Hot Docs has been very good to us this year, thanks to some tireless work by a wonderful company known as GatPR, they’ve provided us with a number of opportunities to chat with some of the amazing filmmakers and their subjects as they descended on Toronto for the most renowned documentary film festival in the…
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Hot Docs 2016: The Mind Reels chats with Cheer Up
Sue and I were delighted to sit down with the director, Christy Garland, and the subjects of the truly enjoyable documentary, Cheer Up, a film that follows a cheer coach, Miia Norvapalo, and two of her squad, Patricia Fisk and Aino Selin through their personal lives, as well as their race to win the…
Hot Docs 2016: The Mind Reels chats with Aim for the Roses
Hot Docs is well under way and Sue and I are having a great time!! We’ve seen some great films, and have had some wonderful interviews. We chatted with John Bolton and Mark Haney, the director and subject of Aim for the Roses, a doc, by Bolton, about a concept album, by Haney, about a failed attempt…
Toronto Comic Con 2016
Convention season is upon us once again, and Sue and I were delighted to be given press passes to cover the first big one of the year, here in the Big Smoke, the Toronto Comic Con. Stretching wonderfully over three days, beginning on Friday last, and running to the end of Sunday the 20th,…
The Canadian Screen Awards 2016: The Mind Reels on the Red Carpet
Sue and I were absolutely delighted this year, when we were notified by Touchwood PR (an amazing group of smart and dedicated people who continue to help us be the best we can be) that not only would we be attending the Canadian Screen Award Galas, and Broadcast, but that we would have a…
The Mind Reels chats with Jeremy Lalonde!
it’s always a joy when our friend Jeremy Lalonde comes back into the studio to chat with us. We can always guarantee that there will be talk about up-coming projects (listen to the one he’s working on now!) as well as follow-up on other works, and as usual, we get nicely sidetracked by our love…
The Mind Reels chats with Carolyne Maraghi
Last night, Sue and I were fortunate enough to sit down and chat with Carolyne Maraghi thanks to the efforts of our friend, director, Jennifer Liao. Carolyne came in to chat about her role in Jennifer’s new film, the dark comedy with a supernatural bent, End of Days, Inc. now playing, through to Thursday (and…
Sicario (2015) – Denis Villeneuve
Emily Blunt as idealistic FBI agent, Kate Maser, finds herself enmeshed in the terrifying and brutal escalating drug war along the U.S. border in this tightly wound, hair-trigger of a film from Denis Villeneuve, the director of Prisoners. After a brutal discovery during a tactical raid, Maser is recruited by Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) who…
The Mind Reels Chats – TIFF15: Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
TIFF continues to be very good to Sue and I, and we were afforded the opportunity to chat with one of the filmmakers behind the powerful documentary, Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers. Meeting and chatting with Geeta Gandbhir and Sgt. J.J. Hainey was a highlight of the day for us, and gave us…
Fan Expo 2015
For some people, it’s Christmas, for others, it’s the smell of freshly sharpened pencils signifying the start of another school year… this weekend, is one of my favorite celebrations… Fan Expo. Sue and I have been very lucky in not only our attendance as fans, but in our coverage as media of Fan Expo. We’ve…
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