Cinema Therapy

She's beauty and she's grace, but she's also a witch, a sister, a mother, an ambitious law student, a survivor, and so much more. She's Sandra Bullock! Tonya, a spatial data scientist, military veteran, and movie lover joins this episode of Cinema Therapy to convert Nicole and Karen into Sandra Bullock devotees. Episode 37 explores and revisits classic Sandra Bullock films such as A Time to Kill, Practical Magic, and Birdbox. Do you believe in Sandy?Please Subscribe, Rate and Review!Follow Cinema Therapy on Instagram: @CinemaTherapyShow

Pride 2020 is here, time to celebrate Cinema Therapy style! Episode 36 covers several groundbreaking films portraying the LGBTQ+ community, including Paris is Burning, The Queen, But I’m a Cheerleader, and Pariah. Movie buff, Witch, and Playwright Maxwel Martinez graces us as our special guest! Please Subscribe, Rate, and Review! Follow us on Instagram @cinematherapyshow

This week we are celebrating Black joy! After nearly four seasons of Insecure, we've watched a cast of diverse Black characters navigate romantic relationships, friendships, family, career, self love and growth! Guests Joy Anderson and Kevin Coleman bless Episode 35 of CINEMA THERAPY to discuss Season 4 of Insecure. Is Molly and Issa's friendship on its breaking point? Are you Team Lawrence or Team Nathan? Tune into CINEMA THERAPY today to prep yourself for Insecure 's Season 4 finale and to learn more sources of BLACK JOY in television and film. Please Subscribe, Rate and Review!Follow Cinema Therapy on Instagram: @CinemaTherapyShow

Whether it’s the music that tugs at our heartstrings, the inspiration from seeing dreamers of any and all ages follow their passions, the pain of witnessing the loss of a loved one, or simply the sensation that is the ups and downs of life-the magic of Disney’s Pixar encapsulates it all, and it makes us cry! Episode 34 gets opens us up to talk about our feelings with films UP, INSIDE OUT, and ONWARD. Media producer Will Salvi joins as a guest on this episode of Cinema Therapy!

Leave your guns and take your cannolis - Cinema Therapy has invested 9+ hours to the Italian Mafia! This week, Nicole and Karen discuss iconic films The Godfather, The Godfather: Part ll, and Goodfellas. Guests Micah Kanters and Tiye Kinlow join us as we weigh our personal philosophies against the Corleone family values. Tune in, this episode is an “offer you can’t refuse.” Rate, Subscribe and Review! Follow @cinematherapyshow on Instagram and Facebook!

Has the Coronavirus era made a cook out of you? Your Cinema Therapy co-hosts are making themselves home in the kitchen and turning to food-related media to make sense of it all! Join us as we dive into the film Julie & Julia, the documentary series Cooked, and the documentary series Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Hunter Zuli, chef, educator, community organizer and founder of BLK PALATE, is our guest for this episode and shares how their Haitian and Congolese origins cultivated their love of food! Please Subscribe, Rate, and Review! Instagram: @cinematherapyshow

Cinema Therapy is closing out Women's History Month by shining a light on the women of the acclaimed drama series, Mad Men. Peggy, Joan, Betty and the other women of Mad Men know a thing or two about navigating uncertain times with wile and charm. Nicole and Karen come together via video chat to share how this time has affected their everyday life and why we need the escapism and comfort of T.V. and film more than ever. Rate and Subscribe! Follow @cinematherapyshow on Instagram

After wrapping up Valentine's Day love is is in the Air at Cinema Therapy! As they reach their 30th episode (whooo!) Karen and Nicole have discussed many different types of love and their many facets-including platonic love, black love, self love, so on and so forth, but have yet to delve into the part of love that's maddening. In this episode our hosts get intimate and reveal part experiences, relationships, and patterns to help understand how a person in love can and may act out of character participating in toxic and obsessive behavior patterns. Karen and Nicole explore ways in which love can drive people crazy with help from the film "Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous emancipation of one Harley Quinn".

Episode 30 celebrates the long-lasting, groundbreaking force of Jennifer Lopez's career! CINEMA THERAPY examines her iconic roles in Selena, Enough, and Hustlers to understand why these films became sources of inspiration for women. Miami-based hustler and dear friend of Karen and Nicole, Laurie Forrest, joins the conversation!

In this episode of CINEMA THERAPY, Nicole and Karen tackle questions raised by the social, racial, and philosophical content of HBO’s The Watchmen, based on the graphic novel of the same name. Our favorite hosts get into it and the conversation elicits emotions and affirmation revolving around shared trauma and oppression - the series is just that deep! Our guest for Episode 29 is computer engineer and CINEMA THERAPY certified tv/film aficionado Chris Gustave! Follow CINEMA THERAPY on Instagram - @cinematherapyshow

New year, new decade - Cinema Therapy is still here! We're welcoming 2020 by sharing how the holidays went and discussing intentions for the new year! Can’t think of a more perfect way to discuss starting new than with Netflix’s Marriage Story, an intimate look into a family separating and evolving. We examine how the film's characters face the growing pains of divorce and redefine themselves as individuals while co-parenting their son. Harlem based DJ and fellow tv & film enthusiast Mashiriki Brown join Karen and Nicole for the conversation!

It's the holidays and we're feeling warm and fuzzy at Cinema Therapy! In the spirit of love and joy, we're discussing the film that made us reflect most on the love we experience with our own families - The Farewell, written and directed by Lulu Wang. Join us as we consider whether we've ever lied for the greater good and listen to us reflect on our own cultural clashes with family members. Joining us for this episode is one of Nicole's closest friends, Eirene Nakamura Salvi, and her newborn son, River! Follow Cinema Therapy on Instagram @cinematherapyshow, follow Nicole at @nicolesophia and follow Karen @kjpangantihon --- Please rate, review and tell your friends about Cinema Therapy!

We're back! It's been months and we know you missed your fix of Cinema Therapy and your hosts, Nicole and Karen! The truth is we never left you. In this homecoming episode Nicole reflects on her new job and how she feels about her old life in Chicago versus her current life in New York City. Karen discusses being on Hinge (pre-requisite for potential suitors is listening to Cinema Therapy FYI). Your girls come together to share their thoughts on Amazon Prime's series Modern Love, and some of their takeaways from their favorite episodes of Season 1 - some of the sweetest relationships aren't romantic; it's an individual's right to be selective about who they reveal their personal baggage with as well as when in a relationship; and there's simply no need to be a tortured soul in love - don't try to be Humphrey Bogart and just be with the one you love. Get in your feels with us and get into Modern Love!

Karen and Nicole went fast and hard with Season 3 of Stranger Things (88 MPH to be exact...HA)! These Cinema Therapyzers have grown incredibly fond of this charming gang of children as they bonded through games of Dungeons and Dragons and battled powerful monsters, navigating a world influenced by films such as "Back To The Future," "E.T.," and "The Goonies." To join them on this explorations of the 80s is Karen's sister Mavis (the Maverick to her Iceman), who joined us from Miami, Florida to discuss why watching the newest season of Stranger Things made them so nostalgic for a time that they barely lived through.

Life can be hard. In a world of people telling you “no" - self doubt, economic, systemic, societal challenges, outside criticism - how do we even begin to nurture our dreams of being more than what the world is tells us we are? How do we continue to foster and master a lifestyle that supports the voice inside that tells us “we have something special to offer"? Musician singer/songwriter/ARTIST Jasmine Jordan (@therealjasminej) and founder of “The Smile Movement” (@dontgiveuponyou) join Karen and Nicole for an honest, supportive discussion exploring the many forms following our dreams can take.