It's ladies' night on the Film Weekly podcast as Jason Solomons welcomes two women directors: Xiaolu Guo, whose London-set immigration drama She, A Chinese, won the Locarno film festival's top prize, and Kathryn Bigelow, whose bomb disposal drama The Hurt Locker is out this Friday.
Xan Brooks joins Jason to review the week's big releases, including Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodóvar's valentine to his perennial leading lady, Penélope Cruz. Funny People, Judd Apatow's baggy comedy about a terminally-ill comedian played by Adam Sandler, also comes under the spotlight, as does the second part of the French gangster saga starring Vincent Cassel, the confusingly-titled Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One.
Jason and Xan flick through the Observer Film Quarterly, out this Sunday, which selects the 25 best British films of the last 25 years. Which Mike Leigh film would Jason choose? And does Xan approve of Shaun of the Dead's inclusion?
