Mike Hickey

Host and HEI Network CEO New Heidecker has sworn his departure from On Cinema at the Cinema, but frequent Guest Expert Gregg Turkington wants the show to go on... Will this be the last Oscar Special ever? Only one way to find out!

Max is unsatisfied with the mundanity of his town in which no person has ever left. But when Max discovers a black hole that seemingly leads to "the outside" his life is turned upside down at the imminent possibility of escape.

Rights advocate Alice Robinson descends into the depths of an aging prison, seeking to interview a mysterious inmate who has seemingly been locked away and forgotten.

The story of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.

When James Downey returns home to Newfoundland for his mother’s funeral, he is faced with all the haunting family issues he thought he had left behind. He channeled his own inner demons from an abusive father into being a police officer but his cousin Danny’s childhood trauma has exploded into a cycle of drugs, crime and violence. James must confront his tortured past, decide who he really is, and deal with his cousin before it’s too late.

A hack filmmaker wastes the money lent to him by a mysterious organization, and so has to take matters into his own hands by locking a cast of actors in a house and becoming the villain in his own slasher movie.

When a lost traveler on Halloween night comes across an isolated rural gas station, she thinks she's found her way home. Unbeknownst to her, the eerie gas station is the residence of a family of degenerate, devilish creatures.

One wild and tumultuous summer in the life of young Jude Traynor as he attempts to navigate his way through a life of delinquency and petty crime.

The wedding of their youngest sister, Janet, brings Gwen and Kay home to St. John’s, Newfoundland. While Janet struggles to hide her family’s dysfunction, Kay can’t help but create chaos wherever she goes and Gwen finds herself paralyzed by a past secret. The complicated web of relationships between the sisters, their Aunt Maureen, their absent mother, and Kay’s young daughter Billie, is only illuminated by the wedding. Gwen’s attempts to get Kay to take responsibility for her daughter highlights her own abandonment of her ex, Tom, leading them all to a not-so-perfect storm of a reception.

A short film about life and death.

Caitlyn's therapist convinces her to try a new form of hypnosis that allows her to communicate with her anxiety.

Phillip Early recounts the months spent investigating a cold case. A police interrogator presses him for answers while trying to decode the role of a retired detective/successful author in the mystery.

Dealing with trust issues triggered by a drug addiction, John must deal with the aftermath of his own actions.

On October 31, 1955 June & Frank Marsters met their grisly end when an escaped killer known as the Willow Woods Wolfman broke into their house. In the decades since the night has grown to be the stuff of local legend, but what really happened that Halloween?

Two young women find themselves in an impossible situation. With no one to turn to and against all odds, the pair take the road trip of their lives. Based on the story Melody by Lisa Moore, from her 2002 collection of short stories, Open.

A young girl puts herself in harms way, all in the name of a film audition.

Ryan and Gwen are new to Newfoundland and find their St. John's home to be, well, let's just say 'pre-occupied'. Luckily for Ryan and Gwen, the question they haven't had the nerve to ask gets answered.

In what appears to be a Sisyphean task, Newfoundland diver Shawn Bath has devoted himself to cleaning up the ocean floor one rotting tire at a time. He's already removed 15,000 pounds of garbage single-handedly. Through decades of commercial fishing and tourism, these Atlantic harbours became trash receptacles treated with an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude. Driven by passion and held back by bureaucracy, this inspiring story highlights the enormity of human-caused environmental damage and the power of an individual's determination to make the world a better place.

A person who hates all their clothes struggles to decide what to wear to a house party. At the party they see their ex-it’s-complicated with a new partner. A tense interaction sparks a nascent lifestyle change.

A novelist becomes trapped in an elevator with two of her biggest critics.