Episode 6 – An evening with Rick Howland & Nadia Bassett

Episode 6. Welcome to it folks! This week, Sue and I got to sit down and talk with the man himself, Rick Howland. Known to genre fans as Trick from Lost Girl. We sat down with he and his wife Nadia at The Factory Girl on The Danforth for an evening of drinks and dinner….

Pixar’s Brave

Pixar doesn’t need me to defend them from the trolls and bullies of cyberspace, I’ll let their work speak for itself, and it is a very impressive body of work, only two real missteps in twelve films (I was willing to forgive the original Cars, which was fun, and gorgeous to look at, but Cars…

The Hunger Games Trailer

Is it March yet? In the words of Sue Maynard, the site’s co-creator and fellow writer, “I haven’t been this excited about a movie, or book series in a very long time.” And you know what? I agree with her. Yes, there are films I’m looking forward to, The Muppets on the 23rd, Brad Bird’s live…

Episode 5 with Emily Schooley

Episode 5. Welcome to Episode 5, where Sue Maynard and I sit down and talk with actress Emily Schooley about her varied avenues of work from indie horror to stage work to next summer’s Dark Knight Rises! Grab a cuppa and join us! [EDIT] as before, the new link is below, enjoy our kicking back…

What Did I Watch This Week? Vol. 1

Welcome to the weekend! And what a week it’s been, between work, reading, chasing down interviews and blogging how did I find time to watch all the things I talk about below… I really don’t know. I kept a running list of all the things I watched this weekend, and well, it’s a lot! But…

Adopt An Indie

Welcome to November! Donna Brown, and her collection of authors who’ve signed up are hoping to make it a GREAT November by bringing us Adopt-An-Indie. In short it’s a brilliant effort to bring together independent authors and reviewers, bloggers, and the world in general, in a move to do away with the stigmata one associates…

A Second Look – The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard

We returned to the Carlton Cinema last night to enjoy a second performance of The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard. And I have to say, I enjoyed it even more this time around. After our laugh filled, extremely enjoyable interviews with the film’s director, the awesome and seriously funny Jeremy LaLonde, the producer, the ebullient and…

Episode 4 with Mary Krohnert & Anthony Grani

Hey folks, welcome to our fourth podcast, wherein Sue and I got to sit down with a fantastic couple, Mary Krohnert who played Sam in The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard, and the film’s producer Anthony Grani. We talk about their work, the film, and find out that they’re geeks just like us! We recorded…

Coming Soon on… The Mind Reels…

If you still haven’t seen The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard it is playing for a second week at Carlton Cinemas here in Toronto. I can’t recommend this film enough. And have a listen to our interview with the film’s director Jeremy LaLonde who met us for a chinwag at Dora Keogh a fantastic little…