Rated or Dated: Look Who’s Talking (1990)
Director Amy Heckerling is known for films centred on the female experience, but how feminist is a film about a woman narrated by an actual man-baby? Or a single mum hell-bent on finding a dad for her...
30 Apr 202526min
Lucky boys with Chloe Hadjimatheou
If an adult male grooms a teenage girl into a sexual relationship, we're increasingly likely to call it abuse. But reverse the sex of the perpetrator and victim and attitudes are very different. In he...
29 Apr 202528min
Have Lauren Mishcon and Nicole Goodman tried this?
Anyone who’s ever been anywhere near social media can attest to the somewhat loose definition of “self-care” adopted by society. Broadcasters Lauren Mishcon and Nicole Goodman, keen to challenge the d...
28 Apr 202527min
Sophie Gilbert on how pop culture turned women against themselves
In Girl On Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Sophie Gilbert underlines how popular culture isn’t an innocuous force. She chats to our...
25 Apr 202525min
Rated or Dated: Leon (1995)
Once cool, now ick. That could describe so many things from 1995, but in this instance it's Luc Besson's thriller about a prepubescent girl and her assassin neighbour. But could it all have been so di...
23 Apr 202522min
Meeting history with Amy Ng
Two young women walk into a theatre in China in 1935 and so begins a relationship that spans a turbulent period of history and ends with the death of one of them. Hannah chats to playwright and histor...
22 Apr 202527min
Abigail Johnson on nineties nostalgia and millennium madness
Books are a bit like buses for author Abigail Johnson, who signed a two-book deal after taking a punt on a creative writing course during the pandemic. Fast forward a few years, and Abigail's debut no...
21 Apr 202524min
Outside The Box April 2025
There's a long weekend ahead and if you want to spend it watching telly, then you do you. Have some help choosing in the form of our monthly chat about TV, in which we're talking about The White Lotus...
18 Apr 202531min
