by Lucy Hounsom | August 27, 2020 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSVariously listed as a horror, comedy and fantasy film by different websites, one thing is certain: Cabin in the Woods, by Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon, defies easy labelling. Is this a send-up of the horror genre in...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 21, 2020 | Discussion, Episodes, Uncategorised
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWell, it’s that time again: 80s family film funtime! Today we are looking at 1988’s Willow, starring Warwick Davis and Val Kilmer, directed by Ron Howard with a story by George Lucas. But first,...
by Megan Leigh | February 13, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHere on BtGS, we regularly discuss how female characters in SFF are depicted on-screen. From the infamous bikini armour to simply being absent from male-centric narratives – women have had their fair share of...
by Lucy Hounsom | January 30, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS There needs to be a serious fucking cultural conversation about the storytelling desire to turn everyone into an edgy badass that thinks all problems are best solved with violence and what the overwhelming...
by Megan Leigh | February 8, 2018 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBack in 1985, Alison Bechdel had the characters of her cartoon strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, jokingly make a gender equality ‘test’ for films. 33 years later, the Bechdel (or Bechdel-Wallace, to give...
by Megan Leigh | March 30, 2017 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt isn’t possible to be too old for Disney films. You might go through that contrary teenage phase of claiming to have outgrown them, but we all know that’s a lie. Whether you are 6 or 66, no matter your...
