What Goddesses Watch

by The Demented Goddess Magazine

What Goddeses Watch is a multi-cultural, feminist Film and TV podcast. Film critic Soma Ghosh is joined by today's most fabulous feminine thinkers to deep-dive films about and by womxn. From hot releases to independent streamers, combining English & non-English speaking films, it's like a Cannes takeover by the cast of Pose & Audre Lorde, clever, fun & badly behaved.  

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • S01 E12 - Season 1 Finale: The Babysitter - is it OK to joke about MeToo?

    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...

    29:14
  • S01 E11 - The Essex Serpent

    S01 E11 - The Essex Serpent

    Avant garde historical author Nell Stevens joins film critic Soma Ghosh to discuss queerness, polyamory and watery bodies in Clio Barnard's handsome adaptation of period drama The Essex Serpent, starring Claire Danes, Tom Hiddlest...

    40:12
  • S01 E10 - New Queer Cinema: Sirens & Camilla Comes Out Tonight

    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 ...

    29:26
  • S01 E09 - Strange Mothers: Celine Sciamma's Petite Maman & feminist film gem The Heiresses

    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...

    31:44
  • S01 E08 - Asta Neilsen Special: the greatest silent film star

    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...

    34:59