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Boy Kills World & Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! Join us as we dive into Boy Kills World, the new live action cartoon action film starring Bill Skarsgård, and then return with us to the wasteland as we look at George Miller’s latest, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. We have a lot to say about both of these movies and we…
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The Fall Guy & Challengers | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! This week on the show, we’re taking a close look at the new Ryan Gosling & Emily Blunt starring, David Leitch-directed ode to stunt work, The Fall Guy. Following that, we’re looking at Luca Guadagnino’s latest Challengers, starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor. Join us! Listening Links: On this week’s…
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‘Atlas’ Movie Review: Another Soulless Netflix Action Movie | Movies We Texted About
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If any of this sounds familiar, that’s likely by design. Almost every idea in this film is lifted from a better movie. The mech suits are from Avatar; the AI characters are a mix of the robots from I, Robot, replicants from Blade Runner, and Samantha from Her. The hardened main character is paired up with a character she initially detests but…
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Late Night with the Devil | The LAMBCast
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Even if you don’t believe the Box Office report from opening weekend, that the movie made $666,666, you have to admit that’s a clever bit of business. The whole movie is loaded with those kinds of self referential moments, and the guests this week are anxious to join in dissecting them. Sitting down in…
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Sweetland Review: A Bittersweet Story About the Difficulty of Change | That Shelf
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The town is dying. That’s the start of Christian Sparkes’ new drama Sweetland. It’s not entirely clear why, but the town is metaphorically crumbling. The residents have a chance at government-assisted relocation and job retraining, but the offer is only good if every resident takes it, and Moses Sweetland (Mark Lewis Jones) doesn’t want to.…
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A24 Retrospective – Dark Places (#277) | Contra Zoom
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We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24’s films. On this episode we are looking at 2015’s Dark Places directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The film stars Charlize Theron as Libby Day a woman who witnessed her older brother murder her entire family in a satanic ritual as a child, only to now be…
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The People’s Joker & Abigail | Awesome Friday Podcast
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This week on the show, we’re discussing The People’s Joker, a chaotic but important coming-of-age story that remixes the Batman milieu into something singularly personal and also utterly universal, by Vera Drew. Next, we tackle the locked-house horror thriller Abigail. Listening Links: This week our Patreon supporters can join us for a conversation about…
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‘Dark Matter’ Is a Dimension of the Multiverse That Looks Kinda Like All the Other Ones | Exclaim!
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Multiverses are so hot right now. The idea of a limitless number of parallel dimensions, spinning off from every decision everyone makes, is a household idea and has been at the centre of several movies, such as Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, the animated Spider-Verse films and Everything Everywhere All at Once,…
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‘Star Wars: Tales of the Empire’ Review: Short, Stunning, and Uneven | Movies We Texted About
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Each story is told in three episodes, each approximately 15 minutes long. The length of these episodes is key; if they were any longer, there’d be too much opportunity for the story to meander. As told, each is concise and thematically to the point. These are the kinds of stories that short films can…
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Doctor Who Review: Ncuti Gatwa Is Off to a Very Fun, Very Silly Start | That Shelf
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It feels like this series could have been an immediate follow-up to Davies’s prior run on the series. The tone and style feel in line with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant’s runs on the series, with a mad alien and a bright-eyed human travelling space and time in a blue box and fixing problems…
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The King Tide Review: A Stark, Stunning Canadian Thriller | That Shelf
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… [D]irector Christian Sparkes captures both the scope and feeling of living in a small but tight-knit community. There’s authenticity to how the characters behave around each other and the closeness with which they speak and act, even when antagonistic. The tone of these scenes at the end is nearly pitch-perfect, and the script by writers…
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The Planet of the Apes Reboot Trilogy | The LAMBCast
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Nine Movies seemed a little overwhelming for a single episode, so Matthew Simpson, of the “Awesome Friday Podcast” suggested that the three reboot films be the subject of our April MOTM Franchise show. The choice came after a tight race between three franchises, separated by a single vote each. Matthew hosts Nicole Ayers from…
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Spider-Man 2 | Austin B Media Podcast
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In this episode of The Austin B Media Podcast, I talk with guest Matthew Simpson of Awesome Friday. We discuss Spider-Man 2 in spoiler-free and spoiler-filled detail, its legacy, and more. Link: https://austinb.media/latest/the-austin-b-media-podcast-29-spider-man-2-discussion-with-matthew-simpson
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Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver & Civil War | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Salutations applications! This week, we’re catching up on the latest from beefcake auteur filmmaker Zack Snyder, the second part of his Seven Samurai riff, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, which I promise you is its actual title. After that, Simon finally had a chance to catch up with Alex Garland’s latest film,…
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Fallout & Humane | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings, programs! Join us this week for reviews of the new Amazon Prime adaptation of Fallout and then the new Canadian dystopian black comedy horror movie Humane, Caitlin Cronenberg’s feature directorial debut. Listening Links This week’s patron bonus episode has us talking about horny 1980s movies and then, fittingly, our favourite David Cronenberg movies. …