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EPISODE ONE: Pimps versus Geeks

March 27, 2006
| Judy sings the praises of American pimp culture, while Cathi wonders what it would be like to kidnap and torture the VP of a chemical company.

7:22 minutes (3.37 MB)
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Episode Three - Judy and Cathi Love Da Bombers

April 25, 2006
| Battle of Algers and Me and You and Everyone We Know - freedom fighters and the Amelie meets the Internet.

7:54 minutes (7.23 MB)
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Two monstrously important women on two monstrously important men: Charlie Chaplin and Ghenghis Khan

November 20, 2008
| Reel Women talk about two bio pics - one on Charlie Chaplin and one on Ghenghis Khan

6:47 minutes (4.71 MB)
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DVD Reviews: A Guy Maddin and Gregg Araki Double Feature with My Winnipeg and Mysterious Skin

January 5, 2009
| Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond have caught two great flicks by two niche filmmakers with two very different styles

9:05 minutes (8.35 MB)
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DVD Reviews: You Can't Take it With You and Live and Become - Two great flicks to chase the winter blahs away

February 4, 2009
| Live and Become is a new gem about an Ethiopian Jew finding his way in Israel and You Can't Take it With You is just what we all need in these recessionary times

8:28 minutes (5.86 MB)
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DVD Reviews: Out of the Closet and Into Your Glass - Milk and Suddenly Last Summer

March 30, 2009
| Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond on Gus Van Sant's "Milk" and a Great Queer Classic - "Suddenly Last Summer"

6:27 minutes (5.95 MB)
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DVD Reviews: Let's talk about sex. Teenaged girls and sex

April 23, 2009
| Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond review Twilight and Splendour in the Grass looking for shifts in sexual behaviour

8:16 minutes (2.88 MB)
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DVD Reviews: Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond Smack Down at the Fights

May 12, 2009
| Judy and Cathi review Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler and Michael Curtiz's boxing classic Kid Gallahad

5:59 minutes (2.1 MB)
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DVD Review: Hear the Women Talk about Love, Marriage, Sex, Death and Serial Killers

June 1, 2009
| Durham County and Mamma Mia - Two Very Different Entertainment Vehicles Built By All Female Teams

9:06 minutes (6.29 MB)
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DVD Reviews: Strolling the suburbs with Leonardo and Kate circa 1955 and Orson Welles' Vienna

July 5, 2009
| Is The Third Man the best noir ever? And what about Sam Mendez taking the Revolutionary Road

9:33 minutes (6.6 MB)
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DVD Review: Innuit Women Break into the Movies and Gerard Depardieu Takes a Trip to Provence

July 29, 2009
| Two terrific flix this week: Jean de Florette (which saved French cinema) and Before Tomorrow

9:24 minutes (6.45 MB)
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DVD Review: The Watchmen - Don't Watch it - Manon of the Spring - Fill Up Your Jug

September 9, 2009
| Zach Snyder's latest flick might be a must for fans, but for newbies, read the novel first!

6:17 minutes (2.56 MB)
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DVD Review: Grab Your Prayer Beads and Polish Your Cross - Judy and Cathi Get Religious

September 28, 2009
| Two Don't Miss Religious Flix - Doubt and Night of the Hunter - Faith Classics You'll Never Forget

8:08 minutes (5.62 MB)
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DVD review: The changing face of cinematic activism

October 15, 2009
| Judy Rebick shares Velcrow Ripper's Fierce Light and Cathi goes to the cotton mill with Norma Rae.

9:40 minutes (6.68 MB)
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DVD Review: Get Scared, Really Scared, Down at Your Friendly Neighbourhood Video Hut

November 25, 2009
| Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond check out Sam Raimi's Drag me to Hell and who doesn't love Carrie?

6:08 minutes (5.65 MB)
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DVD Review: Notorious Big and Tupac Shakur Versus Sascha Baron Cohen

December 18, 2009
| Two very different approaches to documentary filmmaking -- but they're both seriously in your face.

8:59 minutes (8.26 MB)
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DVD Review: Huntin' Nazi Basterds and Starving to Death for a Cause

December 31, 2009
| Bring in the New Year with Inglourious Basterds and Steve McQueen's Hunger.

9:08 minutes (6.28 MB)
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DVD Review: War? What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, say it again!

January 29, 2010
| Check out two great war vids: Oscar hopeful The Hurt Locker and Oscar winner The Fog of War.

8:06 minutes (3.29 MB)
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DVD review: What's Love Got to Do With It? Absolutely everything, say it again!

February 24, 2010
| Content, happily married and middle-aged? What happens when you meet another special someone?

8:03 minutes (3.27 MB)
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DVD review: Beware the mall, watch out for that cow, carry a big gun, zombies are everywhere

March 17, 2010
| Get ready to clutch your gut as Cathi makes Judy watch two great zombie comedies: Zombieland and Night of the Comet -- two hysterically funny pictures about.... the living dead.

7:21 minutes (2.98 MB)
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DVD Reviews: Precious and Menace II Society - tough lessons on being black and marginalized

April 5, 2010
| Unflinching journeys into life on the mean streets of Harlem and L.A.

9:17 minutes (6.42 MB)
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DVD Reviews: We're talking about sex - older man, younger woman - hot or not?

April 26, 2010
| Judy Rebick wants to talk about sexual politics. Cath Bond's ready to tango. They end up in Paris.

8:43 minutes (6.03 MB)
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DVD Review: Good cops? Bad cops! Two boys in blue who are worse than the crooks

July 27, 2010
| A cinematic study of police force over 20 years: bad lieutenant one versus bad lieutenant two.

8:20 minutes (7.68 MB)
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DVD reviews: Female violence at the movies -- good or bad?

September 9, 2010
| Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond bicker about the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Kill Bill.

8:25 minutes (5.83 MB)
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DVD review: Two very different takes on how the war affected the vets

October 18, 2010
| Tim Robbins goes to scary heights scaling Jacob's Ladder and Jon Voight shines in Coming Home.

8:21 minutes (5.77 MB)
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DVD review: Two very different takes on life in the U.S. of A.

November 3, 2010
| Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond talk about Sundance winner A Winter's Bone and Look at American Psycho.

9:49 minutes (6.78 MB)
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DVD Review: Scott Pilgrim Versus the World Dukes it out with Bubba Ho Tep

December 6, 2010
| Reel Women dig into the vaults to review two terrific cult flix: One -- a classic and the other -- brand spanking new!

7:36 minutes (5.26 MB)
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DVD Review: There's a new queen bee of the family dramedy

December 23, 2010
| While Hollywood churns out blockbusters, director Lisa Choloden revisits the American family genre.

10:27 minutes (7.22 MB)
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DVD Review: Judy and Cathi ring in the New Year with two sensational spy flix

January 7, 2011
| Love Hitchcock? Crazy about Christopher Nolan? Check out Foreign Correspondent and Inception.

8:54 minutes (6.16 MB)
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DVD Review: A Visit to the Big House to see A Prophet, taking The Midnight Express

January 31, 2011
| Judy and Cathi talk up two prison flicks: A Prophet and The Midnight Express

8:28 minutes (5.85 MB)
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DVD Reviews: Happy Valentine's Day from Judy Rebick, Meryl Streep, Cathi Bond and Katharine Hepburn

February 14, 2011
| Looking for some Sweet Movie Love with a Woman of the Year who finds out that It's Complicated.

8:07 minutes (5.62 MB)
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DVD Review: Nowhere Boy -- A look at the early life of John Lennon

March 10, 2011
| John Lennon: A rebellious provocateur, occasional jerk and funny mama's boy who helped change the world. Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond review the film Nowhere Boy.

8:19 minutes (3.85 MB)
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DVD Review: Hop on the train with two terrific choo-choo flicks

April 7, 2011
| Looking for excellent action in all the wrong places? Check the tracks 'cause they're coming through! Two terrific action flicks riding the rails at top speed.

6:55 minutes (6.37 MB)
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DVD Review: Women take action -- union action -- to exact true story change

May 15, 2011
| Made in Dagenham and Silkwood -- grab your earbuds for two fab flicks about extraordinary chicks!

7:50 minutes (7.21 MB)
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DVD Review: The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist

June 11, 2011
| DVD review of 'The Triplets of Belleville' and 'The Illusionist' by French animation master Syvlain Chomet -- two fantastic cinematic creations using primarily old-style single cell animation.

8:25 minutes (7.74 MB)
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DVD Review: The Reel Women pirouette into the world of ballet

July 5, 2011
| Judy and Cathi go behind the curtains for a peek into the punishing world of ballet, when they review The Red Shoes and the Black Swan.

9:20 minutes (6.45 MB)