Dec 9, 2019
In the latest attempt to adapt Shakespeare for modern audiences, Australian director David Michôd (The Rover) directs Timothée Chalamet in The King, a sort-of rewriting of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 & 2 and Henry V. The film is set in the original time period, but Shakespeare's language has been gutted, while...
Oct 28, 2019
Episode 21 celebrates our new ebook, Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and the Struggle for Female Agency. In addition to discussing the films featured in the book, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and Editor at Large Mary Angela Rowe talk about what feminist horror is, the strengths...
Jun 21, 2019
“This film assumes the viewer has a huge amount of context that I don’t think most of us had” - Mary Angela Rowe. Through repeated viewings and research, we are here to provide this context. Our latest episode is the perfect companion piece to our new ebook, Tour of memories: The creative process behind Joanna...
Jun 7, 2019
On our recap of 2018 Canadian Cinema (episodes 8 & 9), Alex, Orla, and Brett all selected Patrica Rozema's Mouthpiece as their favourite Canadian film of the year. To coincide with Mouthpiece's theatrical release, theatre artist and Seventh Row staff writer Laura Anne Harris (@lauraanneharri1) joins editor-in-chief...
Apr 19, 2019
Episode 11 celebrates our new ebook, Peterloo in Process: A Mike Leigh collaboration. Peterloo, the latest film from the legendary Mike Leigh, portrays the events leading up to the Peterloo Massacre, where British soldiers killed 15 and injured as many as 700 people protesting for parliamentary reform. Our new ebook...