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Air & Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings, programs! We’re back after a week away! Join us for a lively discussion of Air (now on Prime Video) and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (now in cinemas). One of these movies we really liked, and the other, the opposite of that. Listen to find out which is which! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/06/podcast-air-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts/ Greetings patrons! After an impromptu week off
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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 16 Sneak Peak: The Gang is Back in Fine Form | That Shelf
When a long-running series returns for a new season, the first question is always, “will it still be good?” With It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia now entering its 16th season, this question is front of mind. Dennis (Glenn Howerton), Mac (Rob McElhenny), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dee (Kaitlin Olson), and Frank (Danny DeVito) have had so many misadventures
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Shazam: Fury of the Gods & The Super Marios Bros. Movie | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings Programs! Join us this week as we discuss Shazam: Fury of the Gods and The Super Mario Bros Movie. One of these movies is fun; you’ll have to listen to find out which! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/05/podcast-shazam-fury-of-the-gods-the-super-marios-bros-movie/ Patreon supporters at every tier get access to this week’s bonus conversation, in which we dive into It’s Always
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Little Bird Review: A Must-Watch Canadian Story | That Shelf
Set in both the late 1950s and the early 1980s, the story follows Bezhig Little Bird, a young girl (played by Keris Hope Hill) who is removed from her family in Saskatchewan at the age of five and adopted out to a Jewish family in Montreal where she becomes Esther Rosenblum (played by Darla Contois).
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 & You Hurt My Feelings | Awesome Friday Podcast
This week we finally catch up with Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3, and then writer/director Nicole Holofcener’s latest film, You Hurt My Feelings starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/05/podcast-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-you-hurt-my-feelings/ Greetings patrons! This week for our bonus chat, we talked about Letterkenny -which just released an episode for the May 24th Victoria Day long weekend and
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Dr. No at 60 Years (#236) | Contra Zoom
The first James Bond film Dr No was first seen outside the United Kingdom in May of 1963. We celebrate the 60th anniversary of the film franchise by revisiting the seminal action movie directed by Terrence Yonge and starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress and Joseph Wiseman. After we discuss the movie, we look back at
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Evil Dead Rise & Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings Programs! This week we’re covering Evil Dead Rise, a great new addition to the ongoing Evil Dead Franchise and hen the newly released AppleTV+ Documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/05/podcast-evil-dead-rise-still-a-michael-j-fox-movie/ This week on our bonus chat, we start out talking about Dennis Quaid and proceed into a discussion about great movies from the
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Class of ’09 Is Too Unrefined to Be Great | Exclaim!
The result is a series with unmet potential (at least in the first half) that will likely receive unfavourable comparisons to shows like Black Mirror or Westworld. That is not to say that the series is bad, though. The ideas raised are timely, and the show’s vision of the future is depressingly plausible. Fans of science fiction will
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves & BlackBerry | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week on the show, we take a look at the newly on-demand fantasy heist movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves before switching gears to the upcoming Canadian dramatization of the rise and fall of one of our biggest tech giants, BlackBerry. We also talk a little about the writer’s strike, and just in
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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
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.
