In Their Own League

Join Joan, Callum, Sarah and (eventually) Peggy as they talk about the movie double bill that everyone is talking about - Barbie and Oppenheimer! For more ITOL goodness: • Check out the ⁠website⁠ • Follow us on twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the ITOL project via our ⁠Patreon⁠ Please also leave us a review on your podcasting app, comments help us improve the show!

Joan and Morgan talk about Julie Cohen's documentary about the lives of Intersex people. For more ITOL goodness: • Check out the website • Follow us on twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the ITOL project via our Patreon Please also leave us a review on your podcasting app, comments help us improve the show!

We shrink our focus from the big screen to the small screen, and the team share what Television shows they have been enjoying this year.

A quick bonus episode, inspired by the final season of Amazon Prime's popular Period Comedy-Drama The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, where Editor-in-Chief Joan has a natter about vintage hats with Pam from Madge's Hatbox . For more ITOL goodness: • Check out the ⁠website⁠ • Follow us on twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the ITOL project via our ⁠Patreon⁠ Please also leave us a revi...

Stephen gathers Joan, Peggy Marie, Caelyn and Calum around the virtual table to talk about our feelings about this years Oscars. We talk about winners, combacks, disappointments, propose a new way of catagorising awards.. and try to answer the question about just how important/relevant the ceremony is in 2023.

In this special bonus show, site founder Rosa interviews Spanish-American Actress Marta Milans, who is probably best known for her role as Rosa Vásquez in the Shazam! and Shazam! Fury of the Gods movies. For more ITOL goodness: • Check out the website • Follow us on twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the ITOL project via our Patreon Please also leave us a review on your podcasting a...

A double header for our loyal listeners! First up, Joan, Brian and Calum want to draw your attention to some films and performances we think have been overlooked by the Oscar Academy. Then, join Joan, Rosa and Morgan in our annual discussion about the Sundance Festival, including our their differing experiences in consuming the festival, as well as their highlights.

Joan, Brian and Valerie have a chat about the new Steven Speilberg semi-autobigraphical/coming of age movie 'The Fabelmans".

It's that time of year when we gravitate to scary movies. This episode our writers gather round the virtual campfire and talk about their favorite music scores from those films that put shivers up our spines.

Welcome to the new season of the ITOL Podcast - and what more appropriate subject for our reboot than a look at the new Amazon Prime TV Show 'In a League of Their Own' - a new interpretation of Penny Marshall's 1992 American sports comedy-drama film. Join new Editor-in-Chief Joan, returning founder Rosa, and long term team members Morgan and Caelyn as they give their personal opinions of the show....

In this belated tie-in to Animated April episode, the team (@thefilmb, @elpeevio and @jmamenn) look at the latest Pixar movie, Turning Red. We also go off an a complete tangent and talk about streaming platforms, their place in film preservation and piracy. And Anime. It’s an epic! For more ITOL goodness: • Check out the website • Follow us on twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the...

This episode the team (@thefilmb, @elpeevio and @valeriekalfrin) go back and reappraise the biggest RomCom of the 1990s, Pretty Woman, the film that turned Julia Roberts into a global star. However, how does it stand up 30 years later?  For more ITOL goodness: • Check out the website • Follow us on twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the ITOL project via our Patreon Please also...

In another special bonus episode, @msmlroberts talks to Lauren Pomerantz, writer of Sundance 2022 hit 'Am I OK?".  For more ITOL goodness: • Check out our website • Follow us on Twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the ITOL project via our Patreon Please also leave us a review on your podcasting app, comments help us improve the show!

It's been a while, but we've finally got the gang back together. As cinema's begin to open up, and we start to return to some kind of normal, the team discuss Cinema Snacks. @shespoiledit leads a discussion with @thefilmb, @ChutneyCaelyn, @elpeevio and @jmamenn where we all talk about our favourite snacks, the differences between the UK and USA experience, our worst experiences and enjoy factoids...

In another special bonus episode, @msmlroberts Film Independent Spirit Award Nominee Valerie Mahaffey. They talk about Valerie's role as Mme Reynard in Azazel Jacobs' 'French Exit', and Morgan plays a game of 'stump the actress'. For more ITOL goodness: • Check out our website • Follow us on Twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the ITOL project via our Patreon Please also leave us a r...

Join @ThefilmB, @elpeevio and @OCaelyn as they talk about this years Oscars. The Worldwide Pandemic has had a huge impact on the number and quality of films released, and the gang struggle to justify the ceremony in general, but still manage to pick out highlights, strange omissions and celebrate the diversity in nominations. “The Year of the Disinterested Shrug” - Caelyn If Mank does clean up, we...

This time @rosasreviews and @msmlroberts compare notes on their experiences of covering Virtual Sundance. This one is a marathon, not a sprint, so sit back, and find out all about the films that are going to be making waves over the coming months. For more ITOL goodness: • Check out our website • Follow us on twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the ITOL project via our Patreon Please...

In this special bonus episode, @msmlroberts takes time out of Virtual Sundance to talk to Mexican Cinematographer Alejandro Mejía. They talk about Alejandro's career, his home country of Mexico and of course, his latest work on Alexis Gambis' "Son of Monarchs". To find out more about Alejandro and his work, please check out his website and his Instagram . For more ITOL goodness: • Check out our we...

This episode @rosasreviews leads @nicoleackman16, @eRockReviews and @msmlroberts in a discussion about Emerald Fennell’s debut feature Promising Young Woman, starring Carey Mulligan . Check out Morgan's review of the film here . This discussion does delve deep into spoiler territory, so consider yourself warned! #NewThemeTune! For more ITOL goodness: • Check out the website • Follow us on twitter...

@thefilmbee is joined by @depressedmovie, @shespoiledit and @CalumTheFilmGuy to talk about this years London Film festival. The team chat about the practicalities of covering a virtual festival, and offer up their hits and misses. For more ITOL goodness: • Check out the website • Follow us on twitter @TheirLeague • Please consider supporting the ITOL project via our Patreon Please also leave us a...

We’ve spoken a lot about female film-makers in our previous episodes, but this time we are lucky enough to talk TO three fantastic female film-makers. Join @thefilmbee with League members @rosasreviews, @valeriekalfrin, @jmamenn and @shespoiledit to talk about the issues faced by female film-makers, and discuss ideas on how these can be resolved. We are lucky to be joined by: Sarah Macgregor (@fil...

Join @thefilmbee, @jmamenn, @msmlroberts and @elpeevio as the team visit Westeros, Lovecraft Country and Pawnee in the company of Princess Diana, Kiera Knightly, Oliver Sachs and Ted Lasso (amongst others) as they discuss what’s been keeping them entertained over the last few weeks. And in preparation of our October theme of Witches, the team discuss their favourite cinematic Witches and offer up...

@thefilmb is joined this episode by @Capt_Hangry, @jmamenn and @valeriekalfrin.  We’ve been spending August looking at our favourite female roles in action films. The team’s discussion ranges from Ripley to Star Wars, from Demolition Man to Doris Day. Yes. Doris Day. You have to listen now right? It’s also our first birthday! So it’s time for Bee to actually learn about Baseball. And for Kate...

“ Sex. Clothes. Popularity. Is there a problem here?” @thefilmb returns is joined this episode by @nicoleackman16, @eRockReviews, @strouse_kristy and @valeriekalfrin . It’s time to feel really old, because Amy Heckerling’s Clueless is celebrating it’s 25th birthday. The gang discuss the movie, and their reactions to it, both then and now. And they try and start their own slang. And gush over Taylo...

This episode Rosa (@rosasreviews) takes control as she is joined by Zofia (@thefilmnerdette), Larry (@lcscreentalk), and for the final part, Stephen (@elpeevio) to talk about their favorite LGBTQ films, and delve deeper into questions of representation, and how the cinema of different countries vary.  For more ITOL goodness: • Check out the website • Follow us on twitter @TheirLeague • Please...