Send us a text Holy shit, this movie is crazy! It's What's Inside (streaming now on Netflix ) takes place during a pre-wedding party when an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game that awakens old demons, desires, and secrets from the past. We were joined virtually by two of the film's stars, Reina Hardesty and Nina Bloomgarden , for a lively conversation about the affects of social media, the challenge of one actor playing multiple characters, and what it would be like to have a penis....
Oct 04, 2024•16 min•Ep. 818
Send us a text We're back with a return guest who also just happens to be one of the best pool players in the world, Jeanette Lee ! We first had her on the show to discuss her 30 for 30 documentary Jeanette Lee VS. , and now she's back to discuss her new book, appropriately titled The Black Widow: A Memoir . She shares what life experience inspired her to write her memoir, when Billie Jean King (who also writes the forward in the book!!) helped her realize her power and her voice, how fighting s...
Sep 27, 2024•25 min•Ep. 817
Send us a text We were excited to have director Azazel Jacobs back on the show to talk about his powerful new film, His Three Daughters . The film follows three estranged sisters as they care for their dying father while trying to find a way to reconnect. Azazel shares how caregiving for his parents inspired him to write this story, his deep respect for hospice workers, the impact of his decision to shoot on film, and the incredible score by composer Rodrigo Amarante . Watch His Three Daughters ...
Sep 20, 2024•33 min•Ep. 816
Send us a text Welcome to Flashback Friday! This week we're returning to the Sundance 2024 Film Festival, to one of our favorite documentaries that is showing in a theater near you! Look Into My Eyes is an intimate look at a group of psychics in New York and their clients. Director (and return guest) Lana Wilson shares how she found clients willing to be on camera, the importance of witnessing someone, and the 20 minute lizard story that she struggled to cut down for time. Buy tickets for Look I...
Sep 13, 2024•21 min
Send us a text Welcome to Flashback Friday! We're bringing back a documentary that we covered this past January at Sundance 2024, and is in theaters now ! Seeking Mavis Beacon is a documentary that follows the investigation into what happened to one of the most influential Black women in technology who has been missing from the public eye since 1995. Director/investigator Jazmin Jones and associate producer/investigator Olivia McKayla Ross sit down with us to share how they met, how they learned...
Sep 06, 2024•14 min
Send us a text We’re back with a Basic Bitch and we have a lot to catch up on! From the Olympics (and a certain pole vaulting video that we may or may not be watching regularly), to Outside Lands (Grace Jones AND Chappell Roan?!?) and the Democratic National Convention (“…from the windoooows to the Walzzzz…”), these bitches needed to float on the river just to recover from all the excitement. And we cap it off with a special announcement for friend of the show Anica Wu of Bonjerk who makes the b...
Aug 23, 2024•39 min•Ep. 815
Send us a text Y'all, can we just talk about women in sports for forever, please. And with THESE women in particular! On this episode, we welcome #forevergiant, SF Giants reporter Amy Gutierrez aka Amy G and illustrator Anika Orrock talking about their book Smarty Marty Takes the Field . Get ready to hear some great takes on how kids think about women in sports in 2024, the representation of U.S. women at this years summer Olympics, about the origin of Smarty Marty back in 2012 and how Anika was...
Aug 14, 2024•41 min•Ep. 814
Send us a text We're talking about one of our favorite movies of the year with director/writer Sean Wang and actor Joan Chen ! DÌDI (弟弟) follows a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy during the last month of summer before high school begins, as he learns to skate, flirt, and love his mom. We get behind the scenes details of the first (and most intense) scene with Joan and lead actor Izaac Wang, learn why playing this role was both cathartic and redemptive for Joan, and how Sean believes the best ...
Aug 07, 2024•15 min•Ep. 814
Send us a text This is one of our favorite movies of the year, and the interview was equally as satisfying! We sat down with director Greg Kwedar , and actors Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin and Sean San Jose to discuss their beautiful film, Sing Sing . The film is based on the real life RTA ( Rehabilitation Through the Arts ) program at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison , centered around a group of inmates involved in the theater program. They share how they created a special brotherhood behind th...
Aug 02, 2024•20 min•Ep. 813
Send us a text You can watch Standing Above The Clouds in person or virtually at the Black Star Film Festival on Friday, August 2nd! For more info, click here Standing Above The Clouds is a documentary that follows mother and daughter activists of three native Hawaiian families after a massive thirty meter telescope is proposed to be built on the sacred mountain, Mauna Kea . Director Jalena Keane-Lee and activist/artist Hāwane Rios join us virtually to discuss intergenerational healing through a...
Jul 31, 2024•18 min•Ep. 812
Send us a text One of our all time favorite guests has returned, and he never disappoints! Take a listen to hear why a happy hour with Daveed Diggs is good for the soul. We dive into fatherhood, Comic Con, the new Clipping album (and behind the scenes stories from their European tour), the importance of local politics (and why he's backing Michael Tubbs for Lieutenant Governor), and doing his part to make Oakland and the Bay Area a hub for filmmaking (through Make It Bay and s creenwriter salons...
Jul 26, 2024•48 min•Ep. 811
Send us a text We're joined by Jeff Hunt of Storied: San Francisco to interview Sameer Gupta and Kundan Baidwan , two artists and the creative forces behind the Color Your Mind Festival happening on Saturday, July 27th, from 12-5pm at the Yerba Buena Gardens in downtown SF. This free festival is a celebration of South Asian traditional and modern arts, including music, dance, art, books, crafts, and more. We hope to see you there! In the meantime, Kundan and Sameer share how they grew up togethe...
Jul 24, 2024•37 min•Ep. 810
Send us a text Warning: this episode is what happens when you start drinking Crement (French sparkling wine) at 1 pm. We discuss the Emmy nominations, the exciting diversity in our Olympic gymnastics team, Erin's newfound love of tennis, and our attempt to become three-peat winners of the 48 Hills Best of the Bay Readers Poll for Best Podcast (vote here )! And then we dive into our thoughts on threesomes, the crackling details of Erin and Ange's first (and last) couple's massage, and being propo...
Jul 19, 2024•56 min•Ep. 809
Send us a text Owl is a film that debuted at CAAMFest this year about a woman who returns home to Oakland to care for her ailing father, and her problems quickly become much bigger than she ever expected. Director/writer/co-producer Julian Pham and co-producer/lead talent/musician Marica Petrey join us to share how the idea for this film stemmed from a picture Julian took of Marica, their pride in highlighting Oakland and finding beauty in the grittiness of the city, the reason behind their ecle...
Jul 17, 2024•18 min•Ep. 808
Send us a text We're excited to share our first official coverage of the Tribeca Festival ! (virtually through Zoom, but it still counts!) We kick things off with the documentary New Wave , which follows director Elizabeth Ai on a mission to share the untold story of rebellious punks in the '80s Vietnamese new wave community, but in the process, ends up facing her own haunting past. Director Elizabeth Ai and producer Rachel Sine reflect on how the film took a turn on an unexpected emotional roll...
Jul 10, 2024•35 min•Ep. 807
Send us a text We are beyond excited that this documentary is out in theaters, because it is an event that we all should have grown up hearing about! COPA 71 shares the erased history of the 1971 Women's World Cup (more than 20 years prior to the first FIFA sponsored Women's World Cup), which was held in Mexico City and attended by more than 100,000 fans. Director Rachel Ramsay joins us via zoom to explain her shock in finding out about this massive event that has been purposefully wiped from hi...
Jun 26, 2024•20 min•Ep. 806
Send us a text We're continuing our celebration of Pride month and wanted to remind you that the Frameline Film Festival (the longest running and largest LGBTQIA film festival in the world) is currently happening in SF and Oakland until June 29th! We start off this episode with our experience at opening night, and encourage you to find the list of events and buy tickets here ! We're flashing back to the South By Southwest ( SXSW ) Festival in Austin, Texas, to a powerful and entertaining film th...
Jun 21, 2024•24 min
Send us a text Thelma is the action/comedy film we've all been waiting for, and this interview was just as fun as watching the movie! Thelma is a 93 year-old grandmother who gets duped by a phone scammer and sets out on a quest through the streets of LA to reclaim what was taken from her. Director Josh Margolin and the film's star, June Squibb , join us to explain how Josh's 103 year-old grandmother was the inspiration for the film, and that June was always his first choice for the lead. Then Ju...
Jun 19, 2024•16 min•Ep. 805
Send us a text Welcome to Flashback Friday! We're bringing back two great films that we covered at SXSW , because you will be able to see them on the big screen (and we highly recommend that you do) during the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco (from June 19th -June 29th)! A House Is Not A Disco captures a year in the life of the world's most iconic homo-normative community: Fire Island Pines . Director Brian J. Smith and producer Jeremy Truong share the difficulty of staying focused while...
Jun 14, 2024•26 min
Send us a text We're continuing our celebration of Pride Month by discussing the Frameline Film Festival (the world's oldest and largest LGBTQIA film festival, running June 19th-June 29th) with Executive Director, Allegra Madsen ! Allegra is a badass bitch who has been able to marry her love of community building with her love of films as Frameline's newly coined Executive Director. She shares how she ended up in San Francisco, her (sometimes embarrassing) favorite movies growing up, how she was...
Jun 12, 2024•23 min•Ep. 804
Send us a text Welcome to Flashback Fridays! We're bringing back two films that you can see on the big screen at this year's Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco (running June 19-29)! We truly loved both of these documentaries that will introduce you to two amazing women that should already be household names. The World According to Allee Willis shares the story of one of the most successful singer/songwriter/artists of our time, Allee Willis , from her strict upbringing to her creative succ...
Jun 07, 2024•34 min
Send us a text We're celebrating CAAMFest (Center for Asian American Media) 2024 with two films about young women athletes! Home Court is a documentary that follows Ashley Chea, a basketball prodigy and first generation Cambodian-American, as she navigates recruitment, injury, and generational trauma. We are joined by director Erica Tanamachi and producer Jenn Lee Smith who share their excitement in telling a story about Asian American sport leagues, showing a positive relationship between a pla...
Jun 04, 2024•39 min•Ep. 803
Send us a text We’re on location at the inaugural POC Food and Wine Festival - a celebration of the global majority in food, wine, music and culture! The folks at Make it Mariko , an SF events company led by women of color (with the badass Gina Mariko Rosales at the helm), brought to life a magical multi-day multi-city event that will definitely be the first of many. You’ll hear from cook/speaker/community organizer Chef Reem Assil , Top Chef Season 18 alum Chef Nelson German of alaMar and Sobre...
May 31, 2024•53 min•Ep. 802
Send us a text We're recapping our 800th episode party at the Casements Bar and the SF premiere of Gasoline Rainbow . And then to celebrate the release of the hilarious film Babes , we're giving you our SXSW red carpet chats with director Pamela Adlon , stars Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau and writer/producer Josh Rabinowitz . For Gasoline Rainbow screen times click here For Babes screen times click here Follow director/actor Pamela Adlon on IG Follow actor Ilana Glazer on IG Follow actor Mich...
May 24, 2024•14 min•Ep. 801
Send us a text Holy shit, we're 800 episodes old! And we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than with some of our all time favorite guests, Bill and Turner Ross . We met up during the SXSW festival at the Mean-Eyed Cat , one of our favorite bars in Austin, to discuss Gasoline Rainbow , their newest film that your favorite bitches make a brief cameo in! Gasoline Rainbow follows five teenagers from small-town Oregon who, with high school in the rear view, hop in a van and decide to embark...
May 15, 2024•49 min•Ep. 800
Send us a text We're excited to have return guest Jane Schoenbrun with a powerhouse film that they wrote and directed, I Saw The TV Glow . The film is set in the '90s and follows Owen, an awkward teenager whose classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night tv show, and his new obsession begins to cause cracks in his sense of reality. Jane describes their "egg crack moment", and how important it was to cast queer actors (led by the wonderful duo of Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine ) t...
May 09, 2024•16 min•Ep. 799
Send us a text Welcome to our SFFilm Festival episode! We start with some fun stories from our coverage of the festival, before sharing a great conversation with one of our newest friends/honorary bitch, director Nicholas Ma of the film Mabel . Mabel follows 13 year old Callie, an awkward kid whose one friend, Mabel, is a plant- until her teacher Ms. G introduces her to the world of "plant intelligence". Nicholas shares why he has an obsession with plants, how working on the Mr. Rogers documenta...
May 02, 2024•23 min•Ep. 798
Send us a text We have a lot to catch up on in this Basic Bitch, including our behind the scenes stories from the SFFilm Festival , Ange's trip to Mexico, and Erin's thoughts on the Taylor Swift craze. And don't forget we'll be at the POC Food and Wine Fest this weekend (tickets are still available here ), and you can join us to celebrate our 800th episode at the premiere of Gasoline Rainbow (the movie that we make a brief cameo in!) at the Roxie on May 17th (buy tickets here ). Support the show...
May 01, 2024•28 min•Ep. 797
Send us a text This episode brings you an interview and a memorable red carpet experience for a SXSW film that we had so much fun watching! I Don't Understand You is a narrative film that follows an American couple on the verge of adopting a baby as they find themselves stranded in rural Italy without transportation or language skills. And of course, chaos ensues. Our first interview is with producers Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett from Pinky Promise Films . We get into starting a production ...
Apr 26, 2024•26 min•Ep. 797
Send us a text This is a special episode because we loved this SXSW documentary so much, we're covering it with two separate interviews! Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story is a heart-warming film about the love between a man and a wild otter, set in the remote Scottish islands of Shetland. We are first joined by director Charlie Hamilton James and producer Jeff Wilson who share how they met Billy and Molly, the concept behind the incredible cinematography, and why they wanted to make a film ...
Apr 24, 2024•32 min•Ep. 796
