Oct 27, 2015

It's Halloween, so veteran producer (Ginger Snaps, Splice) and newly-minted director (A Christmas Horror Story) Steven Hoban descends into the basement with Drew Goddard's delightful monster mash-up The Cabin in the Woods for a conversation about smart storytelling, sympathizing with the right characters, and how to...

Oct 20, 2015

Fresh from screening his new film The Demolisher at the Toronto After Dark Fillm Festival, writer-director Gabriel Carrer champions Kathryn Bigelow's adrenaline-junkie actioner Point Break, now almost a quarter-century old and still somehow the only movie where someone throws a dog at Keanu Reeves during a foot chase....

Oct 13, 2015

In advance of the Toronto premiere of her new film He Hated Pigeons on Sunday, October 18th, writer-director-producer Ingrid Veninger comes to the basement with one of the all-time great American indies, John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence. Your genial host Norm Wilner is almost ashamed of how quickly he brings...

Oct 6, 2015

With the Canadian premiere of his new movie Queen of Earth coming up in Toronto on October 13th, writer-director Alex Ross Perry takes a nice long look at Sofia Coppola's 2010 drama Somewhere and finds great comfort in its story of a super-famous father bonding with his tween daughter. Your genial host Norm...