A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

Ahead of the premiere on April 5, Becky, Cam and Alicia offer a sneak peek at what's in store for A Year in Film Season 4. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the finale of Season 3, Becky, Cam and Alicia explore the dark corners of the land down under with Australian creepers The Proposition and Wolf Creek . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Turn a new page with Becky, Alicia and Eastern Promises programmer Eastern Yoo as they rediscover modern book-to-screen classics Pride and Prejudice and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Follow Becky, Cam and special guest Adam Nayman as they investigate 2005 neo-noirs Brick (directed by Rian Johnson) and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (directed by Shane Black). Adam Nayman is a contributing editor for  Cinema Scope  and writes on film for  The Ringer, Sight and Sound, Reverse Shot,  and  Little White Lies.  He has written books on the Coen Brothers, Paul T...

On the first episode of our 2005 series, Cam, Alicia and Becky carve out their opinions on stop-motion animation flicks Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Corpse Bride . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dive deep on early 2000s horror as Becky, Cam and special guest Trevor Henderson dare to revisit British creature feature The Descent and Japanese found footage fest Noroi: The Curse . Trevor Henderson is an illustrator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2010, and has been making ghosts and monsters ever since. He loves to create horrifi...

Norm Wilner ( Someone Else's Movie podcast) joins Becky and Alicia as they explore two historical epics from iconic directors released in 2005: Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven and Terrence Malick's A New World. A lifelong Torontonian, Norman Wilner became the senior film writer for  NOW Magazine  in early 2008. Previously, he had reviewed films for  Metro  newspapers across Ca...

Let the games begin as Brendan Ross joins Becky and Cam as they close off their 1997 series with a truly thrilling double bill. Brendan Ross is a Toronto-based part-time film programmer and full-time Debra Winger enthusiast. Host of the Neon Dreams Cinema Club retro film series since 2015, he also launched the covid-friendly Neon Streams virtual cinema to both recreate the theatrical exp...

Travel to galaxies far, far away with Becky, Alicia and special guest (and horror expert!) Robyn Citizen as they take another look at 1997 space odysseys Event Horizon and Alien Resurrection . Robyn Citizen, PhD, is the Senior Manager of Festival Programming at the Toronto International Film Festival. Before joining TIFF’s programming team in 2018, she was a film lecturer at the University of Brit...

Becky, Cam and Alicia turn the spotlight on animal actors with this week's family-friendly double bill: Cats Don't Dance and Mousehunt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a Business Woman's Special with this week's episode featuring Carolyn Mauricette, who joins Becky and Alicia in Beverly Hills to revisit 1997 comedies Romy & Michele's High School Reunion and B.A.P.S . Carolyn is a film programmer and Development Coordinator for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival and a contributing author to the first edition of the  Women in Horror Annual ,  T...

Buckle up as Cam, Becky and Stop Podcasting Yourself host Graham Clark take to the skies with 1997's Air Force One and Turbulence . Graham Clark, co-host of  Stop Podcasting Yourself , resides in Vancouver, BC. He has appeared regularly on CBC’s  The Debaters  and was a co-host and writer of City TV’s  The CityNews List . He has twice been nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award,...

Our 1997 series kicks off with returning guest host and film critic Radheyan Simonpillai, who joins Alicia and Becky as they celebrate Nicolas Cage's unreal performances in Face/Off and Con-Air . Rad is the Toronto-based film critic for Canadian national breakfast show Your Morning on CTV. He is also the culture editor for NOW Magazine, the pop culture columnist for CBC syndicated radio and has a...

Cam, Alicia and Becky get seduced by two different takes on gender roles from 1980: Paul Schrader's American Gigolo and James Bridges' Urban Cowboy . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do a deep dive on the B movies that came after Jaws as Becky and Important Cinema Club co-hosts Justin Decloux and Will Sloan revisit 1980 creature features Alligator and Humanoids from Deep . Justin Decloux is one of the hosts of the  Important Cinema Club  podcast, as well as a director, author, movie lover and Toronto cinema culture devotee. Justin's first feature film  Teddy Bom...

Hit the breaks because Becky, Cam and Alicia are steering the conversation towards 1980 comedies Used Cars and The Stuntman . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All hands on deck as Becky, Cam and supervising producer Emily Gagne (also the co-host of We Really Like Her! podcast and screening series) set their sights on 1980 seaside horror flicks The Fog and Ghost Ship . Emily Gagne is a Toronto-based filmmaker, critic and programmer. She currently co-hosts We Really Like Her! , a podcast in which she and Danita Steinberg speak to women about the film...

Becky, Cam and Alicia head home with a duo of Canadian coming-of-age films from 1980: the musical Hey Babe ! (starring a young Yasmine Bleeth's film debut!) and the Dennis Hopper-directed drama Out of the Blue . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first 1980 episode, Becky, Cam and Alicia go gangster with mob flicks Gloria and The Long Good Friday . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Film critic Anna Swanson joins Becky and Alicia to discuss two very different explorations of class struggles from 1971: John Cassavetes' Minnie and Moskowitz and Dušan Makavejev's W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism . Anna Swanson is a Toronto-based writer and critic who holds an MA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. Her work can be found at Film School Rejects , The Globe and Mail , C...

Becky, Cam and Alicia tackle a few "creature features" from 1971: The Tales of Beatrix Potter and Shinbone Alley . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the final episode of Shocktober 2021, Becky, Cam and Alicia respect their elders by visiting two "psycho-biddy" flicks that hit theatres in 1971: What's a Matter with Helen and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something wicked this way comes as Alicia, Becky and special guest Andrea Subissati ( Rue Morgue and The Faculty of Horror podcast) head to the U.K. to revisit two controversial films from 1971: Roman Polanski's Macbeth and Ken Russell's The Devils . In 2010, Andrea’s masters thesis on the social impact of zombie cinema was published under the title   When There’s No More Room In Hell: The So...

Kat Ellinger (Editor-in-Chief of Diabolique Magazine ) joins Becky and Alicia to talk about two Carmilla adaptations from 1971: Daughters of Darkness and Let's Scare Jessica to Death . 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, Senses of Cinema , Fangoria and Scream Magazine,...

Becky, Cam and Alicia return for the third season of A Year in Film with two baroque horror films from 1971: Murders in the Rue Morgue & The Abominable Dr. Phibes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.