It’s our first episode of 2021 and we have for you an interview with Justin McConnell and his documentary Clapboard Jungle, which will be hitting VOD platforms today. Affiliate Links Rent/Purchase Clapboard Jungle — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/skonmovies/message This is a public episode. If youd like to discuss this with other subscribers or…
Possessor is the sophomore feature film from writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, who is of course the son of legendary Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg. With both Possessor and its predecessor 2012’s Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg is both following in his father’s body horror footsteps, while also trying to eke out his own voice as a filmmaker. During a…
The horror film Random Acts of Violence, opening in select theatres and on-demand on Friday, July 31, 2020, is the sophomore directorial effort from actor and co-writer Jay Baruchel. Born in Ottawa and raised in Montreal, Baruchel is best known for acting in films such as The Trotsky, This is the End, and as the…
In the second of my Fantasia 2019 interviews, I spoke to Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Gigi Saul Guerrero about her feature film debut Culture Shock, which had its International Premiere at the festival. Culture Shock was produced by Blumhouse Television for their Into the Dark anthology series on Hulu. Supported Links Watch Culture Shock on Hulu (U.S….
This episode consists of the first of two interviews I conducted while in Montreal for the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival. In this interview, I got to talk to practically the entire cast and crew of the film 1BR, which had its World Premiere at the festival. Please note that this interview discusses some specific plot…
Here is my second interview coming out of the 2019 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. I spoke to filmmaker Lily Zepeda and subject “Mr. Toilet” Jack Sim about the documentary Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man. Jack Sim is quite a character and this is a very interesting interview, with many toilet references. Enjoy….
After a bit of a hiatus, we are back with a series of interviews from the 2019 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. First up, I got to talk with filmmaker Ingrid Veninger about her non-fiction debut The World or Nothing (El Mundo o Nada), which will be having its world premiere at the festival…
To coincide with the fact that the film is now available for streaming on Shudder, here is the interview I conducted during this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival with director Brett Simmons and star Fran Kranz about the meta horror-comedyYou Might Be the Killer. 00:19 – Introductory Comments 01:19 – Clip: “You Might Be…
For the third year in a row, here is a podcast featuring interviews from the 2018 Blood in the Snow Film Festival. This includes brief interviews for the featuresSuperGrid,Hammer of the Gods, andLevel 16, the web seriesDamagedandand the short filmBinge. Enjoy. 00:19 – Opening Comments 01:40 – Lowell Dean onSuperGrid 04:53 – Samantha Carly onHammer…
The documentaryTransformer, winner of the Audience Award from the 2018 Hot Docs Film Festival, opens this week at the Imagine Cinemas Carlton in Toronto. To coincide with the release of the film, I am posting the interview I did at Hot Docs with Transformer‘s directorMichael Del Monte and subjectJanae Marie Kroczaleski. Enjoy. 00:20 – Opening…
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