In 2023, Screen Cares co-hosts Sarah & Jennie got to sit down with writer-director Lagueria Davis to discuss her creative process and vision in making the fantastic film Black Barbie. In case you missed the episode before, we thought we'd release it again so that you can be sure to learn more about Davis' hard work and vision for this important fil…

Screen Cares' co-hosts, Jennie and Sarah, discuss how a movie can become a cinematic portrayal of how movies can grow with a viewer over time. The story of the four March sisters has held a place in the hearts of readers since Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women more that 150 years ago. Their story entered into Jennie’s heart at the age of nine wh…

What does the punk band, The Descendents, folk musician and activist Malvina Reynolds' song "Little Boxes" and the 1998 movie, Pleasantville, have in common? They all spark a conversation about finding your place in a world that feels like it squashes personhood and originality. Screen Cares hosts, Sarah & Jennie, discuss how a move to the dreaded …

Screen Cares hosts, Sarah & Jennie invite listeners to join them for an emotional conversation about how love can fuel both grief and healing. Jennie uses the movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) to process the loss of her sixteen-year-old dog, Epona. We discover that there's room for laughter even during the saddest of times, and that movies can…

Screen Cares hosts, Sarah & Jennie, received a listener question for this week's episode: "My children care about inclusivity and equity but express that they aren't sure if their individual efforts matter, and express that it's hard to always keep up the 'good fight' against hatred. Is there a film that I could show my children that could demonstr…

Happy Halloween! It's the final episode of Screen Cares' special October series, Screen Scares. This week, we're highlighting a horror film by the incredible writer and director, Jennifer Kent. Sarah believes Kent's film, The Babadook (2014), shows us that we can close the loop and find resolution even when things feel dark and difficult. Jennie sa…

As a child, the idea that a boy mouse can save the world from witches seems empowering and plausible, while the specter of being trapped in a painting-never to experience life- presents a greater threat. As an adult, fears change to those of a caretaker sheltering the fragility of our children. This Screen Scares episode looks at how fear can be pl…

After covering the 54th Nashville Film Festival for Screen Cares, Sarah considers a comment a frenemy said about these types of events: "Film festivals are just fancy parties and pats on the back." Sarah reflects on the dozens of film festivals she's attended and on the authentic conversations she was grateful to have with festival attendees, indus…

Screen Scares Month is here for the 2nd installment of this special series. Today, Screen Cares co-hosts, Sarah and Jennie, discuss a movie that’s not an easy watch. It’s bloody, violent and scary, but instead of giving a subtle instruction in healing, the horror film Cobweb (2023), demonstrates the tenuous and dangerous nature of keeping your deep…

The lines between life and art blur when Screen Scares co-hosts Jennie and Sarah look back at the totally terrifying, possibly cursed, and definitely problematic legacy of Tobe Hooper/ Steven Spielberg's horror classic Poltergeist (1982). The movie pushed and defined the limits of the MPA ratings system, and left generations of viewers asking thems…

Screen Cares co-hosts, Sarah and Jennie, were thrilled to have a chance to talk with Lagueria Davis, writer-director of the fantastic new film, Black Barbie: A Documentary. Listen in on our conversation for her insights about how her aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell, played a pivotal role in the eventual development and design of the first Black Barbie do…

It's a rare thing to have the opportunity to experience a coming-of-age story about an octogenarian, but the Screen Cares team got to do just that when screening Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive at the 54th Nashville Film Festival. Listen to this special reading of the reflection that our Screen Cares co-host, Jennie, wrote after seeing this wonderful…

It’s spooky season, but where is Screen Scares?! You, know, the fall-favorite that we all love, even as much as we love pumpkin-flavored everything? Screen Scares 2023 will launch NEXT week on Tuesday, October 11, but that doesn’t mean we’ve ghosted you. We’ve got press credentials to cover the Nashville Film Festival from September 28-October 4! W…

Screen Cares co-hosts and best buds, Jennie and Sarah, love the fall season and can't wait to bring you another season of Screen Scares during the month of October! This contemplative and cozy season offers one of the best times to watch movies together; from the spooky, terrifying, campy, silly and grotesque! Join us during the month of October fo…

Making Memories with Dad Screen Movies: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? & Guardians of the Galaxy We couldn’t let Season Two of Screen Cares conclude without dropping a fun Father’s Day episode in your podcast feeds. And also, the guilt from Sarah’s Dad would have been too much. Father’s Day may be outspent and out-carnationed by Mother’s Day, but that…

Our listeners are diverse! Some listeners love football. Some love basketball, others prefer baseball, soccer, wrestling, NASCAR, golf or tennis! And others still, love the knock-down sport of ROLLER DERBY! It’s PRIDE month and Sarah & Jennie chat about how Whip It (2009) highlights not just a badass game but also demonstrates how one facet of our …

Jennie rounds out her movie picks for season two of Screen Cares with the 1999 film Man on the Moon. She and Sarah delve into the themes of performance, authenticity, truth, and empathy that have emerged throughout the course of the season through their discussions of various movies. The late comedian and performance artist Andy Kaufman, played by …

Arming Ourselves With Poetry, Film & Discussion on Memorial Day: 1917 Memorial Day is here. Sarah and Jennie urge Screen Cares listeners to respect the extraordinary bravery and sacrifice of all armed forces and their families by choosing to seek civil discourse rather than looking for an enemy among us. By thoughtfully screening 1917, we are remin…

Growing Up With the March Sisters: Little Women (1994) The story of the four March sisters has held a place in the hearts of readers ever since Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women more that 150 years ago. Their story entered into Screen Cares host Jennie’s heart at the age of nine when she and her mother saw the 1994 adaptation Little Women. In th…

Last week, we discussed movie moms we'd like to befriend at an imaginary Mother's Day brunch. Now that the dirty dishes are in the sink and the collective haze of mimosas and caffeine are behind us, we're ready to talk about the moms that we would not invite. These moms are not the baddest of the bad- murdering moms need not apply-, but these moms …

With Mother’s Day just around the corner we’re asking ourselves what it means to be a mom, and what kind of mom-friends we appreciate having in our lives, in this special double feature discussion. Instead of going to the playground, Screen Cares Co-Hosts Jennie and Sarah go to the movies to find their favorite movie moms to invite to a pretend Mot…

The Pain is All In Your Head: Rye Lane In this week’s special episode, Jennie texted Sarah with a request for a cinematic salve to help cope with the challenge of living with chronic pain. Instead of focusing on conquering pain, Screen Cares co-hosts dive into the 2023 Sundance Film Festival favorite, Rye Lane, and how vibrance, quirkiness, and wil…

Screen Cares co-hosts Jennie and Sarah use the power of movies to help parents navigate the fears that may arise as their babies hit the road in a world that can sometimes feel like the Wild West. When Sarah asked Jennie to find a movie to help guide the conversation, Jennie went off trail and picked a movie with no actual cars, but lots of horsepo…

It’s frustrating when an injury or illness interrupts a personal goal, especially when you feel that you’ve “let yourself go” and failed to meet your own personal expectations. Sarah tackles the big “b” (body image) in this episode of Screen Cares, and shares how Sundance Film Festival Audience Award: US Dramatic winner, Brittany Runs a Marathon (2…

It's the birds, it's the creepy characters, NO it's the fear of losing the ones you love! Jennie leads Sarah through the experience of watching The Birds (1962) during a special family movie night on her father Jim's birthday. The Screen Cares hosts unpack all the ways the film can bring us together through shared fears and how the film highlights …

Sarah and her family make a big decision from her nightmares…a move to the ‘burbs. As a self-proclaimed “weirdo” and non-conformist, Sarah and Screen Cares co-host, Jennie, work through a fun watch of Pleasantville (1998) - IMDb in the hopes of finding peace with living in a neighborhood where everything is the same. Instead of focusing on the film…

Maybe Hannah Gadsby's Nanette isn't quite a movie, but Screen Cares host Jennie finds value in bringing the Netflix comedy special to the table to give context to her approach to viewing creative works and her own personal attempts to grow in her authenticity and vulnerability. Co-host Sarah helps make personal connections related to growing up in …

Isolation can be crushing, whether from geographical restraints (like if you live on a tiny fictional island off of the coast of Ireland like this week’s movie characters, Colm and Padraic, or if you live too far from loved ones), psychological (if you don’t look beyond the normal initial first impressions of people you meet and get stuck in this o…

Jennie outs herself as a life-long Elvis enthusiast in the name of drawing out deep life lessons from Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar nominated biopic Elvis (2022). Sarah and Jennie discuss how the film reveals truths about how we engage with ourselves and the world around us through three main musically-inspired themes: Return to Sender, Devil in Disguise, a…

While hosts Sarah and Jennie have always promised that Screen Cares isn’t just another movie podcast that provides lists and critique, the upcoming 95th Academy Awards Ceremony is the “elephant in the room” for a podcast that is centered on cinema. Jennie and Sarah share their experience with the Oscars and explore ways to make deeper connections u…

Episode Transcript In anticipation of Oscar season, we’re re-releasing a favorite from Screen Cares season one. Whiplash (2014) won 6 of the 14 Oscars it was nominated for, and continues to rivet viewers with the intense portrayal of music culture. Sarah sat down with her sister, a real professional percussionist, to gain unique and special insight…

At Screen Cares we're serious about never letting go- way more than Rose anyway. So serious that we're re-releasing in honor of a re-release...the 25th Anniversary re-release of Titanic (1997), that is. Jennie and Sarah are lifting episode 6 out of the frigid waters of Screen Cares Season 1. This time, they're adding a heart-warming special introdu…

Want to know what Ray Romano, puppy love, and choosing a movie to watch for Valentine's Day all have in common? Find out by joining Screen Cares hosts Sarah and Jennie as they kick off Season 2 with a surprise discussion about the movies that make their hearts happy. Jennie explores the importance of simple romance by highlighting an animated class…

In this special bonus episode of Screen Cares, hosts Jennie and Sarah reflect on their first season of the podcast, and give thanks to all of the people in their lives who have made this creative process possible. Fifteen movies and many hours of conversation, work, and sharing have played out this inaugural season and now it’s time to press pause …

During our last episode of Season One, Sarah introduces the Academy Award winning movie, CODA (2021) as an engaging, meaningful way to end a successful Screen Cares season and to start a new season of holidays and restoration. Sarah & Jennie discuss how movies like CODA (2021) are vital additions to your watchlist not only because of the stellar pe…

Jennie and Sarah snuggle up under one big existential blanket this week and get the ball rolling in a conversation about what the movie I ❤️ Huckabees (2004) can show us about the importance of avoiding extremes, embracing everyone’s process, and writing love into our own self-narratives. Listen to this quirky conversation about an even quirkier mo…

Jennie and Sarah transition out of Screen Scares month and back into their classic Screen Cares episodes with warm and accepting discussion of the witchy 90’s classic Practical Magic. Jennie leads the discussion through the themes of fate, family history, and ultimately the power of self-belief. Co-host Sarah advances the conversation with thoughtf…

In a special surprise final installment of Screen Scares, hosts Sarah and Jennie discuss why watching the new movie, Barbarian (2022), while staying at an Airbnb that resembles the movie’s primary setting was a terrifying but awesome vacation choice. They also chat about the deeper implications of Barbarian (2022) and why a sliding moral scale is h…

To close out our special Screen Scares series, host Sarah and co-host Jennie spark a conversation about the most scary concept of all: losing our humanity. While zombies are scary, especially zombies in Train to Busan (2016), the terror of living in a society devoid of compassion, community and connection is even more frightening. For those who are…

Delve into the darkest Screen Scares episode yet, as co-hosts Jennie and Sarah step into the labyrinth that is the Stanley Kubrick classic, The Shining (1980). Host Jennie reflects on the significance of the film in her life and the life of her father. She and Sarah examine how isolation and fear can be overcome when honesty and connection are embr…

In our second installment of Screen Scares, host Sarah describes how the brilliantly detailed writer and director of The Witch (2015), Robert Eggers, created a world that was terrifying for its inhabitants and audience because it presented a reality as it was without Hollywood embellishments. Co-host Jennie lends her on-brand astute insight and per…

Jennie and Sarah take listeners away into a discussion of magic, innocence and what makes witches scary. In the first of four special Screen Scares episodes made for October, Screen Cares co-hosts explore why the 1993 Halloween film favorite Hocus Pocus reveals deeper truths about how innocence and evil intersect in insidious ways. Listeners are in…

Episode Transcript Sarah sparks the conversation with Jennie for this week’s Screen Cares episode, and it’s her most personal one yet. She shares how Pixar’s Up (2009) inspired her terminally ill mother’s deepest hope that her beloved husband and family would choose new adventures, even after she was gone. This episode is dedicated to Debbie and Ar…

Screen Cares presents a new way to watch and be scared better together during the year's darkest months with a special month of Screen SCARES episodes. Each week of October, co-hosts Sarah and Jennie bring listeners a different thoughtful conversations about scary movies and the ways they bring us together and frighten us. You don't want to be left…

Episode Transcript Screen Cares host Jennie describes how seeing the record-making blockbuster Titanic (1997) 5+ times in theaters with her mom, when she was younger, shaped her appreciation of film, material culture, and the importance of embracing our role in Humanity. Co-host Sarah asks illuminating questions that help the Screen Cares team reve…

Episode Transcript As a culture, we admire those who come from modest means and through a rare recipe of natural talent and dedicated training, become the best in their fields. We love success. We want success. We want our children to achieve success. Yet, what is success? Over the last few years, more and more research has offered cautionary tales…

Episode Transcript Screen Cares host Jennie takes listeners and co-host Sarah somewhere over the rainbow through a conversation about the power of movies to help viewers escape while simultaneously connecting them more deeply with what it means to be truly home. The Wizard of Oz (1939) was a formative film in Jennie’s early life because it was one …

It's time for what Screen Cares co-host, Sarah calls "a thinking movie", and to that end, discusses how Captain Fantastic (2016) offers a lens through which to consider less conventional modes of education to her children, and encouraged her to parent with agility to meet her kids where they are. Lastly, this fantastic film dig into the theme of li…

Episode Transcript Screen Cares episode co-host Jennie walks listeners and co-host Sarah through her own headquarters in a discussion of the Pixar classic Inside Out. Screen Cares hosts share the impact of the film in their roles as mothers, partners, and people and explore how the Inside Out can be used as a tool to broaden the social and emotiona…

Episode Transcript Screen Cares co-hosts lead our listeners through a special co-hosted episode recorded on fresh after a live-screening of the film at the Music Box Theater in Chicago! Together Screen Cares hosts introduce listeners to the dynamic if sometimes questionable characters in the film and discuss how the Worst Person in the World (2016)…