A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

Take a sneak peek at Season 5 of Hollywood Suite's A Year in Film podcast, which will cover iconic films from 1977, 1988, 1991 and 2002. Catch new episodes every other week starting April 11, 2023, and look out for new episodes of the A Year in Film TV series coming in May 2023, exclusively on Hollywood Suite. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the Season 4 finale, Becky, Cam and Alicia join forces again to tackle two polarizing returns to popular franchises: 2010's Predators (directed by Nimród Antal) and Tron: Legacy (directed by Joseph Kosinski). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Podcaster Petula Neale teams up with Becky and Cam as they take on 2010's obsession with over-the-hill action flicks including The Expendables (directed by Sylvester Stallone) and Red (directed by Robert Schwentke). In the beforetime, Petula hosted her podcast at In a TIFF about films and the Toronto International Film Festival. Now she is the co-host for Back Issue Bloodbath , a podcast...

Becky and Alicia invite Laura Desiree to the AYIF stage to discuss the silly, yet sultry Burlesque and Elektra Luxx . Raised on a healthy diet of classic hollywood cinema and her father’s room-sized vinyl collection, Laura Desiree has always had curiosity for all things sex and sensuality. While attending The New York Film Academy in 2008, she was seduced by nightclub culture and spent t...

Animation expert Luc Chamberland helps Becky and Alicia draw some conclusions about 2010 films The Illusionist (directed by Sylvain Chomet) and A Cat in Paris (directed by Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli). A multi-award-winning filmmaker, Luc Chamberland was born in St. Lambert, Montreal, and was raised on an intense diet of films, television and comic books. He studied Cinema at Concord...

Becky and supervising producer Emily Gagne are joined by Jordan Hayles as they get emotional about 2010's Boy (directed by Taika Waititi) and Submarine (directed by Richard Ayoade). Hailing from Scarborough, Ontario, Jordan Hayles is a television and film editor who has taken pride in his attention to detail which has lead to his ascension in his career. His diverse array of work ha...

Becky, Cam and special guest Allison Dore kick off the 2010 series with two movies about, well, kicking ass: Kick-Ass and MacGruber . Allison is host of the entertainment-focused, daily talk radio show The Breakdown , on SiriusXM channel 167. In 2018, Allison founded Howl & Roar Records, a female-centric comedy record label with a mandate to focus 70% of their output on women in the industry....

Becky and supervising producer Emily Gagne welcome Tananarive Due aboard as they take a deep dive on two beloved sci-fi flicks from 1999: Galaxy Quest and Deep Blue Sea . Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collab...

You're invited to spend the night at not one, but two haunted houses as Becky is joined by Josh Korngut and Emily Gagne to talk about the 1999 versions of House on Haunted Hill (based on the William Castle film) and The Haunting (based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House ). Josh Korngut is the managing editor of Dread Central and host of the popular Development Hell podcast where he un...

It's a meet cute as Nichole Perkins joins Becky and Cam to talk about 1999 rom coms The Wood and The Best Man . Nichole Perkins is a writer and podcast host from Nashville, Tennessee. She hosted This Is Good For You , a podcast about finding pleasure in life, and previously was a co-host of Thirst Aid Kit , a podcast about pop culture and desire. Nichole is the author of Sometimes I Trip on How Ha...

Time for some himbo cinema as Becky, special guest Norm Wilner, and supervising producer Emily Gagne ride the Brendan Fraser renaissance wave and revisit 1999's The Mummy and Blast from the Past. Norm Wilner joined TIFF as a programmer after 35 years as a Toronto film critic and entertainment journalist, most recently as the senior film writer for NOW Magazine . He also hosts the Someone Else’s Mo...

Amil Niazi hits the hallway with Becky and Cam as they dissect two devilishly fun teen movies from 1999: Cruel Intentions and Jawbreaker. Amil is a writer and cultural critic whose work has appeared in The New York Times , The Guardian and Washington Post . She has a monthly column in New York Magazine 's The Cut and is also the showrunner and panelist for CBC's weekly pop culture podcast, Po...

It's a Kirsten Dunst double bill as Emily Gagne joins Becky and Alicia in revisiting two films that helped the former child star become a teen dream: Drop Dead Gorgeous and Dick . Emily is a Toronto-based film and TV creative who co-hosts We Really Like Her! , a podcast and screening series focused on women in film. She has written pop culture criticism for TV Guide Canada , Yahoo , The Mary Sue ,...

Actor, comedian, filmmaker and proud Canadian Jay Baruchel stops by to stand on guard for two absolutely outrageous slices of CanCon released in 1985: The Peanut Butter Solution (directed by Michael Rubbo) and Crime Wave (directed by John Paizs). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Graham Clark and Dave Shumka team up with Becky to discuss two 1985 films that were clearly inspired by the iconic Bruce Lee: Gymkata and The Last Dragon . Graham Clark is a three-time Canadian Comedy Award winner and co-host of Maximum Fun's Stop Podcasting Yourself , which just passed its 750th episode. He has appeared on CTV, CBC's The Debaters , Just for Laughs, and HBO. He served as the...

Sydney Urbanek hits the studio with Becky and Cam as they revisit two 1985 films that turned pop stars into movie stars: Desperately Seeking Susan (directed by Susan Seidelman, starring Madonna) and Mad Mad Beyond Thunderdome (directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie, starring Tina Turner). Sydney is a freelance writer and editor based out of Toronto, and a contributing editor at&nbs...

It's zombie week as Becky and Alicia are joined by Thea Munster as they dig up 1985's Day of the Dead (directed by George A. Romero) and Return of the Living Dead (directed by Dan O'Bannon). Thea Munster, is a musician, coordinator of odd occurrences, vintage hearse driver and performer. Her love of the strange and unusual led her to create the Toronto Zombie Walk in 2003. As the first event of it...

Neon Cinema Club's Brendan Ross hits the gym with Becky and Alicia as they revisit two films that personify the '80s aerobics boom: Heavenly Bodies and Perfect . Brendan Ross is a Toronto-based film programmer, currently acting as host and curator of the Neon Dreams Cinema Club film series which he founded in 2015. He has programmed for various venues including The Revue Cinema, The Roya...

On the first episode of our 1985 series, Becky, Cam and Alicia take flight with Disney's unofficial Wizard of Oz sequel and the first Sesame Street feature film to be released in theatres. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Becky is joined by Important Cinema Club co-hosts Will Sloan and Justin Decloux as they take a peek at two pornos from 1973: The Devil in Miss Jones and Wakefield Poole's Bible ! Will Sloan hosts the podcast  The Important Cinema Club  with Justin Decloux, as well as  Michael and Us . As a freelance writer and journalist, he has written for  Cinema Scope ,  NPR, Harper's,...

Becky and Cam are joined by writer, programmer and curator Carolyn Mauricette as they tackle the other two Pam Grier movies of 1973: Scream Blacula Scream and Black Mama, White Mama . Carolyn Mauricette is a Toronto-based Rotten Tomatoes approved critic, film writer, Programmer/Development Coordinator for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival and Director of Canadian Programming for the Fantasi...

Becky, Alicia and special guest Lacey Novinka zoom in on two groundbreaking, women-directed films from 1973: Lina Wertmüller's Love & Anarchy , and Stephanie Rothman's Group Marriage . Lacey Novinka is a programming coordinator at Hollywood Suite and a recent graduate of Centennial College's Broadcasting program. She is incredibly passionate about film, and credits a screening of Luis Buñuel's...

Author, editor and film critic Kat Ellinger takes Becky and Cam on a trip with two unreal films from 1973: Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz's Messiah of Evil, and Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain . Kat Ellinger is the Editor-in-Chief at  Diabolique Magazine , and the co-host of their  Daughters of Darkness  and  Hell's Belles  podcasts. She has also written for BFI,&n...

Anthony Oliveira hops on the bus with Becky and Cam as they travel back to 1973 to praise two beloved stage-to-screen adaptations: David Greene's Godspell and Norman Jewison's Jesus Christ Superstar . Anthony Oliveira is a National Magazine and GLAAD award-winning author, pop culture critic, and PhD living in Toronto. He is the film programmer for the Revue Cinema's Dumpster Racoon Cinema programm...

On the Season 4 premiere, Becky, Cam and Alicia dive into the carnal horrors of 1973 with the late Ivan Reitman's Cannibal Girls and Paul Morrissey's Flesh for Frankenstein (sometimes known as Andy Warhol's Frankenstein ). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.