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A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

With the A Year in Film podcast, rewind and unwind with some of the biggest moments in movie history. Join experts from Hollywood Suite’s A Year in Film TV series — Becky Shrimpton, Alicia Fletcher and Cameron Maitland —
Latest Episode11/29/2022

1999 — Galaxy Quest & Deep Blue Sea: Sci-Fi Above & Below (feat. Tananarive Due and Emily Gagne)

Season 4, Ep. 18
Becky and supervising producer Emily Gagne welcome Tananarive Due aboard as they take a deep dive on two beloved sci-fi flicks from 1999: Galaxy Quest and Deep Blue Sea. Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason.
11/29/2022

1999 — Galaxy Quest & Deep Blue Sea: Sci-Fi Above & Below (feat. Tananarive Due and Emily Gagne)

Season 4, Ep. 18
Becky and supervising producer Emily Gagne welcome Tananarive Due aboard as they take a deep dive on two beloved sci-fi flicks from 1999: Galaxy Quest and Deep Blue Sea. Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason.
11/15/2022

1999 — House on Haunted Hill & The Haunting: Haunted House Remakes (feat. Josh Korngut and Emily Gagne)

Season 4, Ep. 17
You're invited to spend the night at not one, but two haunted houses as Becky is joined by Josh Korngut and Emily Gagne to talk about the 1999 versions of House on Haunted Hill (based on the William Castle film) and The Haunting (based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House). Josh Korngut is the managing editor of Dread Central and host of the popular Development Hell podcast where he uncovers scary movies that were never made. Meanwhile, Emily co-hosts We Really Like Her!, a podcast and screening series celebrating women in film. Josh and Emily are creative collaborators whose previous work includes the award-winning short film Best Friends Forever, which screened at film festivals such as Salem Horror, Toronto After Dark, Indie Memphis, Morbido, and Panic Fest.
11/1/2022

1999 — The Wood & The Best Man: Nuptials (feat. Nichole Perkins)

Season 4, Ep. 16
It's a meet cute as Nichole Perkins joins Becky and Cam to talk about 1999 rom coms The Wood and The Best Man. Nichole Perkins is a writer and podcast host from Nashville, Tennessee. She hosted This Is Good For You, a podcast about finding pleasure in life, and previously was a co-host of Thirst Aid Kit, a podcast about pop culture and desire. Nichole is the author of Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be, a memoir, and Lilith, But Dark, a poetry collection. 
10/18/2022

1999 — The Mummy & Blast From the Past: Brendan Fraser (feat. Norm Wilner and Emily Gagne)

Season 4, Ep. 15
Time for some himbo cinema as Becky, special guest Norm Wilner, and supervising producer Emily Gagne ride the Brendan Fraser renaissance wave and revisit 1999's The Mummy and Blast from the Past. Norm Wilner joined TIFF as a programmer after 35 years as a Toronto film critic and entertainment journalist, most recently as the senior film writer for NOW Magazine. He also hosts the Someone Else’s Movie podcast and writes the Shiny Things newsletter. He lives in Little Italy with his wife, the author and designer Kate Atherley, and their dog Winnie, who only cares about movies if there are squirrels in them.
10/4/2022

1999 — Cruel Intentions & Jawbreaker: Diabolical Teens (feat. Amil Niazi)

Season 4, Ep. 14
Amil Niazi hits the hallway with Becky and Cam as they dissect two devilishly fun teen movies from 1999: Cruel Intentions and Jawbreaker. Amil is a writer and cultural critic whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Washington Post. She has a monthly column in New York Magazine's The Cut and is also the showrunner and panelist for CBC's weekly pop culture podcast, Pop Chat. 
9/20/2022

1999 — Drop Dead Gorgeous & Dick: Kirsten Dunst Forever (feat. Emily Gagne)

Season 4, Ep. 13
It's a Kirsten Dunst double bill as Emily Gagne joins Becky and Alicia in revisiting two films that helped the former child star become a teen dream: Drop Dead Gorgeous and Dick. Emily is a Toronto-based film and TV creative who co-hosts We Really Like Her!, a podcast and screening series focused on women in film. She has written pop culture criticism for TV Guide Canada, Yahoo, The Mary Sue, Hello Giggles, and Dread Central.
9/6/2022

1985 — The Peanut Butter Solution & Crime Wave: Canadian Weirdness (feat. Jay Baruchel)

Season 4, Ep. 12
Actor, comedian, filmmaker and proud Canadian Jay Baruchel stops by to stand on guard for two absolutely outrageous slices of CanCon released in 1985: The Peanut Butter Solution (directed by Michael Rubbo) and Crime Wave (directed by John Paizs).