A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

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  • 1986 — The Boy in Blue & Flying: Canadian Sports

    It's game on as Becky, Cam and Alicia take on two underrated Canadian sports flicks from 1986: The Boy in Blue (starring a young Nic Cage!) and Flying (starring a young Keanu Reeves!). 

     


     


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    55 min
  • 1986 — Heavy Metal Parking Lot & Trick or Treat: Metal Head (feat. Graham Clark)

    Stop Podcasting Yourself co-host Graham Clark joins Becky and Alicia to revisit two cult films that rocked audiences in 1986: short doc Heavy Metal Parking Lot and horror fantasy Trick or Treat. 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, (Best newcomer both times), and in 2008 he won the cross Canada Yuk Yuks Great Canadian Laugh Off. He has appeared at the Bumbershoot festival, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Halifax Comedy Festival and Just For Laughs. Graham has been a guest writer on This Hour Has 22 Minutes and filmed his own hour long Comedy Now! special for CTV.

     


     


     


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    1 hr
  • 1975 — The Passenger & Seven Beauties: Viva Italia (feat. Emily Gagne)

    Take a trip to Italy with Alicia, Becky and special guest Emily Gagne (filmmaker and co-host of We Really Like Her! podcast) as they discuss women's roles in front of and behind the camera through Lina Wertmüller's Seven Beauties and Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger. Emily Gagne is a filmmaker, writer and marketing professional based in Toronto. The co-founder of the Toronto-based Spooky B Films, she co-wrote and co-directed short horror film Best Friends Forever (2019) with business partner Josh Korngut. Emily is also the co-host of We Really Like Her!, a podcast she and Danita Steinberg created to celebrate the great work of women in front of and behind the camera. You can listen to WRLH!'s Jane Fonda miniseries (Fondavision) now wherever you get your podcasts. 




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    1 hr 5 min
  • 1975 — Tommy & Lisztomania: The Who

    Turn up the volume with Cam, Becky and Alicia as they put a spotlight on Tommy and Lisztomania, two Ken Russell-directed musicals featuring The Who (and a ton of other 70s music stars). 

     


     


     


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    55 min
  • 1975 — Mahogany & Cooley High: Black Rep (feat. Carolyn Mauricette)

    Carolyn Mauricette (Development Coordinator & Programmer for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival and co-host of Reely Melanated) joins Cam and Becky as they revisit two important films from Black filmmakers that came out in 1975: Berry Gordy's Mahogany and Michael Schultz's Cooley High. 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, The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films, and The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film. She is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic and has also written pieces for www.graveyardshiftsisters.com, film reviews for www.cinemaaxis.com, and articles for Grim Magazine. She deep dives into race and representation of people of color in genre film on her website, www.viewfromthedark.ca, and co-hosts the podcast Reely Melanated with Ashlee Blackwell where they talk about movies they love. 



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    1 hr
  • 1975 — Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS & Gina: Canuxploitation (feat. Kier-La Janisse)
    Becky and Alicia are joined by special guest Kier-La Janisse (director of 2021 SXSW Audience Award winner Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) to talk about two of the most controversial Canadian films of 1975: Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS and Gina. Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, programmer and producer, founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007). She has co-edited several books including Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017) and is currently co-editing an anthology on the films of Robert Downey, Sr. and writing a monograph on Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. She was a producer on the documentaries Eurocrime! The Italian Cop And Gangster Films that Ruled the ‘70s (2012) and Tales of the Uncanny  (2020), and her first film as writer/director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, has its World Premiere at SXSW 2021.

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    58 min

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With the A Year in Film podcast, rewind and unwind with some of the biggest moments in movie history. Join experts from Hollywood Suite’s A Year in Film TV series — Becky Shrimpton, Alicia…