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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/
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The Man Who Would Be King | The LAMBCast
For those of you who are not familiar, the film is based on a Rudyard Kipling story, and in this telling, Kipling himself is a character, played by a hard to recognize Christopher Plummer. The film features the one time that Michael Caine and Sean Connery shared starring roles in a film together [their separate […]
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Somebody I Used To Know & Sharper | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week Rachel & I take a look at two new streaming releases. First up is Prime Video’s new rom-com Somebody I Used To Know starring Alison Brie and directed by her husband, Dave Franco. After that, we look a the new AppleTV+ original Sharper, a thriller about grifters and con artists grifting and conning one […]
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JUNG_E & Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week we’re talking about the newly released Korean Sci-Fi film JUNG_E which just dropped on Netflix, and the not-so-newly released Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which just dropped on Disney+. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/02/podcast-jung_e-black-panther-wakanda-forever/
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The 2023 Sundance Film Festival | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! You’ve all been good so here’s a bonus episode of the podcast in which Rachel Ho and Matthew break down a few great titles from this year Sundance Film Festival. This was Matthew’s first year attending the festival and Rachel’s second, and it was a pretty good year if these six films are […]
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You People & M3gan | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings, programs, and welcome back to the show! This week we dive into two 2023 releases. First, we’ll discuss the new Netflix rom-com You People, starring Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Second, we’ll catch up with the Blumhouse-produced killer robot doll movie M3gan! Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/01/podcast-you-people-m3gan/
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Shrinking Grows Past Its Familiar Story | Exclaim!
With so much content these days, it can sometimes feel like there are no new stories. Shrinking, AppleTV+’s new series starring Jason Segel, covers familiar territory: an affluent, white male therapist living in an affluent neighbourhood full of affluent friends has hit rock bottom after a year of grief and begins to act out as a means […]
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Burial & Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week on the show, we’re catching up with two more 2022 films, the IFC Midnight produced Shudder exclusive Burial and the latest film in the Shrek franchise, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. One of these movies is a little more divisive than the other here at Awesome Friday HQ; listen to find out which! Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/01/podcast-burial-puss-in-boots-the-last-wish/
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2023 Pandora International Critics Awards
The 2023 Pandora International Critics Awards are my second as a voting member of the group. This year there was one particular film that dominated the conversation! We have to go back to the Academy Awards in 1972 when Cabaret took home 8 Oscars – including Best Director and two acting prizes – without the big prize, […]
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The Last of Us | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! You’re reading this correctly, a second episode this week! I was given access to the entire first season of the new HBO series The Last of Us, an adaptation of the PlayStation video game franchise of the same name. Joining me to speak about it is my friend Shaurya Chawla, who has not […]
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.
