The Bechdel Cast is a podcast about the portrayal of women in movies hosted by Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus.
This week, Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Korama Danquah dig deep into the movie Holes (2003)! Follow Korama on social media at @koramadramaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
15/05/2025 • 130:53
On this episode, Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Keah Brown discuss Always Be My Maybe (2019)! Here's the link for Jamie's upcoming book events -- https://us.macmillan.com/tours/jamie-loftus-raw-dog/ -- Follow Keah on Instagram at @keah_maria and check out her website at https://keahbrown.com and here are the links mentioned in the episode -- https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/6/13/18661961/always-be-my-maybe-ali-wong-randall-park / https://www.glamour.com/story/ali-wong-randall-park-always-be-my-maybe-interview / https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-always-be-my-maybe-gets-about-making-an-asian-american-rom-com / https://planamag.com/always-be-my-maybe-gentrification-and-the-asian-american-rom-com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
08/05/2025 • 93:30
We're irrevocably re-covering Twilight (2008) with special guest Diannely Antigua! As if you could outrun us!!! Here are the various pieces / links from the episode: https://www.hcn.org/issues/44-11/the-quileute-reservation-copes-with-tourists-brought-by-twilight/ https://www.burkemuseum.org/static/truth_vs_twilight/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqloPw5wp48&t=1s linktr.ee/bechdelcast Follow Diannely on Instagram at @nellfell13 and check out her website at https://diannelyantigua.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
01/05/2025 • 139:15
You must! You must! You must listen to Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Kate Helen Downey chat about Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret! Check out Kate's podcast, Cramped, wherever you get your podcasts, and follow Kate on Instagram at @katehelendowney and on TikTok at @kateiscrampedSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
24/04/2025 • 103:09
Jamie and Caitlin get invited to Muriel's Wedding! Here's the Guardian piece we reference - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/13/muriels-wedding-is-a-feminist-masterpiece-and-more-relevant-than-ever See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
17/04/2025 • 131:11
This week, babygirls Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Emma Alamo drink a full glass of milk while discussing Babygirl (2024). Here's the piece by Angelica Jade Bastién - https://www.vulture.com/article/the-ending-of-babygirl-explained.html and here's the piece by Jourdain Searles - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/purely-carnal/ Follow Emma on Instagram at @emma_alamo and check out her website/online store at https://emmaalamo.com Also, don't forget to check vote for We the Unhoused for a Webby Award here: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/shows/public-service-activism and listen to We the Unhoused here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-the-unhoused/id1490017575 ...Also, check out Caitlin's upcoming shows at linktr.ee/bechdelcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
10/04/2025 • 118:19
On this completely normal and very sincere episode, Jamie and Caitlin discuss the mother fucking feminist masterpiece Snakes on a Plane! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
01/04/2025 • 107:35
Awooga! Caitlin is visiting the East Coast and doing comedy along the way! Catch a standup show on April 11th in State College, PA, a standup workshop that Caitlin is teaching, also in State College on April 13th, and finally, a Titanic-themed standup show** in Brooklyn on April 15th! These will be nights to remember! More information and tickets at linktr.ee/bechdelcast **proceeds will benefit the PCRFSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
31/03/2025 • 02:31
We're bewitching you body and soul by unlocking this Matreon episode on Pride and Prejudice (2005). Check on Caitlin's unpcoming comedy shows & workshops in State College, PA and Brooklyn, NY -- tickets at linktr.ee/bechdelcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
27/03/2025 • 125:10
This week, little rascals Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Tariq Ra'ouf head to their clubhouse and discuss The Little Rascals (1994)! Follow Tariq on social media at @tariq_raoufSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
20/03/2025 • 88:52
On this episode, Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Shelli Nicole stroll through south London and chat about Rye Lane (2023). Follow Shelli on Instagram at @ayoshelli and check out her website at www.hishelli.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
13/03/2025 • 101:23
This week, Jamie and Caitlin are one. Will they respect the balance? Find out on this episode about The Substance! Here's the Making-Of Featurette we mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H64HNvXrqU See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
06/03/2025 • 95:02
House of Bechdel Cast presents an episode on Paris Is Burning with special guest DoctorJonPaul! Here is Jon's piece on the movie: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/06/paris-is-burning-rerelease-controversy-legacy.html / here is more information about the Dorian Corey story: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-famous-drag-queen-a-mummy-in-the-closet-and-a-baffling-mystery / here's the Hollywood Reporter piece on Junior LaBeija: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paris-is-burning-emcee-junior-labeija-pose-rupaul-1234964404/ Follow Jon on social media at @doctorjonpaul and check out Jon's website & preorder their book at doctorjonpaul.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
27/02/2025 • 88:40
The Bechdel Cast is so hot on this episode where Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Kenice Mobley discuss Zoolander (2001). Here is more information about the humanitarian crisis happening in the DRC - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/21/a-guide-to-the-decades-long-conflict-in-dr-congo Follow Kenice on Instagram at @kenicemobley and check out her website at kenicemobley.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
20/02/2025 • 74:40
On today's episode, special guest Danielle Bezalel joins to help us celebrate Caitlin's hysterectomy/uterectomy and to discuss the Hulu original movie Plan B (2021)! Follow Danielle and her podcast, Sex Ed with DB, on Instagram at @sexedwithdbpodcast, on TikTok at @sexedwithdb, and at the website sexedwithdb.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
13/02/2025 • 103:59
This week, Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Maya Williams harvest honey and discuss The Secret Life of Bees! Follow Maya on Instagram at @emmdubb16 and check out eir website at mayawilliamspoet.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
06/02/2025 • 97:29
On this episode mermaids Caitlin, Jamie, and special guests Imani Davis and Demma Strausbaugh (hosts of Players - A Film Industry Podcast) emerge from the ocean and become human to discuss Aquamarine! Here's the piece from Lez Hang Out podcast - https://www.lezhangoutpod.com/eps/sbg99aquamarine#:~:text=If%20you%20haven't%20seen,with%20her%20and%20save%20the Follow Imani on Instagram at @imanimdavis, Players - A Film Industry Podcast at @players_pod, and RM.19 Productions at @rm.19productionsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
30/01/2025 • 82:33
This week, Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Yasmina Tawil discuss Salt of This Sea (2008)! Check out linktr.ee/bechdelcast for links to Solidarity Cinema, Palestine Film Index, Palestinian Film Calendar, and Cinema Arabiyya! Follow Yasmina on Instagram at @yasmina.tawil and check out her website www.yasmina-tawil.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
23/01/2025 • 92:37
Life may be like a box of chocolates, but on this episode, you know exactly what you're gonna get, which is Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Maia Wyman aka Broey Deschanel talking about Forrest Gump (1994)! Follow Maia on Instagram at @broey_deschanel, on YouTube at youtube.com/BroeyDeschanel, and check out her podcast, Rehash! Here's our guest's video essay, "The Strange Conservatism of Forrest Gump" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeGeT3ZeKO0 Here is the piece entitled "Autism on Screen: Forrest Gump" - https://aisforaoifenotautism.com/2017/05/19/autism-on-screen-forrest-gump/ and here is the piece entitled "'Forrest Gump' at 25: Disability Representation (For Better and Worse) - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristenlopez/2019/07/05/forrest-gump-at-25-disability-representation-for-better-and-worse/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
16/01/2025 • 114:01
On this episode, Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Kate Cheka dicuss kissing and cats and Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging (2008)! Follow Kate on Instagram at @katecheka, visit her website at katecheka.co.uk for tickets to upcoming tour dates, and grab tickets to her London shows at https://sohotheatre.com/events/kate-cheka-a-messiah-comes/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
10/01/2025 • 100:41
As far back as we can remember, we've always wanted to unlock our Matreon episode on Goodfellas. Grab tickets to our upcoming shows + livestreams at linktr.ee/bechdelcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
02/01/2025 • 124:40
This week, Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Alex Danton-Klein spend one wild episode discussing Eight Crazy Nights. Follow Alex at @zinniasocialistsupplyco on Instagram! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
26/12/2024 • 88:27
On this mini-sode, Jamie and Caitlin discuss what we watched this past year, movies we're looking foward to, plans for future episodes, and of course, plugged our upcoming live shows in January -- tickets at linktr.ee/bechdelcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
19/12/2024 • 30:53
Awooga! We're going on another little tour in January 2025, in which we are doing live shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, OR -- AND livestreaming the LA and Portland shows! Tickets at linktr.ee/bechdelcast Los Angeles - January 19 - A Bechdel Cast Celebration! live show + livestream! San Francisco - January 23 - Shrektanic Presents Titanic! live show! Portland - January 26 - Shrektanic Presents Shrek! live show + livestream! See you there!!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
13/12/2024 • 05:07
On this episode, Caitlin and Jamie *lampoon* the movie National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
12/12/2024 • 73:18
This week, Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Honey Pluton don their masks and cloaks and Gregorian chant about Eyes Wide Shut. Follow Honey at @honeypluton on Instagram and check out the podcast Up Good!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
05/12/2024 • 106:30
We're taking the week off from a normal episode to plug our upcoming West Coast Tour in January 2025!! Live shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, PLUS the LA and Portland shows will be live-streamed! PLUS there's a bonus solo show of Jamie's in LA on November 29! All tickets at linktr.ee/bechdelcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
28/11/2024 • 07:06
On this episode, gladiators Caitlinus, Jamieus, and special guest Emma Southon enter the Colosseum to battle with Gladiator (2000). Follow Emma at @emmasouthon on Instagram and check out her website -- where you can learn more about her books -- at www.emmasouthon.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
21/11/2024 • 96:50
Jamie and Caitlin phone home and chat about E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
14/11/2024 • 85:33
Beautiful models Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest James Adomian discuss Triangle of Sadness on the intercom of a luxury yacht! Follow James on Instagram at @jadomian and check out his website jamesadomian.com and his special, Path of Most Resistance See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
07/11/2024 • 85:56
