A Year in Film: A Hollywood Suite Podcast

It's a Business Woman's Special with this week's episode featuring Carolyn Mauricette, who joins Becky and Alicia in Beverly Hills to revisit 1997 comedies Romy & Michele's High School Reunion and B.A.P.S. Carolyn is a film programmer and Development Coordinator for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival and a contributing author to the first edition of theWomen in Horror Annual,The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films, andThe Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film.She is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic and has also written pieces for Graveyard Shift Sisters, film reviews for Cinema Axis, and articles forGrim Magazine.She deep dives into race and representation of people of color in genre film on her website, View from the Dark, and co-hosts the podcastReely Melanatedwith Ashlee Blackwell where they talk about movies they love.

Buckle up as Cam, Becky and Stop Podcasting Yourself host Graham Clark take to the skies with 1997's Air Force One and Turbulence. ABOUT GRAHAM CLARKGraham Clark, co-host ofStop Podcasting Yourself, resides in Vancouver, BC. He has appeared regularly on CBC’sThe Debatersand was a co-host and writer of City TV’sThe CityNews List. He has twice been nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award, (Best newcomer both times), and in 2008 he won the cross Canada Yuk Yuks Great Canadian Laugh Off. He has appeared at the Bumbershoot festival, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Halifax Comedy Festival and Just For Laughs. Graham has been a guest writer onThis Hour Has 22 Minutesand filmed his own hour longComedy Now!special for CTV.

Our 1997 series kicks off with returning guest host and film critic Radheyan Simonpillai, who joins Alicia and Becky as they celebrate Nicolas Cage's unreal performances in Face/Off and Con-Air. ABOUT RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI Rad 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.

Cam, Alicia and Becky get seduced by two different takes on gender roles from 1980: Paul Schrader's American Gigolo and James Bridges' Urban Cowboy.

Do a deep dive on the B movies that came after Jaws as Becky and Important Cinema Club co-hosts Justin Decloux and Will Sloan revisit 1980 creature features Alligator and Humanoids from Deep. ABOUT JUSTIN DECLOUXJustin Decloux is one of the hosts of theImportant Cinema Clubpodcast, 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. 1. ABOUT 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 forNPR,Harper's,Toronto Life,Current Affairs,TheGlobe & Mail,The Believer,and many others.

Hit the breaks because Becky, Cam and Alicia are steering the conversation towards 1980 comedies Used Cars and The Stuntman.