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No Coast Cinema
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No Coast Cinema with Tom Hush and Conor Cornelius on WGN Plus from WGN Radio in Chicago.
Episodes
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No Coast Cinema | The Effects of 31 Days of Horror Movies, “JoJo Rabbit” and the Ethics of Satire
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor sit down to discuss Conor’s endeavor to watch 31 horror movies for October and the surprising effect it has had on his psyche. Plus, Tom talks about his experience with “Zombieland: Double Tap”, “The Lighthouse” and “JoJo Rabbit” and whether or not…
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No Coast Cinema | Adirondack Film Festival – Part 2
No Coast Cinema’s coverage of the Adirondack Film Festival continues with more exclusive interviews with up and coming filmmakers from all over the country. In part 2, Tom sits down with the minds behind Virgin Blacktop, Signal to Noise, Some of Her Parts and Once Upon a River. Like the show?...
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No Coast Cinema | Adirondack Film Festival – Part 1
On this edition of No Coast Cinema, Tom travels to Glens Falls, New York for the Adirondack Film Festival. Featuring filmmakers from across the country, the Adirondack Film Festival brings together some of the best in independent cinema in a community-oriented extravaganza. In part 1 of our...
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No Coast Cinema | Micro-Cinema Extravaganza
This week on No Coast Cinema, it’s all things micro-cinema with film programmers who are working small. Nando Herrera from Comfort Station and Paul Freitag-Fey of Daily Grindhouse join in to talk about the upcoming Halloween-themed series starting Wednesday as part of Comfort Film. The series…
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No Coast Cinema | Molly Hewitt talks “Holy Trinity”, Metal Movie Nights presents “In the Mouth of Madness”
On this edition of No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor preview two huge screenings at the Music Box Theatre. First, filmmaker Molly Hewitt talks about their inventive and wholly original feature film, Holy Trinity, which follows a dominatrix who is able to commune with the dead. Hewitt’s vision makes…
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No Coast Cinema | Filmscape Chicago brings education and the latest technology to filmmakers of all levels
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom sits down with the organizers behind Filmscape Chicago, an industry expo that brings filmmaking professionals together under one roof to learn about the latest tech in the film world. Filmscape Chicago takes place on September 7th and 8th at Cinespace Studios.…
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No Coast Cinema | Breaking Down “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”
This week on No Coast Cinema: Now that Tom and Conor have had time to process their individual viewings of Quentin Tarantino’s 9th picture, the pair convene to share their thoughts on “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”. Like the show? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and follow No Coast Cinema on…
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No Coast Cinema | “Hoops” with Kelechi Agwuncha and Julius Jefferson
This week on No Coast Cinema: Tom and Conor welcome filmmakers Kelechi Aguwncha and Julius Jefferson to talk about their new webseries Hoops. The three episode series collects unique shorts from 17 up and coming filmmakers that tell stories set in single locations, like a basketball courts,...
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No Coast Cinema | Rebecca Fons and Jack C. Newell invite you to Destroy Your Art
This week on No Coast Cinema: Tom chats with the co-founders of “Destroy Your Art”, a one of a kind event where five up and coming filmmakers are invited to create an original, one of a kind film that will only be shown once before being utterly destroyed, never to be seen again. They discuss […]
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No Coast Cinema | San Diego Comic-Con Announcements, The Horrors of CGI and Jay and Silent Bob Return
No Coast Cinema is back from a small summer vacation to talk about SDCC, that terrifying trailer for “Cats” and where Kevin Smith stands with “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot”. Like the show? Subscribe to No Coast Cinema on iTunes and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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No Coast Cinema 6.22.19 | Metal Movie Nights with Chris Larkin
It’s a special Saturday night episode of No Coast Cinema! Tom and Conor sit down with Chris Larkin to discuss his Metal Movie Nights screening series sponsored by 3 Floyds Brewing Company held at the greatest movie theater in Chicago, the Music Box. Bringing you oft-forgotten gems from the realms...
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No Coast Cinema | Cannes Film Festival Recap and “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom is joined by critic Matt Cipolla to talk about his experience at the Cannes Film Festival and his thoughts on the latest in the long running “Godzilla” franchise.
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No Coast Cinema | Zach Lona and Anthony Gibson, “He Who Lives in Hidden Lakes”
On this edition of No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor welcome writer/director Zach Lona and producer Anthony Gibson to talk about their feature in-production, “He Who Lives in Hidden Lakes”. In this mockumentary, we follow the many characters searching for the mythical “Hidden Man”, a cryptid in the...
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No Coast Cinema Special Feature | Oliver Chan and Crisel Consunji, “Still Human”
On this special edition of No Coast Cinema, Tom Hush chats with the director and star of the award-winning film “Still Human”, Oliver Chan and Crisel Consunji. The film follows a young domestic worker from the Philippines as she begins a new job as a caretake of a paralyzed man in Hong Kong. As...
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No Coast Cinema | Heather Mingo and John Sutton: Live at Elastic Arts
No Coast Cinema is LIVE at Elastic Arts at 3429 W Diversey Ave. chatting with Heather Mingo and John Sutton, co-writers of the film “Graffito”, before a screening of the film with live accompaniment by a jazz quartet. Together, they discuss the writing process behind the film, the ideas and…
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No Coast Cinema | Ashley Thompson, “I Miss Jamie When She’s Gone”
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom sits down with director/editor Ashley Thompson to talk about her new short, “I Miss Jamie When She’s Gone”. “I Miss Jamie When She’s Gone” is a millennial, coming of age story that centers around two sisters returning to the suburbs of Chicago ten months after...
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No Coast Cinema | Matthew Weinstein, Kimberly Vaughn & Tyler Pistorius, “A Missed Connection”
No Coast Cinema returns with a sit down conversation with the folks behind “A Missed Connection”, the new film from writer/director Matthew Weinstein that tackles the all too familiar feeling of a relationship that could have been. Weinstein and leading actors Kimberly Vaughn and Tyler Pistorius...
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No Coast Cinema | “Decaf Don”, EU Film Festival
This week on No Coast Cinema: The 22nd annual European Union Film Festival is underway at the Gene Siskel Film Center and director of programming Barbara Scharres joins Tom by phone to talk about this year’s fest. For tickets and showtimes, visit www.siskelfilmcenter.org Writer/director Nick…
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No Coast Cinema | Return of the New Trash!
This week on No Coast Cinema: Nat Alder and Connor Wiles return to the show to talk all things New Trash, including some very fresh videos and what’s next for Chicago’s premier music video crew. They also get into the changing landscape of media following Steven Spielberg’s comments on award...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 64 | Bing Liu, “Minding the Gap”
This week on No Coast Cinema: Tom is joined by Bing Liu, Academy Award nominated director of Minding the Gap, a stellar documentary that traces the lives of three young men (including Liu himself) growing up in Rockford, IL. As they deal with the difficulties of becoming adults, they must also...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 63 | Alexandra Halkin, Cuban Visions
This week on No Coast Cinema: Tom and Conor sit down with Alexandra Halkin, founding director of the Americas Media Initiative, to talk about the Cuban Visions screening series. Presented in conjunction with Full Spectrum Features and the Athenaeum Theatre, Cuban Visions presents a variety of…
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No Coast Cinema Special: Sundance 2019 Recap
It’s a No Coast Cinema special feature with a panel of critics who have just returned from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Tom sits down with Matt Cipolla of Filmmonthly, Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com and Robert Daniels of 812 Film Reviews to talk about which films impressed them and which…
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 62 | Colleen Griffen, “An Acceptable Loss”
This week on No Coast Cinema: Tom and Conor sit down with Colleen Griffen, producer of the new film An Acceptable Loss starring Tika Sumpter and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film centers around Libby (Sumpter) as she struggles to come to terms with her past as a national security advisor to the ruthless...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 61 | Oscar Talk with NIU Prof. Joseph Flynn
This week on No Coast Cinema: It’s that time of year again: the Oscar race is in full swing and Tom and Conor are ready for the biggest award show in Hollywood. As ever, the nominations are riddled with controversy and who better than NIU professor Joseph Flynn help to us make sense of it […]
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 60 | Hannah Kopen and Kyle Leland, “Hammersmith”
Today on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor sit down with writer/director Kyle Leland and actor Hannah Kopen. Together, we discuss their backgrounds, their careers, and their award-winning short film Hammersmith: Hurdle of Dreams. Made for Chicago’s 48-Hour Film Festival and having led them overseas…
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 59 | 2019 Film Resolutions, Best of the Midwest Gala
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor usher in a new year of independent film exploration! Amy Guth (the Executive Director of the Midwest Film Festival) joins to educate us about the Best of the Midwest Awards. The event will be held at the Promontory on Thursday, January 17th – you can...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 58 | Gene Siskel Film Center and Golden Globes
Today, Tom and Conor connect with Marty Rubin, the Associate Director of Programming for the Gene Siskel Film Center. Together they discuss the Film Center’s history as well as dive into the upcoming 4K restoration screenings of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour and Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire. Later, Tom...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 57 | The Best of the Midwest awards and November Board of Review
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor welcome back Amy Guth, Executive Director of the Midwest Independent Film Festival to preview the Best of the Midwest nomination party on December 4th. For 50% off your ticket, use code NOCOAST. Plus, the board of review convenes to look at the best…
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 56 | Remakes, Reboots and Sequels…Oh My!
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor discuss the continuing issue of remakes, reboots and sequels in Hollywood and how companies and creators might be destroying their own legacy. They look at the case of J.K Rowling and the Fantastic Beasts franchise as well as Disney’s latest remakes of...
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No Coast Cinema Special | “The Other Side of the Wind” with Jake S. Weisman
On this very special edition of No Coast Cinema, host Tom Hush talks with filmmaker Jake S. Weisman about the curious case of Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind. They discuss the story of the film’s completion and a little bit of the history behind it, including its haphazard shooting and…
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 55 | The Art of the Soundtrack with Michael Heidemann, October Board of Review
Today on the No Coast Cinema Board of Review, film critic Matt Cipolla returns to review the latest films to hit theaters this October with venerable Chairmen of the Board Tom and Conor. Later; Michael Heidemann of the Sound Sessions podcast and the Patti Vasquez Show with Andrea Darlas joins to...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 54 | Sinema Obscura hits TV, Critic Matt Cipolla recaps CIFF
On this edition of No Coast Cinema, Tom sits down with regular guests John Davies and Matt Cipolla to talk about Sinema Obscura’s jump to broadcast television and Matt’s experience covering the Chicago International Film Festival. Sinema Obscura debuts on CAN TV on November 5th (check your local...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 53 | “Rendezvous in Chicago”
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor sit down with the cast and the writer/director of one of their favorite Chicago indies this year, Rendezvous in Chicago. Split into three vignettes, the film depicts three different relationships in their beginning, middle and end. Each pairing is…
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 52 | Kyle Henry, “Rogers Park”
Today on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor sit down with director Kyle Henry to discuss his film Rogers Park, a critically acclaimed dramedy that examines four people struggling amidst midlife crises. Kyle shares insight into the production and distribution processes for the film, his background in...
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No Coast Cinema Board of Review – September 2018
No Coast host Tom Hush and film critic Matt Cipolla dive into the last month in movies and break down films such as The Predator, The Nun, Assassination Nation and Mandy.
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 51 | “Banana Season” with Sanghoon Lee, Eve Rydberg, Brennan Stacker and James Choi
Today on No Coast Cinema, we speak with four of the minds behind the brilliant feature Banana Season – actors Eve Rydberg and Brennan Stacker, writer/director Sanghoon Lee, and producer/editor James Choi. We learn about Sanghoon’s background as a filmmaker and what led him to the craft starting...
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No Coast Interviews: Karson Pilote, “Heart of the Blackhawks”
Tom and Conor sit down with young filmmaker Karson Pilote at the Middle Coast Film Festival to talk about his short documentary, “Heart of the Blackhawks: The Pierre Pilote Story” The film tells the story of legendary Blackhawk and hockey hall of famer Pierre Pilote, who happens to be Karson’s...
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No Coast Interviews | Raya Martin, “Smaller and Smaller Circles”
No Coast host Tom Hush sits down with up and coming Filipino director Raya Martin to discuss his gripping crime drama, “Smaller and Smaller Circles”. Based on the novel of the same name, the film follows two Jesuit priests in the Philippines tracking down a serial killer who is targeting young...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 50 | Blacksite: The Musical
On this very special episode of No Coast Cinema, we celebrate our fiftieth episode – the big L! Later, we interview returning guests director David A. Holcombe, producer Spence Warren, and screenwriter Adia Ivey about Soft Cage Film’s upcoming project Blacksite: The Musical! It’s a rollicking...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 49: Burt Reynolds, The Death of the “Popular Film” Oscar, Predator Retrospective
Today on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor spend a moment discussing the life and legacy of legendary actor and sex icon Burt Reynolds. Later, they celebrate the Academy’s decision to remove the ‘Most Popular Film’ category from next year’s Academy Awards and conjure some ideas for other, similarly...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 48 | Asian Pop-Up Cinema, August Board of Review
This week on No Coast Cinema: The Asian Pop-Up Cinema returns to Chicago for its 7th season this September with some of the best and brightest films from the Asian continent. Bringing together a variety of voices and nationalities under one roof, the Asian Pop-Up Cinema presents a unique...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 47 | Professor Joseph Flynn on diversity in film, Luke Taylor talks new feature, “Break”
Today on No Coast Cinema, the boys discuss the rise, fall, and potential return of MoviePass as well as consider what the service did for movie goers in the modern age. Later, they speak with NIU Associate Professor and author of White Fatigue: Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice Joseph…
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 46 | Filmmaker Jason Coffman talks “Housesitters” and “The Unrepentant Cinephile”
On this edition of No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor welcome filmmaker Jason Coffman to the studio to discuss his new feature and book! “Housesitters” is an irreverent horror/comedy that puts female friendship as the focus of its plot. As two stoner buddies get contracted to take care of a seemingly...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 45: Female Filmmakers Night, MoviePass Outage, No Coast Board of Review
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor talk to WGN radio host and executive director of the Midwest Independent Film Festival Amy Guth about her new role within the fest. She also discusses the Female Filmmakers Night event and the importance of celebrating unique artistic voices in a shared...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 44 | Nat Alder and Connor Wiles, New Trash
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor talk to Nat Alder and Connor Wiles, the two halves of the wholly original filmmaking team New Trash. Combining the low budget, DIY ethos of Grindhouse films with the unhinged creativity of surrealist film, New Trash injects a stunningly artful approach...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 43 | ScarJo Exits “Rub & Tug”, The Last Blockbuster in America, What We Watched This Week
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor look at the recent controversy surrounding Scarlett Johansson playing a transgender man in the film “Rub and Tug”, reminisce about the halcyon days of the video rental store and, of course, recap what they’ve watched this week. Like the show? Subscribe…
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 42 | Jess Levandowski, Middle Coast Film Festival
Jess Levandowski, director of the Middle Coast Film Festival, sits down with Tom and Conor to discuss the upcoming fest, the hidden difficulties of putting together a festival and what film fans can expect from this year’s programming. In the new segment Get Reel, Tom, Conor and Jess dig into…
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 41 | Matt Cipolla, Film Critic for Hire
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom welcomes the outstanding film critic Matt Cipolla. He has worked with companies like Kino Lorber and currently writes reviews for FilmMonthly. Together, Tom and Matt unpack the profession of film criticism to discover why we need people to write about film and…
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 40 | AMC Stubs A-List, Kobe Bryant Denied Entrance to Academy, Star Wars in Trouble?
No Coast Cinema is back! After a long hiatus while searching for a home studio, Tom Hush and Conor Cornelius are back to talk all things film. This week, competition with MoviePass heats up following the announcement of the AMC Stubs A-List service which gives subscribers three movies a week...
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No Coast Cinema Ep. 39 | Comfort Film with Raul Benitez and Emily Perez, Chicago Critics Film Festival Recap
This week on No Coast Cinema, Tom and Conor welcome back show regular Raul Benitez and assistant programmer Emily Perez to preview some of the free screenings at Comfort Film this season. Tom and Conor also recap their time at the Chicago Critics Film Festival with some of their favorite…
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