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Paranormal Romance

Read This Next! - November 30, 2023 21:00 - 29 minutes
Werewolves, dead editors, scientists and vampires abound in this weeks episode!

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Battle Royale

Read This Next! - November 16, 2023 19:00 - 28 minutes
What does battle royale mean to you? We've compiled a list of books that we think fit the bill!

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Time Travel Vol 2

Read This Next! - November 09, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes
Sam loves time travel and has even more excellent recommendations!

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TIFF23 - Carolyn Talks 'Ru' with Director Charles-Olivier Michard and Cast

Carolyn Talks Podcast - November 06, 2023 16:53 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
For the premiere of their beautifully shot feature film RU, director Charles-Olivier Michaud, lead cast Chloé Djandji, Chantal Thuy, Jean Bui, and award-winning author Kim Thúy, joined me to talk about the ways RU shows how forming community is an integral part of learning to see a new country a...

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A Lost Episode: Five Night's at Freddy's

Read This Next! - November 03, 2023 19:00 - 23 minutes
This episode was filmed in October during spooky season but we missed uploading it! Enjoy this week's extra content :)

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Medieval Fiction

Read This Next! - November 03, 2023 19:00 - 27 minutes
Torture, dancing, mysteries, and manga. Somehow there is medieval lit for everyone!

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TIFF23 - Carolyn Talks Festival Programming with Director of Canadian and Industry Programming Norm Wilner

Carolyn Talks Podcast - November 02, 2023 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Following a very successful festival season, Acting Director of the Canadian and Industry Program for 2023 Norm Wilner joined me for Carolyn Talks..., to discusses the rigorous process of selecting films to platform, the joys of watching filmmakers see audience reactions to their films, and how ...

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TIFF23 - Carolyn Talks 'Mimang' with Filmmaker Kim Taeyang and Cast

Carolyn Talks Podcast - October 10, 2023 14:47 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
During TIFF 2023 Spoke with Writer and Director Kim Taeyang and lead cast Lee Myung-ha, Ha Seong-guk, and Park Bong-jun about their narrative feature MIMANG. Having it's World Premiere at the festival #Mimang is Kim's debut feature that was filmed over the course of four years depicting the inti...

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TIFF23 - Carolyn Talks 'Bad Boy' with Series Co-Creator Ron Lesham and Director Hagar Ben-Asher

Carolyn Talks Podcast - October 03, 2023 15:59 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
For the TIFF23 World Premiere of their soon to be released dramatic series BAD BOY, co-creator Ron Lesham, and series director and co-creator Hagar Ben-Asher, joined me to talk about the importance on crafting a show where violence isn't the point in a story where violence and traumatic events s...

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TIFF23 - Carolyn Talks 'Swan Song' with Director Chelsea McMullan and E.P. Sean O'Neal

Carolyn Talks Podcast - September 29, 2023 17:52 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Director Chelsea McMullan and Executive Producer Sean O'Neil joined Carolyn Talks..., to share their thoughts and observations during the filming of SWAN SONG, their feature that is an intimate and painfully honest look and chaotic lives of the Core de Ballet, Principal Dancers, creative teams o...

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Celebrity Authors

Read This Next! - September 28, 2023 19:00 - 26 minutes
Aside from one, this is an episode of books written by celebrities that are famous for something other than being an author!

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TIFF23 - Carolyn Talks 'Monster' with Filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda

Carolyn Talks Podcast - September 28, 2023 15:45 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda joined me for an episode of Carolyn Talks..., to share his persptives on what the monster is in his latest dramatic feature MONSTER (Kaibutsu), starring Hiiragi Hinata as Hoshiwaka Yori a young boy whom no one understands or seems to care for, Sōya Kurokawa as Mugino M...

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TIFF23 - Carolyn Talks 'A Road to A Village' with Director Nabin Subba and Cast

Carolyn Talks Podcast - September 27, 2023 16:26 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
For the TIFF 2023 World Premiere film of their film A ROAD TO A VILLAGE, Co-Writer and Director Nabin Subba, lead actors Dayahang Rai and Pashupati Rai, and Line Producer Minsho Limbu joined me to talk about the effects of westernization and globalization on a small village in the mountains of N...

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TIFF23 - Carolyn Talks 'A Match' with Filmmaker Jayant Somalkar and Producer Shefali Bhushan

Carolyn Talks Podcast - September 23, 2023 16:21 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Director-writer Jayant Digambar Somalkar and Producer Shefali Bhushan joined me to talk about STHAL/A Match, their award-winning dramatic feature about a 19-year-old college student at a major crossroads in her life where her fate lies not in her hands as it should, and the destructive nature of...

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Five Nights at Freddy's

Read This Next! - September 21, 2023 18:00 - 24 minutes
In honour of the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's movie, Sam and Nicole tap into books that are similar to the series for those of you who need a FNAF fix.

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Greek Mythology

Read This Next! - September 07, 2023 17:00 - 22 minutes
Nicole and Ruth are back with book featuring Greek Mythology! 

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Carolyn Talks 'Korea's Golden Decade of Cinema: The 1960s' with Film Curator Goran Topalovic

Carolyn Talks Podcast - September 02, 2023 12:44 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episodes of Carolyn Talks..., Film Curator Goran Topalovic, joined me to talk about what makes the Korean films of the 1960s a defining era of Korean cinema, and curating one the world's largest retrospectives for the Lincoln Film Centre's celebration of Korean filmmakers, actors, and cu...

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NYAFF2023 - Carolyn Talks 'Mountain Onion' with Director Eldar Shibanov

Carolyn Talks Podcast - August 22, 2023 19:23 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Director and co-writer Eldar Shibanov joined me to chat about his wonderfully weird and nuanced feature MOUNTAIN ONION, about a young brother and sister on a quest from their home in the mountains of Kazakhstan, to China to find a magic pill to help their father's relationship with their mother....

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NYAFF2023 - Carolyn Talks 'The Abandoned' with Filmmaker Tseng Ying-tin and Producer David Tang

Carolyn Talks Podcast - August 16, 2023 20:16 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Taiwanese filmmaker Tseng Ying-ting, and producer David Tang joined me for an episode of Carolyn Talks..., to discuss their dramatic feature film THE ABANDONED, which had its North American premiere at the 2023 New York Asian Film Festival. #TheAbandoned stars Janine Chang, Chen Wei-min, Ethan ...

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Carolyn Talks 'Walid' with Filmmaker Areel Abu Bakar and Actor Megat Sharizal

Carolyn Talks Podcast - August 11, 2023 23:17 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Director and writer Areel Abu Bakar and lead actor Megat Sharizal joined Carolyn Talks..., for the U.S. Premiere of their film WALID, in which Megat plays the title character Walid, a teacher who witnesses the abduction of one of his students and takes matters into his hands to find her, at all ...

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NYAFF2023 - Carolyn Talks 'Abang Adik' with Filmmaker Lay Jin Ong

Carolyn Talks Podcast - August 08, 2023 19:27 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
For the US Premiere of his award-winning dramatic debut feature film, ABANG ADIK, Malaysian producer Lay Jin Ong spoke to me OF centering his film around two orphaned brothers Abang (Kang Ren Wu), and Adi (Jack Tan), whose love and dedication to each other is threatened in a world where their un...

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NYAFF2023 - Carolyn Talks 'A Light Never Goes Out' with Filmmaker Anastasia Tsang

Carolyn Talks Podcast - August 03, 2023 17:11 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
For the US Premiere of her film at the 2023 New York Asian Film Festival, writer and director Anastasia Tsang joined me for an episode of Carolyn Talks..., to chat about her debut feature A LIGHT NEVER GOES OUT, about the emotional connection the recently widowed Heung Kong has to her husband Bi...

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NYAFF2023 - Carolyn Talks 'Back Home' with Actress Bai Ling

Carolyn Talks Podcast - July 29, 2023 23:26 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., actress Bai Ling and I share our thoughts on her latest performance as the character of Wai-Lan, in BACK HOME, the feature fil debut by Hong Kong filmmaker Nate Ki. Also starring Anson Kong, the film an atmospheric horror about the ways the past and those who...

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NYAFF2023 - Carolyn Talks 'Geylang' with Director Boi Kwong and Actor Jason Ho

Carolyn Talks Podcast - July 28, 2023 00:20 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
For the North American premiere of their action thriller GEYLANG, named after a district in their native Singapore, director Boi Kwong and actor Jason Ho joined me for an episode of Carolyn Talks..., during the 2023 season of the New York Asian Film Festival. To learn more about NYAFF visit the...

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TJFF2023 - Carolyn Talks 'The Fish Tale' with Director Okita Shuichi

Carolyn Talks Podcast - July 25, 2023 21:14 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode of Carolyn Talks...I speak with Japanese filmmaker Okita Shuichi about his 2022 feature film THE FISH TALE, based on the life of Marine Biologist, educator, and YouTuber Sakana-Kun, played by charmingly by Non. Director Okita and I spoke at the 2023 Toronto Japanese Film Festiv...

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NYAFF2023 - Carolyn Talks 'A Tour Guide' with Writer-Director Kwak Eun-mi

Carolyn Talks Podcast - July 20, 2023 18:16 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I speak with South Korean writer and director Kwak Eun-mi about A TOUR GUIDE, her dramatic feature film which had it's US premier at the 2023 New York Asian Film Festival. The film stars Lee Seol as a North Korean defector trying to adjust to her new life in...

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Don't Make Me Weed This! (And What We've Been Reading!)

Read This Next! - July 06, 2023 04:00 - 27 minutes
Check out some of the cool books that are at risk of leaving our shelves! Then hear what Ruth and Nicole have been reading lately.

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Survival

Read This Next! - June 22, 2023 04:00 - 27 minutes
This week Nicole and Ruth discuss several books about surviving plane crashes, being stranded and more!

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Carolyn Talks About What it Takes to Distribute a Film with Distributor Aki Takabatake

Carolyn Talks Podcast - June 17, 2023 19:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode of Carolyn Talk..., I speak with Toronto-based film distributor Aki Takabatake about what it took to build her boutique film acquisition and distribution company MOMO Films, and promoting independent Japanese films to Toronto and Canadian audiences. Visit Momo Films' official we...

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Carolyn Talks 'The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster with Writer-Director Bomani J. Story

Carolyn Talks Podcast - June 14, 2023 15:59 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode of Carolyn Talk..., I speak with writer and director Bomani J. Story about finding inspiration in Frankenstein's Monster, death being a disease, and creating complex Black characters that are both right and wrong, in his debut feature film and horror, THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HE...

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