Podcast

• Our Picks + Women In Body Horror
  19 January, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Georgina Allan
  This week, we are joined by Georgina Allan, film editor for the Radical Art Review to talk about women in horror, specifically focusing on Julia Ducournau’s Raw and their representations of women as complex protagonists and instigators of violence (as opposed to helpless victims or mindless monsters). We mention Jordan Peele’s Us, Marina De Van’s In My Skin and Don’t Look Back and others. Picks of the week include Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s mind warping, beautiful Synchronic and (...)
• Our picks + Antebellum & Century Of The Self
  4 January, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Tom Barlow
  We are joined once again by Tom Barlow, chair of The Media Fund and host of the show News Club UK, to discuss the 2002 documentary series The Century of the Self.. Antebellum is a 2020 American thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. While beautifully shot, Antebellum fails in its attempt explore the sociopathy of the white slaveholding class—mainly because the story isn’t set in a slave society. The film can’t come to (...)
• Our Picks + The Imposter & Little White Lie
  14 December 2020, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  Before we introduce our picks, we quickly shoehorn in one last point about last week’s Three Identical Strangers...This week’s top picks include Aaron Sorkin’s historical legal drama The Trial Of The Chicago Seven, and Najwa Najjar’s Palestinian road trip festival hit Between Heaven And Earth. We discuss the utterly bonkers documentary The Imposter, in which an Algerian-French young man in Spain claims to be a 16-year-old Texan, who’d been missing for 3 years, and Little White Lie, the story of (...)
• Our Picks + The Last Blackman in San Francisco & One Man And His Shoes
  30 November 2020, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  New fortnight, new episode. Abla’s picks of the week are the brilliant, creepy horror debut Caveat by filmmaker Damian McCarthy and Palestinian film Western Arabs, a chaotic, powerful and very personal look at the impact of displacement, by Omar Shargawi, as both films are reviewed on here! Our festival to watch out for is Documenta. We focus on two feature films: Joe Talbot’sThe Last Black Man in San Francisco (2020), an engaging documentary that came out in October and is now (...)
• Our Picks + Our House & The Social Dilemma
  14 November 2020, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  This week, Abla picks Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult, a sort of parallel documentary to the previously discussed The Vow, also about Keith Raniere and NXIVM but more explosive and revelatory, and Egyptian horror series Paranormal. Coco Green talks about: The China Hustle (2017) Like the 2016 documentary Betting on Zero, about short sellers and their suspicions of fraud in the multilevel marketing company Herbalife, The China Hustle has a similar focus, but with Chinese companies (...)
• Our Picks + Keenie Meenie: Britain’s Private Army
  26 October 2020, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Phil Miller
  Our guest this week is Phil Miller, investigative journalist and staff reporter at Declassified UK. We discuss the origins of British mercenaries in recent proxy wars and the extent of government culpability in his documentary (and the book it’s based on) Keenie Meenie: Britain’s Private Army (2020) - available online! We also touch on the issues around British intervention abroad, involvement in the international arms trade and the effects on migration. We’ve not been bawled over by any (...)
• Our Top Picks + Revolution & Social Change in Sci-Fi
  12 October 2020, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Thomas Barlow
  A longer episode than usual in which we are joined by Media Fund Strategic Coordinator Thomas Barlow. Among the many other things he does is conducting anti-fascist history tours in his home city of Manchester! Tom chose to focus on themes of revolution and social change in sci-fi, with a particular focus on Elysium and Battlestar Galactica. We discuss how the film and series creators depict the agents of change, the use of a single hero-like protagonist as opposed to the class of workers (...)
• Our Picks + "Colonial Chic" & Gone With The Wind
  29 September 2020, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  This week’s focus is "colonial chic" in light of the touted and actual removal of Gone With The Wind from a number of programmes and archives due to its racist outlook. We discuss themes of colonialism and postcolonialism through film, namely the above and Jane Austen’s work and their filmic representations. As the saying goes, it’s not what you’re looking at it’s what you see. Our picks this week are the Encounters Film Festival, David Tennant’s uncanny portrayal of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. (...)
• Our Picks + Waves
  13 September 2020, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Matt Howsam
  This week we are joined by Matt Howsam, a production coordinator in the VFX industry and a film critic. We mention the hilarious and highly original One Cut Of The Dead by Shin’ichirô Ueda, a Japanese Zombie comedy in the style of some of the best mockumentaries out there and a homage to low budget filmmaking. Depending on where you are you can watch it on [Shudder->https://www.shudder.com or buy the DVD (it’s from 2017). Abla also highlights the Netflix series (...)
• Our Picks + Pablo Navarrete (No Extradition)
  7 September 2020, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  This week, Coco and Abla interview documentary filmmaker and journalist Pablo Navarrete. Pablo’s latest film No Extradition is a record of the campaign of support for Julian Assange who is facing extradition to the US. He also follows John Shipton, Assange’s father, over several months as he fought to secure his son’s release from Belmarsh prison in the UK. The filmmaker whose first documentary "Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela" dates from 2009 was working for (...)

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