The Lobby: The Old Guard and Gina Prince-Bythewood (Patreon)

Director Gina Prince-Bythewood made headlines for becoming the first Black woman to direct a superhero film with the recent Netflix release The Old Guard, but within the Next Picture Show bubble, The Old Guard made headlines for scoring Gina Prince-Bythewood as a director. That is to say we're all big fans of her slim but mighty filmography — which also includes Love and Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, and Beyond the Lights, not to mention a fair bit of notable TV work — and thus view The Old Guard as a prime opportunity to dig into what makes a GPB film tick. So Scott, Genevieve, and Tasha, who has interviewed Prince-Bythewood for both The Dissolve and Polygon, convened to survey her four feature films released so far (with apologies to the overlooked TV movie Disappearing Acts), with high hopes of seeing many more in the future.