Episode 10 begins a mini-series covering movies about space exploration. Our first film in this series is Joe Johnston’s October Sky. For this discussion, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney is joined by Executive Editor Orla Smith and Associate Editor Brett Pardy October Sky is based on the true story of future NASA scientist Homer Hickam’s 1950s high […]
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Ep. 9: Best of 2018 Canadian cinema, part 2
Episode 9 of our podcast concludes our discussion on the best of 2018 Canadian Cinema, through the lens of Canada’s Top Ten Film List. In this episode, we discuss Genesis, Giant Little Ones, Mouthpiece, Roads in February, and What Walaa Wants. Each year, the Toronto International Film Festival releases a list of Canada’s top ten […]
Ep. 8: Best of 2018 Canadian cinema, part 1
Episode 8 of our podcast begins our discussion on the best of 2018 Canadian Cinema, through the lens of Canada’s Top Ten Film List. In this episode, we discuss Anthropocene, Edge of the Knife, Firecrackers, The Fireflies are Gone, and Freaks. Each year, the Toronto International Film Festival releases a list of Canada’s ten best […]
Ep. 7: Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
In episode 7 of the Seventh Row podcast, we revisit our ebook on Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete by discussing one of the best film’s of 2018.
Ep. 6: Free Solo and humans in extremis
In this podcast episode, we discuss the documentary Free Solo, about Alex Honnold’s preparation for and ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitain without ropes.
Ep. 5: Christian Petzold’s Transit
In the fifth episode of our film podcast, we talk about Christian Petzold’s modern-day holocaust drama Transit and how it refreshes the holocaust drama while exploring the bureaucratic trauma of being a refugee. Podcast episode 5: Christian Petzold’s Transit In the fifth episode of our film podcast, we explore why setting a holocaust drama in modern day France is […]