A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

Becky is joined by Important Cinema Club co-hosts Will Sloan and Justin Decloux as they take a peek at two pornos from 1973: The Devil in Miss Jones and Wakefield Poole's Bible! Will Sloan hosts the podcastThe Important Cinema Clubwith Justin Decloux, as well asMichael and Us. As a freelance writer and journalist, he has written forCinema Scope,NPR, Harper's, Toronto Life, The Believer, and many others.JustinDeclouxhosts the podcast The Important Cinema Club with Will Sloan, as well as co-hosting the No Such Thing as a Bad Movie and The Bay Street Video Podcast. When he's not podcasting, he's making movies, writing about movies, or watching movies.

Becky and Cam are joined by writer, programmer and curator Carolyn Mauricette as they tackle the other two Pam Grier movies of 1973: Scream Blacula Scream and Black Mama, White Mama. CarolynMauricette is a Toronto-based Rotten Tomatoes approved critic, film writer, Programmer/Development Coordinator for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival and Director of Canadian Programming for the Fantasia International Film Festival. You can find her writing on her website View From the Dark and Hollywood Suite. She has written reviews and articles for the online and print editions of Rue Morgue Magazine and Grim Magazine and is a contributing author toThe Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films andThe Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films.Carolynhas produced talks onAfrofuturismfor The Black Museum, Afrofuturism and Black women monsters for Fantasia Film Festival in 2020 and 2021.You can also hear her onReely Melanated,a film podcast focusing on Black creators and performers, with her co-host Ashlee Blackwell.

Becky, Alicia and special guest Lacey Novinka zoom in on two groundbreaking, women-directed films from 1973: Lina Wertmüller's Love & Anarchy, and Stephanie Rothman's Group Marriage. Lacey Novinka is a programming coordinator at Hollywood Suite and a recent graduate of Centennial College's Broadcasting program. She is incredibly passionate about film, and credits a screening of Luis Buñuel's Viridiana (programmed by Guillermo Del Toro at TIFF Lightbox) as igniting in her the wonder of cinema, and a lifelong obsession.

Author, editor and film critic Kat Ellinger takes Becky and Cam on a trip with two unreal films from 1973: Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz's Messiah of Evil, and Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain. Kat Ellinger is the Editor-in-Chief atDiabolique Magazine, and the co-host of theirDaughters of DarknessandHell's Bellespodcasts. She has also written for BFI,Senses of Cinema,FangoriaandScream Magazine,and provided various home video supplements, commentary (including Blue Underground's 4K Ultra HD version ofDaughters of Darkness and Imprint's Bluray ofLet's Scare Jessica to Death), liner notes, on camera interviews and audio essays, for a number of companies including Arrow Films, Kino Lorber, Indicator, Second Run and Cult Films. Kat is the author ofDaughters of Darkness(Devil's Advocates, Auteur), andAll the Colours of Sergio Martino(Arrow Films).

Anthony Oliveira hops on the bus with Becky and Cam as they travel back to 1973 to praise two beloved stage-to-screen adaptations: David Greene's Godspell and Norman Jewison's Jesus Christ Superstar. Anthony Oliveira is a National Magazine and GLAAD award-winning author, pop culture critic, and PhD living in Toronto. He is the film programmer for the Revue Cinema's Dumpster Racoon Cinema programme, and the host of the podcast THE DEVIL'S PARTY, examining christian poetry through a queer readership lens. His first novel,Dayspring, is forthcoming from Strange Light Press in 2023.

On the Season 4 premiere, Becky, Cam and Alicia dive into the carnal horrors of 1973 with the late Ivan Reitman's Cannibal Girls and Paul Morrissey's Flesh for Frankenstein (sometimes known as Andy Warhol's Frankenstein).