A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

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.Got a question for the hosts, or want to know more about the show? Email us at podcast@hollywoodsuite.ca or reach out via one of the platforms below.WebsiteTwitterFacebookInstagramTikTok

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.Got a question for the hosts, or want to know more about the show? Email us at podcast@hollywoodsuite.ca or reach out via one of the platforms below.WebsiteTwitterFacebookInstagramTikTokABOUT RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAIRad 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.

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.Got a question for the hosts, or want to know more about the show? Email us at podcast@hollywoodsuite.ca or reach out via one of the platforms below.WebsiteTwitterFacebookInstagramTikTokABOUT JUSTIN DECLOUXJustin 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 filmTeddy Bomb(2014) is currently available onBlu-Rayand digital streaming platforms. His second feature filmImpossible Horror(2017) is available onBlu-Ray. He is author ofRadioactive Dreams: The Cinema of Albert Pyun, and is co-author ofThe Important Cinema Club Journal No. 1ABOUT WILL SLOANWill is a writer and reporter, working withYork University,Ryerson University,and theWoolwich Observer.He also co-host the podcastsThe Important Cinema Club, along with Justin Decloux, as well asMichael and Us.As a freelance writer and journalist, he has written for NPR,Harper's,Toronto Life,Current Affairs, TheGlobe & Mail,The Believer,and many others.

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.Got a question for the hosts, or want to know more about the show? Email us at podcast@hollywoodsuite.ca or reach out via one of the platforms below.WebsiteTwitterFacebookInstagramTikTokABOUT ADAM NAYMANAdam Naymanis a contributing editor forCinema Scopeand writes on film forThe Ringer, Sight and Sound, Reverse Shot,andLittle 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.

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.Got a question for the hosts, or want to know more about the show? You can always email us at podcast@hollywoodsuite.ca or reach out via one of the platforms below.WebsiteTwitterFacebookInstagramTikTokABOUT STEPHANIE MALEKStephanie Malek is an actor, singer, and all around nerd from Toronto, ON. Stephanie is the co-creator ofCardboard 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

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.Got a question for the hosts, or want to know more about the show? You can always email us at podcast@hollywoodsuite.ca or reach out via one of the platforms below.WebsiteTwitterFacebookInstagramTikTokABOUT BRENDAN ROSSBrendanRossis 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.