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Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 Review: Nine Exciting Expansions of the Star Wars Universe | That Shelf
Star Wars, as a franchise, needs some expansion. This isn’t to say that there aren’t many entries in the franchise, rather that, with few exceptions, they tend to concern the same familiar locations and faces that we have grown accustomed to. Star Wars: Visions Volume 1 pushed some of those boundaries, and I am happy to report that Volume […]
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Scream 6 & Sisu | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week we dive into the latest instalment in the ongoing Scream franchise and then into a bloody Finnish revenge story. Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/04/podcast-scream-6-sisu/ This week’s subscriber bonus chat starts with headphones and ends with Malta, with stops in Jurassic Park and Gladiator. We hope you enjoy it! Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/april-30th-2023-82310582
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Polite Society Doesn’t Follow Coming-of-Age Conventions | Exclaim!
Polite Society hits the ground running, jumping and kicking in the first few minutes, and never lets up its pace or infectious, offbeat energy. It’s a mashup of genres and styles, ranging from a coming-of-age tale to a kung fu epic to an Ocean’s Eleven-style heist. Still, even with all this going on, director and writer Nida Manzoor never […]
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65 & Ghosted | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week on the show, we dive head first into two…. well, two not-great films. First up is the Adam Driver Fights Dinosaurs sci-fi actioner 65. Then we look at the new Chris Evans & Ana de Armas action rom-com Ghosted. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/04/podcast-65-ghosted/ This week on our patron-subscriber bonus chat, we dive into […]
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Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Review: A Fun, Final Adventure | That Shelf
On the whole, Star Trek: Picard has been a mixed bag. With a languid pace in its first season, followed by a ridiculous time-travel plot (even by Star Trek standards) in its second, it needed to be clarified what the series wanted to be. For better or for worse, these are not problems that Season 3 shares. Link: https://thatshelf.com/star-trek-picard-season-3-review-a-fun-final-adventure/
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Falcon Lake & How To Blow Up A Pipeline | Awesome Friday Podcast
We’re back after a brief hiatus, and this week we’re covering Canadian Screen Award Best Picture nominee Falcon Lake and the new indie thriller How To Blow Up A Pipeline. Spoiler alert: it’s two good movies on this week’s show! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/04/podcast-falcon-lake-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline/ This week for our subscriber bonus talk we start out talking a little about the things […]
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The 2023 Canadian Screen Award Nominees and Where to Buy, Rent or Stream them | Awesome Friday
The 11th Canadian Screen Awards are happening this coming Sunday! As with every year our great nation produces a ton of great movies, and this years crop of nominees is no different. They can be hard to find though, so if you haven’t had a chance to catch up with this years nominees then look […]
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John Wick: Chapter 4 & Tetris | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! Join Matthew and Simon for a dive into the world of hyper-stylized action that is John Wick: Chapter 4, and then into the weird but true story of Cold War politics, intrigue, and espionage that is Tetris. It’s a weird show, but hey, when is it not? Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/04/podcast-john-wick-tetris/ Patrons can also hear our 20 […]
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Missing & Pathaan | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings, programs and welcome back to the show! This week we are looking at two 2023 releases now available on demand. First up is the new screen-set film Missing starring Storm Reid, and the Hindi language action thriller Pathaan starring Shah Rukh Khan! Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/03/podcast-missing-pathaan/ Patrons can also join us for a 20 […]
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Cocaine Bear & Brother | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week on the show Matthew and Simon dig into the latest meme-turned-movie Cocaine Bear and the Canadian Screen Award Best Picture nominee, Brother. One of these films is really good and the other … well, you’ll have to listen to find out! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/03/podcast-cocaine-bear-brother/ This week, patrons at all tiers can also […]
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The 95th Academy Awards | Classic Movies Live!
… This episode features call-ins from a number of guests! Including…. Adele, last heard on Kickin’ It With Kendrick Episode 3: The Twilight Saga! Dakota Arsenault, co-host of Contra Zoom Pod, last heard on Kickin’ It With Kendrick Episode 15: The Voices! Calum Macnab, co-host of SCARETRODUCING, last heard on Kickin’ It With Kendrick Episode […]
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I Like Movies & Inside | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings Programs! This week on the show we look at a Canadian festival darling, Chandler Levack’s I Like Movies, as well as the recent Berlinale debut Inside starring Willem Dafoe. There’s a lot to talk about, especially when it comes to what works for one viewer vs another. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/03/podcast-i-like-movies-inside/ BONUS CONTENT: If you are a Patreon […]
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania & The Mandalorian, Season 3 | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs and welcome to this week’s episode of the show. This week is all Disney all the time as we are slightly late to the part on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania but also slightly early to the party for The Mandalorian Season 3, of which we have seen the first two episodes. Episode […]
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2022 – 2023 International Film Society Critics Awards
As a member in good standing of the International Film Society Critics I was pleased to vote in the proceedings to select the nominees and winners of this year’s awards. You can see the full list of nominees and winners here on the IFSCA Website.
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Knock at the Cabin & We Have A Ghost | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week on the show Matthew and Simon take a look at the new M. Night Shyamalan movie Knock at the Cabin and the new Netflix release We Have a Ghost. There are many opinions in this one, so listen and let us know what you think! Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/02/podcasts-knock-at-the-ghost/
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.
