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2021 Vancouver International Film Festival Preview (#167) | Contra Zoom
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On this show we are previewing the 40th edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival. It is the largest film festival in Western Canada and gets plenty of prestige films from around the world. Joining the show is Matthew Simpson, who is one half of the Awesome Friday Movie Podcast. We each picked five films (and…
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Interview: Junta Yamaguchi on his one-take time travel film “Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes” | Awesome Friday!
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Matthew: The whole film feels like it must have been planned to the second; given that, how were you able to keep the actor’s performances feeling so spontaneous and unplanned? Junta Yamaguchi: A big part would be that we are a group of theatre performers who always work together. Theatre actors usually do a two-hour…
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Make/Remake: Three Versions of ‘The Thing’ | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs, and welcome to a special episode of the podcast. This week we’re doing something a little different and taking a look at three versions of the same film. 1951’s The Thing From Another World, 1982’s John Carpenter directed horror classic The Thing, and the 2011 remake/prequel thereof, also titled The Thing. We had a lot of fun preparing for this episode, watching…
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Kate & Cruella | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! We’re back with our 9th episode of the new Awesome Friday Podcast. This week we’re talking about one new thing and one not so new thing. First up is the new Mary Elizabeth Winstead starring action film from Netflix, Kate, which we have mixed feelings about, and second is the new-to-all-Disney+-subscribers film starring…
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | The LAMBCast
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600 episodes is a milestone worth celebrating, but we really don’t do that this week. Instead, we let the film we are focusing on provide all the fireworks. A new MCU hero is being introduced and there is an origin story to accomplish that. The Universe expands with this entry by allowing an under…
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2021 Fantasia Festival Wrap-Up! | Awesome Friday Podcast
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This years festival was a great one, and it was hard to narrow our favourites to just five in total, so that’s why we chose seven (but even that was difficult!). You can check out all of our festival coverage by clicking the banner above, and you’ll find where to stream each of the…
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Interview: Nicole Dorsey on her film “Black Conflux” | Awesome Friday!
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Black Conflux, the first feature film from director Nicole Dorsey, had its premiere at TIFF 2019, and then with the outbreak of COVID-19, the film has had a long journey to theatres and finally vide on-demand this summer. It’s a confident and engaging film (read my review here) and an affecting one. I had…
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Free Guy & The Night House | Awesome Friday Podcast
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This week Matt and Simon are talking about the summer movie sensation Free Guy, starring Vancouver Local Ryan Reynolds, and the new horror movie release The Night House starring Rebecca Hall, which had it’s Canadian premiere at Fantasia Festival last week and is in theatres now. One of these films we think is excellent and the other…
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Interview: Sera-Lys McArthur on her films “Kwêskosîw” & “Don’t Say Its Name” | Awesome Friday!
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2021 is turning out to be a big year for Sera-Lys McArthur. The alum of series such as Arctic Air and Burden of Truth is starring in two films at Fantasia Fest this year, a short (which she also produced) called Kwêskosîw (She Whistles) and the feature film Don’t Say Its Name, a horror film which had its…
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Interview: Thirza Cuthand on their film “Kwêskosîw (She Whistles)” | Awesome Friday!
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Earlier this week I was able to watch and review a number of short films, including Kwêskosîw (She Whistles), a story with a supernatural twist from Indigenous filmmaker Thirza Cuthand. I was able to speak with Thirza about the film as well, and here is the conversation I had with them. I Full Interview at…
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The Films of the DC Extended Universe Ranked, The Suicide Squad Edition | Awesome Friday
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The Suicide Squad has been out for about two weeks now, and since this is the kind of thing the internet loves, here is how the various DC Extended Universe movies stack up for me. There are 11 films in the franchise so far, which in case it’s not clear, means I am only…
