Awesome Friday Podcast!

Greetings programs!  This week, Rachel subs in for Simon again, and she and Matthew take on the A24 critical darling Past Lives and the new documentary Reinventing Elvis, which explores the story of the ’68 comeback special. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/08/podcast-past-lives-reinventing-elvis/ This week, I ask Rachel about remakes that are better (or as good as) their…

Greetings programs!  We’re here slightly off schedule to talk about the new Star Wars adventure, Ahsoka!  Starring Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Brodizzo, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ahsoka picks up a decade after Star Wars Rebels ended and promises to take the characters we already love on a new adventure in the Star Wars Universe.  Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/08/podcast-ahsoka-season-1-episodes-1-2/ This week’s bonus chat…

Greetings, programs, and welcome to another edition of the Awesome Friday Podcast. This week on the show, we’re taking on her recent Netflix release, They Cloned Tyrone, and the still-in-cinemas Joy Ride.  Simon also gets Matthew talking about the recent musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is why the episode runs a…

Greetings programs!  This week we’re getting caught up in the fascination that is gripping the nation.  That’s right, it’s the Barbenheimer episode! Both Oppenheimer and Barbie are being hailed as being some of the best filmmaking of the year.  Do we agree?  Yes, yes we do, and listen in to find out why! Link:…

Greetings programs!  This week, we dive head first into the world of Wes Anderson with Asteroid City, and then we jump off a cliff with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1.  Join us!  Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/07/podcast-asteroid-city-mission-impossible-7/

Greetings programs!  It has been two years, almost to the day, since we relaunched the Awesome Friday Podcast! To celebrate that fact, we are joined by Rachel, and we talk about our favourite films from when the show has been running – that’s July 2021 to now.   It was a very fun conversation…

Greetings Programs! Join us this week as we dive into the latest Indiana Jones film and the new Netflix/Annapurna animated release Nimona.  It’s a good one; join us!! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/07/podcast-indiana-jones-nimona/ In this week’s bonus chat, Simon asks Matthew to explain his fluid Mission: Impossible rankings, and Matthew asks Simon to say something nice about…

Greetings program! This week we’re taking on the latest Marvel series, Secret Invasion starring Samual L Jackson as Nick Fury, and an upcoming indie comedy starring Mark Duplass and Sterling K Brown, Biosphere (in cinemas July 9th). We have a lot to say about both, so join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/07/podcast-marvels-secret-invasion-biosphere/ This week on our bonus chat, we start with…

Greetings, Programs!  This week we’re joined by longtime friend of the show Rachel Ho for our discussions of  Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Chris Hemsworth in Extraction 2, and subway systems around the world (no, really!).   Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/06/podcast-guy-ritchies-the-covenant-extraction-2/ Rachel also joined us for our patron bonus chat this week, in which we talk about film…

Greetings programs!  This week on the show, we’re talking about two super fun movies: Fast X, the 11th Fast & Furious movie and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, the sequel to the best movies of 2018.  Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/06/podcast-fast-x-spider-man-across-the-spider-verse/ This week our patron bonus chat is all about new TV, including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,…

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…

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…

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…

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…