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The Bechdel Cast is a podcast about the portrayal of women in movies hosted by Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus.
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Caitlin and Jamie's spidey senses started tingling, so we decided to unlock a Matreon episode on Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse!
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It's Lilo & Stitch Day on the 'cast with special guest Lily Hi'ilani Okimura! Ohana means family!
(This episode contains spoilers)
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HOT DOG! Jamie’s first book Raw Dog: A Naked History of Hot Dogs comes out on May 23rd, and to celebrate Caitlin and Jamie are revisiting feminist masterpiece Sausage Party.
Pre order Jamie’s book here, and check out tour dates in a city near you starting May 22!
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This week we're celebrrrating Caitlin's birrrthday with an episode on RRR with special guest Ritesh Babu! Check out Ritesh's piece "RRR is an incredible action movie with seriously troubling politics" -- https://www.vox.com/23220275/rrr-netflix-tollywood-hindutva-caste-system-oscars-2023
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Crouching Caitlin and Hidden Jamie join forces with their mentor and special guest Mia Wong to discuss Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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On this episode recorded live in Portland at Curious Comedy Theater in February, Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Sarah Marshall chat about The Goonies! Bechdels never say die! Just a reminder that you can grab 'on-demand' tickets to access the stream of this live show at linktr.ee/bechdelcast
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This week, woman kings Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Oyeronke Oyebanji discuss The Woman King.
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Jamie and Caitlin (of the Jungle) release this episode that they recorded live in San Francisco at SF Sketchfest about George of the Jungle! Watch out for that tree! And speaking of live shows, you can still grab 'on-demand' tickets to stream the live shows we recorded on 'The Goonies' with Sarah Marshall, and 'Hannah Montana: The Movie' with Robert Evans -- tickets at linktr.ee/bechdelcast
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Wahoo! Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Abby Russell fire up their Nintendos and discuss Super Mario Bros. (1993)! Lets-a go!
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Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Shelli Nicole eat Buffalo wings, avoid debt collectors, and chat about Buffaloed.
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On this episode, secret assassins Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Vanessa Guerrero check in to the Continental and chat about John Wick.
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This week, we are unlocking a Patreon (aka Matreon) episode on Emma. (2020).
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Caitlin, Jamie, and special guests Dani Fernandez and La'Ron Readus stand out above the crowd on this episode on A Goofy Movie. Ah-hyuck!
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This week, teenage journalists Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Kristen Lopez deliver a juicy story on Almost Famous.
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A continuation of last week's episode, here is Titanic VHS Tape 2 to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of James Cameron's Titanic. Let's take her to sea, Caitlin and Jamie... let's stretch her legs!
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It's Jamie and Caitlin's favorite holiday -- the 25th Anniversary of the release of James Cameron's Titanic -- and they're celebrating with an extra special Titanic episode. Here's VHS Tape 1!
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On the way to a huge Bechdel Cast Convention, Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Becca Ramos discuss Magic Mike XXL.
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This week, Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Kenice Mobley let go, and let flow with an episode on Something New. Check out Kenice's album, Follow Up Question.
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The two live shows that Jamie and Caitlin are doing in Portland on February 2nd are being LIVE STREAMED for Bechdel Cast listeners around the world to see! Join us for a show on THE GOONIES WITH SARAH MARSHALL (You're Wrong About, You Are Good) and/or a show on HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE WITH ROBERT EVANS (Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here)! Watch both, we dare you!!!
And if you can't watch the shows as they're being streamed live on February 2nd, no worries! If you buy a ticket, you will be sent a recording of the livestream, and you'll be able to watch the show online for a week after the show! Grab your livestream ticket(s) at linktr.ee/bechdelcast or https://www.curiouscomedy.org/shows See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The two live shows that Jamie and Caitlin are doing in Portland on February 2nd are being LIVE STREAMED for Bechdel Cast listeners around the world to see! Join us for a show on THE GOONIES WITH SARAH MARSHALL (You're Wrong About, You Are Good) and/or a show on HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE WITH ROBERT EVANS (Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here)! Watch both, we dare you!!!
And if you can't watch the shows as they're being streamed live on February 2nd, no worries! If you buy a ticket, you will be sent a recording of the livestream, and you'll be able to watch the show online for a week after the show!
Grab your livestream ticket(s) at linktr.ee/bechdelcast or https://www.curiouscomedy.org/shows See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode, Caitlin and Jamie blow up the asteroid that is the movie Armageddon and save the world!
Huge news... we will be live streaming both of our shows in Portland on February 2nd!!! So if you weren't able to get tickets to the show, or if you LIVE ANYWHERE, you can still see the shows! Tickets at linktr.ee/bechdelcast for The Goonies with special guest Sarah Marshall - February 2nd at 7pm PST and Hannah Montana: The Movie with special guest Robert Evans - February 2nd at 9pm PST
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I so loved this ep because I’ve had no one to talk to about this movie, put I particularly love how Cate says ‘het’rosexual’, as it explicitly reminds me of being in a situation where I’m on my best straight behavior because I don’t know how the room feels about queers.
don't do my boy like this. Edward G Robinson never named names to huac. he was brought before the committee and said he wasn't a communist, but he never named names
I don't know if the Maltins were quite the right people to talk to about this one
wow. tough listen. why even do an episode if you don't want to engage with the text?
Prop was the right guest for this episode. I loved it.
My movie I love, but can’t bare to watch again is Melancholia. The overwhelming, increasing dread is so real.
Have you talked about Seperation by Asghar Farhadi? Or The Salesman?
...Alan Cumming
I grew up in an orthodox jewish environment and Saved! exposed all the hypocrisy of religious fundamentalism. It was awesome that you covered this and fleshed out all the truth in this movie... the good and bad truth (fuck fatphobia)
I see Elsa as ace representation. with a son who is asexual I like to see representations of those who are as well.
The hosts' inability to disagree with their guest, who clearly has a totally different opinion about the Seymore character was embarrassing to listen to.
Subtitle: Leonard Maltin mansplains & talks over the hosts.
this is one of my favorite episodes ever! I've listened to it multiple times because it makes me so happy!
Will be joining the matreon after this fun episode.
What if: Ghost world was done, maybe?
Predictable bad-faith criticism from those who don't want to engage with the story. Lindsay Ellis throws in some actual ideas but can't quite redeem the conversation.
The hosts are embarassingly uninformed and unprepared for every episode. I recently listened to Aliens and was looking forward to a feminist examination of a franchise built around a female protagonist who was originally written as male. I thought the hosts would surely have something interesting to say about the fact that Ridley Scott took a character who was male by default and flipped the gender without changing anything else about the script. Instead, to my utter dismay and consternation, I found that the hosts didn't even know about this history (a history which is widely known and would have been uncovered by even the slightest bit of research or preparation on their part) and were instead ignorantly complaining about how James Cameron made a point of her motherhood in the second film when that hadn't been mentioned in the first film. OF COURSE IT WASN'T MENTIONED YOU IDIOTS BECAUSE THE PART WAS GENDER FLUID. I can't even with these lazy, self-congratulatory, uninformed hosts. A waste of listeners' time.
One point to note about Sarah Jessica Parker's character is that she is the daughter of the town idiot. Each witch is the daughter of a different father and the same mother. Winifred's father is a warlock and Mary's is a bloodhound.
The cohost Jamie is such a wet blanket who needs to nitpick irrelevant things just for the sake of nitpicking, and her voice is nauseatimg, she is not fit to judge movies, her film history knowledge and understanding of nuance is extremely lacking, the Pleasantville episode was painful to listen to, so much cringe at her embarassing herself infront of a legendary film historian and critic whose long career in studying movies predates her birth by decades. Being a feminist is not hating everything on spot but having an open mind and not being quick to judge based on pre-set personal biased assumptions and projected generalizations.
none of the cast of bring it on are members of any real housewives.