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Eileen & Next Goal Wins | Awesome Friday Podcast
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This week on the show, we’re covering the just-released thriller Eileen, starring Thomasin McKenzie and the incomparable Anne Hathaway, which Matthew first saw at Sundance 2023, and then finally follow up with Taika Waititi’s latest sports underdog story Next Goal Wins. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2024/01/podcast-eileen-next-goal-wins/ This week’s bonus episode, available to all paid Patreon supporters, starts…
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Echo & Lift | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! Join us this week as we look closer at the new Marvel Cinematic UNvierse series Echo and then the new F Gary Gray heist film Lift, which stars Kevin Hart. We liked one of these things more than the other. Listen to find out which! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2024/01/podcast-echo-lift/ This week’s bonus conversation is…
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Echo Review: Marvel Tries To Answer Criticisms With Mixed Results | That Shelf
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The television entries of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been, to date, mostly pretty good. While not 100% successful, they have each tried new genres and expanded the universe in interesting ways. While they have performed well with most audiences, there are some that have been dissatisfied with them. Aside from claiming they suffer…
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes & The Society of the Snow | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! This week, we’re diving into the world of the Hunger Games with the new prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and then taking a look at Span’s entry for the Best International Feature award at this year’s Oscars, The Society of the Snow. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2024/01/the-hunger-games-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-the-society-of-the-snow/ On this week’s Patron Bonus Round,…
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Our Favourite Films of 2023 | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! There is no bonus round this week, but our regular episode is double-sized, and we tackle all of our favourites of the year. We each made a list of a dozen films; we tackled all of them, with our absolute favourites coming last. Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/12/our-favourite-films-of-2023/
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The 2023 CFTCA Best Cascadian Film Award Winner: Riceboy Sleeps | Cascadia Critics
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This year I co-founded the Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association, and as part of our launch we coordinated our membership to vote for the Best Cascadian Film Award, our premiere award highlighting the films of the region. I’m pleased to announce Riceboy Sleeps by director (and writer, editor, and actor) Anthony Shim as…
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The James Bond Draft (#264) | Contra Zoom
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To end 2023 we are having another game themed episode! Earlier this year we celebrated the birth of the James Bond film franchise on episode 236: Dr. No at 60 Years. After watching all 25 official Bond films in a calendar year, it was time to make our ultimate spy movie. 10 different categories…
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Leave The World Behind & The Holdovers | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! This week, we tackle the latest capital-C content from Netflix in Leave The World Behind and then the first new collaboration between Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne in nearly twenty years, the 1970s and Christmas set The Holdovers. Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/12/podcast-leave-the-world-behind-the-holdovers/ This week, our Patreon supporters can hear us talk about our favourite background…
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Cascadia Film & TV Critics Association 10 Best Films of 2023 | Cascadia Critics
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This year’s inaugural Top Ten films list from the Cascadia Critics is full of excellent picks, including a few I don’t think you’ll see coming. I had the privilege of writing out our number five pick: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. …it turned out that Barbie was the best kind: fun, funny, and heartfelt whilst also investigating and…
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Killers of the Flower Moon & Godzilla Minus One | Awesome Friday Podcast
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This week on the show we’re finally catching up with Martin Scorsese’s epic meditation on American sin, Killers of the Flower Moon, and the latest entry in the 70-year-strong giant monster franchise, Godzilla Minus One. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/12/podcast-killer-of-the-flower-moon-godzilla-minus-one/ This week’s Patreon bonus episode has Simon asking for our dream Star Wars pitches and Matthew asking about…
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Exclaim!’s 20 Best Films of 2023 | Exclaim!
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This year I contributed to Exclaim.ca’s top twenty films of the year both with my vote and by writing up David Fincher’s The Killer, which took the #19 spot on the list. No matter how you slice it, this film is meticulously crafted, dryly funny, appropriately brutal, and features a killer performance from Michael…
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Exclaim!’s 10 Best TV Series of 2023 | Exclaim!
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This year, I contributed to Exclaim.ca’s Best 10 TV series of the year list with both my vote and by writing up Mike Flanagan’s excellent The Fall of the House of Usher miniseries, which took the #8 spot. Mike Flanagan returns with another project that proves he is the master of the adaptation, remixing…
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The Burning Season & May December at Whistler Film Festival 2023 | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings, patrons! This week, we’re covering the 2023 Whistler Films Festival, one of the most interesting festivals in the Pacific Northwest because it so often features great Canadian content. We’re covering our usual two films, both playing as part of the fest. First up is the new Canadian relationship drama The Burning Season and then…
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The Criterion Shelf: Pre-Code Divas | That Shelf
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Criterion Shelf is an ongoing collaborative retrospective of classic films, helmed by Bil Antoniou, tackling curated collections on the Criterion Channel. For November 2023, the topic was the curated list ‘Pre-Code Divas’, a list of films featuring strong women characters dealing with leering men and racy subject matter, at least by 1930s standards. Several…
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Five Nights at Freddy’s & Jawan | Awesome Friday Podcast
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This week on the show, we’re reviewing the latest video game film adaptation, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and the latest from superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Jawan. Also, join us for this week’s bonus show, free for all listeners! Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/11/podcast-five-nights-at-freddys-jawan/ Greetings, patrons -and everyone else! – this week on the bonus show…