This new podcast is hosted by two of the all-female team of academics, film programmers & social researchers behind website myDylarama, Abla Kandalaft and Coco Green. We’ll discuss films/TV series/screen-related matters in relation to social, racial and economic issues with occasional guests, and good indie international films. You can support us at https://ko-fi.com/mydy and subscribe at mydy.link/subscribe for offers, discounts and goodies from our partners.
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
After a couple of weeks' break for LFF, we are joined by guest Eddy Durnan, a Mydy subscriber, supporter, and a film buff with a long-standing career in visual effects to talk about (the somewhat maligned) Malignant.
A trip down memory lane brings up discussions around Dirty Dancing and Pretty Woman...
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Saturday Sep 25, 2021
Saturday Sep 25, 2021
This week, our focus is the series Little Fires Everywhere. Based on the book by Celeste Ng, the miniseries tells the intertwined stories of Black single mother artist Mia and White suburban housewife Elena and their ramifications. It’s a series that’s rich and complex in perspectives, strands and ideas. We discuss issues it brings up around privilege and motherhood, adoption and abortion, mixed race friendships and the social capital needed to navigate certain systems, like the courts and schools.
We also flag the BBC documentary series A Killing In Tiger Bay, which sheds light on the miscarriage of justice, which saw 5 Black men tried - and 3 of them sentenced - for a crime they did not commit, through a shocking lack of evidence and due process.
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Sunday Sep 05, 2021
Sunday Sep 05, 2021
More Slasher talk! We go back in time to Series 2 this time to discuss gore, twists, popularity and the show's knack for realistic edges. We also highlight Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord, available to watch on Netflix.
Our focus this week is Zola, a brash, colourful, ballsy filmic take on a viral Twitter thread by stripper Aziah "Zola" King and the Rolling Stone article based on it "Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted".
We discuss the film's experimental approach and bold choices as well as depictions of sex workers and the world both inhabited and conveyed by Zola, as well as making a career out of social media.
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Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
This week, we focus mainly on the third season of serial killer anthology Slasher, to mark the release of season 4 on Shudder. We touch on the excesses of social media, lynch mob mentality, accurate socio-economic depictions and plot twists!
Our top picks include Palestine Action - A Year Of Direct Action Against Elbit Systems UK by Real Media, a doc which as its title suggests explores the effective tactics of direct action. It's free to watch on their website.
As well as 2018 film Trial By Fire, wacky doc The Legend Of Cocaine Island and M. Night Shyamalan's recent release OLD.
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Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
We're back! Our latest episode following our month-long break managed to bring together our regular go to topics: MLMs, cults and skincare.
We discuss American series On Becoming a God in Central Florida, starring Kirsten Dunst as a low paid amusement park employee who climbs the rank of a pyramid scheme type marketing company called Fam. We talk about multi-level marketing (MLMs), their legality, their implications for family and society and their history. We briefly mention the series The Path.
We also massively digress onto the topic of skincare. Having discussed MLMs we might as well plug some quality products. For those of you who have listened until the end and are interested, here are the brands mentioned: LUV U skincare and those "amazing" lip balms are these from Zenology.
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Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
This week, we focus on Frontline documentary Being Mortal, in which Boston surgeon Atul Gawande talks to doctors and patients about end of life care. The film highlights the sometimes woeful like of preparation and emotional intelligence shown by doctors and the issues that arise in that critical period.
We also flag Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger.
The film looks at class and caste divide in India as a poor villager rises up to become a successful entrepreneur.
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Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
*We're skipping ep 23 given the relevance of ep 24 to this month's releases - normal service will resume in 2 weeks!*
This week, our guest is Anna Smith, leading film critic and broadcaster and host of the popular podcast Girls On Film. Our focus is women as lead characters in sexually-charged noir films from the 90s to the present day - to the new spate of films that belong to what Anna calls Bubblegum Noir, using Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman as a starting point. We also discuss new release Gillian Wallace Horvat's I Blame Society. You can follow Anna on Twitter @annasmithjourno.
Anna's pick of the week is Joanna Scanlan's new film After Love, which is currently on the big screen. Abla's picks include Palestinian arthouse director Elia Suleiman's filmography, available for free for a limited period as an entertaining, moving and actually very informative way into understanding Palestine and the history of Palestinians. As this is limited in time, another release worth flagging is Abby Martin's hugely powerful film Gaza Fights For Freedom, which is now free to watch online! And a series worth watching (if you still haven't been convinced by all the good publicity) is HBO dark crime drama Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet with yet another impeccable performance.
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Wednesday May 12, 2021
Wednesday May 12, 2021
This week, we discuss the documentary charting the rise and fall of co-working space/real estate scam We Work and its eccentric co-founder Adam Neumann. We cover the ethics of co-working spaces and their implications and the cultish elements of the We Work "experience".
We flag John Carpenter's prescient classic They Live and the Line Of Duty finale.
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Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Regina King’s directorial debut starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X, Eli Goree as Cassius Clay, Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown, and Leslie Odom as Jr. Sam Cooke, is a fictionalised account of the four icons’ meeting in Miami, Fl after Clay’s first heavyweight title with Sonny Liston. The film is based on the Kemp Powers play which imagines their one night at the Hampton House, located in Brownsville, outside of Liberty City, due to segregation laws in Miami, which was the base for Miami's black performers and celebrities. Its strength lies in the key questions it debates about black struggle and empowerment in 1960s America.
We also bring up the issue of celebrity endorsements of certain causes, the recent British "race report" and casting British actors to play Black Americans.
Top picks include ITV psychological drama Too Close, wacky Nicolas Cage comedy horror Willy's Wonderland (Amazon Prime) and jaw-droppingly bizarre documentary Abducted In Plain Sight (Netflix), as well as the online premiere of short film Savage.
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Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
This week we are joined by psychotherapist Antonella Mercurio to talk about Crip Camp and the issues around activism, aspirational and revolutionary movements and disability rights sparked by the documentary.
Crip Camp (Netflix) sheds light on summer camp for teenagers with disabilities and the rights movement borne out of its pioneering set up.
Top picks include horror film The Empty Man, a creepy, hugely entertaining feature released to mostly so-so reviews in 2020 but has built a bit of a cult following, documentary The Story of Gospel Music and Antonella's pick - albeit one she's mildly embarrassed about - reality TV series Below Deck.
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