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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes & The Society of the Snow | Awesome Friday Podcast!
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, we […]
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Our Favourite Films of 2023 | Awesome Friday Podcast!
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
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 the […]
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The James Bond Draft (#264) | Contra Zoom
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 were […]
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Leave The World Behind & The Holdovers | Awesome Friday Podcast!
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 jokes […]
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Cascadia Film & TV Critics Association 10 Best Films of 2023 | Cascadia Critics
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 illuminating […]
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Killers of the Flower Moon & Godzilla Minus One | Awesome Friday Podcast!
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 which […]
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Exclaim!’s 20 Best Films of 2023 | Exclaim!
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 Fassbender […]
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Exclaim!’s 10 Best TV Series of 2023 | Exclaim!
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 the […]
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The Burning Season & May December at Whistler Film Festival 2023 | Awesome Friday Podcast!
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 Todd […]
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The Criterion Shelf: Pre-Code Divas | That Shelf
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 of […]
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Five Nights at Freddy’s & Jawan | Awesome Friday Podcast!
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 we […]
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Anatomy of a Fall & The Marvels | Awesome Friday Podcast!
This week on the show, we’re looking at Anatomy of a Fall and the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Marvels. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/11/podcast-anatomy-of-a-fall-the-marvels/ Greetings patrons! This week for your bonus show we end up talking at length about movies that we have bought blind and ended up loving, and also the best film […]
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Review: New Series Adds Depth and Breadth To The Monsterverse | That Shelf
And what of the Titans? Interestingly, the show isn’t really about the Titans per se, so they don’t show up quite as much as you might anticipate. However, when they do, they show up like the forces of nature they are. There are a few new monsters we are introduced to and, naturally, Godzilla appears […]
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The Killer & Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | Awesome Friday Podcast!
Greetings programs! This week’s show sees us taking on the newest David Fincher movie, The Killer and the new Godzilla TV series from AppleTV+, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/11/podcast-the-killer-monarch-legacy-of-monsters/
I am a Rotten Tomatoes-approved, freelance film & television critic and podcast host from Vancouver, Canada! I am a co-founder of the Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association and a voting member of the International Film Society Critics, Pandora International Critics, and the Online Film & Television Association.
I maintain bylines at Exclaim!, Awesome Friday!, That Shelf, ForReel, Movies We Texted About, KeithLovesMovies, and I can be heard regularly on the Contra Zoom Podcast and The LAMBCast.
