This week on BFI: I discuss the second Twilight movie: New Moon. I and my guests Lily Steinberg and KeriAnn Eng dive into what two of us contend is the best movie in the series.   Follow the show on social media!   Instagram | TikTok | Letterboxd   Follow on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts!   YouTube | Spotify | Apple   Promotional artwork by Lily Steinberg Logo artwork by Kristen Eng

Director of the Unnamed Footage Fest Madeleine Koestner joins me this week to discuss Nikos Nikolaidis' opus Singapore Sling! The Unnamed Footage Fest runs 3/26-3/31 in San Francisco. Tickets are still available! Check out the Unnamed Footage Fest's website! Get tickets here! Follow the show on social media! Instagram | TikTok | Letterboxd Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes every Friday! Apple | Spotify Promotional Images by Lily Steinberg Logo artwork by Kristen Eng

Surf's up! Recent winner of Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival's Best Production Design and Best First-Time Filmmaker awards Alex Campo returns to the pod to discuss horror master John Carpenter's only sequel: Escape from L.A.! We go deep on Carpenter and how his highest budgeted movie fits within his collaborations with star Kurt Russell and his career as a whole.   Rate, review and follow to keep up with the latest episodes and be sure to watch this episode on YouTube, where new episodes are available a day early every Thursday at 5PM!   Spotify | Apple   Instagram | TikTok | Letterboxd   Get a behind the scenes look at Alex’s award winning short film on his website   Logo artwork by Kristen Eng Promotional artwork by Alex Campo and Lily Steinberg

Welcome to our awards coverage! In the spirit of the arbitrary and sometimes unfair, we've come up with a fun game as we discuss the nominees for this weekend's 96th Oscars!   Watch the video version of this episode here!   Spotify | Apple | YouTube   Instagram | TikTok | Letterboxd   Logo artwork by Kristen Eng Promotional artwork by Lily Steinberg

Jump in this week as we discuss the new Amazon series "Expats," the fifth episode of which screened at Film at Lincoln Center with director Lulu Wang in person. Additionally, Lily and I talk about some of the Valentine's Day-themed programming we went to around the city. Guest: Lily Steinberg Youtube | Instagram | TikTok | Letterboxd Promotional images and social media by Lily Steinberg Logo artwork by Kristen Eng

Photographer and host of the Too Much Dialogue podcast Doyin Ayo makes her debut on Bad First Impression to discuss the 1997 Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown!   Discussion topics include: Is the chemistry between Pam Grier and Robert Forster believable as romantic? Does Tarantino's track record mean he deserves our skepticism that he could write a black woman well? Does Robert DeNiro know he's Doyin's boyfriend? All this, and more!   Make sure to watch this episode on YouTube as well as like, comment and subscribe! Follow us on Instagram and drop us a line at [email protected]! Please rate, review and follow us wherever you get your podcasts, and reach out to us with feedback!   Promotional artwork by Lily Steinberg   Logo artwork by Kristen Eng  

We're back with another new movie: 2024's first major wide release Argylle! But who is the real Agent Argylle? Find out in our spoiler-filled discussion of Matthew Vaughn's flop!   Also discussed this week: 1992's cult artifact The Lawnmower Man. This film screened at the Museum of the Moving Image earlier this month, and we not only watched this movie but also it's sequel Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (alternate subtitle: Jobe's War,) the 1987 Dollar Baby short film adaptation, and the season six episode of Community "Lawnmower Maintenenance and Postnatal Care" that spoofs elements of the 1992 movie. Discussion topics include:    Why has Ariana Debose's career since winning an Oscar consisted of a string of disappointing roles in box office bombs? Why did Matthew Vaughn spoil this movie's twist on Twitter, years before it was shooting? Did the sequel to Lawnmower Man invent the term "jacking off to VR?"   All this and much, much more in the episode!   If you wanna find the audio-only version of this episode, it's available here   Follow the show on social as well! Instagram     TikTok     Letterboxd   Promotional artwork by Lily Steinberg   Logo design by Kristen Eng

YouTuber Evasive returns to Bad First Impression for our first Guest's Choice episode!   Every episode, I end the discussion by asking the guest what movie they would want to come back for if it were ever screening in New York. As luck would have it, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie got a surprise screening, and I made another anime deep dive to prep for this movie.   Make sure to like, comment and subscribe! New episodes are posted to Youtube weekly on Thursday at 5PM EST and published as podcasts the next day. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and give us a follow at the link below!   https://linktr.ee/bfipod   Promotional images and social media by Lily Steinberg   Logo artwork by Kristen Eng

For the first time on Bad First Impression, we’re covering a tv show?!   Film at Lincoln Center showed the new show from Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie in two episode chunks over the last couple months, so we decided to take the unique opportunity and cover the buzzy new show The Curse. But were our plans themselves cursed?   Show producer Lily Steinberg returns to the show to discuss the third addition to Nathan Fielders canon of format and reality breaking tv projects.   Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts at the link below, and be sure to follow the show @bfipod on all socials for announcements and more photoshops!   Catch the video version on YouTube!   https://linktr.ee/bfipod   Social media and promotional images by Lily Steinberg   Logo artwork by Kristen Eng

This week on Bad First Impression, returning guest Alex Campo and I dig deep into a movie that that a startling number of people have a childhood connection to: the 2004 blockbuster Christian exploitation film The Passion of the Christ. After we saw it at the Anthology Film Archives as part of their series "Jesus Christ! At the Movies," we sat down to parse how this movie became an Easter staple in Christian households. Discussion topics include:    Is this a horror film? Does its mere existence as a commercial product constitute blasphemy? Why is this movie apologizing for Pontius Pilate's behavior?