Carolyn Talks..., Podcast

In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I have an enlightening conversation with V.T. Nayani, director and co-writer and actress Priya Guns, about their feature film This Place , a film about queer love, what it means to be First Nations, Tamil and a racialized person in Canada. The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. #ThisPlaceFilm #TIFF22 #SHWHTIFF22 Follow V.T. on socia...

In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I had a terrific time chatting with writer, director, editor, producer and actor Anthony Shim, actress Choi Seung-yoon, and cinematographer Christopher Lew, about their film Riceboy Sleeps , which at its World Premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival Centered on young single mother So-young who moves to Vancouver, Canada with her young son Dong-...

I had a great time chatting with Toronto-based musician and composer Kalaisan Kalaichelvan about his slightly unorthodox career path which lead to him working on This Place, the queer love story about romance, cultural identity and finding belonging. Having it's world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, This Place was d irected by V.T. Nayani, and co-written with Golshan Abdm...

The Toronto International Film Festival celebrated its return to fully in-person festivities, and Carolyn had a great time screening interesting and thought-provoking films such as The Hotel , by Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai, starring Ning Yuanyuan, Ye Du, Qu Ying and Huang Xiaolei. In this episode, Carolyn spoke to Wang about the way his film uses minimal aesthetics to create an atmosphere of...

In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I chat with Cinematographer Alan Gwisdowski about filming two films, and three stories in one with his new project HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL the satire and faux documentary feature by Adamme Ebo, starring Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown. The film is available for streaming on Peacock TV. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at: @CarrieCnh12 My live-tweet h...

It's been a minute since our last episode, but LaNeysha and I have great new manga, films and TV shows that we enjoyed this past June and July, and and shared our thoughts on what we watched and read. Book: Chainsaw Man by manga creator Tatsuki Fujimoto TV Shows: Power Book III: Raising Kanan, on STARZ Network Films: Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Next Sohee by writer and director July J...

In this episode of #ICarolynTalks, I speak with South Korean writer and director July Jung about her film, NEXT SOHEE 다음 소희, starring Kim Si-eun as a high school student who makes a devastating decision, and Bae Doo-na as a detective who meets constant road block when no one else seems to share her anger and frustrations about the circumstances that lead to So-hee's death. Find me on Twitter a...

In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I speak with writer, director, editor and composer Andy Mitton, about his film The Harbinger , which premiered at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada. Starring Gabby Beans and Emily Davis as two friends caught in a waking nightmare, as the fear of the unknown experienced by the whole world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mitton, Beans and Davis do...

In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., she speaks with director Tochiro Saga about his new sports drama Red Shoes , which had its world premiere at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada. Written by Shinya Hokimoto and Kyoko Uesugi, Red Shoes focuses on former Fly Weight boxing prodigy Manami Ota (Aya Asahina, Alice in Boderland)) who can't seem to win as she tries to make a comeback in...

So Here's What Happened!, took a bit of a break and missed April, but we're back! In this new episode of the podcast, Carolyn and LaNeysha share their thoughts on what they read and watched during the months of April and May. Book/WebToon The Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok Lee Morgana and Oz by Miyuli. TV The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey - AppleTV+ Love Death & Robots - Netflix Stranger Things se...

For this episode of So Here's What Happened! Podcast reviews of what to read and watch, Carolyn and LaNeysha chat about their favorite reads and watches, and not so favorite watches (*ahem* Morbius) , of March. LaNeysha's Picks Books: Lupin The 3rd : Castle of Cagliostro, The - Complete Storyboards by Hayao Miyazaki Studio Ghibli Tankobon TV : Kotatro Lives Alone (Netflix) Movie: Morbius Carolyn's...

In this episode of Carolyn Talks... , I speak with director and writer Valerio Zanoli , about his film NOT TO FORGET, about the challenges caretakers face when taking care of a loved one living with dementia. It stars Karen Grassle, Kevin Hardesty, Olympia Dukakis and Cloris Leechman in her last film role. NOT TO FORGET is available for streaming on AppleTV+, Amazon PrimeVideo and other platforms....

Written and directed by Nyla Innuksuk, and set in the small arctic coastal town of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Slash/Back which premiered at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, is a multi-genre coming of age action feature showing how one's connection to culture and homeland can give a person the strength to fight back against invaders. In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I speak with Nyla and actresses Tasia...

Carolyn and Neysha are back for another year of So Here's What Happened! To begin their recaps for 2022 they get into their some of the shows they've seen like the latest Korean Zombie drama All of Us Are Dead , books and Wetoons read, and for Carolyn some of the films she saw and creatives she interviewed during her coverage of the Sundance Film Festival. Below is the list of all content mentione...

Believing he has no other recourse than to take action to obtain the money he's owed, Brian Easley a veteran of the U.S. Marines walks into a bank, passes a note saying he has a bomb to the teller, and there begins a day that many will never forget, and many more never even knew of. In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I discuss the film 892 with Valerie Complex, film critic and associate editor a...

In this episode of Carolyn Talk..., I speak with award winning director Ryoo Sung-Wan about his 2021 film Escape From Mogadishu , about the harrowing escape of South and North Korean diplomats from the city of Mogadishu at the beginning of the Somalian civil war in 1991. Co-written with Lee Ki-cheol Escape from Mogadishu is based on the book "Escape' by Kang Shin-sung, who was a diplomat for the S...

In this new episode of Carolyn Talks..., I speak with Savita Singh, writer, director and cinematographer about her new short film Shadow Bird (Sonsi). Starring veteran Indian actor Jameel Khan as The Timekeeper, Shadow Bird is a surrealist story about Nadi (Arohi Radhakrishnan), a little girl a who becomes enamored with a mysterious bird in a mystical and mythical Indian village where time flows d...

December Episode of So Here’s What Happened! picks up with LaNeysha and Carolyn discussing and review everything they watched and read during the month. The December episode of the podcast features include Books The Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao The Walking Cat: A Cat's-Eye-View of the Zombie Apocalypse by Tomo Kitaoka Shows Netflix's Original Anime Komi Can't Communicate Korean dram...

Following its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival fellow film critic Emily Tannenbaum, joined me for this episode of Carolyn Talks..., to discuss Mass , a film that asks and in a sense answers the question of how do you have the most difficult conversation of your life with the people who possibly hate you the most? Written and directed by Fran Kranz, Mass is an emotionally intense and at...

In this new episode of So Here's What Happened!, and the second discussion with members of the Nubia & The Amazons creative team, Carolyn and Neysha chat with author Vita Ayala, about the various avenues aspiring writers and artists can enter the comic industry, how Vita got on their own path into working with mega brand DC and Marvel as well as creating their own original work. They of course...

In an almost chilling and unnerving serendipitous coincidence, Frimas the new short film by writer and director Marianne Farley was released for festival audiences, right at the time politicians in Texas passed a bill banning abortions past 6 weeks. Set in Montreal, Canada in the near future, Cara (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman) is a woman who has no choice but to make the extremely dangerous and heartb...

Snakehead is the crime saga the debut feature film of writer and director by Evan Jackson Leong is as much about the gritty underworld of human trafficking, as it is about the emotional toll being an immigrant takes on the psyche. Through his main female characters Sister Tse (Shuya Chang) and Dai Mah (Jade Wu) audiences see the generational gap of the new and old. Desperate to find and reconnect...

Directed by Jesse. V. Johnson, and written by Katherine Lee McEwan and Roman Serir, Hell Hath No Fury , is a World War II action about the strength and determination of Marie DuJardin (Nina Bergman) to bring some justice for her family, when she's given the ultimatum of helping a small band of U.S. soldier find a hidden cache of gold, or be killed. In Hell Hath No Fury, Nina Bergman plays Marie Du...

In this new episode of So Here's What Happened! Carolyn and LaNeysha chat with comics writer and creator Stephanie Williams about her latest work, the highly anticipated story of Nubia and the Amazons, for DC Comics. The ladies chat about how Stephanie, co-writer Vita Ayala and their creative team use the story to speak to representation and issues affecting women, as well as the history of Nubia...

September Episode of So Here’s What Happened! picks up with LaNeysha and Carolyn discussing and review everything they  watched and read  during the month. The September episode of the podcast features include  Squid Game, Midnight Mass, Yumi's Cells,  and  Detention. Featured series for this episode: Squid Game,  Midnight Mass,  The &nbs...