Podcast

• Our Picks + Little Fires Everywhere *UPDATED*
  24 September, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  *Due to a technical glitch, this episode was reuploaded on 25/09/21* 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 (...)
• Our Picks + Zola
  5 September, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  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 (...)
• Our Picks + Slasher: Solstice
  19 August, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  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 (...)
• Our Picks + MLMs and On Becoming A God In Central Florida
  28 July, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  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 (...)
• Our Picks + Bubblegum Noir & Promising Young Woman
  3 June, by Abla Kandalaft, Anna Smith, Coco Green
  *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 Subscribe for offers at: (...)
• Our Picks + We Work: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
  24 May, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  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. Support us: 💷 ko-fi.com/mydy Subscribe for offers at: mydy.link/subscribe 🎧 (...)
• Our Picks + One Night In Miami
  25 April, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  Regina King’s directorial debut starring Kingsley Ben-Adir Malcolm X, Eli Goree as Cassius Clay, Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown, and Leslie Odom Jr. Sam Cooke, is a fictionalised account of the four icons’ meeting in Miami, Fl after Clay’s first heavyweight title about 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 (...)
• Our Picks + Crip Camp
  25 April, by Abla Kandalaft, Antonella Mercurio, Coco Green
  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 (...)
• Our Picks + The Obituary Of Tunde Johnson
  23 March, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Ryan Ormonde
  This week, we are joined by poet and writer Ryan Ormonde to discuss Ali LeRoi’s feature film The Obituary Of Tunde Johnso and yet another Jack Black flick, Bernie. As usual, comments and feedback welcome via Twitter @Mydylarama 🎙️ mydy.link/podcast Support us: 💷 ko-fi.com/mydy Subscribe for offers at: mydy.link/subscribe 🎧 mydy.link/apple
• Our Picks + Typical
  16 March, by Abla Kandalaft, Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, Coco Green
  We’re stretching things a bit this week to include filmed theatre: our guest is director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour whose latest production is Typical at the Soho Theatre (available to stream online). The play stars Richard Blackwood as Christopher Alder, a Black man who died in police custody in 1998. The play, a monologue that’s halfway between poetry and rap recounting Christopher’s last day and the acts of racism he experiences leading up to his death, highlights issues around racial (...)

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