Film School Professionals

Brand new year, brand new syllabus, students! Welcome to the Great Before!

And by Great Before, we mean the movies that should have had beautiful, joyful theatrical releases during the massive, miserable void that was 2020.

Malu and Katie, your favorite professors, decide to start from the very end in order to revel in some Pixar magic. We're covering Pete Docter and Kemp Powers' Soul! Malu gushes about the lush and creative animation as well as the peculiar science that is animating light. Katie agrees. Then goes face to face with a diabolical game. 

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat0

Buckle up, class, we're talkin' sex, spies, and style in two of the horniest films about espionage ever made!

Professors Katie and Malu welcome writer and audio producer Daniel Gonzalez (@slowreaders) of the Slow Readers podcast to get itchy with Ritchie and all red, son, with Alfredson! Daniel brings Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) and Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) to the table. Tangents galore, codenames, and general thirst ensues.

It was the war, students.

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Just kidding! The Film School Professionals shock you again by having one more Holiday Season Intensive class, and boy is it a doozy!

Professors Malu and Katie examine the merriness and cheer of two brand spanking new holiday films! They sing and dance along with David Talbert's Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey! Malu says "Ricky Martin" so authentically that it temporarily drives Katie insane! Then your imbibing instructors launch a full scale attack on Clea DuVall's Happiest Season! Katie unleashes her venom on Kristen Stewart! And finally, your tenacious teachers play some full contact Alan Smithee Game.

It's real can't-stop-won't-stop energy up in here, students.

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Happy New Year, estudiantes! It's the end of this semester as well as your Holiday Season Intensive. Hope you're ready for finals...

Professors Katie and Malu wrap up your Holiday Season Intensive course by diving headlong into Malu's passion: Animation! Strap in for lengthy analysis on frame rate, the Uncanny Valley, and loving Jason Schwartzman (as we all should). In today's class, we break down 1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas (dir: Bill Melendez), 2004's The Polar Express (dir: Robert Zemeckis), and finally, some lame 2019 straight-to-Netflix FOREIGN movie called Klaus (dir: Sergio Pablos)! 

(Just kidding. Klaus is so damn good.)

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

SANTA'S HERE! And that makes Malu seethe...

Your Holiday Season Intensive continues, dear estudiantes, as Professors Katie and Malu explore the lighter side of Christmas! They break down the tropes and the jokes of 2003's Elf (Dir: Jon Favreau) and 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Dir: Ron Howard)! You'll learn all sorts of important film school techniques like Google Searching Zooey Deschanel's Real Hair Color and Practical Is Always Better Than CGI, Duh! Then a game about Whos on Firsts.

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Merry merry, students! Your favorite Professors Malu and Katie are back to get black-and-white classic festive with your soft sponge-like film school freshmen brains! The profs dive into two seminal Christmas films: Michael Curtiz's White Christmas (1954) and Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life (1946)! Guess which one they liked better?

Hint: It's the one without blackface. Yeesh.

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

With any luck, by next year...

Yup. Professors Katie and Malu are here to bring you all that holiday cheer by comparing interlocking plots! The Professionals teach you all about Nancy Meyers' The Holiday (2006) and Richard Curtis' Love Actually (2003).

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

What we are doing is having a game of show and tell. Your professors are telling you everything and showing you nothing but scorn, you part eggplant.

Professors Malu and Katie bring in special guest Christian Tavares to discuss a movie he has chosen: 1993's True Romance, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino! Yes. It is time to discuss QT, albeit not one of his movie movies. 

Hope you like Elvis, the male gaze, and lengthy sex scenes.

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

You'll be having what they're having after you hear this episode, because the Film School Professionals will make you meow...

AP Film's celebration of the Queen of the Rom-Com, Nora Ephron, concludes with the best rom-com ever made: 1989's When Harry Met Sally! Professors Katie and Malu dive deep into Meg Ryan's hair, crushing on Billy Crystal, and play a real game about fake movies.

And guess what! There's little to no fighting this episode! How could they? You can't dethrone Nora Ephron and Rob Reiner's masterpiece! You come for the king, you best not miss.

Baby fish mouth! See you all next syllabus!

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Coming soon, Fox Book Superstore, where we lie, obfuscate, and manipulate,  all to get you to fall in love with us!

Your fall semester Nora Ephron deep dive continues! Professors Malu and Katie shell for AOL this week by discussing 1998's You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and surprise surprise Meg Ryan! Turns out, it's not cheating if your significant other is terrible! Your wily instructors discuss bookstores, TLC, and whether or not Joe actually deserves Kathleen!

(He doesn't.)

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Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY

Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals

Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles

Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat