A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

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A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast episodes

  • 2000 — Mission to Mars & Red Planet: Baroque Space (feat. Adam Nayman)
    Prepare to see red as critic, lecturer and instructor Adam Nayman follows Becky and Alicia into uncharted (and occasionally uninhabitable) territory to revisit two of the first sci-fi stinkers of the new millennium: Mission to Mars and Red Planet. 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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    1 hr 3 min
  • 2000 — Cecil B. Demented & But I'm a Cheerleader: Queer Counter Culture (feat. Stephanie Malek)
    Enter the new millennium with Becky, Alicia and actor/professional fangirl Stephanie Malek as they champion two unapologetically queer cult faves from 2000: John Waters' Cecil B. Demented and Jamie Babbit's But I'm a Cheerleader. Stephanie Malek is an actor, singer, and all around nerd from Toronto, ON. Stephanie is the co-creator of Cardboard Sword Collective, an events and theatre group that hosts nerd-based events online and around the city, and online. They’re best known for their nerd trivia nights at Storm Crow Manor, and their sold out Halloween runs of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s "Once More With Feeling" where she also performed as Anya. Twitter/Instagram:@stephanie_malek

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    1 hr 2 min
  • 1994 — In the Mouth of Madness and Cemetery Man: It Creeps (feat. Brendan Ross)
    Brendan Ross (programmer for Toronto's Neon Dreams Cinema Club) joins Becky and Cam as they resurrect two cult horror flicks from 1994 that are as funny as they are freaky: John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness and Michele Soavi's Cemetery Man. 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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    55 min
  • 1994 — Shallow Grave & Four Weddings and a Funeral: British Invasion (feat. Norm Wilner)
    Norm Wilner (senior film writer for NOW Magazine, host and producer of Someone Else’s Movie podcast) travels across the pond with Cam and Becky as they look back on two very different British comedies that came out of 1994: Four Weddings and a Funeral (the first Hugh Grant/Richard Curtis collab) and Shallow Grave (the directorial debut of Danny Boyle). 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 1 min
  • 1994 — Wolf & Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Return of the Monster (feat. Andrea Subissati)
    Andrea Subissati (Co-Host of The Faculty of Horror podcast, Executive Editor of Rue Morgue) joins Becky and Alicia for a monster mash-up featuring two maligned horror revamps from 1994: Wolf and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 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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    53 min
  • 1994 — The Flintstones & The Little Rascals: Old IP

    You yabba dabba do not want to miss this! Listen in as co-hosts Becky, Cam and Alicia revisit two kids movies from 1994 that were made to cash in on parents' nostalgia: The Flintstones and The Little Rascals. 


     


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    1 hr 3 min
  • 1994 — Muriel’s Wedding & The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Australian Quirk (feat. Allysin Chaynes and Champagna)

    Becky and special guest hosts Allysin Chaynes and Champagna turn the spotlight on two Queer Cinema classics that came out of the Outback in 1994: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Muriel's Wedding. Allysin Chaynes is a Toronto drag performer and pop cultural sponge, specializing in all things subcultural, queer, camp, strange and unusual. A member of the SpeakeasyTv creative collective on Speakeasy-TV.com, Allysin is an online host, organizer and producer of Toronto’s first digital queer venue. She can be seen across the city in drag bars, theatres, holes in the wall, dive bars and anywhere in-between. She’s a time travelling, anachronistic rockstar, A DJ, A Live musician, and a performer of Magic. Allysin has been creating Drag wonder with queens from the West End for nearly a decade, especially alongside her Sisters in Toronto's House of Filth! You can currently catch her weekly on speakeasy-tv.com or streaming in the show Queens on CBC gem as Naomi. A graduate of MacEwan’s Theatre Arts program and Centennial’s Advanced Script to Screen, Champagna has an extensive background in acting, most recently in CBC Gem Original QUEENSas Elaina Love. Select credits include: POPPORN (OUTtv) SHADOWLANDS (OUTtv), POWER TEAM (ATCO Energy Theatre), MEAT PUPPET (Northern Light Theatre), JANE EYRE (Plain Jane Players) and her own works LOCK UP, and DO BETTER – a critique on TPS inaction. Champagna has conquered Toronto as Bent Beauty Supreme 2019, walking the runway for Hayley Elsaesser and opening for the likes of: Detox, Bob the Drag Queen, Kimchi, Thorgy Thor and Alyssa Edwards. Currently, she is in development for her series WOMB ENVY slated to film this summer. 



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    56 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…