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PODCAST

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew

Laura Valenza & Isabelle Lang

Welcome to the Silver Nitrate Witches’ Movie Review Brew. We’re here to explore the way we review movies! From experienced critics to posts from casual viewers, we want to talk about how we talk about movies, how that’s changed over time, what directions we see it going in, and more.

tv & film film reviews

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24:45

Sleeping Draught #1: Educating Rita (1983)

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/06/25

This week we don’t have a whole witches’ brew, but just a little sleeping draught for you: a minisode looking into the Siskel & Ebert reception of the 1983 film Educating Rita, with one of your Silver Nitrate Witches, Isabelle Lang. Let’s talk education as granting choice, alcoholic academics, and our shared annoyance with Roger Ebert’s thoughts on literature movies.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303

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91:16

Dead Poets Society (1989)

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/06/18

This episode, your Silver Nitrate Witches head off to boarding school, despite Laura's protests that they're super scary, and take a look at the reception to the 1989 Robin Williams movie that's not quite a Robin Williams movie, Dead Poets Society. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

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128:46

Legally Blonde (2001)

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/06/12

Your Silver Nitrate Witches (Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang) are brewing pink potions with a touch of peroxide this week. The competition for dye jobs and law jobs proves steep at Harvard where we're rooting for Elle Woods to succeed in Legally Blonde (2001). We cover women's empowerment and sisterhood, the early 2000s and their weird obsession with dumb blonde jokes, and contemporary fascism. Plus, ChatGPT helps us recreate MGM's "The Blonde Translator."You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on

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1:50

Season 2: Summer School Grimoire Announcement

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/06/05

Welcome to the Silver Nitrate Witches’ Movie Review Brew. Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang explore the way we review movies! From experienced critics to posts from casual viewers, we want to talk about how we talk about movies, how that’s changed over time, what directions we see it going in, and more. Announcing the theme of Season 2!

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75:40

Potion Vial #1: The Edisode

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/05/28

Did you ever wonder how Hollywood came to be? Did you ever wonder how Thomas Edison was a part of that? Did you even know there was a connection there? We did! The Silver Nitrate Witches give you a special episode today on how Hollywood was almost New Jersey. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

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67:21

Salt of the Earth (1954), Part 3

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/05/21

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches travel to New Mexico to explore the reviews and reception of Salt of the Earth (1954), a film based on the historic 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company. This three-part series has everything: communists, Catholic newspapers, feminism, deportation, and even a prison full of women chanting “We want bathrooms!”You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out

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79:05

Salt of the Earth (1954), Part 2

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/05/14

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches travel to New Mexico to explore the reviews and reception of Salt of the Earth (1954), a film based on the historic 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company. This three-part series (whoops, it got longer!) has everything: communists, Catholic newspapers, feminism, deportation, and even a prison full of women chanting “We want bathrooms!”You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and

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95:22

In This Our Life (1942)

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/05/07

Today, the Silver Nitrate Witches pay homage to the baddest Head Bitch In Charge, Bette Davis, exploring the reviews and reception of In This Our Life (1942). The fall of the decadent South meets a fiery end, with lots of tragic turns on the highway to hell, piloted there by the monster femme fatale herself.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at

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75:33

Salt of the Earth (1954), Part 1

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/05/01

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches travel to New Mexico to explore the reviews and reception of Salt of the Earth (1954), a film based on the historic 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company. This two-part series has everything: communists, Catholic newspapers, feminism, deportation, and even a prison full of women chanting “We want bathrooms!”You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out

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99:46

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/04/23

The Silver Nitrate Witches attend a show by Lady Lou in the Bowery this week, exploring the reviews and reception of the film She Done Him Wrong (1933), starring Mae West and Cary Grant. From critics body-checking the leading lady to a history of the beer growler, of all things, this episode transports us to a pre-Code Hollywood salacious story.You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more

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94:02

Grand Hotel (1932)

The Silver Nitrate Witches" Movie Review Brew ·

2025/04/13

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches check in at the Grand Hotel (1932) to explore the reviews and reception around a film with one of the most star-studded casts of the era. We look at the predictions of catty leading ladies, the censorship of Joan Crawford, and even how technology like the typewriter and switchboard liberated women, both economically and in other ways…You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303

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