A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

Becky, Cam and Alicia tackle a few "creature features" from 1971: The Tales of Beatrix Potter and Shinbone Alley.

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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?

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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 Sociology of the Living Dead. Since then, she has been published in The Undead and Theology (2012), The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (2015) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She joined the staff of Rue Morgue magazine in 2014 and became Executive Editor in 2017. In addition to writing, Andrea has appeared on the TV horror documentary Why Horror? (2014) and is co-founder of the Toronto-based horror lecture series The Black Museum. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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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, and provided various home video supplements, commentary (including Blue Underground's 4K Ultra HD version of Daughters of Darkness and Imprint's Bluray of Let's Scare Jessica to Death), liner notes, on camera interviews and audio essays, for a number of companies including Arrow Films, Kino Lorber, Indicator, Second Run and Cult Films. Kat is the author of Daughters of Darkness (Devil's Advocates, Auteur), and All the Colours of Sergio Martino (Arrow Films).

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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.

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Becky, Cam and Alicia are back with new episodes of A Year in Film podcast starting October 5.

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Go goth(ic) with co-hosts Becky, Cam and Alicia as they summon two psychological horror films about misogyny from 2000: What Lies Beneath and The Cell.

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Film critic Radheyan Simonpillai gets in the game with Cam and Becky as they discuss two sports movies directed by women in the year 2000: Karyn Kusama's Girlfight and Gina Prince-Bythewood's Love & Basketball. 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 Friday Flicks segment on CTV News Channel. Rad also contributes to CTV's eTalk and The Guardian.

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Important Cinema Club co-hosts Justin Decloux and Will Sloan team up with Becky to investigate two very different reworkings of the Classic Movie Monster: Godzilla 2000 and Dracula 2000. 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 Bomb (2014) is currently available on Blu-Ray and digital streaming platforms. His second feature film Impossible Horror (2017) is available on Blu-Ray. He is author of Radioactive Dreams: The Cinema of Albert Pyun, and is co-author of The Important Cinema Club Journal No. 1 Will is a writer and reporter, working with York University, Ryerson University, and the Woolwich Observer. He also co-host the podcasts The Important Cinema Club, along with Justin Decloux, as well as Michael and Us. As a freelance writer and journalist, he has written for NPR, Harper's, Toronto Life, Current Affairs, The Globe & Mail, The Believer, and many others. 

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