Black Girl Film Club

If I let you go, do you think that you can fly?

It's time for another movie on kids with extraordinarily bad vibes, this time 90s style in The Good Son (1993). The Good Son stars Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood as Henry and Mark, two cousins who reunite after a tragedy and become friendly before Henry starts exhibiting dangerous and violent behavior.

In this episode: Britney tells us once again about Murder by Numbers (2002); Kit Culkin's overbearing behavior pre-filming; motherhood as a horror concept; stray Oscars 2026 thoughts.

Our recommendations: The Nanny (1965), Party Monster (2002), Grand Piano (2013)

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Have you considered that the kid has bad vibes??

This week, we're putting on our intellectual hats and talking parenting, the theory of nature vs nurture, and 1950s anxieties in The Bad Seed (1956) dir. Mervyn LeRoy and starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, and Evelyn Varden. Based on the 1954 novel, The Bad Seed follows 8 year old Rhoda who is suspected of murder after a classmate goes missing at a school picnic.

Our recommendations: Luce (2019), Spellbound (1945), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

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We continue our celebration of Black women directors with Kasi Lemmons' feature debut, Eve's Bayou (1997), a story that examines truth and memory against the backdrop of an all Black bayou town in the early 1960s.

In this episode, we talk through Kasi's inspirations for the story and intergenerational trauma and other hallmarks of the Southern Gothic genre.

Our recommendations: Cuties (2020)

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Happy Black History Month and happy anniversary to us! 🖤🖤🖤

This month we're giving a spotlight to Black female directors, starting with Rungano Nyoni's On Becoming A Guinea Fowl (2025), a film that explores family secrets and complicit silence against the backdrop of a funeral.

In this episode, we talk grief as a performance, women who protect bad men, and the shared experiences of family gatherings across the diaspora.

Rungano Nyoni: “Trauma is minding your business and then there’s a body lying next to you” | A Rabbit's Foot: https://a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/confessions/rungano-nyoni-interview/

More Than Rage: Rungano Nyoni and Susan Chardy on “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” | Roger Ebert: https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/rungano-nyoni-susan-chardy-on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl-interview

Our recommendations: Monsoon Wedding (2001)

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Two things make up the meaning of Christmas: career advancement and extramarital affairs!

For our last episode of 2025, we watched The Apartment (1960), directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Lemmon plays C.C. "Bud" Baxter, a middleman at an insurance company who allows his superiors to use his apartment to conduct extramarital affairs while falling in love with Fran (MacLaine), a woman with her own secret affair. The Apartment was nominated for 10 Oscars (winning 5) and has been added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry.

In this episode: cheating etiquette and cheap executives; using a broom to quiet your neighbors; the end of the Hays Code; sexuality in the late 1950s; Shirley MacLaine: Metaphysical Expert; do romantic comedies need a Big Kiss? (yes).

Our recommendations: Cactus Flower (1969), It Happened One Night (1934)

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