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The Meg 2: The Trench & El Conde | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week, Matthew and Simon catch up with another summer blockbuster, diving headfirst into the sea with The Meg 2: The Trench and then visit South America with the upcoming satire El Conde. Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/09/podcast-the-meg-2-the-trench-el-conde/ This week on the bonus show, Simon asks which is the best and most important decade for film, and […]
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! Join us this week as we catch up with two summer movies, The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/09/podcast-the-last-voyage-of-the-demeter-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutant-mayhem/
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Past Lives & Reinventing Elvis | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week, Rachel subs in for Simon again, and she and Matthew take on the A24 critical darling Past Lives and the new documentary Reinventing Elvis, which explores the story of the ’68 comeback special. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/08/podcast-past-lives-reinventing-elvis/ This week, I ask Rachel about remakes that are better (or as good as) their original […]
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‘Ahsoka’ Thankfully Transcends ‘Star Wars’ Nostalgia | Exclaim!
It’s fair to say that Disney+‘s various Star Wars shows have been a mixed bag. While the fan base remains rabid, the shows have not all been met with acclaim — some are critically loved (such as Andor), and others not so much (The Book of Boba Fett or Obi-Wan Kenobi). What the best of them have in common is they […]
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“Birth/Rebirth” Doesn’t Have Enough to Bring It to Life | ForReel
…writer-director Laura Moss instead delivers a film with a fascinating twist on the Frankenstein story – at least in theory. Judy Reyes plays Celi, the mother in this story, and Marin Ireland plays Rose, the morgue technician and mad scientist. Each of them is excellent in this story, at times handling a lot of specific […]
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Ahsoka, Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2 | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! We’re here slightly off schedule to talk about the new Star Wars adventure, Ahsoka! Starring Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Brodizzo, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ahsoka picks up a decade after Star Wars Rebels ended and promises to take the characters we already love on a new adventure in the Star Wars Universe. Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/08/podcast-ahsoka-season-1-episodes-1-2/ This week’s bonus chat is […]
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They Cloned Tyrone & Joy Ride | Awesome Friday Podcast
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 little […]
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The 2023 Fantasia Film Festival | Awesome Friday Podcast
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 Devil, […]
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Oppenheimer & Barbie | Awesome Friday Podcast
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: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/07/podcast-oppenheimer-barbie/ […]
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The Witcher Season 3, Volume 2 Starts Strong and Ends Flat | That Shelf
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 the […]
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Oppenheimer Review: Christopher Nolan Explores the Price of Knowlege in One of the Best Films of the Year | ForReel
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 Lewis […]
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Barbie | The LAMBCast
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 merits, […]
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Asteroid City & Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 | Awesome Friday Podcast
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
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 the […]
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Two-Year Anniversary Special: The Best Movies Since July 2021! | Awesome Friday Podcast
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 to […]
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.
