Peek Behind the Screen for some special insights into film at Somerset House. Writer Hannah Patterson takes a look at Thelma and Louise's on screen successors.

Thelma & Louise and La Femme Nikita breathed fresh life into the cinema on their release in the early 90s, finding eager fans in female viewers who were hungry for intelligent, tough women on screen. But what kind of female protagonists has cinema offered in the 25 years since? With a panel of smart filmmakers, writers and social commentators, Hannah Patterson will look at more recent cinema and TV offerings from Misfits and Kick Ass to Salt and Sucker Punch to debate whether movies about strong women are for women at all.

Personally I'm all about the strong women of the small screen.My kids are growing up on Xena Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire slayer and Firefly- none of those Disney damsels in distress.