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The Batman & The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent | Awesome Friday Podcast
Salutations applications, and welcome to a new episode of The Awesome Friday Podcast. We’re back after a two-week hiatus and talking about two of the year’s most anticipated movies. First up, freshly t streaming services and premium rental, Matt Reeves’s noir-inspired take on the caped crusader, The Batman. Following that, the newly released to cinemas film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in which Nicolas Cage plays the role he was born to play: Nicolas Cage. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/04/podcast-batman-massive-talent/
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L’Inhumain Explores Inner Turmoil Using a Mythic Monster | Awesome Friday!
One of, if not the, best-known monsters in indigenous folklore is the Wendigo. Once men, their souls corrupted after turning to cannibalism, they stalk people who enter their territory and devour them, their hunger insatiable. This is the creature that Matthieu (Samuel ‘Samian’ Tremblay) faces in L’inhumain, but whether it’s the monster is up for debate. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/04/review-linhumain/
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Interview: Reel Canada Executive Director Jack Blum on National Canadian Film Day | Awesome Friday Podcast
The third Wednesday of every year is National Canadian Film Day, a nationwide event that celebrates the best in Canadian cinema. This year is no different, and tomorrow’s event promises to be one of the best yet, with screening events in every province and territory and around the world. This morning I sat down with Jack Blum, executive director of Reel Canada (the organisation that puts National Canadian Film Day on), to speak about this year’s event, the tribute to the late Jean-Mac Vallée, and the focus on indigenous filmmaking. Interview Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/04/interview-jack-blum-ncfd/
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Interview: Actor, Writer, and Producer Jonas Chernick on his film Ashgrove | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! Welcome to another Awesome Friday interview! Joining me this time is Jonas Chernick, who produced, co-wrote, and stars in the film Ashgrove. Ashgrove is the story of a scientist played by Amanda Brugel, who may be the key to solving a worldwide pandemic and is forced to take a few days for herself and her family. Chernick plays her husband, and we sat down to talk about the film, what it’s like shooting a movie during a pandemic, and more. Interview Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/04/cff-interview-jonas-chernick-ashgrove/
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy | The LAMBCast
This week the Lambcast tackles one of the most monumental film franchises of all time, Peter Jackson’s adaptions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. Heather Baxendale-Walsh championed the Franchise to victory in the poll and she takes over the discussion with the passion you would expect from a huge fantasy fan. Howard Casner, Todd Liebenow and Matthew Simpson join our fellowship for the podcast and everyone has lots to say, which is to be expected when you are dealing with three films that are all more than three hours long. We start off with some personal history on…
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Awesome Friday Podcast: Moonfall & Our Flag Means Death
Greeting programs, and welcome to the Awesome Friday Podcast. This week we’re taking a closer look at the new ridiculous (in a good way) Roland Emmerich film Moonfall and the Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi led series Our Flag Means Death. Spoiler alert we loved both of these things, so come and join us for a love fest. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/04/podcast-moonfall-our-flag-means-death/
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Grab Bag: The Oscars, Moon Knight, Halo, & The Canadian Film Festival | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs and welcome back to the Awesome Friday Podcast. This week is a little different than most weeks, instead of two things we are covering a whole bunch of things in a grab bag format. There have just been too many things to narrow it down you see, so join us for brief discussions about The 94th Oscars and the slap heard ‘around the world, Halo, Marvel’s Moon Knight, and the films of the Canadian Film Festival. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/04/grab-bag-oscars-moon-knight-halo-canadian-film-festival/
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Interview: Shawn Doyle on his film Ashgrove (and also Star Trek: Discovery) | Awesome Friday Podcast
Salutations applications, and welcome to an Awesome Friday Interview with actor Shawn Doyle! A native of Newfoundland, Shawn has been working steadily in film and television since the early 1990s, and in just the last few years has racked up an impressive filmography that includes recurring appearances in The Expanse, Hannibal, Cardinal (for which he won a Canadian Screen Award last year) and most recently Star Trek: Discovery. This year he has two films in the Canadian Film Festival, Ashgrove and The Last Mark. It’s the former of these two that we sat down to talk about, and it was a genuine pleasure.…
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Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’ Is a Bit Disjointed | Awesome Friday!
Comics are weird. There’s no denying this simple fact, and there’s no use trying. This fact is universal and can be a barrier to entry for new fans. Sometimes 50 years of lore is a lot to wrap your head around. One of the great strengths of Marvel’s ongoing cinematic universe is that initially, at least, it distilled all that lore into something easier to swallow. Twenty-plus films later, its greatest strength is that when a new character walks onto the screen and says, “I’m a man with split personalities, one of whom in the warrior avatar of the Egyptian moon…
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Deep Water & Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood | Awesome Friday Podcast
Salutations applications and welcome to a new episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast! This week we’re taking a closer look at two new films: First, director Adrian Lyne’s new film Deep Water starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, recently released on Amazon Prime here in Canada and Hulu in the US, followed by Richard Linklater’s latest animated nostalgia piece, Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/03/podcast-deep-water-apollo-10-1-2/
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Interview: Katie Boland on her film “We’re All In This Together” | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! Katie Boland is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer. She is probably best known for her television appearances and the web series she created, Long Story Short. However, this year, Katie made her feature film directorial debut with We’re All In This Together, a story about a dysfunctional family brought together by absurd events. Not only is she the film’s director, though, but she also adapted it from the best selling book, produced it, and starred in it as estranged twins. A few weeks ago, Katie and I sat down after the Whistler Film Festival –where the film premiered–…
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2022 Academy Awards Preview | The LAMBCast
Richard has the week off and Rob from MovieRob is filling in as host of the LAMBCAST for our annual Oscar Preview. Rob was joined by Howard Casner, Tyler Howat, Matthew Simpson and Cameron Kanachki to discuss this years nominees. Episode Homepage: https://largeassmovieblogs.com/2022/03/lambcast-628-oscar-preview-2022.html Also, be sure to check out the other guests on this episode:
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Awesome Friday Podcast: Spider-Man: No Way Home & The Outfit | Awesome Friday Podcast
Welcome back to Awesome Friday, on a Sunday! In this week’s episode, we speak at length about a little movie you might have heard about from last year, Spider-Man: No Way Home, which has finally come to home video. Then it’s onto a new release from Focus Features, The Outfit, a single location mystery thriller starring Mark Rylance and Zoey Deutch. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/03/podcast-spider-man-no-way-home-the-outfit/
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Interview: Seth A Smith on his film “Tin Can” | Awesome Friday Podcast
Greetings programs! Welcome to a special episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast in which I sit down with director Seth A Smith to talk about his film Tin Can. Tin Can played at both Fantasia Festival last year and the Vancouver International Film Festival, which is where I originally saw it. It is now getting a wide release from LevelFILM, and Seth and I sat down on Zoom to talk about it. Interivew Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/03/interview-seth-a-smith-tin-can/
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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/
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.
