Christian Zyp interviews Rob Grant (writer/director) about his feature THIS TOO SHALL PASS. See the Alberta Premiere of the film at the Calgary Underground Film Festival on Saturday April 26th, 2025 @ 6:30 pm at the Globe Cinema. Rob Grant will be in attendance, plus local cast & crew for a Q&A after the screening. THIS TOO SHALL PASS focuses on sheltered 16-year-old Simon Benson, desperate for autonomy from his strict Mormon upbringing. So, he rebels by skipping town with friends for a ...
Apr 13, 2025•24 min•Ep. 243
Christian Zyp interviews Nik Sexton (director/writer) and Sean Dalton (actor) about the film SKEET. You can see it at the Metro Cinema Sat April 19th, 2025 at 3:30 pm. Nik Sexton will be in attendance for a Q&A after this screening. SKEET follows Billy Skinner (Sean Dalton) after being recently released from prison. He returns to his transformed low-income neighbourhood and finds that assimilating is more difficult that he thought. BIlly has to negotiate a strained relationship with his moth...
Apr 12, 2025•36 min•Ep. 242
Christian Zyp interviews Kate Kroll (director/producer) about her feature documentary LUNATIC: THE LUNA VACHON STORY. It's screening Thursday April 24th @ 6:30 pm at the Globe Cinema as part of the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF). Kate will be in attendance for the Q&A following the screening. LUNATIC profiles the complex life of famed WWF women's wrestler Luna Vachon who, while battling for glory inside the wrestling ring, was also battling her inner demons outside the ring. Born i...
Apr 04, 2025•27 min•Ep. 241
Christian Zyp interviews Michael Peterson (director/co-producer) about his new film SHADOW OF GOD. It is making its North American Premiere at the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) on Mon April 21st at 7 pm at the Globe Cinema. Michael will bw in attendance for the screening and a Q&A to follow. SHADOW OF GOD... When several of his fellow Vatican exorcists are simultaneously killed, Father Mason Harper (Mark O'Brien, READY OR NOT, CUFF 2022 Selection THE RIGHTEOUS) returns home to spe...
Apr 02, 2025•28 min•Ep. 240
Christian Zyp interviews Kevin Martin (owner of The Lobby DVD Shop) with an appearance by his cat Ebert, the movie cat. We talk about a podcast appearance with Joe Lynch (Suitable Flesh, Everly) on THE MOVIE CRYPT. In addition, we discuss the recent screenings in the store and how it will culminate in one final weekend, Fri April 4th - Sun April 6th, under the name LOBBY FEST. On top of that, we discuss new offerings at the store: Trick or Treat (1986), Scarecrow and Vice Squad.
Mar 27, 2025•39 min•Ep. 239
In 2018 Christian Zyp interviewed filmmaker Anna BIller about her second feature THE LOVE WITCH. THis interview has been re-edited to give you a look back into the past of where Anna was at and how she felt about the film at the time of its theatrical release. THE LOVE WITCH was an nearly 8 year passion project for Anna and it shows in every frame of the film. In the film Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartme...
Mar 26, 2025•15 min•Ep. 238
Christian Zyp interviews Nipiy Iskwew about her first documentary feature film "pakosêyimowin". You can see the premiere at Metro Cinema on March 21st, 2025 at 4pm and it's presented by the Creating Hope Society & Canadian Heritage. This will be ab event with guests, a Q&A, drumming, food and giveaways... and it's FREE. Book your tickets online at metrocinema.org OR get them at the doors of the theatre. "pakosêyimowin" was produced with the help of The Creating Hope Society to commemorat...
Mar 21, 2025•20 min•Ep. 237
Christian Zyp interviews members of Daniel Martin & The Infamous as they prepare to release a new album. Their single VILLIAN OF YOUR STORY is out now. Band captain Daniel Martin, Paige Patenaude (drums) and Jimmy Richards (guitar) discuss their videos for ALL GOTH GIRLS LOOK THE SAME and MARILYN (Cannes Independent Shorts Film Festival "Music Video of the Year 2024"). Daniel Martin & The Infamous embrace the theatrical side of metal/rock and explore the importance of that for them and t...
Mar 16, 2025•29 min•Ep. 236
Lucas Anders interviews Vincent Brulotte (Production Coordinator & Programmer) from the Edmonton International Film Festival. They discuss the screenings of the 2025 Oscar nominated shorts screening at the Metro Cinema over 3 separate days. The animated shorts (Mon, Feb. 24 @ 6:00 PM), live action (Tues, Feb. 25 @ 6:00 PM) and documentary (Sat, Mar. 1 at 3:30 PM). They also discuss EIFF's Oscar's Viewing Gala at The Matrix Hotel (10640-100 Ave). Hosted by singer, actor and former Klondike Ka...
Feb 16, 2025•15 min•Ep. 235
Lindsey Campbell and Mark Davies bring you another edition of THANKS TELEFILM where they examine a film that might not have existed without the help of the Crown Corporation. SUZE is a comedy/drama written and directed by the duo of Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart. Michaela Watkins is the titular character Suze, a woman who succumbs to empty nest syndrome after her daughter Brooke (Sara Waisglass) moves away to attend university. This leads her to become a doting mother figure to Brooke's ex-boyfr...
Feb 16, 2025•21 min•Ep. 234
Christian Zyp, Lindsey Campbell and Lucas Anders discuss the the nominees for the major acting categories and best picture nominees for the 2025 Academy Awards: Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, I'm Still Here, Nickel Boys, The Substance, Wicked and more.
Feb 02, 2025•53 min•Ep. 233
Christian Zyp interviews Matthew Rankin (director/co-writer) about his new film UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. You can see it at the Metro Cinema from Feb 4th - 13th. Matthew Rankin will be at the Metro Cinema for the Feb 4th screening to do a Q&A. UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE is Rankin’s second feature. A lovingly detailed, charmingly impossible story of a Canada where Persian and French are the two official languages, and loneliness is the common currency. The film blends the seemingly unrelated stories of Neg...
Jan 21, 2025•30 min•Ep. 232
Christian Zyp interviews Adrian G de la Peña about his upcoming project ICE RATS! and his short film (soon to be feature film) NAUALLI. Adrian G de la Peña is a Mexican-born Canadian emerging Director, Editor, and Producer, with over 13 years of experience, specializing in horror and genre-related content. He is the founder of Machakiller Productions, a dynamic Canadian film and television production company dedicated to crafting captivating scripted and non-scripted content for audiences worldw...
Jan 21, 2025•31 min•Ep. 231
Christian Zyp hosts a look back at a small sample of the over 50 interviews we conducted with filmmakers this year. Check out some of our faves as look back at our coverage of Metro Cinema, E.I.F.F., Northwest Fest, C.U.F.F, Northwest Fear Fest and so much more. Featured filmmakers in this episode are Jason Pichonsky (THE BLOODY BROOD), Kevin Martin/Josh Lenner/Cody Kennedy/Tim Rutherford (THE LAST VIDEO STORE), Michelle Thrush (BOIL ALERT), Omar Mouallem (BREAKING KAYFABE), Caden Douglas (MOTHE...
Dec 27, 2024•59 min•Ep. 230
At MOVING RADIO, we love to watch the most obscure and bizarre X-Mas movies/specials to celebrate the holidays. We've compiled all the past X-Mas special episodes and packaged it with our most recent episode to create an extrava-ganza of a special. The MR crew (Christian Zyp, Mark Davies , Lucas Anders and Lindsey Campbell) have participated over the years to look at seasonal gems like: THE CHRISTMAS TREE (1991), THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL, RAPSITTIE STREET KIDS: Believe in Santa, A KARATE CH...
Dec 20, 2024•59 min•Ep. 229
Christian Zyp, Mark Davies, Lindsey Campbell and Lucas Anders gather together for the annual Moving Radio X-Mas Watch Party. Each year we pick one of the most bizarre and potentially terrible Christmas movies/specials to watch and break it down. This year, it's the animated special THE CHRISTMAS TREE (1991) from director Flamarion Ferreira. Listen to see if it's a holiday not-so-classic. As much as THE CHRISTMAS TREE is about an orphanage run by a cruel and corrupt woman named Mavilda, it's so m...
Dec 15, 2024•38 min•Ep. 228
Chad Brunet interviews Alex Ross Perry (director/screenwriter) about his film PAVEMENTS. It looks at the band Pavement in an appropriately unique way. It screens as part of CUFF.Docs Saturday November 23rd, 2024 at 9:30pm at the Globe Cinema. PAVEMENTS appears to be just another music documentary, until it doesn't. A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously trac...
Nov 17, 2024•14 min•Ep. 227
Christian Zyp interviews Jon Spira (director/screenwriter) about the documentary THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE. It screens as part of CUFF.Docs Sunday November 24th, 2024 at 6:30pm at the Globe CInema. Christopher Lee’s story would be fascinating, even if it only went as far as audiences already know; that of an iconic actor who defined the role of Dracula and went from being the star of the 1960s Hammer horror films to a distinguished career encompassing the 007, STAR WARS, and LORD OF...
Nov 17, 2024•30 min•Ep. 226
Lucas Anders interviews Jenny Carchman (director) about the documentary WHATEVER IT TAKES. It makes its Alberts Premiere Wednesday November 20th, 2024 at 9:00 pm as part of CUFF.Docs at the Globe Cinema in Calgary. https://www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org/cuff-docs/2024/whatever-it-takes/ WHATEVER IT TAKES is the extraordinary true-crime story of a middle-aged couple subjected to cyberstalking threats by the Fortune 500 company eBay. In the summer of 2019, Ina and David Steiner started being haras...
Nov 13, 2024•18 min•Ep. 225
Christian Zyp interviews Peter Hays (director) about the documentary FLASHBACK about the legendary club from the 80's nightlife scene in Edmonton. Catch the screening of FLASHBACK at CUFF.Docs Saturday November 23rd,2024 @ 4:45pm at the Globe CInema in Calgary. Peter will be in attendance for a Q&A post screening. FLASHBACK is the story of a defiant disco dance culture of sweat and sex and drugs and fashion in Edmonton. It became a sensation on the international club circuit despite police r...
Nov 12, 2024•32 min•Ep. 224
Christian Zyp interviews Neil Grahn (prod/dir) about the documentary series HORSE WARRIORS. It airs on APTN in Canada and will screen as part of CUFF.Docs Saturday November 23rd, 2024 at 12pm. CUFF.Docs will be showing Episodes 1, 7, 8, and 13 – the series finale, ahead of its broadcast on APTN. There will also be a post screening Q&A with participants from the show. HORSE WARRIORS is a 13 episode docuseries from Neil Grahn and Dominique Keller that follows three dedicated teams as they trai...
Nov 12, 2024•26 min•Ep. 223
Christian Zyp interviews Matthew Bauckman and Jaret Belliveau (co-directors) about their documentary KUNG FU ELLIOT. Released originally in 2014, CUFF.Docs is having a 10th anniversary screening of the film on Sunday November 24th, 2024 at 9pm at the Globe Cinema in Calgary. KUNG FU ELLIOT tell the bizarre story of Elliot "White Lightning" Scott, a martial artist with big ambitions: he's determined to become Canada's first kung fu action hero with his low-budget karate epic, BLOOD FIGHT. This su...
Nov 11, 2024•33 min•Ep. 222
Christian Zyp interviews Alex Lamb and Max Well (co-directors/co-producers) about the documentary THE DONN OF TIKI. It is the Opening Night film for CUFF.Docs on Wednesday November 20th, 2024 at 6:30pm at the Globe Cinema in Calgary. Max Well will be in attendance for a post screening Q&A. THE DONN OF TIKI is the incredulous story of Donn Beach, creator of the Tiki Bar, and perhaps the most important influencer of modern-day cocktails and bar aesthetics. Better known as "Don the Beachcomber,...
Nov 09, 2024•25 min•Ep. 221
Christian Zyp interviews Marah Strauch (director/producer) and Bryce LeavittI (director) about their documentary SPACE COWBOY. It makes its Alberta Premiere at CUFF.Docs on Saturday November 23rd, 2024 at 2:30pm at the Globe Cinema in Calgary. SPACE COWBOY focuses on Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography, as he looks back on creating iconic moments in film and television, while he tries to turn a dreamlike vision into reality. An innovator in the world of skydiving, Joe spent decad...
Nov 09, 2024•23 min•Ep. 220
Christian Zyp interviews Matthew Salleh (director/cinematographer) & Rose Tucker (producer) about their documentary SLICE OF LIFE: THE AMERICAN DREAM. IN FORMER PIZZA HUTS. See the Canadian Premiere of this film at CUFF.Docs Saturday November 23rd, 2024 at the Globe CInema at 7:15pm. A contemporary portrait of America, told through a collection of stories observed within the walls of former Pizza Hut buildings across the country. These nostalgic spaces hold memories of a bygone era, but thro...
Nov 05, 2024•21 min•Ep. 219
Christian Zyp interviews Gabri Christa (director) about her experimental dance short film SHEILA. It is screening as part of BROAD VIEW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL on Fri Nov 8th at 9pm at Metro Cinema. sheila is a short experimental documentary about Sheila Rohan, one of the founding members of Dance Theater of Harlem. "It is in many ways an experimental short bio documentary, part dream, but above all I hope it conveys the mystery and strength of this talented, remarkable, inspirational, stron...
Oct 29, 2024•20 min•Ep. 218
Christian Zyp interviews Rosanna Terracciano (director/choreographer/editor) about the experimental dance short film "PLACE/is a city written on this body?" You can see it as part of BROAD VIEW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL on Fri Nov 8th at 9pm at Metro CInema. Rosanna will be in attendance at the screening to participate in a discussion of the films with member from Mile Zero Dance. "PLACE/is a city written on this body?" centers on a trilogy of improvised and choreographed chapters based on cit...
Oct 29, 2024•19 min•Ep. 217
Christian Zyp interviews several people from the EDMONTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (EUFF). Joining the conversation is Christine Miller (Creative Director) and filmmakers Allan Halls, Sandy MacLellan, Eryn Tempest and Matthew Gooding. EUFF is a curated collection of 32 short films that celebrate creative, low-budget filmmaking and exude creative freedom, energy and experimentation. See EUFF at The Aviary (9314 111 Avenue NW) Sunday Oct 20th. Doors open at 12pm and tickets are available at the d...
Oct 18, 2024•25 min•Ep. 216
Christian Zyp interviews Marc Coleman (writer/director) about his new film MEMBERS CLUB. It's screening Oct 16th, 2024 at 9:30pm as part of NorthWest Fear Fest at the Metro Cinema. In MEMBERS CLUB, "Wet Dreams," a middle-aged male stripper group, have hit rock bottom. After a string of disastrous gigs, the gang considers disbanding. Alan, the group's happy-go-lucky front man, takes over the business and books the boys a lucrative and mysterious gig in rural Essex. But when the group arrives at t...
Oct 12, 2024•17 min•Ep. 215
Christian Zyp interviews Guy Lavallee (Festival Director) about the 2024 lineup for Northwest Fear Fest. All screenings take place at Metro Cinema from Oct 16-22. Guy discusses several of the films screening at NWFF. The Closing Night film is PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE with special guest Paul WIlliams. Other films featured that will be Alberta Premieres SMILE 2, HEAVIER TRIP, HUSH - SHUSH CUT and more. There are also 40th anniversary screenings of screenings of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and FRIDAY ...
Oct 12, 2024•28 min•Ep. 214
