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FFR 275: Hairspray (2007)
Episode 275
One question we wanted to ask in our Summer "Camp" season was: does a remake add or remove layers of camp? Especially when it's one of John Waters' b…
12 hours ago
FFR 274: Barbarella
Episode 274
Welcome to our new season: Summer "Camp"! What better film to kick off these episodes with than Roger Vadim's 1968 space romp Barbarella. It's a perf…
2 weeks ago
Season Preview: Summer "Camp"
Before we dive into our brand new season all about camp cinema classics, we had to reacquaint ourselves with the aesthetic sensibility at the heart o…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
FFR 273: The Wedding Banquet (2025)
Episode 273
A.C. and Kat experienced Andrew Ahn's remake of The Wedding Banquet across somewhat of a generational divide. He finds it relies on a millennial aest…
4 months, 1 week ago
FFR 272: Crooklyn
Episode 272
It was an absolute joy to spend time in the world of Spike Lee's 1994 bildungsroman Crooklyn. Co-written by Lee and his siblings Joie and Cinqué, the…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
FFR 271: 98th Oscar Nominees
Episode 271
Kat and A.C. go through the films that will be fêted at this Sunday's Academy Awards. We feel a big shift in our relationship to Oscar movies, and ar…
5 months ago
FFR 270: Real Women Have Curves
Episode 270
Our "Focus on the Family" season is back after an unexpected hiatus! [Once again: sorry for the interruption; a member of our team had an ongoing fam…
5 months, 1 week ago
FFR 269: The Kids Are All Right
Episode 269
For the first episode of our "Focus on the Family" season, we're taking it back to 2010—a time before Prop 8 when a Sundance movie could really make …
8 months ago
FFR Season Preview: Focus on the Family
FFR is going to be back soon with a new season focusing on the family... just in time for the holidays! Listen to our mini preview ep where we'll exp…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
FFR Bonus: Emilia Pérez
"Bingo." As the epic conclusion to our season of Musical Mayhem, we watched Jacques Audiard's 2024 extravaganza Emilia Pérez. Did we hate it? Kinda! …
9 months, 2 weeks ago