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Girls On Film

Hosted by film critic and broadcaster Anna Smith, Girls On Film is a film review podcast that looks at film from a female perspective. It was co-founded by HLA Agency and Anna Smith in response to a call for more female voices in film criticism. 

Voted No. 1 Feminist Film Podcast by Stylist Magazine, the shows combines film reviews, panel discussions with female film critics, and interviews with actors, directors, activists and industry professionals. 

Girls On Film is an HLA Agency production, executive produced by Hedda Archbold and audio produced by Jane Long

Listen on Spotify, SoundCloud and more – or subscribe here:apple.co/2D4ByK0

Mark Kermode Live in 3D

Mark Kermode Live in 3D is a monthly stage show at the BFI Southbank in which Mark Kermode welcomes a couple of guests onto the stage to have conversations about what has been happening in the world of film, and to delve deeper into particular movies or topics.

Affectionately known as MK3D, the show is lively and interactive. Mark brings his trademark wit and passion to the stage and talks to film stars and character actors, high-profile established directors and young aspiring talent. Diverse and eclectic, always passionate, informed and fun, with Q&As and clips, it’s guaranteed to rekindle your love for cinema, put a smile on your face and a spring in your step. 

MK3D is an HLA Agency production.

We are delighted to have Kodak join us as our special supporters of the show.

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Below is a list of the shows you missed – now available online as part of the Kermode On Film podcast.

Girls On Film | Episode 25 | 3 December 2019

Live in the last of our series of six episodes from HOME Manchester, Anna reviews a vintage year of stellar guests and compelling conversation for Girls On Film, and looks ahead at what 2020 has in store. With Sight & Sound’s 50 films of the year topped by Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, and initiatives from the F-Rating to Bumble’s Female Film Force going from strength to strength, we’re here to help drive the vanguard of female filmmaking into the new year.

We sit down with BIFA-winning and BAFTA-nominated director Harry Wootliff to discuss her strikingly intimate debut feature Only You. Joined too by Doctor Who screenwriter and playwright Joy Wilkinson, the panel discusses the challenges writer-directors still face in bringing complex women to the screen.

Clarisse Loughrey, chief film critic at The Independent, also joins Anna to review new releases Charlie’s Angels, Judy & Punch, and Marriage Story as we approach awards season.

In a festive film twist, our three guests bring their picks of classic Christmas cinema to the table for scrutiny through a gendered lens ̶ from high-risers The Apartment and Die Hard, to the spiky Edward Scissorhands, via the yellow brick road of The Wizard Of Oz.

  • Clarisse Loughrey
  • Joy Wilkinson
  • Harry Wootliff

Girls On Film | Episode 24 | 14 November 2019

Aislinn Clarke and Bronagh Taggart join host Anna Smith in episode 24 of Girls On Film, recorded in front of a live audience at the 30th Cinemagic Festival in Belfast.

Actress and writer Bronagh Taggart talks about her short film Guard, her love of sports movies, and about her BBC TV series Millie Inbetween and Flatmates, now on BBC iPlayer. She also talks about her very first ever acting role – with Daniel Day-Lewis.

Writer-director Aislinn Clarke has just received the second Academy Gold Fellowship for Women for her horror film The Devil’s Doorway. She joins us fresh from Los Angeles to talk about her film and about her view of horror as a means of addressing social trauma. She gives encouragement to women who want to work in the industry by drawing on her own experience of starting out as a 17-year old single working class Belfast mum.

Aislinn talks about two of her upcoming horror projects, Cunning Folk which she directs, and Slow Burn which she pens and is produced by Marianne Maddalena, who also produced all of Wes Craven’s films including Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street.

We review current releases Maleficent: Mistress of Evil with Angelina Jolie and Michelle Pfeiffer, discussing its design, its gender stereotyping and what it says about motherhood. We also review Home, by Sarah Outen, who undertook the mammoth task of travelling the circumference of the world powered only by herself. We also discuss some favourite classic movies, including In The Name Of The Father, Bridesmaids, The Craft and All About Eve.

  • Bronagh Taggart
  • Aislinn Clarke

Girls On Film | Episode 23 | 25 October 2019

Episode 23 marks our first birthday, and Anna is joined by Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes for an exclusive interview about Terminator: Dark Fate, discussing everything from action women on film to race, nudity and time travel.  

On stage at HOME in Manchester, Anna is joined by Pamela Hutchinson and Anna Bogutskaya, who both contributed to soon to be published She Found It At The Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema. The panel assess the new film Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix, plus female desire in films such as Magic Mike, The Last Seduction and Thelma & Louise. They also give their tips for awards season 2020, debating which movies meet the ‘three cry’ test and which film is ’near-perfect’.  

Finally the audience at HOME have pressing questions about Joker, awards categories and how best to champion female-focused cinema.  

Pamela Hutchinson is a freelance writer, critic and film historian who contributes regularly to Sight & Sound, The Guardian, Criterion, Indicator and the BBC, specialising in silent cinema and women in film. Anna Bogutskaya is a film programmer, writer, event producer and podcaster. She is Head of Arts and Culture at DICE, Festival Director of BAFTA-recognised Underwire Festival, co-host of The Bigger Picture podcast and co-founder of horror film collective The Final Girls.

  • Pamela Hutchinson
  • Anna Bogutskaya
  • Natalia Reyes, Mackenzie Davis, and Linda Hamilton

Girls On Film | Episode 22 | 15 October 2019

The hills are alive in episode 22, which is dedicated to big screen musicals and recorded in front of an audience at Widescreen Weekend at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford to mark the BFI’s nationwide musicals season. Anna is joined by actress, comedy performer and member of the all-female musical improv group Notflix Emma Read, and by Mia Bays, Oscar-winner producer and Director-at-Large of Birds Eye View, a pathfinder for films by women. They discuss the joys and gender politics of The Sound Of Music, Grease, Calamity Jane, Funny Girl, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and more. Anna also reviews the best female-focused films of the BFI London Film Festival 2019 and the audience join in a heated debate about revisiting classics from a modern feminist perspective.  

All this – and a live improvised rap…  

  • Mia Bays
  • Emma Read

Girls On Film | Episode 21| 16 September 2019

In episode 21 Tuppence Middleton, Ingrid Oliver and Tricia Tuttle join Anna for a special Girls On Film Live from the London Podcast Festival at Kings Place in London. The team review stripper revenge drama Hustlers, starring Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez, and disagree about the French music movie The Shock Of The Future, featuring Alma Jodorowsky.   

Ingrid speaks about her experience of filming The Hustle with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, as well as playing Petronella Osgood on Doctor Who. 

The director of the BFI’s London Film Festival Tricia picks three female directed films to watch at the 2019 LFF, including the new film from Marielle Heller, A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, after her success with last year’s brilliant film Can You Ever Forgive Me? 

Tuppence talks about recent release Downton Abbey, her early work in Trap For Cinderella, nude scenes –  and avoiding the ‘girlfriend role.’ She also speaks out about the poster for The Current War, which went viral after being the subject of feminist graffiti.  


    • Ingrid Oliver
    • Tuppence Middleton
    • Tricia Tuttle

    Girls On Film | Episode 20 | 6 September 2019

    In episode 20, live from HOME in Manchester, we are joined by Syrian director Waad Al-Kateab. The Channel 4 News journalist talks frankly about her time living and filming inside war-torn Aleppo and making her astonishing first feature film, For Sama.  

    Anna is joined by BBC Asian Network’s Ashanti Omkar and the University of Salford’s Dr Kirsty Fairclough to review current releases, including Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth and Phoenix, a Norwegian drama.  

    Ashanti guides us through Indian Cinema while celebrating HOME’s Not Just Bollywood season, and we discuss the sexual politics of the black comedy Lipstick Under My Burkha, which was banned on its release. The panel pick their favourite Juliette Binoche movies to mark MUBI’s season of the great French actress, and come up with alternatives to The Bechdel Test.  All this plus great audience questions from our Manchester fans.  

    • Dr Kirsty Fairclough
    • Waad Al-Kateab
    • Ashanti Omkar

    Girls On Film | Episode 19 | 8 August 2019

    In episode 19, director Gurinder Chadha joins Girls On Film for a special episode about her new film Blinded By The Light. Based on the memoirs of Sarfraz Mansoor, the movie centres around a Bruce Springsteen-obsessed teen. The filmmaker talks about meeting The Boss and how Brexit informed the screenplay, as well as her career, feminism, her next music movie and her plans to make a superhero film.  

    Anna Smith also reviews the film along with critic Kim Taylor-Foster, Entertainment Editor at FANDOM. 

    • Gurinder Chadha
    • Kim Taylor-Foster

    Hold the front page! Exciting Press Release

    Kermode & Kodak – A Winning Combination

    We are delighted to announce that Kodak is the first special supporter of Mark Kermode Live in 3D.

    We have a fantastic show lined up for 25 November.

    For full details, see the press release below.

    Kodak-and-Kermode-Press-release-18-11-19Download

    Girls On Film | Episode 18 | 26 July 2019

    In episode 18 three women who’ve forged their own path in the film industry join Anna for an inspiring chat about making waves in a man’s world. Holly F Tarquini founded F-Rated, a ground-breaking system for rating female-driven films. Hilary Oliver launched Cameo Productions, a female-run audio production house & broadcast PR consultancy. Chiara Marañón is Director of UK Programming at MUBI who stream films from fantastic filmmakers who are often overlooked by other services.  

    Anna’s guests also share their reviews of influential movies in their lives, including Grace of My Heart, Point Break, and Booksmart. 


    • Holly F Tarquini

    • Chiara Marañón

    • Hilary Oliver
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