Greetings from sunny Lisbon!🇵🇹☀️ Where it’s HOT 🥵 - but not as hot as the latest Ep of the podcast with film data researcher Stephen Follows. Stephen knows his onions when it comes to trends in criticism and the wider industry 💪😎 An enlightening listen: pod.fo/e/230974

Congratulations! What an incredible and immense feat! 👏👏🎬💪❤️👇

Thanks Stephen! 🙏😎👇

So you think I'm making all this inequalities stuff up? My guest this week will set you straight. Stephen Follows is a well respected film data researcher and shares his engaging and enlightening (and wonderfully blunt!) take on it all. Full ep here pod.fo/e/230974 #data

Check out this week's very entertaining and engaging chat with critic and founder of Movies4Kids.co.uk Jo Berry We dissect the latest BBFC report on parents' concerns around age-appropriate media - more info in the video below 👇 #familyfilms pod.fo/e/232a87

Well #Tarantino might have lost interest in critics, but trust me, there are great stories to be had - especially when kids are in the mix! Jo Berry has some hilarious tales in this week's ep 👇 and insights on the BBFC's new report. Click here pod.fo/e/232a87

Is the tension between critics and #influencers just part of a bigger struggle between what film critics want to say and what publicists would LIKE us to say? 😮 This week Anton Bitel talks frankly about this, screening etiquette, spoilers +⭐️ratings (+ Ashanti Omkar Film, TV, Culture Broadcaster & HOST from S1:E8)👇

Check out this week's podcast where critic Anton Bitel discusses the changing face of film criticism with the rise of social media influencers - clip👇 Plus the scourge of star ratings, and the argument FOR spoilers - yes: there really is one! Listen here: pod.fo/e/235454

Can we be a #feminist AND love Rom-Coms? 🤔Hell yeah! 💪 😎This week’s guest Corrina Antrobus 🍉 explains why. Join me, as we dig into this much maligned genre in anticipation of her forthcoming book that celebrates Rom-Coms via the feminist lens. Listen here: pod.fo/e/238246

Loved talking to Wendy about my forthcoming book (if only to remind myself I actually remember half of what I wrote). Thanks for having me on Open To Criticism to talk feminism and romcoms! 💕

Thanks David for the recommendation! 🙏👇😎

Cheers Mark! And here’s a link to the episode he’s talking about: pod.fo/e/235454

Is #Barbie a rom-com - or just the overdue end of a toxic love story? 💔 This week Corrina Antrobus 🍉 reclaims the #romcom 👇👇, a genre that's been relentlessly denigrated - I know: films about women - often by women - being denigrated?! 😉😆 Listen here:  pod.fo/e/238246

Happy to have swayed your reading priorities David 😉👇

Episode 9 of season 2 is now live! Check out my preview of my chat with Clive Chijioke Nwonka below👇

This is a great podcast from Wendy Lloyd. I can't believe the father who showed his children Kill Bill!! Check it out.

Check out this week’s episode about this book 👇👇 by this author Clive Chijioke Nwonka - listen here: pod.fo/e/23a67b #BritishUrbanFilm #filmcriticism

Love #TopBoy ? You'll love this 👇This week's guest Clive Chijioke Nwonka's written the first ever book on the British Urban Film genre. We discuss how the UK politics of the 70s and 80s fed into this critically undervalued genre of the 2000s and beyond. Listen here: pod.fo/e/23a67b

“Top Boy offers a more nuanced, humanising insight into working-class lives, which too often have been offensively caricatured.” Franklyn Addo 👇echoes Clive Chijioke Nwonka’s take on the BAFTA winning series in this week’s show #topboy theguardian.com/commentisfree/…