Sean Kelly on Movies Podcast

To coincide with the film’s release onto VOD, we spoke via Zoom to Mike Cheslik, the co-writer and director of the slapstick silent film Hundreds of Beavers. We talk about the film’s successful festival and roadshow run, upcoming projects for him and his collaborator, Ryland Brickson Cole Trews, and a mutual love for releasing films on physical media! Hundreds of Beavers Synopsis IN THIS SILENT SU...

We spoke via Zoom with Caitlyn Sponheimer, the writer, director, producer, and co-star of the coming-of-age drama Wild Goat Surf, now playing in limited release, distributed by Vortex Media. Wild Goat Surf Synopsis Set in a rundown Penticton, Okanagan Valley RV park during the summer of 2003, Goat, a surfing-obsessed, thirteen-year-old skater girl, navigates the unbridled, unstructured, summer day...

I spoke via Zoom with producer, writer, and star Jonas Chernick about The Burning Season The Burning Season Synopsis Alena and her husband spend a summer up at Luna Lake Resort. JB runs the place. He and Alena begin a dangerous and passionate secret affair. Summers only. That’s the rule. Until they break it. A sexy and tragic love story – told backwards. The Burning Season directed by Sean Garrity...

At the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, we sat down with Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Ilse Moreno to speak about her short documentary The Canadian Dream. The 9-minute-long short had its World Premiere as part of the Hot Docs 2024 Shorts Program 1. The film is based on an interview with Ilse’s father Alberto Moreno Sartorius and his poor experiences as a migrant worker on a...

At the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, I met with director and subject Patricia Franquesa to speak about her film My Sextortion Diary, which had its Canadian Premiere at the festival. Before listening, please note that the film’s topic involves being blackmailed over stolen personal photos, so listener discretion is advised.

With Love and A Major Organ is the debut feature film from director Kim Albright. The film is written by Julia Lederer, based on her stage play, and is set in a world where hearts are made of inanimate objects and people suppress emotions to escape into technology, the story shares the travails of a vibrant young woman deftly played by Anna Maguire (Violation), who rips out her heart for the man s...

The independent 1970s-set talk show found footage horror film Late Night with the Devil opens in select theatres this weekend. For this extended review, I recruited Jolie Featherstone of Toronto Film Files to join the discussion on the film, as we were both in attendance last summer at the film’s Canadian premiere during Fantasia. Note: This review was recorded on March 19, 2024, before the online...

Here are our highlights for the 2024 Toronto Comicon! Check out clips from the convention’s panels, including the 70th Anniversary of Godzilla, Tom Canavagh, X-Men: The Animated Series, Star Wars actor Denis Lawson, Battlestar Galactica’s Mary McDonnell, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Christina Chong, Ahsoka’s Eman Esfandi and Diana Lee Inosanto, What We Do in the Shad...

A gym manager falls for a bodybuilder in Love Lies Bleeding . Lou (Kristen Stewart) is a manager of a gym trying to escape her past relationship with her gun smuggler father, and beetle enthusiast, Lou Sr. (Ed Harris). Despite her estrangement from her father, Lou still maintains a relationship with her sister Beth (Jena Malone), who's in an abusive relationship with her husband J.J. (Dave Franco)...

I am joined once again by Ulkar Alakbarova from “ Let the Movie Move Us ” to give our 2024 Oscar Predictions and discuss who we predict will win at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Music licensed from Lickd. The biggest mainstream and stock music platform for content creators Awards Night by Chris Blackwell, https://t.lickd.co/RvkWondGk3D License ID: vpKMkwaaWge Try Lickd FREE fo...

It’s a very special episode paying tribute to late film scholar David Bordwell . I dust off my Seventh Edition copy of Bordwell and Kristin Thompson’s textbook “Film Art: An Introduction” and read his narrative theory on Plot and Story. If you want to join me for a ten-minute film lecture, give this episode a listen! Music Attribution Music licensed from Lickd. The biggest mainstream and stock mus...

Paul Atreides joins the Fremen people to get revenge against the House of Harkonnen in Dune: Part Two . After the fall of House Atreides on Arrakis, the result of a joint attack by the forces of Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) and Emperor Shaddam IV (Christopher Walken). Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) take refuge with the Fremen of Sietch Tabr...

Join me in this exciting journey as we delve into the buzz and anticipation surrounding the 96th Academy Awards nominations. In this video, I’ll be running down the list of nominated films, sharing my reactions, and exploring the diverse cinematic landscape that has captured the attention of the Academy. Curiosity abounds as we uncover which film secured the most nominations and speculate on the p...

I spoke to director Matthias Hoene about his film The Last Exit (aka Little Bone Lodge), which screened as part of the 2023 Toronto After Dark Film Festival . Get Night Theme by Rob Kelly and over 1M + mainstream tracks here https://go.lickd.co/ Music License ID: Peaol7lBzWK

We spoke to Czech writer-director Robert Hloz about his science fiction film Restore Point , which screened as part of the 2023 Toronto After Dark Film Festival . Get Sci-Fi Rise by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd and over 1M + mainstream tracks here https://go.lickd.co/Music License ID: xdG6NVEdGXg

To coincide with the theatrical release of his sci-fi comedy RELAX, I’M FROM THE FUTURE, which won Best Feature Film at the 2022 Blood in the Snow Film Festival, I Zoomed in with the writer/director Luke Higginson to talk about the film. Get Mysterons by David O’Brien and over 1M + mainstream tracks here https://go.lickd.co/Music License ID: p97yP1RX0no

We spoke to writer and director Cord Jefferson on the TIFF 2023 red carpet for the World Premiere of American Fiction, which would go on to win the TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Award.

Here are our highlights from the 2023 edition of Fan Expo Canada, featuring clips from panels with the cast of Scream (1996), Jason Lee, Ming-Na Wen, and Stephen Amell.

Following the Canadian premiere of their horror documentary Satan Wants You at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, I had the chance to speak with filmmakers Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams about the film. The film recently went on to screen at the Fantasia Film Festival and today the film is opening across Canada, including a run in Toronto at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers C...

After the World Premiere of her sophomore feature The Sacrifice Game, I interviewed co-writer and director Jenn Wexler about her inspirations for the film.

Following the World Premiere of their third feature Where The Devil Roams at the 2023 Fantasia International Film Festival, I spoke with the filmmaking family of John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, and Lulu Adams. The discussion tackled the influences of the film and the pros and cons of directing horror films as a family.

I interviewed Paris Zarcilla about his debut feature film Raging Grace, which had its Canadian premiere as part of the 2023 Fantasia International Film Festival. I talk about his inspirations behind the film and the themes involving immigrant labour.

Following its World Premiere on the opening night of Fantasia 2023, I spoke to indie horror icon Larry Fessenden about his werewolf film Blackout, rounding out his “monster trilogy” that also includes Fessenden’s 1997 vampire film Habit and his 2019 Frankenstein variant Depraved. In addition to talking about Larry Fessenden’s werewolf influences, the discussion also talks about the mumblecore move...

Following the Canadian Premiere of the A24 and VVS-distributed horror film Talk to Me at the 2023 Fantasia International Film Festival, we got to speak with Australian YouTubers-turned-filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou.

The IMF team races to prevent control of a sentient A.I. from falling into the wrong hands in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One . A powerful artificial intelligent program known as The Entity becomes sentient and infiltrates the major defence, military systems, and intelligence networks of the world. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is given a mission by CIA director Eugene Kittridge (Henry Cze...