SOMEONE ELSE’S MOVIE is just what it says on the label: Each week, an actor, director, screenwriter, critic or industry observer will discuss a film that he or she admires, but had no hand in making. Hosted as genially as possible by Norm Wilner.
It’s a mother-daughter episode as actor Sheila McCarthy and producer-director Mackenzie Donaldson – who collaborated on the post-collapse thriller All the Lost Ones, now onscreen in Toronto at the Ca…
Writer, director and actor Ben Petrie, whose first feature The Heirloom has its Toronto premiere at the TIFF Lightbox this Thursday, November 28th, before moving to the Carlton and the Revue on Frida…
With Vivieno Caldinelli’s horror comedy Scared Shitless making its Toronto premiere this Saturday, November 23rd at the Blood in the Snow film festival, scene-stealer Mark McKinney is here to ride or…
With her new film Lucky Star making its Toronto premiere at the Reel Asian film festival this Saturday, writer-director Gillian McKercher is here to celebrate Pietro Marcello’s muscular adaptation of…
Since Lauren Collins is starring in the new Crave series My Dead Mom – and since the US election is all anyone can think about right now – here’s her 2015 episode on Gillian Robespierre’s breakout co…
With his sci-fi drama The Becomers landing on Blu-ray today, writer-director Zach Clark closes out his October horror viewing with Jack Hill’s unquantifiable family study Spider Baby. Your genial hos…
With his short film The Light Before the Sun making its world premiere at the Hamilton Film Festival this Saturday, October 26, actor and director Michael Greyeyes is here to talk about his newfound …
As their found-footage horror movie It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This continues rolling through theaters, filmmakers Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti drop by to talk about their love for Eli Roth’s Hoste…
With her first feature Compulsus opening across Canada this Friday – just as her second film, Lakeview, rolls through the festival circuit – writer-director Tara Thorne stops by to salute Lorene Scaf…
He faces off against hard-partying puppets in Steven Kostanski’s new comedy Frankie Freako, but right now Conor Sweeney is here to get very serious about his love for Ridley Scott’s genre-defining 19…
With her new drama The Arrival freshly available on digital and on demand, producer-director Alyssa Rallo Bennett is here to explore the slow-rolling dread of Sam Esmail’s 2023 drama Leave the World…
With his paranormal thriller Succubus hitting DVD and digital next week, writer-director RJ Daniel Hanna stops in with a film that somehow no one’s picked in over 500 episodes: Stanley Kubrick’s A Cl…
His debut dramatic feature Shook makes its world premiere at TIFF this Saturday, but first Amar Wala is here to celebrate Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, the 2019 indie hit that spins an emotionally compl…
His first feature Doubles is available on digital and on demand today, so writer-director Ian Harnarine steps up to celebrate Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, the movie that introduced reggae to…
His exquisite folk-horror film All You Need Is Death is on digital and on demand in the US and making its way to Canada, so writer-director Paul Duane drops by to sing a love song to Kiyoshi Kurosawa…
Her new drama Good One is in US theaters now and opening in Canada this Friday, so writer-director India Donaldson is here to discuss Archipelago, Joanna Hogg’s 2010 drama about a family struggling t…
With his new thriller Cuckoo creeping into theaters this Friday, writer-director Tilman Singer joins us from Berlin to unpack his love for David Lynch’s 1997 identity-crisis nightmare Lost Highway. Y…
With her new series Poly is the New Monogamy freshly landed on Hollywood Suite, actor, producer, writer and director Cat Hostick is here to tackle Ari Aster’s sunlit creeper Midsommar -- you know, th…
Before his charming new film Bookworm opens Montreal’s Fantasia Festival on Thursday, producer and director Ant Timpson spends an hour discussing his love for Cornel Wilde’s 1965 survival thriller Th…
Juno-winning comedian and actor Dave Merhege – who co-stars opposite Daisy Ridley in Rachel Lambert’s affecting new drama Sometimes I Think About Dying – is here to praise the manic commitment of Rob…