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Featured Podcasts

Five Nights at Freddy’s & Jawan | Awesome Friday Podcast

Sunday, 26 November, 2023Sunday, 26 November, 2023By Matthew
Five Nights at Freddy's & Jawan
Featured Reviews

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Review: New Series Adds Depth and Breadth To The Monsterverse | That Shelf

Wednesday, 15 November, 2023Wednesday, 15 November, 2023By Matthew
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Featured Reviews

The Marvels Is Out-of-This-World Fun | ForReel

Sunday, 12 November, 2023Saturday, 25 November, 2023By Matthew
The Marvels
Featured Reviews

The Killer Hits the Mark | ForReel

Sunday, 29 October, 2023Saturday, 25 November, 2023By Matthew
The Killer
Featured Reviews

Loki Season 2 Review: More Fun Shenanigans in the MCU’s Sacred Timeline | That Shelf

Tuesday, 3 October, 2023Monday, 2 October, 2023By Matthew
Loki, Season 2
Featured Festival Coverage Reviews

VIFF 2023: ‘Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’ Brings Fresh Blood to Familiar Themes | Exclaim.ca

Friday, 29 September, 2023Friday, 29 September, 2023By Matthew
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Hail to the Deadites
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Hail to the Deadites’ is an opportunity missed | Awesome Friday!

Sunday, 30 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Some B movies go nowhere, and others become cult classics. People love this latter category of film. People go out

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The Block Island Sound
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘The Block Island Sound’ is suitably creepy | Awesome Friday!

Saturday, 29 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

The Block Island Sound is a gorgeously shot horror film. Almost every exterior shot is beautiful and takes full advantage of

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Sleep
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Sleep’ blurs the lines between dreams and reality | Awesome Friday!

Saturday, 29 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

A confident first feature from director Michael Venus, the film is anchored by a phenomenal central performance by Gro Swantje

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Christopher Nolan
Lists

My Three Favourite Christopher Nolan Films | Awesome Friday!

Saturday, 29 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

We can still get our dose of Christopher Nolan’s trademark brand of incredible practical action and obsession with time, though.

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Hunted
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Hunted’ covers some well-worn revenge ground | Awesome Friday!

Friday, 28 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

The rape-revenge story is a well-worn film story. The bad man seems nice. The bad man gets the woman alone.

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A Mermaid in Paris
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘A Mermaid in Paris’ is a fun, heartfelt fantasy | Awesome Friday!

Friday, 28 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

A Mermaid in Paris is, shockingly, from this last group. A man, Gaspar (Nicolas Duvauchelle), finds the wounded mermaid Lula (Marilyn

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Quinn Armstrong / Survival Skills
Festival Coverage Interviews

Interview: Quinn Armstrong on his film “Survival Skills” | Awesome Friday!

Friday, 28 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Survival Skills is a film I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since I first watched it. A biting

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PVT Chat
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘PVT Chat’ can’t decide whether it’s honest or sleazy | Awesome Friday!

Thursday, 27 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

The film crosses back and forth over the lines, from some moments that ring incredibly true and honest to others

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Free Country
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Free Country’ is a stark, engaging mystery | Awesome Friday!

Thursday, 27 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Each lead actor is great, but Felix Kramer, as Markus, steals the show. He’s a brute, but he might be

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Tenet
Editorials

Don’t Go to the Movies Right Now | Awesome Friday!

Thursday, 27 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

I love the movie-going experience. Sure, people can be jerks sometimes (*cough* turn your phone off *cough*), a man was even arrested

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Survival Skills
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Survival Skills’ is way more than just a weird VHS nostalgia trip | Awesome Friday!

Wednesday, 26 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

It would be easy to write Survival Skills off as a cheap nostalgia bid or a wacky experiment, and it would have

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A Witness Out of the Blue
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘A Witness Out of the Blue’ is a solid action thriller | Awesome Friday!

Wednesday, 26 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Opening with a gang of thieves storming a jewellery store only to be cornered by the police as they finish

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Climate of the Hunter
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Climate of the Hunter’ is dark, weird, stylistic throwback | Awesome Friday!

Tuesday, 25 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

To reiterate, this movie is deeply weird. It’s also shallow. Climate of the Hunter features several monologues from Wesley, stories of

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Bleed With Me
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Bleed With Me’ is a slow, but sure, burn set in the Canadian wilderness | Awesome Friday!

Monday, 24 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

The remote setting of the story exacerbates all of this; the tiny family cabin set deep in the woods, further

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The Columnist
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘The Columnist’ is a revenge story we’ve all fantasized about | Awesome Friday!

Monday, 24 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Katja Herbers (probably best known for her recurring role on HBO’s Westworld) is fantastic as Femke, particularly in the scenes where she

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