Open To Criticism

Over the moon! For the second year @Open2Criticism has been nominated for TWO Independent Podcast Awards! Thanks to season 2's guests: @annabdemented @miafarrell @gmgeisinger @ItaOB @StephenFollows @joberryreviews @AntBit @corrinacorrina & @CJNwonka @YaketyYakVoices @IndPodAwards

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

Love #TopBoy ? You'll love this 👇This week's guest @CJNwonka'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

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

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

Episode 9 of season 2 is now live! Check out my preview of my chat with @CJNwonka below👇

Happy to have swayed your reading priorities David 😉👇

Is #Barbie a rom-com - or just the overdue end of a toxic love story? 💔 This week @corrinacorrina 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

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

Thanks David for the recommendation! 🙏👇😎

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! 💕

Can we be a #feminist AND love Rom-Coms? 🤔Hell yeah! 💪 😎This week’s guest @corrinacorrina 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

Check out this week's podcast where critic @AntBit 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

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 @AntBit talks frankly about this, screening etiquette, spoilers +⭐️ratings (+ @AshantiOmkar from S1:E8)👇

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! @joberryreviews has some hilarious tales in this week's ep 👇 and insights on the @BBFC's new report. Click here pod.fo/e/232a87

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

So you think I'm making all this inequalities stuff up? My guest this week will set you straight. @StephenFollows 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

Thanks Stephen! 🙏😎👇

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

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