Film School Professionals

Professors Malu and Katie look to the future! What's next this summer? And also currently playing? And also playing way down the line? What even is life? Beats me. Subscribe and review, you goons! Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

It's Katie's birthday! Run for the hills, estudiantes! Ol' Katie K is turning 40 this year, so share all the love! Just kidding, she's that Taylor Swift age. In honor of Professor Kak's birthday, she and Professor Malu jump into the time machine to discuss the most formative movies in Katie Cool Cat's life: Hocus Pocus, The Parent Trap, and La La Land. Except, they really only talk about The Parent Trap. Man, how messed up is that movie in retrospect? Subscribe and review, you goons! Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Did you have a nightmare? I have nightmares, too. Someday I'll explain it to you, why they came, why they won't ever go away, but I'll tell you how I survive it. I make a list in my head... of all the good things I've seen someone do. Every little thing I can remember. It's like a podcast. I do it over and over. Gets a little tedious after all these years, but... there are much worse podcasts to listen to, estudiantes. We come to the end of our Hunger Games syllabus! Professors Malu and Katie revel in their victory by finally breaking down the true dilemma of the Hunger Games adaptations: Should it have been a "trilogy" or a trilogy? Malu parries! Katie pounces! We learn what foley design is! Did Francis Lawrence do right by Suzanne six years ago? You enjoy this podcast! Real or not real? Real. Duh. They also play a game. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you defenders of the hopeless. Nathan Zed's video essay The Death of the Teen Dystopian Era. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

I have a message for you estudiantes. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground. But do you see that? Fire is catching... and if we burn... you burn with us! Wow, that was agro. Yet... appropriate? Take heed, beloved students! Professors Katie and Malu bring you a hot and fresh serving of that tasty PanEm delicacy known as Teen Dystopia Forced Love Triangle! We move bravely onward to 2014's third film in the "trilogy" - Mockingjay Part 1! Lawrences Francis and Jennifer get real and so does the camerawork and screenwriting! They really try and make Gale happen harder than "fetch." Politics get prickly and Professor Katie challenges anyone who thinks Part 1 is boring to a fistfight! Malu agrees more or less. Ice is broken and a game is played. Whistle sound effect. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you poor left behind wigs. Nathan Zed's video essay The Death of the Teen Dystopian Era. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Estudiantes, I want you to forget everything you think you know about Film School Professionals. Last episode was child's play. This episode, you're dealing with all experienced professors. Oh boy, here we go. We're cooking with gas now. Professors Malu and Katie get serious about donning their flames and break down 2013's Catching Fire (dir: Francis Lawrence), the second film in the Hunger Games "Trilogy"! They talk aspect ratios, jalapeno popper dust, axes, and who else even knows what! It's a long one. Mercy. Chins up, smiles on. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you little poisonous berries. Nathan Zed's video essay The Death of the Teen Dystopian Era. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

I don't know how else to put this, estudiantes: make sure Professors Katie and Malu remember you. It's a brand new syllabus, children, and your favorite film school professors are cashing in a chip: they're diving back into their groady and grisly childhoods to discuss the original (not original) battle royale movie... It's Hunger Games time! May the odds volunteer as tribute, you mockingjays! The inscrutable instructors jump in headfirst into the beginning of the series, Gary Ross' 2012 adaptation of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. There's talk of Peeta and Snow and Katniss and you better believe there's some hating on Gale. Seriously, fuck Gale. Then they play a game! Whistle sound! Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you little ducks. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Oscars? What Oscars? The Film School Professionals soldier on, estudiantes, spitting in the face of whatever measly broadcast of whatever train station, directed by whatever measly director of threadbare indies and tight thrillers! Professors Malu and Katie close up the Best Picture of 2020 nominees by bringing in a ringer! Addyson Teal, Cinema and Comedy Coordinator at Artsquest is back by popular demand to tackle the most controversial film of the year. Your indestructible instructors have a deep and nuanced conversation breaking down the filmmaking, criticisms, and troubling subject matter of Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman. Things get raw and no stone is left unturned in this realest of real talks. And they chat a little bit about how nice Nomadland was. Whatever. Yay Chloé. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you van-dwelling freebirds. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat Actual Film School Graduate Addyson's Instagram: @addysonteal Addyson's Band: Fig for a Kiss Addyson's Podcast: Escape! The Podcast

Did you know that your professors used to be tap dancers, estudiantes? Oscar Season continues for your favorite film school instructors, ceremony or no ceremony! They do Da Butt all over your education! Professors Katie and Malu drag their loyal and smelly producer Gabe Mara out of his foul sewer to talk some heavy duty film analysis. They break down their thoughts on Lee Isaac Chung's Minari and Florian Zeller's The Father, weigh out their thoughts, and even get serious about immigrant stories and family. Then they blow all that goodwill by playing a rollicking game of FSP Trivia Taboo! Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you watch thieves. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat Gabe's Other Podcasts: Slow Readers Depresh Mode with John Moe One Bad Mother

Time to get real, estudiantes. The Best Picture Nominees of 2020 continue! Professors Malu and Katie welcome bartender, gardener, globetrotter, man about town, and actual film school graduate Ethan Parkinson to talk about race, voice, and electric filmmaking in America. The trio take hard looks at Aaron Sorkin's Trial of the Chicago 7 and Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah and whip out the official FSP Best Picture Winner Bracket! Who will move forward? Who will languish in the past? Is it America? Of course it is! No game this time. We gots too much to do. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you vulgar, anti-establishment, antisocial, and unpragmatic goobers. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat Ethan's Instagram: @pabstbluetrippin

It's that time again, estudiantes, and I don't mean "time to rewatch Sound of Metal" though you should do that and do that often. That voice you hear at the end of every episode amidst the stormy seas has returned to Film School Professionals! Professional podcast producer Daniel Gonzalez brings his raging fire and hometown pride in Amanda Seyfried to discuss our first pairing of 2021 Best Picture Academy Award nominees: Mank (dir: David Fincher) and Sound of Metal (dir: Darius Marder). Professors Katie and Malu dive deep with Daniel into the murky waters of having-not-watched-Citizen-Kane-before-watching-Mank and discuss the finer details of shooting color for black and white. They also consider the audio magic that goes into these two potential winnerz. They also play a game about screenwriters! Lordy! Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you lovable hacks. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat Daniel's Website: https://danielwgonzalez.com/

Addyson Teal, Cinema and Comedy Coordinator at Artsquest, has come 'round to get the squeak out of your door, estudiantes... It's special guest seminar time again! Ready to get sinfully delicious in this (not very romantic) romantic drama all about cacao beans? Addyson of the band Fig for a Kiss and Escape! The Podcast fame is here with your favorite professors to break down the wardrobe symbolism and sensual filmmaking of 2000's Chocolat (dir: Lasse Hallström). What do you see in the spinning chocolate mahoozit? I hope it's a film school education. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you unrefined cacao nips. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat Actual Film School Graduate Addyson's Instagram: @addysonteal

SomeBODY once told me that this is the best film school podcast taught by film school professionals (not graduates) around! The 2000's live! Professors Malu and Katie relive their wayward youths by indulging in 1999's Shrek (dir: Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson) and 2003's Daddy Day Care (dir: Geoff Rodkey)! Your inscrutable instructors talk at length about how funny these movies are and then ultimately decide that they hold up, sort of, kind of, mostly, and it's not just rose-colored glasses, probably. They break ice and Malu tortures Katie with a game about grisly fairy tales. Who could ask for anything more? Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, ya farquads. Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

SEXUAL! CHOCOLATE! Give it up for your professors/queens who will show you just what's in that McDowell's operations manual! The Eddie Murphy Movie Extravaganza is nearing its end! Professors Katie and Malu hit you with both sides of the bookends by discussing 1988's Coming to America (dir: John Landis) and 2021's Coming 2 America (dir: Craig Brewer)! Your tenacious teachers dive deep into set design, structuring a story, and how to depict women in film! And how the sequel does only 1 out of 3 of those things! Ice is broken and Malu quizzes Katie on fictional African geography. How well does it go? You'll just have to find out by listening, ya goobs! Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice! Just let your soul glow! Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Aaand cut! Print! Film School Professionals here to learn you some filmings! The Eddie Murphy Movie Extravaganza continues! Professors Malu and Katie go back into Eddie Murphy's filmography to witness his iconic turn as Axel Foley in 1984's Beverly Hills Cop (dir: Martin Brest) and to dive into his celebrated collaboration with Steve Martin in 1999's Bowfinger (dir: Frank Oz). It... doesn't go well. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice! Don't fall for the banana in the tailpipe! Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Listen to Slow Readers wherever podcasts are found! Gabe's Instagram: @tldrswinton Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Film School Professionals is our name and educating you on filmographies is our game! In celebration of the release of Coming 2 America, your favorite film school slapdash professors are going to party all the time! They're diving into a selection of the one, the only, the raw and delirious Mr. Eddie Murphy himself, and they're beginning with 2019's Dolemite Is My Name (dir: Craig Brewer). Professors Katie and Malu discuss Rudy Ray Moore, representation, fucking up motherfuckers, and the uplifting power of filmmaking. Katie also pulls out a game but manages to kind of beef it. Oh, Professor Katie. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice! It's a total entertainment experience! Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Listen to Slow Readers wherever podcasts are found! Gabe's Instagram: @tldrswinton Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

What day is today? It's Malu's birthday! What a day for a birthday! Let's all have some cake/podcast! It's a party in class today, estudiantes! Your (debatably) favorite professor, Malu Mirones, turns the ripe old age of 21 and she's going to EDUCATE YOU ON ANIMATION, FOOLS. Professor Katie surfs the deluge of Malu's love for Disney (Fox) animation and she even brings a tailor-made game for Malu, just to watch her squirm. Your illuminating instructors drink wine and bourbon and discuss 1997's Anastasia (dir: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman), 1999's Tarzan (dir: Kevin Lima and Chris Buck), and finally, surprising no one, 2001's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (dir: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise). Plus, ice is broken by being dumped into booze because these teachers are thirstyyyyy. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you flying wildpeople in loincloths! Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Listen to Slow Readers wherever podcasts are found! Gabe's Instagram: @tldrswinton Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Everything you've heard about Film School Professionals is true. Clover is actually the voice of the Millenium Falcon. Professors Malu and Katie welcome an exceptionally boring and very obnoxious guest who won't stop farting: their producer Gabe Mara of the Slow Readers podcast! Gabe swags in like he owns the place, demanding your two intrepid instructors break down two film about con artists, fast talkers, ill-gained dollars, and the family we choose versus the family we have. That's right, Katie and Malu discuss the most obvious double feature in history: Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon (1973) [but we really know it's Polly Platt's film] and Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) [though it was also sort of Lord and Miller's]. Katie shatters the ice with some heavy heavy Emilia Clarke talk and Gabe brings the heat with some Gatekeeper action. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, nerfherders! Don't you have any scruples? Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Listen to Slow Readers wherever podcasts are found! Gabe's Instagram: @tldrswinton Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Now, you heard the rest. Ah estudiantes, we're gonna show you the best. The Film School Professionals are gonna show you a devastating and brilliant film from quarantine days! Professors Katie and Malu talk a whole lot of delirious goofery before they break down George C. Wolfe's adaptation of August Wilson's stageplay Ma Rainey's Black Bottom! Your testy teachers discuss the outstanding sound editing, the rich writing, and of course, the incredible performances of Viola Davis and the late, great Chadwick Boseman. Plus Mayor Clarence Royce is there! For a little while anyway. They break some ice talking about hot and cold days in the 20's and really dig deep into some blues trivia. A one. A two, A you-know-what-to-do. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, blues fans! Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Take your seats, grab your dumb rocks, and put on your gold armor, estudiantes! It's Quarantine Releases and Chris Pine is back for some convoluted reason! Professors Malu and Katie go for Warner Brothers' Christmas gift to us all: 2020's home blockbuster, Wonder Woman 1984! Like the vicious academic cheetahs they are, your profs savagely carve into Patty Jenkins' superhero sophomore slump. They also debate the correct way to say "Gadot" because nothing is easy in this world. No Icebreaker this week, cause ain't nobody got time for that, but there is a pitch perfect game. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you weird body swappers! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

You hear that, estudiantes? It's the sound of stillness. And drumming. And metal. Welcome back to Quarantine Releases, class, and boy, have your favorite professors pulled out all the stops for you. Professors Katie and Malu lock themselves in little rooms and tell you everything they have to say about Darius Marder's Sound of Metal until they have nothing more to say! Your ineffable instructors break down the 2020 film's sound design, divulge every little spoiler (hope you did your homework and watched the movie), and dig deep on Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci, even if they never remember's the latter's name. Plus, Icebreakers and Alan Smithees. That's life. No, for real. Okay? It just passes. It just f***ing... f***ing passes. Like you, if you study and work hard. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you blackgammons! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat0

Brand new year, brand new syllabus, students! Welcome to the Great Before! And by Great Before, we mean the movies that should have had beautiful, joyful theatrical releases during the massive, miserable void that was 2020. Malu and Katie, your favorite professors, decide to start from the very end in order to revel in some Pixar magic. We're covering Pete Docter and Kemp Powers' Soul! Malu gushes about the lush and creative animation as well as the peculiar science that is animating light. Katie agrees. Then goes face to face with a diabolical game. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you precocious souls you! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat0

Buckle up, class, we're talkin' sex, spies, and style in two of the horniest films about espionage ever made! Professors Katie and Malu welcome writer and audio producer Daniel Gonzalez (@slowreaders) of the Slow Readers podcast to get itchy with Ritchie and all red, son, with Alfredson! Daniel brings Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) and Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) to the table. Tangents galore, codenames, and general thirst ensues. It was the war, students. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you dirty moles! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Just kidding! The Film School Professionals shock you again by having one more Holiday Season Intensive class, and boy is it a doozy! Professors Malu and Katie examine the merriness and cheer of two brand spanking new holiday films! They sing and dance along with David Talbert's Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey! Malu says "Ricky Martin" so authentically that it temporarily drives Katie insane! Then your imbibing instructors launch a full scale attack on Clea DuVall's Happiest Season! Katie unleashes her venom on Kristen Stewart! And finally, your tenacious teachers play some full contact Alan Smithee Game. It's real can't-stop-won't-stop energy up in here, students. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you creative vacuums! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Happy New Year, estudiantes! It's the end of this semester as well as your Holiday Season Intensive. Hope you're ready for finals... Professors Katie and Malu wrap up your Holiday Season Intensive course by diving headlong into Malu's passion: Animation! Strap in for lengthy analysis on frame rate, the Uncanny Valley, and loving Jason Schwartzman (as we all should). In today's class, we break down 1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas (dir: Bill Melendez), 2004's The Polar Express (dir: Robert Zemeckis), and finally, some lame 2019 straight-to-Netflix FOREIGN movie called Klaus (dir: Sergio Pablos)! (Just kidding. Klaus is so damn good.) Please rate, review, and subscribe, you blockheads! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

SANTA'S HERE! And that makes Malu seethe... Your Holiday Season Intensive continues, dear estudiantes, as Professors Katie and Malu explore the lighter side of Christmas! They break down the tropes and the jokes of 2003's Elf (Dir: Jon Favreau) and 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Dir: Ron Howard)! You'll learn all sorts of important film school techniques like Google Searching Zooey Deschanel's Real Hair Color and Practical Is Always Better Than CGI, Duh! Then a game about Whos on Firsts. Please rate, review, and subscribe, united bleeding hearts of the world! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Merry merry, students! Your favorite Professors Malu and Katie are back to get black-and-white classic festive with your soft sponge-like film school freshmen brains! The profs dive into two seminal Christmas films: Michael Curtiz's White Christmas (1954) and Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life (1946)! Guess which one they liked better? Hint: It's the one without blackface. Yeesh. Please rate, review, and subscribe, you loners, losers, and complete wrecks! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

With any luck, by next year... You will be fully educated in film But for now, let me say, without hope or agenda, just because it's Christmas— (and at Christmas you tell the truth) Love Actually is pretty terrible. And The Holiday is pretty solid. Colin singlehandedly ruins that movie MERRY CHRISTMAS Yup. Professors Katie and Malu are here to bring you all that holiday cheer by comparing interlocking plots! The Professionals teach you all about Nancy Meyers' The Holiday (2006) and Richard Curtis' Love Actually (2003). Please rate, review, and subscribe, you loners, losers, and complete wrecks! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

What we are doing is having a game of show and tell. Your professors are telling you everything and showing you nothing but scorn, you part eggplant. Professors Malu and Katie bring in special guest Christian Tavares to discuss a movie he has chosen: 1993's True Romance, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino! Yes. It is time to discuss QT, albeit not one of his movie movies. Hope you like Elvis, the male gaze, and lengthy sex scenes. Please rate, review, and subscribe, you cantaloupes! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

You'll be having what they're having after you hear this episode, because the Film School Professionals will make you meow... AP Film's celebration of the Queen of the Rom-Com, Nora Ephron, concludes with the best rom-com ever made: 1989's When Harry Met Sally! Professors Katie and Malu dive deep into Meg Ryan's hair, crushing on Billy Crystal, and play a real game about fake movies. And guess what! There's little to no fighting this episode! How could they? You can't dethrone Nora Ephron and Rob Reiner's masterpiece! You come for the king, you best not miss. Baby fish mouth! See you all next syllabus! Please rate, review, and subscribe, you angels of death! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Coming soon, Fox Book Superstore, where we lie, obfuscate, and manipulate, all to get you to fall in love with us! Your fall semester Nora Ephron deep dive continues! Professors Malu and Katie shell for AOL this week by discussing 1998's You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and surprise surprise Meg Ryan! Turns out, it's not cheating if your significant other is terrible! Your wily instructors discuss bookstores, TLC, and whether or not Joe actually deserves Kathleen! (He doesn't.) Please rate, review, and subscribe, you dear voids! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Welcome back, class! Things get testy FAST. Your absolute favorite totally real film school professors dive into the oeuvre of one of their "I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL" filmmakers! That's right. Professor Katie risks life, limb, sanity, and dignity to discuss the essential Meg Ryan-Nora Ephron romantic-comedy collaborations, starting with 1993's Sleepless in Seattle! Katie is thrilled! Malu... is not. There are no diamonds without friction, class. Please rate, review, and subscribe, you believers in destiny! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

It's the final episode of your Spooky Season Intensive! Midterms are coming! BUY ALL THE COFFEE Professors Malu and Katie are here for all you final girls and big bads to wrap up this semester's Spooky Season Intensive! Just in time for Halloween 2020, your tipsy teachers get into the real real stuff... THE CLASSIC SLASHERS. The profs break down John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th (1980), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)! Find a place to hide, keep it in your pants, and learn a li'l about the gorier side of horror! Please rate, review, and subscribe, you horny camp counselors! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Your SPOOOOOOKY Season Intensive continues, idiot sisters! Professors Katie and Malu have finally landed in their pocket. It is time, dear AP Film students, to discuss... Disney Channel Halloween Films and the great grandmother of them all, Hocus Pocus! Your tipsy teachers break down what works (pretty much everything), what doesn't work (pretty much nothing), and whether or not nostalgia has blinded them when it comes to Halloweentown (1998, dir: Duwayne Dunham), Twitches (2005, dir: Stuart Gillard), and Hocus Pocus (1993, dir: Kenny Ortega). They also take an extended break to change t-shirts and play a rip-roarin' Disney villain game! Hope you like elevator music! Please rate, review, and subscribe, you black candle virgins! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Your Spooky Season Intensive continues into the big money territory! Professors Malu and Katie travel back to the groovy 1970's (2013 and 2016) to discuss the wonderfully retro and creepy horror blockbusters The Conjuring 1 and 2, both directed by Aquaman's James Wan and starring Aquaman's Patrick Wilson and Aquaman's (The Departed's) Vera Farmiga! Prepare to sleep less, pretty babies... Please rate, review, and subscribe, you haunted little Joey King wannabes! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Professors Malu and Katie've got red on them... The Film School Professionals continue this semester's Spooky Season Intensive by diving into that most delectable combination of movie cheese and berry: Horror and Comedy! They watch Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004), Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement's What We Do in the Shadows (2014), and both Tom Holland's 1985 Fright Night and Craig Gillespie's 2011 Fright Night (but not on purpose). Learn about horror comedy editing, the comparative sexiness of Chris Sarandon and Colin Farrell, and how to write a movie in 3 minutes. Be Advanced Placed with Katie and Malu, you slackers! Please rate, review, and subscribe this fine educational program, would you kindly? Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Your favorite professors step into the mire of bad horror films for Week 2 of Spooky Season Intensive! They get off light with Sleepaway Camp (1983) and The Curse of La Llorona (2019), but don't tempt them. They'll go full Colonel Kurtz into the Bad Horror Film jungle. Please rate, review, and subscribe, you bright-eyed little innocents! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Halloween starts in September around these parts! They cover the all time classics: Nosferatu (the first one), Night of the Living Dead, and Rosemary's Baby.

I mean, what else can go wrong?? The profs talk disaster movies in the year 2020. Wanna get contentious over Cloverfield??

The profs explore the most neon lime green movie (and book) ever! It's Percy Jackson and Hermione and the Flash together! Katie's short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY&feature=youtu.be

This one should make all you Stone-heads happy. The profs chat up the modern day adaptation of The Scarlet Letter.

The gals say, "Eff it, lets drink and gab about Lady Bird!" They managed to pry this one into a theme.

There comes a point where a film podcast does Breakfast Club. That time is now!

The half-baked profs invite proud Nolen-ite (and actor) Tito Vallarino for a fun dive into the work of obscure filmmaker Christopher Nolan! They talk about Memento, The Prestige, and Interstellar! Tito Vallarino: IG @patacontito AP Film: IG @filmschoolprofessionals

The season of "Oh-Cult" ends with a two-few of NON-toxic female friendship (finally!) and a secretly amazing horror-Groundhogs Day flick!

Time for pink stuff and, um, chainsaws! The gang wrap up the Cult Talk with this double billing of toxic female friendship and dark humor!

Your new favorite (fake) professor's are gonna give you an earful about the savagely misunderstood Jennifer's Body!

In this class, we’re covering the only way to time warp dance! Your (fake) teachers hit the ground running with the cult movie to end all cult movies!