The Ministry of Film

Robin and Carolina get into the autumn spirit with the incredibly successful Iranian domestic drama 'A Separation'. 

Politics include:  why not every Iranian film has to be about Iranian politics, how…

Carolina and Robin take you back to 31st July 2025, when the Lionesses won the UEFA Women's Euros (again!), by way of the brilliantly prophetic Bend it Like Beckham (2002).

Politics include: the hypoc…

Robin and Carolina choose life, choose dental insurance, choose the best f*cking Scottish film ever made.

Politics include: the working-class communities of Scotland in the 1980s that turned to drugs …

Carolina and Robin go on a summer blockbuster adventure, comparing the totemic dinosaur film Jurassic Park (1993) with its on-paper extremely similar reboot Jurassic World (2015). 

Politics include: w…

Robin and Carolina embrace the surreal with Eraserhead, the film featuring possibly the creepiest baby in cinematic history.

Politics include: honestly, not very many - but the baby really is very sca…

Carolina and Robin talk about Spirited Away, Japan's most successful film of all time, and likely one of the best films about life in a ghost bathhouse.

Politics include: how said bathhouse is maybe a…

Robin and Carolina discuss the Wizard of Oz, the most-watched film of all time, and likely the children's film with the most religious, LGBTQ+ and feminist theories around it.

Politics include: how Do…

Carolina and Robin are back in your ears for a bonus episode to mark the best real-life sleepover that is the Papal Conclave.

Politics include: faith and politics being quite icky together, how the We…

Carolina and Robin take you through one of the worst calamities in history and the people behind it in domestic-drama-turned-holocaust-film The Zone of Interest (2023).

Politics include: literal Nazis…

Robin and Carolina discuss the best samurai film of all time, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954). The bandits are mean, our heroes are heroic, and the farmers are just trying to survive.

Politics i…

Carolina and Robin discuss two of Wallace & Gromit's fabulous films: The Wrong Trousers (1993) and Vengeance Most Fowl (2024), two films that confirm that dogs really are better than human beings.

Pol…

Carolina and Robin discuss The Shining, the terrifying (but always beautiful) tale of a family falling apart in a remote Colorado hotel in the 1970s.

Politics include: the hotel owner who looks like a…

Carolina and Robin discuss Cleo from 5 to 7, an outrageously French film about a young woman who may or may not be terminally ill in 1950s Paris. While she waits for her diagnosis, she discovers who …

Carolina and Robin discuss The Substance, a very modern classic about a Hollywood actress who will do anything to be young and beautiful again.

Politics include: the late-stage capitalism of beauty st…

Carolina and Robin go from discussing the pre-modern world (see our previous episode on Barry Lyndon) to deciphering the futuristic messaging of 1927's Metropolis.

Politics include: why authoritariani…

In 2025's first episode, Carolina and Robin discuss the film that best depicts the pre-modern world, Barry Lyndon.

Politics include: how a conman acquires wealth and status, the utter boredom of arist…

Happy holidays! Carolina and Robin discuss the historical drama The Lion in Winter, a film that takes place during Christmas, but with more backstabbing than giftgiving. 

Politics include: the nature …

Carolina and Robin talk about the heart-warming, surreal post-war romcom A Matter of Life and Death.

Politics include: the bureaucracy of the afterlife, capital E Empire, women riding bikes during th…

Carolina and Robin talk about brilliantly clever parody of nineties suburbia, The Truman Show.

Politics include: the fantastical dystopia of Hollywood (sorry Hollywood), the individualist American dre…

Carolina and Robin sit down to discuss Pixar's Ratatouille (2007), in which a country rat turns out to be a Michelin-star-worthy chef. 

Politics include: the politics of a kitchen, the politics of Par…