I went back a couple years ago and actually watched enough with Jennifer Lopez.

Oh my gosh.

I love that movie.

Feminine rage, as defined by Urban Dictionary, is a rejection of gendered ideas regarding who gets to express anger and in what ways.

And for as long as I have been a movie lover, I have seen this phrase used to describe women who simply had enough.

Think Brian De Palma's Carrie, Alex Garland's ex Machina, and of course Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

And there's been a new addition to the canon.

Is God Is, directed by Alicia Harris.

Is God Is Is follows two twin sisters, Racine and Anaya, on a quest to kill their abusive father whose violence has left physical as well

as generational scars on their family. I, against my better judgment, went online to see what the

people were saying about it. What I saw was discourse all too familiar to me. Why are we

amplifying stories about a bad, quote unquote bad, black man?

To be clear, the bad black man here, the father in the film, aka the monster, is played by

Sterling K. Brown, low-key America's dad. And I have to say once again, this man, this character

in the film, actually scarred his family because he set them on fire.

But even though this is a fictional character and a fictional story, I was stunned the desire to protect the image of an extremely violent man simply because he's black.

This made me wonder, who is a loud feminine rage? What should on-screen justice actually look like? And whether we're

talking about Thelma and Louise, Jennifer's body, or promising young woman, why doesn't Hollywood

want women to get revenge and live to tell the tale? To answer that question,

I'm joined by film critic and programmer Jordane Searle and staff writer of culture at Slate,

Nadirikoff, to unpack how the revenge film exposes our cultural attitudes toward women,

blackness, and punishment. Jordane, N Adira, welcome to this show.

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