Show Notes
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig has his own show these days, and in honor of Tubby being named one of Apple and Amazon’s Podcasts of 2025 here's his episode on Peter Yates’ masterful 1973 crime drama The Friends of Eddie Coyle, starring Robert Mitchum as a low-level Boston mobster contemplating flipping on his associates to avoid a jail sentence. Jeez, your genial host Norm Wilner sounded so much younger in 2015 …
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With her new show Cassie Workman is Witchy AF rolling out on YouTube, actor and comedian Cassie Workman is here to throw a little love at Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, the Netflix movie where Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams sing some really great songs. Your genial host Norm Wilner is always happy to explore the Dan Stevens Cinematic Universe.
This week, Late Fame director Kent Jones marks his film’s home release with a celebration of The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni’s fascinatingly opaque 1975 drama starring Jack Nicholson as a lost man who finds purpose in a new identity – for a while, anyway. Your genial host Norm Wilner invites you to ride along.
As Late Fame arrives on Blu-ray and VOD, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Samy Burch is here to discuss her love for Fred Schepisi’s 1993 adaptation of John Guare’s award-winning play Six Degrees of Separation, a film that’s sort of fallen through the cracks over the decades. Your genial host Norm Wilner is very glad to have her.
With their first feature A Breed Apart launching its theatrical run this Saturday, October 3rd, at Toronto’s Revue Cinema writer-directors Adam Belanger and David Lafontaine stop by to celebrate Ken Loach’s devastating coming-of-age drama Kes. Your genial host Norm Wilner is here to hit the North.
With his new Godspell documentary You Had to Be There rolling across North America, Emmy-winning documentarian Nick Davis is here to share the love for another cultural milestone of the early ‘70s: Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s greatest collaboration. Your genial host Norm Wilner is so happy he did.