Anna welcomes Mia Bays (Birds Eye View), Eve Gabereau (Modern Films), Akua Gyamfi (The British Blacklist) and actor Muna Otaru (The Keeping Room) to a special live recording at the famous Annabel’s nightclub in association with FiXX.

Together they talk about how activism in film distribution can significantly change the media landscape. Films reviewed include Jellyfish (2018) and The Breaker Upperers (2018), while those put to the Bechdel Test range from Back To The Future (1985) to The Phantom Thread (2017). Given the venue, the panel discuss their favourite nightclub movies too.

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Episode 8 is the first in a series of episodes recorded live at HOME in Manchester, where Anna is joined by Miranda Sawyer, writer, broadcaster and cultural commentator who does a weekly film score show on BBC Six Music – and Francine Stock, presenter of The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4.

Together they review Barbarella (1968), Colette (2018) and Out of Blue (2018). Audience questions raise the topic of working–class women in films, while films put to the Bechdel Test include If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Isle Of Dogs (2018) and Frozen (2013).

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An International Women’s Day Captain Marvel Special!

Brie Larsen and Lashana Lynch join Anna to talk about Captain Marvel (2019), the first stand-alone female superhero movie in the Marvel universe. Topics include female friendship, diversity in criticism, cleavage shots and cat allergies.

Anna welcomes back critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh to review the film.

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Recorded live at the Glasgow Film Festival, Anna welcomes Observer critic Simran Hans, GFF’s Programme Director Allison Gardner and Dirty God (2019) director Sacha Polak.

The panel has a lively discussion about GFF release Wild Rose (2018), new release The Kindergarten Teacher (2018), and debates the charms of Bill Murray in GFF cult classic Ghostbusters (1984).

The films that are put to the test in the Bechdel Test segment, range from Thelma & Louise (1991) to Minding the Gap (2018).

Plus audience Q&A, and news on the Bumble Female Film Force.

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Recorded live at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Anna is joined by Dana Linssen and Tara Judah.

This episode features our first Bechdel Test segment, and we review Festival Films Dirty God (2019), Happy as Lazzaro ( Lazzaro Felice; 2018) and Romantic Comedy (2019), as well as current releases The Favourite (2018) and Capernaum (2018). There’s a lively debate with the audience about gender and film criticism.

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In our fourth episode, Anna is joined by Kate Stables and Steph Watts of The Bechdel Test Fest who exclusively reveal the results of their poll, which asked female film critics to select the best films of 2018.

The show features a discussion of Oscar contender Roma (2018) and an interview with star Marina de Tavira, as well as an interview with Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins about the Netflix original Private Life (2018).

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Episode 3 is a Time’s Up special in which Anna is joined in the studio by actor Andrea Riseborough, whose new film Nancy (2018) comes from an all-female crew, and Birds Eye View’s Mia Bays, who champions the diverse UK musical Been So Long. They discuss female roles, the pay gap, sisterhood and more.

Anna interviews actor Carey Mulligan about feminism, body image and playing against type in the period film Wildlife (2018).

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In our second episode, Anna is joined by film critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Chief Film Critic at Metro newspaper and regularly comments on film across the BBC – and Helen O’Hara, film journalist for Empire Magazine.

Together they review A Star Is Born (2018) starring Lady Gaga. Films put to the Bechdel Test include Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Pili (2017), The Breaker Upperers (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) and Venom (2018).

Writer-director Carol Morley chats to Anna at the London Film Festival about her upcoming film Out Of Blue (2018).

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In our first ever episode of Girls On Film, Anna is joined by Kate Muir, screenwriter, campaigner with Time’s Up UK, Women and Hollywood and Birds’ Eye View, and former chief film critic at the Times – and Corrina Antrobus, film writer and founder of the Bechdel Test Fest.

They review Agnes Varda’s Faces Places (Visages, Villages, 2017), debate diversity in film criticism and put new movies to the Bechdel Test, including Widows (2018), The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018), First Man (2018), American Animals (2018) and a surprise choice that we dub ‘Spanx and the City’…

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