On the podcast, Alex Heeney unpacks Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value at TIFF 2025, tracing its echoes of Louder Than Bombs and what it adds to Trier’s ongoing explorations of family, grief, and memory.
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Ep. 179 What if we told stories about women beyond their love lives?
Rewatching Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) sparked this podcast where Alex Heeney asks: What happens when women’s stories aren’t built around who they end up with?
Ep. 177 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh) with Lindsay Pugh — 10th anniversary celebration
On the podcast, Alex Heeney takes a close look at Celine Song’s film Materialists, which poses the question: Is love enough when money is tight? Alex digs into the film’s strengths and weaknesses.
Frameline Capsule Review: Carmen Emmi’s Plainclothes
In this capsule review from the San Francisco Frameline Film Festival, Alex Heeney reviews Carmen Emmi’s feature debut Plainclothes.
Ep. 176 Materialists (dir. Celine Song)
On the podcast, Alex Heeney takes a close look at Celine Song’s film Materialists, which poses the question: Is love enough when money is tight? Alex digs into the film’s strengths and weaknesses.
Interview: Warwick Thornton on The New Boy
In this interview, Indigenous writer-director-cinematographer Warwick Thornton discusses The New Boy, his Days of Heaven about an Indigenous boy in 1940s Australia.