOvBitSV?si=af48b52a74924eeb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/trivia/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(2003_film)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_DeLong 

Relax, we're just getting into that roughhousing frat boy stuff this week! For the last installment of episodes recorded from a cabin in the woods, your girls rewatched the first episode of Ryan Murphy's 2022 Netflix miniseries Monster: the Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Using our handy Wikipedia skills and an article about the portrayal of victims, we reflect on our own interests in true crime and its ethics. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: https://fox2now.com/news/fox-files/betsy-farias-daughter-says-dont-forget-victims-when-watching-pam-hupp-tv-series/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahmer_%E2%80%93_Monster:_The_Jeffrey_Dahmer_Story 

What if Frankenstein's monster made his own monster? What if that monster was a girl? That's what we're figuring out in this week's episode! We're discussing Emily (Emma) Stone's 2023 Academy Award winning performance in Poor Things. We ask the tough questions, like was all that sex necessary and why do we love Mark Ruffalo's Duncan so much even though he's so terrible? Listen to find out! No babies were punched in the making of this episode. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Things_(film)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14230458/trivia/  https://screenrant.com/poor-things-ending-bella-personal-pronouns-independence-perfect/#:~:text=Poor%20Things%20is%20a%20sci,same%20name%20by%20Alasdair%20Gray https://www.vulture.com/article/poor-things-review-a-banal-rendition-of-sexual-freedom.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/02/08/lisa-frankenstein-poor-things-mary-shelley-resurgence/72477661007/

It’s alive!!! This week we’re talking about the original Frankenstein film and comparing it to the novel by the iconique Mary Shelley. This episode is equal parts history lesson and delusional musings, so put down your pitchforks, sit down, and listen! Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: Gould, Stephen Jay. “The monster’s human nature.” Natural History, July 1994. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, January 1818. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(1931_film)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021884/trivia/  https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/frankenstein-behind-the-scenes-facts-book  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein%27s_monster 

Witness me!!! This week, we're smearing black oil over our eyes and spraying chrome onto our mouths as we discuss the 2015 post-apocalyptic milk-fest, Mad Max: Fury Road. We fawn over Furiosa and insist maybe Tom Hardy should have just shown up to set on time, all while examining the gendered oppression of this post-apocalyptic society. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: Foucault, Michel. "Docile Bodies." The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow, Penguin Books, 1991, pp. 179-187. ---. "Panopticism." The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow, Penguin Books, 1991, pp. 206-213. https://www.theastromech.com/2023/05/themes-madmax-furyroad-miller.html#:~:text=In%20%22Mad%20Max%3A%20Fury%20Road,and%20the%20list%20of%20 humanity.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road  https://screenrant.com/mad-max-fury-road-girl-hallucination-meaning-backstory/#:~:text=Similarly%2C%20the%20unidentified%20child%20who,of%20Mad%20Max%3A%20Fury%20Road.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Q18xugl9Y  https://www.theastromech.com/2023/05/feminist-themes-madmax-furyroad-female-empowerment.html https://screenculturejournal.com/2017/04/gender-and-sexuality-in-mad-max-fury-road/ https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/79bfbc45-86e1-49c6-8e99-ab04cfece3bd/content

Calling all the ghoulies out there! This week we're talking all things zombies with the 1968 student-film-turned-canon-horror, Night of the Living Dead. We discuss the origins and development of the zombie, and we even provide our own survival tactics for how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Hint: we don't survive! Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead  https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91635/10-facts-about-night-living-dead  https://studybreaks.com/tvfilm/a-brief-history-of-the-zombie-movie/#google_vignette

The crackers are crackering in this one! We discuss multimedia representations of the black experience and what critic Grace Heneks calls "white fright" in Jordan Peele's 2017 tour de force, Get Out. Calling upon classic horror tropes, Peele reshapes the horror genre and we can't stop talking about it! Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: Heneks, Grace. “Ocular Rebellion: The Satirical Gaze of White Fright in Jordan Peele’s Get Out.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 55, no. 4, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Out  https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/527409/10-fast-facts-about-get-out  https://variety.com/2017/film/news/jordan-peele-get-out-systemic-racism-1202604824/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_consciousness

Let's take a one-way trip to the Grand Canyon with this one! We're discussing the buddy-road-film/love story that is Ridley Scott's 1991 Thelma & Louise, starring the iconique Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon. Buckle up and give your best girly friends a big smooch! This is our first episode recorded in a cabin in the woods, sponsored by the handsomest stray cat, Dirt Bag! Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: Carlson, Margaret. “Is this what feminism is all about?” TIME Magazine, 24 June 1991. Longworth, Karina. “Thelma & Louise (Erotic 90’s, Part 4).” You Must Remember This. Spotify, 17 April 2023. https://www.wliw.org/program-content/ten-facts-might-not-know-thelma-louise/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_%26_Louise  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_%26_Louise

Better late than never, and this one's for the girlies! But what episode isn't?? This week we discuss Sofia Coppola's feature directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, in which she depicts the beauty and devastation of girlhood. This one is sweet and special. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_Suicides_(film)  https://filmandfishnet.com/lisbonsisters  https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/n4xxsy/the_virgin_suicides_explained_trigger_warning/?rdt=47094  https://www.slashfilm.com/1398483/virgin-suicides-ending-explained/  https://allthatsinteresting.com/evelyn-mchale-most-beautiful-suicide 

Do you feel haunted by the ever impending doom of death?? So do your hosts! And we’re talking about it this week as we analyze David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 horror, It Follows. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Email: [email protected] Sources: https://itfollows.fandom.com/wiki/Jamie_Height https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows  https://henridecorinth.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/on-mitchells-it-follows-2014-literary-allusions/  https://screenrant.com/it-follows-movie-entity-every-form/ https://horrorobsessive.com/2020/05/07/it-follows-isolation-impending-doom-and-innocence-lost/ https://horrorobsessive.com/2022/02/07/it-follows-offers-a-sobering-meditation-on-death/ Notes: The horror movie Kelly references in this episode is The Last Exorcism (2010).

Protect your bath tubs! We're talking about that little freak Barry Keoghan and the internet sensation that is Emerald Fennel's 2023 Saltburn. Listen to us roast British culture and examine all the icky voyeurism that goes into this classist tale. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Sources: Greven, David. “Misfortune and men’s eyes: voyeurism, sorrow, and the homosocial in three early Brian De Palman films.” Gender Issues, no. 49, Ann Kibbey, June 2009. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Oliver_Quick  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltburn_(film)  https://www.slashfilm.com/1486691/saltburn-graveyard-scene-improvised/  https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephlongo/saltburn-behind-the-scenes-facts  https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/a46266202/saltburn-real-house-location-drayton/  https://fugitives.com/felix-catton-in-saltburn-explained-2023-amazon-prime-video-film/?utm_source=Newswav&utm_medium=Website  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/01/it-could-be-an-advert-for-oxford-what-does-saltburn-say-about-class-and-privilege-in-the-uk  https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/the-talented-mr-ripley-at-25-awards-insider  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyeurism https://www.britannica.com/topic/exhibitionism https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/sociopathy https://theface.com/culture/saltburn-books-films-songs-that-inspired-film-emerald-fennell-jacob-elordi-barry-keoghan https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/saltburn-is-classic-gothic-literature-for-the-modern-age/#:~:text=From%20minute%20one%20to%20the,ends%20of%20the%20class%20spectrum.

Watchers, you are our actual rainbow gel pens in a sea of blue and black writing utensils. In this week's minisode, your hosts discuss season 1, episode 7 of the cringe-comedy Pen15. You'll get a cute glimpse into the absolute horror show that was our own teenage years as we discuss Maya and Anna's foray into the wild west of AIM and online chatrooms. Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod

Put on your helmets, sad boys! This one's a roast. Listen to your hosts pick apart Zach Braff's 2004 indie debut, Garden State. Do we love Natalie Portman? Absolutely. Do we mock her depiction of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" Sam within the first minute? Of course. But don't worry, we blame Zach for that! Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Sources: https://www.thewomens.network/blog/the-manic-pixie-dream-girl-who-she-is-and-everything-she-represents  https://www.calliopeartsjournal.com/post/i-m-a-person-not-an-idea-the-manic-pixie-dream-girl-trope-in-film https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_State_(film)  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/zach-braff-responds-to-garden-states-controversy_n_641b3c33e4b0bc5cb6540f61/amp https://variety.com/2023/film/news/zach-braff-garden-state-hatred-manic-pixie-dream-girl-backlash-1235560324/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/the-manic-pixie-dream-girl-repents/404953/ https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/a-good-person-zach-braff-manic-pixie-dream-girl-1234821853/ Solomon, Claire. “Anarcho-Feminist Melodrama and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (1929-2016).” Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 19.1, 2017.

Surprise! Kelly and Katie are dropping even more content for you sweet little watchers! Check out the first of the biweekly series of minisodes. These are short form, very casual, and almost entirely unresearched (except for the bestie, Wikipedia). In this first installment, Kelly and Katie discuss Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai, season 1, episode 5: "The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride." TikTok and Instagram: @watchingoutloudpod Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Eye_Samurai

Grab your blue hair dye, trendy-ass posers! This week, Kelly and Katie discuss one of Kelly’s fav movies, SLC Punk! We navigate the punk movement, socialist theory, and Summer Phoenix’s cute little 90s mustache. Rate, review, subscribe, kiss! TikTok and Instagram: @watchingoutloudpod Sources: Haycock, John. “Protest music as adult education for social change: a theorisation of a public pedagogy of protest music.” Australian Journal of Adult Learning, vol. 55, no. 3, November 2015. ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133189/?ref_=tt_ch⁠  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLC_Punk! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_punk_subculture#:~:text=Bands%20such%20as%20the%20Velvet,the%20wider%20glam%20rock%20movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony

Hi, Barbie! This week’s episode of Watching Out Loud is SUBLIME as Katie and Kelly dive into the 2023 phenomenon, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. We talk dolls, peroxide blond hair, our love for Michael Cera, and give a special shoutout to cock-ring Ken! Socials: Instagram & TikTok: @watchingoutloudpod Sources: Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/art/alienation-effect  Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/aglover/easter-eggs-and-facts-barbie-movie Buzzfeed News: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniesoteriou/greta-gerwig-jo-koy-wasnt-wrong-barbie-golden-globes  Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. Three Rivers Press, New York, 1995. The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/04/barbies-muddled-feminist-fantasy-still-bows-to-the-patriarchy  Insider: https://www.insider.com/barbie-competitors-over-the-years-2023-7  Revise Sociology: https://revisesociology.com/2023/08/18/a-feminist-analysis-of-the-barbie-movie/  Time: https://time.com/6295889/barbie-movie-the-matrix-the-godfather-references/  Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_(film)

Grab your brains, a side of fava beans, and a nice Chianti! In the premier episode of Watching Out Loud, Kelly and Katie discuss everyone’s favorite detective-horror hybrid, Jonathan Demme’s 1991 The Silence of the Lambs. Socials: Instagram & Tiktok: @watchingoutloudpod Sources: Wikipedia Barber, Nicholas. “Why The Silence of the Lambs is a feminist fable.” BBC, 7 March 2017. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170307-why-the-silence-of-the-lambs-is-a-feminist-fable Baroni, Lorenzo. “The Real-Life Serial Killers Who Inspired Silence of The Lambs’ Movie Villain.” Screen Rant, 2 April 2023. https://screenrant.com/silence-lambs-real-serial-killers-inspired-buffalo-bill-movie/ Cámara-Arenas, Enrique. “‘They don’t have a name for what he is’: THE STRATEGIC DE-characterization of J. Demme’s Hannibal Lecter.” International Journal of English Studies, vol. 19(1), University of Valladolid (Spain), 2019, pp. 77-95. Cormier, Roger. “18 Facts About The Silence of the Lambs On Its 30th Anniversary.” Mental Floss, 14 Feb. 2016.  https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61604/18-facts-about-silence-lambs Jackson, Lauren Michele. “The Invention of ‘The male Gaze.’” The New Yorker, The Therapy Issue, 14 July 2023. https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/the-invention-of-the-male-gaze#:~:text=Often%2C%20these%20days%2C%20we%20confront,fantasy%20onto%20the%20female%20figure%20 Mann, Karen B. “The matter with mind: violence and ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’ (depictions of women among male structures).” Criticism, Wayne State University Press, 1996. Schopp, Andrew. “The Practicing of ‘Freeing the Look’: Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs.” Camera Obscura, vol. 18, no. 2, Duke University Press, 2023, pp.124-151. Weldon, Glen. “Jonathan Demme And The Simple Power If The Close-Up.” NPR, 26 April 2017.

Introducing: Watching Out Loud, a film and television podcast! Kelly Appel and Katie Seruset are two smart, funny, and incredibly charming girlies that love talking about movies and tv, usually while watching movies and tv. What started as a monthly movie night between two BFFs is now coming to the masses. It is equal parts opinion, comedy, research, and analysis. Mark your calendars: the premier episode of Watching Out Loud drops Tuesday, January 9, 2023. Watch out!