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Day Shift & Fall | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings, programs, and welcome to our latest episode! This week on the Awesome Friday Podcast, we’re breaking down the latest Netflix release Day Shift starring Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco, and the new young-women-trapped-in-a-place horror movie Fall. One of these movies we really liked. Listen to find out which! Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/08/podcast-day-shift-fall/
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Lightyear & Prey | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings, programs, and welcome to another episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast. This week we’re talking about two new Disney releases: First, the latest Pixar Studios animated feature, Lightyear, followed by Prey director Dan Trachtenberg’s prequel to to the 1980s action horror classic Predator. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/08/podcast-lightyear-prey/
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Nope & Not Okay | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greeting programs! This week on the podcast we are discussing Jordan Peele’s latest directorial effort, the UFO horror thriller Nope, and Quinn Shephard’s indictment of influencer culture Not Okay. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/07/podcast-nope-not-okay/
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Vengeance & The Gray Man | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! This week on the podcast we’re talking about BJ Novak’s feature directorial debut Vengeance, and the Russo Brothers helmed $200 action blockbuster The Gray Man, starring Chris Evans and Canada’s Ryan Gosling. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/07/podcast-vengeance-the-gray-man/
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Our Favourite Marvel Movies, featuring over a dozen of our friends | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings, programs, and welcome to a special bonus episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast. In our main episode this week, we asked over fifty of our friends to contribute their top ten Marvel Cinematic Universe entries and used those to establish a consensus top ten. We also asked everyone if they would be willing to record […]
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Marvel Extravaganza! Ms Marvel, Thor: Love & Thunder, Our MCU Top Ten(s), and The Ultimate MCU Top Ten | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings, programs, and welcome to our one year anniversary! It’s hard to believe we relaunched the podcast a year ago to the day but here we are a year later. We are so grateful for all of you, for your listening and engagement, and for the community that we’re starting to build. It’s fitting that […]
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The Movies That Made Us (#200) | Contra Zoom
For our special 200th episode Dakota and Rachel decided to look back at films that made them the movie watchers they are today. From fond early moviegoing memories to the first time they were challenged to what made them want to be a critic. They picked five films each and got some voicemails from friends […]
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Marcel the Shell With Shoes On & Stranger Things 4 | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! Welcome to the first episode of July, in which we discuss a lovely new movie and the return of a much-loved television series. In the top half, we’ll introduce you to Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, the brainchild of Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer-Camp, and Elisabeth Holm, which balances childlike whimsey with deep […]
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Kickin’ it with Kendrick – Rapture-Palooza | Classic Movies Live!
In the triumphant return of Kickin’ It With Kendrick, Pierre and Jeff are joined by Matthew Simpson of Awesome Friday Podcast to talk about end of the world movies, and more specifically, Rapture-Palooza! Around the end of the first decade of the 2000s — give or take — we got a lot of end of […]
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Interview: Director Dan Mirvish on his latest film, the 70s set Watergate thriller-comedy “18 1/2” | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! Dan Mirvish is an award-winning filmmaker known for films like Omaha: The Musical! and Bernard & Huey, as well as co-founding the Slamdance Film Festival. His latest film is a genre mashup, part thriller and part dark comedy, set in the 1970s and adjacent to the watergate scandal 18 1/2 tells the story of a young transcriptionist who […]
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LAMPardy, June 2022! | The LAMBCast
It’s Lambpardy time! Three more contestants are here to battle it out for movie trivia supremacy, as well as the opportunity to talk about 2012 and Son of the Mask far more than anyone expected! Episode Homepage: https://largeassmovieblogs.com/2022/06/lambpardy-june-2022.html Be sure to check out everyone else on this episode:
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The Sea Beast & Obi-Wan Kenobi | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greeting programs! Join us this week as we discuss the upcoming Netflix animated film The Sea Beast, directed by Chris Williams and starring Karl Urban and Jared Harris, and the recently concluded Obi-Wan Kenobi series from Disney+. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/06/podcast-the-sea-beast-obi-wan-kenobi/
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Spiderhead & Cha Cha Real Smooth | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs and welcome to this week’s episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast. Simon is back after his week off and we are talking about two new streaming releases. First up is the new Netflix Sci-Fi thriller Spiderhead, starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smollett. Following that we have Sundance darling Cha Cha Real Smooth, the […]
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Hustle & The Phantom of the Open | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! It’s time for a new episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast! This week we’re looking at a pair of sports movies: Hustle, the love letter to basketball from Adam Sandler, and The Phantom of the Open, the true story of the man who shot the worst round of golf in British Open History, starring Mark […]
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The Righteous & Top Gun: Maverick | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings, programs, and welcome to this week’s podcast! Following a year-long journey from its festival premiere at Fantasia 2021, Mark O’Brien’s The Righteous is finally coming to cinemas and on-demand thanks to Arrow Video and Vortex Media, and after a 36-year gap, Tom Cruise is back as a Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in the long-awaited sequel to the […]
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.
