Someone Else's Movie

It’s our 11th anniversary, and critic and author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas – whose 2020 book 1000 Women in Horror is now a documentary, and streaming on Shudder this Friday – is here to discuss Abel Ferrara and Zoe Tamerlis Lund’s unforgettable Ms. 45, which rewrote the rules of the rape-revenge thriller. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been looking forward to this one for a while.

The Oscars are tomorrow night, and Montreal filmmaker Alison McAlpine will be there with perfectly a strangeness, which is nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. But first, she wanted to talk about Maren Ade’s epic father-daughter dramedy Toni Erdmann. Your genial host Norm Wilner put his false teeth aside for this one.

It’s kind of weird that no one’s brought George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead onto the show in eleven years, right? Writer, actor and comedian Jon Blair thought so too, so in advance of premiering A Comedy Show at the End of the World at TO Sketchfest on Friday, he’s here to really sink his teeth into the zombie picture that changed movies forever. Your genial host Norm Wilner can't wait.

Before her new show One Butthole After Another premieres at TO Sketchfest, Toronto comic Tiyawnda stops in to talk about her fervent love for Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning horror procedural The Silence of the Lambs, starting with her first, entirely inappropriate experience of it. Your genial host Norm Wilner promises there is not a single Chianti joke in this entire episode.

With her semiautobiographical family study Jimpa rolling through theaters in the US and Canada, writer-director Sophie Hyde is here to plumb the depths of Andrew Haigh’s moody masterpiece All of Us Strangers. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been hoping someone would pick this one.