A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

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  • Coming soon: Season 4!
    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.

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    1 min
  • 2005 — Brick & Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Neo-Noir (feat. Adam Nayman)
    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 Thomas Anderson, David Fincher (forthcoming), Showgirls, and the films of Ben Wheatley. He lectures on cinema and journalism at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. Twitter: @brofromanother.

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    52 min
  • 2005 — Noroi: The Curse & The Descent: Underground Horror (feat. Trevor Henderson)

    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 horrific online urban legends, ghost photos, and depictions of horrific cryptids for various clients.


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    58 min
  • 2005 — Kingdom of Heaven & The New World: Holy Wars (feat. Norm Wilner)

    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 Canada, and covered every video format imaginable (yes, even Beta) for the Toronto Star column from 1988 to 2006. His byline has appeared in Cinema Scope, Montage, Marquee and even The Hollywood Reporter that one time. You may also remember him from his appearances as a critic and commentator on any radio or television program that will call him. He’s also the host of the Someone Else’s Movie podcast, which is really good and you should listen to it. He served as secretary and vice-president of the Toronto Film Critics Association from 2008 to 2016; in 2009, he was a member of the features jury for Canada’s Top Ten. A member of the international film critics’ organization FIPRESCI, he’s sat on festival juries in Toronto, Montreal, London, Vienna and Palm Springs. He lives in Little Italy, just a short walk from two coffee shops, three sandwich shops and one movie theatre.


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    1 hr 6 min
  • 1997 — Breakdown & The Game: Deadly Conspiracies (feat. Brendan Ross)

    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 experience at home and raise money for various charities. Learn more about Neon Dreams by visiting them on Instagram @neondreamscinema. 


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    1 hr
  • 1997 — Event Horizon & Alien Resurrection: Scary Spaceships (feat. Robyn Citizen)

    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 British Columbia from 2012 to 2017, during which she created the course Asian Horror Cinema. She has published essays in edited volumes and film journals, programmed for the Human Rights Film Festival and served on local and international film festival juries. Recently, she wrote chapters in the edited volumes Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror, The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema and the forthcoming, The Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror Chapter. 



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    57 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…