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They Cloned Tyrone & Joy Ride | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings, programs, and welcome to another edition of the Awesome Friday Podcast. This week on the show, we’re taking on her recent Netflix release, They Cloned Tyrone, and the still-in-cinemas Joy Ride. Simon also gets Matthew talking about the recent musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is why the episode runs a…
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The 2023 Fantasia Film Festival | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! This week, we dive head first into the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival. We’ve each seen a number of films, and we’re going to talk about a number of them, including Hundreds of Beavers, Birth/Rebirth, Satan Wants You, A Disturbance in the Force, With Love and a Major Organ, Aporia, Sympathy for the…
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Oppenheimer & Barbie | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! This week we’re getting caught up in the fascination that is gripping the nation. That’s right, it’s the Barbenheimer episode! Both Oppenheimer and Barbie are being hailed as being some of the best filmmaking of the year. Do we agree? Yes, yes we do, and listen in to find out why! Link:…
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The Witcher Season 3, Volume 2 Starts Strong and Ends Flat | That Shelf
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If you recall, when I reviewed the first part of the season one month ago, I said, “It feels like this season will be made or broken by the final three episodes, releasing in late July. That’s not to say that it isn’t good, just that it doesn’t offer anything as new or compelling as…
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Oppenheimer Review: Christopher Nolan Explores the Price of Knowlege in One of the Best Films of the Year | ForReel
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Fans of Nolan’s work will not be surprised that he accomplishes this with multiple overlapping narratives. The first follows Oppenheimer from his early university days to the Trinity test, the second is the security hearing that followed a few years later and left him in disgrace, and the third follows the confirmation hearing of…
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Barbie | The LAMBCast
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The Lamb Community chose this as the new feature that they wanted covered for July. They appear to have chosen wisely because this was the biggest opening of the year, and a marketing success across the board. This week the Lamb contributes to the marketing behemoth that “Barbie” has become by discussing the films…
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Asteroid City & Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! This week, we dive head first into the world of Wes Anderson with Asteroid City, and then we jump off a cliff with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1. Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/07/podcast-asteroid-city-mission-impossible-7/
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The 50 Greatest Films Directed by Canadians (#244) | Contra Zoom
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A few weeks ago CBC released a poll conducted by them where industry professionals and critics voted to help make a list of the Greatest 50 Films Directed by Canadians. Both Dakota and Rachel voted on the list, with Rachel even writing in praise of the #6 movie Crash. Joining the show to talk about…
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Two-Year Anniversary Special: The Best Movies Since July 2021! | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! It has been two years, almost to the day, since we relaunched the Awesome Friday Podcast! To celebrate that fact, we are joined by Rachel, and we talk about our favourite films from when the show has been running – that’s July 2021 to now. It was a very fun conversation…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny & Nimona | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings Programs! Join us this week as we dive into the latest Indiana Jones film and the new Netflix/Annapurna animated release Nimona. It’s a good one; join us!! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/07/podcast-indiana-jones-nimona/ In this week’s bonus chat, Simon asks Matthew to explain his fluid Mission: Impossible rankings, and Matthew asks Simon to say something nice about…
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Marvel’s Secret Invasion & Biosphere | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings program! This week we’re taking on the latest Marvel series, Secret Invasion starring Samual L Jackson as Nick Fury, and an upcoming indie comedy starring Mark Duplass and Sterling K Brown, Biosphere (in cinemas July 9th). We have a lot to say about both, so join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/07/podcast-marvels-secret-invasion-biosphere/ This week on our bonus chat, we start with…
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The Witcher Season 3, Volume 1: History Repeats Itself | That Shelf
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It feels like this season will be made or broken by the final three episodes, releasing in late July. That’s not to say that it isn’t good, just that it doesn’t offer anything as new or compelling as the first two seasons did. A proper ending might supply those things. Again, the show is…
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Sinks into Incoherence | Exclaim!
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There’s a moment in the third act of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts where the bad guys have taken possession of the transwarp key (the central MacGuffin of the plot) and started their evil plan, and the good guys appear on the horizon to let everyone know that the big final battle is about to happen.…
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Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant & Extraction 2 | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings, Programs! This week we’re joined by longtime friend of the show Rachel Ho for our discussions of Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Chris Hemsworth in Extraction 2, and subway systems around the world (no, really!). Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/06/podcast-guy-ritchies-the-covenant-extraction-2/ Rachel also joined us for our patron bonus chat this week, in which we talk about film…
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Fast X & Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! This week on the show, we’re talking about two super fun movies: Fast X, the 11th Fast & Furious movie and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, the sequel to the best movies of 2018. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/06/podcast-fast-x-spider-man-across-the-spider-verse/ This week our patron bonus chat is all about new TV, including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,…