Every Day is Christmas Eve With Helen O’Hara

First Draft Episode #328: Helen O’Hara

Helen O’Hara, film critic, editor-at-large for Empire magazine
and co-host of the Empire film podcast, talks about her newest
non-fiction, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and RIse of Women in
Film and host of its accompanying podcast, Women vs Hollywood
With Helen O’Hara.


Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




The Care Bears Movie (movie)




My Little Pony: The Movie (movie)




Black Panther (movie)




Captain Marvel (movie)




Terri White, former editor of Empire and author of Coming
Undone: A Memoir




Twilight (movie)




Chris Hewitt, co-host of the Empire podcast




Notting Hill (movie)




Helen’s other books about movies: Best Movies of the 80s and
The Superhero Movie Book




Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform
of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smukler, (Ph.D.,
Cinema & Media Studies, UCLA) heads the research and
study center at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.




Shelley Stamp, film historian, professor at UCSC, and author
of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie-Struck Girls:
Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon




Karen Ward Mahar, professor of history and the co-director of
the American Studies Program at Siena College, and author of
Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood




The Best Pick podcast




The Golden Compass (movie)




The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the
Wardrobe (movie)




Reservoir Dogs (movie)




Home Alone (movie)




Ava DuVerney directed Selma, A Wrinkle in Time, and many more
films




Squid Game (Netflix TV show)




Parasite (movie)




Becoming by Michelle Obama




Wonder Woman (2017 movie)




Jurassic World (movie)




Petit Maman (movie)




On the Basis of Sex (movie)




Shut Up and Sing (documentary)




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Janet Varney, Emmy-Nominated actor,
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in dozens of TV shows, including You’re the Worst, Take My
Wife, Burning Love, Stan Against Evil, and Fortune Rookie,
and the voice of Korra in The Legend of Korra. She is also
the co-founder, creative director, and producer of SF
Sketchfest: the San Francisco Comedy Festival (now in its
19th year!), and hosts The JV Club podcast.




Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, the
comedians, actors, and screenwriters behind TV shows Best
Friends Forever and Playing House. Jessica can be seen on the
Netflix comedy Space Force, and Lennon starred in and
directed episodes of Bless This Mess.




Aminatou Sow and Ann
Friedman, media mavens, co-hosts of
the phenomenal Call Your Girlfriend podcast, and debut
co-authors of friendship memoir Big Friendship: How We Keep
Each Other Close.




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