Podcast episodes
Season 1
S01 E12 - Season 1 Finale: The Babysitter - is it OK to joke about MeToo?
Film critic Soma Ghosh probes a problmatic vein, in TV & film, of fake feminism that glamorises female trauma and MeToo abuses, while taking us through the Monia Chokri's zinging new comedy thriller, The Babysitter. Also touchin...
S01 E10 - New Queer Cinema: Sirens & Camilla Comes Out Tonight
Want emotional nuance and alternative film-making in your queer screen stories? Maybe even some moral ambiguity and irony? Soma Ghosh considers what kinds of stories and cinematography queer female audiences want. She reviews two ...
S01 E09 - Strange Mothers: Celine Sciamma's Petite Maman & feminist film gem The Heiresses
As Sciamma's Petite Maman arrives for worldwide streaming on MUBI, on which it's also your last chance to stream a gem of feminist film history, The Heiresses, with Isabelle Huppert, critic Soma Ghosh discusses two films of female...
S01 E08 - Asta Neilsen Special: the greatest silent film star
As a new season of her films shows at London's BFI Southbank, we take a look at Asta Neilsen, silent film star, starting with her first film in 1910. Bizarrely largely forgetten, she was so beloved that her picture was pinned up s...