Eyes on Screen

Fiona Williams, Sana Qadar and Natalie Hambly are talking Practical Magic 2, now in cinemas and already dividing critics and audiences spectacularly. The critics hate it (30% on Rotten Tomatoes). The fans love it (90%). We land somewhere in the middle, and we have thoughts. We get into what the sequel does well — the hair, the costuming, the chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, Lee Pace being extremely welcome — and what it doesn't. We also discuss the film's quietly radical female-centred storytelling, the very slight but very deliberate queer thread, and Nat's theory about what young women actually want from a witchy movie right now (hint: it's not lifting the love curse). Plus: our favourite witchy films and TV shows, our favourite Sandra Bullock films, and a pitch for Practical Magic 3 that we think Nicole Kidman should seriously consider. If you're going — and you should — take a girlfriend, get some wine, and for the love of all things magical, do not lug your suitcases up three flights of stairs if you don't have to!

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While Nat takes a well-earned break, Sana, Haidee and Fiona take listener recommendations and embrace the darkness of Furious. Do you know us well or what, dear listeners? This is the female-centred, trauma-informed, Epstein-adjacent investigative thriller we didn't know we needed in our lives. Elsewhere, Haidee makes a good case at convincing us to watch DTF St Louis, suggesting it's so much more than just sad men on swings, and finally, Fiona has been celebrating the life of Saint Dolly by watching feature documentaries and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (because it's what Dolly would do). Follow Eyes On Screen on Instagram: @eyesonscreenpod or email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sana is back, baby, and joining Fiona, Haidee and Natalie in our cosy virtual recording studio to sip a sunset cocktails and discuss one of our favourite watches of the year: Widow’s Bay. This breakout word-of-mouth horror-comedy crept up on us, delighted us all and is now stalking the Emmys with 19 nominations. We dive into the oddball small-town residents, comedy chops and downright terrifying moments that make this show so good. So plug in your taser to charge, sit down with a warm cup of herbal tea and dive into our inaugural swim around the bay. But be warned, spoilers ahead. Follow Eyes On Screen on Instagram: @eyesonscreenpod or email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The video nasty is ready for its close-up. Fiona Williams, Haidee Ireland and Natalie Hambly (*Sana is busy at her own sleepaway camp) unpack the seductive satire of Jane Schoenbrun's Cannes-winning indie hit, Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma. The meta premise of a woke horror franchise reboot gives us a sexy, queer, tender time, courtesy of Scream Queens power couple, Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. Pack your snacks and choose your own adventure, there's so much to talk about, from the reclamation of problematic movie tropes, to the reverential depictions of franchise fandom, and dippin' into a sly southern drawl. Oh my!
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Nat and Haidee catch-up on what they have been watching lately. Haidee has been giving Five Star Weekend a go — the star-studded female friendship drama with Jennifer Garner, Chloe Sevigny, Gemma Chan, Regina Hall and D'Arcy Carden — and has some thoughts on when to give a slow-starting show the benefit of the doubt. Nat has been watching Ted Lasso season four and making the case for why women's football might be exactly the reset the show needed. And then we go deep on movies with great premises and terrible endings — from the French feminist comedy I Am Not an Easy Man and its English remake Ladies First, to the afterlife romance Eternity, to Alex Garland's Men and its bonkers final act. Plus: What Dreams May Come, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Hitchcock movie nights with children, and what happens when you show a kid Home Alone too soon.
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