Heavy spoilers ahead!
Welcome back to the Rough Cut! Along with literally everybody else in the world, we share our initial reactions of the most talked about movie of the year, Sinners (2025). Directed by Ryan Coogler, Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as twins Smoke and Stack, who return to the Mississippi Delta to open a juke joint and are attacked by vampires in process.
In this extended episode: we hate on Variety and analyze music and the thinning veil, racial dynamics in the Jim Crow South and address the discourse on sex and trauma in Black movies.
Our recommendations: Interview with the Vampire (2022-), Blade (1998)
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Episode 116: B.A.P.S. (1997)
BOO YOW! 👸🏾👸🏾
On today's episode, we look back to another 90s Black Movie Classic – B.A.P.S. (1997) directed by Robert Townsend and starring Halle Berry, Natalie Desselle-Reid, and Martin Landau. In this film, Nisi (Berry) and Mickey (Desselle-Reid) make the big jump from Atlanta to L.A. and attempt to make their dreams come true but get caught up in a scam involving an aging multi-millionaire and his sinister nephew.
B.A.P.S. is iconic for few reasons but how does it hold up in 2025? We try to get to the bottom of some alleged script changes, talk about Black girl glamour, and plead for Halle Berry to take more comedic roles!
Our recommendations: Disorderlies (1987), Romy and MIchelle's High School Reunion (1997), Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
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Episode 115: One of Them Days
Like phoenixes rising from the littered ashes of Oscars discourse and Russo Brothers slop, we've triumphantly emerged from Cinema Purgatory™ for our 7th year to, once again, fill the internet airwaves with our hot takes on film.
In this week's episode we're talking friendship, heart chakras, and bra money in One of Them Days (2025), directed by Lawrence Lamont and starring Keke Palmer and SZA in her film debut. In the grand tradition of 1 day buddy comedies, this movie follows Dreux and Alyssa as they try to recover their stolen rent money before they're evicted.
Also in this episode: we wonder when we'll get more mid-budget comedies, and would we wear a Cucci t-shirt?
Our recommendations: Friday (1995), Friday After Next (2002), After Hours (1985)
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Rough Cut 27: Hot Frosty (2024)
In this edition of the Rough Cut, we talk horny Christmas movies with Netflix's Hot Frosty (2024).
In this episode: more investigations into the Holiday Movie Industrial Complex, Lacy Chabert: Queen of Christmas, snowman nipples, horny old people, and why every Christmas movie is based in trauma (thanks Charles Dickens!).
Our recommendations: Falling For Christmas (2022), The Holdovers (2023), Gremlins (1984), Looney Tunes "The Abominable Snow Rabbit" (1961)
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Rough Cut 26: The Substance (2024)
Remember: You Are One 🧪🍳
On this latest edition of the Rough Cut, we chat about the psychological affects of Hollywood and the anti-aging industry in The Substance (2024) directed by Coralie Fargeat and starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid.
Also in this episode: aging out of society, the mythology behind "black don't crack," aging on the internet, fertility and trad cottagecore weirdness.
Our recommendations: Death Becomes of Her (1992), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Fly (1986), Severance (2022-present)
Watch: Hag Horror: Why Are We So Afraid of Old Women? by Broey Deschanel
https://youtu.be/-kARVRt-p6w?si=4UUrqIOtx6Zx0a5i
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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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