Author Stephen Lee Naish joins Shawn Gouralnik to discuss the music and sound of Dennis Hopper's films. We focused our discussion on the seminal 1969 film, Easy Rider, a Counterculture classic featuring a time capsule of 60s rock and roll. Stephen Lee Naish is an author and film critic. You can find his latest book, Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper here: https://www.routledge.com/Music-and-Sound-in-the-Films-of-Dennis-Hopper/Naish/p/book/9781032737690As well as his author page here:https://www.newstarbooks.com/author.php?author_id=9376___________________________________________________________________________________________________Radio FWD is University of Toronto, Scarborough’s student-run, not-for-profit Radio Station! You can find our latest events, articles, and studio production on our website: radiofwd.comCheck out what Radio FWD has brewing at all of our socials:https://www.facebook.com/radiofwd/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0WZPRAQhZH8PaX0p97A1jwhttps://www.instagram.com/radio_fwdhttps://x.com/radio_fwd__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Film Critic, Podcaster and King of Letterboxd Will Sloan joins Radio FWD's Shawn Gouralnik to discuss Michael and Us, The Important Cinema Club, film criticism, The Oscars, Matt Farley, and being a niche internet microcelebrity. You can find Will at one of his two recurring podcasts:The Important Cinema Club:https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-important-cinema-club/id1067435576Michael and Us:https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/michael-and-us/id1120756155As well as his socials:https://letterboxd.com/will_sloan/https://x.com/WillSloanEsq___________________________________________________________________________________________________Radio FWD is University of Toronto, Scarborough’s student-run, not-for-profit Radio Station! You can find our latest events, articles, and studio production on our website: radiofwd.comCheck out what Radio FWD has brewing at all of our socials:https://www.facebook.com/radiofwd/https://x.com/radio_fwdhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0WZPRAQhZH8PaX0p97A1jwhttps://www.instagram.com/radio_fwd/___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lead Programmer of TIFF's Midnight Madness Peter Kuplowsky joins Radio FWD's Shawn Gouralnik to discuss TIFF's 50th anniversary, U of T Cinema Studies, underrated countries producing genre films, and more!Check out TIFF and Midnight Madness when the festival returns September 4th, 2025.TIFF: https://tiff.net/Peter Kuplowsky: https://www.instagram.com/peterkapow/https://tiff.net/programmers/peter-kuplowsky___________________________________________________________________________________________________Radio FWD is University of Toronto, Scarborough’s student-run, not-for-profit Radio Station! You can find our latest events, articles, and studio production on our website: radiofwd.comCheck out what Radio FWD has brewing at all of our socials:https://www.facebook.com/radiofwd/https://twitter.com/radio_fwdhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0WZPRAQhZH8PaX0p97A1jwhttps://www.instagram.com/radio_fwd___________________________________________________________________________________________________Timestamps:

Revue Cinema programmer Steven Landry joins Radio FWD contributor Shawn Gouralnik to talk about working as a film programmer, the Revue Cinema in Toronto, Peter Bogdanovich's 1968 thriller Targets, and more!You can find Steven's program at the Revue Cinema here: https://www.instagram.com/nightmare_alley_to/https://revuecinema.ca/series/nightmare-alley/ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________Radio FWD is University of Toronto, Scarborough’s student-run, not-for-profit Radio Station! You can find our latest events, articles, and studio production on our website: radiofwd.comCheck out what Radio FWD has brewing at all of our socials:https://www.facebook.com/radiofwd/https://twitter.com/radio_fwdhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0WZPRAQhZH8PaX0p97A1jwhttps://www.instagram.com/radio_fwd__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Professor Adam Nayman joins Radio FWD contributor Shawn Gouralnik to talk about professional film criticism, teaching at University of Toronto, Auteurism, Deadpool and Wolverine, and his favourite Coen Brothers line delivery.Adam Nayman’s book, David Fincher: Mind Games is available now! https://www.amazon.com/David-Fincher-Games-Adam-Nayman/dp/141975341X Find Adam Nayman at Twitter: https://twitter.com/brofromanother?lang=en and The Ringer.  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________Radio FWD is University of Toronto, Scarborough’s student-run, not-for-profit Radio Station! You can find our latest events, articles, and studio production on our website: radiofwd.comCheck out what Radio FWD has brewing at all of our socials:https://www.facebook.com/radiofwd/https://twitter.com/radio_fwdhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0WZPRAQhZH8PaX0p97A1jwhttps://www.instagram.com/radio_fwd___________________________________________________________________________________________________Timestamps:0:00 Intro and Students in Class2:58 Studios as Brands/Film Bros6:50 How do you prepare to engage with a film/Let people enjoy things19:52 Connecting old and new films25:22 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and films that reference other films 31:15 Can one movie change your mind about a director/Auteurism44:21 Does being shot on film matter?51:15 Letterboxd and casual film criticism 53:30 Reviewing movies versus albums1:00:42 The Substance and Genre1:04:00 Legendary Deadpool and Wolverine rant1:12:03 Rapid fire questions