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VIFF 2024: Inedia & It’s What’s Inside (& Transformers One) | Awesome Friday Podcast!
Greetings programs! On this week’s show, we’re taking on two exciting films. First up, a BC shot indie film that played as part of the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival, Inedia. Then we turn our attention to a new Netflix release, the single-location mystery movie It’s What’s Inside. Both films are exciting for some of […]
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VIFF 2024: Lucky Star & Conclave | Awesome Friday Podcast!
Greetings programs! Our favourite time of year is back; the Vancouver International Film Festival is on now! The 2024 edition features a ton of great films, and we’re here to talk about two of them: Gillian McKercher’s family drama Lucky Star and Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front follow-up Conclave. It’s a good […]
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Minute 110 – Woulda Been A Great Title | MovieRob Minute
The MovieRob Minute podcast breaks down the 1990s action classic Die Hard With a Vengeance one minute at a time. Finishing off this week of appearances, Rob and I watch as Zeus does his magic. Listening Links:
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Minute 109 – Cut From the Same Cloth | MovieRob Minute
The MovieRob Minute podcast breaks down the 1990s action classic Die Hard With a Vengeance one minute at a time. In this episode, I join Rob as John (Bruce Willis) tries to get a splinter out.. with his teeth. Listening Links:
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Minute 108 – Most Actiony Role | MovieRob Minute
The MovieRob Minute podcast breaks down the 1990s action classic Die Hard With a Vengeance one minute at a time. . This week Rob and I watch as Targo gets the surprise of his life. Listening Links:
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Mr Smith Goes to Washington | The LAMBCast
A limited selection of MOTM suggestions resulted in an executive decision to go with three time runner up, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” as the September MOTM. No one was happier than the film’s frequent champion, James Wilson of “Blogging by Cinema Light”. James was chomping at the bit to discuss this classic film from […]
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Minute 107 – Cultural Force | MovieRob Minute
The MovieRob Minute podcast breaks down the 1990s action classic Die Hard With a Vengeance one minute at a time. This week Rob and I look at a moment where Samuel L Jackson’s Zeus tries to get some answers out of Jeremy Irons Simon. Listening Links:
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Minute 106 – Inversion of Expectations | MovieRob Minute
The MovieRob Minute podcast breaks down the 1990s action classic Die Hard With a Vengeance one minute at a time. In this episode, I join Rob as Simon (Jeremy Irons) puts John (Bruce Willis) and Zeus (Samuel L Jackson) in a closed space for maximum effect. Listening Links:
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Blink Twice & Lee | Awesome Friday Podcast!
Greetings programs! That’s right, it’s a double-episode day! On this episode of the show we’re taking a look at two new movies. First Zoë Kravitz directorial debut Blink Twice starring Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum, and then the upcoming biopic of World War II war photographer Lee Miller Lee starring Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg. […]
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Seeds & His Three Daughters | Awesome Friday Podcast!
Greetings, programs! This week on the show, we’re talking about Seeds, Kaniehtiio Horn’s directorial debut, which premiered at TIFF. Following that, we look at Azazel Phillip’s latest, His Three Daughters, which is now on Netflix. This episode was supposed to debut last week, but circumstances prevented that, so you’re getting it today! Double episode day, […]
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‘Agatha All Along’ Needs More Script Editors | Exclaim!
One of the great struggles in modern filmmaking is what to do with great supporting characters. Sometimes, it’s easy; a new series can be made where they’re heroes in their own right with a new story, and they can go on a journey that leads them from who we fell in love with to a […]
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‘Transformers One’ Is Actually Good?! | Exclaim!
It’s forgivable to be a little cynical about Transformers in the year 2024. The franchise is seven films deep — eight if we include 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie — and most them aren’t great. Sure, they’ve made a lot of money, but at least one of the films in the series holds the dubious distinction of being one […]
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Universal Language & Rebel Ridge | Awesome Friday Podcast!
Greetings, Programs! This week on the show, we’re looking at Canada’s official selection for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language. It’s a singular piece of art that we have a lot to say about, and it premieres in Canada at TIFF this week! Following that, we look at Jeremy Saulnier’s […]
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Cuckoo Review | Movies We Texted About
[Dan Stevens] Herr König is creepy from the get-go, an over-familiar person in the life of this seventeen-year-old, and Stevens comfortably slides into the narrow void between sociopath and eccentric comfortably; he looks like he might be good, but he feels like something that crawled out of a primordial tar pit, and he’s great fun to watch. [Hunter] […]
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Out Come The Wolves & Trap | Awesome Friday Podcast!
This week on the show, join us for a breakdown of the new Canadian survival horror film Out Come The Wolves, starring Missy Peregrym in her second collaboration with Backcountry director Adam MacDonald. Then, we’ll look at the newest film by five-star three-star director M. Night Shyamalan, Trap, which features a tour-de-force performance from Josh […]
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.
