Surprise! We're back with a brand new Rough Cut, this time on Highest 2 Lowest (2025), Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's 5th collaboration and their first in 19 years. Highest 2 Lowest is a remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film High and Low — both movies follow a rich businessman who deliberates paying the ransom when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped.
Highest 2 Lowest also stars A$ap Rocky, Jeffery Wright, and Ilfenesh Hadera.
Spoilers everywhere, listen at your own risk!
Our recommendations: Jungle Fever (1991), Malcom X (1992), Bamboozled (2000), High and Low (1963)
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Episode 124: Never Been Kissed (1999)
We're not Josie Grossie anymore!!
High school is still hell in Never Been Kissed (1999) directed by Raja Gosnell and starring Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, LeeLee Sobieski, and Molly Shannon.
In this episode: a look at the real story that inspired the movie and the ethics of adults secretly mixing in with teens; what high school was like in the ancient days of the early 2000s; recovering from being a loser; Britney's encyclopedic knowledge of random white actors.
The Times article on Shann Jones's: https://www.thetimes.com/world/article/never-been-kissed-true-story-s3nbw29t5
Our recommendations: 21 Jump Street (2012), 22 Jump Street (2014), Carrie (1976)
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Episode 123: She's All That 1999)
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains 😌
Class is now in session, Black Girl Film Club listeners! We're going back to high school with 90s classic (and Britney's personal favorite), She's All That (1999) directed by Robert Iscove and starring Freddie Prinze Jr, Rachel Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, and Paul Walker and featuring Kieran Culkin, Clea Duvall, Usher Raymond, Lil Kim, Gabrielle Union, and Anna Paquin.
In this episode: a brief history of Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (1964); Britney's love of Freddie Prinze Jr; the politics of the Movie Makeover™; the hierarchy of high school losers; RIP MTV's Spring Break.
Our recommendations: My Fair Lady (1964), Freddie Prinze Jr's entire filmography, Josie and The Pussycats (2001), Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003)
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Episode 122: Fall (2022)
We're back to talk friendship, betrayal, and extreme hobbies...this time, above ground!
In Fall (2022), recently widowed Becky and her friend Hunter become stranded after climbing a 2,000 ft decommissioned tv tower to spread her husband's ashes. Fall is directed by Scott Mann and stars Graces Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardener, Mason Gooding, and Jeffery Dean Morgan.
In this episode: our collective fear of heights; Mason Gooding's charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent; being the one Black lady at the diner; how to be a good friend to someone grieving; fighting vultures; living, laughing, loving.
Our recommendations: 47 Meters Down (2017), 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019), Buried (2010)
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Episode 121: The Descent (2005)
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What about your friends?
Will they stand their ground?
Will they let you down again?
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We're looking at friendship dynamics and betrayal in The Descent (2005), directed by Neil Marshall and starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalia Mendoza, and Alex Reid. The Descent follows 6 women who become stranded in a uncharted cave system and have to survive cannibals and each other. If you can't fight together against strange cavemen 2 miles underground, are you even friends?
In this episode: The Nutty Putty Cave, claustrophobia, narcissistic friends, should we explore caves? (answer: NO!)
Our recommendations: Girl Trip (2017), 80 For Brady (2023), 127 Hours (2010), Triangle of Sadness (2022)
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Black Girl Film Club is a podcast aimed at creating a space for black girls to watch and discuss movies. Join hosts Britney and Ashley as they analyze movies and the film industry from their unique, and often underrepresented, point of view.
New episodes twice a month!
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