Film doctors Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker, 2017, BBFC cert. 15) in detail. Includes swearing, mentions of sex work, violence, mental illness and child exploitation.

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Recorded on 27 & 28 June 2018.

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In episode 20, film doctors Paula Blair and Andrew Shail watch a version of Legend (dir. Ridley Scott, 1985, BBFC. cert. PG). Although the film is rated PG, the topics it raises are more suited to 15+ audiences, e.g. there are references to consensual sex as well as attempted coercive seduction and rape.

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Recorded on 6 June 2018.

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Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss The Rape of Recy Taylor (dir. Nancy Buirski, 2017, BBFC cert. 15), a documentary about an African-American woman’s lifelong fight for justice after being gang-raped by a group of white teenage boys in 1944, and Edie (dir. Simon Hunter, 2017, BBFC cert. 12A), a drama about an 83-year-old widow who wants to fulfil her dream of climbing a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. There are references to sexual and racial violence, discrimination and domestic abuse from early in the episode and throughout.

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Paula Blair spices up her life with special guest Kristie Smith to discuss Spiceworld: The Movie (dir. Bob Spiers, 1997, BBFC cert. PG) and the late-1990s girl group phenomenon that was the Spice Girls.

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Recorded on 11 May 2018.

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Paula Blair and Andrew Shail round up (for now) their viewings of feature films directed by Sofia Coppola, this time looking at Somewhere (2010, BBFC cert. 15) in detail.

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Recorded on 10 May 2018.

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Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss Sofia Coppola's fifth feature film, The Bling Ring (2013, BBFC cert. 12A), and its engagement with the excesses of celebrity.

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Recorded on 30 April 2018.

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Paula Blair and Andrew Shail share their experiences after a tension-filled viewing of A Quiet Place (dir. John Krasinski, 2018, BBFC cert. 15).

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Recorded on 28 April 2018.

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Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss The Disaster Artist (dir. James Franco, 2017, BBFC cert. 15), the film about the making of the cult 'best worst movie ever made', The Room (dir. Tommy Wisseau, 2003, US cert. R). Paula also thinks about the future directions of the podcast and website.

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Recorded on 25 April 2018.

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Paula Blair and Andrew Shail give an overview of the British Silent Film Festival Symposium held at King's College London in April 2018. Paula also talks to speakers Lucie Dutton and Ellen Cheshire, and there's an excerpt from Andrew's presentation.

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Paula Blair and Andrew Shail speak to historians Tony Fletcher and Gerry Turvey, musician Stephen Horne and BFI curator Bryony Dixon at the 2018 British Silent Film Festival Symposium.

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Recorded on 19 April 2019.

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