Two black girls reviewing films, starting with Disney Channel Original Movies. You can find us on Twitter @criticskingdom and on Instagram @thecriticskingdom. New episodes every Wednesday!
To finish off the first season, Chelsea and Nina make a top 10 list of their favorite and least favorite DCOM's. Let us know what yours are! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
To end the Lawrence Brothers Suite and the first season, Chelsea and Nina discuss the final Lawrence Brothers Suite, Jumping Ship and Nina tells us about her boat trip from hell and how Michael is still dumb. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Chelsea and Nina discuss the second movie in the Lawrence Brothers Suite, The Other Me and talk about how the scientists weren't actually the bad guys and how this whole movie is about patents. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina are culminating the first season with the Lawrence Brothers Suite starting with Horse Sense and talk about Michael being too damn old to act the way he does and borrowing money from family. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Selena Gómez starring DCOM, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie and talk about the weird chemistry and girls being allowed to play villains. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina talk about the DCOM classic, Stuck In the Suburbs starring Brenda Song, Danielle Panabaker and Taran Killam and talk about redlining in suburbia and uniqueness. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss, Avalon High and talk about Meg Cabot, how this movie could have made a bigger splash and King Arthur. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina honor the 20th anniversary of September 11th, 2001 by reviewing, Tiger Cruise. They discuss Hayden Panettiere, patriotism and how the event changed America and is still having long lasting effects today. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss Genius and talk about a certain charm that seems to be missing in movies today --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
To finish off The Camp Rock Suite, Chelsea and Nina discuss Camp Rock 2: Final Jam and talk about ambition and classism. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina were joined by their friend Katie and reviewed the Camp Rock suite starting with Camp Rock where they talk about the fashions in 2008 and child stars. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina review the classic Aly Michalka DCOM, Now You See It and talk about magic and the Ivy League. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the classic DCOM, Phantom of the Megaplex and talk about the current film landscape and how going to the movies has changed.
TW: Suicide. This week Chelsea and Nina are joined by their friend Christian Banda (you can follow him @thatboybanda) to discuss the DCOM classic, The Famous Jett Jackson: The Movie and talk about Lee Thompson Young's life and how important the show and movie were for young black boys. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide please call the National Suicide Hotline: 800-273-8255. Please also consider giving to The Lee Thompson Young Foundation which was created by Lee's parents to raise mental health awareness. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina reviewed the Zendaya suite ending with Zapped and discuss blended families and high school dynamics. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina are covering the Zendaya suite starting with Frenemies, they discuss how they could have made it a better anthology movie and how frenemies doesn't even make sense in this instance. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the first Kim Possible film, A Sitch In Time and talk about how the show meant so much to a generation and women in power.
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the classic DCOM, The Even Stevens Movie and talk about how reality tv has changed since the early aughts and the focus on wealth as well as the black girl luxury movement.
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Camila Belle classic, Rip Girls and talk about identity and friendship.
This week Chelsea and Nina review the highly anticipated sequel to the DCOM classic, High School Musical 2 and talk about its class commentary and how none of Troy's friends are real.
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the finale of the High School Musical suite, Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure and discuss working in entertainment and moving to NYC.
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez classic DCOM, Princess Protection Program and talk about the erasure of Louisiana culture and royalty. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the classic food DCOM, Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off and talk about gendering in language and the rise in foodie culture. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Frankie Muniz classic DCOM, Miracle in Lane 2 and talk about how God can appear as well as sibling relationships. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Chelsea and Nina review the second movie in the Teen Beach canon and discuss tropical high school culture and what this film could have done better. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Surf's Up! This week Chelsea and Nina kick off summer with the beloved DCOM classic, Teen Beach Movie and discuss feminism and why teen/YA media is so dark now. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina reviewed the DCOM classic, Stepsister from Planet Weird, and discuss why these parents moved on so soon and aliens. TW: we discuss disordered eating in this episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week, Chelsea and Nina discuss the Keke Palmer and Corbin Bleu starring DCOM, Jump In! And talk about the black girl lineage of Double Dutch and the films portrayal of Brooklyn. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss The Descendants 3 and how they should have used different musical influences and expanded the characters interior lives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss The Descendants 2, and talk about black women as villains and why Ben and Mal are getting married so young. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Kimberly J. Brown starring DCOM, Quints, and talk about first generation college students and parenting. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the AJ Trauth and LaLaine starring DCOM, You Wish! We discuss Vanessa Carlton's “A Thousand Miles” and the magical negro trope. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the DCOM classic, Tru Confessions and talk about the lack of representation of differently able people and how we need to be doing more in the media. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the DCOM based on the popular animated series, Phineas and Ferb, and talk about kids as inventors and conformity. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
To finish off the Zenon suite, Chelsea and Nina discuss, Zenon: Z3 and critique how Zenon never really fails but how is open to checking her exceptional child privilege. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Continuing with the Zenon Suite with, Chelsea and Nina discuss Zenon: The Zequel, Disney's first ever DCOM sequel, and wonder why no one listens to Zenon by this point. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Ceetus-Lepeedus! This week Chelsea and Nina reviewed the full Zenon suite starting with the original, Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. They discussed how the slang and vernacular are macro well done and how ahead of its time the focus on sustainability was. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Hilary Duff and Christy Carlson Romano classic, Cadet Kelly! We get into children need structure and the military's impact on the US. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week, Chelsea and Nina discuss the classic DCOM spin on Twelfth Night and how father daughter movies tend to solely be about sports. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Happy St. Patrick's Day to celebrate Nina and Chelsea discuss the Ryan Merriman classic DCOM, The Luck of the Irish and how immigrants and identity have been perceived in the past versus now. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week, Chelsea and Nina discussed the classic basketball DCOM, Double Teamed and discuss women in sports, the WNBA and how women can compete for things that aren't the attention of men. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The final installment in The Cheetah Girls suite, Chelsea and Nina discuss The Cheetah Girls 3 and how our Cheetah's have basically become Global Getdown and how this story taking place in India feels like cinematic voyeurism and just a backdrop with no real connection to the girls. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Continuing with The Cheetah Girls suite, Chelsea and Nina discuss, The Cheetah Girls 2 and the erasure of the blackness from the first one and also ask why are they in Barcelona?
The Cheetah Girls suite is here! To kick it off, Chelsea and Nina have assembled a black girl panel with their friends, Lisa and Jasmine to discuss the impact of The Cheetah Girls on culture and their lives, they also get into the colorism that is present in the film and Hollywood at large and how musicians get swindled by record labels through contracts to this day. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina review the Emmy award winning DCOM, The Color of Friendship and discuss apartheid, interracial friendships with a side of politics. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week, Chelsea and Nina discuss the Tyler James Williams, Trevor Jackson and Coco Jones starring DCOM, Let It Shine. They reminisce about 2012 fashions and whether rap is only accepted when it's content is deemed suitable. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina celebrate the Disney classic animated show, The Proud Family by reviewing its series finale, The Proud Family Movie. They discuss how we need more black animated shows and voiceover actors and just how well it was written and related to real life it still is. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Happy Black History Month! To kick it off, Chelsea and Nina review the classic superhero DCOM, Up, Up and Away directed by and starring Robert Townsend and featuring Sherman Hemsley. They discuss the impact of seeing black superhero's for the first time and the joy in having a black movie where being black is a part of it but not the main plot. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
When you woke up this morning did you say today I'm going to talk or did you say today I'm going to skate? This week, Chelsea and Nina review the Erik Von Detten starring classic DCOM, Brink! It made us reminisce on the 90's trends and wonder do the kids even in-line skate anymore? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Ricky Ullman starring, Pixel Perfect and whether it was the predecessor to Ex Machina. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week Chelsea and Nina discuss the Lindsay Lohan and Brenda Song starring DCOM, Get A Clue. This fashionable and fun whodunnit still holds up well today. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app