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West Side Story & The Adam Project | Awesome Friday Podcast
It’s Awesome Friday on a Sunday! This week we’re talking about West Side Story, which has just been released to Disney+, and the new Ryan Reynolds starring Netflix family action movie The Adam Project. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/03/podcast-west-side-story-adam-project/
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Turning Red, Fresh, & After Yang | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! We’re a day late in posting this episode of the podcast, but to make up for it, we’re talking about three, yes three, excellent movies for you to watch. First up is Pixar’s Turning Red, their first feature set in Canada and another surefire hit for Disney+. Second, we’re talking about the Disney+/Hulu […]
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The Afterparty & The Dropout | Awesome Friday Podcast
On this week’s podcast, we take a closer look at the hit AppleTV+ comedy The Afterparty and the upcoming Disney+ drama The Dropout. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/02/podcast-the-afterparty-the-dropout/
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre & The Cursed | Awesome Friday Podcast
This week we’re tackling two new horror movies: First, the latest Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and then the newly released period-set gothic werewolf movie The Cursed. Join us! Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/02/podcast-texas-chainsaw-massacre-the-cursed/
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Parallel Mothers & The 94th Academy Awards Nominations | Awesome Friday Podcast
This week is a little different; we’re covering the latest film from Pedro Amaldóvar, Parallel Mothers, which, as it turns out, is an excellent segue into our second topic: the recently announced nominations for the 94th Academy Awards. This episode runs a little longer than our average, but we think it’s worth it! Episode Homepage: […]
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2022 Slamdance Festival Recap & Interview w/ Director Avalon Fast | Awesome Friday Podcast
This week we’re joined by Avalon Fast, director of Honeycomb, a new indie feature playing as part of the Slamdance Film Festival. We talk with her at length about her film and the experience of making it, as well as a quick recap of some more favourites of the festival. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/02/podcast-slamdance-recap-interview-w-director-avalon-fast/
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The Book of Boba Fett & Pam & Tommy | Awesome Friday Podcast
This week on the Awesome Friday Podcast, we talk about two new series, both from Disney. First up is The Book of Boba Fett, which has aired five episodes and is struggling to figure out precisely what it wants to be. Next, Pam & Tommy, the upcoming miniseries starring Lily James, Sebastian Stan, and Seth Rogen, depicts […]
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The Tragedy of Macbeth & Peacemaker | Awesome Friday Podcast
This week on the podcast, we’re talking about Macbeth and Peacemaker. One is a timeless tale of a power-hungry man who tries to take control of his life with a trail of unthinkable violence, and the other is Macbeth. Both of them are excellent, too. We also discuss James Gunn as a writer and director, […]
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2022 Pandora International Critics Awards
In 2021 I was invited to join the Pandora International Critics group and vote in their proceedings to select nominees and then winners for their third annual awards. Welcome to the Pandora International Film Critics awards for 2021. The36 members of the critics group have had to watch a lot of films to get where we are […]
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Marvel’s Eternals & The Matrix Resurrections | Awesome Friday Podcast
In the latest episode of the podcast, Simon and I are discussing two films just released for home audiences in Canada: Marvel’s Eternals and The Matrix Resurrections. Join us! Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/01/podcast-eternals-the-matrix-resurrections/
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2021 In Review | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs and welcome to the first Awesome Friday Movie Podcast episode of 2022! In this episode we take a look back over some of our favourites from the year past. Join us! Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/01/podcast-2021-in-review/
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The Best of the Rest of the Films of 2021 | Awesome Friday!
It has been a hell of a year and a hell of a year for film. The second year of the ongoing worldwide pandemic has been a bit of a roller coaster, with wave after wave of COVID once changing the film landscape. Theatres re-opened, but people have only really gone back for the biggest […]
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The Best Films of 2021 | Awesome Friday!
It has been a hell of a year and a hell of a year for film. The second year of the ongoing worldwide pandemic has been a bit of a roller coaster, with wave after wave of COVID once changing the film landscape. Theatres re-opened, but people have only really gone back for the biggest […]
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The Best Performers of 2021 | Awesome Friday!
It has been a hell of a year and a hell of a year for film. The second year of the ongoing worldwide pandemic has been a bit of a roller coaster, with wave after wave of COVID once changing the film landscape. Theatres re-opened, but people have only really gone back for the biggest […]
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The Shining & Doctor Sleep | Awesome Friday Podcast
This week we’re talking about a classic and its recent sequel: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2021/12/podcast-the-shining-doctor-sleep/
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.
