Films That Formed the Tween Collective Unconscious of the Y2K Era

When did you first witness the bedroom eyes of an animated lioness?...

While Hannah Montana had massive impact on kids’ TV overall (how many shows can you name that were centered around kids vying for fame?), we delib...

We’re talking beloved Barbie PC games— specifically Barbie Nail Designer, Barbie Sparkling Ice Show, and Barbie Pet Rescue....

An exploration of one man’s dwindling masculinity in the vein of American Beauty (somehow), 2004’s “The Incredibles” is a crown jewel of Pixar’s g...

Come check into The Atlantis Resort® with America’s favorite twins in “Holiday in the Sun!”...

Oh snap… it’s time for our long-awaited episode on “That’s So Raven!”...

Do you have hazy memories of a young Dorothy Gale being strapped down to a gurney in a psychological institution?...

Hi Barbie! In a Sleepover Cinema first, we’re tackling a current-day release, and the movie gripping the nation— Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.”...

The girls and gays of 2008 had no idea what was coming for them....

The favorite princess of many-a-girlie, Belle is the girl so many of us love to love. But does she really deserve it after all these years?...

The promise of fame, glamor, and brand sponsorships swirled around the phenomenon we now know as the most influential TV show of our time....

If this album had you feeling like your 5th grade breakup was the stuff of R&B ballads, welcome to the club— JoJo was our president....

A timeless classic slowly defiled by its own creators, 1950’s “Cinderella” is a staple of the Disney universe....

“A voice of a generation” doesn’t come along every day....

We couldn’t help but wonder… is the freedom of single womanhood best represented by purchasing designer clothes and ordering take out every night?...

We’re back for season 8 (our Bob The Drag Queen Era) with the critically and culturally acclaimed “Shrek 2.”...

A hit song about your boyfriend picking video games over you... just what we needed as chronically online teenagers, right?...

You know you love her!...

A surprisingly dark coming-of-age drama hiding behind expensive CGI and AnnaSophia Robb, “Bridge to Terabithia” was a heartbreaker… but is it stil...

Hannah and Audrey felt VERY fancy watching Spirited Away— the wine and cheese of children’s media— in the minivan as children....

Back when the world was new and planet Earth was down on its luck… noted boyfriend and RuneScape micro-influencer Josh was hype out of his mind to...

A sparkling, serotonin-pumping portrait of suburban white girl life, Taylor Swift’s sophomore album “Fearless” preceded her status as one of pop c...

Lizzie McGuire is fondly remembered for its funky fashions and relatable plot lines… but was it, dare we say… simply a merchandising opportunity?...

We’re back for a second round of Julie Andrews, complete with unsettling child actors, an army of lanky chimneysweeps, and deeply indulgent musica...

Pitch Perfect” has it all. Childhood bestie and resident a cappella expert Brett Castro joins us to expose NYU a cappella and revel in the joys of...

Superstar guest Mila Tequila joins us to share stories of boy-craziness, being British-adjacent, and of course,  some hot takes on her favorite ...

Avril Lavigne’s 2002 debut album “Let Go” impacted teenage pop culture in a seismic way, representing a glossy alternative to sexy teen idols and ...

The all-encompassing warmth of Queen Latifah and her salon of besties has made “Beauty Shop” a staple of Black feel-good cinema for nearly two dec...

The ruby slippers, the poppy field, the man behind the curtain… who could forget THEEE Wizard of Oz?!...

J*hnny D*pp’s 2005 portrayal of Willy Wonka haunts the minds of our generation for his grey-white skin, the sound of his squeaky purple rubber glo...

Although Disney may have tried to bury the princess energy behind action-packed marketing… the real girlies knew that Tangled *was* for us. But do...

Someone once told us the grass is much greener on the other side, and that someone was total wannabe Ginger Foutley....

The hills ARE, in fact, very alive! We’re starting season seven strong with Audrey’s favorite movie of all time: “The Sound of Music!”...

From its historic 2002 Oscar win to its current status as an only slightly-outdated meme, it’s undeniable: Shrek is love, Shrek is life....

A Hollywood blockbuster quite guilty of unforgivable Jack Black erasure, “The Holiday” is a classic of the genre for some....

A true brain-melter, 2001’s Barbie in The Nutcracker was a straight-to-home-video classic (orrrr extended commercial, depending on who you ask)....

It’s hard to believe that our deepest episode yet (and our 100th!) is inspired by source text written in 1868, and yet… it’s here!...

Samantha Parkington, an arguably overzealous ally to the working class of early 1900s America, is here to denounce child labor (in an outfit that ...

An infamously doomed star vehicle for one Miss Mariah Carey, “Glitter,” released on literal 9/11, was swiftly swept under the rug by audiences, cr...

1937’s “The one that started it all” has it all— singing animals, cinematic and artistic history, and… very unsettling undertones about death and ...

“This is the last time to get it right” as we round out our non-chronological trio of High School Musical episodes....

Perhaps the truest example of art that formed our shared unconscious, “The 10th Kingdom” is a fantasy mini-series that aired on NBC in 2000 (and a...

An icon of non-monogamous representation, John Tucker is the guy every straight girl yearns to date… despite the fact that he seems concretely gay...

Happy Halloween, our little ghosts and ghouls! We’re indulging our sweet tooth in a classic this week....

As the most beloved (and most lucrative) cinematic inside joke of the horror genre, “Scream” set the bar for a generation of scary movie fans....

“Twitches” dares to evoke a world where you’re actually royal in a dystopian fantasy universe… that looks like hell, in a bad way....

Coming to you live from our family vacation, the cousins are reunited to tackle the first film of generation’s most influential franchise (yes, we...

A tale of one massive, kind of gross family utterly derailed by one man’s dedication to football....

Pull out your tiny jorts and your bottles of hard liquor, because this week John Goodman is your daddy....

In celebration of two years of the pod, we’ve put together a spicy little variety show for all of you!...

Can The Trunchbull be rehabilitated? This week we’re asking the big questions....

Oh, to be a GBF in 2013… a deeply unsavory task, it turns out!...

Exploiting a seemingly toxic “friendship” that supported a multi-million dollar media empire, we have “Princess Protection Program.”...

We’re soaring, flying, and fully confessing to the impact of Corbin Bleu’s armpits on our developing psyches with the Good Children podcast!...

In this Christian-flavored coming-of-age story, Terri (Hilary Duff) has a voice that guarantees a highly successful life in the musical spotlight…...

“Perks” shows us that you can be hot, intelligent, and interesting and somehow still live on “the island of misfit toys.”...

SNL’s Taran Killam as a tortured pop star with a missing cell phone? Brenda Song in a parade of eclectic outfits? Pathological lies between best g...

They’re the ONLY girls with a passion for fashion… they’re the Bratz, and they’re here in full low-budget CGI glory....

It turns out that all we need to unite our vicious two-party political system is gay dogs on both sides of the aisle....

Dust off your cruiser bike and your Urban Outfitters record player… we’re going back to 2009 with “500 Days of Summer.”...

A usual suspect of any ABC Family weekend lineup, “Bring It On: All or Nothing” is infamous, and not just for its haunting krumping scene....

We’re busting out the Sam’s Club Mary-Kate and Ashley DVD trio value pack again to talk about 1999’s “Switching Goals!”...

There’s a pretty high chance your memories of this movie feel more like half-recollected (and eerie!) childhood dreams… and for good reason....

Tina Majorino— AKA Deb, the girl with the side ponytail who drinks 1% milk— joins us to talk about this career highlight and much more, even dropp...

Trojan Horsing an extremely beautiful and nuanced story story via an external shell of intergalactic mischief, “Lilo and Stitch” will rip your hea...

In this VERY loose adaptation of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,” our beloved Amanda Bynes is Not Like Other (Freshman) Girls on her college ca...

Kicking off our fifth season, the classic 2006 DCOM “Read It and Weep” asks the essential question: what would YOU do if your incredibly shady, sl...

If you haven’t been emotionally ravaged by 1997’s “Titanic” in someone’s basement, have you really lived?...

A movie whose misaligned marketing was nearly as lethal as its main character, 2009’s “Jennifer’s Body” has earned cult classic status for bisexua...

Buried deep in air-conditioned basements across the US, there are thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of copies of 2002’s “Barbie as Rapunzel...

Tibby, Carmen, Bridget, and Lena are here to further stretch out their beloved pair of jeans, and our concept of what a "functional" friend group ...

Amy Heckerling’s 1995 dreamscape “Clueless” is a movie we’ve both seen dozens of times, and to the great benefit of our creative spirits....

A Too Hot James Marsden, whitewashed depictions of the American South, and of course, a heartbreaking (manipulative?) framing device featuring the...

As one of the dustiest and deeply unvisited relics of our childhood, 1994’s The Swan Princess is one we were very eager to return to....

A surprisingly specific film to be the most successful romcom of our time, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” made us feel soooo grown up when we first sa...

While it’s not as gay as we want it to be, we all still love 2002’s live action adaptation of the cartoon classic, “Scooby Doo.”...

Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz… Bill Murray? You already know it... it's 2000’s “Charlie’s Angels.”...

A plucky red-headed girl orphan saves the day once again… but this time, in Paris, AND with Frances McDormand!...

Is this the story of a liberal NYC mother-and-daughter’s totally unprompted radicalization? Or is this a very subtle, tongue-in-cheek, subtext-hea...

A haunting piece of Sleepover Cinema’s “collective unconscious,” 1994’s “Thumbelina” is a much-pondered gem of our canon....

A decidedly adult-centric tale centered around the romantic exploits of an artist and his dastardly… fine art dealer?...

Another timeless classic from The Wonderful World of Disney, “Eloise at Christmastime” has everything we need....

In a post-High School Musical world, Disney Channel had a lot to live up to....

We’re kicking off season four of Sleepover Cinema with true classic: 2003’s What A Girl Wants starring Amanda Bynes....

Yes, we’re on our between-season break, BUT we needed to just pop in for a sec!!!...

With an absolutely divine ensemble cast, 1960’s-flavored bops, and a surprisingly tender performance by one John Travolta, 2007’s Hairspray is an ...

As the sole film (perhaps!) responsible for the movie musical renaissance of the mid 000s, 2002’s Chicago is THE overachiever of its genre and tim...

Drag queens love it for a reason!...

The first R-rated many of us dared to see, star-studded with nearly every villain from the Harry Potter franchise, this one is for the emo theatre...

If you did youth theatre in the mid-000s (and especially if you considered yourself edgy), you already know it well— 2005’s RENT....

With the holy warmth of Ms. Audra McDonald and a character canonically referred to as “daddy,” 1999’s Annie is made-for-TV perfection....

We’re celebrating the end of summer with a quick trip to Lava Springs Country Club....

Our musical mini-season kicks off to a melodramatic start with 2004’s “The Phantom of the Opera." Turn your face away from the garish light of day...

We talk best and worst movies upon rewatch, answer juicy listener questions, and debate whether or not we had the 90s Barbie airplane as children....

Emma Stone was THAT GIRL for young millennials, and there’s perhaps no better example of her It-ness than 2010’s “Easy A.”...

You know every line, whether you like it or not. It’s finally time for 2004’s “Mean Girls” to take center stage on Sleepover Cinema....

Featuring multiple instances of vigilante justice, and what turns out to be a not-so-subtle allegory for the prison industrial complex, Holes does...

Now, we aren’t normally here for sports movies… but for 2002’s “Bend It Like Beckham,” we’ll make an exception....

With a Mandy Moore filled with righteous fury, problematic wheelchair usage, and just a sprinkling of gay nonsense, “Saved!” absolutely reeks of 2...

This movie has made an indelible mark on the world of cozy girls’ night movies (almost as much as the color cerulean in trickle-down fashion philo...

2007’s “Enchanted” signaled the beginning of polarizing era of Disney content: the reign of the “self-aware” princess....

In a Sleepover Cinema first, 2007’s “Juno” is an indie critical darling documenting the unplanned pregnancy of a precocious sixteen year old....

With camp-based hijinks, a solid A on the Bechdel Test, and just a sprinkle of comp het, this movie won the hearts of millions....

Was mom awareness of the feminism inherent in the blonde bimbo trope explored in 2001’s “Legally Blonde?”...

2001’s “Legally Blonde" was first shown to us by our mom one fateful evening in approximately 2004....

With a sad adult Mark Ruffalo and seemingly the biggest soundtrack budget in film history, there’s much to discuss, and that, we do....

It ain’t about how fast I get there, it ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side… it’s 2009’s “Hannah Montana: The Movie.”...

2004’s “Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper” is part gripping cinema, part ubiquitous basement background noise for a generation....

Double dutch, wildly unsubtle use of stunt doubles, and rated-G discussions of toxic masculinity in tact… what do we think?...

2003’s “School of Rock” may be the most ubiquitously adored film of our generation....

Relentlessly flawless fashion, the magic of a tween Lindsay Lohan, AND Y2K proto-video chats? 2002’s “Get A Clue” has it all....

Hate them cause they’re beautiful? Well, they don’t like you either....

Mary-Kate and Ashley take New York City with diametrically-opposed personalities and personal styles… this should be the movie of a generation, no...

Close your eyes and imagine: it’s November 2009. You’re standing in a suburban movie theatre with “Team Edward” emblazoned across your chest....

A critical influence on basic girls’ study abroad trips fo generations to come, The Cheetah Girls 2 is a blazer-and-tank-tops-filled romp through ...

Pitting two killer teen classics against each other is not a game for the faint of heart— especially 1989’s “Heathers” and 1996’s “The Craft.”...

Despite its being plagued by low-budget animation, plot holes, and critical disdain, Audrey and Hannah may have seen this movie even more times th...

2004’s “Ella Enchanted,” while a prime byproduct of the Shrek Industrial Complex of the early 2000s, is in retrospect a rare breed....

Is this movie the understated exploration of queer identity that we want it to be?...

A critically-misunderstood movie ceaselessly packed with clichés, hijinks, and cute boys, “Sleepover” is, according to the Leach sisters, a perspe...

2006’s “Aquamarine.” Where do we begin? An inspiration. A vision. A fount of creative energy....

2001’s “Josie and the Pussycats” suffered from a classic case of misaligned marketing— and while this movie was certainly NOT made for kids, the i...

2008’s “The Clique” and 2007’s "Bratz” SHOULD have been huge hits, considering that they were products of some of the most popular intellectual pr...

Who didn’t want to see their favorite everywoman swept into a highly-fantastical scenario involving Italian pop stars, couture, AND being the cent...

2006 was clearly a time full of growing pains for women in pop culture, as told by two ENTIRELY SEPARATE tween-targeted movies centering around th...

Featuring baby Chris Pine, painful jokes about a wooden leg, and an only-somewhat justifiable autotuned duet between Dame Julie Andrews and Raven ...

With lots of visible breath in cold air, plenty of Zamboni shots, and of course, GREAT sparkling leotards, does this movie live up to the ladies’ ...

In 2000’s cult classic “Life Size,” we were surprised to rediscover under-discussed successful witchcraft, visible traumatization of an eleven-yea...

The female-fronted band of your dreams, a middle-aged makeover montage, and genuinely compelling chemistry between a teen heartthrob and someone o...

What do two all-American tweens do the city of lights? Diplomatically finesse a revamp of the aqueduct system of Paris, apparently....

There are few made-for-TV spectaculars as egregiously underrated....

Not to be dramatic, but 2001’s “The Princess Diaries” is a movie so close to our hearts that it’s almost impossible to interpret it as art....

Does it stand the test of time? Short answer... no....

2003’s Uptown Girls starring Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning would be nothing without its complicated female characters...

2003’s The Cheetah Girls marked the beginning of the iconic Disney Channel movie musical era— one that Hannah and Audrey grew up in the thick of....

Featuring an offscreen hookup with a camp counselor, terminal illness in suburbia, a Grecian vacation, AND an emotional breakdown in a bridal shop...

2004's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen has everything one could ever want: fantasy sequences, impeccable costumes, AND a mean girl played by ...

Welcome to Sleepover Cinema, where we analyze the films that created the collective unconscious of the girls, gays, and girl-gays of the late 90s ...