Your Silver Nitrate Witches are taking a break for the holiday this weekend, but we'll be back with more mini episodes next week. Plus, we'll be announcing our third Grimoire (aka Season 3) and returning to full-length episodes soon. Stay witchy. And keep watching movies.

This week, the Silver Nitrate Witches pause talking about HOW we talk about movies, and instead Isabelle tells Laura all about WHERE movies get filmed, in this special Potion episode about on-location filming projects.

You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks so much to Fine Motor for the use of their songs "Highway Moon" and "Movie." You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

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Join your Silver Nitrate Witches on Fraternity Row this week as we explore National Lampoon's Animal House, college in the 60s, and the National Lampoon itself.

You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their songs "Highway Moon" and "Movie." You can check out more about the band at finemotormusic.com. Thanks for listening, stay witchy, and keep watching movies.

Forrester? Where are you? This week, your host witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, are Finding Forrester, with its epic cast comprised of Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, and starring Rob Brown in his debut role. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their songs "Highway Moon" and "Movie." Learn more about the band at finemotormusic.com.

This week, your host witches, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, head back to middle school to take a lesson from the goofy god of rock himself, Jack Black. You can find your Silver Nitrate Witches on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. Thanks to Fine Motor for the use of their songs "Highway Moon" and "Movie." You can find out more about the band at finemotormusic.com.

Your Silver Nitrate Witches don't miss a beat in this episode on Damien Chazelle's iconic jazz world movie from the 2010s, starring Miles Teller and JK Simmons. We cover what it means to be an artist, if success and ambition are gendered, homophobia and racial representation, and whether movies need to have clear morals and likeable characters (hint, hint: they don't!).

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.

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, Laura Valenza and Isabelle Lang, on various online platforms @ljvalenza and @bellang303. You can check out more about Fine Motor at finemotormusic.com.

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."

BTW, the Yale professor who was interviewed on American Hysteria and has some great books on understanding fascism? His name's Jason Stanley.

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.